Homestuck.XYZ 2.0

Start with the Meat timeline. Don't address Candy at all, leave that to the fans. Make the primary form of interaction a forum that the Omega kids created in order to solve Dirk's version of Sburb. Assign a writer to each Omega kid and have them interact with fans in threads. Mix up direct replies w...

I am pretty sure the joke was him interrupting the shipping and knowing it would anger a few peeps doing so, basically interrupting the emotional moment to 'get things back on track'. And it seems to fit with dirk's behavior. Something i noticed in the epilogues where he was acting like a transphob...

I have to admit I'm a huge sap for romance. Properly executed you can practically feel the tension between the two characters ramping up and the release of that tension, positive or negative, is a beautiful thing. HS1 is rife with this. This was not a well executed romance. When Rose and Terezi star...

The bit on this page starting with "DIRK: Ever heard of the Watchmaker analogy?" on this page was frustrating to read. Obviously Rose would know about the watchmaker analogy. The incredibly shrewd and calculating know-it-all would know Rose knows the watchmaker analogy. The only purpose of putting a...

Volume 3 is a CYOA with 6,000 unique paths, generated by AI (specifically OpenAI's GPT-2).

The design of the kids is very good. But uhh, it seems like Vriska should probably have recognized that throwing a dead body in a river is easier than carrying it through a heavily populated school. Or that you could wait until school was over. The situation seems really contrived instead of being d...

Dirkcourse Hmm, I think what I find compelling about Dirk in the Epilogues (the direct claim on narrative authorship in service of his goal) is in direct conflict with what you find compelling about Dirk in HS. I don't disagree with your read on him from HS, I just find Epilogue Dirk vastly more in...

I...think you're kind of missing the point? The point is that Dirk making that decision is not something he would normally do. That belief is also not all that consistent with his characterization in the comic proper. Dirk 'having no qualms about doing what he knows will be read as terrible things'...

And note: this was written years before the epilogues were a thing. Isn't it hilarious how the epilogues DID just decide oh, whelp, guess Dirk's Ultimate Self *IS* just an inherently horrible, tainted, sinful and irredeemable piece of shit! He's a manipulative predator! WOW. THAT'S NOT KIND OF FUCK...

You can say that Dirk is kind of the author even if he was not involved with the comic before the author avatar dies or even before the Epilogues, because Andrew Hussie has admitted that the characters most like him are Dave and Dirk . Yeah, I think Dirk in the Epilogues acts as Hussie's avatar. Di...

Hello, I'm Rob. I started reading MSPA at Problem Sleuth, though I never interacted much with the community due to being a perennial lurker. By day I work on machine learning on embedded devices and at night I try to create artificial life. The Epilogues inspired me to write science fiction and I pl...

You can say that Dirk is kind of the author even if he was not involved with the comic before the author avatar dies or even before the Epilogues, because Andrew Hussie has admitted that the characters most like him are Dave and Dirk . Yeah, I think Dirk in the Epilogues acts as Hussie's avatar. Di...

I love Dirk in the Epilogues - not the choices the character makes, but what the character represents. Dirk is the literal author for (most of) Meat and we're being given a look into what it means to be Hussie* (or an author at all). Take the Dave kissing Karkat scene: Dirk takes visible pleasure in...

The benefit to a work being public domain is exactly zero friction on making a derivative work. The more derivative work there is the more derivative derivative work can be created and so on, it has the highest memetic potential. I think it's unabashedly a good idea to make Homestuck public domain f...

Right now I'm hopeful for it. I actually dropped out of reading Homestuck during Act 6 but the Epilogues brought me back in. The way the relationship between an author and their work was explored in Meat really struck a chord with me, so I'm really interested in where HS^2 goes. What I hope is that ...