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New chapter of aikass it’s finally here!! Sorry for delay in updates, work has been wild. This is a fic about Alpha Dave struggling with an existential crisis and some really hard shit and also there is a Karkat here. You should read it people tell me it’s pretty good, but please heed warnings cause it starts very dark and deals w/ some heavy shit.
jake eagerly setting up an early december date for dirk strider that is supposed to be “friggin amazing.” he promises it will be a sheer knockout and that dirk had better hold onto his britches.
dirk arrives ready for the romantic night of his life. jake has prepared the santa clause, the santa clause 2, and the santa clause 3: the escape clause for watching in his netflix queue.
hi. i have a question. the rest of your ships are so good but why do you ship roxy and john? it looks like such boring het to me and roxy deserves better than him i think but youre good at explaining things and i dont think youre the kind of person who just ships a boy and girl main character because they stand beside each other so why john/roxy instead of roxycallie?? i really want to know. thank you
I really liked John & Roxy’s interactions in the aftermath of Game Over and I was always attached to the idea of them growing closer over the fact that they are the only ones from the main cast truly “FROM” that timeline, if that makes sense. They are the GO versions of themselves, they survived those events, Roxy was THERE for those events and will always have those horrific memories, and John was the one who was there for her, John is the one who found her, and Roxy is one of few people around currently who has some idea of the true SCOPE of what it was John did with his retcon powers. (Terezi is the only other one who really does, I think, and that’s debatable depending on how you interpret the events of Remem8er.)
So you have this mutual thing where Roxy is almost the only person John has to TALK about that to who can really comprehend it and John is almost the only person Roxy has who she was inarguably, irrefutably the “correct” Roxy to – remember, the Roxy from the current alpha timeline DIED. The Roxy we have now slipped in through a cosmic technicality arranged by Typheus and Nyx and it’s implied that the Roxy that Jane killed died BECAUSE Roxy made the decision to go on with John. That is some heavy, heavy, heavy shit! The narrative never really DEALT with that, but our current canon Jane Crocker literally murdered the Roxy Lalonde from her timeline in cold blood, and presumably will also always have THAT memory.
Please note I don’t in a bajillion years think any of the kids would ever consider Roxy anything other but THEIR Roxy and treat her the same, but like, she’s NOT, right? And Roxy knows that. And John is from her timeline and doesn’t have memories of some phantom Roxy that wasn’t ACTUALLY her. If that makes sense.
Plus I mean there was canon attraction there, canon flirting, they were cute, I don’t think them being het detracted from their chemistry. It was cute seeing John scrambling to impress her and it was cute seeing Roxy be kind of immediately smitten with John’s ability to, even in the worst actual possible situation, regroup and be determined to somehow fix things. Roxy was ready to give up. John is the one who convinced her it was worth it to keep fighting.
So yeah. I liked them. I realize there’s a whole fucking boatload of fandom garbage happening with Roxygen right now because every fucking nasty homophobic asshole on the planet is crying salty crocodile tears that The Last Bastion Of Het In Homestuck was breached, but like, Jesus. Some of us shipped it cause it was a Good Ship, y’all. Had a lot of interesting stuff brewing around in it.
I don’t find Callie that compelling of a character comparatively and never liked how young she skewed compared to Roxy and blah blah blah blah blah I’ve talked about why I don’t ship RoxyCallie on here before. They’re cute. It’s nice that Callie has someone after living such a lonely life who will spoil her with unconditional affection. I just don’t personally have any attachment to it or think there’s much chemistry there that is explicitly romantic. I can see them as queerplatonic at most and considering I always kinda read Roxy as a more sexual character it just doesn’t gel with my headcanons.
I’m happy for RoxieCallie shippers that are getting what they want; grats on being canon. I’m also kinda sad that my ship sunk, and on top of that, fucking assholes from shithole communities are poisoning the well on it in the aftermath, because it’s still legitimately my 4th favorite ship in the damn comic despite no longer being canon. Sigh.
I feel this on a deep spiritual level.
