Could things have been done differently for better effect? So here's the deal: I've got a podcast that generally covers internet oddities. Artist and writer Andrew Hussie is a reluctant father of internet fandom. 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 Its not that I think people should, its that everyone already knows they should, he said. The end credits and post-end credits content were released in the style of Snapchat posts. It's a violent as hell culture created for a single purpose: victory. He has on multiple occasions, appropriated AAVE while writing her. The largest flaw in Terezis portrayal is that, while she is blind, she relies on superpowers that essentially eliminate her blindness and eliminate the real experiences of actual blind people, making her blindness into its own disability superpower. 1,362,830. If we were to adopt this Meat/Candy classification of writing (another sentence Im loving I can type), all stories need a bit of both. $24.00. 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. Wi-Fi 6E is the latest Wi-Fi technology that provides faster speeds, lower latency, and improved overall network performance. The self-ingratiating, self-referential, over-indulgent drivel that poured onto the page? Stelsa should only be written by someone Jewish. 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. In Meat, like in pretty much the rest of the back half of the comic, shes in a coma, her body puppeteered by other characters. 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. With the end of Adobe Flash on the horizon, hours of Flash content, much of it interactive, is going to have to be scrapped and remade. And she decides what gets put in front of our eyes and what doesnt. This process, known as review-bombing, has been used for both good and bad causes. 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. Firstly, there is no total concensus within the text or with the characters. 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. Agreed. or have experienced the same thing? A subreddit for Homestuck and the works of Andrew Hussie. I already break the fourth wall, numbnuts! I wish more people could tell the difference between art and the artist. true wait, what? When users affected by the problem try to access the DISH network system, all they get is a System is currently Hussie is a white man. Im not sure if fondly is the word Id use here, but I can regard it. The impressive thing is, these couldve easily just been throw-away, cheap, forced, gags. The Candy author on the other hand, represented by Calliope, cares little for if whats happening on screen is important or not. Fuck you. Many fans were already disappointed with the comics canon ending. Dirk, though, happens not to subscribe to Uncle Bens mantras about power and responsibility. Dividend Yield. Please/You're welcome: (para-kah-LOE) In Greek, the word for "please" and "you're welcome" is the same, making it all the more easy to learn. OK, so who cares how old they were when they died? In the final act of Homestuck were told the artifact defeats Lord English, and were told he dies after getting sunk in a black hole. She, like Dirk, and like all authors, decides what is relevant and what isnt. To me, black is just a color. 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. If you are talking about, Karkat: hey asshole, stop playing games for girls, then I see it differently from you. See, I love how I can just type stuff like that and it makes sense still. This process, known as review-bombing, has been used for both good and bad causes. Okay so later John says nominally Jake is indeed not at fault for being abused but appreciate for a moment how a story about kids playing a computer got to this point. I dont know. WebAndrew Hussie (born August 25, 1979) is an American author and artist. Dirk uses his position as the author to berate characters he doesnt like. Post-Scratch Troll society is not presented as good. I have no official connection with the work. I feel like you had "better" things to say than I did. While the "fat!Vriska" joke is still prevelant in the fandom, Vriska tends to be portrayed as fairly skinny in the fanart, and it's Ferferi who's often drawn as fairly chubby (as is Jane, but she's a bit less controversial). And then theres genocide. You mean I cant wear the same thing I wore when I was younger? The Google docs had like 2 or 3 good points and the rest is just bullshit. His use of a wheelchair, for example, is frequently exploited as a weakness to make fun of. What am I reading here? 36.87%. The very same iteration of Vriska that is also 13. In addition to music, most pages at minimum combine text and images, but gifs and Adobe Flash animations are common. Are many of them flawed? I thought we were more on the page of "Hussie is terrible because of recent incidents like the released emails between the moderation team and him", Man like almost every single criticism this person presents can be explained away with one of 3 responses. 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 Unless you believe the existence of these controversies is a matter of opinion, as I'm willing to firmly disagree with you on that matter. The few legitimate criticisms that arent nitpicks or blind virtue signaling arent even all that damning. And when she tries to get better she says fuck it and focuses all this on the player instead. Tumblr community vs. every other community. The back half of the comic focuses on (in the most charitable definition of the word focus) the fight to stop Lord English. The mock content warnings that show up at the beginning of the epilogues are not mock anything and are entirely legit. Oh I just know this one will be worth the reading. As far as controversies contained within the fandom go, there's only one big one that I can think of. In this sense, fandom itself, with examples like Homestuck, was the precursor to the asymmetrical relationships that have come to characterize so much of online life. Sure, each panel is a webpage connected by links, but almost every panel only has one link, and thats to the next panel. Point 4: Explanation and justification are not the same. I will just go ahead and read through the Google Docs about Hussie being terrible and comment every time I have something to say. Dead Calliope, however, has powers related to narrative creation to combat the narrative destruction of Lord English. So what fills that vacuum is rampant speculation. 