could you start talking about those misconceptions right now?

I talked about the Shafting in a prior post, but for other things… Vriska, I’ve explained this before but it may not have been in this blog. Basically, as she resurrects, she steals relevancy from everyone and makes it seem like she’s suddenly the most important character and the cornerstone of everything that happens by the end but… Her plan fails- Jake turns out to be valuable and capable of taking one of the most messy groups during the fight, Jade wakes up, Jane is knocked out-, she prevents Rose’s alcoholism because she wants a functional Seer, but doesn’t help Rose’s deeper issues with her Powers and her Self, she temporarily makes Terezi feel better, but is mostly taking advantage of her almost worship-y attitude to inflate her ego even more, and by the end, during the final Battle, she’s busy smacking the author around until the last moment, where she… Opens the Juju Chest. Something literally anyone else could’ve done. She inserted herself as something so relevant and important, but in reality, she didn’t do a god damn thing. In fact, she made GCATavrosprite and put it as some sort of Heroic Act on her part, even though she made him allergic to himself. What a dick.

Most of the plot threads leading to the ending were actually closed- It’s just it was before the Ending or some even Anticlimatically. Hussie once described Homestuck as a Creation Myth, back during the First Acts, and this kind of take on the story actually changes a LOT about how you have to take it and the Ending. It’s a story about Kids grappling with their spot in Reality, with what they should Do. Rose’s alcoholism, and in the Retconned Timeline, her doubt about her value as a Seer, her struggles with her Land and her Mother, are a source of confusion that don’t let her see her Spot in the world. Dave, on the other hand, has to grapple with his Brother’s Abuse and coming to terms with it. Karkat doesn’t fit the Hemospectrum, and he doesn’t fit the Quadrant System either. Terezi grapples with her past Choices and the fact she could not see another way out back in the day. John acts as the Protagonist of the Story, and as such once the action is done, when he’s reduced to Inaction, he becomes despondent and depressed. Jane is put in a situation she doesn’t like, but rather than saying it, she bottles it up. Jake tries to abstract himself and ignore everything he doesn’t like to shield himself from Drama, only causing more in the process- These issues are things they will likely grapple with for their entire lives, and everyone comes with a different answer. Dave has Dirk reassure him and let him vent, even though it’s just a temporary measure and the damage is there for life, while Dave reassures Dirk he’s not a bad person, even though he still struggles with the way he does stuff. Rose has Kanaya and Roxy to lean on while Jasprose represents her with a lack of Filter- What she thinks and would do if she didn’t hold herself back, a part of herself she represses and for good reason at times. John needs something to do which is why he’s so alone and doing nothing at all during the Credits, but as we see with Jade, his friends aren’t just going to abandon him, and keep at the very least talking to him through Snapchat and Pesterchum. Karkat has found a semblance of romantic stability with Dave. Terezi feels like she needs Vriska to live on, having seen the potential through GO! Terezi and (Vriska)’s relationship in Terezi Remem8er, and so on and so forth. Whether it’s good for them or not, whether they need their friends to lean on or they have found a romantic relationship, everyone comes with a lightly different way they fit into their Reality. Homestuck is a story about the world around us, about what to do to be happy, how to treat others, and how to live our lives.

But also, the story itself and the plot is good and, yeah, convoluted, but the thing a lost of people complain about is about certain key things being missing- Except they’re not? There’s little bits of omission through the middle that I feel are deliberate to allow for different interpretations, but we have a good look at the end-game state of things and predestination, which makes a lot of details become obvious thinking a bit about them. Other more obscure ones, is likely will be given a more canonical look when the Epilogue comes around. This is really my opinion on the Ending, but given the way I didn’t feel it was really ‘incomplete’ in a lot of aspects people were complaining, and what I later learned about Hussie’s view of the story and just, in general, metaphysical and philosophical views about stuff, I started to realize it’s not even like, subtext, it’s blatant and blaring, but if you don’t know it’s there you don’t notice it. And that’s… Sadly what happened with a lot of people. They say Homestuck ‘was never a Story about the Meta’ or ‘about what it Teaches’, except it. Really was, but they didn’t notice that was the case, and now that they’re bent on their opinion of the Ending and the feeling it left on them, it’s hard to change it.

Also this is dragging a bit too long so. I may go more in-depth about stuff or answer other questions if you guys poke me about it, but for now, that’s really all there is to say on the matter.