Y’all im literally so excited for this. If you’re wary of spoilers I suggest you come anyway because
A) These eps are an audiovisual feast that might just interest you
B) Utena is Very Homestuck and the best way to get into it is to preemptively accept you won’t understand it all on your first watch (or, ever), so why even worry about it?
We’ll be talking about the story’s themes and fun stuff like that afterwards, too, it’ll be a blast! Come join us 😉
every spoiler I’ve encountered about the series has been totally useless haha, so much of the show is conveyed in recurring symbols and motifs spread across the whole series, so yeah I’m on team Spoilers Aren’t A Big Deal too
worst case scenario you don’t know wtf is going on, and so in the worst case scenario you’ll be experiencing the same thing I’ll probably be experiencing in front of a live audience! 😛
hey guys, heads up! I ended up doing another episode of the Perfectly Generic Podcast with Kate!
This time we talked about Trickster Mode. You can stay tuned after for a post-show about Vast Error (which i caught up on recently, its real good guys)
I am deeply invested in the Homestuck fandom and will be sticking around on Tumblr, but this is obvs going to become a much more unviable platform for tailored content. Just not worth the effort expense with how much the audience is going to shrink.
I am giving a lot of thought to where the fandom might go from here and how it might benefit. Watch this space for updates and hopefully we’ll all find ourselves somewhere entirely new soon enough–Ideally, somewhere where actual communities can be built. Remember forums? Those were fun.
See y’all later I am distancing myself from this and gathering my thoughts for right now.
She wants to improve you as dramatically as Kanaya and Aranea improved Eridan/Jake’s power levels. MAKE is right there. Nuff said, I think.
In the bad end she may echo Page or Heir, deploying these faculties to buff herself rather than you and manifesting either the Page’s limitless potential or the Heir’s powers of transformation and power over reality (through Void either way, since technology has some Void associations with Bluebloods particularly and factors so much into how she empowers herself)
Either way, both Page and Heir are less passive than sylph and so would explain her benefiting herself instead of others.
Daraya: Rogue of Hope
She’s heavily invested in rebelling/standing OUTSIDE alternia’s legal/social norms. She’s heavily drawn to other people who feel similarly, reflecting thieves/rogues general affinities for other outlaws(1)
–note that she’s specifically drawn to Elwurd and how she presents herself, and Elwurd is either a thief or a thief roleplayer herself.
as a Jade, Daraya would have the role of Sylph or maybe Maid forced on her, not Thief or Rogue. Hence, I think it’s likely her presentation of the Outlaw motif comes from a genuine place in her heart, rather than roleplay.
Things go very, very badly if you let her take direct charge and have her will take you to her favorite place. If you encourage her to just go out into the world and Let Stuff Happen (ie: take a more passive role in relation to reality), things go much better for both of you, and she finds an outlet that makes her feel better by making a friend and finding a cause she can help. by basically offering to steal books from the library, no less. so thats my Rogue logic.
(1)think the “Honor among thieves”
thing or Robin Hood’s band of merry men–Mindfang, a successful thief roleplayer, was drawn to Rufioh, an
innate Rogue. Vriska, an innate thief, was attracted to the IDEA of
tavros acting like a Rogue/the summoner rather than to tavros himself,
and later was drawn to Meenah.)
Vriska declares everyone on her ghost crew is ALSO a pirate, ie: an outlaw. Which is also a good example. Outlaws by definiton can only form communities/serious bonds with other people willing to shirk or redefine the norms of society, and outlaw communities run on their own self-defined rules and conventions of behavior. Contrast against Knights and Pages who generally feel quite beholden to societal convention.
I have longer posts on both of them sort of in the works but I’m doin a lot of stuff atm and the Classpects per se were not the most interesting thing about this volume imo, Daraya’s in particular. Not to say they were bad, I loved them both. Just that theres other stuff in these arcs I’m more inspired by.
I was getting bogged down writing ways all day today so I figured I’d try putting my thoughts out here in a shorter/snappier way, hope the format works. Lemme know if it does and maybe i’ll convince myself to write in shorter/snappier ways like this more in the future, could cover more trolls that way.
I’ll get to classpect meta later but honestly this is so important
Daraya’s path put Jadebloods into much sharper focus as a caste subject to incredibly strict control and norms of behavior. Specifically, norms concerning romantic and intimate interest in other trolls, where young, fleeting relationships might be allowed but consummated, long-lasting adult relationships are explicitly illegal.
This puts Kanaya’s early struggles with romance into some really compelling context. Of course she’s more interested in those “More Daring” than her. Of course she’s compelled by people willing to break rules and flaunt convention and risk everything for what they want, like Vriska.
Who else could she dare to hope would be with her? As romantic and extremely into girls as she is, under ordinary circumstances, romance and love were an impossible dream for Kanaya. But by god…
Kanaya said “fuck that” and fucking got it anyway.
She ollied out of her entire universe and hooked up with the girl who wrote her favorite Gamefaqs entry. And then that girl led her through space and time and places where spacetime doesn’t EXIST to a blank slate planet. And then that girls’ Mom handed her the key to ensuring Kanaya’s entire SPECIES could live and love there freely, forever and ever and FUCKING ever after that, A MEN.
Kanaya loves girls so hard that it obliterated the cruel karmic punishment shoved onto her ENTIRE caste, and she’s FREE NOW, AND KISSING ROSE RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT.
New videos’ officially up! Recap of Kate and my conversation on the PGP about the news being dropped about the Homestuck “sequel”. TL;DR is : Homestuck isn’t done, we got a big storm coming, etc etc. Hope y’all enjoy!
Flying through Storytelling 