Homestuck and my Media Literacy
April 13, 2025
from visiting my website alone, people would be fast to realize that i'm a homestuck fan. i've finished reading homestuck for the first time back in 2021 and its scarred me ever since, but how much do i Actually understand homestuck? well, to put it shortly, not too much.
i'm not one to actually comprehend the more subtle messages of things, the only way i was able to realize things from homestuck that i didn't understand the moment of was reading the analyses of other people on the INTERWEBS. did i agree with them? maybe. they weren't topics i understood immediately and they did.
terezi is my favorite character, and you know she's my favorite character because most if not all of my neocities is centered around her. the color palette, the favicon, some images. but, how much do i ACTUALLY understand terezi? well i don't have an answer to that, sometimes i like characters for no particular reason. but never to the extent of terezi. and mad mew mew. but this is about homestuck.
terezi is one of those characters i always found Cool but never thought to myself Why, if you asked me right now what made her one of the characters i most relate to i would struggle to find an answer. though, it doesn't help that i don't remember most of homestuck.
and to confess, i didn't even read homestuck properly! i skimmed through all the pesterlogs and dialog sections because i was too lazy to actually read what were possibly the MOST IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT in those sections! sorry. actually not sorry. maybe? i don't know.
does this make me a fake fan? i hope it does, so i can stop being attributed as a fan at all. just kidding, not, maybe, probably.
media literacy for me is hard, how else was i supposed to realize that the black pixel in the screen was meant to be perceived as the events of what happened were bothering anya's regular life? but it also doesn't help that i'm immature, but also that i haven't been DIAGNOSED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE I NEED PROFESSIONAL HELP
it could be the fact that i just don't interact with other forms of media, i barely watch movies anymore, i basically read little to no books, i play games sometimes but these games are either ROBLOX or casual stuff with almost no story. and the games i play that do have a story, well, i don't really play them anymore.
in general, my analytical and literary senses are all over the place, but never really where i want them to. this entry might come across as me driving myself into insanity because i cannot comprehend myself, which i just considered after writing 8 other paragraphs.
does this make me a bad person? i hope it wouldn't, some people also struggle with analyzing things and only look on it through the surface of what it is. and i'm one of those people. if all of you guys are actually the smartest people on earth and i look like the biggest dunce you've come to meet please let me know. so i can be MORE OF A DUNCE just kididng
thanks for reading!