Homestuck

What was the fucking point of this character?

>look how subversive I am for bullying the cripple and then have him get killed off when he stands for himself

It aint easy being tavros

RAPE IS BRILLIANT

The only good thing about Homestuck is that it gave Toby Fox enough of a name for Undertale to get funded.

He was meant to show us the tragic duality between love and hate.

Tavros loves Vriska, but Vriska hates Tavros (remember that "hate" in troll society is basically a sort of anti-love)

And when Vriska wanted Tavros to kill her (essentially the hate equivalent of having your virginity taken), he couldn't do it.

>He was meant to show us the tragic duality between love and hate
What the fuck am I reading?

Since Andrew is a moron who can't even handle his merch well lets appreciate some of the designs that didn't win the contest over this...

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what if he did but the what pumpkin team didn't

"sorry andrew the fans want gay wigglers"
"Unplug my life support. Let me finally die."

5/5.
Also fuck the code monkeys who worked on WLF's layout, crhome crashed every 30 seconds.

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Still his fault.

>top left: I am a davekat fucktard and a cuck
>top middle: no one will get this character except for young girls and I will get arrested for pedophilia
>top right: girl shirt, turn-off if you know the girl is homestuck trash and fucking loves the trolls (translation: she will cheat on you and tell you she is bi and trans)
>bottom left: girl shirt
>bottom middle: meh
>bottom right: alright, but >graphic tees

>okay graphic tee, medium powerlevel reveal

>who would fucking wear that shit outside, otherwise comfy graphic tee to sleep with at home

>see above

>subtle powerlevel reveal, but ugly graphic tee

>same as above

>who would fucking wear that shit outside
The same who would get a gamebro tshirt, and thats considering even toby has one.

"kiss the girl" was one of the saddest moments in the whole series for me.

Certainly hope you were sad for Tavros, not Vriska.

>And when Vriska wanted Tavros to kill her (essentially the hate equivalent of having your virginity taken)

Kismesis are strictly forbidden from killing each other. It's considered a shitty relationship if they do that. Both love and hate relationships are supposed to end in sloppy make outs. RTFC.

>new Gamebro shirts never ever
>instead we got more ugly shirts

I would unironically wear these.

subtle enough to wear in public, and simplistic.

Well, Vriska is sort of the mascot for sexual misconduct, between mind-raping Tavros and later dating someone who was way, way WAY too old for her and who ought to have had better sense than to get mixed up with that sort of crazy from someone that young.

I was sad for both.

This is a nice idea but it would probably look way better without the hard rectangle border

>Karkat's birthday or something happened, let me check the new influx of a-
>Davekat
>Dave being in the middle of every Karkat drawing
>slowly realize that Karkat truly died in Game Over

>mass shooting on 6/12

karkat needs a new birthday

I recommend 6/23. It's a real special date, you know.

It's kind of fitting for a Blood player's birthday to be the date of some major bloodshed.

I would have been fine had there not been an ending at all.

Reading this felt like eating a bowl of ice cream and finding out someone took a shit in it.

I hope this one ends up getting a commendation from WP or Hussie, because I'm actually annoyed this one didn't win over that fucking wriggler shirt. Do people even care about wrigglers other than 14 year old girls?

Saying that, I'm actually tempted by the Roxy shirt. That one's pretty cute and I really like the contrast of the pink. Shame getting anything from WLF costs an arm and a leg with international shipping.

Jesus, man, hard to please or what? I mostly agree with you on the winning designs (most of them are so bland, jeez), but you need to stop worrying about showing your power level. Homestuck ain't that mainstream outside of conventions anyway; if you wore any of these shirts pretty much no-one would know what the hell it is, so your power level would be pretty well concealed by the fact that no-one IRL gives a flying monkeys about Homestuck. I have a pretty conspicuous shirt with Nepeta on it that I got printed custom and no-one gives a shit, nor has anyone called out my HS ass. This ain't 2012.

Talking about that, there's no rules about non-commercial use of making your own design and printing it on a personal shirt, so you could actually design something you actually like and draw it/commission an artist and let WLF cry itself to sleep. It's actually pretty satisfying to have a custom shirt, and it means you don't have to fight with the shitty coding on the WLF site.

