strilonde road trip au: every so often they pull into a gas station and the strider boys descend onto the unsuspecting snack aisle
its just Hal and Dave piling snacks into Dirk’s arms while they occasionally shout at Roxy and rose over by the slushie machine “WHAT DID YOU GUYS WANT” “PEANUT BUTTER CUPS” “THANKS”
Their backseat slowly accumulates terrible hats and at one point it’s just all of the strilondes wearing hats with phrases like “foxy grandpa” and “my eyes are up here”
They have to stop at a motel for the night and both roxy AND Hal claim the bed with the most pillows
Dirk: where am I supposed to sleep
Roxy and Hal simultaneously: the shower
The McElroys/their family of products are just Homestuck; a list in development:
Both have an uncomfortable affection for horses and horse adjacent motifs, often making what I like to call “pretty bad horses,” like Torsey and whatever Equiusprite was.
Both make pretty damn good music even if it’s just for jokes.
Because they both have very general appearances for characters, the fanbases have the Headcanon Duality Problem: the generic, often conventionally attractive (white, thin, but have, like, freckles for spice) headcanons that, due to being created by popular artists, gets noticed by the creator/s, and become fanon for what the characters look like – whereas the interesting headcanons get thrown to the wayside.
I feel there is a correlation between the way people draw the animalistic troll headcanons (cat feet, tails, exaggerated ears, hair) and the way people draw elves (foot long ears, colourful skin, soft-shell taakos).
Both started without much thought, pretty goofy thing that turned out to be complicated and serious.
In both, characters die without dying a lot (some can die for real but other times not, can come back).
Both generate easily adaptable mannerisms, words, and phrases that people think are cringey. Ex: McElisms (boy, goof, good good ___, any amount of MBMBaM highlights like Peepums and Torsey, candlenights, etc.) & trollspeak (more generally, the syntax of all characters, gog, buckets, fuckass, wweh – hell, even certain emojis, colours, everything – I MEAN SOMEONE LITERALLY CODED PESTERCHUM, I MEAN, GOD, I USED THAT HOMESTUCK RP SITE EVERY DAY FOR A YEAR).
Both generate hideous discourse that the creator/s can only look on at with fear and trepidation.
Gay content from straight guys (hey, pretty good actually).
Once getting into the currently popular/primary fiction (TAZ, HS) fans get into the other/secondary content (MBMBaM, the Polygon stuff, Rose Buddies, Schmanners, Trends Like These, Cool Games INC, Sawbones, Still Buffering, etc. VS. Team Special Olympics, Jailbreak, Bard Quest, Problem Sleuth, SBaHJ, Dinosaur Comics, Namco High, etc.)
Use a typically unused creative medium to make above average content (podcast, MS Paint).
Big backlog of content.
Easy cosplay if you don’t give a shit.
Something in my heart is telling me both are related to Nightvale Productions but I have genuinely no basis for this.
Both sell products on Topataco.
Their internet presence is irregular, odd, and cryptic.
Both break websites and platforms (McElroys break games and make my podcast app crash, Homestuck killed Newgrounds like 10 times, etc.)
Talented fans use their skills with writing, drawing, textiles, and music to create masterpieces based on this content that, in many ways, is almost too good for what it’s based on.
Celebrities like the content (Snoop Dog, LMM, etc.)
People keep getting tattoos of the logos and it’s frightening me
Both have content coming out in the future that has generated discourse (the White TAZ graphic novel, Hivebent).
And, most importantly:
They have the exact same fanbase.
The Venn Diagram of people that read Homestuck and people that listen to the McElroys is a circle.
Justin is literally Vriska how did they get away with this.
Please add on to this I need your support
ALRIGHT FINE a bunch of people are yelling because I called Justin McElroy Vriska so:
Here are some screenshots I got on my phone when the original post first came out:
This is important. I don’t even read Homestuck and I feel sick to my stomach for these guys. I’ve been debating buying King’s Quest for a while now, but this shuts that thought down. This is actually disgusting. Everyone should know about this whether you’re a gamer or not.
jade harley: one of the most powerful sburb players ever, fused with a first guardian, knows how to work a riffle from a young age, has been studying things like robotics since she was like 7, an ambassador of skia, the first to wake on prospit, an incredibly powerful witch of space
Jake English would probably stan for the Star Wars prequels. Not like the fanboy Wookiepedia continuity geek “let me tell you about the technical specs of this droid who shows up in this one scene” stan, but as a man who sees the potential in every film. Like so:
“No john you see the star wars prequels are in of fact a poignant tragedy! The jedi order have been flipped to a broken and decaying institution of the galaxy and despite the good men and women and aliens within their order burearucracy and rules impede them in their quest for justice. And among it all the cause of its true downfall is a doomed romance needled in just the right direction by a sith the jedi were so arrogantly blind to he basically became their president! And yes john there are a lot of as you call them ‘big dumb cgi action scenes’ and i happen to like them a lot. What the fuck of it?”
Jake unironically quotes the line about sand at Dirk as a pick up line. The insinuation he is in fact not course and rough and irritating empowers Melty Sap Dirk to overpower Media Snob Dirk for a moment and drown in the fact Jake loves him as much as Anakin hates sand.
