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Hey. Okay this question is a bit stupid but are…

he was obviously referring to the theme park

if homestuck rebrands itself as an accessible anime or web cartoon i literally dont think a theme park would be out of the question in the far future, so i kinda took that half-seriously. homestucks’s ideas have serious appeal to the anime/gamer crowd, its the accessibility that just isnt there. if its not the comic but is directly related to the story, the epilogue could change that.

maybe.

thoughts like this are why i’m not too worried about homestuck/hiveswaps’ future in the long term, despite recent goings on. i’m not sure hussie’s played his best card yet, and if he has an ace i can see the fandom really coming back. seems like the kind of thing that would warrant polishing the site for a sudden onrush of new readers, at least?

of course i’m not saying its definitely an anime, or that it even is anything that good even. i could be totally full of shit. but its been rather sad times for the homestuck fandom so i guess i’m more inclined to run my trap and try to stoke some hope.

so yeah this is just me guessing but 

Hey. Okay this question is a bit stupid but are you waiting for Dirk and Jake to get married in the homestuck 2019 calendar? Because I’m praying. Please delete this is there’s too much cringe.

1) theres no such thing as too much cringe

2) plz, im waiting for viz and hussie to announce a full on homestuck anime and to see them get married there.

im kinda joking but also not even, really? 

i dont talk about it much but a homestuck anime is one of the few things weird and unexpected enough i can imagine when i wonder what hussie meant when he said he wanted to do something “unexpected” and “outside the confines of the comic” with VIZ media.

i’ve said it before: homestuck’s story is not over. i think its pretty likely the epilogue at least will contain major elements of dirkjake and vrisrezi–probably dirkjake, definitely vrisrezi–and i am not convinced we’ll never see these characters again past that.

i don’t like to speculate this “wildly” about homestuck’s events, i just also don’t consider the somewhat cynical view that the adventure is well and truly “over” to be fact. seems to me its all speculation.

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I always wanted to ask someone who was a fan of both Homestuck and Undertale: how would each of the kids play Undertale? Who plays every path including the Geno run and who does only pacifist and then never plays again? (Also who kills Toriel on accident and then resets to save her because they feel bad?) I kinda want to ask about favorite characters of the characters, but that might be a little too esoteric.

mimsiical:

HMMM. [potential game spoilers ahead]

dirk plays pacifist and neutral, gets partway through geno and becomes too upset to continue. stresses himself out thinking he should finish it, but can’t because it makes him feel too bad about himself. he would accidentally kill toriel but not reset because he would be committed to following his choices through, i think. favorite character… i think he would lowkey really like alphys. 

jake would do neutral to pacifist, definitely not geno. i could maybe see him resetting to save toriel if he thought of it. he would do a neutral route the first time and get some LV i think. not in the ruins because the toriel telling you not to guilt is real but later on, when things get more frustrating and you keep dying. his favorite character is undyne. OBVS undyne. but he would like all of them, especially papyrus and alphys i think. flowey might be a bit close to home for both him and dirk, remind them a bit of the AR. 

roxy plays all the routes and does excellently. defeats geno sans with unfair ease. probably does one of those really irritating no-hit runs where she gets thru geno without ever taking damage. people are slightly horrified by her laughing at parts of geno but she doesn’t give a shit. her favorites are the temmies. :3 but i think she would like undyne a lot too tbh. 

janey… jane would play neutral, then pacifist, and then be done, i think. unless she was pissed when she was playing, but i don’t think she has the patience for geno. i could see her doing a high LV neutral route out of frustration and then feeling a bit guilty about it after. her favorite would be toriel and she’s definitely rooting for toriel and asgore not to get back together. 

dave plays the pacifist run where you dont have to reset fully after photoshop flowey on account of never having killed anyone, because he heard that you can do a route like that and chose to not be attacking if he didn’t have to. would figure out the dodging + saying fun things bit pretty quick and have too much fun with it. his favorites are all the most hilarious random encounter monsters, sans, and nabstablook. and he races the snails too many times.  