FUCK, I WANT THIS ONE

they're fucking dead, anything goes

this works better as a poster

>fitting
you mean ironic

>in an alternate timeline
>Meenkat happened and we would have laughed at Karkat looking like a shit punk

WHEN DID EVERYTHING GO SO FUCKING WRONG

Karkat feels like the male version of a female character who starts off fun and interesting with a story and arc of her own and then becomes a bland romantic prop for the main character when the creator decides to ship them. Being gay doesn't make this trope any less disappointing or shitty to people who were fans of the character that became a cardboard cutout. We see Dave talking about his newfound emotional openness and revelations about his sexuality, but we know jack shit about what the relationship did for Karkat, and given how depressed he sounded post-retcon it doesn't seem to have done much for him at all. But I guess since most people who like it project onto Dave and he did actually get development out of it, they're fine with Karkat becoming a cute useless husbando who only exists to support Dave's character development.

I mean fitting. Blood aspect. Bloodshed. Warrior spirit.

Come on man. Get it. Just get it.

excuse you

You just described Kanaya and Rose fans as well. Both got shit on hard when they hooked up.

Why is she so much better than her mother-daughter?

I actually find her mother-daughter quite likeable and attractive. But the fact still remains that Roxy is tied with Aradia in the best girl status

BTW, sword to the ass? Kinky

Project onto Karkat, you mean. Everyone wants coolkid cock.

Rosemary is x2 prop COMBOB

A side character played for laughs mostly, but also not a very good person. Most people mistake weakness for humility, so they don't appreciate that he actually had a complete arc where his selfish nature was exacerbated and made more bombastic while he tried to be what he thought was important, he suffered for it, then eventually redeemed himself with a very humble action more in line with who he actually is.

I don't even get Rose's arc

So she refused to play game, then became a useless drunk?

Why should I like such a character, again?

Like if she refused to play game and unlocked a special insight that allowed her to "transcend" the game like a sequence breaker I'd get it, but she basically rebels pointlessly

The problem with wearing blatantly Homestuck shirts isn't that people will think "Ooh, he's a Homestuck fan", but that people will think "Who the hell is this weird grey guy and why does he have candy corn on his head".

Here's a good Karkat pic fresh from yesterday.

People don't have arcs.

You guys remember when Karkat said he was gonna give Terezi an anal?

PAST carcinoGeneticist 7 [PCG7] 2 MINUTES AGO responded to memo.
PCG7: HEY TEREZI I'M ABOUT TO MAKE THIS AWESOME SPEECH AND INSPIRE THE FUCK OUT OF YOU GUYS.
PCG7: WHEN I'M DONE I'M COMING OVER TO YOUR STATION AND THEN YOUR ASS IS MINE.
PCG7: ENJOY THIS GARBAGE DUMP OF A MEMO WHILE IT LASTS.
CGC: BL444444R >XO

Plus it seems that SBURB was just trying to help and would gladly change the quests so the players could beat Lord English (Yaldabaoth created the treasure juju).

Why did Lord English even lose anyway? He had the power to bend the timeline to his will until suddenly he didn't.

Shut the fuck up Hussie you hack

it dont matter

none of this matters

Can we calm down about Hussie's shitty dialogue for a moment and reflect on the fact that he doesn't believe arcs exist in real life? Your time spent in school is apparently not an arc. Falling in love is apparently not an arc. Discovering a new hobby is apparently not an arc. Holding a job is apparently not an arc. Hussie thinks that arcs exist only in strict literary terms and are not naturally divided up in the minds of people who live them.

Nice try, IPGD!

What the fuck does grey skin paint and fake horns have to do with shirts? We're talking about shirts, not cosplayers

What was the point of having 12 trolls if only two of them were of importance?

Good one, Hussie. People who don't work on webcomics literal years at a time have arcs.

Claiming that people dont have arcs isnt the same as denying that we don't grow and change through different phases.

>he will never strangulate Vriska
>he will never get a good character arc
>he will never leave Dave's shadow

I feel sorry for Tavros 2.0

Are... are you greying up to go with your HS merch shirts? Are you alright?

Being serious, if that's your issue you have your pick of kid shirts as well. There's enough pop-culture imbedded in normie society now that a shirt with a cartoon character that's a grey horned alien isn't gonna get that much attention. They're just gonna think 'oh is that some new thing that the nerds are into these days'. You're seriously overestimating how people are gonna react to a shirt. The only people that are gonna recognise the shirts are internet gremlins and the only ones out of that demographic that are likely to give you grief about your HS powerlevel will be the ones that are 'over' HS and think they are holier than thou or people who still think we're in the grey con crisis of 2011-2012 and think Homestuck is full of people that stick themselves in sharpie baths and bucket spit.

