When I did that I had a problem with the paginate laravel 8 UI getting messy and somehow it happened. "The Help" became the most-watched movie on Netflix over the past week, according to their US trend bar. Commedia Doll'Arte The sexism accusations over the most passive class (Muse) being female. umm?" But then, homosexuality in a society where bisexuality is the norm is kind of a different thing. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is the latest product to feel the review bomb burn. From $23.00 Dance Shirt (White) *LAST CHANCE* Brunetto-4%. Artist and writer Andrew Hussie is a reluctant father of internet fandom. The music from this one little animation tells the story just as much as anything on screen does. Like I oughta. The Google docs had like 2 or 3 good points and the rest is just bullshit. The story feels like a retelling of the hell-year that was 2020, but Hussie started drafting the story back when everyone was just starting to be stuck inside for the first time. What is this threat? To me, black is just a color. The creative director and lead script writer for Hiveswap, literally ships dersecest as stated in his interview. Constantly seeking out fetishistic situations and sexualizing characters in a fantasy story as well reading straight up bullshit from in-between the lines. Or is Nepeta actually autistic? In some ways this was prompted Hussie took fan input while writing the original story and incorporated it into the final product. What was the point of Homestuck? Submit fanart, cosplay and discussions of all kinds! When Homestuck was going through the Trickster Arc in Act 6 Act 5 Act 2, there was a conversation between Jake and Jane just after Jane went into Trickster Mode, and just before Jake went into it. (not sure on the proper wording for this, if theres better wording let me know and ill change it) As a result of his accident, he is constantly babyed or harassed by other characters. Very much like a guy with a fat fetish isn't too likely to reject a thin girl by saying "Sorry, I am just this HUGE chubby chaser, so I must decline Not that any of this changes how we view Kanaya. Up until researching this post, I did not know much about ableism, and Ive learned a lot, but I am super sorry if Ive gotten anything wrong in the process of writing this. Y'know, Homestuck at its core is a comic about being extremely Online [laughs] in a way that I think a lot of things in both the webcomic and the traditional comics base before and even since haven't touched as well. Homestucks saturation of timeline and narrative chicanery means that there are always multiple versions of each character that exist somewhere in the story, probably even at the same time. According to the definitions posted above, ableism occurs when society considers the non-disabled as the standard for living, and the disabled are marginalizedand Tavros is constantly marginalized as an other throughout his presence in Homestuck. They dont have a concept of incest and I wouldnt be surprised if they werent bothered by age Gaps either with how impersonal their mating is. Point 4: Explanation and justification are not the same. Here appears another symptom of ableismthat of the view that persons with disabilities need to be fixed in order to fit in with normal society. true wait, what? 15 jan 2023 08:41:30 But Im not really sure Ive got much of a lowdown to give. Alternia, at least at first, is a dark joke about our real-world society. The majority of the story, other than the epilogue they are minors. Question: do thirteen year old girls have boobs? Id post a sample here if reading my old work didnt literally set me on fire. Or like how this first conversation between John and Terezi is way different knowing John spends his dying breaths bleeding out, poisoned, hate-fucking Terezi in the back of his dads Sedan. You mean I cant wear the same thing I wore when I was younger? Originally the Black Queen of the trolls' incipisphere, after exile to Alternia and took the title of Banished Quasiroyal. What Pumpkin, unlike Hasbro, is not a media giant with multiple branches and properties under its wings; it's a (very) small business with a very direct relationship between items sold and revenue made. Point 1: Homestuck is 'problematic' in the way that many people are beginning to dislike. This fits in with the medical model of ableism, described on stopableism.org as: The power to change disabled people seems to lie with the medical and associated professions, with their talk of cures, normalization, and science.This enormous crime that they do to Tavros is never critiqued or addressed as problematic in any way; instead it is brushed off as being perfectly acceptable, like every other instance of ableism in Homestuck. In Candy, everyone gets redemption arcs, and were told everyone lives happily ever after, but its the more brutal of the two options. I can come to my own conclusions. Dirk is Homestucks ultimate villain. Weirdly, copyright law is an area of knowledge where people seem to feel completely sure giving their thoughts/opinions no matter