Yeah, it seems like a Neverending Story thing. AURYN–the medallion that grants any wish–has a corrosive effect on humans, even as it makes them all-mighty.
Bastian quickly becomes attached and obsessed with AURYN, compelled to hold onto it against logic and reason.
Also, AURYN changes Bastian’s race, making him an “oriental prince” (this book is from like 1970 or something ok? its not me.)
Which blows a huge hole in the “The trickster kids are a joke about the kids actually being white”, because the kids’ original races have absolutely nothing to do with their caucasian color pallette. That’s all an AURYN thing. In other words, as I’ve said before, trickster mode was perfect and Homestuck is good actually.
hey @ og homestucks if you’re giving hiveswap fans advice about sealing body paint maybe don’t be aggressive about? i’ve seen a lot of posts where people are swearing at people about sealing body paint and yeah that’s important but you don’t need to be an asshole to get your point across.
on that note, sealing body paint is important, for people who don’t know the ins and outs of paint, because the worst thing that can happen is getting grey on people’s hard worked on costumes! you’ll probably feel guilty if it happens and it’s the kind of thing that is enough to dampen your experience of a convention – worse still, they’ll be stuck walking around with grey paint on that careful armor they spent fifteen hours sculpting and painting or the shirt that they had to find in the right colour, etc etc. seal your paint with lots of baby powder or translucent powder! ben nye is a good brand of paint (for my skin tone which is like, white as heck, i mix one of their white and grey together) if you can afford it because it’s waterproof and long lasting. you’ll need alcohol based remover to get it off – otherwise, snazaroo is cheap, although it’s not waterproof and will probably come off way faster. there is also kryolan which i’ve never tried but heard good things about! it pays to look around at tutorials and the like, there are a load on youtube about how to do it as safely as possible so as to avoid dampening someones con experience! some people make arm socks, but i cant sew at all so i paint my hands. i’d recommend covering them extra well, and if you think you’ve covered them enough…well, cover them a few times, juuuuuust to be sure! i also never paint the palm of my hands or underside of my fingers because i like to grab stuff to look at in cons and it’s just overall safer for me not to!
tldr; homestucks be nice, and there;s some actual help instead of a !!!Sea L Yo ur B o D y P AI nt !! rant in the big blurb. have fun i guess and i hope i get to take photos with people cosplaying hiveswap at my next con!
truly tho. I saw the post that this post here is refering to. and honestly why all the swearing? this just serves the cliché of tumblr being full of unnecessary negativity. you were a beginner once, too. nobody started out knowing all the tricks.
here ya go, instead of going like ‘seal your fucking paint’ try ‘sealing your paint is important, here’s a helpful post with brands of powders you could use/ my advice as an experienced cosplayer’ next time.
is this forreal? Look, I know Homestuck has historically been a free-for-all fandom that tends to express itself really abrasively as jokes because. we read homestuck.
but. I think as a fandom we need to reckon with the fact that Hiveswap is not that kind of experience necessarily, and a lot of its audience is not going to feel super comfortable engaging with that. there’s going to be lots of kids watching, playing, and talking about hiveswap. given the e10+ rating, lots of LITTLE kids. As a fandom comprised primarily of older teens and young adults, it is on us to be like. careful? caring? approachable i guess?
I’m not saying that swearing is like Off Limits in fandom now but like. guys. theres a time and a place. and the place to be inscrutable and dramatically aggressive is probably not when you’re trying to be helpful to newbies.
Just something to keep in mind.
Yeah, the harsher tones of longstanding fans and old school HS humor will more than likely discourage newer fans from engaging with the fandom if it’s the first thing they encounter. And given Hiveswap’s nature and audience compared to Homestuck’s it’s probably time to hang up the old “seal your damn paint” rhetoric that had been so fundamental back in 2013 when the cosplay world was suddenly swamped by grey painted aliens… We have a chance to be the supportive mentor figures sharing our experiences and preventing a new wave of chaos and drama rather than being the people angrily yelling at children who had no other way of knowing. Really, there is too much negativity and hate within fandom these days, we don’t need to contribute to it. Please, let us be a supportive and welcoming fandom for the new comers and make this resurgence something we can ALL enjoy.
