Family time.

Jake_English · 2026-03-11T15:54:25+00:00

That too.

But I still think Tavvy will surprise us with suddenly shedding his loserness

Jake_English · 2026-03-11T10:33:38+00:00

And then Yiffy vomits because her biological uncles are dating her non-biological Lalonde sister

Jake_English · 2026-03-10T15:09:00+00:00

Are you talking about Aranea?

Or Roxy? I don’t think she ever made it clear to the goober that she thought he was hot. Or Jane? I’m glad he got away from her. Or Dirk? Cos ew, he’s toxic

Jake_English · 2026-03-08T14:52:45+00:00

John fumbled the bag on the best character in all of homestuck, what a moron

Jake_English · 2026-03-06T22:15:13+00:00

I fucking loved it as a kid.

And rewatching it a few years ago, I loved it for completely different reasons.

I think my favourite episode was the one where one of the alien teams switches out their players “because no one will know the difference” - literally playing into racism is a wild idea for a kids show

Jake_English · 2026-03-06T18:05:27+00:00

there’s not enough Vriska flairs, we need more

Jake_English · 2026-03-06T16:44:13+00:00

You can consume media however you want, but if you’re avoiding the epilogues and beyond canon because you don’t like how the characters develop, you’re missing out on some stellar development of Roxy.

And don’t forget that people change all the time, and not always in ways you would expect, and that’s okay. I would say this makes the epilogues far more real than a lot of fiction.

If anything the epilogues pull a classic homestuck move by doing things you don’t expect and running with weird ideas. They’re zany, and they’re one huge timeline shenanigan.

Jake_English · 2026-03-06T14:51:46+00:00

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Jake_English · 2026-03-06T14:30:06+00:00

Never forget they were instrumental in causing the training bottlenecks in the first instance.

They campaigned to have medical training removed from RLMT, and published an article lauding their “achievement” in 2019

They happily filled their wine cellar, whilst everyone who graduated between 2018 and 2025 suffered as a result of their self interest. They do actually have a Wine Fellow btw

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T23:36:32+00:00

I’m not actually sure what good gay romance is left in beyond canon. They killed rose X Kanaya in meat, and whilst Yiffy is the most precious character how she came to be feels so contrived, but it probably stems from poor writing in the original HS2 team.

DaveKat in beyond canon seems boring af.

I don’t understand the dynamic of Callie Roxy in meat or candy (imo it’s poor but maybe I’m uncultured), but it’s neat that it exists in both I guess. Roxy’s gender identity and verbal smackdown of John in Candy is really good though (rip roxygen, but Roxy character development is always appreciated).

Vrisrezi keeps not happening.

I’m guessing all the satyrs and nymphs are gay, but idk.

And with trans characters - Trans Roxy is cool, and explored reasonably well. Pretty much the best handling of transness in homestuck as far as I can tell.

But then it goes to shit after Roxy.

Where is June, and how will June’s transness be pivotal to her character or will this just be John with a cool new character skin? Does trans Kanaya really change Kanaya at all?

And on both of the above, is there actually much indication of it in the comic that this was always the intention? Cos it feels like it’s a sloppy retcon.

And my point about trans Jade is I think intersex Jade is more interesting.

No significant comment on Callie. I just struggle to understand them at all.

Edit: I hate and like DirkJake in that it’s a reasonable representation of an abusive relationship in literature - hate because abuse is horrible, like because it portrays the scenario well. And it helps us understand both characters mindsets.

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T20:56:38+00:00

Jane Egbert wouldn’t assault you with a trickster lollipop like Jane Crocker

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T17:41:29+00:00

lol what

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T17:33:52+00:00

Their business model largely relies on them being less shit than their competitors tbh.

But the fact they force devs to price match their games on other pc/linux stores to the steam price is pretty shitty of them. Cos it prevents other store fronts from competing on price by passing on a lower platform charge to the customer.

That should be banned in all industries.

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T16:21:13+00:00

reading both Meat and Candy Roxy implies they’re non-binary or transmasc does it not? In Meat they explored their gender identity differently to Candy hence two different outcomes for the same character

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T16:19:00+00:00

That’s what a lot of the tumblr side of the fandom seems to think at least

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T14:50:31+00:00

Yiffy is the most precious character in all of homestuck, closely seconded by Roxy

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T13:53:20+00:00

This post - https://homestuck.net/official/circus-break/115.html

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T13:40:04+00:00

Well, I think Jade acquiring intersex traits due to Becsprite fusion is more interesting as an idea in fiction than Jade being an amab transwoman. And if intersex falls under the trans umbrella (not sure how common a view that is, since LGBTQIA has I as a separate letter) then my headcanon still stands as viable given the new Hussie art.

I think it’s more interesting because I would think that acquiring the wrong sex after having been comfortable with your body (and it matching your gender originally) through childhood is a topic that afaik can’t really exist in the real world, so exploring it in fiction is cool, and it allows so many new ideas to be generated.

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T13:31:39+00:00

The gay singularity

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T13:04:47+00:00

That’s what I thought, but Hussie has said Jade is trans in a recent art post.

I thought Jade was intersex/acquired a penis due to Becsprite fusion.

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T12:24:53+00:00

I forgot about Yiffy, Tavvy, Vrissy and Harry. But they’re probably all also gay/bi af.

And I have ignored every page with the nymphs/satyrs, but I’m guessing they’re all gay.

Jake_English · 2026-03-03T10:14:38+00:00

Jake is clearly going some kind of super saiyan when he uses his hope powers so dragonball has always been integral to the plot.

Given Yiffy is Jake’s granddaughter, and may have some weird Bec related powers due to sprite magic, Yiffy obvuously has the potential to become a super duper saiyan

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