how little research they've done on the subject. Homestuck is the longest and most well-known & loved of the MS Paint Adventures. Its at this point that the epilogues diverge into two: a Meat timeline for the former and a Candy timeline for the latter. It seems to be about storytelling, social justice, and some character from a fairly popular piece of Japanese animation you may or may not have heard of? OK, but how is that racist? Read it on a computer. So what fills that vacuum is rampant speculation. WebVrisrezi is the femslash ship between Terezi Pyrope and Vriska Serket from the Homestuck fandom. This process, known as review-bombing, has been used for both good and bad causes. Fanfiction that places Dirk and Kanaya in heterosexual pairings. When I said "Hussie created them that way for a reason", this doesn't mean "Hussie agrees with literally every awful thing in Homestuck" despite what some people seem to think that's what I'm saying. The Meat author, portrayed here by Dirk, is hyper-focused on moving the plot forward. He has on multiple occasions, appropriated AAVE while writing her. When it was met with backlash, whatpumpkin changed his answer to spades/snowman, You know what? Hussie: lets go on this journey of discovery together. Whereas Tavros was never given a choice, Terezi is, and she turns it down. Two friends who realize they see each other as something more I live for that kind of stuff when its done right. I'm on the same boat here. Sure, I guess. Z decides to launch a new brand, and to rebrand her own image by making a clownsona, and then roll out new content to the public as a way of turning the page on whatever she was up to before. When I logged in every post I saw on the issue was complaining about how more people were complaining about people complaining about the Caucasian thing than there were people complaining about the Caucasian thing. A hole in plot, if you will. Yes it is. In fact, you yourself just said that "Japanese highschool girl esque- outfits" are sexual. Just more things: more plot, more dialogue, more mechanics, more characters, more questions, on and on and on and on until it just runs out of breath and falls over. Media can be challenging, but largely it offers a totally safe place for people to indulge, express and investigate ideas they would NEVER do in real life and therefore does NOT always reflect an individual's real life views. It can be a turn in the story they dont like, the way a fictional character is treated, or the way other members of fandom they disagree with are behaving. Hussies apprehension of fandom and the wild projections that come with presiding over one seem appropriate given how public comments on his work ignite controversy within the fandom. Oh yeah also you link to ipgd's post with Cool Dude and Stoner Lou, which, for context, is a direct parody of Shredded Moose--you really need that context to understand CDASL. And then theres genocide. Having read the comic I plan to cover the humor and the format, as well as the relationship between Hussie and the fandom pretty extensively. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Theres the aforementioned not-finishing-the-story-ness I talked about earlier. In its heyday, the Homestuck fandom iterated and developed a lot of cultures that have come to characterize fandom today. N/A. A disruption in narrative events. WebHomestuck is bad because the fandom makes it seem like Vriska genuanly got punishment for all the awful things she did by getting punched twice and feeling bad when in actuality she deserved to get killed off and never spoken about again. However, back when HS was being written, it was OK to say the word. Point 3: Homestuck is not delicate or child friendly. I cant put them on a scale from 1 to 10 and I cant recommend anyone read them or not. Here's a post discussing it. I have no official connection with the work. And then theres this game in the mail. Johns relationship with Terezi, which really only existed in the last 50 pages of the comic, was apparently always the better option? At the end of Candy, Calliope declares that Dirk must be stopped because unlike her, he introduces bias to the narrative. #homestuck . Yes, Vriska did that. A member of fandom may have a good attitude for a while, but since their involvement is predicated on obsession or very strongly held feelings, that positive attitude can turn on a dime, and it can take very little to trigger extreme negativity. Kismessitudes really were just abusive relationships (we never saw a healthy example, the "dead ringer" of a black romance, Spades Slick and the troll's Black Queen, has BQ stab Slick in the eye and cut off his hand and Slick later shooters her. And then theres Cronus, a 19 year old, hitting on his dead descendant who is also 13. Peachy is a better joke anyway (because fruits). WebPoint 1: Homestuck is 'problematic' in the way that many people are beginning to dislike. Which is a lesson Jake needed to learn in the comic more generally, to be fair, but not while hes an abuse victim. It loosely correlates with my past experience