Screw What Would Kill A Victorian Orphan, Reblog And Put In The Tags What Would Make 14-year-old You

screw “what would kill a victorian orphan”, reblog and put in the tags what would make 14-year-old you explode

little afraid of getting beaten up here but i dont really vibe with mituna

i have literally nothing against him as a character he just. doesn't interest me that much?

i do not get the hype

on the subject of dancestor opinions. i have such a love/hate relationship with rufioh

it's like. he's such a fundamentally interesting and enjoyable character i want to see more of this man i want to know more about this man but he SUCKS. HE FUCKING SUCKS. he is such a PIECE OF SHIT he is a PRICK he is a BAG OF DICKS

A little Homestuck PSA

As 4/13 is right around the corner I just wanted to remind everyone about the Unofficial Homestuck Collection. As Viz and the death of Flash have been slowly killing the intended Homestuck experience there is still a way to see it how it was meant.

This offline program allows for all the flash to be seen and mini games to be played as intended and helps protect from spoilers. If you are going to start reading Homestuck or are planning to trick some unsuspecting friend into reading please consider using this program!

And - I love new livebloggers! Let me know who you love to watch make this journey.

https://bambosh.github.io/unofficial-homestuck-collection/

bambosh.github.io

THE UNOFFICIAL HOMESTUCK COLLECTION

An offline browser built from the ground up to archive Homestuck and its related works.

trying to articulate my thoughts here

generally speaking with heathers i try and think of ways to merge the movie and musical characterizations to get a bigger picture of the character

the problem is, duke has THE most drastic difference between the two

in the movie she's a timid bookworm and a genuine friend to veronica who gets manipulated by jd into taking chandler's crown

in the musical she's just a douchebag from day one and always 'the meanest heather' with no real personality beyond how much she's a cunt

generally speaking when trying to write for duke in a way that

A - makes her an interesting charactre in her own right

B - rings true with her canonical characterisation

there's a few ways you can go about it

you can have her primary conflict BE about her lack of substance and personality, there's some interesting ways to tie that into her bulimia (something the fandom grossly underrepresents with her)

you can incorporate the more intellectual aspect of her personality that shines through in the movie, which is what i tend to do because it provides something in common with veronica

and there's a lot to be said about her being a direct contrast to veronica's more idealistic worldview that people are capable of change - duke is the best way to provide that antithesis. write her as directly challenging veronica's compulsion to 'fix' people that we see with j.d.

and with the idea that duke is somewhat of a closet nerd from what we see in the movie combined with how little she actually seems to enjoy the party scenes in the musical until she gets a chance to bully martha

duke's mother paid for implants according to 'beautiful' and that's about all we hear - she's repeatedly trampled and stepped on by heather chandler when she tries to have an opinion and she seems used to this

the picture that forms in my head is of somebody who tried against all odds to prioritise academia when everybody else in her like told her to just sit there and look pretty

and in the end she just collapsed in the face of that pressure and submitted to that toxic, misogynistic culture and all of the unrealistic beauty standards that came with it. that's where so much of her body image issue comes from

we have her flattened to the point where she lacks any substance to herself and just mirrors heather chandler in an attempt to fit in and roll with the popular crowd. she's willingly stripping herself of any agency and surrendering to that hollow, vapid popularity

and once she gets the chance to take the spotlight and is blackmailed into usurping power by j.d. she goes completely out of control because it's been so LONG since she's felt like she's had any agency. she lashes out, continues the cycle of abuse that's been lumped onto her even if the victims of it (martha, veronica, ESPECIALLY mac) didn't do shit to her. "heather, why do you have to be such a mega-bitch?" says veronica. "because i can", replies duke.

is this a very different read from duke's fandom interpretations? probably. most people seem to narrow her down to just 'the asshole heather' or 'guys she's not actually the asshole heather! (provides no elaboration as to what other role she can fill in the narrative)

this is gratuitously long and probably directly contradicts a lot of what's said or implied in canon but at the end of the day if it results in good storytelling in any hypothetical fanfiction i could write down then i'd be willing to hear it out

tl;dr heather duke's body image issues and implied academic interest from the movies need to be focused on more in the fanbase, the musical kind of fucked up her character and people's perception of her and she's the logical direct antithesis to veronica.

its hard to explain but the way i characterize heather duke is just gifted kid burnout on steroids

homestuck fans i think need to accept that some characters are just bad people and you will feel far more liberated enjoying the characters whilst recognising that they fucking suck as opposed to jumping through several hoops to justify their behaviour

you can like somebody for being an interesting, well-written character without suddenly trying to explain why they're a good person

if any proshippers comment on this post you will be fucking boiled