yeah so act 1 of homestuck is just. what if you had the smallest most constrained life in the whole world and every tiny thing that went wrong like the mail being delayed felt unbearably painful and every routine action you took like walking to the kitchen to grab an envelope had the significance of a life threatening spy mission and then, finally, something Happened to you, and for the first time in your whole existence you were part of a world bigger than the fence around your yard

a lot of things that happen in early homestuck later turn out to have been orchestrated by the trolls, or critical to a time loop, or otherwise having greater causal significance than was first apparent. except for the rambunctious crow that flew into dave's window and stole his game discs. that shit just kinda happened

love rereading rose's gamefaqs knowing that kanaya grew up reading them and being amazed by how cool and smart she thought rose sounded. like how much of kanaya's vocabulary is lifted directly from this document

the most striking thing about act 1 john that's kind of gone away by now is how important neatness is to him. the kid is constantly tidying up. he opens the deeply unsettling (to him) giant harlequin doll and his first instinct is 'i have to find this thing a chair'

i've always wondered about the telescope on john's balcony.... presumably it belongs to dad because of his fascination with meteors, but john is also confident using it, so did the two of them stargaze together? did dad teach john to identify the stars and planets and did dad point up at the constellations made by karkat and vriska, neither he or john knowing their true significance?

wild that sweet bro and hella jeff are both canonically derse dreamers. sweet bro rly seems like more of a prospit guy to me