I made this STICKERED AND AUTOGRAPHED JOEY CLAIRE MEME just to declare how important and valuable this message is. Just like Joey herself. Because she’s important and she matters to me. Like this post does. Oh also to make clear that I am so writing that Joey post,,, right now. That’s still happening.
But yeah forreal guys it is not gonna kill anyone to be careful to be nice to kids! It’ll probably require more consistent tagging for things like politics and nsfw and stuff but like, that’ll make it easier for the two main “age” distributions of the fandom to coexist in a healthier way.
Tumblr is a hellsite and we would probably all be better served in a dedicated social media hub designed to encourage this sort of coexistence. But in the meantime, we should take care to welcome the youngins playing with areas that aren’t too stressful so they can process everything Hiveswap gives them.
Like. I’ve been losing sleep the last few days because of how good Hiveswap is? I haven’t been in a public venue this weekend that I didn’t cry in. I’ve made rash, hasty, DRAMATIC decisions in fits of passion. I’m just…not like I was.
If that sounds familiar, I think it’s because what growing up reading Homestuck felt like to me. Hiveswap revived my sense of wonder and mystery and beauty, and shown me wonders I’d never seen-like Joey. I guess I just fucking like homestuck way too much?
But that’s…exactly what being a kid feels like. Important and dire as it is to talk about the state of the world and vent from our battles, teens and kids have a lots to do just handling what they’re feeling. I don’t think they should grow up like I did, reading Homestuck and learning about politcs and the state of the world at the same time.
I don’t regret it. But it was bad for me. I think it was bad for a lot of us. Still, it gave me the experience, I hope, to know it didn’t make me super healthy. The only benefit of that possible is to know not to pass it on to another wave of kids.
I don’t know how we’re going to work this out. But this is something I feel really strongly about. We need a way to make adult conversations opt-in, at the very least–so that any kid who wants to dive into them is essentially peeking through a window they shouldn’t.
Try and remember how it felt to read Homestuck and talk to people if you read it when you were young. Try really hard. We can and should do better than that experience, and What Pumpkin have proven they deserve that from us. I don’t think any little girl who connects to Joey should be made to feel that the game that moved her so much is garbage for x or y reason.
I just think…I think we should choose to be gentler than that.
(And anyone else who may want it, I suppose. I’m not entirely thrilled by it, but then I’m an Illustrator, not a Photoshopper – at some point I may make a damn vector out of it, or make it a proper painting. Who knows what I’ll do? Not you, certainly. I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel.)
hey @ og homestucks if you’re giving hiveswap fans advice about sealing body paint maybe don’t be aggressive about? i’ve seen a lot of posts where people are swearing at people about sealing body paint and yeah that’s important but you don’t need to be an asshole to get your point across.
on that note, sealing body paint is important, for people who don’t know the ins and outs of paint, because the worst thing that can happen is getting grey on people’s hard worked on costumes! you’ll probably feel guilty if it happens and it’s the kind of thing that is enough to dampen your experience of a convention – worse still, they’ll be stuck walking around with grey paint on that careful armor they spent fifteen hours sculpting and painting or the shirt that they had to find in the right colour, etc etc. seal your paint with lots of baby powder or translucent powder! ben nye is a good brand of paint (for my skin tone which is like, white as heck, i mix one of their white and grey together) if you can afford it because it’s waterproof and long lasting. you’ll need alcohol based remover to get it off – otherwise, snazaroo is cheap, although it’s not waterproof and will probably come off way faster. there is also kryolan which i’ve never tried but heard good things about! it pays to look around at tutorials and the like, there are a load on youtube about how to do it as safely as possible so as to avoid dampening someones con experience! some people make arm socks, but i cant sew at all so i paint my hands. i’d recommend covering them extra well, and if you think you’ve covered them enough…well, cover them a few times, juuuuuust to be sure! i also never paint the palm of my hands or underside of my fingers because i like to grab stuff to look at in cons and it’s just overall safer for me not to!
tldr; homestucks be nice, and there;s some actual help instead of a !!!Sea L Yo ur B o D y P AI nt !! rant in the big blurb. have fun i guess and i hope i get to take photos with people cosplaying hiveswap at my next con!