This whole situation is balls because I still really, really ship this, and the worst elements of this fandom have turned it into a lightning rod for pain and bullshit and it sucks. I like this ship for what it is, which this post summarizes better than I could. I hate that people are turning my ship into something so poisonous. I want to continue to enjoy the ship, to fic it and reblog art of it, to write meta about it. I want to hate the homophobic shippers, not the ship. Because I love the ship. I really do.
tfw younger/newer homestuck fans were not around 5-7 years ago when we, the older fans, who were mostly TEENS back then, were still under the assumption that certain characters were just gag characters with no significant impact on the story, because homestuck, 5-7 years ago, held a very different tone to us than it does now, where us older fans, the ones who have shaped homestuck’s community for new fans now, watched these character grow up for 7 years without being able to read everything within a month.
because homestuck was constantly evolving and improving and changing, and the story was always diverging for months at a time, distracting us before bringing us back, leaving us to fan theory and conceptualize and get into heated debates about what a characters true motives were before it was revealed.
5-7 years ago, bro strider was considered a character with little to ZERO background story. things we heard by word of the beta kids were, at the time, random and funny. a guy who runs a puppet porn site? hilarious. raps with his kid brother? also cool. we genuinely thought that dave looked up to bro. we did not know any better, and thus we created Fanon Bro, who was essentially our creation, who we perceived bro as back when we had no information, who is nothing like the bro that we came to discover in comic as homestuck continued, and who eventually died out in the fandom when 3 years down the line it became apparent to us that he was abusive the more that the comic and dave revealed about him.
Eridan and Gamzee, villains who we thought were typical gag characters, turned out to be intentionally murderous assholes. “wweh” and “nyeh” was eridans fucking fandom anthem (popularized more by fanon VA’s back when those were a thing), because people assumed he was just a “nice guy” trope and did not expect him to attempt to kill several people. nor did they expect gamzee to fucking snap the way he did and kill equius and nepeta. people were SHOCKED, because, as stated previously, we had gone YEARS knowing these characters as one type, only to have their true selves shown to us in an instant and shatter our realities regarding them.
the same can be said about aranea, who appeared to be a much nicer serket when we first met her, but eventually turned out to also be a villain, and was erased entirely from the narrative for her interference.
like. i get that younger/newer fans are seeing the thousands of fanworks produced by fans about who they deem as Bad Characters, but yall gotta understand that most of that content was produced YEARS ago, before we were given the information. you have it incredibly easy. homestuck was nearly finished by the time you started reading it in its final stretch to the true ending.
you probably were not there to experience update culture at its peak, in homestucks hayday when everyones dashboard was filled with homestuck whether you were in the fandom or not. you probably werent there for the shipping olympics or the homestuck fansong album by kylee henke and others (you cant fight the homestuck!). you probably didnt experience andrew hussies twitter escapades with his friends before he cleared his account, or his formspring, or his tumblr, or when hussie gave us a fake image of calliope to spread around tumblr to “fake spoil” people who hadnt read the latest update yet, because there was a time when hussie was genuinely involved with us as a fandom before we got too big and hectic.
you probably were not there when the fandom was first gathering its resources to decide which type of molding clay was best to make troll horns, or whether to use snazaroo or ben-nye for troll skin cosplay. you probably werent there when the fandom analysis for characters came out during a time when we hardly knew anything about them, and it was not as simple as just “reading more into the comic” or checking the wikia page, because there was nothing to read, we had to wait days to weeks for more information.
im wondering how many of you even remember the old gigapause site, or if you were around for trollplay/trollmegle, or when homestuck fanartists used to struggle with finding the best settings for Livestream because we didnt have Picarto yet and Twitch wasnt well optimized if you werent gaming.
the people you see drawing for homestuck? who are a big part in its continuation??? used to be regular fans like us, and still are but just with bigger responsibilities.
so i gotta say. from the bottom of my heart. all of you younger and newer homestuck fans seeing old art or older fans liking a thing from the comic that you perceive as “problematic” or “confusing” and you just feel so angry and dont understand why people would Do Such A Thing because you think you Know It All and homestuck was so Cut And Dry???
chill the fuck out. let older fans be nostalgic about a time that was good for them. its more about how the fan feels about the time they remembered said material from rather than the event or character themselves, who you honestly have no right to police a person about for anyway.
