Controversial opinion but The Adventure Zone, Steven Universe, and Homestuck are all still excellent and made by good people.
Diverse media is held to an impossibly high and ludicrously unfair standard while mediocrity and baiting are continually rewarded.
homestuck feels a little out of place here considering that hussie really took joy in mocking his fans (the caucasian joke, the dancestors) but yeah
It depends how you read the Caucasian joke. I think it becomes a lot more complicated when you recognize that it’s being used in, essentially, a horror-comedy sequence where you’re supposed to feel super uncomfortable with everything happening.
The dancestors are pretty bad in a number of ways. I think it’s possible to like… have a conversation about that shit though? Like I’ve debated @revolutionaryduelist before about whether or not Kankri is a fair parody and weirdly! neither of us have made callout posts about the other!
Meanwhile like undeniably Homestuck is full of important queer relationships and honestly for how much good those have done the amount of hate it’s gotten is massively disproportionate, which is kind of my point.
I’m honestly REALLY doubtful the Caucasian joke was meant to mock his progressive fans at all, given that there are ways Trickster Mode’s presentation lines up with Homestuck’s Gnostic and philosophical themes, and literal whiteness is presented as. You know. An unsettling threat? And he ended up changing the joke specifically to shut down racist people using it as vindication to mock progressives.
I wouldn’t really defend the Dancestors that way but I do think to characterize him as “taking joy” in something like that is, well. A stretch, for a number of reasons.
But even if he messed up there, it doesn’t really undo the fact that Homestuck features a frankly staggering cast of LGBT rep, and every single one of it’s canon “endgame” ships is presented as nothing short of philosophically and spiritually transcendent. There’s not really anything like that anywhere else in modern media at large, let alone LGBT media. I think that’s worth cherishing.
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