Just in time for the HS renaissance I guess.

[yvannairie]

Commisserating with Red got me to go reread the end of Act 6 [recursive] and the lead-up to Act 7 of Homestuck and this all but solidified my opinion that I'm never gonna read the Homestuck epilogues. From a perspective fifty miles high it's just obvious that the narrative was always going to have to end with the characters walking out of the story, and trying to superimpose narrative control on them after that has already happened. Of course the Epilogues are awful and make your soul hurt, they legitimately cannot exist without walking back on the Treasure.

I remember being... I guess disappointed? But also sort of surprised at how pleasant I found Act 7 in the end, and in hindsight it makes perfect sense because after [S] Collide, it legitimately didn't feel like there was places where the story could go. In hindsight it feels weird that the tension leading up to Act 7 was so sky-high, because now it feels obvious it was always gonna be a denouement, or an epilogue, and we had gotten a lot of the epilogue pre-fed to us by the character reconciliation scenes in the lead-up to the big fight with Lord English. "The story tucks its tail away and ends" feels more natural, now.

.... I guess I'm just, like. Inexplicably sad that I didn't realise that the reason I wasn't really feeling it with the other new Homestuck projects and why I couldn't get hyped for the Epilogues was that I did, originally, get an ending I was satisfied with, and got dragged into the "wtf was that ending is there gonna be more?" because I didn't know how to verbalise it. Also I miss when I could still talk about the story of Homestuck, rather than the whole internet-wide event that was Homestuck and the Homestuck-creator-fandom clusterfuck.