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What do you think Homestuck 2.0 will be?

My actual answer is I don’t give Homestuck 2.0 that much thought. Mostly because I’m too busy thinking about Homestuck itself and uncovering the depth we’ve been missing for years, and also getting more and more excited for Hiveswap as I do so.

My thoughts on Homestuck 2.0 sorta just link into my thoughts on the Epilogue, and talking about that would make BKEW’s wilder predictions seem downright sane compared to me. Hence why I keep any speculation far, far out of the public eye–it’s just not something I’m interested in talking about, and if I did and managed to somehow convince people I’d probably just make things worse for WP. So I have idle guesses, but I don’t want to share them in public.

I’m approaching everything about the future of Homestuck right now with a “Wait and see” approach. There’s enough to talk about with what we already have for now, you know? 

Where’d you get the idea that Knights are passive and Pages active?

First from Tex Talks, which I was greatly resistant to at first. 

Then I like. Read the comic and actually looked at evidence, which brought me here, where I am moved to say:

Reading Pages as passive breaks the damn story and worsens Jake’s and Tavros’ arcs and also Vriska, Dirk, and Jane’s arcs too.

Also Karkat’s.

can we please move on

your class analyses have been wonderful and incredibly helpful!! but do you know of any good aspect analysis out there?

Absolutely and hell yes. I don’t really feel the need to write about Aspects the way I did about Classes at all, because I think the fandom mostly has them figured out. I can add some little nuances or interesting tidbits with Aspects, but nothing I say there is going to be game changing I think.

There’s a lot of pretty great thinkers on the Aspect level, so here’s three recommendations:

I’ve gotta mention @bladekindeyewear , who in some not insignificant ways got me started in my interest in reading Homestuck analytically (along with @what-the-fuck-is-homestuck ‘s character analysis). I don’t buy into inversion theory and I think BKEW’s key verb for Knights and Pages is off, and obviously I think he’s got their Active/Passive designations reversed. Those would be my personal caveats.

But in terms of Aspect theory, his writing is on point! I’m particularly fond of his posts on the Breath/Blood dichotomy and his masterpost on Aspect Dualities, in particular his identification of physical symbols for each Aspect (I am particularly fond of the symbols for Hope :P).

I’d also recommend @dahniwitchoflight , who I haven’t read as much from but greatly enjoyed what I have read. In particular I’ve pretty much adopted  her view on Denizens until further word from the canon, because I like it and it meshes with what I already see in the system. Same quibbles as I have with BKEW re: Pages and Knights, some key verbs, and inversion theory stuff. 

Finally, definitely definitely check out Tex Talk’s videos on the Aspects, because they’re the best cases laid out yet for Homestuck’s like…unifying themes, and the writing on the Aspects themselves is completely transcendent and pushing the envelope in a big way. 

Those are my reccomendations! A lot of this stuff is kind of the foundation I work off when doing my own writing, too. Feel free to let me know what you think of any of them 🙂 

So now that you finished the Class essays (which I love BTW), what’s next on your to-do list. No rush or anything, you deserve some time to recuperate, I’m just wondering what’s your next objective

Immediately? Next week I’m uploading the next video on the Alchemy system, and my biggest priority is to get Part 2 out soon after that, and then the Medium video after that still so I can enter the next round of Patron-voted videos laying out the game mechanics in the Medium. Really excited to get to that next phase and EXTREMELY excited for the Alchemy videos to be out because I’ve been hyped about these for months now.

I want to write two metaposts at some point, one on Jane’s arc and one on Davekat and the Alpha Timeline. Unfortunately I have no time table on when I’ll get to either–my need for a sustainable income is getting pretty dire and I NEED a job, so I’m scaling way down on my writing efforts and have been ramping up my job search for a while. Even once I have one, the videos are gonna be my priority, so as bad as I want to I’m not sure I can justify a ton of essay writing in the near future.

