rhythmic-idealist:

commanderfraya:

wizardshark:

commanderfraya:

i hate that i can unironically say “has some of the most psychologically complex and compelling characters i’ve seen in any media ever” about a comic that includes the line “bleat like a goat and piss on your turntable”

#homestuck is the modern equivalent to shakespear#incredibly compelling and layered#and chock full of dumb ass humour

I HATE THAT “HOMESTUCK IS THE MODERN EQUIVALENT TO SHAKESPEARE” HAS UNIRONIC TEXTUAL EVIDENCE

Homestuck contains:

1. a scene in which a child slave, raised to be a time-traveling instrument of death, whose duty it is to shape the course of the universe, stabs her abusive custodian in the head. it is not successful. she loses, for a few seconds, the right to breathe. we go from this scene to onscreen suicide attempt.
2. an NPC who becomes conscious of the fact that she is an NPC, decides it is her destiny to be the very best NPC there has ever been, and then finds no Chosen One to her liking and so fine, if you want something done right, you just need to do it yourself.
   (this remains the most interesting use of genre-savviness I have ever seen.)
3. two different versions of a young teenage boy, and their distinct reactions to the death of their abusive and neglectful guardian. one of these boys grows up to grow past the things he’s been fed about masculinity, figure out that he is both allowed love and allowed to love boys, and come to understand his PTSD. the other grows distant and acts like kind of a jerk, who is pretty sure his friends can never like get close to him now because sometimes he acts like a jerk.
4. a girl who has cycled through an unreasonable number of existences, who has been an emotionless ghost, and then a game construct, and then a robot designed and programmed by a boy who wanted her to want him and who built her this body with ulterior motives – who, before this, was being raised very likely to be a slave – who finally wakes up back inside a body that is hers and has not stopped smiling since
5. a guy who time travels inside an oven at a speed of one second per second
6. a really cool wolf head because there was one in The Neverending Story and huss thought that was pretty nifty
7. penis ouija