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Chattering about Homestuck

@blaperile / blaperile.tumblr.com

Hi, I'm Blaperile, or Blap for short. I've been a great fan of Homestuck since December 2010. On this blog you can find a lot of update reactions, theories on things, and also me talking about other MSPA-related stuff.
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Homestuck: Beyond Canon (reactions pages 408 - 475)

Alright, we've read the latest 2 updates .

I mentioned last time that I wasn't really sure whether I would feel "ready" to be typing any update reactions again, like I used to do.

Well, there is actually a few things running through my mind right now I want to write down already!

So without further ado, I suggest I just get to "the point" :B

#Homestuck#Homestuck: Beyond Canon#Homestuck^2#update reaction#Sollux Captor#Jane Crocker
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Hi all,

I suppose I owe you all this post after my absence the past years.

Like I mentioned at the time, when Homestuck^2 went into its indefinite pause, I got upset. Upset due to the reasoning behind the pause. Specifically due to how the creative team felt they were being treated by the fandom.

And it kind of reflected my own feelings on the topic. I've been a Homestuck fan since December 2010 and was greatly involved at the time with the MSPA Forums and a bunch of creative projects. But over time I noticed the fandom becoming more bitter. Where previously I mostly saw positive emotions and reactions to updates, I started seeing more and more negative things. ESPECIALLY since John's retcon powers were introduced.

And of course anyone is free to share their own opinion on matters! It's just, I could personally never comprehend it.

For me personally, entertainment has never been linked to any negative emotions or opinions. To me, entertainment is the very definition of positive emotions, and if there's anything bringing up negative emotions for me, I can no longer call it entertainment and would never continue doing it for fun.

And over time, I kept being confronted with more and more negative opinions on Homestuck, and it began souring the experience for me.

I sincerely hoped the end of Homestuck would bring everyone together, so I created the Omegaupdate forums to try and bring everyone together.

But I failed.

There were still so many negative emotions, and it never really stopped. I tried 'ignoring' the negative things and continue to enjoying the postive things.

But when the negative part of the fandom caused Homestuck^2 to be paused indefinitely, something snapped inside me. One of the things I loved most in this world, was forcibly taken away from me by 'fans' acting horribly.

And I was sad. Sad because deep inside me, I feared Homestuck^2 might never be finished properly.

From that moment onwards, almost anything related to Homestuck made me feel sad. So I couldn't bear it any longer. I stopped doing my Dutch translation of Homestuck, I stopped doing the Omegaupdate forums, I stopped doing Homestuck From The Perspective of, I stopped listening to Homestuck music.

I moved on, at that moment. And for a part, it's been a blessing. I had so much time for other interests, like Pokémon, Disney and Marvel. Me and my brother looked into moving out of our parents home, and we did.

As time went on, I could slowly allow myself to feel nostalgic again about the good old times of Homestuck. Especially in terms of music, I started listening again and slowly I could enjoy it again.

But still, I couldn't think about Homestuck too much, or I would feel sad again.

Fast forward to 12 days ago. On the 19th of October, I got an email from Patreon (just to be sure, I never cancelled my Patreon subscription even though it wasn't charing anything anymore).

I was surprised to see a post by James Roach, and I was so surprised!

Surprised to see that Homestuck^2 was starting up again, and posting new updates!!

I hadn't dared dream this day would come, where Homestuck^2 would return. But there it was anyway.

It made me feel so happy, and I could finally allow myself to start actively thinking about Homestuck^2 again.

So, the past 12 days me and my brother have been rereading the Homestuck Epilogues recap, as well as the 407 pages of Homestuck^2 (AND the bonus stories!) that had already been published before.

To get back in "the flow", to remember what came before, and prepare ourselves for the new updates.

Now I've caught up again to that point, and my brother's almost there as well. Once he's also reached that point, we'll start reading the regular updates again.

I'm not sure yet what will come after that, for me. But I don't think things are ever going back to the way they used to be.

At this moment, I don't see myself going back to any forums, or active community. I don't see myself continuing the Dutch translation.

I'm not even 100% sure if I will still be making reaction posts to the updates.

Anything I do, for now, will be what feels good to me. We'll see as we go what exactly that is.