And then of course, there’s Hiveswap and the Epilogue, which could drop at any time and add more stuff onto my plate. Once Hiveswap comes out, priority #1 will be to play through it and put out some videos introducing Hiveswap fans to Homestucks’ lore through whatever hooks the game presents. I could write about Grandpa as he relates to Jake already, but I’d like more textual grounding in Hiveswap before I do something like that, and a sense of what Hiveswap fans will care about and be interested in so I know how to pitch it better.

and who knows how the Epilogue could change what I want to write about in the near future. 

The bottom line is my objective is everything. I have all the irons in the fire, and I’m juggling them as fast as my irl responsibilities allow me to. 

I have to say I don’t really understand why people think Heir is a passive class. When I think about it I always see it as active, for a few reasons. One is that no Heirs I’ve seen acted particularly passive(except in the process of failure). Also if I’m not imagining things, the connection between The Choice’s answer and the player’s passive/active alignment. I might be wrong, I just cannot think of Heirs as passive.

I’m not sure what you mean about the Choice and the player’s active/passive alignment? I never detected any difference there.

I read Heirs as passive for the same reason I do Knights, Sylphs, Seers, and so on: They’re more group-oriented and reactive to what others think than their Active counterparts. 

John acted passively in success a good number of times. His first time using the Breeze was fundamentally in reaction to WV’s insistence. He takes direction from Rose and Vriska and Terezi at various points, following someone else’s direction for almost the entirety of his quest much like Rose and Dave (Jade is a notable inversion of this). And he exerts his power primarily for the benefit of Others even when he does use it actively. The list goes on. 

However, I do hold that John acts actively pretty often, as part of my argument that Seers/Mages/Heirs/Witches are the most flexible classes who have the easiest time veering between Yin and Yang states, as I argued in my Change/Know essay. 

think Jake would ever try to get into a scrum with Dave?

Definitely yes and it would probably result in pretty bad conflict, but if Jake gets told about the Bro stuff then he won’t. It IS possible that given time/centuries Dave will eventually be comfortable with wrestling and roughousing, but I doubt he’d be interested in full-blown sparring like Jake and Dirk like to do. I do think sparring is an interest Karkat could pick up provided Dirk and Jake were encouraging and patient about it though!

ok thoughts on the overarching themes of gay love as a force for good and m/f love/straightness in general as a force of destruction in homestuck? like eridan’s killing spree prompted by his relationship or lack thereof with feferi, caliborn being the ultimate villain and also a stand in for awful straight men online, the meteor crew falling apart with toxic m/f relationships and love triangles but saved by davekat and vrisrezi and a bunch of other examples that wont fit in the ask

My thoughts are: It’s great and I love it, though I do think there are some circumstances where m/f is presented well (I do still ship Johnroxy and Johnrezi, but not to the exclusion of the obviously canon and thoroughly goddamn transcendent f/f pairings for both Roxy and Terezi. I’m not sure how exactly that’s going to work out–assuming John DOES end up dating anyone, it’s possible he won’t and he’ll be aroace and that would be cool too– but I have some guesses.)

Beyond what I wrote in my Lilith in Starlight post and what I want to write with regards to Davekat, though, I don’t have many thoughts worth putting to text yet. That’s mainly because I’m honestly not sure exactly how the nature of the Vrisrezi situation will resolve, and so I’m waiting for the epilogue before I draw any conclusions I feel are worth asserting there.

My honest hope there is that Terezi’s gay gay gay love will find a way to save/redeem Vriska, and possibly even save both (Terezi) and (Vriska) as well. But that is just a hope, and a guess at what I think is at least a plausibility. In the interest of being practical about where I devote my screaming about Homestuck, I’m waiting to see what direction Homestuck ultimately goes in before saying more about the romances, for that and other reasons. 

So basically, for now my thoughts are contained in Lilith in Starlight. Eventually there’ll be stuff about Davekat if I can ever manage it, but now that I finished writing the best most important thing i’ve ever written and will be posting within today and tomorrow, I’m currently going to back off from writing meta for a while and focus on video editing and also, uh, you know–getting a job. Still a thing I have to do. 

So I guess uh. Keep an eye out?