#doddleys

[banavalope]

Hello, I'm a Homestuck and Good Omens fan and just saw your post about coffee. I came to the Homestuck fandom way late, though, and don't know what the coffee theory was. I was wondering if you'd be willing to share that story from the trenches if it's not too traumatic :)

I'll preface by saying, this all happened near about the time I began to step away from Homestuck, as this was late 2011 to early 2012. My recollection could very well be missing some juicier deets, because I always managed to avoid the worst of it. In all I had a pretty benign time floating about the Homestuck fandom, I'll say that. My knowledge is as a fly's.

If you want the short version: once upon a time, the Homestuck fandom was so stupid it had discourse over the way coffee was drawn in a single panel, because the stylistic choice used to show the way cheap potted coffee has that oil slick sheen on the top Really got the gamerz thinking Gamzee was putting troll blood in the coffee.

The long version is this: this Act was annoying. All the Acts had been annoying, there'd been rather more than six of them so far. The fandom's toxicity was at its most potent, and the main fandom exodus hadn't happened yet. But the stylistic choice brewing on page 4702 of A6I2 suggested a discourse was on the horizon, and it was the size of planet fucking Jupiter.

To understand the affairs of 2011/12 Homestucks, a few things are important to mention: first, nobody enjoyed Act 6. Ask anyone from the tumblr era First Wave, we all agreed that Cascade would have been a better place to start wrapping up the comic as a whole. When Act 6 opened introducing the alpha kids, a whole new plot derivative, and we all realized we'd have to go through the same slog again, that the story wasn't over, the collective exhaustion was palpable. SWATHS left unhappy; worse yet (for some), the alpha kids brought us away from the game of SBURB and the over-aching plot, to instead place our focus on their interpersonal relationships. It was a bad time to take your audience away from a well crafted climax.

Reading it now as a completed work makes this not so bad, because the book is wrote. You can consume it as a finished piece and clearly interpret a through line for yourself, start to finish. Skip it even, if you want. When you've no idea at what time the next update will come, while all the pieces remain necessary to tell the story, any pacing is bad pacing.

Second, while Homestucks are known for many things - all of them cringe - the one that goes overlooked most, in spite of the ripple effect we still feel from it today in every corner, is the sheer amount of over analyzing done to the story itself. Every panel, every inch of every pixel, was a part of a puzzle we all collectively made up. Theorizing was an integral part to the Update Culture era of Homestuck's fandom, that we Figure Out the Story, you had to be the one who predicted what came next. Impressive how none of us came up with some kind of fandom Nobel Peace Prize, for how much we lauded it as a lifetime achievement.

I'll give you, Homestuck does have a very rich narrative. Much of it, I'll favor, is even intentional. It made worldbuilding choices captivating enough to get people painting themselves grey, for fun, so surely it had a few right ideas in some places. And there's nothing wrong about analyzing your media, picking apart its references to tie together a background story, even if it's just one you make up based on how you experienced reading it. That's kind of the whole point of consuming art. It's to be discussed, share your personal conclusions on. Theory is the breath of creativity.

It's the whole part about wanting to be right, where Homestucks as a collective force wanted to start eating each other alive on the spot. We were fucking OBNOXIOUS with theory posting. I'll be honest with you, I really ate that kind of thing up, and even I was getting annoyed. People were beginning to stretch, likely to cope with becoming bored.

Finally, the sober Gamzee controversy. This came about a while before coffeegate, but the effect the inciting update had on Homestucks is comparable to a haunting. It was fucking chernobyl, and a bad day to be a nuclear scientist because now it was your problem. Vriska fans - equally insufferable, as we all were by some respect[1] - and Gamzee fans fought with each other VEHEMENTLY, just to see whos gang was better. Keep that in the background of your mind as the theme music to what's playing. Everyone was anxiously wondering what had happened to Gamzee, because for the last several some-odd panels, we'd lost the boy. He was full of murderous intent, we were down to precious few characters on the meteor left, and we'd lost the boy.

So here we are. It's 2011. We're standing now at the end of the world, we've lost the boy for several panels, and finally the plot is trying to move along. We're all tired, and irritated, and divorced, doing this song and dance one more time but god willing the LAST TIME, when a joke about the look of shitty potted coffee gets made.

And some harbinger of the fucking apocalypse takes to tumblr dot com, drafting up a post about how Gamzee - living in the meteor walls - is putting troll blood into the coffee. Because, otherwise, how is Kanaya as a rainbow drinker doing so fine? Dave called the taste metallic, like blood. Something something long forgotten theories about trolls blood here something something. People would chime in to say "that's just how coffee looks", somehow it dissolved into actual discourse of people violently discussing back and forth how it could ONLY BE BLOOD, because coffee drawn in a prior panel UPDATES AGO didn't have the film on top, only now AFTER SOBER GAMZEE. Etcetera. It was just the worst case of reading too hard into something that you done ever did see.

Shortly following this, many people who were already growing exhausted with Homestuck's narrative direction at this point decided to take this coffee theory as their sign the flood was coming and to board the ark or learn how to swim. Anyone who learned to swim subsequently left during the exodus of 2015.

Again, my memory is pretty hazy. Thanks to Requiem Cafe, surprisingly difficult to google these days. Certainly another old still following me will have something more to add that I'm forgetting, as your handy dandy unreliable narrator.

