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Prediction: Ten times as many people will play Hiveswap as have ever read Homestuck; and the latter will ultimately be regarded by the fandom as “the Hiveswap backstory comic”. Most fans will be familiar with it from having skimmed over the plot summary on Wikipedia, but practically no-one will actually have read the thing.

Alternately Homestuck ends up being “The thing Toby Fox did the music for before he made undertale”.

That’s definitely another possibility. It really depends on what Toby Fox’s next project is, though; one-and-done indie creators rarely enjoy the kind of posterity that’s necessary to have historical footnotes to their work, so if Undertale is the only notable game he ever does, it ain’t likely.

i have so many thoughts about the flowery ralsei dynamic that i do not know how to articulate yet because i love it so much but it's so funny that they have this almost mentor mentee relationship where the lessons are delivered primarily through rage baiting ralsei until they articulate every repressed feeling they've been hiding since chapter one. it's like gerson being exceedingly kind to susie cause he knew she needed encouragement but it's flowery realising ralsei needs a rage room and can't have one so he gives ralsei the best alternative instead

goodness gracious i love ralsei deltarune

i need to put her in cute outfits

flowery is a paralel to ralsei in the sense that they both start out as uncomplicated golden boys meant to represent an idealized version of what people expected kris to be (ralsei as baggage around the boy they perceive others to want them to be in relation to asriel, flowery as the over-idealized human protagonist of a jrpg), ralsei's negative feelings towards flowery that later turn positive is in paralel to kris's own initial muted feelings towards ralsei