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so having uncovered the pervasive gnostic imagery tying homestuck to other fantastic works like The Neverending Story, Mother 3, and Revolutionary Girl Utena, its time to get to the real discourse
the epilogue is real. its going to be act 8 but its just going to be a remake of the episode from Utena where Nanami lays an egg, starring Vriska as Nanami.
Juri can be…oh lets say dead Aradia, why not. or Rose.
DIRK: Oh, hey. Sorry I’ve been quiet for a bit.
JAKE: Perish the thought!
JAKE: I know how you get when youre dick deep in robots.
DIRK: By Jake alone could such words be guilelessly said.
DIRK: Uh, but yeah, something that’s been in the back of my head.
DIRK: What was that weirdly charming thing you said we were like?
JAKE: Ah! Youll recall it was, “Peas and carrots”!
DIRK: Peas and carrots, that’s right.
DIRK: I liked that, but I forgot what it’s from.
JAKE: Forrest gump!
DIRK: Oh fuck me sideways.
JAKE: !?
DIRK: Now I feel like a tremendous chump.
JAKE: Why the hey? Forrest’s a stupendous gump from a peerless drama!
JAKE: That Forrest had gusto to spare. Not to mention a fearless mama!
JAKE: By gum, her spunky selfless antics just filled me with elation!
JAKE: Remember how she boned the principal for Forrests education?
DIRK: I do. Wish I didn’t.
JAKE: And how elvis jacked forrests swagger instead of black artists?
JAKE: And how forrest’s friend jenny got hit by aids hardest?
DIRK: Yeah, uh. The big man might want to call a time-out on that claim.
DIRK: Dude, don’t you think there are people who that portrayal defames?
JAKE: Defame schemame. Now makes its debut: striderian snootiness!
JAKE: Disdain for whats plain as punch yet is inherently beauteous!
DIRK: It’s not exactly snooty that manipulative schmaltz makes me ill at ease.
DIRK: That weird Vietnam revisionism. Forrest with the war criminal Lyndon B.
DIRK: Ugh. That vaguely racist Forrest-aura that kept the protagonist from harm.
DIRK: A plot which intoduces… the new friend, Bubba, who was born to die in Forrest’s arms.
DIRK: Stuff like that is why I’m on the negative side of our particular Gump-opinion-schism.
DIRK: Cause it’s schlock fabricated to insulate a long-past generation from self-criticism.
JAKE: Aha! Funny you should mention the lifetime performance of donny glover.
JAKE: Cause theres a tidbit of reason youve yet to reckon with, lover.
JAKE: Theres a lesson in donny glovers story, and a reason he took home oscar glory.
JAKE: His small role puffed up with joie de vivre! His life fully lived before death most gory!
JAKE: Qualitys got a savoir-faire, a quintessence, and no man can mistake it.
JAKE: Be the writing ever so dog shit, its the oomph of passion that makes it.
JAKE: Cant you just feel it oozing? The gumpean passion that leaks out of tom hanks!
DIRK: If you’re asking me to consider Tom’s ooze or his leakages, the answer’s definitely “no thanks.”
DIRK: Dribbling pus or passion aside, it’s with the takeaway that I’ve got compunctions.
JAKE: But isnt it the person viewing, that molds their own takeaway and imbues it with gumption?
DIRK: Toxic garbage is as toxic garbage does. No matter if the audience puts their voice in.
DIRK: I’ll never like that shitty movie, and I feel like all mentions of it are poisoned.
JAKE: Well. We may be at an impasse. But instead of feeling like a first-class horses ass,
JAKE: Id instead like to beg my pal and paramour to not throw a pet name out like nasty trash.
JAKE: Whatever you got from that movie, even by irony, why all of that is all yours!
JAKE: Whether you wept like me big gobs of tears or hit the ground laughing on all fours.
DIRK: You’ve got a point, though it’s no fair baiting me with talk of an all-fours position.
JAKE: (Gulp…!)