we had gone YEARS knowing these characters as one type
Eridan: Do Something Awesome (Eridan’s intro) Posted August 13th, 2010
[S] Kanaya: Return to the Core (The beginning of Eridan’s ramage) Posted January 22, 2011
People in fact had only a little more than five months with Eridan and Gamzee (and the other throwaway trolls) before finding out their true natures or lack of importance to the story. Meenah was a major character in Homestuck for almost SEVEN TIMES more realtime, not to mention raw pagecount, than the throwaway beta trolls, and yet it’s harder to find Meenah fan content (or the other Alpha trolls, or sometimes the actual alphas KIDS) than, say, Feferi, who has the shortest pagecount AND realtime exposure of anyone who can possibly be argued as being part of the core cast.
(This isn’t even to get into Bro, who MANY people found very obviously abusive very early on. I, for one, was 100% sure he was responsible for Dave’s many issues after the Beatdown flash. Some people didn’t see it. But some DID, and Fanon Bro ignored those people who saw what had always been there and assumed they were reading too deep or imaging it. Which we weren’t.)
And yeah people can draw/meta/write what they want sure, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to get crabby when ‘full cast’ art includes Eridan while excluding Calliope, Meenah, or even the alpha kids. I want to engage with Homestuck as it IS, not this fever dream of Homestuck from 2010 that only existed for an eyeblink of the comic’s full lifespan.
edit: clarifying that I mean this in a “here is another perspective” way more than in a “fuck you” way. I know how it feels when nostalgia turns a brief moment of time into an era and I know how it feels when a story changes and things you thought you knew about characters you had become attached to change. But the other side of this isn’t being irrational. We have a leg to stand on.
fave characters to use: Rose, Jade, Jane, Vriska, Gamzee least fave characters to use: Feferi, Nepeta, all ancestors except Handmaid and Condy fave party: Jade, Jane, Roxy, and Dirk. (so sad Jake can’t sub for Jade!!)
full review of puzzlestuck: don’t play puzzlestuck it will eat you ;_;
I’m going to not answer in any detail because I’ve seen too many fish swim up to this bait. Extremely short version: because the comic wants me to hate him and I am happy to oblige.
Oh shit it’s Chapter 26/? of my Alphadave/Reincarkat fic, All I Know Are Sad Songs, and I’m still on the wrong computer and can’t make this a good link.
This is probably the heaviest chapter in the fic so far other than the first one so take care of yourself in there. It’s dark! Also, it’s NSFW. Full NSFW. Dicks out for davekat.
ok some earth c dirkjake (this turned out more jake-oriented though)
Jake actually loves being a public figure as far as press conferences and TV appearances go, because there’s a huge celebrity barrier between him and actually interacting with people. He can be himself and interact with an audience without having to deal with the cerebral real-time of it, there’s distance and structure and scheduling – when he feels himself getting burned out on it there’s a definitive end time he can look forward to and then he gets to go home to his consort island and decompress however he wants.
Dirk, on the other hand, stays as far away from the cameras and celebrity glitz as possible, he’s far too self conscious for it, doesn’t like how fake and posturing the culture is, Jake makes fun of him for this all the time – like wow Dirk, really? You’d make a piss poor businessman and an even worse movie star!!
So people are always surprised that Dirk takes point when they’re out and about outside of that specific celebrity structure. Impromptu and candid encounters? Jake gets flustered and tongue tied without a script and overwhelmed in a crowd he hasn’t planned for, and this is when Dirk steps in and clears a path, absorbs the brunt of it, handles whatever he needs to handle to get Jake somewhere comfortable again. He’s really effective at dispersing overzealous admirers, but publicly Dirk has this reclusive reputation and Jake seems more charismatic, so people are always like ?????!!!
Jake makes fun of him for this, too. Wow Dirk. So cool. Hella bodyguard. A+ intimidating boyfriend shield, would hide behind again. Good thing they don’t know what a softie you actually are or this would never work, eh?? He is doing this to hide how insecure he is about needing this so Dirk bites his tongue until it bleeds because he wants to argue about this alleged softie accusation so fuckin bad, like what did you just call me do you need a demonstration of my impenetrable hardness, wait, fuck, that came out WAY fuckin wrong –
