Author: optimisticduelist

i found your blog recently, and i have to say it made dirk my favorite character in home stuck. i normally have a hard time finding characters i like and may relate to, so reading all you had for dirk made him my favorite and changed my opinion on him. i had previously been viewing him as much more cold and distant then he actually is

i gained 3 million power levels reading this. 

this. this is what i’m alive. this is what i’m fighting for

soon EVERYONE will love Dirk Strider!!!!! EVERYONE ON EARTH, EVER!!!! EVEN PEOPLE IN THE PAST.

SUCH IS THE EXTENT OF MY CONVICTION. SUCH IS THE CAUSE I CHOOSE TO FIGHT FOR.

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A question about Pages, do they lack their aspect at the start?

Maybe? I don’t really like jossing headcanons, but I’ve never really read a version of this idea that feels compelling to me, personally.

I think it’s more accurate to say Pages tend to either A) Attract the attention of  others who mean well, but can be unpredictable in how they go about “helping” the Page, or B) Serve themselves their Aspects in very selfish ways.

I don’t think Jake in particular reads as “lacking” Hope. Understanding the impact Jake has on Dirk when they’re 13, specifically through the vector of his Hope, is instrumental to understanding both their characters, imo.

Any baseless headcanons?

Through virtue of sheer probability, probably lots? I’m bound to be wrong about some stuff, and figuring out whether my guesses are grounded or baseless is part of the fun.

Do I have headcanons that are just for fun, because I find them appealing, with absolutely no aims to speculate with regards to how they fit in canon? Sure.
I prefer to keep them to myself more often than not, though. Not cause there’s anything wrong with sharing them–I just keep really busy talking about canon stuff. And it’d be likely to make things more confusing. 

But that begs the question, are you a furry rD

oh yes, extremely. i’ve been quite open about this

this entire online endeavor on my part is just a long ploy to build enough fandom clout to influence the fandom such that, through whatever combination of fraymotifs are necessary to justify it, furry tf is canonically established as an easily accessible and popular service on Earth C.

this will create a vibrant and canonical demographic of literal furries on the planet, probably leading to the founding of the fifth and final Furry Kingdom. I’m sure we can all agree this is the only point at which Earth C can be declared a true utopia.

I once remember reading a theory that horses are linked with Void (Equius and his weird musclebeast obsession, Mom Lalonde giving Rose Maplehoof which confounded her, etc). What do you think of that theory?

i think the point at which i feel confident i’ve cracked the riddle behind the god damn horses i will finally feel a shallow imitation of true peace

That said I already link Void to physical strength/the world of the physical in general and horses are pretty much all about being STRONG in homestucks lore, so I’m inclined to agree.

I’m looking at the God Tier color palettes, and a thought just hit me – What about a link of Doom and Hope? It sounds dumb, but I can justify it – Doom can mean a general pessimism, or even just falling foul on circumstance, Hope being near the opposite, the name suggesting as much? IMO, a Doom player would see things for the worst, possibly giving up, whereas a Hope player would say “We can get through this!” I mean, I’m just going by colors, but that uproots literally anything that’s been set?

It’s the [Hope <-> Doom] Anon, again !! //// The other
pairings would be like this, based on colors: [Space <-> Time],
[Light <-> Breath], [Rage <-> Blood], [Life <-> Void]
and [Mind <-> Heart]

I don’t disagree with the links drawn because I think all the Aspects are interrelated to some extent, but the homestuck extended zodiac already provided canonical confirmation that Hope/Rage and Life/Doom were the “complementary Aspects”, so the actual argument seems rather moot to me.

I think we’re far past the point of debating what the pairs actually are, but that doesn’t mean we can’t draw links between non-paired Aspects, if that makes sense.

Had a thought about “castes are pushed towards an Aspect by society” that I hadn’t heard anybody mention yet. Need to find the page, but I think it was once implied that Doc Scratch influenced troll society to be as brutal as it was, at least partly, to ensure the Alternian trolls would be better prepared for Sgrub then the Beforus trolls. Going further from that, setting thing up so all Rustbloods are inclined towards Time, just so that Aradia would be, sounds like some Doc Scratch BS to me.

Yeah, I agree with you completely! A friend of mine actually voiced this idea to me in private and it won me over basically instantly. It plays into the crony capitalist/mob boss vibe LE and Scratch have going on.

You’ve written before about the unhealthy, toxic dynamic that makes up Jake, Dirk, and Hal, and how for all intents and purposes it was essentially caused by the creation of hal himself – hal was miserable and isolated, so he acted controlling and toxic towards the Alpha kids, which caused them to treat him worse, etc. etc. This may not be your type of thing, and if so feel free to tell me, but what do you think the Alpha kids (and the dynamics thereof) would be like if hal was never created?

probably healthier overall (but still not healthy–all the Alphas had roles to play in hurting each other, as much as they cared), right up until they were all suddenly dead, since Hal is the only reason they made it through [S] Unite Synchronize.

I do find it kind of hard to get into these kinds of questions though. They’re not bad or uninteresting or anything, it’s just that the only answer my brain can really come up with is that they wouldn’t exist. Hal is a necessary component of the time loop that creates LE, and so the trolls and betas and alphas and everyone.

That’s the fundamental nature of LE’s evil and the core conflict that informs everything about Homestuck’s narrative, so I find it really hard to think around it, personally.