The Homestuck Epilogues are, by far, the most creative, interesting and powerful part of the entire franchise. They constitute a raw, violent approach to the original material, as well as an emotionally intense read and a great science fiction double novel.
I absolutely love this work and I hope we'll get more opuses with this level of audacity in the future.
What did you like the most in The Homestuck Epilogues?
I've never read them. I skipped acts 1-4, so I could get to the trolls, and then I finished act 5 act 1, and then stopped reading forever, because there were moments that weren't about the trolls.
i really appreciate how the epilogues expand on one of my favourite character, alternate calliope, a character that had very little screentime in the original comic. i'm also a cherub enjoyer and i love the new information that we get either directly or indirectly about the species from it.
there. can you hear it? of course you can’t. but if even you could, it would sound like nothing at all.
I really liked the dichotomy of Meat and Candy along with the fight for the narrative
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Love everyone.
adore the epilogues!!! they're an absolutely amazing piece of art o(〃＾▽＾〃)o
super big shame not a lot of people have read them - and that most try to get others to never read them aswell :( makes me sad to see (┬┬﹏┬┬)
the epilogues felt like watching something i loved die
which is meant as positively as possible, I think it really delivered on what it wanted to do. both thematically and emotionally
look...they're so jolly, to see, you!!
re: Berry
I completely agree lol. The Epilogues are very effective at making you feel very weird about the direction things are taking, but in a way that's engagingly uncomfortable. I think my favorite scene is from Candy, when John tries to run away with Tavros during his birthday party and gets caught by everyone. It's such a good look into John's character in the Candy timeline, and it makes you feel really bad for Tavros.
I still don't know what to think about Gamzee, though. He sure was weird.
And that's about it.
absolutely LOVE the meta aspects in meat. watching dirk & alt callie fight over narrative control was genuinely fun! on a similar note everything about epilogues dirk just makes me soooo miserable. in a good way. theres just so so much to explore about his character there and i really cant help going back and rereading both epilogues fairly frequently u_u the final paragraph of candy 14 haunts me. its just so good. i really do love candy even in its less palatable moments just because of how much there is, ironically, to chew on? its genuinely painful at times to read and the wrongness of really.. everything? within builds such an intense dread that i love so so much. honestly I don't think anything i say can get the point across as much as that karkat line from hsbc add1. they make me want to kill myself and i really do respect that
i LOVED the epilogues, i finished them in a mad frenzy the day they were released. one of the authors (v, i think? it's been a while) suggested reading candy first and it was So Worth It just for the experience to going from alt-calliope's monologue at the end of candy to the sudden change of the narration to dirk's text color in meat. i think i literally screamed.
(and also rose is my fav character so her having a prominent role in meat really made me happy :) )
i will figure out a good signature. Eventually.
