Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Art of Hilt]

Ah oh no Hussie's going to switch over to CA without resolving this relationshit clusterfuck I just know it argh god damn it that would be the worst time to introduce some dude.

The worst

I swear if something like that happens I am going to flip my shit. I am going to flip it so hard. It will land back on the griddle, and eventually be cooked well done on both sides. That is how hard I am going to flip it.

I'm just saying this right now so that later, when I flip my shit- and it WILL happen so my shit WILL be flipped- everyone can look back and say, "Oh. No wonder."

[Overcast]

IT IS THE BEST TIME.

I don't know if he is going to repeat this until he goes through the full ship wall but it would be amusing to see what other bullet to your head romantics show up.

[Loyal]

*Ahem*

Jack x Black Queen, canon OTP.

[Aldurin]

I reviewed the Intermission and all of that midnight crew stuff makes sense. Except for Snowman and the unidentified "English".

As for this recent stuff, I think Hussie is having too much fun trying to trailblaze more complexity into an already say-another-word-and-I'll-shoot-you complex system of relation.

[Art of Hilt]

The need to seek out concupiscent partners comes with more urgency than typical reproductive instincts. When the IMPERIAL DRONE comes knocking, you had better be able to supply genetic material to each of his FILIAL PAILS. If you have nothing to offer, he will kill you without hesitation.

holy fuck
while the shit remains unflipped it is burning on one side and the smoke is setting off the fire alarm. The fire alarm is a metaphor for my reaction to this particular paragraph.

[PCD]

Wow, I've officially started not caring.

I'm sure a lot of people are having fun knowing about the way romance and reproduction works with the troll society, but jegus crap, can we please get back to the story because this just strikes me as completely and entirely unnecessary.

[Art of Hilt]

NO WAY, HUSSIE COULD GO ON.
THIS IS FASCINATING, TELL ME HOW THE FUCK THIS ISN'T FASCINATING.

Yeah, it's starting to drag a bit, but Hussie keeps saying that it'll make sense in hindsight. It's like, "Ok if you say so bro" but at the same time it's like, "But it was already kind of dragging just with the troll introductions man"

Also consider the implication of IMPERIAL DRONES in troll romcoms. Troll HitchA man of exceptional charm offers to men of lesser charm lessons in how to attract suitors of the concupiscent kind, sometimes as a teacher, sometimes as a professional austipice mediator; In the process he himself desires a mespirit relationship with a reporter who covers his services, but in the midst of a misunderstanding finds himself strained by a judgmental public, his client, and the imperial drone whose arrival is just a few days away; Several misunderstandings, mostly personal, one on a business level; Several shenanigans; A chase scene, out of attraction; A wedding with a wacky dance scene; Moments of romantic tension of all kinds, most of which results in physical contact. is no longer about Troll Will Smith helping Troll Kevin James winning a mespirit, it's about Troll Will Smith saving lives.

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Art of Hilt

Yeah, it's starting to drag a bit, but Hussie keeps saying that it'll make sense in hindsight. It's like, "Ok if you say so bro" but at the same time it's like, "But it was already kind of dragging just with the troll introductions man"

You mean something like the birth of the paradox babies? But troll version?

Wait, never mind. This is more than I wanted to know, especially the part about archrivals producing "genetic material".

[Overcast]

Eh the man has earned some measure of my trust that in the end this will be worth it. Hasn't failed me yet. Though the wording is a bit awkward, I know for sure I am not lamenting hard enough to be part of the mindset he is representing.

[POS Industries]

This is one of those sections where, if you were to read it as part of the archives later on down the road, would only be a quick bit of information that wouldn't feel like it were bogging down the whole story at all. However, from the perception of someone reading it as it updates, it feels like it's taking an eternity because you have only three pages over the course of the day and they're all about this silliness.

This is probably something that anyone on the Nuklear Power Forums should have gotten used to at any point over the past decade, by the way.

Also (and crossposting from elsewhere here), I always felt that the thematic elements of family bonds and relations between the Homestuck cast were the driving force behind the story itself, all the way to the point that the members of the main cast were even all born at the same time, but more specifically with plot points such as each kid's interactions with their familial guardians, the four of them being revealed as two pairs of siblings, and the only romance so far being--quite fittingly--between Mom and Dad serving to unite the sibling pairs into a single quartet of stepsiblings further driving the point home until this run-on sentence wins the Boston Fucking Marathon holy shit.

The trolls, meanwhile, have nothing in their society that equates to the sort of family dynamic that humans have, so in order for their adventure to mirror the kids' thematically, Hivebent is driven by the 12 main characters being interconnected via their complex system of romantic entanglements. Had Hivebent been the main story instead of Homestuck, these things would have probably been drawn out more subtly, but as it is being presented as something of the Cliff's Notes version as an interlude while attempting to save time by cutting down on rehashing the same adventure plot points that already occurred in the main narrative, it comes off to (arguably less apt) readers as just one big kissyface soap opera shipwreck, even though all that's happened is that one romance and one love triangle were introduced in immediate succession and the entire rest of the interlude has had nothing to do with it.

I will say that, as Hussie has noted on more than one occasion, this interlude was intended to be a fair bit shorter than it ended up being, but I can't really fault him too much for having a little fun with exploring his characters.