Karkat: *chomps down half of a string cheese stick*
Rose, sitting across from him: *turns to dave* David why is your boyfriend like this?
Dave, chewing ice: what now?
Rose: never mind.
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Karkat: *chomps down half of a string cheese stick*
Rose, sitting across from him: *turns to dave* David why is your boyfriend like this?
Dave, chewing ice: what now?
Rose: never mind.

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This is something I noticed while playing Skylla’s route that makes me wonder.
See how she’s currently wearing her signature duds?
But if you notice the family portrait in the back, she appears to be wearing the standard black t-shirt with her symbol on it?
What I wonder if there’s a sort of societal standard or idea behind the clothing you wear in relation to your age e.g. the homestuck trolls dress so similarly due to their younger age, but as they get older they can be more versatile like most of the Friendsim cast.
Something I was thinking about the other day re: Tavros like... ok he's kinda treated as a joke, a throwaway, and as a fandom we kinda don't acknowledge him much in general. But I kinda wish when we did it wasn't always just 'other half of mlm ship' or 'vriska's favorite person to bully'? Like. Ok he doesn't have a lot of characterization beyond that but I think about Team Charge with Tavros and Aradia a lot. And the big reason Aradiabot didn't full on kill Vriska was because Tavros was there and terrified. No one talks about that??? (And while I don't have screenshots rn bc I'm on mobile I DO have them trust me lmk if you want to see em)
Or like... this is an extremely minor detail and one I think is also underrated but Tavros and Kanaya were on speaking terms. Enough to the point she had given him plenty of advice on how to be more confident. But we didn't really see them interact in the 'present time' of the story other than her chopping his legs off. I want to see more of what their dynamic would have been like? I'm not expecting bestest pals or anything but I think it would have been a nice counterbalance to. Anything with Vriska, and even just little dialogue moments would have been fun. Which I feel that way about a lot of interactions we don't see among the beta trolls in canon. But this one specifically intrigues me because if they talked enough for Kanaya to give him advice I feel like that's an actual tangible friendship there beyond Kanaya meddling due to Vriska's presence.
So tl;dr i want more 'Tavros has healthy friendships' content than we got or focus on and it occupies more of my brain than it should.
Friendly reminder that technically all of the humans in Homestuck, with the possible exception of Dads Egbert and Crocker (and Hussie), are Aries signs.
Has anyone ever actually stopped and thought about what a hellscape the Dream Bubbles are when it comes to socialization?
Like. Hussie was very kind to us when introducing the concept to us because he always made sure all the doomed selves were set apart from their respective splinters visually in some way, but thinking realistically about the concept of the dream bubbles, and applying the multiverse theory of 'every decision creates an offshoot timeline', it looks more like this:
You're on the meteor passing through a dream bubble with 5 feferis, 3 eridans, a dozen nepetas and every one of them look exactly the same and is wearing the same clothing and you think you see a dead kanaya you've talked to before but maybe she's just happening to wear the same fashionable outfit as the one you're thinking of
You've begun talking to Latula, close buds chatting about games or whatever. The meteor passes out of the bubble and you're forced to part. Later you re-enter a bubble, and Latula recognizes you and you begin catching up. It's only when you reference a prior conversation topic that she has no familiarity with, that the horrible realization sinks in that this isn't the Latula you were talking to before, and with this realization comes the equal horror of wondering if you've ever actually talked to the same Latula twice in a row or if it's a friendship somehow built between you and three or more Latulas all at once.
Doomed selves whose timeline followed the Alpha all the way up to one crucial, final moment. Kanaya threatens Eridan in a chance encounter that she "Will Kill Him Again." Eridan looks confused and responds with "Kan wwhat are you on about, the one wwho killed me wwas that spiderbitch, she caught me offguard in a standoff betwween us and that damn clowwn."
Doomed Dirks, all with varying heightened awareness of their nature to splinter, all wearing clothes with self-made notches and rips in various, random locations. When asked why, they respond with "well someone has to make sure you can tell us apart, and I can guarantee it's not going to be you."
Beforus trolls talking to each other like old times, getting confused when the same memory dream bubble still somehow ends up leading them to an alternate timeline self, no matter what the logic of this place seems to be.
Talking to two or more of the same doomed player, and having an inadequate way to distinguish one from the other in conversation when you try to specify audience - "meulin one" and "meulin two" are fairly subjective, after all.
Just.... the actual dream bubble landscape, as it's truly meant to be, would be near impossible to navigate socially.

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ok so I was thinking about the Homestuck epilogue, and I read it while distracted so maybe I’m missing parts or misunderstanding things but I just realized something that really upsets me.
(spoilers under cut)
I found this lovely compilation of Homestuck quotes on my phone the other day while clearing files out... It was originally a document I was using as an example for my sister on choice writing and editing tips. Lord knows what each quote was about. All I remember is "i hate time travel" was me telling her how she can write a loose draft out and later go back in and add a scene after the fact so long as it fits.
Anyways the quote choice and sequence makes me laugh so here it is in case anyone else gets a jolly out of it.
Not to be Homestuck but uhhhhhhhh