rose plays neutral, then geno, then pacifist, just to be contrary. betrays herself by thinking muffet’s fangs are hot. actually disliked geno a lot but played it so she can talk loftily about its implications and dirk can’t do shit if he wants to debate with her because he flunked out of it. maybe her favorite is chara for the moral ambiguity and being influenced by the player’s decisions. (i generally subscribe to chara as the narrator theory.) also flowey. she would like flowey. 

karkat plays with the temmie armor. lmao. he complains the whole way about encounters being too hard but stays pacifist. he virulently complains about all the characters, calls toriel the only sensible one, and secretly likes mettaton. 

i dont know if i have enough solid opinions on the other characters… jade would love that you can throw the stick for the dogs. she and jake both pet lesser dog until the depths of the universe are plundered. terezi might like asriel, but her favorite part would the the color tile puzzle. if john tried geno he’d fail out when you have to kill the dogs. callie probably just watches others play with mild bemusement, and her favorite is alphys. 

In light of the new FriendSim, do you feel like that we have enough information about Diemen in order to properly give him a class? Because we do know he’s a Hope-Bound.

Don’t know for sure, but he feels an awful lot like a thief:

-He’s off the grid, so there’s some outlaw imagery to him.
-A lot of uses of the word “take” in his text.
-hes lost friends due to stealing hot dogs

-his epiphany involves realizing he’s stealing hotdogs as a coping mechanism, and what he actually wants is something else.

The real treasure he references is, ofc, friendship. And if they end happily, thieves quests always seem to involve realizing that no matter how much they steal, friendship and love were the real treasure they wanted all along.

See: Meenah deciding she doesn’t want the ring of life.
(Vriska) growing closer to Meenah, and then meeting (terezi). Etc.

Seemed p fitting to me that as soon as diemen faced this part of himself, his wish was granted and you find your way to meat heaven. That auryn rule rearing it’s head again.

PS: While hotdogs aren’t Hope-related per se, the dick jokes surrounding them sure are. i love homestuck.  i love diemen

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The zine will celebrate the 12 aspects of Homestuck and the various characters that possess them, as well as their accompanying powers, abilities or themes. Each aspect will have 2 available slots, and the final, completed product will have 24 artists (2 per aspect). The final zine will be available for purchase in both digital and physical versions upon release.

Applications for ASPECT will be open for 2 WEEKS, so be sure to apply soon!

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Oh wow this sounds awesome!!!! I can’t wait to see it 😀

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Daily reminder that Dirk Strider spent 16 years of his life isolated in an apartment building with no other living creatures to interact with, only remaining sane through delving through the archives of the dead internet and talking to his three friends through a glitch in Paradox Space.

Daily reminder that Dirk Strider made a physical representation of his brain at 13 years old just to have someone to talk to, only to have the sentient AI he created echo back his worst fears for three years, driving him deeper into his isolation.

Daily reminder that Dirk Strider still managed to be one of the most human of the kids, fighting for his best friends and feeling guilty for years that he couldn’t give Roxy a relationship with the only human being left alive because he couldn’t betray himself and deny his lack of attraction to women, even if it would doom their species.

Daily reminder that Dirk Strider broke up with Jake English because of a mutual lack of understanding in how to communicate – the two dealt with their isolation in opposite ways and he couldn’t bear feeling like a drain on his best friend, no matter how much he loved him.

Daily reminder that Dirk Strider has to live with the knowledge that his brother was abused for years by some iteration of him, and he can never truly make right on that because the actions were not his own.

Daily reminder that Dirk Strider is one of the most deeply broken Homestuck characters and to treat him as a one-dimensional villain/bully is to do a disservice to his incredibly poignant writing. There is so much to be said about a character that is shown to be cruel and abusive in one circumstance ACTIVELY CHOOSING to fight whatever part of him is predisposed to be that way, and sacrificing himself not one but twice for the greater good.

End the Dirk Strider hate. He deserves more.