#meat and candy epilogues

[slowpokedragon]

#THIS ONE WAS. A HERCULEAN EFFORT TO GET POSTED WITHOUT THE QUALITY GETTING CRUNCHED! #homestuck #homestuck epilogues #Homestuck epilogue #homestuck meat and candy #meat and candy #meat and candy epilogues #meat epilogue #candy epilogue #john egbert #june egbert #karkat vantas #rose lalonde #gamzee makara #lord english #caliborn #lyricstuck #sadstuck #commander karkat #gif #flashing #flashing gif #WAUGH SO MUCH WORK #slowpokedragonart #click click #terezi pyrope #eyestrain #FORGOT SOME TAGS BRO #johnrezi #junerezi

[kosonah]

you have to choose.

#homestuck #john egbert #meat epilogue #candy epilogue #hsbc #homestuck beyond canon #hs2 #my art

[insufferable-homestuck]

bad ref sorry

#beheaded is ult dirks constant state #homestuck #hom3stuck #hsbc #homestuck 2 #hs 2 #homestuck: beyond canon #ult dirk #terezi pyrope #rose lalonde #the epilogues #homestuck epilogues #[ CANDY ROUTE 🍭 ] #[ 🥩 MEAT ROUTE ]

[cruelcruelsummr]

okay I’m not a huge dirkjohn shipper but. epilogue dirkjohn

specifically ult dirk and candy john. like, total control of the narrative villain vs some divorced father. and then they kiss

#homestuck epilogues #homestuck #dirk strider #john egbert #dirkjohn #ultimate dirk #candy timeline #meat timeline

[derseprinceoftbd]

Hold the actual fuck on. Like hold the actual fuck on.

Harrow was released in August 2020.

The Epilogues were released Jan 2020.

I think Gideon=Magnus+Abigail>Isaac>Jeannemary [...] the Emperor in like four(?) months... is *Meat*, and Ortus/Harrow=Marta>Pal+Cam... is *Candy*.

I'm not actually sure what I'm trying to say here, other than... I guess we're doing this? I don't know what's happening. Loving the book, though.

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #marta dyas #abigail pent #magnus quinn #john gaius #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur #ortus nigenad #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #homestuck #palamedes the sixth #palamedes sextus #camila hect #homestuck epilogues #the homestuck epilogues #meat epilogue #candy epilogue

[tiredofgoingapeshit]

a video titled: how to fall down the stairs and not bust your ass

#homestuck #hiveswap #homestuck art #homestuck candy epilogue #homestuck comic #homestuck epilogues #homestuck fanart #homestuck friendsim #homestuck meat epilogue #homestuck^2 #hs #pesterquest #upd8 #4/13 #hivebound #dave strider #dave strider homestuck #homestuck dave #homestuck Dave strider #if this flops it never happened #but if it works I will release the davekat from the underbelly of my homestuck folder #also living for the sand grit between my cheeks and teeth at the tumblrized quality of these images

[disguisedcheezed]

The Hanged Man and The Fool

#i woke up from an afternoon nap then chose violence #alt title: i did an oopsie #homestuck #homestuck 2 #hs^2 #homestuck epilogues #meat epilogue #candy epilogue #dirk strider #john egbert #dirkjohn #gore #tw suicide #tw body horror #tw blood #this is so sadstuck #mine #the only parts i read are the part where they died and i dont think laughing is an appropriate response #i aint reading any more #well unless someone reads it via youtube dot com

[ult-cowboy]

x x x | x x x | x x x

ult Dirk | request open

#ult Dirk #Ult #dirk #dirk strider #ult dirk strider #homestuck #epilogues #hs #hs^2 #homestuck^2 #homestuck 2 #candy #meat #hs candy #hs meat #stimboard #ult dirk stimboard #dirk stimboard #homestuck stimboard #epilogues stimboard #ult stimboard

[hms-no-fun]

