honestly I liked the loose ends better

[edenfalling]

I read the Homestuck epilogue(s) today and... that sure was a thing that happened.

I don't think any of it's impossible as an extrapolation from the main story, but neither thread strikes me as an especially plausible end-path for the characters, and while I do enjoy meta-narrative technobabble, I frankly prefer a less... uh... reductive and negative set of options, shall we say. Like, if your story is thematically about escape from the tyranny of narrative inevitability, why pick THOSE particular possibilities as the ones to narrow in on and explore?

Fortunately it's all fundamentally irrelevant, so whatever. I am officially ignoring the whole thing, just like I've already been ignoring the Snapchats and a bunch of the credits. :)

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[mme_hardy]

Oh, also also, the Eridan/Feferi forced kiss was GROSS.

[edenfalling]

Yeah, there was a LOT of sexual... uh... I don't know WHAT was going on, really, but it was like all sex was either nasty and full of slut-shaming, or... didn't really exist because it was just two idiots failing to kiss? Which is a lot like the purity culture thing that's been poisoning fandom more obviously in the past several years, come to think of it.

If this was an attempt to mirror that and show it as a terrible attitude, then I think it was a failed experiment since in practice it just makes the reading experience unpleasant and comes off as Hussie's own attitude. Particularly since it infests both timelines regardless of who's narrating.

(Like, Calliope's narration of John and Terezi's car tryst in the meat timeline is actually pretty sweet, but the candy timeline, which is notionally under her control, is even worse in terms of terrible attitudes toward and descriptions of sex and sex-adjacent stuff. *sigh*)