John has a hammer

>John has a hammer
>Karkat has a sickle
Is Homestuck communist propaganda?

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I want these threads to stop existing

of courshe

janitor please

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But thats just a theory

A game theory

me too actually, and I'm the OP. don't know what I was thinking. deleting in 5...

>You cannot delete a post this old
fuck

sage

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JohnxKarkat = Communism

JonnxKarkat = Gay...

Communism = Gay(?)...

Gay can mean happy...

Communism = Happiness(?)...

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Yes? No? Maybe?

ShotgunXYour Head = My Happiness

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Communism has nothing to do with happiness

Not till you shitheads explain yourself.

Hussie should have wrapped the story within 500 pages of Cascade.

>people who draw the characters as horrifying things actually DO have deformities in real life
Fucking hilarious

WHERE'S THE GAME, HUSSIE?

In Dave's butt,.

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Again?

Anyone managed to figure out the password for the Sburb Session Simulator yet? Only learned it existed in the last thread.
purplefrog.com/~jenny/SburbStory/index_pw.html

Found
>"Although if you REALLY want a hint, I can say that even *I* don't know the password. But I know how to have AuthorBot help me find it."
in hidden text on the FAQ.

Hint:
>"AB: Where is everything better than expected?"

Nothing in the source code for the page. Made some progress, but still too much of a brainlet to figure it out yet.

Can someone post Angels Jade with puppies picture? I can't find it. :(

Why do you need it

it's not an amazing prize or anything, don't worry

I'm assuming it's the ability to choose classpects and number of players, since I seen user do that in screencap last thread, and I couldn't figure out how.

It is used now as currency in my home country.

no, that's going to be a full feature in 3.0, but you can jury-rig something right now
make a session on 2.6 and hit "replay session (extremely fucking alpha)", there are guidelines in there for how to choose the number of players

>invest in davekats
>economy crashes
Serves Greece right.

t.hotpockets

Lol, mad.

Wow, look, it's a prehistoric ship.

I mean theoretically, if more people are using a currency in general (Davekat) then it'd have more value to the international market. This could however lead to inflation.

Investing in vanilla ships, while now a rarity to be seen in the international market, is a wise move because of the extensive and valuable federal reserve of them that discourages countries from mass-producing it (which is the case of many Davekat states.) Its finite nature however, can cause problems if there is a sudden loss of revenue through mismanagement and can quickly devolve into a massive economic crash.

Some states have attempted to produced mass produce vanilla ships which has lead to a massive decline in their perceived quality with Davejade being seen as some as something that became a "meme"

Davejade's production boom was only in response to tried and true previous practices. But then everyone started producing it. Plus you have violent Rosemary extremists firebombing people who try and pay with JohnRose.

I just like it because they're cute and had funny conversations.

Davejade's domino effect on the market is not justified by its originally benign intentions. Because of its seemingly reactionary origins, its growth was unprecedented and soon became the norm. When it became the standard, that let to a backlash of new reactionary movements focused on Rosemary and Roxycalliope among other counterfeit Davekats.

Hopefully, Davejade will loose its grip on the economy so that its violent opposition dissipate without a fight. It will then resume its role as an important resource to the smaller markets as a part of the vanilla system.

Davejade's value will simply have to deflate slowly and naturally. Any attempts to mix the market further will only lead to the complete division of economic infrastructure.

You are but a peasant.

>Rosemary
Rosemary's been totally deflated. People got so sick of it they've been pushing JadeRose hard.
It's kind of fucking weird.

Real talk: DaveJade took off because it was as canon as a non-rosemary ship can be, and you couldn't talk about JohnRose or other vanilla het ships anymore besides DaveJade without everyone bitching.
Though hopefully that's changed now that everyone acknowledges Rosemary is bad, and we can switch from talking about Dave filling jade's womb to John filling Rose's butt.

Rose is only fucking that John because he looks like a lesbian.

>JadeRose
>Literally talked like, twice.
I don't think this is an actual thing. I think it happened for a week or so but I really doubt it's some sort of consistent movement.

