#blablablahstuck

Rose, sitting across from him: *turns to dave* David why is your boyfriend like this?

Dave, chewing ice: what now?

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?

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.

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.

(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.