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children get whichever surname is cooler, to eliminate uncool surnames over the generations

children get whichever surname is rarer, to achieve a utopian future in a few centuries where all surnames are more or less equally common

children's surnames are randomly generated: say, heads for parent #1's surname, tails for parent #2's surname

parents pick the first names first, and then a court decides which surname fits it better. so if a couple named mr. madison and mr. liu want to name their daughter alison, she'll get the surname liu, because alison madison sounds ridiculous

and all of this is to say that these characters actively display the qualities of being sociable, likable, and friendly... or at least charismatic. the idea that that part of them just turned off as soon as they arrived on Earth C is as bizarre as anything the post canon content has included. does anyone remember the fact that Jade spent a lot of her childhood asleep and dreaming on Prospit? and how that helped remedy her isolation, because she was able to befriend the Prospitians there? or Roxy... god, I just realized the wealth of parallels between Jade and Roxy in terms of how they grew up... they have the same strife specibus, Jade's pumpkins keep disappearing/Roxy disappears them, they both befriend carapacians, but Roxy's dream self is constantly asleep while she helps support the Carapacians she knows in the waking world, and Jade is constantly asleep in the waking world while the Carapacian community supports her as she dreams...

anyway, the point is that seeking companionship was always a core theme of homestuck. it's why the title of the comic is significant, and why the [S] pages are mainly named after movement, and why some of the biggest moments in the comic involve keeping up with what multiple disparate groups of people are doing at once, and the climax is the moment when the characters are finally able to reach each other in person. the comic takes time to develop each character individually at length, but seeing how they function among others is why that matters.

Hate bad cops not all cops. 

Hate bad men not all men.

Hate racists not a specific race.

Hate transphobic people not cis people.

Hate homophobic people not straight people.

Please, stop being hateful towards so many good people in the world. 

Stop lumping entire genders, jobs, races, sexualities, and gender identities into one hateful group because think about it: You get angry when you are lumped together hatefully so why do you do it to others? 

Treat others how you want to be treated. 

There’s a longer update on the GoFundMe, but if you’ve read my old pinned post, there have been a lot of twists and turns since then. Being poor is hard and unpredictable.

[Image: 30-day notice to pay rent or quit. Will transcribe in a reblog.]

As we knew was coming, O has been given 30 days’ notice to pay off part of an outstanding rent bill. This letter arrived on February 25th—30 days after that is March 27th.

I first just want to express how much this fundraiser has meant in his life so far. When expenses just kept f#%&ing growing, it kept his lights on, secured COVID-safe transportation to work when he was out of a ride (O has asthma and has had COVID once before, this is critical), and kept food in his fridge. We don’t even know how that would have been there without the fundraiser. It’s been incredible.

Whether you reblogged any of the previous posts, donated yourself, or shared the fundraiser with anyone you know/on social media, thank you.

The amount that’s still due, at this 30 day deadline, is about $3000. For March, he’s in a good enough place (I cannot thank you enough) that everything raised in these next 23 days goes to rent.

For those of you new to this story, O’s workplace shut down for two weeks. He got sick from the exposure that shut it down, and had to stay home another three weeks. When he wasn’t working—staying home to protect people, in the same workplace that required him to stay home—he wasn’t being paid.

(Since then, there’s been an additional week stuck at home with a fever.) His landlord knows the problem, but it’s no longer illegal to evict him for it, so here we are.

I’ll keep you updated. Thank you so much for reading, everyone—I am astonished and amazed at how much the community has kept him afloat so far! He’s getting back on his feet.

It’s a tall, tall ask, and nearly everyone is struggling right now. Hell, later this week you’ll see me share a fundraiser for two of my partners’ friends. We are not after money that you need—part of mutual aid is that sometimes you’re able to give it, and sometimes you’re the one who needs to receive it. Sometimes, you’re in the strange middling space, where you’re just personally barely afloat. We know this. Let me know how to support you too.

March 4th, 2021:

$190/3000

P.S.—GoFundMe fees come out to ~$177. I’m not counting that $177 into this post, because you know what, I’ll make sure we raise it, and I’ll lend it to him if I’ve gotta. That’s something I can do.

My final note to you: