Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Marc v4.0]

I like the strange viewpoint that while the author ALWAYS creates and shifts major plot points at their whim and desire by being the author of the story, seeing them do it is a sacrilege even when they are doing it within the limited scope of not actually interacting with the main narritive and only the side one.

As a general rule, I never fool myself so much as to think the Author ISN'T responsible for the direction of the story because The Author Is.

[Pip Boy]

Seriously though it looks like hussie's role in things here is to pop up and be like "I AM GOING TO BE BIG HERO" and then accomplish nothing except silliness before fading back out of the story for a while until he pops back up later to repeat the cycle.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Marc v1.0

I like the strange viewpoint that while the author ALWAYS creates and shifts major plot points at their whim and desire by being the author of the story, seeing them do it is a sacrilege even when they are doing it within the limited scope of not actually interacting with the main narritive and only the side one.

As a general rule, I never fool myself so much as to think the Author ISN'T responsible for the direction of the story because The Author Is.

Uhh nah bro
I'm gonna go on record and say that there is in fact a difference between the author influencing the story the way an author is supposed to (by planning plot twists and writing unique characters with particular strengths and flaws in the context of a fictional story with a prototypical narrative structure) and influencing the story as a character in said work

I mean it'd be kind of annoying if you're having a great time watching LOST and suddenly Damon Lindelof shows up to personally explain the island's mystical properties to the castaways and help them defeat the Others.

Or you're watching a movie like Star Wars and George Lucas shows up and is like "Luke you're holding your lightsaber wrong, let me teach you the ways of the force."

Or you're watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the ponies are in a huge jam and suddenly LAUREN FAUST appears to rescue them

Or even if Brian Clevinger showed up and was like "Hey Black Mage, here's what you have to do in order to beat this boss. Also White Mage let's go make some babies"

Finally it'd be similarly annoying if you're having a great time reading Game of Thrones and suddenly George R.R. Martin...wait I guess he sort of did that with Wyman Manderly, never mind.

[Marc v4.0]

Those are insertions of a creator clearly as Author into the medium with weight. This is more insertion of creator as transcriber and observing character himself. If it was just a cheap self-insertion to be all "lookit me I am the god of all this creation" he wouldn't have to wield a broom and look for Scratch, he'd just find him and snap his fingers. And by insertion, I meant he was a character already.

So..uhh, yeah bro

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Marc v1.0

Those are insertions of a creator clearly as Author into the medium with weight. This is more insertion of creator as transcriber and observing character himself. If it was just a cheap self-insertion to be all "lookit me I am the god of all this creation" he wouldn't have to wield a broom and look for Scratch, he'd just find him and snap his fingers. And by insertion, I meant he was a character already.

So..uhh, yeah bro

At the very least and even if you disagree with me on all other counts it's still awfully disruptive to the narrative when the gripping and rather tragic story of the Sufferer is interrupted by the author himself mucking around his own fictional narrative and demanding said narrative to cease.

I find that more annoying than funny, personally, but to each his own.

[Locke cole]

I still want to know what's up with oth universes having MSPaint Adventures in some form. Dave and Jade were reading the Midnight Crew, and then the Crew themselves found a computer with a page from Homestuck loaded up.

So, what, is this same "in-story" Hussie the one who runs the webcomics in the respective universes, or is Andrew Hussie just a universal constant, like John Cusack?

edit: The Sufferer's story really hasn't been interrupted... yet. It's more like the Hussie thing is running parallel, and in a corner.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Do...
...do POS and I...
...Actually agree on a criticism of Homestuck

IMPOSSIBLE

I know... I'm scared, too!

On the bright side...

Originally Posted by Pip Boy

Seriously though it looks like hussie's role in things here is to pop up and be like "I AM GOING TO BE BIG HERO" and then accomplish nothing except silliness before fading back out of the story for a while until he pops back up later to repeat the cycle.

...this happened, so I ain't even mad.

Also Dat Empress.

[Kim]

...this happened, so I ain't even mad.

Did it?

I mean, there's no reason to assume he's actually done, is there?

[Art of Hilt]

I'd feel safe saying that the most Hussie is going to do is steal Disc 2 from Doc Scratch to take back the narration amidst isolated yet wacky shenanigans, assuming Doc Scratch just doesn't leave it for him somewhere.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Did it?

I mean, there's no reason to assume he's actually done, is there?

You saw the wolf head.

Game over, man. Game over.