Vriska Serket Has All of the Irons in the Fire (A Homestuck Persuasion Post)
Okay, so, firstly I'm going to say that I got home from holidays and instantly got knocked over by deathflu, and most of this was written while under the influence of that. That may turn out to be relevant to matters of ... coherence. And such
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i love how half the characters are almost completely inexplicable, like, say, WV or jack noir
another fact: ms. paint is the main character and you completely neglected to mention this.
okay welp those are my thoughts, peace.
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oh hi good to see you here *g*
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RIGHT? he is the mayor and a revolutionary upholding justice in the future but he came from the present and then TIME TRAVEL. or jack noir, who exists in every universe but sometimes the same one just goes universe hopping even though he already existed in that universe and then one of them ends that universe later just for the hell of it because there is a character who was introduced in an intermission named "snowman" and
seriously, i hate trying to explain the plot of homestuck to people because, while you CAN go "it is about four kids playing a game that's going to end and/or save the world" it's so, so easy to get caught up in all the other STUFF going on, and it is the best. simply the best there is.
... it's also way too easy to get caught up in homestuck-quoting and referencing, endlessly.
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And wtf wtf Snowman. How is she the exiled black queen but also the universe frog? Which universe is she? The one created in the session before the trolls? Are there more players?
he is the mayor and a revolutionary upholding justice in the future but he came from the present and then TIME TRAVEL.
Also, how MUCH time travel? I mean years in the future but not many etc meme on you crazy diamond, but when did the exiles actually arrive? Fandom seems to believe they were there for years before they met up, maybe because they rode in on the end-of-the-world meteors? But that initial "records a stuttering step in the sun-bleached dust" kind of suggests first steps. So I am every kind of confused!
and it is the best. simply the best there is.
argh. yes. yes it is.
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....I just finished catching up to the latest posts this evening. Dang that is a long series, my god. I dove into a few of your recs and that lasagna one was spot-on perfect~~
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Also, I am every kind of delighted, oh man ♥
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There are more recs here and here, if you like! The ones I included in this post were just the ones that weren't too spoilery, so ... yes! Many many more excellently spoilery things about quadrants and plot twists and such over at pinboard ♥
I'm still working out the fandom, but yeah, it does seem to be very tumblr-centric, and fic is mostly posted to AO3. But there's a very active kink meme here on LJ! And there are a few other LJ comms, if you search by interest; I won't link because I haven't spent enough time yet looking around them to have opinions *g*
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I came here for some bandom re-reading and instead found this and just... YES! Yes to absolutely everything in here! Next time I need to explain Homestuck to someone I will be liberally copy-and-pasting from this post, because once HS reached a certain level of complexity I lost the ability to even try to explain it ('they play this video game and then things get epic..?') but you have perfectly captured its weirdwonderfulness!
Now I must go read a billion words of the fic that you recced! Thank you for making my evening!
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Also, 'they play this video game and then things get epic' is probably the best description you could hope for, really!
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