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[Aug. 7th, 2011|03:05 am]
Kiena
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So I don't know if anyone on my FL reads Homestuck. It's a webcomic which I currently enjoy quite a bit. It's long, complicated, involves a ton of time paradoxes and is generally pretty awesome. It also uses the web well - by that I mean many pages are animated gifs, there are frequent flash animations that include music, and there are several pages that are basically mini-games where you can walk around and sometimes fight things.
It's about four kids who play a video game together that (spoiler!) ends up destroying the world. Whoops. That happens during the first act - after that, they have to deal with what happened to them.
It does use a lot of ableist language, which sucks - 'retard' and its variations are used quite regularly, though they seem to have tapered off in the more recent acts. I also had some issues with the author's treatment of a character in a wheelchair and using the Disability Superpower trope when it comes to a blind character.
On the other hand, of the main characters, exactly half of them are girls (all the main characters are around 13 years old, so girls, not women), there are two blind characters, one character in a wheelchair, and an entire culture that is essentially pansexual. The 'bad guys' are definitely skewed male, which kind of sucks, as they hold the most power, but it's still really nice to see such as strong female main cast presence in a webcomic.
Anyway! I have two reasons for bringing it up! First are a couple of fanfic recs, 'cause the fanfic for the fandom is pretty damn good. If you don't read the comic, though, it totally and utterly won't make any sense.
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And second, the end of Act 5 is coming up soon, and I have a few theories that I wanted to get down so I can go back afterward and laugh at how close/far away I was. :) Spoilers galore~
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And there you go, my current geeking out over something post. :P |
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