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Dirk Strider is resigned to a cold, dark and above all lonely existence. Hunting the dangerous creatures that plague humanity from the shadows has its risks, and it turns out life as a glorified bloodsucking corpse isn't all it's cracked up to be. He can deal though. At least, he could - until an unexpected encounter with a werewolf on the run turns his unlife upside down. Suddenly Dirk is worried his unbeating heart might not be quite as cold and dead as he thought it was, and that's the least of his fucking problems.
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A famous movie director and a successful writer have a rather odd conversation. Also there's a pony.
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Six months into a corporate-sponsored research mission into the unexplored reaches of deep space, Jake English has grown listless - until he by chance sparks a relationship with the ship's enigmatic engineer, Dirk Strider. Together with Captain Crocker, Doctor Lalonde, and the ship's autopilot Hal, the crew of the Hemera must navigate social conundrums, survive peril galore, and perhaps even discover the true purpose of their voyage.
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A prisoner in his own kingdom, the Prince of Derse seeks his freedom through the inadvisable use of a magic mirror. While making his escape he finds himself lost and in the company of a strange boy who lives alone in the ruins of his grandmother’s cottage. Both cursed, both hunted, they agree to travel together in the hopes that they can find some way to save their loved ones from their terrible fates.
Or so the story goes.
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No matter how whetted one’s appetite for adventure, no matter how much fun it’s been exploring the Medium with your friends, there’s only so many fisticuffs and hijinks and secret puzzle skulls a man can occupy himself with before the shine wears off and it all becomes a bit of a pointless fucking chore.
After four and a half months spent in a stagnant Void session and dealing with an incredibly fraught first relationship, Jake can no longer ignore his doubts. Dirk, meanwhile, won't rest until he gets to the bottom of things.
Their latest attempt at tomb raiding does not go as planned.
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In the daytime, you're Dirk Strider, just a normal guy, with a normal life. But there's something about you that no one knows yet, 'cause you have a secret.
[Dirkjake focused miraculous ladybug au.]
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18 Jan 2025
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Shou had spent a year planning how to take down his father's ridiculous terrorist organization. In the midst of it all, he never considered what would happen in the event that he succeeded.
The world is a lot more complicated without a villain to defeat. Everyone wants Shou to move on, but it's not easy to replace the few people he used to trust with an estranged mother and new friends who have no idea where he came from.
Meanwhile, there’s no shortage of criminals trying to pick up where Claw left off. Between them and a government division set on erasing every esper they find undesirable, has anything even improved?
Perhaps change is more slow and grueling than Shou ever imagined, but everything he did and everything he endured cannot have been for nothing. It just can't.
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04 Sep 2024
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The Circle of Stupidity is Complete: Social Performance Between Creator and Fan by Madam_Melon_Meow for sonnetstuck, Duckface, NakedBee
Fandoms: Homestuck, Detective Pony - Fandom, homestuck meta, detective pony meta
07 Mar 2021
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My paper seeks to chart the course of Detective Pony. Mentioned briefly in a page or two of Homestuck, it is a palimpsest- a written and drawn over copy of Jeanne Betancourt’s 1998 book. The idea was that a comic character, Dirk Strider, lovingly transformed the book into a ridiculous parody for best friend Jane Crocker’s birthday. In the comic, only the first few pages are displayed, but this included a table of contents page. A fanfiction author was so inspired that they wrote their own imagining of the rest of the book, picking up where Hussie left off. It would later be adapted by another fan into an audiobook and a youtube series, and was explicitly canonized in Homestuck^2. While an extreme case, it does exemplify the interplay between creator and fan, one that is entirely unique to Homestuck. To research, I have several sites where fans congregate and have discussed the importance of Detective Pony, including the fanfiction writer’s personal blog. This tradition is incredibly expansive, so I am using the Detective Pony example as a case study through which to analyse the practice as a whole.
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- Part 1 of homestuck meta
- Part 4 of Essays
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31 Jul 2022
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I liked the Homestuck Epilogues, but they aren't canon, and they make no pretense at being canon. If you're uninterested in taking Andrew Hussie's word for it, maybe you'll take my several thousand ones.
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05 Oct 2021