[1] Said the Eridan fan.

#bana stop talking #homestuck #doddleys #i shouldnt tag this as good omens but theres an evil part of me that wants to

[snz-thoughts]

Well, I don't actually show colored art here 'cause I don't like how it looks entirely, but this is a special occasion! I've decided to draw Sadalsuud (and a doddley Herrick) two oc's of @kazewohiita I've wanted to draw their oc's for quite a while, since their art is one of the reasons I've noticed (a few years ago) that I enjoy sneezes more than just in a "silly way" (kink awakening, lmao). Wish I did your characters right 💖

I didn't really think of any prompt to make this drawing, but in the end it seems that Sad felt very itchy and therefore urgent to sneeze whatever was bothering their nostrils, moving his arm from side to side, desperate. They manages to raise their shoulder to cover their face at the moment of impact, but it was too late and they sneezed uncovered, quite messy. Then there's mini-Herrick explaining that we should forgive Sad, that anyone should notice that at least they tried their best to cover themselves up even though in the end it didn't work out very well!

#snz #sneeze art #snz art #sneeze kink #snz kink #sneezeblr #sneeze thoughts #snz thoughts #others ocs // #snzblr #tw: mess #tumblr quality s!cksssss

[themgosaurus]

Soooo let's ermm let's start this blog with with erm yes erm I'm into Norse mythology and I have an art project about it for educational reasons so I thought it would be nice to start this blog with a doddley-doo about it. Just for the clarification, this one is metaphorical rather than "oooh straightforward red liquid", but no spoilers I guess. TO CLARIFY THIS DOODLEY-DOO EVEN FURTHER, THE RED LIQUID IS A RESULT OF SOMEONE OTHER'S ACTIONS AND THIS HANDSOME MAN IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.

#norse mythology #norse gods #freyr #??? i guess #oh boy how do people tumblr #HOW DO YOU TUMBLR #art #i think #yes I was lazy to color and wriggle the cloth properly

[therealbanavalope-blog]

Some pay what you want doodle requests I got during last week’s stream!

If you ever want to get a commission out of me but can’t afford the price, or if they aren’t formally open, every saturday I stream at 1pm pst and do pay what you want doodles for as low as a dollar, you can follow me on my twitter to keep up with when i do and don’t stream~

#bana's dumb art #doddleys #hiveswap #homestuck #galora #galekh xigisi #tagora gorjek #my fantrolls #just the blackblood the other two are not mine #morres vysroy

[acertaintori-kun]

Okay, can I just ask something.

What the diddley doddley doodle is the secret to making a civilization seem like it was made by an actual author with actual skill??

Because I'm here, jolly donuts and rainbows as I'm making an original fic, and then I get to the point where I have to make cities, and civilization as a slam-dunking whole.

I, am lost.

So lost, that when I look at a compass, it looks back at me and shrugs.

Fudgenuggets.

I am in DESPERATE need of help, also world building is a problem as well.

Well diddly heckin' heck.

[shimabubblegum]

Doodle doddley doo • • • #drawing #doodle #sketch #color #colour #painting #yup #elf #braids #whynot #ugh

#color #ugh #colour #drawing #elf #yup #sketch #doodle #whynot #braids #painting

[the-gayest-dump]

doddley doo

((Smartass))

[ask-angelcake-blog]

My ask doddley doe box is open and ready for asks!

[hwrdak]

4,7 16, 29 for the ask meme

thanks for asking babe!

4. both, leaning towards brains

7. fuck no lmao

16. ppl usually misunderstood me as bitchy when rlly I’m only bitchy when the situation calls for it

29. hard question tbh. I definitely have a better grasp on quantum mechanics and attempting to describe chemical components (thanks ap bio) than I did a year ago when I was focusing more on essays than science. Next year I’ll definitely be able to drive by myself and attemmpppttt to tolerate inorganic chemistry

#anonymous #drinking my science bi juice #last one made me think for a bit cos I’m like ‘gorl I’m bout dumb as shit and accomplished nothing’ #i rlly do love getting asks from ask games so keep at it! #quantum related stuff is so all over the place that I rlly don’t know what to do with the info I’ve learned from it #like hnnn this one atom just wasn’t like his degenerate atom friends and oof the universe is made #like no one knows jack doddley abt quantum it’s like not even a minor in college #for quantum stuff ur only source of info would be like books n science seminars and clubs #like I’m reading this quantum mechanics book and it’s like yo why aren’t we made of clay #I ont like inorganic chem bc valence electrons are bitches

[banavalope]

I miss tagora <3 and gahlek <3<

alright, youve played my hand.

#doddleys #homestuck #hiveswap #galora #tagora gorjek #galekh xigisi

[k1k92]

DOES THE DOODLE LOOK GOOD SO FAR? ; n ;

YES. OKAY? YES. ENOUGH MODESTY. ITS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL BATSY.

#batmangambit #K92 GETS PERSONAL #DODDLEYS #QUESTIONS FOR K92 #THIS BARELY QUALIFIES BUT #STILL A QUESTION #OKAY? #STILL A FECKING QUESTION

[microrockets]

pull yourself together

#pvpshenanigans #doddleys #blood #gore #amputation #cleaved in half???

[the-gayest-dump]

((I am the bored. do the ask. Ask a doddley doo. I don’t know anymore))