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Sailor Dave posted:naming a kid "Yiffany Longstocking" when one of her moms is a dog girl holy poo poo lol
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Thank jegus one of the characters finally remembered that they are literally a god and guns stopped mattering back in the Intermission. Also trolls don't care about monogamy or childbirth so Kanaya no-selling this makes sense. What doesn't is keeping it a secret. The only thing I can think of is if theres something odd about her or they were scared of Jane finding out about her.
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Apr 28, 2020 09:21
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I think all the weirdness is from them wanting 4 teens in the candy timeline but the epilogue writing not providing any opportunity for that so they just cracked out the secret child justification.
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Nephthys posted:Thank jegus one of the characters finally remembered that they are literally a god and guns stopped mattering back in the Intermission. Honestly, between the epilogues and Pesterquest, it's been so long I sorta forgot they could do that until Vriska reminded me. So that was a really cool moment, at least.
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So anyway this revelation explains how Rose could breast feed Vriska in the Candy epilogue. That was a mystery you probably didn't need solved, but it got solved anyway so there you go.
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Plom Bar posted:The implication is also that for 15 years Yiffy was left out of family gatherings from both of her mothers, including Jade's wedding, solely because they were too embarrassed by the name It’s complete garbage.
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Apr 28, 2020 13:24
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Sailor Dave posted:Even as stupid and meaningless as the Candy timeline is, naming a kid "Yiffany Longstocking" when one of her moms is a dog girl sounds horribly shortsighted and ripe for abuse. It's kind of mean, coming from Jade? She wanted a daughter so bad, but couldn't help but make it an ironic furry sex joke. That girl has to live with a name like that. A lot of the exposition around this read to me like "Jade has a secret daughter with Rose named 'Yiffany Longstocking'" came down from Hussman as some kind of mandate and the rest of the writing team felt as awkward executing it as we felt reading it.
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Bilirubin posted:OKok like 6 pages in so far and I'm delighted to see the pony friends book referenced Oh man who has the link to the full version of this some fan did, definitely the best fan content for a work of media ever produced. edit: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2427119/chapters/5371283
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Given the impossibility of secretly raising a child, as opposed to secretly bearing one, I have to wonder if time shenanigans are involved. Like, Rose is already a full-time mother and revolutionary, and Jade was living with two people who would have noticed a child around the house.
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Apr 28, 2020 16:12
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Apr 28, 2020 16:13
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who would have thought that homestuck would turn out weird and bad?
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Apr 28, 2020 16:36
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Clawtopsy posted:who would have thought that homestuck would turn out weird and bad?
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Apr 28, 2020 16:45
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Problem 2th
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Clawtopsy posted:who would have thought that homestuck would turn out weird and bad? Anyone who read it?
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Anyone who read it?  Pants Donkey posted:Clearly the Hussie work that deserved a sequel was Humanimals. I really doubt that Hussie has much of a hand in this, he's too busy writing the next Tingler.
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Apr 28, 2020 16:49
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I liked homestuck until act 6, so this is all very validating
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I'm taking a little break from Homestuck, so I'm only getting updates of what's happening 2nd-hand from this thread, and it's a wild ride.
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Come on, this a mexican soap level twist right there.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Come on, this a mexican soap level twist right there. I think it would more accurately be called a fanfiction level twist, because Homestuck is written by fans now.
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Apr 28, 2020 17:14
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Once again, people are forgetting that Homestuck has literally always been like this.
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Clawtopsy posted:I think it would more accurately be called a fanfiction level twist, because Homestuck is written by fans now. I mean, it's stuff like having a secret evil twin brother all along or someone coming back from the dead with amnesia.
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Rand Brittain posted:Once again, people are forgetting that Homestuck has literally always been like this. I think there's a pretty big difference between weird game poo poo shenanigans and trolling/shitposting with kids, compared to the adult soap opera drama that homestuck has transitioned into. I found the first part a lot more endearing than whatever this is now.
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It does occur to me that the ridiculous name is probably just them playing the "Zoosmell Pooplord" gag but without intervening and switching to an Ordinary Name.
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Sailor Dave posted:I think there's a pretty big difference between weird game poo poo shenanigans and trolling/shitposting with kids, compared to the adult soap opera drama that homestuck has transitioned into. I found the first part a lot more endearing than whatever this is now. One of the first things that happened in Homestuck was a thirteen-year-old boy being dropped into a pile of sexual muppets by his abusive adult guardian and trying desperately to pretend he liked it. I don't think this is really that far off. It's possible that you're remembering early Homestuck as more "endearing" and less ridiculous bullshit than it actually was.
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Rand Brittain posted:One of the first things that happened in Homestuck was a thirteen-year-old boy being dropped into a pile of sexual muppets by his abusive adult guardian and trying desperately to pretend he liked it. yeah but the abuse part wasn't treated remotely seriously for a while, the smuppets were just loving weird and not mined for drama
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Jen X posted:yeah but the abuse part wasn't treated remotely seriously for a while, the smuppets were just loving weird and not mined for drama I mean, drama's been going on for years; things that are loving weird have been going on for years. I'm not sure what's new except that now the characters are adults and the fact that they're still living their lives around this weird irony oneupmanship when they should have better things to do is now an explicit part of the comedy. But yeah, I do sort of feel a difference... I guess that's kind of part of the Candy ambience? It's like "this is a story where 'Jade and Rose have a secret daughter' is the premise, and okay, there's no way that could happen, but that's the premise so they did."
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hahhaahah this comics loving crazy man I love it
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I think the issue is not that Homestuck is getting weirder or anything like that, but that it started weird, then gradually turned into melodrama, and is now trying to sneak back to weird. All the parents lacking facial features because the kids can't empathize with them is weird. Bro's whole deal is weird. Jade being raised on alone on island by a dog is weird. The whole ectobiology mobius strip of procreation is very weird. But we accepted these things, because the comic was new and there were no set rules. By mid-act-6, all the rules has been 'set', and now it was more about playing out the results, or analyzing the original acts from this new perspective.
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Clawtopsy posted:I really doubt that Hussie has much of a hand in this, he's too busy writing the next Tingler. One of the writers stated on twitter that this was a non-negotiable mandate from Hussie. He absolutely orchestrated Yiffany Longstocking.
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Nephthys posted:One of the writers stated on twitter that this was a non-negotiable mandate from Hussie. He absolutely orchestrated Yiffany Longstocking. hussie dipping in to say something dumb and them all running with it lol hahahah he's a modern day George Lucas isn't he
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Fanwriters: This is a very serious story about how Rose has acted as a surrogate for Jade, and the challenges that Jade's biology has- Hussie: call the kid yiffany longstocking Fanwriters: Y-yes sir....
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valid complaints notwithstanding, i predict that in one hundred pages yiffany longstocking will be everyone's favorite character
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ZorpZuppins posted:valid complaints notwithstanding, i predict that in one hundred pages yiffany longstocking will be everyone's favorite character
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Once Vriska finishes renaming all four kids, they'll become the new favorite characters as a group.
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I mean, yeah, we're all going to love Yiffy once we meet her. It's inevitable. I still think this is a real bad piece of writing though. It's clunky, weird, and stupid. Homestuck is often weird and stupid (in great and endearing ways), but usually not clunky.
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ZorpZuppins posted:valid complaints notwithstanding, i predict that in one hundred pages yiffany longstocking will be everyone's favorite character I call this Equius level 2.
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