#silverpond

She was a warrior cat and lived alone in a stone cave by a little lake. No one ever visited her there.

Sometimes people would find her, sitting in a niche high up on one of the big rocks. Sometimes her tail was crooked or her ears were pointed, or her eyes were a bit crossed. Sometimes her hindquarters were covered with something slimy. She would only blink if you gave her time to do so, and when she did, it would be a little slow and hazy. Occasionally, she would speak a few words to someone who approached, before she closed her eyes again. They weren't very coherent. Occasionally she would wake up when you made a sound, though usually she would get bored and go back to sleep.

Often, though, she would just sit by her pond, waiting for things to happen. Sometimes the things she waited for took years or even decades. Sometimes they took the form of some particular animal, or a flower or a small piece of metal. Sometimes they were just certain thoughts or certain feelings. They were always her "prey," or at least that's the way the people she hung around with thought about them.

If you want full context, all of this is screenshotted from this post. If they start deleting their replies, just tell me and I’ll re-release the whole screenshotted conversation in a new post.

They were an inflammatory off topic jerk trying to discuss "Dark Media" on my post about how I hate people who draw CP. Not people who make dark media. CP. Porn. Child porn. Thats what my post was about. And they claimed I was sexually harassing them every time I tried to debate about CP, the literal topic of my post, rather than their proposed "Dark Media" argument. 

"A lot of people who draw CP arent bad."

"P*dophilia is a kink"

"I associate with people who draw CP."

"Its okay to be into a child if they look mature enough"

"CP is just cringe"

(brought up Jotaro Kujo... what ...?)

(Lol wut is this rant.... Theyre a big part of the Jotaro Kujo porn community I guess...?)

*Tumblr/twitter = Google images. We were literally having a conversation about Google. But they would never say Google images.

"Children shouldnt be allowed to search google images for the cartoons they like. Children should not be allowed in public space NOR spaces meant for the cartoons they like. Its the parents fault if they see porn."

Plus they block people who disagree with them. Im an outlier.

Dude, this can’t be right, homestuck us so big, AND THIS WAS WHRN WE HAD TWO CANON queer relationships

So. Let me tell you about Homestuck.

I was into Homestuck fandom in a big way back in late 2011 - early 2012, although I slowly drifted out of the fandom and I stopped following updates after the end of the original comic. Let me tell you though: the biggest canon queer relationships (Rosemary and DirkJake) were confirmed in 2012. They will not have had much impact on the 2017 statistics.

In the 2017 stats, Homestuck didn’t appear at all in the ‘Top 100 Pairings of the Year’ list I created. The year before, Davekat was the only Homestuck entry at #85. However, neither of these situations means Homestuck is ‘dead’. This is a review of the entire website, and there are a lot of competing fandoms. To make it onto last year’s list, you needed over 1000 fics written per pairing per year. If your OTP ‘only’ managed 800, that doesn’t mean your fandom is failing.

To get a look at a longer time frame, we can consider the trends in the Overall Top 100 Lists, starting here. The pattern is:

2013 - #38 JohnDave, #62 Rosemary, #74 Johnkat, #79 DirkJake, #96 Davekat.

2014 - #38 JohnDave, #67 Rosemary, #78 DirkJake, #91 Davekat, #94 Johnkat.

2015 - #46 JohnDave, #72 Rosemary, #87 DirkJake, #93 Davekat.

2016 - #58 JohnDave, #86 Rosemary, #89 Davekat.

2017 - #76 JohnDave.

In summary, Homestuck has been slowly falling out of the list more or less since I started doing these stats. This isn’t overly surprising to me for a couple of reasons: firstly, while Homestuck is still rolling along, the fandom’s size peaked around 2012 [source], and slowly shrank as the updates became more sporadic and the main run ended.

Secondly, Homestuck fandom was an AO3 early adopter - when I joined the site in order to read Homestuck fics, it had not yet been widely accepted by fandom and people had to wait for weeks to be issued an invitation to the beta. It’s unsurprising that Homestuck took an early lead as it pioneered use of the site, but has since been overshadowed as larger mega-fandoms moved into the same territory.

Finally, this is not really the best list for measuring Homestuck. Unlike a lot of fandoms, there is no one ‘Homestuck OTP’ and there hasn’t been since the days before the trolls were introduced (when it was basically JohnDave or bust, hence that ship’s popularity on the all-time lists). Fandom preference has shifted through Johnkat, Dirkjake and Davekat in roughly that order, with Rosemary a perennial favourite second-place.

Homestuck fandom as I remember it was very welcoming to multi-shippers and gen fic, and a lot of fics featured multiple pairings. Compared to fandoms that are 90% about a single ship, it’s no wonder that a fandom split between five potential top 100 pairings can’t quite match quantity.

Is a hyper-aggressive proshipper and defender of pedophiles. Was previously @silverpond, who freaked out at me and my friends in the comments of this post all because I said CP is bad. And now is back after.... SIX MONTHS?????????????? once again adamant that I "sexually harrassed them" ??????? (they are just using that statement as a defense mechanism to make me look gross when they are the one who initiated all of this)

Sorry, I dont like to continue the drama but this person literally just keeps coming to ME so Im gonna call out each of their new blogs since they continue to bother me with each new blog. Hopefully prevent a few people from interacting with this horrible person.