#aspecting

1) what are the traits they share with everyone else in that aspect? if they’re a void player what do they share in common with equius, horrus and roxy? if there isn’t anything they share in common with those three, they might not be a void player. it doesn’t matter what traits they are, but they should be comparable in SOME way.

2) what are the traits they share with everyone else in that class? same idea! if they’re a knight what exactly do they share in common with dave, karkat and latula? this is the easier question, classes tend to be easier organized because classes solely focus on what you bring to the table, what your role is in the session, and what your role is in the general story.

sun trine moon

balanced personality. many people with this aspect are personally popular, likely because they expect harmony in the relationships; these people are generally very attracted to relationships and are attractive to others; their relaxed, easygoing disposition puts others at ease.

Yes indeed, it was I in the mask and the paint last night; that's no secret. Everyone knows it.

But the god was there also.

WARNING: I talk about the Self in this breakdown, if you are disturbed by derealization or the question of your experience being fake or otherwise not as it seems, I would not advise reading. Sorry, and thank you. Don't worry, you're perfectly real I promise. *Kisses you on your forehead.* Mwah.

A few weeks ago I made a full aspect breakdown, where I went through each of the Homestuck aspects and wrote a little bit about them. Since then I've thought a lot about aspects. I cant stop. Every time I blink I see the aspect wheel.

But this insanity might yield some more aspect wisdom. So, here's my Heart and Mind.

Heart was particularly hard for me to grasp for a bit, and that's just because I was focusing on it's relationship to Time and Rage, and seeing it as some kind of weird thing about the Self. But, I should've been focusing on it's relationship to Mind, and it being some kind of weird thing about perspective, and how perspective influences actions.

Mind is the aspect opposite to Heart on the wheel. It represents viewing the world through an objective, logical lens. It draws from Light, and uses the objective information to make objectively relevant decisions.

Obviously, I should've taken my understanding of Mind and flipped it so I could see Heart. Heart sees the world through a subjective, inner understanding of things. It draws from Void, and uses irrelevant information that can't be understood to make decisions.

Mind says that the pepper has chemicals inside that will cause a burning sensation, so we shouldn't eat it.

Heart says that the pepper tastes hot, and interesting, and it hurts in a good way.

Notice that neither of these perspectives are wrong. It's all just a take on the human experience of how we understand things. Sometimes we think with our Minds, and sometimes we think with our Hearts. Both are equally valid ways to view and take action on what we see. Simple, heard it again and again all the time. Can't believe I ever didn't understand Heart.

[WARNING: DEREALIZING SECTION BEGINS BELOW]

But hold the fuck on. Is that really all? What about the previous take about Heart being character traits and personality? Yes, yes, that hasn't gone away. I'll talk about how these things all go together, including Mind's opposite take.

If you don't know, the cardinal aspects in canon are just the topmost and sidemost aspects on the wheel. I'm starting up a fansession where the aspect wheel is shifted clockwise so that Light and Void and Hope and Rage are the new cardinal aspects. The point of this is to shift the powers so that I have something to hone my focus on.

So, aspect wheel is cardinally shifted. The cardinal aspects now are:

Void = Light (was. Space = Time) Hope = Rage (Breath = Blood)

Or,

Hope, Light, Rage, Void (Breath, Time, Blood, Space)

It seems that I MUST always relate my theories to homestuck canon(which makes perfect sense), though in my honest and serious observations I can see I've completely lost the fucking plot of the whole comic. Homestuck made me feel like opening my eyes and truly being INTO something for like. The first time in my life. Like, yes, I still know the comic, I've read it through multiple times, each time taking a fine look. And I hate what Hussie did to it. TBF, he was probably in a very strange place when he put this all together. But thank you Hussie, for showing us your "ironically good webcomic." It actually touched me, in ways nobody understands. But I have found this new dimension of the plot. And lost my mind. This knowledge, this insight, could possibly prove useful for once though.

The sessions in homestuck were twin, for few other reasons than that Hussie probably read some books with some big names on them. Jung and Campbell for example. Beyond the threshold(entry into sburb) there will be guardians, helpers, and mentors. In the comic, the two races are at odds and obscured from each other. Reading it was like reading an instructional manual on how to puke. That was because they are also, due to it literally being their pre-ordained fate, chronologically moving in opposite directions. The trolls arrive at the kids session pretty much right after having to future-past mouthfuck themselves in individual separate time zones on the meteor. Future selves informing the past selves, and the past selves being no more prepared to make a difference in how it all panned out in the end says the same thing about time as it usually does in homestuck. Needlessly complex 10th dimensional nonsense. Time is all about events, and Time was what Aradia had given the trolls when she took the hit for all the other trolls to scram, only for her to come back after death having transcended. Then they busted out the other side of the scratch into the universe they created. Karkat seems convinced he makes them Bound to his misfortune, despite actually being the only leader among them to succeed in uniting them all, pretty much AT all. John is just inverse. He IS the Hero of Journeys, whereas Karkat is the Hero of Unity(*). The Heir to Plot Progression, to be the god that became this force that pushes things toward the place they're going to be. The wind blows the way it is meant to go. No-place-else. John just controls that wind, thus justifying the depiction of his powers. John is also a leader-non-leader. He isn't the leader, he will take no such responsibility, meanwhile Karkat begged to be the Leader. But they both will lead, they will do the work, they will ultimately be the force necessary to save the session and everyone. I think because Breath and Blood were the difference between leaders, lives, species, relationships, and all such matters, and they made the depiction of those two worlds look and act and feel the way they did, WE can flip it a few degrees clockwise and achieve a method.

So, whoever is closest to Hope and Rage on the aspect wheel will then save or harm the session. One being the Hope, another being the Rage. One for the Optimism of Prospit, another for the Skepticism and Drudgery of Derse. These heroes are going to either make it through with (hope) or break through with (rage), and at the end of the tunnel they're passing through is a blinding (light). The only thing they have to protect themselves and proceed? Nothing. (void). They have not a damn thing. But. Perhaps. Thats the only thing you've needed all along. A solution in the void.