Author: optimisticduelist

could i ask what you think about john and Roxy being a ship (i don’t know the ship name for them) together and the character dynamics? because i personally ship them as being 2 people who survived a tragedy together, and being the ones to actually remember it. i just think its something that would bring them together.

I’m a big Roxygen fan. I’m kind of a very laissez-faire multishipper in my heart of hearts, and that’s especially true with John.  I ship him with like half the cast don’t even look at me…

That said, I’m also huge on Callieroxy. And Janecallieroxy and Johncallieroxy.
Also I kind of figure between Davepeta, Dirk and Terezi, everyone’s probably more likely than not to recover their memories about everything over time with like, fraymotif god powers and stuff.

Not that the “bound together by shared memory of trauma” concept is bad at all for John and Roxy, now that you mention it. I have a similar mindset about how Dirk and Jake deal with their shared trauma as the ones who experienced the brunt of the responsibility for/harrassment of HAL/AR.

Hm. Homestuck is good. I need to catch up on fanfic.

Found some “old” drama around Homestuck/Andrew Hussie recently and I respect your opinion. What do you think about the “caucasian joke” that used to be found in the Trickster arc? I don’t mind it. I also saw other stuff around Andrew’s responses to questions around disabilities, fat, stereotyping, race, and similar topics. I know this question can be controversial so any other links about your opinion would be nice if you have the time. Thanks and can’t wait to see more.

Back in the old fandom days, I was one of the many who was pretty pissed about that joke and internalized it as some sort of “take that” at Homestuck fans who had criticisms of the comic’s relationship to race.

My feelings have since shifted, and I certainly don’t think that was the narrative intent. I think the Caucasian joke is better understood in context with the rest of the comic’s gnostic themes. I’ve written an article on Trickster Mode:

https://medium.com/@RoseOfNobility/the-tricksters-are-peachy-yaldabaoth-racial-identity-and-gnostic-existential-horror-7907191c8071

Suffice it to say, I’m not an expert on race issues, and I don’t want my personal feelings to imply that all people who are critical of Homestuck along those lines are being unreasonable or anything.

But my reading of the text is such that if anything, the joke here is on Whiteness as a source of political power.

Or, even more likely, on making a tongue in cheek reference to one of AURYN’s side-effects in The Neverending Story. When Bastian (a white kid) gains the amulet (same one depicted on Jane’s Lollipop), he’s also transformed into an “oriental prince.” Racebending is sort of part of the thing’s powerset.

Not on debunking the idea that the kids could be white, or mocking fans who wanted to consider the possibility.

Viz Media enters games publishing with an anime-inspired debut

Well, now. This is interesting. It seems Viz Media is branching into games publishing, focusing on what they describe as “original, narrative-driven games.”
The first of these games will be “The World Next Door”, published by Rose City Games. For those of you unaware,  RCG worked with WP on Hiveswap’s marketing, making the launch trailer and stuff like that.

TWND already looks fantastic to me, so I’m excited :B But mainly I’m mentioning this because it expands the window of possibility for what we can reasonably expect of Homestuck’s epilogue.

“I wanted to do something a little unusual for it, something existing outside the confines of the web story. Working with Viz struck me as good opportunity for this.

Aside from that, anything can happen. Take a look at the sorts of things Viz has already published or produced. These are all examples of things on the table for future consideration for either Homestuck or Hiveswap. I’ve got plenty of ideas, and so do they. Maybe you do too??”

https://wheals.github.io/newsposts/newsposts.html#9/14/17

So yeah! It’s entirely possible it’s a comic project or something like that–we won’t know until we know. But I was sort of hoping for a game-like flash project or something for a while, so things just got a little more exciting to think about!

Viz Media enters games publishing with an anime-inspired debut

is there a solid system you use for determining which class is active or passive? or does it make sense to you which is which?

I’m still trying to figure out how the exploit/allow behavior works and how the scale is structured, exactly. I’m beginning to suspect some archetypes lean Active, ie: Both the Active and Passive Class tend towards behaving more Actively (Fairies, Outlaws, Magicians), while others tend towards behaving more Passively (Royalty, Servants, Prophets).

All on the individual though, of course, and it’s only a vague sense I currently have and haven’t really figured out in a way concrete enough that I’d be happy explaining/espousing the view. Just goes to show how much I’m still trying to figure it out, myself.

I think an Active class will tend towards exploiting, and a Passive class will tend towards allowing/inviting. If you’re looking for a hard rule, it seems to me like Active classes will almost always act to benefit themselves, while Passive classes act to benefit others. As such, they tend to be coded as Selfish/Selfless respectively.