“Denying your sexuality will fucking break you.”
Did I actually write that. Fucking dammit. DAMN MY OVERDRAMATIZATION OF THINGS!
“Denying your sexuality is not something you get over that easily.”
Let’s pretend I always said it that way. Okay?
September 2011
Bro I think you are projecting waaaayyyyy too hard on John. Pairing John off with a dude isn't an attack on your pristine sexuality; you do know that, right?
My furious lust for an all-male orgy can’t get past any of you can it?
Has it ever crossed any of your minds that it has nothing to do with the specific character?
Why am I so fucking popular today?
I think you're buttmad because John/Dave and Johnkat interrupts your John/Vriska otp. If means anything, Karkat ruled out any troll-human relationships, so John/Vriska isn't canon either. Troll harder.
My OTP is Jaspersprite/Pounce De Leon.
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON WILDLY FANONICAL FEMSLASH PAIRINGS?
You should probably have specific sources to cite before tearing an entire sub-genre apart. Generalizing all John/Karkat fics into one collective is negligent and naive. Especially if you don't actually read them. Unless you do. In which case, start citing.
If John/Karkat qualifies as a sub-genre instead of a pairing I am going to cry.
I’m already sad by how much of it there is, but having it be so mainstream that I’m going to have to stare at “John/Karkat” between “Mystery” and “Western” when shopping for fiction is going to make me very sad.
so vex what are your thoughts on yaoi?
Has something to do with little boys sparkling all bishonen no desu and invading each other’s buttz.
Also if the internet has taught me anything, it’s what happens when any two male characters are left alone together.
ANY two.
"But you have to give us a reason for it. And that reason better be good." I don't know, because I want to see a fanfiction of what I like is a pretty good reason to me.
Shall I go plagarize a Sasuke/Naruto fanfic and replace the names then? I mean if you’re not going to put any effort into something we may as well go the full fucking mile here and really not put any effort into it.
Um... do things really need to be 100% canon to be okay? I mean, I for one, whenever I ship, tend to ship them in an entirely different reality than homestuck. Theres nothing wrong with contemplating what would've happened, playing that "what if" card. Why take homestuck so seriously, and do everything by the book? Its a very, very silly comic! What is so wrong with toying with it? (please dont take this offensively! I know people have different opinions on things, but I want to understand why)
Are you a time traveler?
I actually intend to turn this blog into my personal writing/critique… thing and discuss broad topics like this one.
It would take a few hundred words and hours of my time to type up a full in-depth answer to this and I’m quite simply not ready to do that right now.
I won’t leave you hanging though, so here’s a quick and dirty response to your question.
“do things really need to be 100% canon to be okay?”
No.
In fact it would actually be pretty ridiculous if it did. The only thing that’s 100% canon is itself canon. If you want to write fanfiction you have to depart from canon somewhere.
However, that doesn’t mean you can just make Dave into a rodeo clown and send him to mars.
Every narrative exists in two halves. The Characters and the Context in which they exist.
These halves can be separated easily and with virtually no price attached to it. If you want to write the Homestuck characters as say, part of the Naruto universe, there’s no reason you can’t and there’s no real cost associated with doing so. By the same measure you could throw say, the Bleach characters into a Sburb session of their own. Pure shits and giggles
However, both halves have to remain consistent with themselves. Tavros is Tavros, Sburb is Sburb. If you want to change either there’s a price that has to be paid, and that price is a god damn explanation.
You want John to suddenly hate Nick Cage? That’s fine. But you have to give us a reason for it. And that reason better be good.
Same logic applies to everything. I’ll go into more detail at a later date. Have fun.
August 2011
"But enough trashing on the inanity that is John/whatever." Yeah, seriously, you should cut that shit out. Bitching about people liking what you don't like is childish, and if you seriously can't handle people having other opinions, you should probably head back to grade school, guy.
There are so many ways I could answer this. I’m really just not sure how.
Should I point out the inherent hypocrisy in what you’re saying compared to what you’re doing? Should I point out the fact that I have not once made a statement I couldn’t back up? How about the literal grade school insults? Perhaps I should ask about the “opinions of other people”, you brought up?
Or maybe I should outline everything wrong in what you’ve said in an extremely sarcastic blog post and leave it up to you to decide how and even if you want to continue this?
Although personally, I don’t care if anything comes of this or not.
This is fucking amazing.Never not reblog
Decided to change my portrait photo to something that wasn’t John Egbert.
how is fanfiction NOT wish fulfillment. it's people writing out scenarios that didn't actually happen in canon. sexual or not, it's something people wanted to see, a ~wish was fulfilled~ etc. you are such a brat about this shit, for real.
Here’s something a lot of people don’t seem to realize. There is exactly one thing that differentiates between Fiction and Fanfiction. The difference is that fanfiction makes use of characters and/or settings that were not created by the Author.
That’s it.
Saying something as broad and all-encompassing as “All fanfiction is wish fulfillment” is already wrong until proven otherwise. But in this case your statement is literally so wrong that you don’t even realize it. If you’re using a definition of wish fulfillment so broad that all fanfiction is wish fulfillment then by default so is all fiction. Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, basically every work of fiction qualifies as wish fulfillment by this definition.
So what is fanfiction? I already told you, it’s exactly the same as fiction with one functional and two practical differences. It makes use of characters and/or settings created not by the author. Generally speaking it is expected to be noncommerical, at least in the US. And it is of course, written by fans of the original author’s work. It is also generally, but not always of a significantly lower overall quality, for a variety of reasons I don’t care to go into at the moment.
The fact that most fanfiction authors tend to just write fluffy nonsense is irrelevant.