DIRK: Despite all havoc wrought by such a propaganda mess, there’s, yeah, value in my ironic derision.
DIRK: And there’s some value in that dorky pet name too.
DIRK: Let not my snobbery be as disdain miscontrued.
JAKE: So its decided! “Peas and carrots” is our pet name, our badge of honor and love!
JAKE: Theres no more boffo sign of bonding, at least none that my brain can think of!
JAKE: Let he who thinks theres a more spot-on symbol be proclaimed a brainless bumpkin!
DIRK: (Feels like we’re missing something obvious… but I don’t know what somethin’?)
DIRK: But yeah.
DIRK: Lyrical and philosophical waxing aside.
DIRK: It’s you and me.
DIRK: Peas and carrots, buddy.
JAKE: Oh Dirk. Im just over the moon that you see things my way.
JAKE: It really is just like they say… “Life is like a box of chocolates!”
DIRK: “You need to watch out because like a good 40% of it tastes like utter shit and if you’re not careful sometimes it can horribly kill you.”
In the future, we hang out. Hang out with me as I read Jon Bois’s epic sci fi hypercomic 17776 for the first time and discover the power of duration art, the stress of immortality, and the fact that everything continues to basically be Homestuck.
Check out Patreon for an extended cut, extra commentary, and a behind the scenes account of how I produced this video!
hi i’m youtube garbage and Sam finally doing video fucking makes my goddamn life i’m so glad
So you know, there’s hype for the game to drop next week, or at least an announcement about the official date to release, maybe with a final trailer! Sweet. So if it’s on Wednesday? It will drop on 8/30. And I was like, oh well that has no major significance number-wise from anything we’ve seen.
Yeah that number doesn’t.
You know what number does though?
HUSSIE.
ARE YOU AIMING TO RELEASE THE GAME ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE KICKSTARTER?
I swear to god this obsession with numbers is going to kill us all.
“allegory – a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.”
Like all good games, Homestuck tries very hard to teach the reader how to engage with it. Homestuck cues the reader into how to read some of its narrative vagueness through the use of literary allusion. This includes allusions to anime, games, books, movies and entire cultural and philosophical movements.
In this series, we’ll go over some of the biggest examples of Homestuck using references to clue the reader into what it’s doing. Hopefully, you’ll come away from these essays with a new insight into Homestuck’s logic–especially later on, where Homestuck outright finishes character arcs and thematic climaxes through this approach.
I’m numbering these posts from simplest to most complex, and roughly from least to most plot impact, too.
[All of these essays are finished, and accessible to Patrons. They will be released once a week, every Monday from now on!]
This post exists for introduction purposes and as an easy link once all of them are uploaded, but please reblog the individual essays instead, as old reblogs of this post will be outdated and lack the correct hyperlinks!]
[4. Gnostic Myth – Literally fucking everything. A Non-Exhaustive review.]
It’s honestly kind of weird to me how skeptical people are on this point, so before we dive deeper, let’s recap the sheer breadth of references to Gnosticism in Homestuck.
Here’s our last essay in this series, covering quite a bit more of Homestuck’s gnostic influences and taking a look at what they mean for the execution of Act 7. This undercurrent has been pretty fascinating to uncover, particular for contextualizing Lord English, so if nothing else I hope you enjoy reading and letting me know what you think!
You have been visited by the Chan of wealth, reblog this and you will have money come to you!
I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY AND LIKE 2 HOURS LATER THE WALLET I HAD LOST 6 HOURS AWAY FROM HOME THAT HAD MY DEBIT CARD AND LIKE 80 DOLLARS IN CASH WAS DELIVERED TO MY HOUSE WITH NO RETURN ADDRESS I CANT HELP BUT THINK IT WAS JACKIE CHAN WHO SENT IT GOD BLESS YOU JACKIE CHAN
Last time I did this it was payday so duh. Let’s see what you’ve got this time, Chan.
Er, actually, about a minute after I hit reblog I got some very important (and positive) money-related news out of the blue.
Flying through Storytelling 