Comments | sentientcitizen: I guess this is now the ALL HOMESTUCK, ALL THE TIME channel?

sentientcitizen

I guess this is now the ALL HOMESTUCK, ALL THE TIME channel?

Aug 26, 2011 09:36

I think I'm finally starting to get a feel for Homestuck fandom. Sorta ish kinda? At the very least, I'm starting to get a feel for my prefered ships - which is far more complicated than usual, and less a matter of names than the symbol between them! Off the top of my head, I ship Terezi <3< Vriska, Vriska <> John, John <3 Karkat, Karkat <> Kanya, ( Read more... )

fandom: homestuck, rants and rambles

Comments 5

shayera August 26 2011, 16:53:55 UTC

I love the quadrants so much. Partly because I totally have moirallegiance ships (people I see as keeping each other sane and safe and loving each other very much, but not in a sexual way) and kismesis ships (foe yay! In a non-shmoopy way) in other fandoms , and I finally have names for them.

And in Homestuck, the quadrants mean that it's easier for me to get into ships than usual, because pairings don't always have to be <3. I absolutely love it.

Although I'm not sure if Grimdark!Rose and Rainbow-Drinker!Kanyawould hold each other back or just egg each other on?

There was one fic I read somewhere that was Kanaya <3 Rose and Kanaya <> Karkat, and it had Kanaya thinking that while she loved Rose very much, she would never ever consider her as moirail, pretty much for that reason. XD

although this then begs the question of why their species even has binary gender distinctionsThis is a very very good question. My headcanon rules that all trolls have identical sexual organs, and gender is some kind of remnant of some older cultural ( ... )

sentientcitizen August 26 2011, 17:54:32 UTC

I have moirallegiance ships in other canons, but normally I just articulate them as asexual romance. (Sherlock Holmes/John Watson being the quintessential one.) I've never been very good at Foe Yay, though. I just want everyone to be in love! And happy! I have a tendancy to ship based on emotional connection with fairly little regard for sexual chemistry, which makes the hatesex potential harder to spot. Usually the best I can manage is, like... snarksex? Is that a thing? *laughs* Even in Homestuck I have trouble spotting it unless it gets spelled out for me, and even then I don't always buy it. My only real kismesis ships are Terezi <3< Vriska and Feferi <3< Eriden.

There was one fic I read somewhere that was Kanaya <3 Rose and Kanaya <> Karkat, and it had Kanaya thinking that while she loved Rose very much, she would never ever consider her as moirail, pretty much for that reason. XDIs it too much to hope that you have a link? I'm definitly on the lookout for recs. I'm still up to my eyeballs in the giant chaos that's Homestuck ( ... )

shayera August 27 2011, 02:17:36 UTC

Yeah, Sherlock <> John is totally an OTP of mine. ^_^ (The practical thing about phrasing it as moirallegiance is that there is no obstacle to John having a matesprit, too. If he wants to. And that wouldn't lessen the bond between him and Sherlock at all.)

I don't know about sexual chemistry - to be honest, I'm really bad at spotting UST - but I really like the chemistry that happens between archenemies who obsess about each other. Being each other's Most Important Enemy, so to speak. To use Sherlock again, that would be Sherlock <3< Moriarty. Or, say, Doctor <3< Master. I really don't like seeing that obsession turn into love, but I like it acknowledged that it is a very strong emotional connection, and the concept of kismesis fits so well, even though the sex part is hit-or-miss with me.

Is it too much to hope that you have a link?

Sadly, no. It wasn't a fic that I favorited, and I can't remember the title. Sorry. ^^; There is, indeed, a lot of fic out there ( ... )

sentientcitizen August 27 2011, 13:11:29 UTC

The practical thing about phrasing it as moirallegiance is that there is no obstacle to John having a matesprit, too. If he wants to. And that wouldn't lessen the bond between him and Sherlock at all.

Yes! See this is precisly the kind of problem that normally requires a threesome to solve, but the quadrants are so much more tidy. Have you read - ah, crud, where's that link... right, Indecorous? In the author's own words: "In which John learns to balance a kinky girlfriend, an asexual boyfriend, a ten-inch cock, his sister, the neighbours, his friends, and his blog. Some are more balanced than others." It's ace!Sherlock/John/Mary in a stable poly triad, basically. I adore it, but I'd also lovelovelove to read something like that re-imagined as Sherlock <> John <3 Mary!

Aahaha yes, okay, Doctor <3< Master; when you put it that way, suddenly kismesis makes more sense! Although seen through the light of quadrants, suddenly the dynamic in "Last of the Timelords" is completly different and yet somehow much more logical. And also now all ( ... )

Thread 5