Sort of? In that I’ll occasionally use quotes hes provided on his thoughts to guide my reading. The dude is remarkably consistent about what he values, and some of what he says extra-canonically illuminates a lot of what makes Homestuck tick, so it’s usually interesting.
I don’t like to argue based off that for the most part, though. Homestuck telegraphs its own intent strongly and loudly enough that you don’t really need Hussie to understand its priorities as a comic, and taking those priorities seriously provides what is in my view easily the strongest/most complete reading. And since he deleted so much stuff I’m not sure how much hussie would LIKE his quotes being used, anyway!
So I try to avoid it wherever possible, but because of fandom’s unfortunate obsession with denying the plainly obvious, I am occasionally forced to point out a bunch of stuff the comic deliberately and painstakingly sets up and be like “Oh btw Hussie LITERALLY SAID THIS EXPLICITLY, YEARS AGO, PLEASE CATCH UP.”
I find that is usually not good enough either, however. I’m hoping the Viz media announcement might soften that layer of hardheaded skepticism?
Jade’s parental unit, as the Pattern Breaking parental unit, has a much larger variety of strange, off putting interests. Dad has FANCIFUL HARLEQUINS, Mom has EXSQUISITE WIZARDS, and Bro has RADICAL PUPPETS. Grandpa has not one, but FOUR such interests, of the same descriptive two word format. They’re all just as dumb though. One reason among several for this was to create an element of uncertainty over what kind of item Jade would prototype with . And by uncertainty, I mean misdirection, which is what I always mean by uncertainty.
Notice the colors of the lights in each room. Orange, pink, and cyan, corresponding with Dirk, Roxy, and Jane. The items have a loose correlation with the other three guardians too. Knights in that Dirk is a skilled swordsman. Roxy’s land is full of pyramids, Jane was grandpa’s long estranged blue lady. You see how the gears are always turning. Not only does everything mean something. It turns out everything means EVERYTHING. Now you know.
Andrew Hussie, Homestuck Book 3 Commentary
My pal @icel just sort of handed me the commentary for book 3, which is rad cause it turns out to confirm I’ve been right in arguing that Grandpa’s home decor reflects the Alphas for months. (Obviously doesn’t prove anything else linked there, though I stand by all of it. Just saying.)
I don’t normally argue based on Word of God cause I don’t like speculating pointlessly on Hussie as a person but hey! This is part of a product made for fans, and also it takes a lot of the legwork out of me getting to say I’m right, so like fuck it 😉
davebepis said: oh yeah, not like hes wrore the word “cr*pple” or “re*arted” to describe a 13 year old wheelchair bound teen, oh no hes never done anything bad.
Yes absolutely anything a character does in a fictional work is exactly what the creator thinks they should do, this is why Hussie wants us to all be murdered by religious clowns.
The key part of fiction, as we all know, is that it’s absolutely 100% real.
Yeah I think there’s a lot of complexity there honestly? Like for a comic that is so deeply ABOUT “reading” media it seems weird to just act like the relationship is solely antagonistic.
davebepis said: or steal money from his kickstarter and use it to blow at olive garden insted of actually doing what his fans payed up for.
HAHAHAHAHAHA fuck off with your entitled bratty bullshit.
I’m trying to parse that last comment? Is that someone salty at hussie for the time he was publically robbed? Or just a dude who really fuckin hates the og?
No I think I’ve seen this before, people literally are angry at Hussie for like going to Olive Garden I’m pretty sure
Instead of paying the guy he just photo shopped it himself and then used the 150$ to eat out at olive garden which was extremely difficult with how cheap the place is
oh my fucking god i had forgotten the olive garden money was raised for a soul portrait (i knew it was raised for something silly that was completely unrelated to the kickstarter and happened way earlier, i’m bewildered at how the two could be confused)
but anyway these posts are still fucking hilarious
In this piece, we talk about why Spades Slick isn’t an anti-hero or sympathetic in any way, Slickpaint was never canon, and Bec Noir surviving made perfect sense–both from a thematic and a practical writing standpoint.
I am also pleased to announce I am going on Patreon. I am beginning a video essay series on Homestuck aiming to render it understandable and accessible to newcomers, and old fans will likely get a lot out of it, too.
Flying through Storytelling 