of presiding over a big fandom and watching it spin out of control, using much more fantastical elements like revolution and global conquest as the backdrop. WebRead MS Paint Adventures. In case you don't know what I am talking about: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ojLmFm-WUrCZ7fXALowpiAW7jklCfq14n0Zz1ECdsX0/mobilebasic, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z_pA2pfbnyXjxMx4PZm_LNbRSO3cZuZJ2jOOD1RpE0o/edit. Sprouts' operating income surged 20% to $62 million. I'd never had a Fruit Gusher. The mock content warnings that show up at the beginning of the epilogues are not mock anything and are entirely legit. A decade in the future, long after our heroes win the game, and long after our heroes have left Homestuck itself, John is confronted with a choice: he can use his powers to return to canon, fill the plot hole, and stabilize the story, or decide to continue living his life, canon integrity he damned. there are pedophilic implications between Chahut who is confirmed to be basically an adult, soon to be taken off the planet and Amisia, a literal child, these were done by the same artist. You can purchase the interactive fiction on Steam. If Im Hussie, I use the epilogues to tie up lose ends and put the story to rest, not start this whole other tangent about what canon really means and how all your favorite characters are actually awful people. to clarify my stance im a big homestuck fan im a big fan of toby foxs work im criticizing people who think homestuck is "too problematic" but think toby is "good and clean and safe" hes just as fucked up as the rest of us /pos. ._3wvjcIArtO7kKPJabZfZ9S{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:400;line-height:16px;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;color:var(--newCommunityTheme-metaText);display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;margin-right:24px;opacity:0;transition:opacity .1s ease-in-out}._3wvjcIArtO7kKPJabZfZ9S._1c98ixuh4QUWO9ERiFID3p{opacity:1}.RtAsN7UrR7u51W5kaOXvp{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;margin-left:4px;margin-right:0}._1JRtpiobR4jYtbw-xx1tPO{border:1px solid var(--newRedditTheme-body);margin-left:-7px;transform:scaleX(-1)}._1JRtpiobR4jYtbw-xx1tPO:nth-child(2){margin-top:4px} While the jokes are not necessarily at Terezis expenseshe is usually the one making themthere is still the problem of a definitely not-blind author writing them. The Homestuck Discord exists at https://discord.gg/homestuck if you want to chat with fellow fans. Im all for fair criticism, but this aint it. But I strongly recommend it! Character development is important, but youre not a good author if your story is just 100 thousand words of characters dicking around and having repetitive conversations. (Talking about sniffing Marvus) So, we are kinkshaming now? Copyright issues; unlike many, more mainstream (and powerful) content producers who kind of give convention artists alleys the big shrugaroo, a small buisness like What Pumpkin LLC, the company that sells Homestuck merchandise, does not have the luxury of being able to afford turning a blind eye to fan produced content, and is thus very strict about people selling fanmade Homestuck content. (But please, don't jsut say that "it's morally wrong" and then not explain how. I expected good arguments and I see the same one used 3 times in a row. Apparently some things Hussie produced in the past were fairly misogynistic/racist, and there's some debate over what Hussie's current opinions are. If a character uses a slur, the fault falls onto the character, not on the author (at least in my eyes). Every single one of those tags appears somewhere in the story, including but not limited to: unhealthy relationships, graphic depictions of violence, transphobia, rape, major character death, and (may God help us all) eggs. So Im almost made to feel bad for even entertaining John/Roxy as an idea in the first place if the results were to be this disastrous for everyone involved. Thats how obsessive preoccupation works, and its an accelerator of these forms of online cultism. There is no denying that. So, you are saying I can't write about people who are not me? Given troll reproduction, it seems to some people as though the only reason they're given them in the comic is to sexualize them for a human audience. 164 Followers. WebBut, there is still no ETA for everything to work normally again. Doesn't that make you the racist one here? And I have nothing. Still, Hussie doesnt think every aspect of fandom is completely horrible. Some forms like writing fanfiction or creating fan art are a positive, fun activity. Likewise Mindfang's joyous rape-and-murder spree of a memoir is discussed in text (And it's never graphic. Every bit of it is there in order to prepare the troll kids for the game. cough Cronus cough. Anyone who presides over something popular is forced to play the role of an informal cult leader, which is what it felt like throughout most of Homestucks run, and even well beyond. He said, Some online personalities will revel in that role, and actually start behaving like a true cult leader. We were weirdly concerned with fundamental narrative principles at the time, more so than little kids had any right to be. They show up literally once in the background of a page and a few times during the final fight(s). She takes her time, narrating with a kind of dry, verbose voice. They should have stuck with what they said. Such a cool set of powers that only works in something like Homestuck. Delorosas constant rape was considered unapologetically trashy romance and porn. