"Homestuck Quotes" 01 ===================== So with the basic stuff out of the way, it's important to keep in mind the context of all this. Andrew Hussie lived most of his late 20's outside the US, mostly in Southeast Asia, and in his early 30's decided to start a webcomic with a very particular set of aesthetics revolving on utilizing recolors of actual photographs and pieces of merchandise of other franchises, and eventually sprawled to roughly 8000 pages long, with hours of flash animations. It fundamentally shaped fandom cultures as we know them and it's influences in the online interpersonal sphere are staggering. Accordingly, that it's author, a man with a computer science degree from a good university was constantly on the move during the tech boom of the early 2000's only to later create what could be described as a work of multimedia fiction playing on abstract concepts relating to dimensions and spiritual descent of alien beings should be of interest. --- I vaugely knew of homestuck, didn't know it was gnostic though and had aliens, that's interesting. In general it's become very clear to me over the past 3-4 years that they intend to push Gnosticism and alien worship into the mainstream in a big way. It's already happening, back then when I first brought it up in public everyone thought "aliens and Jesus? That's boomer shit" but now I see and hear so many people, who fell down youtube rabbit holes usually, saying that they've heard of it and they actually have very fringe opinions on these topics. It's actually super interesting, I knew that they were pushing everyone into classic schizo territory. I don't know why though, but it's happening. --- >We dont talk about that now thats because they all spat in a bowl they passed around in a mock mass insemination ritual. --- the entire thing came from trying to categorize internet culture is the part that deserves in-depth analysis --- Essentially: >beta kids - pre-september internet culture >trolls - an attempt to take into consideration early 00's internet culture, while also genuinely taking into consideration personality manifestations from astrology (although somewhat poorly) >ended up reflecting internet reject culture (internet schizo culture) in a way accurate enough to impact it >could have been used to steer those cultures if it wasn't taken over by the tumblr subset because they weren't represented well enough to bully quickly enough (the rise of that culture and homestuck's popularity was 1:1, and since the fanbase there grew exponentially, hussie began taking the culture as a whole seriously, interrupting the satirical creative process) >could actually have coalesced into a mono-theist take on paganism (see: bladekindeyewear) that provided a connection for internet rejects to the idea of an overarching cosmic narrative whole and a created an ideological precursor for a hivemind working towards a single goal regardless of the actions of archetype individuals >didn't --- Homestuck was probably the defining piece of media of my time in high school. Even though I (like most of the fans) came to resent how it turned out in the end I can't deny the formative impact it had on me. I wouldn't consider any of this to be "paranormal" but whether you take it as armchair psychology or occult schizoism is up to you. Homestuck is a work that was fundamentally built around the relationship between different media and methods of storytelling. Something about the range of art styles and the intensity and rapidity at which they shift creates a very specific subconscious 'wavelength' that subverts how the reader would traditionally approach a work of art. The style of storytelling is very overstimulatory and everyone seemed to get too focused on the plot (which itself was more or less engineered to attract "geeks," internet dorks and people with ADHD) to notice this. The most common criticism of the comic is that it became too focused on petty romance and drama, but this shift occurred in tandem of the comic losing the more esoteric mixed-media aesthetic it had and adopting a more homogenous art style to appeal to its burgeoning tumblr audience. Homestuck is a litmus test for NPCs; if you're engrossed in the characters/romance/ADHD storytelling you're an NPC, the conscious thinker sees those elements as secondary and is more focused on the strangeness of the comic's world and the way in which it is presented. The way the comic blends media and creates images takes on an a surreal, uncanny dimension and I've found very few works of art that can evoke the same strange feelings, but this goes completely over the head of the reader who is suckered in by the ADHD video game references and cheap tween drama. The NPC fan will only actively acknowledge this when it hits you over the head through means like altering the website background, but the more intuitive reader will constantly be in awe of the comic's deeply jarring construction of reality itself. --- With the rise of clown world and Dirk narrating that this is around the time for the media circus to mirror the political circus, I'm keeping a watchful eye on Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope running for Dual-Presidents. To say that American democracy would end in 2024, nearly 250 years after the Revolutionary War, and to have all that happen just as written, would all mean that we live in the post-scratch Universe, and Homestuck is real. Which is a shame, considering Hussie pawned off Homestuck^2 to those same tumblr writers that made the fandom shitty, so now the story is "Beyond Canon". He should've just left it with Act 7 if you're gonna let the NPC transgender pre-op SJW mental illness to the nth power clown crowd run the show. Even if I really like Ultimate Dirk. --- >weird aliens of two different flavors >main initial focus is a 'cosmic' video game with mechanics similar to things depicted in major religions >decline of human civilization fueled by those aliens >cosmic forces bouncing around that are somewhat relevant but not as much as the individual ayys antagonistic to human life >entire comic birthed the modern online fandom structure, influenced most ones large enough to have conventions after the fact dunno it might have some water, it's certainly not dumber than the mario threads --- ===== file from Nov 2019 recovered Jan 2021