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It is very much a thing. As resident Jade waifufag and guy who forces himself to regularly browse all tags for art and porn of Homestuck, I can tell you it's taken over even before now, while Rosemary has really fallen. There's this weird mental dissonance where they're all like "Rose TOTALLY had a crush on Jade in the early acts".

Dum8 ship.

>while Rosemary has really fallen.
I know that but I still doubt Jaderose is actually anything significant.
>Jade waifufag
Ewwwwwwwwww....

Bitch please, at least I track down and post new art and archive the halfway decent nudestucks before they have regrets and nuke their blogs. What the fuck do you do?
But JadeRose has really taken over in significance. It's not big, because the fandom is totally dead right now, but it has dominated Jade's tag for quite a while (usually mixed in with something stupid like RosemaryJade in a threesome with Jade as a giant hairy man), and occupies a lot of Rose's tags.
Like I said, I monitor this shit and there's this weird movement to push it now. Before that it was Jaderezi. I'm not sure these people legitimately ship it or are just going with what was popular with a few godawful fanartists.

JohnRose is the ship of a man with no imagination

Why'd Rosemary fall so hard?

>. What the fuck do you do?
Wow, rude.
>but it has dominated Jade's tag for quite a while (usually mixed in with something stupid like RosemaryJade in a threesome with Jade as a giant hairy man), and occupies a lot of Rose's tags.
I mean, it's not like Rose or Jade are even popular characters on Tumblr or whatever but I guess this is just a gay as shit argument and I should take your word for it.
It lost the luster of being "gay representation" when it became a stable relationship where they did nothing instead of something hinted at that could get their yaoi dicks cumming.

Because it's boring as fuck. Actual boring. The kind that stagnates characters and humor, not the "boring" that tumblrs like to use to mean "it's not progressive enough" when they talk about oldfag ships. It is literally the first few results for "boring lesbians" on google. Nothing kills interest in something faster than apathy.

Eat my ass.

>But JadeRose has really taken over in significance. It's not big
Not to double-post but we literally didn't even disagree on anything.

To be fair, "boring lesbians" is a bit of a snarky nickname for it.

>I mean, it's not like Rose or Jade are even popular characters on Tumblr

They actually are to a fairly large extent. Their numbers are up there in terms of posts, though Dave and Karkat obviously dominate.

We're talking in relative terms. There's comparatively very little posts about Homestuck these days period, about 75% of everyone has died off or moved on to more relevant and less shit things, but for those two characters (who are popular both normally and these days) that ship has really suddenly cropped up. And it's annoying because it's almost all shit art that I have to trudge through.

And an apt description.

Alright.

Unfortunately. Though Kanaya was always trash.

Jade with DSL confuses me, because these threads have conditioned me to accept Rose as the one with DSL

She had a good relationship with characters like Karkat. The problem is she's a pure straight man, so she has to work with characters that are silly to be effective. Rose is another straight man, so it just cancels out.

>middle-aged man tries to write lesbians
>has no idea what to do with them because he seems them as alien and can't just write about them having sex
remember the mindfang journal he called "sexy lesbian fanservice"

Rose used to have a silly side. She still p reliably showed it around John.

Down syndrome lips?

>The problem is she's a pure straight man, so she has to work with characters that are silly to be effective. Rose is another straight man, so it just cancels out.
So that's why they only like women...

>remember the mindfang journal he called "sexy lesbian fanservice"
Also known as rape?

Rose was an interesting straight man though. Kanaya literally came off as autistic as times and was like the worst parts of Rose's writing x 10.

Yeah, and those were the best relationships where both characters could reliably play off their serious and funny sides (indeed the best characters had both of those sides), which Rosemary does not have.

Rose is an interesting straight man when she's against other silly characters. When they're both together it's like drinking a whole bottle of codeine. I never got why people claimed they were clever, there was none of Hussie's actual wit in their shit.

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Rose was interesting on her own and could be funny. Kanaya, in both her character and the way she was written, was completely reliant on other people to give her some sort of purpose (either by being "le straightman" or being informative to someone else.)

But she was gay!.

The best relationships were the one that had actual common interests, parallels, good conversations, and some level of actual subtlety.

Yeah, like Roxycalliope. :^)

Old joke.

