Tag: raulendymion79

Doesn’t have to be a long response but what Classpect do you think the player character for Hiveswap Friendsim is? I think they’d be a Heir of Heart. They use friendship/allow it to effect the Trolls they meet, which might set a chain reaction to allow them to become their true selves. I wonder how they fit into the revolution and LE?

i have no idea at the moment, but there seems to be a bit of an arc developing for the MSPA Player atm so…maybe we’ll find out?

Do you have the new VIZ edition of Homestuck ACTs 1&2? They have some commentary from Hussie for each page. Including details he thought would’ve been relevant like on page 149. It has all sorts of snippets like that. Plus its a good copy despite missing some details like retcons edits in places.

i don’t have these editions yet, hopefully ill be able to afford em soon! I do have access to the commentaries for the original 3 volumes–it’s where i found that quote about grandpa and a bunch of other cool stuff.

i’m pretty excited to get the VIZ editions though, specially since my original editions are stuck where i can’t get to them!

Found some “old” drama around Homestuck/Andrew Hussie recently and I respect your opinion. What do you think about the “caucasian joke” that used to be found in the Trickster arc? I don’t mind it. I also saw other stuff around Andrew’s responses to questions around disabilities, fat, stereotyping, race, and similar topics. I know this question can be controversial so any other links about your opinion would be nice if you have the time. Thanks and can’t wait to see more.

Back in the old fandom days, I was one of the many who was pretty pissed about that joke and internalized it as some sort of “take that” at Homestuck fans who had criticisms of the comic’s relationship to race.

My feelings have since shifted, and I certainly don’t think that was the narrative intent. I think the Caucasian joke is better understood in context with the rest of the comic’s gnostic themes. I’ve written an article on Trickster Mode:

https://medium.com/@RoseOfNobility/the-tricksters-are-peachy-yaldabaoth-racial-identity-and-gnostic-existential-horror-7907191c8071

Suffice it to say, I’m not an expert on race issues, and I don’t want my personal feelings to imply that all people who are critical of Homestuck along those lines are being unreasonable or anything.

But my reading of the text is such that if anything, the joke here is on Whiteness as a source of political power.

Or, even more likely, on making a tongue in cheek reference to one of AURYN’s side-effects in The Neverending Story. When Bastian (a white kid) gains the amulet (same one depicted on Jane’s Lollipop), he’s also transformed into an “oriental prince.” Racebending is sort of part of the thing’s powerset.

Not on debunking the idea that the kids could be white, or mocking fans who wanted to consider the possibility.