The dickmonster is of course a classic, but there’s a threshold of abstraction from the human form where it stops being body horror and starts being body comedy. A writhing mass of tentacles with cocks on the ends? Perfectly respectable. A perception-shattering vortex of broken angles sporting a statistically average human penis? Hilarious.
I’ll freely grant that fantasy-setting-where-everybody-is-a-girl milieux raise a lot of worldbuilding questions, but Where Do Babies Come From isn’t one of them. “How do they have kids if they’re all giiiiirls” my guy, some girls can get other girls pregnant in real life. A thousand things in need of explanation and you’re hung up on the one that requires none.
My problem with Harkness Test discourse is that in practice it’s only ever an issue when somebody wants to fuck a male or not-obviously-gender-coded (and thus male by default) cartoon animal. Give that cartoon animal long eyelashes and chest bumps that kind of look like tits and suddenly wanting to fuck it is respectable!
serenaoculis asked:
rereading homestuck and thought you might know this: what was the deal with bill bolin, anyway
prokopetz answered:
Short version: during the production of Homestuck, Andrew Hussie was notorious for placing extremely short deadlines on collaborators, and when those deadlines weren’t met, would often simply use their work in whatever state it was currently in rather than delaying updates to wait for the material in question to be properly finished. This is exactly what happened in Bolin’s case, when Hussie published a couple of WIP tracks which Bolin had submitted for feedback but not authorised for publication. This policy ended up causing rifts with a number of early Homestuck collaborators, though to the best of my knowledge Bolin is the only one who withdrew permission to use previously submitted work over it.
@manorinthewoods replied:
I can see Hussie's logic but I absolutely disagree with it.
Logic had nothing to do with Hussie's scheduling decisions – I've touched on this in the past.
@afriendlyirin replied:
Homestuck’s production really is an endless well of unethical labor practices, huh?
Yeah, I need to be clear that when I say that one should not attempt to replicate the circumstances of Homestuck’s success, that’s not a passive-aggressive way of saying “I don’t like it” – what I mean is that it would be unethical to try!
serenaoculis asked:
rereading homestuck and thought you might know this: what was the deal with bill bolin, anyway
prokopetz answered:
Short version: during the production of Homestuck, Andrew Hussie was notorious for placing extremely short deadlines on collaborators, and when those deadlines weren’t met, would often simply use their work in whatever state it was currently in rather than delaying updates to wait for the material in question to be properly finished. This is exactly what happened in Bolin’s case, when Hussie published a couple of WIP tracks which Bolin had submitted for feedback but not authorised for publication. This policy ended up causing rifts with a number of early Homestuck collaborators, though to the best of my knowledge Bolin is the only one who withdrew permission to use previously submitted work over it.
@manorinthewoods replied:
I can see Hussie’s logic but I absolutely disagree with it.
Logic had nothing to do with Hussie’s scheduling decisions – I’ve touched on this in the past.
serenaoculis asked:
rereading homestuck and thought you might know this: what was the deal with bill bolin, anyway
Short version: during the production of Homestuck, Andrew Hussie was notorious for placing extremely short deadlines on collaborators, and when those deadlines weren’t met, would often simply use their work in whatever state it was currently in rather than delaying updates to wait for the material in question to be properly finished. This is exactly what happened in Bolin’s case, when Hussie published a couple of WIP tracks which Bolin had submitted for feedback but not authorised for publication. This policy ended up causing rifts with a number of early Homestuck collaborators, though to the best of my knowledge Bolin is the only one who withdrew permission to use previously submitted work over it.
manorinthewoods asked:
Would you advise any prospective multimedia storyteller to attempt to create Better Homestuck?
I wouldn’t even advise creating Homestuck the first time around.
I enjoy when people give me a hard time about using the term "sequential art" because they think it's just a pretentious way of saying "comics", because when I point out that "comics" and "sequential art" are overlapping but non-identical mediums, they invariably demand an example of sequential art that isn't comics, and I get to hit them with "PowerPoint presentations".
@urlocallesbiab replied:
i like how you said “overlapping” instead of “one being a wider category than the other” do you have any examples of comics that don’t count as sequential art? (this isn’t a gotcha question, this is me engaging in good-natured, sportsmanlike pedantry, along with expressing my curiosity)
ALTI enjoy when people give me a hard time about using the term “sequential art” because they think it’s just a pretentious way of saying “comics”, because when I point out that “comics” and “sequential art” are overlapping but non-identical mediums, they invariably demand an example of sequential art that isn’t comics, and I get to hit them with “PowerPoint presentations”.
Everyone wants to be a girlboss but nobody wants to build a girldungeon. Nobody wants to hire girlmooks or set up their girlbottomless pits to impede the hero. Nobody wants to handle the overhead costs of the girlpowerups to hide in the walls. Pathetic.
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Everyone wants to be a girlboss but nobody wants to build a girldungeon. Nobody wants to hire girlmooks or set up their girlbottomless pits to impede the hero. Nobody wants to handle the overhead costs of the girlpowerups to hide in the walls. Pathetic.
