> Vriska: Proceed To Computer.

i wish i could show people how foundational Homestuck is in Undertale, its story & its development. like at this point, ten years later, id say that the majority of Undertale fans are aware of a connection between the two works but chalk it up to “this thing Toby Fox used to be into” or “this thing that has a couple jokes/references in Undertale” and whilst those things are both true in a limited sense, they’re massive understatements about the shared dna between Homestuck & Undertale

when Deltarune chapter 1 came out, the majority of fans were rushing to theorise & explain what had “happened”/what was “going on” to account for the huge structural/narrative gap between it and Undertale, trying to define the relationship between these two works. whereas a Homestuck fan would have an immediate familiarity with this “flip the story over, play the other side of the cassette” gambit — because it’s one Toby inherited from Andrew.

i wish i could show people how foundational Homestuck is in Undertale, its story & its development. like at this point, ten years later, id say that the majority of Undertale fans are aware of a connection between the two works but chalk it up to “this thing Toby Fox used to be into” or “this thing that has a couple jokes/references in Undertale” and whilst those things are both true in a limited sense, they’re massive understatements about the shared dna between Homestuck & Undertale

when Deltarune chapter 1 came out, the majority of fans were rushing to theorise & explain what had “happened”/what was “going on” to account for the huge structural/narrative gap between it and Undertale, trying to define the relationship between these two works. whereas a Homestuck fan would have an immediate familiarity with this “flip the story over, play the other side of the cassette” gambit — because it’s one Toby inherited from Andrew.

every chapter of deltarune has a secret npc who only appears if you leave and re-enter the room 1225 times while you have a bagel in your seventh inventory slot and the npc is a sentient doorknob and when you talk to them the music cuts out and they’re like “who’s that whispering in the trees, it’s two sailors and they’re on leave, pipes and chains and swinging hands, who’s your daddy, yes i am” and then within four hours there’s a thirty minute long video on youtube titled “ASGORE IS FRIEND??? DADDY THEORY EXPLAINED” and it already has 100,000 views and then a year later people call the next chapter disappointing because it was focusing too much on developing the main characters instead of explaining the doorknob guy