Nobody is going to look at a fan-made AU and say that it is as canonical as Homestuck^2. Nobody is going to look at a work of fiction on AO3 and say that it has the same weighting as Homestuck^2 does. These are the official people and the official words of Homestuck - and with official branding comes canonical privillages. Several voices have been picked out of the crowd and one story has been chosen among thousands to be the Hussie mandated continuation. Even if this was truly dubiously canon - in a paradoxical place of being both canonical and noncanonical - Hussie’s name and the fact that it’s being written by authors chosen by Hussie, that Hussie is paying to write the content, slaps an incredibly blatant “official” sticker on Homestuck^2 and the Epilogues that can’t be ignored. That this is how Homestuck ends, and carries on.Īnother part of this issue is that Hussie’s name makes it official. Whether Hussie wants to recognise it or not, he has declared that the Epilogues and Homestuck^2 are the actual continuations of Homestuck.
Canon is canon because the author decided what is and is not part of the original universe. It’s obvious enough with how he described the Epilogues as Homestuck’s “drop-off” point you can see the Epilogues and turn back, stay with the original story of Homestuck and all of its fanon content, or you can progress into Homestuck^2 and the story Hussie - the author - wants to tell.īy putting his name on it, posting it on his own website, and adding his own thoughts and ideas to it, Hussie has completely negated the point he was trying to make with “dubiously canon” content.
This is canonically Homestuck this is how Hussie has determined that Homestuck would naturally continue. So, of course, the publication of the Epilogues and of Homestuck^2 is a significant issue. You create the lore of your world, and anything that you recognise as part of that world is immediately brought into the canon. If Hussie says, “this is Homestuck”, then it simply is - because that’s what being an author means.
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He made a series of decisions that created Homestuck without him, it would doubtlessly be completely different from what it is now, if it even existed at all. It is inherently more canonical because Hussie, as the creator of Homestuck, has looked at it and said, “hey, this is something that could probably happen in Homestuck”.Īs the author, his word is miles above our own. If Hussie recognises something, it automatically stands out above the rest. In the grand scheme of things, he is the word of god, the lore creator, the one who envisioned it. Hussie is the author and creator of Homestuck.
What causes it to fail, however, is when Hussie himself then makes a continuation. It’s saying to us, quite simply, that we have been a huge part of the creation of Homestuck - and from here on out, we are as real as Hussie is as authors, as creators for Homestuck. Dubiously canonical content allows the fans to be validated and recognised in the context of Homestuck. This, of course, is a perfectly valid and reasonable claim to make. Homestuck has no actual “end”, so everything we create is as real and unreal as anything else. Nothing is true, everything is permitted, to copy from a rather famous game’s quoting. A piece of fanfiction detailing the life of John as he struggles with depression and eventually finds solace in Dirk is as potentially canonical as a fanartist’s design of Rose wearing her Seer uniform and becoming an actual goddess. Hussie, with the suggestion of “dubiously canon”, offered his fandom the choice of pseudo-canonicity Homestuck is over, and anything that comes after is just one in a series of potentials that might have eventually happened. Homestuck has thousands of fanfiction pieces, thousands of AUs, thousands of posited artworks - everything which is non-canonical, because it did not happen in the core story of Homestuck. This, of course, comes from the background of Homestuck’s community. It was used to posit a very simple question, and one that is actually fairly interesting to ponder: what is canon? It is a term that allowed Homestuck to continue without actually being “Homestuck” to carry its name without supposedly tarnishing its branding. To his mind, this meant something very simple in the greater canon of Homestuck - that is, the story it tells and the actual events that happen in its timeline - whatever happens in this continuative media paradoxically is and is not relevant. “Dubiously canon” was a term used by Hussie to describe both the Homestuck Epilogues and Homestuck^2.
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