14 again, but this time “Meat or Candy” interpreted as narrative philosophies rather than the halves of the epilogues

aghhh this is so mean!!! i've always read the meat/candy dichotomy as sides of the same coin rather than two discrete narrative philosophies, and homestuck itself as a structural exploration of various ways to balance/unbalance the split. picking between one or the other is like picking between air & water!

i certainly write godfeels with an eye towards finding a balance. serious drama needs to be offset by goofy comedy, cool anime fight scenes need to be offset by cursed bullshit or drydick exposition. chapter 8 especially is meant to be a tonal roller coaster. 'the shadows left behind' for instance is an almost 40,000 word long section about a depressed idea slowly clawing back personhood from their out of control death drive. there's murder attempts, there's suicide attempts, there's gore, there's psychological torture-- it's some of the heaviest shit i've ever written! and yet that same chapter also contains some of the funniest shit i've ever written. a story like this NEEDS that kind of variation to maintain reader interest, otherwise you get bogged down in seriousness or get so sucked up into lightheartedness that you lose all sense of substance.

like that's very much the reason ch8 ends with an epilogue full of jargon and exposition and obtuse metaphysics. i knew, at the close of ch8 act 5, that we were finally opening the door to what i consider The Good Shit. but it wouldn't be right to jump straight from that endpoint to where 3.2A begins. from an archival reading perspective, you need a palate cleanser to pull you back out from the thick of it and re-examine everything that just occurred from the outside. within the rest of ch8 there is a constant ebb and flow between meat tendencies and candy tendencies; what the epilogue reveals is that it was all candy in some sense, because it was functionally one extremely long action scene. it does this by serving as the meaty parallel, something much closer in tone and purpose to the author-insert sections of homestuck proper. it's meant to feel tedious and tantalizing at the same time, something you have to eat slowly and chew on to properly digest after the insane fast pace of [s] saturday. and even the epilogue swings back and forth between funny and serious! it's meat/candy all the way down!!

i suppose like any red-blooded american of the toonami generation, i have the most fun as a writer when i'm indulging myself in the candy of dumb anime bullshit. most of 'the shadows left behind' was back-constructed from the scene where Dare's "body" gets impaled and cut to shreds by X and they just keep walking towards it anyway. especially that moment where X tries to swallow them a second time, and Dare grabs it by the jaws and throws it off-- that whole sequence popped into my head and suddenly it clicked for me, oh shit, Dare is the secret shonen anime protagonist of godfeels! everything beforehand was a prelude to that moment when June really sees Dare for the first time, asks if they're real, and they shout defiantly, YES!!!

probably every writer does this to an extent, where they write towards some cool/interesting shit they can't get out of their head. there's a temptation to just go there, just get to the good stuff, because ultimately it's what you're there for and you KNOW the audience is gonna lap it up. but if you give in to that temptation and just string together all those keystone moments with bare-minimum bridging material, you paradoxically rob those moments of all their meaning and energy. did 'the shadows left behind' need to be 40,000 words long in one go? probably not. but i don't think the final culmination of that story would have hit nearly as hard otherwise.

you need meat to sell the candy. i wanted 3.2 A1 for instance to be much shorter than it wound up being, because god damn it i want to get to The Good Shit already!! but i realized very quickly that everything i wanted to get to would be poorly served by a cast of characters whose reasons for participating are murky at best. so i decided to invest in more of those meaty chapters between jade and various characters, which themselves needed their own fluctuating balance between meat tendencies and candy tendencies. from a structural standpoint it sort of becomes a meat/candy fractal, as each subdivision of each narrative unit has to maintain the same relative push-pull frequency that the entire fic as a whole does. does that make sense? i have no idea if that makes sense lmao.

anyway that's my take on the meat/candy split. hope it was satisfying u_u

#sarahposts #homestuck #homestuck epilogues #godfeels #meat #candy

[outofcontext-homestuck]

I knew my collection of screenshots would come in handy one day

#homestuck candy route #homestuck meat route #out of context quotes #hs #homestuck^2 #homestuck #homestuck out of context #submission #homestuck epilogues #Karkat vantas #Thank you for your submission!

