@discordantObserver

i used to really not vibe at all with psycholonials, honestly. i wrote a lot of words about it that i don't really stand by now, but the tl;dr now is i thought it was a kind of potent diary post, but our experiences were just a little too dissimilar for me to sign off on everything.

but i realized early on that a lot of my feelings on psycholonials were informed by a very tightly curated social media feed when it comes to homestuck. so a lot of psycholonials's actual text about the strange, entitled way people behave towards a source material kind of missed me. BDTH hadn't actually started yet, so i wasn't nearly as out there as i would later be.

that's not to say i found it totally disagreeable - even at the time i found the successor/godhead stuff extremely good. the relationship between author and influence, the relationship between accepted greatness and falling into the politics of their time, of zhen being made into a "great man" successor against her will, it's all really compelling.

but in the following years, getting out there and into the actual fandom corpus did a lot to inform the minutia. yeah, joculine is a real type of person. and joculine is a great character, but i understand completely now why z would just fucking kill her like that too. i think there's still paint left on the palette. the succession war comes and goes in a single credits sequence, when it rages on eternally in real life. but hey, that's what bonfire is in bdth for.