Dani and Valerie talk Dirk and Roxy. Topics: Gender performance, trans co-dependence, wife mode to milf mode.
All by Kate Mitchell
Dani and Valerie talk Dirk and Roxy. Topics: Gender performance, trans co-dependence, wife mode to milf mode.
Dani and Aysha talk activism in fandom spaces. Topics: Hating cops. Fascism: wack. Being a better fandom ally. Stop listening to white people. Robot Dani.
Holly, voice of Dr. Coomer from the webseries Half-Life VR But The AI Is Self-Aware, joins Sarah to talk about her artistic influences. TOPICS: Pokemon Go To A Protest. Improv comedy pro strats. The mortifying ordeal of being known.
Sarah and Floral sit down to discuss the particulars of this mortal coil. Topics: Sad teens. Depictions of violence. Grieving abusers. The Monster at the End of this Book.
Kate and Xtine discuss the issue currently causing the most discourse amongst Homestuck fans: The Federal Reserve’s unprecedented open market operations in the context of the ongoing 2020 recession, what their expansionary monetary policy means and what its implications are for working people and the economy as a whole.
Nell and Lily discuss homestuck 2, myths, and fanwork. Topics: The overwhelming power of Yiffany Longstocking Lalonde Harley; The Oral Histories Of Meat And Candy; Achilles is there; Systemic Storytelling; Homestuck 2 is good, y'all.
Alexis previews the first Pgenpod Zine with Nell, Carmi, and Anna. Topics: Pride and self-promotion. Homestuck mania. Revenge of academia. Does anyone really know CSS? Double-ended candle burning techniques. Collectivism and copyright. Missing Tumblr and how to misuse Twitter.
Dani is joined by five community panelists to discuss the earlier days of the Homestuck fandom. Topics: Sorry transcribers! Wrong fan theories. Dale Strider. The Gigapause. Dashcon. Being trans is kind of woke and racism is not. Hairy Dave and fun ship names.
Kate and Goomy catch up on the year that was. Topics: Gordon, I'm normal! The recent increase in hate. Discourse flattening. Deltastuck. Make your own website. June and transfemme narratives. Homestuck as furry-positive media. Dismantling "marketability." Email me birds.
Kate and Sarah catch up. Frozen meat, Peak Posting, cool petitions, pandemic stasis, Waste of Time, model train display shed, Young Pope fever, Dr. Coomer, Counter-Strike, uchi crow, reading theory, how to get through this. Support your local Goomy.
Special [I]ntermission, free for everyone. Topics: Bernie, Black Mesa, Pope Belden, Oklahoma semantics, the end of electoralism, Maslow's heirarchy of revolution, the Fed, the contradictions, our obligations, Debs.
Intro: “Kill the Poor” by Dead Kennedys
Outro: “35,000 Feet” by Kate Mitchell
Dirk lives rent-free in our hosts' brains, and Lalo appears via séance. Topics: Speedrunning Homestuck, The Magnus Archives, Strider sobbing, Wanshi, Roxy and gender, shoving Andrew in a closet, the author as a monster, Dirk's other options, Assassin's Creed: New Horizons.
Uber the Meh and Chip talks about the Korean side of our favorite webcomic.
Uber the Meh와 Chip이 홈스턱의 한국적인 면모에 대해 나눈 이야기)
Topics: Korean Homestuck Fan projects, The Toblerone incident, Convention Culture in Korea, "Homestuck 2 and Homestuck Future", 413 Christmas wish, Korean HS dub.
주제: 한국 홈스턱 팬 프로젝트, 토블론 사건, 한국의 온리전 문화, "홈스턱 2와 홈스턱 미래", 413 크리스마스 소원, 한국 홈스턱 더빙
Valerie and Freya discuss hauntology and how in Homestuck, the past is ever-present. Topics: There is no future. The Shining. Vaporwave. The ancestors and dancestors. A cat interrupts. The stupid salamanders that shouldn't have capitalism. Cherub mating. Mark Fisher.
Dani and Haven discuss the latest Pesterquest route and contributing art for 2020’s Homestuck projects. Topics: Inspiring artists. Feeling closer to Gamzee. How old is Danganronpa? Favorite parts of HS^2 so far. New designs for familiar characters. Just be cool, guys.
The gang takes on your dumb group chat. Also: Restaurant reviews. Scooby-Doo. "MANAGEMENT STYLES." Post-apocalyptic knitwear. Shitty and boring Andrew stories. Bidets. Put a dick warning on it.
Magdalena Clark returns to talk about the Jake route. Topics: Writing with a thesaurus. The nature of good ends. Aroace feelings. Marvus kinning.
Aysha and Sarah get together to talk radical leftism in Homestuck and abroad. Topics: Better Call Terezi, self-radicalization, wage theft, and loser ideologies. Prepare for the 2020 election at voteforbernie.org or we'll cry.
Pip slides in to talk about Jane's Pesterquest route. TOPICS: Alpha/Beta parallels. The fear of being recognized as a Homestuck. Writing around the Epilogues. BAD ENDS.
Sarah and Floral talk post-Epilogues Jade. Topics: Liminal Space Comics. The first dog in space. Race coding and body diversity. Visual storytelling.