Should the stars also go out? @Paravellex@shrike.club

psycholonials chapter 8 dropped so i'm going to find out what a much more morally upstanding "Z" has been up to

might de-internet for the rest of the day. actually i might go get some snacks from the corner store first. do you guys want anything

sorry boss i can't go to work today it's a holiday

it's 4/13 eve so remember to set out a plate of milk and cookies for vriska tonight when she comes to bring presents

speedy

(roxy, obviously)

doing some fic writing in google docs and it spellcheck-highlighted "gettin" but not "magnitudiously"

lovely, curfew's been announced tonight

also two of the links in this story (to "my hammer as a hammer" and "a grueling slog through three repressed women's emotions") no longer work, which is an odd microcosm of the forces of internet entropy that homestuck proper has been subjected to

anyway i've got more jumbled thoughts on this but instead of trying to vocalize them i'll just point to a rose in your teeth https://archiveofourown.org/works/24783799

it's interesting revisiting this piece a year later. it might be the most philosophically dense "story" i've written, despite being written on a whim and in one sitting. and it's funny to see my past self working through his shit in real time, but sad because i feel like his concerns were validated

idk, folks. it's 7 in the morning and i'm awake for some reason and haven'f slept very well

i wish hs2 was better. i wish the intersection of external harassment, internal mismanagement, and global catastrophe hadn't arisen to undermine it so thoroughly. this story should have been *great,* it had all the ingredients needed to be something genuinely wonderful, but instead it was... this.

yiffy herself is barely even a character. she's a plot device designed to upset people, at least as presented so far

and let me be clear, upsetting people is far from a bad thing. the epilogues are a masterwork and they're among the most viscerally sickening things i've ever read. but there has to be a *reason* behind deliberately upsetting people beyond the act itself, otherwise it's just an exercise in unadulterated cynicism and nihilism

and nihilism, as always, is boring as shit

so was homestuck^2 actually trying to say anything with the yiffy reveal or nah

because it's one of those twists which depends entirely on the follow-through, and since the story after that point seemed actively averse to providing narrative or emotional payoff for *any* of its subplots, it sure seems like a vindication of the reddit complaints that the story was ruining the characters for shock value

wow, it's been a whole damn year since the last homestuck book was published

fuck viz i guess