I have to say, as weird as this last week or so has been, I still prefer it to all that romantic mess earlier. Understanding nothing feels a lot more Homestuckish, and romantic messes, well, they remind me of nothing pleasant.
So, I think Gamzee knows exactly what's happening here, and why Caliborn's enamored with it. His reaction's more "oh, no, this again" than "I don't know what's going on."
That's right, canonically giving one of your characters a race after a super goofy power-up is racism.
Good job, you figured it out. What a sleuth you are. If only someone had figured this out years ago we wouldn't have such an economic gap between different races in the world.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Man, it's times like this I'm so glad to have you guys here and know I can discuss the goings on without people flipping tables and generally saying completely moronic things.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Someone's reblog that showed up on my dash was of someone saying that Hussie has basically just let down all POC.
I just...
Is this NEWS to people that Hussie trolls his audience? I mean, you'd at least think people would have figured it out by the time Cronus and Kankri showed up.
To all you people saying that Hussie is racist for making Trickster!Jane Caucasian:
It would have been impossible for Hussie to have made her black because there would have been a copyright dispute for displaying the likeness of Nicki Minaj.
EB: look, you're going to have to face it at some point... EB: that you're learning the meaning of this human emotion called caucasian. CG: IS CAUCASIAN REALLY AN EMOTION? EB: yes, absolutely.
You settle the dispute in the only way you can presently imagine how to settle a dispute. With cans of lukewarm sugary liquid and centuries-old rations. If only you had access to some means of heating things up. But it matters not. You warm yourselves in the glow of this human emotion called caucasian.
CG: IT'S REALLY WEIRD. CG: THIS HUMAN EMOTION YOU CALL CAUCASIAN. EB: caucasian isn't an emotion. CG: SEE, THAT IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
This is my coping mechanism.
And I think that some of the people complaining about this are correct. Some of them. Despite everything he said about everybody being aracial, Hussie doesn't really go out of his way to erase...racial markers, I suppose. He does very well when it comes to representing non-hetero relationships, but he tends to do a poor job with making non-white references to race.
Take this recent joke and the internet riots it's currently causing. I am 100% sure that that joke wouldn't have been made if the fandom didn't complain about the tricksters and race, and I understand that this is Hussie's way of retaliation against the more rabid SJWs who were calling him a racist waste of life. That doesn't necessarily justify the joke. I'll admit, I found it funny at first, but I realized that this joke doesn't work on its own. I'd imagine that future readers of Homestuck will understand the dancestors' parodies of tumblr stereotypes long after making fun of tumblr becomes unpopular (whenever that happens), but they'd come to this joke and be dumbfounded because people stopped caring about this years ago from their perspective. "What does feeling caucasian even mean?", they'll ask themselves while driving in their future cars. Add the fact that this joke is a fair bit insensitive to people who wanted more araciality, and the whole thing comes off as a poorly-planned kneejerk reaction to all the haters.
I know, I know, it's the man's comic, he can do what he wants. I just feel that he shouldn't have gone and labeled everyone 'aracial' if he wasn't going to commit to it.
(tl;dr, I wish Hussie didn't make that joke. Caucasian is an emotion now. I apologize for wasting the two minutes it took you to read all that)
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Someone on tumblr pointed out that Jake probably went trickster after that kick to the crotch. If you look closely at the last panel, he seems to be glowing and his "noooooooooooo" turns to a "yessss" and is glowing.
At first I thought that was Jane talking at the end, but on further inspection, it looks like Jake's words are changing.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
So, I think Gamzee knows exactly what's happening here, and why Caliborn's enamored with it. His reaction's more "oh, no, this again" than "I don't know what's going on."
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
And the Squiddles are apparently Trickster Horrorterrors.
Yeah, the tumblr theorists are going insane right now.
My favorite theory is that Skipper Plumpthroat is Trickster!Lord English
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
大學的年同性戀毛皮
aaaaa
Poor tumblr.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
This confirmed for complete bullshit.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
duelgazer:
how can you not understand that he's taking the piss
i don't
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Is it weird that i'm actually kind of concerned for Jake here? i mean, that was an actual cliff...
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
And I think that some of the people complaining about this are correct. Some of them. Despite everything he said about everybody being aracial, Hussie doesn't really go out of his way to erase...racial markers, I suppose. He does very well when it comes to representing non-hetero relationships, but he tends to do a poor job with making non-white references to race.
Take this recent joke and the internet riots it's currently causing. I am 100% sure that that joke wouldn't have been made if the fandom didn't complain about the tricksters and race, and I understand that this is Hussie's way of retaliation against the more rabid SJWs who were calling him a racist waste of life. That doesn't necessarily justify the joke. I'll admit, I found it funny at first, but I realized that this joke doesn't work on its own. I'd imagine that future readers of Homestuck will understand the dancestors' parodies of tumblr stereotypes long after making fun of tumblr becomes unpopular (whenever that happens), but they'd come to this joke and be dumbfounded because people stopped caring about this years ago from their perspective. "What does feeling caucasian even mean?", they'll ask themselves while driving in their future cars. Add the fact that this joke is a fair bit insensitive to people who wanted more araciality, and the whole thing comes off as a poorly-planned kneejerk reaction to all the haters.
I know, I know, it's the man's comic, he can do what he wants. I just feel that he shouldn't have gone and labeled everyone 'aracial' if he wasn't going to commit to it.
(tl;dr, I wish Hussie didn't make that joke. Caucasian is an emotion now. I apologize for wasting the two minutes it took you to read all that)
大學的年同性戀毛皮
aaaaa
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis