S L O T H C A K 3

“Are you- Are you jerking off In my- my closet, Morty-”

Like for example lets take the protagonist of my favorite game of all time: Chell, from Portal

She is a character whom the player can project upon. Literally nothing about her is known, she doesn’t speak a single line of dialogue, and very little is implied about her backstory. All that’s known about her, for the most part, is that she’s a woman named Chell

And the player ACCEPTS that she’s a woman without question! The only characters she interacts with always refer to her by she/her pronouns, so she’s obviously a woman, right? Even though she’s a projection for the player, no one doubts that she is a woman

Well the same could be said for Frisk. All we really know about them is that their name is Frisk and that they’re referred to by they/them pronouns.

andrew hussie is genuinely a shitty person and i wish people would stop supporting him: a masterpost

starting with his old comic site, Team Special Olympics, first off the damn title is mocking the special Olympics, a sporting competition for people with learning disorders and other disabilities, so failed step one.

on TSO, Andrew drew comics with semi-graphic rape, abortion jokes, racism, jokes about hitting women, and racist punchlines

now, in his comic Homestuck:

multiple places in the comic say all the human characters are white, but when asked about it, Andrew changed certain lines of text and lied and said the kids were always aracial… And that viewers could imagine them as whatever they wanted, but they definitely weren’t black. Then he joked about how racist that was.

Not to mention, the damn “Caucasian” joke, which, white people aren’t even Caucasian

Used the word “r*tard” unapologetically several times in comic, not to mention the existence of the character Karkat Vantas, who does nothing but spew hate about the perceived intelligence of others.

The word “cr*pple” is used in the eugenics-like storyline of Tavros Nitram, who is a wheelchair user defined only by his disability, who gets Fixed without his consent later on and then dies at the hand of the girl who paralyzed him, and is given no respect in death with a gross attempt at revival

Uses uncredited, stolen art several times in various places as posters on character’s walls

Got mad when people asked if characters were chubby, gave some fatphobic / fat fetishizng answers

Was absolutely amazed when gay people wanted to see themselves in the story, and proclaimed on his Twitter that Dave Strider and John Egbert were not gay, was also very gross in the fetish-y way he describes Kanaya Maryam, a canon gay character

Dave Strider was abused and neglected by his guardian and Hussie literally makes jokes about the beatings Bro Strider gives Dave

Mom Lalonde and Rose’s relationship isn’t much better, with Mom Lalonde being an alcoholic who tries to win Rose over with presents of things she doesn’t want; when Mom is killed, Rose and the narrative imply it’s her fault for not being a good enough kid

Presented a storyline with the hemospectrum that mirrors classism and seriously says something about what he thinks of poor + disabled people

Forgot that trans +/ multisexual people existed apparently, and said all reproduction that can result in a child is heterosexual

Saw the opportunity to make a joke using the word “f*g” and took it

When someone asked him a gross question about if the then 13-year old trolls had boobs, he made a joke about being sent to prison for child molestation

The entire comic of Homestuck is extremely inaccessible for people with epilepsy, and while the fake-game format of the comic is fun, it often uses quickly flashing images as a gimmick

Feferi Peixes is pretty much based off the ableist eugenics-like ideal that some people of certain qualifiers / blood should have their autonomy taken away so people higher on the hemospectrum can take care of them 

Terezi Pyrope is nothing but the Disability Superpower stereotype, a disabled character who has a cool ability which ~cancels out their disability~, and she’s later cured coercively

We’ve also got the character of Mituna Captor, who is a giant infantile stereotype of people with brain damage

Kankri Vantas, who’s meant to represent the non-existant nasty tumblr ~~SJW~~ and has created a serious unsafe space for fans of the comic who need triggers tagged, the character’s entire stick is mocking trigger warnings and the rightful anger of oppressed groups, and tried to call it satire

Cronus Ampora, based off a spiritual belief called Otherkin which has nearly completely defamed by obnoxious trolls claiming that all Otherkin are just attention seeking. Cronus is literally just every awful untrue troll fact rolled into one, and the existence of his character, not to mention, Horuss Zahhak, has made uneducated rude comments extremely prevalent in kin tags on tumblr

Hussie also was “ironically” racist in his creation of Damara Megido, a horny Japanese schoolgirl stereotype who speaks Google translate Japanese. She was bullied into a psychotic break and this is excused / implied to be just fine in the narrative

Her Imperious Condension (or however her name is spelled) is LITERALLY an African-American stereotype, with pitch black skin, large lips, and ~~sassy~~ text. The other ancestors have pitch black skin, supposedly because it’s stylization, but HIC greatly resembles old anti-blackness advertisements

While not technically Hussie’s doing, a joke that originated from one of the Homestuck calenders is March!Eridan, the male character Eridan Ampora dressed like a woman; many fans of the comic who are trans women have expressed their disdain at this and I figured I should include it

On that line, Hussie/What Pumpkin partnered with Hot Topic for official Homestuck merch, apparently ignoring the fact that Hot Topic constantly steals content

*EDIT* An official Homestuck shirt features whitewashing of John, see here

All media has problems in one way or another, but the amount of untouched, unchallenged bullshit in Homestuck is unbelievable.  The way these awful things have created a racist and transphobic fanbase is terrifying, and unsafe for me.