truly tho. I saw the post that this post here is refering to. and honestly why all the swearing? this just serves the cliché of tumblr being full of unnecessary negativity. you were a beginner once, too. nobody started out knowing all the tricks.
here ya go, instead of going like ‘seal your fucking paint’ try ‘sealing your paint is important, here’s a helpful post with brands of powders you could use/ my advice as an experienced cosplayer’ next time.
is this forreal? Look, I know Homestuck has historically been a free-for-all fandom that tends to express itself really abrasively as jokes because. we read homestuck.
but. I think as a fandom we need to reckon with the fact that Hiveswap is not that kind of experience necessarily, and a lot of its audience is not going to feel super comfortable engaging with that. there’s going to be lots of kids watching, playing, and talking about hiveswap. given the e10+ rating, lots of LITTLE kids. As a fandom comprised primarily of older teens and young adults, it is on us to be like. careful? caring? approachable i guess?
I’m not saying that swearing is like Off Limits in fandom now but like. guys. theres a time and a place. and the place to be inscrutable and dramatically aggressive is probably not when you’re trying to be helpful to newbies.
Just something to keep in mind.
Yeah, the harsher tones of longstanding fans and old school HS humor will more than likely discourage newer fans from engaging with the fandom if it’s the first thing they encounter. And given Hiveswap’s nature and audience compared to Homestuck’s it’s probably time to hang up the old “seal your damn paint” rhetoric that had been so fundamental back in 2013 when the cosplay world was suddenly swamped by grey painted aliens… We have a chance to be the supportive mentor figures sharing our experiences and preventing a new wave of chaos and drama rather than being the people angrily yelling at children who had no other way of knowing. Really, there is too much negativity and hate within fandom these days, we don’t need to contribute to it. Please, let us be a supportive and welcoming fandom for the new comers and make this resurgence something we can ALL enjoy.
I made this STICKERED AND AUTOGRAPHED JOEY CLAIRE MEME just to declare how important and valuable this message is. Just like Joey herself. Because she’s important and she matters to me. Like this post does. Oh also to make clear that I am so writing that Joey post,,, right now. That’s still happening.
But yeah forreal guys it is not gonna kill anyone to be careful to be nice to kids! It’ll probably require more consistent tagging for things like politics and nsfw and stuff but like, that’ll make it easier for the two main “age” distributions of the fandom to coexist in a healthier way.
Tumblr is a hellsite and we would probably all be better served in a dedicated social media hub designed to encourage this sort of coexistence. But in the meantime, we should take care to welcome the youngins playing with areas that aren’t too stressful so they can process everything Hiveswap gives them.
Like. I’ve been losing sleep the last few days because of how good Hiveswap is? I haven’t been in a public venue this weekend that I didn’t cry in. I’ve made rash, hasty, DRAMATIC decisions in fits of passion. I’m just…not like I was.
If that sounds familiar, I think it’s because what growing up reading Homestuck felt like to me. Hiveswap revived my sense of wonder and mystery and beauty, and shown me wonders I’d never seen-like Joey. I guess I just fucking like homestuck way too much?
But that’s…exactly what being a kid feels like. Important and dire as it is to talk about the state of the world and vent from our battles, teens and kids have a lots to do just handling what they’re feeling. I don’t think they should grow up like I did, reading Homestuck and learning about politcs and the state of the world at the same time.
I don’t regret it. But it was bad for me. I think it was bad for a lot of us. Still, it gave me the experience, I hope, to know it didn’t make me super healthy. The only benefit of that possible is to know not to pass it on to another wave of kids.
I don’t know how we’re going to work this out. But this is something I feel really strongly about. We need a way to make adult conversations opt-in, at the very least–so that any kid who wants to dive into them is essentially peeking through a window they shouldn’t.
Try and remember how it felt to read Homestuck and talk to people if you read it when you were young. Try really hard. We can and should do better than that experience, and What Pumpkin have proven they deserve that from us. I don’t think any little girl who connects to Joey should be made to feel that the game that moved her so much is garbage for x or y reason.
I just think…I think we should choose to be gentler than that.
Jude had a lot of humorous little lines referencing running away, retreating, balancing caution with bravery, or just generally sending mixed signals about how brave he was or considered himself.
Suddenly occurred to me that this is a BIG ISSUE with his dad–who appears to make running away from his problems (or addressing a sub component of his problems by running away) his primary coping strategy.
