Hey thanks for your perspective! I like seeing what other people think of a piece of media I engage with, and I can take in what another person’s perspective can be compared to mine. I always thought it was tough to keep up with HS^2, and before Yiffy it was boring. I read the prologue for HS^2 and it was nice, but ultimately pointless.
You make a good point about Jane, and I gotta describe the surreal decision for how they builded up to Jane’s villain arc.
So there is a series of snapchats from 11/11/2016 to 12/31/16 (I think) showing conversations between Jane and Roxy (calliope is there) discussing the celebration of the return of the gods on Earth C by blowing up the moon. Jane has her transportalizer hijacked by the felt, run by Jack Noir and Jane’s account now gets post updates from felt members. Roxy and Calliope attempt to get help but Jane successfully defends herself against the felt and enslaves Jack Noir with a tiaratop, and then puts Clover in charge of her snapchat account. She escapes before the moon explodes.
So the buildup to Jane being racist was her being kidnapped and then giving her social media to a leprechaun, who worked for the main bad guy of Homestuck who is last seen on his knees with the evil red Betty Crocker thing around his neck.
Yeah I can see why Jane became evil, she was the CEO of a corporation, and running corporations just make you literally irredeemably cruel to everyone. (If you can’t tell I’m being sarcastic)
To give credit to epilogues/postcanon apologists when they argue that the story’s character’s are not acting out of character, just rather changed over time or were always like this, but just didn’t have the unrestricted worship and authority Earth C gave them, they are in a sense, correct.
What postcanon apologists forget to argue is if the execution of this change in character works within the media it is produced under, and I gotta say, an obscure set of snapchat posts released after the credits that were only dug up by fans following the Homestuck Pinterest account which preluded a character’s villain arc by having her kidnapped and unkidnap herself was a poorly executed start to a vaillain arc, maybe they should have done more with the whole Jack possessed by the tiaratop thing and Jane running the most powerful corporation on Earth C, but I don’t write Homestuck.
The tiaratop thing only gets elaborated on in Homestuck^2 later on when in panels you can see tiaratops on Crockercorp soldiers in the April 2020 updates, nearly a whole year after the epilogues dropped. Before that I’d just assumed all the people decided in unity to be racist because Jane said so and most people can’t think for themselves actually, and just believe what a nice looking authority figure says. That last part might be true considering how well James Roach has gotten along with the Homestuck fandom.
So what is the moral of the story to all this? Well being a CEO of a corporation makes you a fascist because being in a position of power makes you think you’re better than everyone else and that they should be sorted into categories you consider lesser and better by your standards.
Sure there is actual human history to the rise of fascism and why some aristocrats and corporate businessmen supported the cause but I ain’t reading all that, my hypothesis is simple to understand and affirms all the premonitions I have about the world around me, so it must be correct!
So basically the Homestuck snapchats predicted Elon Musk buying Twitter and retweeting conspiracy theorist tweets because Elon Musk is the CEO of 5 companies now.
And look out for Disney CEO Bob Iger, he’s making bad and boring Disney movies with minority lead actors ON PURPOSE to radicalize fans of old, better cinematic franchises to bring about the 4th reich!!!
Funny enough, the aim for Jane Crocker being the villain in Homestuck 2 was also to make her an allegory for DONALD TRUMP. Even the bonus story for these random nothingbuger OCs made by WhatPumpkin, were suppose to be people getting BERNIE SANDERS to become President.
They even advertise support for Bernie Sanders on the official HOMESTUCK TWITTER ACCOUNT.
Of course, Bernie Sanders dropped out of presidential election. HS Twitter had to delete it and WhatPumpkin had to cancel that side story.
Needless to say, the force of politics in Homestuck 2 was that bad.
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Books I’ve Read In 2022
This year I read the average amount of books I usually do. I was so touched to read my first book with a LGBTQ+ protagonist. It's embarrassing that it took my library so long to provide access to characters/books connected to the LGBTQ+ community.
