Usagi Buzinkai, composer of Homestuck’s “Doctor” as well as many other popular tracks that helped shape so many young people’s lives passed away several days ago.
Usagi was an asexual trans woman in the process of coming out before she died and we cannot let her passing erase her identity.
PLEASE STOP SPREADING POSTS MISGENDERING A DECEASED TRANS ARTIST
yeah this is my new d&d character she’s a half-tiefling, half water genasi warlock, she’s a Great Old One warlock and shes path of the blade..her weapon of choice is a trident, and her patron is a cthulu-esque squid-like leviathan…she comes from the noble background and is in line to become empress of her realm. she looks mostly like a grey skinned tiefling but because of her genasi heritage she also has ear-fins and spends a lot of her time in the water…shes neutral good…and dresses mostly in fuschia and gold………………………
i can say i’m not that invested in homestuck anymore all i want but the truth is, you either have never been a homestuck or are a homestuck, there is no undoing what has been done.
you think you’re a free man but then you play deltarune and suddenly your homestuck brain awakes from its fake slumber and as it points out to you that toby fox just made a spades bucket joke, you know from the very depths of your soul that you can never be free.
George Buzinkai passed away yesterday. Buzinkai was a member of the Homestuck Music Team, and scored several animations with songs like Explore
Showtime
Endless Climb
And, most importantly, Doctor, the most popular and remixed track in Homestuck, and the unofficial theme of the series
Buzinkai was one of the most important people to Homestuck’s success, right up there with Toby Fox and Hussie himself. He had been working on a video game
i’ve seen a lot of people (including me) make the mistake of assuming buzinkai was a man, so let it be known that all of this iconic homestuck music was in fact made by a trans woman. rest in peace.
I went through her Reddit posts and confirmed this to be true. She was a trans lady, though she never got to be completely out during her lifetime. Probably why not a lot of people were aware of it. She wrote some incredible tracks and scored one of the internet’s most iconic webcomics, having a hand in shaping fandom as we know it today.
George Buzinkai passed away yesterday. Buzinkai was a member of the Homestuck Music Team, and scored several animations with songs like Explore
Showtime
Endless Climb
And, most importantly, Doctor, the most popular and remixed track in Homestuck, and the unofficial theme of the series
Buzinkai was one of the most important people to Homestuck’s success, right up there with Toby Fox and Hussie himself, and had been working on a video game
Seriously though a lot of really great storytellers and popular content creators were, at some point, homestucks. And that either says a lot about how much homestuck changes the way you view storytelling and the internet as a medium to express it or how big the fandom was.
some of the reasons homestuck meets the requirements of a traditional epic!
homestuck is a finely crafted piece of literature that deserves serious discussion and recognition, and it bothers me when people won’t acknowledge that.
Homestuck is the most important piece of literature of the 21st century so far.
I’ve compared Homestuck to Lost in the past, and I’ve oft seen Lost analyzed as a modern twist on the traditional epic. This just makes the comparison even more poignant!
Homestuck is such an incredible piece of literature. I wholeheartedly agree that it’s the most important piece in the 21st century so far. Absolutely.
I want to point out that the plot doesn’t just span civilizations, it spans both genre (space opera, urban fantasy, apocalyptic romp, let’s play, fable,) and medium (epistolary narrative, comic, webcomic, novel, video, videogame). It employs all the accumulated self-aware, self-critical traditions of the latter 20th century to launch into a uniquely self-aware 21st century narrative: it’s not a story that’s epic, it’s an epic about stories.
The narrator struggles for control over the telling with his own metaphorical selves, he’s his own protagonist, deuderagonist, and antagonist— all with the acknowledgement that they’re only controlling the telling, that the story has always been what it is, that they’ve always been part of it, that they’ve always been inside it— and this is also a story that’s written, in significant chunks, by reader suggestion. Are we outside the story? Yes. Maybe. No. The audience is part of the theater, the bard is part of the crowd.
What is Homestuck? By now, the question’s gone from joke to koan and it’s still a completely legitimate question. But if it isn’t an epic, it’s only because we haven’t invented the actual word for it yet.
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