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  1. Public Bookmark 38

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    Dave shows Dirk something he made.

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    04 Apr 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    Well good, ‘cause this is actually a four and a half page paper about meaning in transformative works by which I mean Homestuck by which i mean Detective Pony.

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    04 Apr 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 7

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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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    04 Apr 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 38

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    Dirk sends Jane a heavily edited copy of Detective Pony. He's not sure if it was a good idea to expose himself like that, but Jane values his vulnerability.

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    04 Apr 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 4

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    An essay written for HS11th's Villain Day, on the topic of Dirk Strider. The title is needlessly long and melodramatic, but then again, so is the rest of the work.

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