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small doodle to keep myself from forgetting how to draw completely
jane what have they done to you
the mind’s light and the light’s mind
pray for her y’all
a seer’s stolen luck
based on this post
a seer’s stolen luck
based on this post
new june outfit!
the embodiment of freedom
Shit man, this godtier war is fucked. I just saw a guy raise his hand to the sky and say "TALLY HO" or some similar shit, and every one around him vaporized, had their skeletons crumble to dust and then disappeared. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is wielding an assault rifle and an energy sword from halo. I think I just heard "ancestral awakening" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.
when you get engulfed by a space-time anomaly and it forces you into therapy for the greater good
and all hope may die, but it lives on inside of me
Loved Janes character arc
in the meat timeline, they lost the embodiment of breath, the aspect of freedom, thus the narrative binds them to the narrators wishes, twisting them to his desires
in the candy timeline, they lost the embodiment of heart, the aspect of the soul. they lose their sense of self, becoming more and more detached from who they are as a person
guys… i don’t think he’s doing this for all of us
Hey lol so like. So like space players and they're red saviors huh
What a daring dream.
↑ close-up of the gang
a homestuck-ified meme bonanza
↓ ↓ references belooooww ↓ ↓
selfish, selfish, selfish adults
huh? guar— whuh???
↓↓ up close guardian spook below ↓↓
someone reboot botboy, also aradia ayo-
upd8 got that delirious 3AM sleepover bestie vibes, where you’re borderline hallucinating tv ad jingles while professing your deepest, most entrenched thoughts and fears
anyway, yes they had a half-ass spa day, yes they made a fort, and yeah they’re gunna do alien ouija yeehaw
breath, heir, candy, meat, and relevance
idk if y'all know, but I am an avid egbert enthusiast, yessiree
(I never posted my banner lmao, and I actually really liked how it turned out)
Not to be controversial, but I do think it's quite silly to knock on Homestuck: Beyond Canon for having references to internet memes in it, saying that this will "inevitably date it", and calling that an inherently bad thing. I understand if that's just not your personal taste, modern pop culture/online culture references is definitely something that will turn a lot of people off, but... Homestuck itself was filled to the brim with those same kinds of references. It's truly just keeping in the spirit of the original work, people only find it jarring now because they aren't experiencing it in a state of being a beloved time capsule.
Homestuck, as a piece of fiction, is fundamentally extremely derivative, referential, and reactionary, completely chock full of inside jokes and references to at-the-time modern media and memes. The level in which HS2 is engaging with current memes and media is honestly substantially lighter than Homestuck itself was. During early Homestuck in particular, it's difficult to go even one page without some kind of reference being present in it, especially considering a major point of the setting design and character writing is their relationship to other media. The posters on their walls, the games they play, the fact that Dave is living in a Saw trap, et cetera.
I find this train of criticism to be particularly fascinating, as to me it shows that, in some way, it doesn't really feel like a lot of people ever look at Homestuck as something that was ever new. The time period it was made in is almost never taken into consideration when analyzing the work. Homestuck never was, it just is. HS2 has current-day meme references because it is a current-day Homestuck story. This is exactly how things should be. This is just how Homestuck is.
Upd8 Fanart Showcase #03
)(i everyone! We're offishally back this week to shellebrate last upd8 with some fintastic fanarts! Sea for yourshellf below!
artists in order of appearance: @hurlyburlytopsyturvy @insufferable-homestuck @silvermoono @spriggiestuff @grim-kitkat @visionaryparacosmos @seaverity @usernameproxy @pastelkerri @number-0y
go check them out! ^^
hi!! I'm elusive from the Homestuck Daily team (a Homestuck news & showcase site), we're doing a fanart showcase soon to show cool art people did about the last upd8 (we delayed it this time to wait for extra fanarts), can we feature this artwork you did?
you'll be fully credited of course, with the link on your artwork leading back to your post here (or on a different site if you want) and the link below it redirecting people on your preferred social platform (or a linktree)
thank you for your time! u-u -elusive
heya! thank you for asking, and I'd love for my upd8 art to be included! no problemo, it's awesome to be part of something like that. it would be great if you could link it back here and credit it to this tumblr blog as well.
can't wait to see the showcase and everyone else's talent too! :)
waddaya mean this didn't happen too
local egbert converses w/ amogus balls vriska in real life 4k
waddaya mean this isn't what happened
(I drew brain ghost dirk all blobby and thought it was so funny, so I just left it lmao. The puns disintegrated his spectral frame.)
on realness and the hope aspect
honestly i feel like a lot of ppl missed the point and just blindly agreed w/ vriska on the candy timeline's "fakeness". like. hmm (rambles)
this post from fefairys is a nice way of putting it: homestuck doesn't like to say things are just one way. if anything the john + vris convo is just a summary of the entire point of the epilogues: both scenarios are equally possible and equally real, bc to the ppl who live them, they r real. maybe one is the technically "right" timeline, but they both exist concretely, because what goes on in one affects the other.
vriska is partially right, but so is john. the timeline is wrong, but it's not fake.
that's the power of hope! not that sort of hope, i mean this hope. the one that has the ability to believe so hard in something, it becomes real. like an imaginary version of your ex-boyfriend. or an alternate timeline. where rage cries out against implausible things, pushing it back with force, hope imagines things so hard they warp reality around them just to exist (think adam from good omens). it doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be held up by enough people believing in it.
the characters of the candy timeline believe that they are real, and so they are. you could make the same argument for the score of doomed timelines that riddle much of regular homestuck honestly. im a bit jumbled but yea. food for thought