But yeah this year was amazing for inclusivity. Most of the books had main characters from the Black community and the LGBTQ+ community.
1. Ariah - B. R. Sanders
A touching LGBTQ+ fantasy that reflects our real life society issues and fantastical issues while displaying a collection of identities.
2. Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
This is an amazing Afrocentric fantasy book. Never before have I read a fantasy that focused on Africa instead of the typical European medieval setting with a LGBTQ+ protagonist.
It's written well but a lot of parts were tough to read because they were so disturbing but if you have the guts to read past those parts then its an amazing read that I couldn't put down.
3. Hollow Kingdom - Kira Jane Buxton
Fun! Couldn't put this book down. Love reading books with animal protagonist.
4. The Good Luck Girls - Charlotte Nicole Davis
Thrilling fantasy book with a Black female lead and LGBTQ+ representation.
5. Under the Pendulum Sun : a novel of the Fae - Jeannette Ng
6. Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant
A Tense horror/Sci-Fi book with a LGBTQ+ lead protagonist. I also appreciate the X-Men references that are peppered throughout the book.
7. A Gathering of Old Men - Ernest J. Gaines
A book similar to "To Kill A Mocking Bird" that brought out so many emotions. Mostly of rage and deep sadness. Excellent book but definitely hard to read sometimes. I loved it so much though and I'm actually planning on watching the movie now.
8. Lord of the White Hell, Book 1 - Ginn Hale
Another LGBTQ+ lead book in the fantasy genre that takes place at an academy. Loved this book and I'm so excited to read part 2.
9. X-men Chaos Engine: Doctor Doom
10. X-men Chaos Engine: Magneto
11. X-men Chaos Engine: Red Skull
Steven A. Roman
Psylocke is the main character in this trilogy! Nuff said! Plus, they're one of the best X-Men books I've ever read. I must confess this is my second round of reading them and I don't usually read books more than once in my life.
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En la era del Terror Lila, el amor es peligroso… “Compañeros De Viaje”
La historia gira en torno a la relación, arriesgada y volátil, entre el carismático y ambicioso Hawkins ‘Hawk’ Fuller y el piadoso e idealista Tim Laughlin, dos funcionarios políticos que se enamoran en el apogeo del Terror Lila de la década de 1950, cuando Joseph McCarthy y Roy Cohn declaran la guerra a los “subversivos y desviados sexuales”, iniciando uno de los períodos más oscuros de la historia estadounidense del siglo XX.
Estreno: 28 de octubre de 2023 en Paramount+.
La serie cuenta con las actuaciones de Matt Bomer, Jonathan Bailey, Jelani Alladin, Allison Williams, Noah J. Ricketts, Jane Moffat, Teagan Sellers, Michael Therriault, Keara Graves, Ben Sanders, Mike Taylor, David Tomlinson, Etienne Kellici, entre otros.
Sesión Fotográfica
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Because I saw someone on Twitter make one and I was already planning on making one:
TSS/RTC AU:
Jane: Thomas (I can't really explain this one but I think it fits)
Logan: Ocean (An admittedly rather self-centered perfectionist character who thinks they're better than their friends but gets a shit ton of character growth and tries to be nicer - it's perfect)
Virgil: Mischa (hear me out: angry guy who isn't "from" where everyone else is who secretly loves his friends)
Roman: Noel (flamboyant character who has a rivalry with the perfectionist character)
Remus: Ricky (I have a legitimate reason for this (incredibly imaginative but was never listened to, incredibly observant, etc.) and a funny reason ("Porno is magical" is for sure a statement Remus lives by)
Patton: Constance (shocker, I paired the sweet, borderline naive characters but hear me out: Sugar Cloud is literally Patton's theme song)
And finally:
Janus: Karnak (the confusing mystical being who targets the perfectionist and isn't everything that it seems)
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Jane Randolph and George Sanders for Stanley Logan’s THE FALCON’S BROTHER (1942)
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