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is the latest product to feel the review bomb burn. Please explain. This has of course produced some backlash within the community. The fact that Homestuck isn't an anime makes them unpopular at anime conventions, despite things like video game and doctor who costumes being accepted in part because Sometimes it is presented as pretty damn funny, but it's blacker-than-spades humour. And then there is the matter of Tavross robolegs, which are built for him after the trolls time in their game session. Could things have been done differently for better effect? Yet were given both to read. This is that second one though. Dirk uses his position as the author to berate characters he doesnt like. Because automatic fire is inaccurate. Rufioh, dead 19 year old hitting on aradiabot, aka aradia as a permanent dead 13 year old. If so, then there's nothing "wrong" with that, because they had no way of knowing they are related. He is best known as the creator of Homestuck, a multimedia webcomic presented in the style of a text-based graphical adventure game, as well as other works in a similar style that were hosted on that is my mission, and that is why you can't fucking stand me. Homestuck is a product of its time, and even if it wasnt the characters presented are all socially inept children, so of course some weird stuffs Gonna come out their mouth. Point 2: Homestuck is INTENTIONALLY challenging. At this point in the web-comic, they fix Tavros. WebMost toxic K-Pop fandoms include ARMY (BTS), EXO (EXOTIC), Twice (Once), and more. Im not even going to get into their relentless support of ikimaru, the terrible treatment and handling of canonically gay characters, the overall grossness of the quadrant system, Another epilogue has been released as an official fanfiction, some of the tags are jokes, some are not, and im personally not at all interested in finding out which is real and which arent. We apologize for this inconvenience, & our engineers are working diligently to get this resolved ASAP. And then John implies that its maybe Jakes fault for letting it get as bad as it did? I haven't seen a single person defend Zebruh. I asked Hussie if he thinks everyone should just log off. This is just a single example of how bootleg items (because yes, even if they're being made with love and sold with respect for the original creator, they are bootleg items) can directly influence a small business' decisions and bottom line. Pedophilia and incest in one fell swoop. An exciting plot is all fine and good, but no one is buying into that if your characters are nothing but paper puppets, acting in any way that moves the plot forward. And then theres this whole other universe filled with aliens, Trolls, who already played it. People have clamored for us to produce high quality cosplay-ready horns for years, ever since I began working at WP. Anarchist. The interesting thing about that controversy is that for awhile on tumblr there were more people complaining about people complaining about the Caucasian thing than there were actual people complaining about the Caucasian thing. And then they win the third time, after John rewrites the story to make that happen, and finally get to go to a new universe and live happily ever after. I couldn't even tell he was meant to be trans. Moreover, it occurs over and over again, too. Her "whole deal is being a lesbian"? And she decides what gets put in front of our eyes and what doesnt. No Disney-style moral to repeat to your children. Not formally, and nowhere near as dangerous as more conventional cults can be, but close enough to draw meaningful comparisons. He doesnt let characters act like their nature would suggest, and instead manipulates them to fulfill some larger purpose. Maybe you watched a lot of Naruto, so your big project is filled to the brim with edgy ninjas and impractically sized swords. Let's go: Meenah died at 19, this iteration of Vriska died at 13. As Zhens, who also goes by Z, crusade grows, she continues to grapple with the responsibility that comes with inspiring such a snowballing movement. "Queer Eye" star Karamo Brown recently told INSIDER that he thinks the beloved film about a gay relationship, " Call Me by Your Name ," is "problematic as f---." It is easy to wonder how connected the two things are, and to wonder why one of the very, very few disabled characters has to also be a social outcast. They eventually date in Candy, but it turns into a lopsided, unhealthy marriage and subsequent that prevents him from fully processing the