landofsomethingsomething:

graveyardtomato replied to your post “You mentioned Hollywood. What would you think about a homestuck movie?…”

I'de like to see a movie, or, better, tv series based on the Homestuck universe and with Hussie as a screenwriter but w/ other characters and plod (basically just me craving for more Homestuck in any form of media)

all right but, serious version I guess

There is no studio on this earth who is going to let Homestuck be HOMESTUCK on either the big or small screen. I agree that a tv series would be better than a movie, just because one less than 3 hour long movie is not nearly enough time, but also just like – any adaption of homestuck that restricts it to one medium just … doesn’t work, you know? The coolest thing about Homestuck aside from its infuriatingly compelling character writing and dialog (90% of which would get cut in ANY adaptation) is how multi-platform it is, how it’s fully and cheekily aware of the fact that is exists on the internet in a web page and plays with that knowledge and branches insidiously into other forms of internet-based communication on a whim. 

also on the polar opposite end of the pretentious protest scale, look no one is going to just let a bunch of little kids get in front of a camera and start slinging around fucks with reckless abandon and if dave strider can’t say fuck you can pass me right by I ain’t buyin

the core issue is that homestuck has a cast of young characters written for an audience of 20-somethings which works fine in the medium(s) it was created in but not so fine when you try to box it in to a defined and carefully cultivated format that has to pumped for maximum appeal to justify the costs of creating it

also i have z e r o faith in the queer narratives being respected 

I’m terrified enough of the actual creators of homestuck right now let alone what Popular Media Studio Whatever would do to it

fuck it my other reply was better

back to being a inexorable venomous blight upon the earth hsssss