For absolutely any possible Homestuck iteration, pretend that Andrew Hussie (the character) was smacked with the Crowbar, which removes him and everything he ever did from the timeline. I'm pretty sure this is a narrative carte blanche for basically whatever. Like, there's Death of the Author as a narrative concept. There's Death of the Author in Lord English shooting Hussie with a machine gun. Then there's taking a crowbar and literally prying the author out of existence. I don't know where I'm going with this.
... Actually for a long time I assumed that was how the comic would end. Halfway through the Final Confrontation, someone would sneak up on Hussie, recognize him as the true source of all this nonsense, and soundly drub him with the Crowbar. The next day the entire MSPA website and all related content would be deleted and Andrew Hussie would quietly vanish into whatever darkness he rested in before this.
Spoiler: tlj the idea that Rey's storyline would have been better and more cohesive if it involved a long and convoluted explanation of how actually Han and Leia were mind wiped and didn't remember their second child at all, and that's why they never talked about her, and also Kylo was mind wiped too and the mutual vision thing they had broke through the veil and he remembered his baby sister and that's why he wanted her on his side and not because they like bonded and shit over the course of the movie.... god, I really hate how hard some people cling to the idea that Rey only makes sense as a character if you tie her to Luke or Han or Kylo (and it's never Leia who matters in these things, for some reason). Rey's entire arc throughout TLJ was about how she can't rely on other people to define her. Her parents won't save her, Han and Luke can't set her on her path, Ben can't be the hero of the Resistance in her place. Rey has to take action for herself, she has to find her place in the galaxy for herself. That's cool, that's powerful, that broadens the scope of the whole sequel trilogy beyond a fucking family squabble. but no, "Han and Leia lost their second kid and then forgot that they had a second kid, and also Kylo forgot he had a sister until he didn't and then he started lying about how his sister was actually not related to him because he's really honestly just terrible at manipulating people and probably should just stick to murder", that's the best sorta writing, it just makes too much sense, almost.
That is one of the stupidest fucking theories I've ever heard and this fandom is fucking full of those.
Removal of marginalized people's agency in analysis is shit. Especially if it's well intentioned. I hate the well intentioned shit so fucking much.
Gripe: When people make a "characters from fandom A inserted into the roles of characters from fandom B" sort of AU and they swap the wrong characters Spoiler: The Adventure Zone spoilers Seriously, how does one look at a character who loves books has a generally calm demeanor and a dry, deadpan sense of humor lied to and kept secrets from his friends, because he believed it was his only/best chance at saving the world ... how does one look at that character and think "ah yes, in a TAZ AU he would certainly be... Lup"
Spoiler: tlj you can't seriously make the argument that Rey and Kylo's relationship in TLJ is problematic because it gives women the "false hope that they can use their magic vaginas to turn bad dudes good", because Rey didn't turn him good. She left him, because he wasn't gonna stop being a bad dude just cause they had a thing going, like. That's the literal text, that's just what happened in the movie. She assumed that just being together with him would make him come back to the light, and it didn't work out like that, so she left him. Like, goddamn. This ain't fucking rocket science, my dudes.
Spoiler: and yet more I mean, you don't believe the dude enough to remember he thought it was a mistake and regretted it so hard he sent himself into exile for however many years, but sure, yeah. That's a valid takeaway. also you don't like Star Wars enough to remember how close Luke came to killing Vader, because you like sunshine boy would never hurt a fly Luke without respecting that that's a conscious moral choice the dude makes and not an innate and infallible goodness, but. Also I dig the little "oh boo ho, his uncle tried to kill him, like that's a real traumatic thing that's worth getting mad over, pfffbbbt" dig there, like dang. You don't have to like the character or empathize with the guy, but like. Dang, tho.
Speaking of TLJ: Spoiler People saying the message of Kylo's plotline was that he "doesn't deserve redemption." 1) The entire concept of "deserving" redemption like it's some sort of award people hand out is stupid as hell, and 2) the movie in no way ever tries to say anything about whether he deserves it. The point is that he's offered it, but doesn't take it. Interpreting that to mean he never "deserved" it is basically sour grapes.
Things that drive me crazy: when you're trying to argue canon and the person you're arguing with keeps bringing their headcanon explanations of things in and the way they state them, you can't tell if they actually recognize this is not from canon or not, because they have also made factually incorrect claims about canon earlier in the conversation.
People calling Porrim an MRA-equivalent. Troll society might be superficially matriarchal, but if a human MRA claimed that all male authority figures in human society were actually secretly controlled by a man-hating sociopathic female being with god-like powers, he wouldn't be demonstrably right.
I'm really annoyed at how often Star Wars fans base their arguments on shit that's just plain not true. I read a piece about how Finn was disrespected by TLJ's narrative because his back injury gets brushed off, and its main argument was that Star Wars didn't treat main character's injuries like that, specifically bringing up Luke losing his hand and Han being unfrozen from carbonite. And like, I dunno if this person just hasn't watched ESB or ROTJ in a while, but Luke's amputation gets brushed entirely the hell off. He gets a prosthetic that ends up looking exactly like his normal hand shortly after he's rescued, and he's just, like, done with being injured at that point. And Han being blind after being unfrozen is played for plenty of jokes. It's racism when Finn's injury is easily overcome and his disorientation is played for laughs, because Star Wars would never treat its heroes like that!! But it super entirely did and does treat its heroes like that. The specific heroes and events the OP brought up in their complaint, even. It's really obnoxious. It also said Kylo got six whole scenes focused on his scar, and like, wow, super no to that one. His scar got fiddled with by a droid for a few seconds in one scene, while other more important shit was going on.
yeah also I keep seeing people going 'well poe's leia's surrogate son and she just shoots him' but the surrogate son thing wasn't in TFA. And also! The resistance is not the girl scouts! mutiny and desertion are not nothing. why are people so confused and offended that the resistance doesn't let people jump ship with whatever they can steal from the supplies??
Fuck me, and you know what the worst thing about how people react to Rose stunning Finn? It's that Rey beat the shit out of Finn when they first met for less reason. Like, Rose at least was reacting to Finn stealing Resistance property in real time, Rey was willing to beat the man with a stick cause a strange droid told her he had a jacket that didn't belong to him. But it's Rose who's an abusive bitch who shouldn't be anywhere near Finn.
I swear a huge chunk of Star Wars fandom are interacting almost solely with a version of all the movies that exists pretty much entirely in their heads. Which, like, to some extent we all take the things we like and ignore the things we don't, but when you get to the point where you decide things you made up are canon and anything that contradicts them is Doing It Wrong, you get the Great Last Jedi Wankstorm of 2017.
"just shoots him" like he wasn't in the middle of a fucking mutiny at the moment. Also, like Leia ain't the kind of person who'd shoot whoever the fuck if she thought it needed to be done, personal connections be damned.
So apparently some people who were antis back when Killing Stalking was big are now super into Devilman Crybaby without changing their opinions on KS ??