Right now, I think it's pretty likely that I will continue doing the tally for "Homestuck From The Perspective of". I still love seeing that overview, myself.

Anyway, thanks for reading this, and take care.

#Homestuck#Homestuck^2#MSPA#Omegaupdate
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Ugh - looks like my Tumblr got hacked.

Please ignore the Ray-Ban advertisements you were tagged in. I’ve deleted the posts and changed my password.

Sorry for the inconvenience. :/

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The people have spoken, “Someone from the R3UN1ON timeline” has come out as the winning suggestion!

Seeing as the suggestion doesn’t specify a specific character, this leaves the R3UN1ON versions of John, Rose, Dave, Terezi, WV, Karkat and Kanaya as possibilities for me to choose from (as they’re the only characters we saw in that timeline).

I’ve decided to pick R3UN1ON John.

My reasoning for this is that I’ve already done 1 version of all the other possible characters (Game Over Rose, Davesprite, No Place Like Home Terezi, Post-Retcon WV, Game Over Karkat, and Meat Kanaya respectively), so why shouldn’t I go ahead and do a version of John this time! :)

I’m excited to finally tackle (a version of) the biggest main character of all.

Feel free to make a suggestion which character I should do next after I’m finished with R3UN1ON John (no need to create an account, you can vote on an existing suggestion or submit a new one with the + button at the bottom).

Alternatively, have a look at the 23 characters I’ve already finished so far.

(See here for more info on this initiative and an overview of the actual/estimated pagecounts for all 271 characters in the Homestuck multiverse)

#Homestuck#HFTPO#John Egbert
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Be Game Over Jake English.

What does Homestuck look like from the perspective of Game Over Jake English?

As it turns out, it looks like this!

It’s 557 pages long (556 if you don’t count the last page), and in these pages I try to portray as faithfully as I can what the Homestuck multiverse looks like from Jake’s perspective.

And with Homestuck multiverse, I mean all of Homestuck, the Paradox Space comics written by Andrew Hussie, the snaps, the Homestuck Epilogues, and Homestuck^2 (main and bonus stories, what has been published so far).

For more info about this initiative, please check this post!

In any case, I hope you enjoy and will also check out Homestuck from the perspective of other characters!

So far I have done a total of 22 other characters that you can check out already or you can make a suggestion which one you’d like to see next (no need to create an account to make a suggestion, you can do it fully anonymous if you want by submitting a new idea with the + button or voting on an existing suggestion)!

4 pre-retcon Human Kids: Rose, Davesprite, Jane, and Dirk.

1 post-retcon Human Kid: Meat Jade

1 Guardian: Grandpa

7 pre-retcon A2 Trolls: Aradia, Tavros, Karkat, Terezi, Vriska, Gamzee and Eridan.

2 post-retcon A2 Trolls: Meat Kanaya and Nepeta.

1 Ancestor: Pre-retcon Condesce

2 Dersites: Pre-retcon Sovereign Slayer, and post-retcon WV.

1 Cherub: Caliborn.

2 A1 Trolls: Mituna, and Aranea.

1 Animal: Serenity

#Homestuck#HFTPO#Jake English
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Homestuck^2 - Bonus Story - Diamonds, Dames & Dads (Part 4) - Reaction

Alrighty, time for Diamonds, Dames & Dads Part 4.

I find it interesting how now the past months we've just been alternating between this story and The Influencers. Seems like they truly are the "main" bonus stories for Meat and Candy respectively, hehe.

I guess there's also Catnapped which can still continue, but it wouldn't surprise me if they're first waiting for Diamonds, Dames & Dads to catch up in chronology before continuing there.

So now this has become the first story to get 4 parts!

I wonder what's going to happen now.

Dad took Slick out so they could escape. The question is, are Dad and DD still handcuffed to each other? Like they were when we saw them in Catnapped?

If so, it wouldn't surprise me if at the end of this part the chronology catches up and they find the bar with Jasprosesprite^2.

Let's find out.

#Homestuck#Homestuck^2#update#upd8#reaction#Diamonds Dames & Dads#Dad Crocker#DD#SS#Snowman
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