And then we have Jude’s pigeons who: 1) charge in bravely and immediately die 2) run away and leave problems unsolved 3) do whatever Byers’ best effort counts as.
Thematic? Especially when we consider one of Jude’s parents apparently did something that got her dead or vanished? And the other took off questing on related issues immediately after?
hey @ og homestucks if you’re giving hiveswap fans advice about sealing body paint maybe don’t be aggressive about? i’ve seen a lot of posts where people are swearing at people about sealing body paint and yeah that’s important but you don’t need to be an asshole to get your point across.
on that note, sealing body paint is important, for people who don’t know the ins and outs of paint, because the worst thing that can happen is getting grey on people’s hard worked on costumes! you’ll probably feel guilty if it happens and it’s the kind of thing that is enough to dampen your experience of a convention – worse still, they’ll be stuck walking around with grey paint on that careful armor they spent fifteen hours sculpting and painting or the shirt that they had to find in the right colour, etc etc. seal your paint with lots of baby powder or translucent powder! ben nye is a good brand of paint (for my skin tone which is like, white as heck, i mix one of their white and grey together) if you can afford it because it’s waterproof and long lasting. you’ll need alcohol based remover to get it off – otherwise, snazaroo is cheap, although it’s not waterproof and will probably come off way faster. there is also kryolan which i’ve never tried but heard good things about! it pays to look around at tutorials and the like, there are a load on youtube about how to do it as safely as possible so as to avoid dampening someones con experience! some people make arm socks, but i cant sew at all so i paint my hands. i’d recommend covering them extra well, and if you think you’ve covered them enough…well, cover them a few times, juuuuuust to be sure! i also never paint the palm of my hands or underside of my fingers because i like to grab stuff to look at in cons and it’s just overall safer for me not to!
tldr; homestucks be nice, and there;s some actual help instead of a !!!Sea L Yo ur B o D y P AI nt !! rant in the big blurb. have fun i guess and i hope i get to take photos with people cosplaying hiveswap at my next con!
truly tho. I saw the post that this post here is refering to. and honestly why all the swearing? this just serves the cliché of tumblr being full of unnecessary negativity. you were a beginner once, too. nobody started out knowing all the tricks.
here ya go, instead of going like ‘seal your fucking paint’ try ‘sealing your paint is important, here’s a helpful post with brands of powders you could use/ my advice as an experienced cosplayer’ next time.
is this forreal? Look, I know Homestuck has historically been a free-for-all fandom that tends to express itself really abrasively as jokes because. we read homestuck.
but. I think as a fandom we need to reckon with the fact that Hiveswap is not that kind of experience necessarily, and a lot of its audience is not going to feel super comfortable engaging with that. there’s going to be lots of kids watching, playing, and talking about hiveswap. given the e10+ rating, lots of LITTLE kids. As a fandom comprised primarily of older teens and young adults, it is on us to be like. careful? caring? approachable i guess?
I’m not saying that swearing is like Off Limits in fandom now but like. guys. theres a time and a place. and the place to be inscrutable and dramatically aggressive is probably not when you’re trying to be helpful to newbies.
Except by the time that Hiveswap is happening I’m pretty sure the Condesce has already dissapeared? I’m kinda rusty on my lore but since it’s a year before John would have been meteored down, that means that Nanna’s already had Dad Egbert, and I think we here her talking about how she was fighting against Betty when one day she dissapeared, so that’s why she settled down and had Dad E.
well remember though that the Condesces intentions for “Earth” were the same no matter which version she was on, we know she doesn’t end up succeeding on Beta earth, but she definitely succeeds on making her own alternia like culture on the Alpha kids Earth, through the help of the juggalo clown cult and the betty crocker empire
so what’s happening currently on Beta Earth, even if Condesce herself is no longer there, is that the juggalo/betty crocker cult she left behind still intends to follow through with whatever plans she left for them before she disappeared
which means in Hauntswitch Jude will save the planet from the evil Juggalo menace, which on this version of earth is currently a snake without a head, (unless Juggalo Guy Fieri or the ICP guys make an appearance???) giving him and Dammek a better chance of winning, which we know they apparently do
It’s really nice that someone picked up on this besides me!
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