fact that he is trans. This is basically what I did, and these two ideas mix together in the narrative., Prior to releasing this story, Hussie struggled to pinpoint what his brand was as the creator of Homestuck. It's pretty long. DISH network users facing authentication or login issues. Brown, who has worked with survivors of sexual assault as a therapist and social worker, believes that the movie glorifies " predatory behavior." He forces Rose to consent to being kidnapped, then makes her wife, Kanaya, blame herself for it all. The fact that Jewish people are often depicted as having horns as a negative stereotype is a fact i didnt know until this lovely anon brought it to my attention, so that adds onto the antisemitism presented by hiveswap/friendsim! Asaresult, the narrative remains incomplete and unstable, and the relevance of key events is questioned all together. Dogfighting is a type of blood sport in which dogs are forced to fight one another for the entertainment and/or profit of spectators. The mysteries. Theres even a page that compels the reader to take selfies and post them on social media. And thats always something worth giving credit for, in my book. What the actual fuck are you talking about? Fuck you. Hussie didn't make John and Karkat et al drop the r word to say anything about them, that's just a word he himself used to use, so his characters did too. But the comic you included in the docs is dumb and makes no sense to me. Homestuck tends to congregate in large groups that can cause problems at conventions. Who is this detective? He needs everything to be relevant, and if a few character motivations and arcs need to get bent out of shape for that to happen, so be it. The Homestuck following was (and is in many ways still) very involved with the project. WebHomestuck has three characters with definite disabilitiesTavros, Terezi, and Solluxthough for the purposes of this article, I will focus on Tavros and Terezi as, ever since Sollux has become blind, we simply have not had much screen time with him to merit analysis While he declined to be quoted directly, he feels that the video missed important contextualization that he had intended to provide to the YouTuber in a conversation. Calliope and Dirk at times fight for control of the narrative, Dirk engineering the story to fit his purposes, and Calliope trying her best to let events play out as they would naturally. A quick search on Reddit reveals dozens of threads discussing questions like What happened to andrew hussie? and other posts tracking the creators activity on social media platforms like Tumblr. Its fitting. The epilogues were poorly received among some fans for a variety of reasons. That'd apply if the author was using it in dialogue for a particular reason, to say something specific about the characters, and not just because it was in the author's own regular vocabulary. I didn't even know that there is a stereotype until now. The language is deeply rooted in the now, and leans into the internet vernacular with words like simp, e-girls, reply guys, and cringe. At one point, one of the protagonists moves from being a fan, to dating a member of the popular K-pop group BTS (which also happens to be one of the biggest, most influential fandoms of the moment). Not good porn, but porn it is. Wi-Fi 6E is the latest Wi-Fi technology that provides faster speeds, lower latency, and improved overall network performance. WebAndrew Hussie (born August 25, 1979) is an American author and artist. And then his dead sister, Calliope, from another timeline where she becomes super strong, shows up to try and stop him. Maybe because Hussie doesn't actually speak English? But Hussie questions those practices as a form of fandom, and redefines what the word really means today. She, like Dirk, and like all authors, decides what is relevant and what isnt. But, there is still no ETA for everything to work normally again. The Meat/Candy dichotomy is one Hussie developed for himself long before the release of the epilogues. And yes, they were still in a black romance together) until like Act 6 when John starts feeling black feelings towards Terezi and suddenly it's much more wholesome than literally any other example we'd seen until then. He's an asshole and I can't stand him. Vriska herself is a huge controversy (i.e. and i think its mostly to do with homestucks treatment of femininity vs masculinity in a way that is not typically done In any case, for Tavros and Terezi, I will discuss separately their problematic treatment both inside the web-comic and in the fandom. I don't think writing off the whole webcomic as worthless because it's 'problematic' is smart either. EDIT: Let me clarify here. Take for example this moment early in the comic, with one of the four original kids, Dave: And compare is with a similar moment much later in the comic with a different character, one of the Trolls, Terezi: The music in the later combines Terezis Theme with the song from the original and the main melody from Crystalanthemums which at this point has been associated with her and her