you can and i’ll be happy to answer if possible, but I have way too many asks to answer them all, and i devote the bulk of my fandom energy to making videos nowadays. I am gonna be doing videos rounding up a lot of asks/comments people send me in the future, so i might end up answering questions through there too.
tl;dr yeah i’m happy to help if i can! but i can’t promise i’ll always answer.
So I was thinking about god-tier abilities in Homestuck, and it struck me that rather a lot of the so-called “classpect powers” showcased in hs are either A: a more “supernatural” expression of something the person in question had already been doing prior, or, rarely, B: a direct response to a previously established problem. And in aggregate, these feel like they point toward a fairly particular conception of classpect abilities, that of skills that are learned (or levelups gained in a special ability, if we want to get video gamey with it).
Let’s use John as an example. As the predominant early viewpoint character, his growth is fairly well detailed. As he enters his Land and starts properly growing, he goes from using the Breeze to send objects across his Land using the Parcel Pyxis network, to subconsciously summoning the Breeze to save himself from a fire, to subconsciously having the Breeze emanate in massive quantities from his very body to put out the planet-spanning Green Tragedy, to finally as a god-tier (and with some valuable advice from Vriska) taking full control of the Breeze and using it as a tool and weapon. All of these fall into the A category, but John also has two solid B category abilities, the ability to resist detection via scent, and the ability to turn into wind to protect himself against attacks. And both those abilities are perfect for protection against Bec Noir, who tracked John down via his scent and stabbed him in the chest shortly before John god-tiered, at which point he immediately gained the first of these abilities (he showcased the second when fighting Noir in the Furthest Ring later).
This is pretty solid. I think with a bit of time I could prob argue Jane and the trolls also fit into this schema nicely. A bit busy right now but hopefully soon
admittedly I don’t normally like modern shakespeare adaptations but once I went to see my cousin in a midsummer night’s dream and it opened with a high schooler saying “I don’t wanna read this play” so he sits down and eats an entire chipotle burrito on stage and then immediately falls asleep and the play begins but instead of the forest the faeries all hang out in a rainforest cafe TM and at one point in the middle of a scene the guy from the beginning just slowly drifts across the back of the stage on a skateboard, staring at all the characters as the events of the play transpire in the form of some sort of chipotle-induced coma lucid dream
THAT is EXACTLY what Shakespeare would have wanted
I swear if this isn’t floating around on the internet I’m gonna cry
Oh buddy IT’S ABOUT TO BE. I am like, 98% sure this was my high school’s production and I’ve got photos and video clips like craaaazy…
Here are some fun additions… the Mechanicals were also based on the characters of The Breakfast Club (here I am below, eating an actual Captain Crunch and Pixie Stix sandwich on stage.)
…and the one on the longboard was actually our Puck – he rode it through the whole play in the background. Please note his “Forest Cafe” shirt… which we also had logos for on the cups.
…and we had both a flash mob at the end AND an interlude where myself and one of the other Fairies danced to “Sexy and I Know It” while we were cleaning up the tables at the cafe.
I will post more of this later. I have a DVD at my house and will endure cringing at myself to bring you some quality clips… there’s probably one of K eating the burrito before the start of the play, too.
Here ya go kids… all 2h20m. if you make it through the whole thing once, that’s probably more times than any of the cast watched this DVD. You can probably see why. Tbh if you watch this, I am sorry in advance.
Important notes:
– Chipotle burrito makes a cameo about 30 min in,
– the end has a flash mob and a “commercial” for the Forest Cafe,
– unfortunately, the lunch scene where all the mechanicals whistle like the Breakfast Club got mostly cut for some reason?
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@vampireapologist in case you have any interest in reliving this… at the very least you can prove to any doubters that there was, in fact, a Chipotle burrito onstage.
I cannot even fully conceptualize, much less put into words, how wild this chain of events has been.
I have dozens of posts going around that have broken 50,000 notes, and plenty that have broken 100,000.
On every single one of these posts, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of comments and tags calling me a liar and the story fake, but none so much as this post.
This post was my most doubted of all.
And you came in………
with a Two and a Half Hour Long video.
I’ll never forget this.
We have a bond forged in fire and spirit now.
