I may have just missed you already talking about this in an earlier post and if so my apologies in advanced. By the zodiac quiz I’m a time-bound and by looking back at the time-bound players from Homestuck and I wanted to ask about something I started picking up on. Is it just me or do the time-bound seem to have a recurrent theme of escapism throughout the series?

I mean, yes. but every single character has that as a theme–to it’s very roots, Homestuck is a story about escaping an inherently flawed/limiting reality. They’re all Home Stuck and escape their status through each other and their interests, after all!

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Could the constant flirting and talking about getting married and having kids also be counted as sexual harrasment/assault? Like Roxy said, once or twice wouldn’t have been that bad but having it be so constant over so many years…. (On a sidenote, tysm for making that post and enlightening me, I never would have been able to pick all that up. It hurts my soul and I wanted to say thanks lol)

It took me like 7 years of being a Homestuck fan to pick up on it, and I’m literally a gay guy who’s gone through similar things. We’re socially conditioned to consider that kinda jokey flirting between boys and girls natural and ok and that conditioning is a hell of a drug.

I’m glad it helped put things into context for you like it did for me! And uh, sure? I’m not really an expert on what does or doesn’t count as outright sexual harrassment, personally, so I don’t feel qualified to make a call.

I’m not personally sure why the hard distinction matters, because ultimately it was just an uncomfortable situation between two messed up friends for most of the time.

Even when Roxy dipped into straight up inarguable violation of Dirk’s agency, it was while she was brainwashed by candy magics.

Hey, I hope this isn’t getting annoying, but I found two more dirkjake things to worry about answer them and I’ll never send you another dirkjake ask again, I promise. So my first worry is, did they just get shipped so that the girls could get mad at them and then forgive them just why did they get shipped and does it mean anything? And I sometimes worry that Jake’s not actually interested in Dirk, because he says he could never love him as much as Roxy does.

They got shipped because Hussie was interested in telling a variety of coming of age stories through every character, and that meant telling a diverse pool of different queer experiences of coming of age.

Jake and Dave are depictions of bisexual boys coming of age. Dirk is one of a gay boy doing so. As someone who kinda straddles the line between bi and gay, I can tell you both experiences feel true to life as hell to me.

As for Dirk and Jake’s specific story, they convey a lot of important and unique themes about man’s capacity for good and evil, the power of faith and friendship, the shitty things we do while struggling with toxic societal ideas of what a man should be like or that heterosexual love is superior/more acceptable than homosexual love, the ideals and promise of the American dream and the tragedy of losing that dream to fascist tyranny…

Their story is about a lot of things, but it’s also just the story of two best friends who grow up together, love each other, hurt each other, and then slowly have to learn and grow so they can love each other without hurting each other. It’s about the messy and beautiful experience of growing up.

Does it really need any other reason to exist than to be what it is? Where does this stuff about the girls even come from? Kinda sounds like some ornery fan projecting their attitude onto the text and putting words/motivations into Hussie as an author when we have literally no evidence that the story was going for anything like that, to me.

And yeah uh, Jake says that hes unable to love when he’s at his lowest point and literally thinks he ruined all of his relationships, so I’m not any more inclined to take him at face value than I am with Dirk when he calls himself a toxic influence on every part of Jake’s life, which is factually not true.

When Jake simultaneously at his most powerful and most in need of protection, his ultimate fantasy of safety is still a Dirk who calls him his boyfriend and acts…frankly, kinda jealous.

And that’s AFTER Dirk broke up with him, when he would be off the hook for not being interested in Dirk, if he wasn’t. So I think that character beat speaks for itself.