For that to happen, Calliope would have to have anything.

RoxyCalliope > JohnRoxy

This is like a Mao Zedong > Hitler kind of thing right here.

She has an abundance of poor writing.

Hence why DaveJade and JohnRose are good. Also high fetish potential.

can you repeat the question?

DICK
SUCKING
LIPS.
Rose has the kind of face you want to shut up. Sexually.

Eeeeh. I like vanilla ships as much as the next guy but I don't think they're particularly complex or well-written, just sort of competent.
Mostly just talking about the "parallels" and subtlety thing, I dunno'.

That Jade picture was an example of down syndrome lips though.

All the beta kids had tons of parallels, but Dave and Jade and John Rose especially had tons of thematic parallels. And subtlety in this case was more the "show don't tell" rule. Davekat is shit because the entirety of it was other characters telling us they were good when we saw no evidence (similarly, Calliope's constant praise with no real reason to support this is why she's so shit). With ships like Dave and Jade they had all this little unstated shit that sold it much more. The beta kids in general had a lot of this, which helped them stay as the endearing group that actually felt like friends.

I feel like Hussie kept at least mental notes on how the kids talked and interacted with each other. It takes a few rereads but you start to pick up on the ways they react with each other (like the fact that someone pointed out that Dave never calls Jade by her last name, calls Rose by her last name but only occasionally, and never to her face and John a fair deal).

>All the beta kids had tons of parallels, but Dave and Jade and John Rose especially had tons of thematic parallels
I agree with the first part and the sentiment of the second but "a ton" feels like it's pushing it for me. There are the big defining themes between all of the friends and a couple in-between two of them individually that helped accentuate their arcs but nothing too complex.

And Devil's Advocate but Dave and Karkat had parallels too. :^)

I still can't believe that some user tattoed this pic in his arm

>parallels
Yeah, when connected to Terezi. Karkat was a bigger foil to John than he ever was to Dave.

Then again, he fucks up constantly with that kind of shit.

>Ignoring the fact that Karkat and Dave are the same basic character archetype just with a different kind of paint.

Yeah, later on, which is what a lot of people complain about. Post-retcon especially you can see it's like he completely forgot how to write Dave. He talked like a generic tumblr blogpost.

Because Cohen wrote the comic post-retcon. It's really evident.

Not really. "They're both secretly insecure" is not a character archetype.

What parallels? Insecure and being Knights?

>Post-retcon especially you can see it's like he completely forgot how to write Dave. He talked like a generic tumblr blogpost.
This is one of the worst fucking things that has happened in the comic and that description is 100% accurate.

But "Guarding your insecurities with a false persona" is.
You can even see that shit in Latula.

I don't want to say it's true, because Hussie spent a very long amount of time not writing and being immersed in those kinds of fuck-awful people. He's already impressionable and I can see that influencing his writing style. Even the newsposts have that attitude, mixed with a sort of "I don't fucking care let's just get this over with and go down the checklist" that seems like how Hussie would feel.

Cohen also wrote the last two newsposts, so

>But "Guarding your insecurities with a false persona" is.

That falls apart, because Karkat doesn't HAVE a false persona. He's angry and hostile, but even afterwards he's angry and hostile. What you see on the surface is still the same Karkat. Him caring about his friends and liking relationships isn't a hidden persona, because for one thing he doesn't particularly hide it. There's never any indication that Karkat is afraid people will find out about his "less masculine" interests or that he doesn't care about his friends, in fact he's proud of them. The thing Karkat is afraid of is that people will find out about his mutant blood color, because that would mean he would DIE. His insecurities stems from the fact that he's under the threat of horrible death. How is that a parallel to Dave?

Plus Dave's entire arc is him not wanting to be a hero and learning to leave his brother's shadow. Karkat CONSTANTLY wants to be in charge and prove himself.

Why give a shit? Hussie clearly doesn't and he is going to get his fucking fujo money. :^)

AND Dave is never insecure about his love interests. Karkat dances around his feelings for Terezi and won't even take up Meenah's offer, when does Dave ever get flustered or feel like his two inch penis will never compare to all the dog dildos Jade's taken?
Where are the parallels?