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He meant pics of trolls on shirts I think

lol zodiac

>Why did Lord English even lose anyway? He had the power to bend the timeline to his will until suddenly he didn't.

Despite being a "Lord of Time" English didn't do anything with his time powers. He just shot lasers.

*time* lasers

lord english lost because the kids left the universe
they just left the game
he has infinite time power in the game, but he's trapped

why did they leave a bunch of people behind? they're pricks, that's why

I know.

lord english literally created and is time, in every universe except C. he is the demiurge. time prgressing in any way, for anyone, is lord english using 'time powers'

Did it even matter if LE was defeated then? He's left behind in an empty universe either way.

exactly
it doesn't matter at all
hell, he probably WASN'T defeated
everyone in the last universe is probably dead, double-dead, triple-dead, whatever
and LE is floating alone in an empty universe
a lord of time with infinite power and nothing to stop him
just like he wanted

LE won

in my mind it's like turning off Legend of Zelda and never playing again
if you think about it, that means Ganon wins and all hope is lost. but what do you care? you're outside playing soccer with your friends

But didn't the kids come out of the juju and off him? Why wouldn't've he died?

We'll see what the epilogue's like anyway. There's no way it could make things worse.

Tavros didn't fucking love Vriska and you didn't fucking read homestuck, I'm a little jealous.

We saw a white flash. I'm not sure if this was a blast attack or it represents the kids entering a battle with him.

Did it matter if Dave actually had Caledflwch? It seemed that a couple of regular players could stunlock and knock around English pretty easily.

this is all lovely, but it cant be fully true because we know the juju had the kids in ready to come out and fight after the comic ends. so you might have turned the console off but the game was actually being delivered from a remote server and while youre playing soccer, future versions of you and your buds are fighting him inside the server itself. and knocking him into the arm thats currently wiping the disk. and also once your soccer game is done, youre gonna time travel into the server to create him in the first place and get sealed in it to write the game as new. man this analogy is falling apart a little

I hope we do get the epilogue, and deleting the part where he said he'd make one from the newspost was just a mistake

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God, I wish that Homestuck would die a graceful death as a franchise instead of getting twenty crappy games and whatever the fuck Homestuck 2.0 was. I would love a new adventure with a similar scope and format as Homestuck but with completely different characters, a completely different setting, and much better writing (i.e. Acts 1-5 writing).

And I know that by having these threads we're doing the opposite, but I find discussing it and making fan content fun -- we're not drawing out the life of the comic, but the life of the community.

>people think tavros/vriska could have been a healthy ship in canon
reeee

the life of the community will live on a long time
but it's important to the community that we get closure
sotting around waiting for more homestuck turns the fandom into a zombie

evverybody
get me pictures
pictures of eridan

>dave's cute, cute southern accent

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dave is only ironically texan

his accent is canon

bullshit
show me proof

>bitch doesn't remember all the times dave said 'yall' in spoken logs

A victim of an author changing his min several times

okay but y'all is a genuinely useful contraction
you don't have to be texan to appreciate that

What if Dave actually lived with Bro in Anchorage?

He'd probably bitch about the heat in LOHAC

The shitty thing is that English actually had second-person singular and plural pronouns relatively recently (ye/you was plural, thou/thee was singular) but then "you" because used as a formal form of address and now we're stuck in the shitty situation that we're in now. Y'all is a good fix for that.

Can we all agree what fucked up Karkat was the retcons? Cause even after that mess of 3 years in a meteor, Karkat was badass enough to surpass' Kanaya's speed and face an insane clown (which caused the most damage to the Black King).

In retcon route, Karkat becomes a crybaby and break into tears when facing Clove. CLOVE. Sure, he is the luckiest guy which even point blank shots can't kill, but C'MON! Karkat starts crying???

What if Dave and Bro lived in Melbourne

Saigon

Tokyo

New York

Rio

>tfw karkat turned into a useless weenie because terezi got john to convince her she didn't need karkat and therefore probably crushed him much earlier than the GO timeline

Karkat was always a crybaby, outpacing Kanaya 'the Hedgehog' Maryam was fucking stupid

MY 8ULGE HUNGERS

Why couldn't Davekat have been executed in a way that didn't destroy Karkat? I know it's trying to be subversive just like everything else in this goddamn comic but come on, I would've liked to have seen Karkat be relevant.

>Rio
good i want them to suffer listening to funk like i have to do every fucking day because i live near a slum

in fact he's def the generic white kid living in a slum