sarah zedig! 🍉🐐for everyone mad about the ham-handed slur removal of the unofficial homestuck collection, i have great news: we're bringing slurs back for godfeels
[slaps noggin] you have no idea how many slurs are contained in this weird dog
Jess (ontological)@sarahzedig she gives off the vibe of tourette's where every tic is a slur shouted at full volume
everyone loves her for it
Riley Email@sarahzedig I think this is really funny in conjunction with my head-canon of Edie having tourette's syndrome. Local dog couldn't stop saying slurs if she tried
pochapal with organs@sarahzedig haunted puppy that drinks all your pepsi and calls you slurs you didn't even know existed
@sarahzedig doing God's work
FEATURED SINGER@sarahzedig doing my part in this crucial battleground having karkat offhandedly call dirk a faggot
vi@sarahzedig as you should!
speaking of Homestuck/godfeels, I was gonna read Homestuck just because I want to read godfeels but at this point that feels like it’ll be a Whole Thing. If I read this summary thing (https://rafe.name/homestuck/) and the abridged epilogues you link on AO3, do you think I’ll be good to read godfeels? Or is it really worth it to read all of Homestuck first
@presbyterian you can probably get away with that, yeah! i'd still highly recommend reading both homestuck proper and the epilogues, but i'd be curious to see how well these summaries served you
@sarahzedig Cool, I’ll let you know how it goes! I’m sure I’ll get to Homestuck proper eventually but there’s just so much stuff (both in Homestuck and just generally) and so little free time lol
the illustrious IRIS JAY@sarahzedig is that what's going on. i feel like preserving them is crucial to understanding the online culture HS percolated in back in the late '00s. to bowdlerize it would be to deny that history contains imperfection
@irisjaycomics YOU WOULD THINK THAT WOULDN'T YOU
@sarahzedig i was there. no HS wasn't perfect. but if you think that was the nastiest that webcomics got back in the day you are like little baby
@irisjaycomics @sarahzedig if these people read the back catalog of Penny Arcade (THE THING FAMOUS GAMING CONVENTION *PENNY ARCADE XPOSITION* IS NAMED FOR) their fucking brains would melt and dribble out their ears
@fenderjess @sarahzedig i cut my own dick off years ago. balls, too
@sarahzedig but then-- and i hate to frame it this way, because it makes me feel like an aging hipster prick-- i am guessing a lot of younger fans who Weren't There want The Homestuck Experience but want it to exist on the bleeding edge of Now and not the historical period when it was formed. this is the problem with having a massive cultural event formed around a work of media that has gotten so eroded with time. it's the World's Most Photographed Barn thing in White Noise all over again
triumph@sarahzedig wait is that just. the default now???
⌈Tautology⌋@nowionlywantatriumph @sarahzedig VRISKA: It's default on on Gio's site.
@pleonasticTautology @sarahzedig fuck off
(that, not you)
take a creative work as it is or don’t engage with it at all
@pleonasticTautology @sarahzedig note: this doesn’t include things like localizations where creative choices HAVE to be made in order to broaden the reach of a thing—this is just straight-up censorship
cloacular@sarahzedig im taking credit for this. my podfeels slur plans inspired you. i will believe this until my brying death
Jacqueline Merritt@sarahzedig genuinely, when I get around to reading it (as opposed to just seeding the torrent), I'm planning on just reading it as it originally was written
If I can rewatch red vs blue and season 1 dbza I don't think Homestuck will bother me
@jacquelinemerritt the nice thing is the unofficial collection does let you turn off the slur removal thing