rival Vriska for some time now. The largest, most active Homestuck community. Homestuck uses Flash, which means that it has https://linktr.ee/moblack, Pumpkin Party in Sea Hitlers Water Apocalypse, pages that change their formatting to fit different, this first conversation between John and Terezi. It's not Hussie approving of such activities. According to multiple reports, many users of DISH network services are facing issues during the authentication or login process to the companys platform. And then the four kids and their parents, Jane, Roxy, Dirk, and Jake, swap places, so the new kids are their parents and the parents are their kids, but the original four leave before theyre erased from existence and meet up with the original players from that other universe. Andrew Hussie! Possibly in a bid to avoid pulpiting to any fans, or even me the writer, he said he doesnt think his story is telling each and every person to cut themselves off. This is not so much directed at you, fiveforchaos, but since this sort of misconception comes up frequently I figured I might as well step in. The April 2019 epilogues are less a long-awaited conclusion to an epic and more the last spasms of a stream-of-consciousness-turned-webcomic that collapsed under its own weight years ago. Its completely immune from in-story time logic, existing in exactly one place for all of time. While weve seen characters manipulate time before, Lord Englishs control over all of time in all of its forms is so absolute, his presence in the narrative is already guaranteed. According to multiple reports, many users of DISH network services are facing issues during the authentication or login process to the companys platform. he makes people uncomfortable? I know there are more, I'll update this list when I remember them. Hi. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. ), heres an approximation of just how insane that is: new writers are advised that the first book the try to publish should be around 6070 thousand words. Theres a bias inherent in that fact alone. Like, I didnt even mention how many of these fuckers die along the way. What do you think? Secondly, much of what the document draws attention to are things criticised within the text. Towards the end of the main story, the comic introduces (and fails to develop) the idea of the Ultimate Self: characters with full knowledge and the full lived experiences of every character that has ever existed. But Homestuck isn't about fan inclusion for the sake of happy-fun-creating together, it's about WHY we might want to do that and a host of other things. Hussie is a white man. I welcome it. The Homestuck Discord exists at https://discord.gg/homestuck if you want to chat with fellow fans. Its upsetting to read either way. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Okay, geez! Hussie initially spoke to Polygon before the Sarah Z video, but agreed to follow up conversations after its release. Still, I think after a bit, writers that stick with it eventually realize these early influences never leave them. I read the links, and I don't see it. It's a violent as hell culture created for a single purpose: victory. Perhaps youll click the first. Please enter a valid email and try again. In real life, if they have the option to choose their rate of fire, professionals like to stick to single-fire mode. Hell no. An otherwise slumbering fandom ignited as people filled Reddit forums with speculation. She spends extra time on characters feelings and their conversations with each other, much to the annoyance of Dirk. Oh don't worry, I always planned to cover PEACHY. N/A. 36.87%. Any help is greatly appreciated! I am pretty sure you weren't meant to like her doing that. We are currently experiencing a system-wide issue with a delay on all activations. Point is there are lots of the same character running around always. Conspiracy theories, outright fabrications, connecting dots on whatever precious facts are known to paint whatever picture the theorizer wants to paint. Welcome to Alternia. But if you want me to be more upfront about casual forth wall disintegration than I already have, I can humor you. A cryptid leader leaves a major vacuum of content, direction, messaging, personal information, all the stuff a frenzied cultist craves. Yet hes made multiple, incredibly racist characters that are heavily based on disgusting caricatures and stereotypes. The impressive thing is, these couldve easily just been throw-away, cheap, forced, gags. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is the latest product to feel the review bomb burn. In the first chapter of Psycholonials, Zhen, the novels main character, shoots and kills a cop. Shraddha Walkar, Nikki Yadav: Why the coverage of crimes against women is problematic; Shraddha Walkar, Nikki Yadav: Why the coverage of crimes against women is problematic When such murders are headlined with the term live-in, the choice of the victim to cohabitate with a partner takes precedence over the criminal act of the offender
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