Waddaya Mean This Didn't Happen Too

Not to be controversial, but I do think it's quite silly to knock on Homestuck: Beyond Canon for having references to internet memes in it, saying that this will "inevitably date it", and calling that an inherently bad thing. I understand if that's just not your personal taste, modern pop culture/online culture references is definitely something that will turn a lot of people off, but... Homestuck itself was filled to the brim with those same kinds of references. It's truly just keeping in the spirit of the original work, people only find it jarring now because they aren't experiencing it in a state of being a beloved time capsule.

Homestuck, as a piece of fiction, is fundamentally extremely derivative, referential, and reactionary, completely chock full of inside jokes and references to at-the-time modern media and memes. The level in which HS2 is engaging with current memes and media is honestly substantially lighter than Homestuck itself was. During early Homestuck in particular, it's difficult to go even one page without some kind of reference being present in it, especially considering a major point of the setting design and character writing is their relationship to other media. The posters on their walls, the games they play, the fact that Dave is living in a Saw trap, et cetera.

I find this train of criticism to be particularly fascinating, as to me it shows that, in some way, it doesn't really feel like a lot of people ever look at Homestuck as something that was ever new. The time period it was made in is almost never taken into consideration when analyzing the work. Homestuck never was, it just is. HS2 has current-day meme references because it is a current-day Homestuck story. This is exactly how things should be. This is just how Homestuck is.

april showers

another one of those

you; have to understand that everyone in homestuck is a girl and everyone in homestucj is a boy. Adn also eceryone in homestuck is mnot a girl and also everyone in himestuck is not a boy and everyone is nonbinary also. you Understand. rebnlog

IM LATE,,,, BIRTHDAY TIMe!!!1!!1!

Idea: Jane wants to make everyone a bday cake because she can and would like to (this is a good timeline), but realizes it is A LOT for three birthdays coming up one after another (six technically, but yknow). So she enlists John (cuz he knows how to bake, much to his behest) who doesn't want to do that at all, but complies because it's for the bdays.

Also Dirk doesn't want to wear a party hat cuz it fucks up his hair; thus a scheme occurs: Roxy and Dave distact so Jake can commit the felony. Rose is amused. Jade stacks party hats on Dave's head in glee.

Conclusion: I wanted to make birthday fanart for the gang, but it spiraled oops. So I'm posting the lineart/sketch so there's something near the dates this year— I'll color it in with more time because I ended up liking it so much he he.

and all hope may die, but it lives on inside of me

the mind’s light and the light’s mind

Loved Janes character arc

hi it's me again!! (elusive from homestuck daily)

just sending you another ask to follow up on my previous one! did you saw it? :o thanks again! -elusive

yeah man! I thought I answered it idk, it’s on my blog. It’s all okie dokie though, you can use my art! :B

some egbert logs from @workdailylog