I don’t have any immediate reaction to this Roxy&Calliope section(up to the Meat or Candy bit, at least) as it is, Appropriately, Impenetrable u_u
It does, however, really do a lot to set the Flipping mood, and Suggest(which, again, Appropriate; it’s the Void section. Everything’s There).
Well ok, I do have one thing: I get the feeling Calliope is aware of the Narrative, which is to say, John’s internal monologue, written as textual asides, by the authors. Not, necessarily, of what “will” happen(so: his choice), but what is happening Narrativewise, simultaneous to their picnic.
Also, while I know he wont, John should just flipping ASK Roxy about this stuff; She’d tell him. The funny thing about The Unknown is that it only stays that way until you go looking for it. Everything’s There, but you’ve got to Ask(or 1)know how to see it and 2)be Looking).
Ok ok I do have another, another thing: I don’t think John could have ever, actually, been involved with Roxy because he’s a bit too hungup about stuff and non-communicative to be comfortable with her relationship with Calliope, even though I think both would have been open to him having something with her beside, or as part of, their thing. And by that I mean NOT that John would have a problem with their relationship(he doesnt and he wouldnt have), but rather that he’d have a problem with NOT having a problem with it. Like: John both craves and fears “Normalcy”, as the USian society he grew up with defined it, and he doesn’t question either 1)that definition of “Normalcy” or 2)the desire to maintain it which his ambiguous feelings about it instill in him. You see this in him 10 years ago in
his simultaneous desire to 1)escape that “Normal” life as stifling and isolating, and 2) regain that “Normal” life once it was gone. Though you can also see it
in the intersection of various aspects of his personal metanarrative(like: what’s going on with him emotionally while the narrative of events is happening to him). Stuff like:
how finding out his father was “just” a normal business man blue-screened him and yet he kinda hated clowns(which he initially thought his dad was), or
his hostility to Rose’s concern for his emotional state, which existed next to an abiding interest in and piercing insight into the emotional states of others, or
the ambiguity of his response to the idea of m/f relationships, and frequent choice to retreat from the realities of them to other subjects(like “simple” fun and adventure on The Battleship or, I’m guessing, his Grief with Roxy on Earth C)
ok, I have to stop for a bit to order and retrieve Pizza :|
on one hand this thread makes me want to cry a lot and on the other I’m like, well, my brain is a complex system and now I have a sort of entry point to figure out how it works, so that’s good
hey folks! I know, Rose was certainly kinda over the top confusing, so lemme break down what this update meant for y’ all in easy terms- especially the whole canon, non-canon and not canon thing. And, Meat or Candy, which is surprisingly important!
So, in this, Rose discusses Canon. Let’s make it simple- this whole thing is EXTREMELY meta. To put it one way- the entire body of Homestuck itself is canon. Everything else that happened after they went through the gate at the end of HS is Non-Canon. Things that didn’t happen at all, fan-based stuff, is not canon.
Canon is the makeup of what IS Homestuck. Things that have concrete proof, we know happened, we saw, watched, LOVED as it happened. You think of Homestuck, it’s a moment from Canon. The heroes passing the gate in Act 7 into the Credits was them leaving “true canon”. The events of the Credits and what happened after happened- but they didn’t contribute to the story or plot in a meaningful way. They’re more like an AU within the U itself, if that makes sense!
However, there were plots left hanging in Canon itself. Lord English wasn’t defeated, just contained. Both Vriska and (Vriska) are out there, and we don’t know what happened to them. The story isn’t finished. And, here’s where it gets a lil meta- because the story of HS still has holes, people expect it to be TODAY, the 10th anniversary, that all the holes get fixed. If nothing happened today, people would lose interest, and that’d be the end of Homestuck having a meaningful continuation- like missing the mark on a shot if that makes sense. It HAD to be today. And it’s not something that can be fixed with a measly epilogue at the end- he does need to go back into the main body of Homestuck to finish it, to give it a satisfying ending. He has to retcon it to finally give us the necessary finale. But does he want that? Wouldn’t it be nice to live a whispy life with the friends he neglected after coming through the gate? Maybe it’s time to settle down in this saccharine world instead of moping over what he missed.
Meat or candy?
Meat, a substantial, heavy meal, but maybe one that won’t feel as sweet- but the right choice.
Candy, a sweet, fast meal- but one you’ll forget about, and one that might not be as good in the long run.
A good, heavy, final end as they delve back into canon, or a lighthearted whisp of a memory in the Epilogue, leaving the story unfinished, just like eating candy instead of real food might mess with your diet.
anyway, the 8 hour workday and the concept of “8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours recreation” is outdated and based on the lives and needs of married straight men who had a wife at home doing all the unpaid domestic labor, childcare, and elderly care. We should all be fighting for a 4 hour workday tbh
Research suggests that in an eight-hour day, the average worker is only productive for two hours and 53 minutes.
They did an experiment with a 6 hour workday in Gothenburg, on a nursing home. The staff became happier and healthier and the elderly also became happier and more content because the staff could focus more on their needs when they weren’t overworked and tired. The staff felt they had more time and energy towards the elderly.
Recently there was an article about a care home in Stockholm were they “””over hired””” (I would argue they just hired enough people), that is they added 1,5 full time staff member. There was an economic gain, not only in health for the workers but also with fewer temps, less overtime and less time wasted on constantly educating new people.
The 8 hour workday was met with the same ridicule a 6 hour workday would. Once, the upper class thought that 14 hour days were reasonable because the poor would just get into trouble if they had time off. Even when there’s actually net gain from caring about their workers, employers prefer making them miserable and paying the cost in new hires, medical costs and poor performance. People have fought and died for our free time and our weekends, even when we know a healthy worker is a healthy company.
So it’s not strange, nor unbelievable, to take that fight again. There’s nothing holy or special with an 8 hour workday. It isn’t set in stone. It could be done.
Hid art. Made graffiti, smuggled out kids, hid people, preserved knowledge, and kept the truth out of the lies
Not everyone is built to be a fighter. And that’s okay. A war isn’t won by the infantry alone. We need support in this trying time as the great beast called Facism rises. Don’t tolerate intolerance. Stay angry. Stay together. Stay smart.
what is it about homestuck that makes this anniversary so ambigious. i am expecting and will be unsurprised by so many things.. like, the sun could rise and all that changes is that theres a new cryptocurrency named after karkat, dave strider, the senator could post a video with hussie. an ARG could drop that literally decodes to a 13 page essay on the ins and outs of leprechaun sex. it could just be a livestream of a BTS concert. a discount on welovefine merch. an impromptu con held in georgia where the hotel gets its floors blown out by the last minute mass of humanity vying for a chance to meet the infamous man himsef. a dead drop out near a highway thats a refrigerator with a life sized gamzee doll stuffed in it. dril releases new panels on his twitter page. the sbahj movie is real and the skaianet tumblr was avant garde advertisement. a virus on our computers that actually blows it up, nothing would faze me but i sit here waiting for the fist of god to strike me. what’s next. what’s next.
THIS IS STUPID - so there’s this stupid kid in a slimer t-shirt standing in his bedroom, and it’s his birthday, right? and you don’t know how, but he and his friends are eventually going to give you the best adventure of your life. what will the name of this young man be?
(a list of videos, songs, and other works to remind you of when you first got into this stupid webcomic about kids ending the world.)
