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I have to confess I’m always a bit fascinated when I see an artist posting huge quantities of Homestuck fanart, then I creep their archive and it turns out they only got into it, like, last month. It’s interesting to see how people interpret the various characters’ designs without the context of fifteen years worth of fandom discourse bullshit constraining them. A decade ago that blonde Vriska would have gotten them hounded off the Internet, and now it’s just a thing you can do!
#was blonde vriska not super popular in 2012 #i remember heaps of blonde vriskas with that blue hair streak (via @crazyexdirkfriend)
Absolutely, blonde Vriska was de rigueur circa 2012, but some time later there was a pretty serious backlash against depicting her that way, I imagine at least partially in reaction to its former ubiquity. I… want to say that 2014 (i.e., the “a decade ago” cited in the initial post) was about the peak of anti-blonde-Vriska discourse? I could be wrong – I might be off by a year, now that I think of it.
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