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. But mainly I was relieved to see the protests happen, because it answered a more fundamental question I had before starting on this story, which was wondering whether the country had any real fight in it., And while the writer says he saw this nation-wide spark as a very positive development, he wondered if this was even a story that needed telling anymore., In the end, he decided it was. Oh don't worry, I always planned to cover PEACHY. And thats the trimmed down version of the trimmed down version. The Meat/Candy dichotomy is one Hussie developed for himself long before the release of the epilogues. A confirmation hes referring to Kanayas lesbian identity as the fetish he remarked from above. I remember having an unsettled feeling in the early days of the pandemic, Hussie told Polygon over email, seeing that probably hundreds of thousands of people were about to die due to a willful mishandling of the crisis, and the population appeared very listless, as if it was about to sit back and let that happen without putting up much of a fight., Hussie decided that the comatose feeling America was giving him would make a good foil for a much more outlandish, escapist sort of revolutionary scenario that examined what such a revolt might look like in this era.. How can any story even get written then? By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. A weekly roundup of the best things from Polygon, By submitting your email, you agree to our, Andrew Hussie, the reluctant cult leader, on life after Homestuck, Sign up for the 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. 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. Rather than being a swapped preference, it is a more exacting preference. 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. Please explain. Gross Margin. 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. 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. I came to regard that fandom as being pretty close to a cult. So, you are saying I can't write about people who are not me? "The Help" became the most-watched movie on Netflix over the past week, according to their US trend bar. WebDreamWorks. I just had no idea until you told me just now. Delorosas constant rape was considered unapologetically trashy romance and porn. 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. WebThe plot of Homestuck is infamously convoluted but boils down to: four kids who know each other online play a video game together, inadvertently causing the apocalypse. He forces Jake to admit he loves him just to get the satisfaction of embarrassing him and destroying his heart, and he consistently and purposefully misgenders Roxy. We are currently experiencing a system-wide issue with a delay on all activations. My praise of Homestucks music is really part of another thing I like about the comic. Time to be controversial here. He who is without sin may cast the first stone. Ever heard of that? You must have a lot of time on your hands to look into all that, don't you? He's an asshole and I can't stand him. When the question is sprung up and no one is correcting the fans till that point, you can tell its just an on the spot decision. 1.4K Takers Personality Quiz. He doesnt let characters act like their nature would suggest, and instead manipulates them to fulfill some larger purpose. Hes not. and i think its mostly to do with homestucks treatment of femininity vs masculinity in a way that is not typically done /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/UsersCountIndicator.2ab8dda40f822a31d31c_.css.map*/to which I say yes. In both the SFW and NSFW route, there was no mention of him being trans. Johns relationship with Terezi, which really only existed in the last 50 pages of the comic, was apparently always the better option? It makes the story feel cyclical in a good way. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Doesn't that make you the racist one here? Or is Nepeta actually autistic? WebWell, another problem: Homestuck isnt really hypertext fiction. what better profession is there in this world? Hussie suggests the personal allegorical elements in Psycholonials are more like points of inspiration. This story is about Z after all, not himself. Come on, you disappoint. Buckets, apparently someone threw one at a Karkat at a convention. I'm not really interested in Thermian arguments; trolls aren't real, Hussie created them that way for a reason. The mysteries. And then theres this whole other universe filled with aliens, Trolls, who already played it. I am pretty sure you weren't meant to like her doing that. 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. This event kickstarts her own story and accelerates the development of her own personal politics. I cant put them on a scale from 1 to 10 and I cant recommend anyone read them or not. 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. The alive version of this character is cute, but mostly useless. Its at this point that the epilogues diverge into two: a Meat timeline for the former and a Candy timeline for the latter. As both of the characters are canonically gay many people consider it erasing their sexuality to put them in heterosexual pairings in fanfic. Whatever. I honestly don't feel qualified to say. In some ways this was prompted Hussie took fan input while writing the original story and incorporated it into the final product. Homestuck tends to congregate in large groups that can cause problems at conventions. Why didn't you bring it up then? The majority of the story, other than the epilogue they are minors. that's all i'm saying. Or Faygo. If you dont write often and consequently dont think of story length in terms of word count (what are you, a normal person?
why homestuck is problematic
why homestuck is problematic
