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He/Him/His ; 23 ; Cishet white guy.

here’s my big take on the homestuck epilogue: it’s harsh. it’s frequently and deliberately upsetting. homestuck for a long time to me felt like an elaborate self-harm ritual, a work antagonistic to both author and audience. that’s been dialed up in the epilogues, and it shows.

you might enjoy just reading the prologue, but as someone who actually can stomach what’s in the epilogues proper, i can’t in good conscience recommend them. i definitely don’t think that i would have started reading them if i’d known how bad they’d get.

if you’re really really curious, please just ask someone for the bullet points. you’ll thank me once you hear them.

I would like to apologize for and recant any good faith I offered to the Homestuck epilogue.

If you have not read it, I am begging you. Please talk to someone who has and get a lowdown. It’s upsetting. It’s vicious. It does fun monkey’s paw bullshit like “your fave is trans! oh but your other fave is now a transphobe!” It’s more intensely reader aggressive than anything we’ve ever seen in Homestuck before.

I am left with just two questions: Who is this for? What is the point?

Because from where I am sitting, looking at my entire friendgroup who is upset and personally hurt and several who resorted to crying or to fucking drinking away this bullshit,

the only conclusion that currently makes sense to me is a purposeful attempt to nuke the fandom and make everyone turn on Homestuck.

I have a saying I repeat a lot. “All stories are for someone, but not every story is for everyone.” I don’t know who this story is for, but I know that it’s not for us. And there is a deep abiding sadness to having something that was important to you, maybe even helped shape who you are, and see that thing turn on you with claws.

But in my opinion, the epilogue is not for us. Do not hurt yourselves, do not force yourselves to read it out of some sense of obligation to an old love.

This is not that thing anymore.

Take care of yourselves.

Very Good Trope: Civillian is told “ stay in the car” while hero goes to confront villain. Hero gets in over head and all seems disaster. Civillian crashes car into villain. 

Me, watching: ohhohoho! But they stayed in the car! Yesss, this is very good!

me, finishing mass effect 3, crying: god I hate this game

me, starting up mass effect 1 and watching the opening sequence, whispering softly: god I love this game

pewdiepie is still an alt-right crypto-fash freak and making fun of me for being “overdramatic” bc i pointed it out doesn’t change that. rub your brain cells together for once

if following alt-righters, collaborating with alt-righters, making antisemitic and racist jokes, & saying the n word multiple times doesn’t make someone a racist and a right winger, what the fuck does. who is a right winger at that point. what criteria exists if all the criteria are false flags

I’ve never given the trope “balance between good and evil” any credit. Good and evil aren’t concepts that can balance each other out. Light and darkness are often used as metaphors for each, but while that’s some fairly potent symbolic imagery, it’s not the reality of the situation.

To me, the more accurate comparison would be that evil is a disease that warps our nature without us ever witnessing it physically. It infects us, poisoning what should be simple parts of human nature into something horrible. Unless you treat the body, the disease eats away at you, corrupting everything until there is nothing worth saving. You can’t compromise with something that will either destroy or consume you. You can only reject and refuse it to let it determine either your fate, or those around you.

You can’t live in balance with evil. You can only fight or submit.