@hexstuck shakespeare is incredible and i feel like this would make you happy
Oh yeah, and here’s my hot take about people (especially men) in fandom using their platform to take steamy shits on cis, straight women:
Your misogyny is still misogyny, and it’s still disgusting! Sexism is still a real thing that affects women all over the world, many of whom are straight and cis! Oppression on one axis is still oppression! Reducing straight cis women who write fanfiction or draw fan art that you don’t like into villains eternally deserving of being on the receiving end of cruel jabs often littered with sexist language reinforces and normalizes misogynist perspectives! It encourages internalized misogyny! It harms real life living and breathing women! It assumes that all women in fandom who identify cis and straight right now in this moment will continue to do so forever, an assumption that is fucking laughable, and you god damn well know it!
Your queerness does not absolve you of your ability to be a misogynist!
And, by the way, if you are a queer woman who enjoys laughing it up with the group about how awful those evil cis straight women are, please know, the moment that your morality and the morality of the bullies you are surrounded by diverges even slightly, your identification will become subject to scrutiny. Please know the moment that you question or otherwise think beyond the groupthink, your identity regardless of how not cis or not straight you are will not prevent you from being lumped in with the cis straight women that you denigrate today.
Please find and surround yourself with people who respect women. Full fucking stop.
there’s something really disgusting and horrifying about people who pride themselves on being “progressive” and then fill their posts with misogynist slurs and insults, but because it’s about cishet women somehow that makes it ok
Hey guys! This time we take a look at the Dreaming World. We take a look at the way the Dreamselves of the players serve as useful tools to both the Players and the Game itself. We also learn about the warring kingdoms of Prospit and Derse, how their distinct cultures rub off on and affect the players, and how they relate to the different Gods that influence any given session of Sburb.
don’t just believe people who turn up in your inbox telling you shitty things about other people. I know it’s scary but you’re allowed to sit back and say “I’m not going to acknowledge this until I have all the facts” instead of instantly folding and apologizing and taking their “information” at face value (possibly because you don’t want to be considered shitty by association). that is some red scare witch hunt bullshit.
[This is an excerpt from a longer post, but I think it can stand on its own. It’s based on blogger mmmmalo/Malo’s idea of Homestuck characters as Manifestations of the protagonists’ psychology and trauma. Malo argues that Lord English is a reflection of Jade’s hidden trauma; below, I present a different approach.
Content warning for discussion of neglect, abuse, CSA, suicide, assault, and general
trauma.]
As I understand it, Manifestations Theory posits:
New characters, events, and problems introduced in Homestuck come into being as symbolic echoes (manifestations) of the psychology of the original four characters. Further characters also emerge as manifestations of those new characters, and so on. This is especially true of the interaction between the kids and the trolls, but also of other figures like the Midnight Crew, the Dancestors, and Lord English.
I really dig this way of reading Homestuck! It often leads to really interesting results. I think it makes a great deal of sense in terms of how Hussie writes his characters as echoes or riffs on previous characters.
I could very easily see a Paradox Space which provides its players with beings and events that echo their own psychology. In which the challenge for SBURB players, in very Gnostic fashion, is to face the reflections of their own selves in order to find their own identity within their concerns and fears. That’s awesome!
That said, my reading of the origin of Lord English as a psychological Manifestation differs significantly from Malo’s.
What I find very striking about Lord English is that he’s an amalgamation. He’s a fusion of Caliborn + Lil’ Hal (AR) + Equius + Half of Gamzee.
That’s incredibly resonant, because if there’s one thing it makes sense
for the villain to be in Homestuck, it’s a collision of overlapping
symbols, like everything else that drives its story. And a mess of
overlapping symbols is also perfect as an expression of psychological
problems.
Here’s the reading I’ve been playing around with:
Lord
English is the manifestation of the collective traumas, repressions,
and psychological issues of the initial protagonists of Homestuck.
Oooh my god, I love this. I never quite linked LE to trauma or any given character’s psychological issues, and I certainly never considered attempting to pair the Betas with respective components of LE.
I’m not super sure how sold I am on the link between Rose and Caliborn (Scratch always struck me as more Hal than Caliborn myself; the twisted realization of Caliborn’s desire to be “Bros” with Dirk mingling with AR’s desire to emulate Dave by Serving others.) And I’m still mulling Jade over, too.
But that’s pretty much just me saying this take on LE is really interesting, and teases new light out of him as an antagonistic figure, so I hope we end up expanding on the concept more.
Flying through Storytelling 