homestuck is that thing u like as a kid and never fully grasp how nasty it is till youre old enough to know better . i feel like there are too many people holding onto the nostalgia it creates over the actual reality of it . i do it too some times like there are characters i felt connected to & still have this weird affection for when i see them BUT i know that homestuck, both the creators and the comic itself has flaws that out weigh whatever good memories i have of it yknow ? its ok to admit “yea, i was a kid that consumed this uncritically and thats ok bc i was just a kid !” but were not kids anymore and we can recognise that the comic is actively harmful & its fanbase can be seriously dangerous because of all the pro sexualisation of minors, pedophilia, incest, antisemitism, homophobia, ableism, racism, god and the list goes on … im not going to preach at people that still like it but i am going to say that YOU HAVE A JOB - you HAVE to be critical of this shit, you HAVE to protect the kids into homestuck by calling out all this nasty shit AND MAKE OTHERS AWARE OF IT, you HAVE to callout the creators and all the nasty shit theyre into, and you HAVE to be honest to yourself about why you really like it !! are the jokes really that funny or are they just at the expense of others ? are the characters actually well written or are they just offensive tropes ? do you enjoy it as a good piece of narrative, or are you just picking out pieces that are okay and ignoring the bad parts ? also PLEASE tag that shit so i dont have to see it lol. happy 420 yall
Had to deal with alot of adult responsibilities today, so I wanted to draw something silly :’D I don’t know the Alpha kids very well yet but…Jake looks like the character that can lift all his friends effortlessly? I want to draw a Beta kids parallel soon~
Companion piece to this! This time it’s the beta kids :’D Like Jake, I think Jade would be the one to be able to pick all her friends up with ease! (This was also me putting down similarities and contrasts I’ve already spotted between the Alpha and Beta children~)
((Quick PSA, The music seems to have stopped working because it’s generating a ton of traffic. You can always youtube the song to listen to it while looking at the lyricstuck if it doesn’t work. Here is a link to one for easy access.))
Oh man well I started this lyricstuck earlier in this year, I thought this song was absolutely perfect for Calliope and Caliborn. Near the end I did start to get a little bored of it but I would have felt bad if I didn’t at least try to finish it.
So the end part is a little bs’d but at least I didn’t let my work go to waste and I can post this now ! I hope you guys like it anyway !