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What do you do when you find someone that refuses to talk to you because you had different headcanons about classpects?

It’s not really just classpects, in my case. My reading of homestuck runs counter to the norm in a lot of respects–liking the ending, the gnostic symbolism I mention with the Tricksters/Lord English, considering the alphas the best part of the narrative…

I run into disagreements about Homestuck on a lot of fronts, with a lot of people.
I usually just drop the subject. I’m pretty busy, so its a lot more effective to put the effort in elsewhere. And no one has to agree with me about anything, you know? This is all for fun.

Im really curious, how do you think hiveswap will incorporate SBURB into its story? I know hussie wants the story to be “self-contained”, so it may just stay in lore rather than direct plot.

I kinda doubt we’ll be exposed to Sburb much directly unless the ending really does go the “escape into Sburb” route, which i find relatively unlikely. so i do think itll probably stay in the lore for the most part.

That said i think we’ll be learning a lot about aspects and probably classes too, since I don’t think those are exclusive to Sburb. As i’ll be making clear in…oh, about an hour.

Will you be doing more character analysis? I have seen your jake,Dirk, and jane one, and I was wondering if you have or plan to make a Roxy one, or one of the prescratch kids

ive already written a ridiculously long post on Jade. I’ve also covered Dave, John, Rose and others under the guise of classpects. When I do actual analysis content really focused on the betas it’ll probably be in video form as part of Homestuck Explained, where I eventually hope to cover everyone, as seen on the Homestuck Explained video map:

Tho there are things I want to cover eventually like Davekat, late-game Rose, and other stuff more specifically.

Do you think that if your theory about Joey’s mother being a clone of Jane holds true and the alpha kids somehow manage to interact with the events of Hiveswap it could help Jane and Jake get some closure on their relationship? Because, frankly, I don’t feel like the ending gave them the proper closure.

Sure, maybe? If the story continues with the epilogue and beyond they could just get closure on their own terms, too. We’ll have to wait and see!

Is Gwyn from Dark Souls a Lord of Life or would he have a different classpect?

I’d say Light, I think? Spot on with the Lord, though.

Thing about Gwyn is that, like Caliborn, he’s also a take on the figure of the Demiurge. Yaldabaoth was somewhat of a Gnostic criticism of the Christian “angry, jealous” god, but he’s really just a version of the Patriarch Sun/Sky god.

There’s plenty of those in mythology, and Caliborn at least relates to several, it seems to me–the Egyptian god Ra, and the Greek patriarch Zeus, for starters.
Zeus is particularly interesting because the idea of the Demiurge originally surfaced in Greek philosophy, and Zeus himself was considered one such figure.

And Gwyn, with his lightning bolts and assorted pantheon, resembles Zeus more than any other fictional figure. Like all Demiurges, he’s a commander as much as a direct threat–he makes the world of Dark Souls what it is, even as he either exploits or degrades basically every single character in it.

A Lord to a T–in true Caliborn style.

(Not saying all Lords are necessarily evil or bad, btw. The Demiurge is just an interpretation of the archetype that emphasizes the Lord’s flaws and the consequences of their power, and stories that lean on the idea to explain why the world is so wrong obviously cast the Lord in a murky light.

Lots of people could point to stories of Lords who they consider positive figures, too–like ofc, the Lord God in Christianity. And that’s totally ok and just as valid–different stories will employ and interpret Archetypes in different ways, because archetypes themselves are just character patterns we recognize. They are absent of morality in and of themselves, I think.)

You ve played the friendsim What are your thoughts about Ardata and classpect? Im trying to figure it out but I can’t think of more than that she’s Definitely Not comfortable with the light aspect what do you think?

my current guess is that shes a witch of mind–the familiar being her viewers–but that could be roleplay or, frankly, just me/my friends reading too much into it because her text feels almost designed to be hard to classpect. there’s also some aspects of her personality that vibe with Sylph for me, so that could be her true class? idek.

she mostly seems to lack the keywords and motifs that usually make characters so clear, like diemen for example. Or maybe i’m just worse at picking out those motifs for some classes. can’t really tell.

the spotlight definitely seems to weigh heavily on her, and that could def be the influence of the Light aspect via the blue sign caste. I’m not quite sure there since again, i dont super have a read on her classpect. 

but i’m guessing shes a Mind player just judging by the 3 motif and her concern with…i’ll say false appearances? Holding to a persona?

She changes the mspa reader right out the gate, forcing them to agree with her abusive philosophy to please her, and thats basically the choice at the heart of their dynamic throughout. so thats what i’m going off, insofar as i’m willing to speculate.

but to be honest, i’m not even sure these versions of the characters will necessarily line up with the versions in hiveswap. it seems incredibly likely to me that they will, which means i am inclined to consider these versions for class purposes, but ill feel a lot more confident one way or another after we get to know some more trolls this way.

Ardata feels too opaque to really say,
by design, I think.

honestly i was a little shocked for a second about how dark friendsim got but then i just started laughing and couldn’t stop. that was some wonderful homestuck weirdness and i’m looking forward to where else they go with it from here!

yeah pretty much same. maybe the biggest surprise for me is, i wasnt expecting to actually get caught up in the dating sim aspect. but somehow in between the manslaughter and sausage jokes, diemen kinda worked for me, too. swoon!

Would you ever examine the music of Homestuck. Like how it relates to characters or something like that or how it’s used. Like how Dirk uses Time on my Side, a theme intended for Dave, in [S] Prince: Rise Up and how it further conveys how much Dirk emulates various qualities from Dave.

maybe, where its relevant thematically like with Time on my Side, yeah. Main thing with music is i dont really know any music theory or anything so i would feel like im out of my depth even more than i usually do