#hs asks

anyways HUGS YOU'RE WRITING IS SO AMAZING GSISGSISGSISJKSJ tell me when next chapter's done? (if you're okay w it ofc)

AVSSHSS THANK YOUU

the next chapter isnt being written yet, but i AM almost done with plotting everything for it, and im a quicker plotter than i am a writer, so perhaps maybe sometime in the next few weeks?

uEE ARUUU;;;

pitch da/ovejade

trust me

these 2 repressed-in-opposite-directions idiots need a healthy kismesissitude and it just *works* im dead fucking serious

dove<3<jade is meant to be they hate eachother because they think the other could be so much *better*. it's disappointment and frustration and "stop being such a repressed idiot/self-destructive people-pleaser!!!!" and they're both better off for it

we love our affectionate giraffe.

beyond the physical affection she tends to give that we can see on screen, it’s also evident from the soundbites. she looks for Abby, quietly sneaks in a “you look good” at the dinner party, always tells her “I’ll just be a sec” or “I’ll come right back”. at the doomed Fratty’s meet, she was so excited to see Abby (albeit probably exacerbated by alcohol too at this point), asked if she’d had dinner... *big sigh* you know?

Yeah...

I don’t want to drag on Homestuck^2 too much because I’m done reading it, and anyway HS^2 is half-dead from what I understand.

I for one actually liked Roxy’s storyline in the epilogues, because I liked the butterfly effect element of it. Characters can have very different lives or even be very different people depending on what kind of story you want to tell. Sure, a lot of her behavior in Homestuck Classic suggests that they’re a very pansexual cis-girl, but trans-Roxy was a popular headcanon back in the day, so the Epilogues got to explore that in various ways. It’s a neat exercise.

The representation question is still interesting because from what I’ve heard from people who do still like HS^2, that’s the main thing they’re attached to. They liked Roxy’s dual character arcs in the Epilogue and they’re excited for June Egbert. And if you’re part of that group of people who are starved for trans rep, I get that, but I don’t think it doesn’t count for much if it doesn’t make sense.

Honestly, I don’t even think the problem is the creative decision to write these characters as trans, the problem is everything surrounding them. It’s a little hard to write a compelling character study in the same story where I’m supposed to believe that a human woman named her children Vriska and Yiffany.

The whole point of adding minority representation is to create characters that people can identify with, but across the board, almost nobody in HS^2 acts like a person, so what are we even doing?

Vriska is a whole other complicated issue (so this is a normal day at the office with her).

You want to talk about trans rep not making sense, I literally don’t know what it means for a troll to be transsexual because it doesn’t make sense for trolls to have gender in the first place.

Any troll can procreate with any other troll, so why do they even have assigned gender at birth? What does it mean? What effect does it have on anything?

Hiveswap introduced another trans character by the name of Lanque, and he is also a piece of work, so the Vriska conversation nicely dovetails with the Lanque conversation. Vriska may be divisive but at least some people like her. Lanque is just a pure case of, “Oh yeah, this is the kind of trans rep people were hoping for lolol, psych!”