[sweet-cuddlebug]

[Trying to read the epilogues of hs and homestuck^2]

[suffering]

[laptop]

#the epilogue part is mostly directed at candy #because of gamzee #I mean WHAT DID THEY DO TO HIM?? #if you hated him so much you could have just killed him #(as with all the other trolls who deserved much more than just ... that) #wHAT?! NO NOT THAT WAY PIECE OF TRASH #keep vriska away from my child!! #keep my child away from... that other... child #but what the fuck gamz- BUT WHAT THE FUCK HUSSIE #BUT WHAT THE FUCK JANE THAT'S NOT MY GIRL #like pls you didn't even give him a chance in meat #and I didn't even read them until the end- HEY #I tried ok? #but it's... UUUUUHGG #To begin with #I'm terrible at reading Homestuck #I read it from the beginning then I got bored I skipped acts I re-read previous acts I read from random pages when I found a link #and I repeated that with the epilogues and hs^2 #BUT GOOOOD #It is so hard #“I'm just a girl” TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING BUT I'M UNABLE TO READ AND THESE CHARACTERS DESERVE MUCH MORE #so yeah #homestuck #homestuck epilogues #candy & meat #homestuck candy #homestuck meat #doodles #Is there a tag limit?

[rhyme-thinks-stuff]

I'm kind of surprised by how much I've been enjoying the epilogues of Homestuck, since they seem to be kinda controversial in the fandom. But I've mostly been having a great time with them, there's been a greater density of giggling and kicking my feet while reading them than most of the comic itself (and also a greater density of groaning and facepalming, mostly in a positive way). Not sure what that says about me tbh

I've currently finished candy and have I think 16 chapters left of meat. I was kind of expecting them to be darker than they are, that's another thing that surprised me. I haven't run into much that was really hard for me to read through. Guess I might have a higher tolerance for that sort of story than I thought.

But I especially like the stuff going on with he narrators in meat, the things going on with Roxy's gender in both timelines, the messy relationship between Jade Dave and Karkat, and the messed up relationship between Rose and Dirk. Oh also Terezi and John I've loved every scene between the two of them so far.

Also there's been some really great jokes throughout!

#homestuck #homestuck epilogues #i like that they're struggling to become adults. and there's still challenges for them in this new world #i can understand why they don't appeal to everyone #i also enjoy the happier endings fans give them (i loved reading through the crow strider au) #chapter 40 of candy was really hard to read through because i was so distracted by the absurdity of it #i kept having to go back and reread dialogue #the scenes between Rose and Dirk in meat are so weird and unsettling but in a way i find very captivating #There's stuff I don't like #for example I found all of the stuff involving gamzee in candy to be pretty gross and uncomfortable to read #which was certainly the point #but idk. it felt meanspirited and i didn't enjoy reading it.

[lolilou-lagaf]

#candy was boring #but meat was hilarious actually #homestuck 2 #homestuck epilogues #ultimate dirk #dirk strider #calliope #jane crocker #muse calliope

[magpyfeather]

#homestuck #homestuck epilogues #meat #candy #vanilla extract

[homestuck-book-club]

We are beginning our reading of the Homestuck Epilogues tomorrow, if you are not yet in the discord server and want to join us, feel free! (if you want to join only to hang out, feel free to also do that)

#homestuck #hs #homestuckbookclub #hsbc #book club #homestuck vriska #dave strider #homestuck karkat #jade harley #john egbert #homestuck epilogues #meat #candy #hs epilogues #post canon #hs^2 #homestuck ^2

[derseprinceoftbd]

#homestuck #hsbc #homestuck beyond canon #homestuck 2 #hs2 #homestuck meat #homestuck candy #meat epilogue #candy epilogue #homestuck epilogues #the homestuck epilogues