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this is definitely an unpopular opinion and people will take this to mean i don't like homestuck at all which isn't true, but i think it's crazy how homestuck is definitely much more problematic than harry potter or the other things we don't look back on charitably and people brush off its misanthropy as "quirky" or "funny". the entire plot is structured around the concept that cruelty is necessary or everyone goes "soft" and "weak" and fails to defeat the barbarians. this is a theme that pops up all over the webcomic- vriska, both scratches, the retcon, dave's relationship with his brother. it is not hyperbolic to say it is a fascist webcomic. when will we be ready to talk about this.


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I think people enjoy homestuck as part of nostalgia, aesthetic and characters. It's been so long that I don't remember a lot of the story and apparently I missed a lot as well.

On the troll side? Definitely fascist but iirc that was a bad thing and karkat was literally supposed to be troll Jesus/Marx to overthrow the fucked up caste system.

Are the early parts of the comic emblematic of their time? 100%. does that excuse it? No.

oh don't get me wrong it's loaded with aesthetics and characters. but the actual comic squanders it all. my deal with homestuck is that this is what people say, but then you zoom out again and it doesn't make sense any more. karkat's dancestor is troll jegus but karkat is portrayed as a weak and ineffective leader for reasons we don't even see on screen, we're just told that vriska is more competent and effective and that if she doesn't get her way everything ends. a5a1 originally portrays all the bloodshed as pointless and tragic and emblematic of a broken culture that the survivors need to leave behind, but then openbound/a6i3 portrays troll society without the sadism as a worse alternative that was incapable of beating the game, and the retcon makes no effort to do justice to the people who died, and terezi and vriska remain fucking besties like nothing ever happened. vriska is a thinly veiled gender actualizing self-insert for hussie and just the beginning of the problems i have with the comic. i do appreciate the response though.

Never trust a vriska rp account. Even if I think her design is cool. Seriously though: I don't know that I agree with Vriska being a "better" leader if she's also shown to be getting ready to betray everyone way in advance. I think Karkat got Flanderized a bit because people got really attached to him as a comedic foil to John/straight man to the insane caste system of trolls.

I'll be real I don't think I got as far as openbound? I'm trying to remember my last place in the story but it's been years. Think it was when Kanaya chainsaw'd Gamzee in half.

Act 6 Intermission 1, good a place to stop reading as any. The comic peaks in Act 5 Act 1 or so and gets steadily worse. It's implied in places in Act 5 that Vriska is a better leader but it's easy to miss and this definitely comes up more across Act 6 and Act 6 Act 6 to the point Karkat begrudgingly admits it himself.

Even after she proved herself to be a violent psychopath? I know what's his face Harry Potter troll is basically so far up his own ass that he justifies killing random people for fun but Vriska has like an agenda and shit.

Idk I guess I missed a lot.

For whatever reason Vriska gets way more credit than Eridan even though they believe literally the same thing as far as I can tell. I guess Eridan is more of an incel. We even get to meet a "weak" alternate Vriska from a dream bubble.