02/06/2016 11:29:19 ¶ ●

## Apotheosis and Creation Myth

stormingtheivory:

> optimisticduelist:

> > After over a month of work, this is finally ready.

> > This is in many ways my final statement on Homestuck as a whole, and though I don’t go over absolutely everything related to the ending here, I am pretty confident it’ll make at least some people reconsider how upset they are with the ending.
> > I’d like to thank @olive-the-olive and @finalvortex for beta reading for me, as well as @joyceanfartboner, @kajy, and @fragilesoftmachines earlier on. You were all rad!
> > I’d also like to thank (and tag) a number of writers who made writing this possible. @bladekindeyewear, @stormingtheivory, @wakraya, @purplepurpleunicornsparkle, as well as @mikerugnetta who’s video about Violence proved to be instrumental, and finally Tex Talks, who doesn’t have a tumblr but is still one of the most fascinating voices in Homestuck analysis today, and you should really be following his work.
> > I’ll let the piece speak for itself. My deepest wish is that it will help people unhappy with the ending feel better, but if you find my arguments unsatisfying on some level, please let me know. I’d love to engage with discussion about this pretty much 24/7.

> This thing I was supposed to read a month ago but flaked on is really remarkable and I highly recommend everyone check it out. I mean it’s all good but there’s some moments like this:

> > Ultimately, it takes Nepeta, a rogue of Heart, to save him from this. She “steals” his identity, and in so doing allows him access to the full scope of all versions of himself and gives him unprecedented access to to the full context of himself.

> which just blew me away, really overturned my sense of the comic in the way my favorite types of criticism do.

> And I’m still only halfway through the essay o_o

Oh god, I’ve been joking to myself that “if you want a vision of the Homestuck ending, imagine a crowbar slamming on a grandfather clock - forever.”

But that’s actually what it is, isn’t it? That’s exactly what happened.