Void is linked to invention and engineering, so of some kinds of things, maybe. Equius and Horruss were both engineers who made plenty of robotics and robotic equipment, and Roxy was able to reverse engineer literally anything out of nothingness with enough practice.
HELL YEAH, this is awesome to hear because making it easier to get and stay into Homestuck is my biggest motivation. Thanks so much for the message! ^^
I LOVE DIRK STRIDER MORE THAN I LOVED ANYTHING AND I WANT TO SEE THAT BITCH HAPPY HE IS MY GODDAMN CINNAMON APPLE
LOOK AT THIS DUDE. THIS ABSOLUTE UNIT. HE BUILDS ROBOTS AND LIKES WATCHING FUCKING ANIME AND I LOVE HIM SO GODDAMN MUCH. THIS BOY? AMAZING. FANTASTIC. BEAUTIFUL.
Bonus video for the month! This isn’t any sort Homestuck or Hiveswap lore post, just a rough overview of the current state of Homestuck, Hiveswap, What Pumpkin, and their relationship with VIZ media.
If you’re feeling down about things as they stand, I hope my contribution makes you feel a bit better about things. And maybe even makes you consider checking out Hiveswap and the Hiveswap: Friendsims! They’re both fascinating and add a lot to the Homestuck universe, in my opinion-Alternia has never been more interesting than the last couple of weeks!
All things considered, I am quite excited to see where things go from here. Hope you’ll join us!
I’m gonna queue this one to keep going up every so often, because I think it’s particularly important to the current fandom sentiment and I want to see as many people be better informed as I can.
Feel free to blacklist #video-boost if you’d like to dodge it.
The point of the Friendsim is obviously to let us get to know some of the troll call trolls before we met them in the context of Joey and Xefros’ adventure. It’s set at around the same time in their lives as Act 1, which means they’re going to be dealing with similar struggles, have the same basic personalities, and so on.
It’s loosely canon because it’s playing fast and loose with reality RE: the MSPA Reader, but we’re not even sure the MSPA Reader’s existence will be completely retconned in Hiveswap, or if it’ll just take on a more structured form! Who knows?
Either way, the stars of the show are obviously the trolls, and THEIR depictions are roughly accurate to how they’ll be in Hiveswap. Hence the point of the Friendsims.
I think it could go either way, which is partly why I can’t tell what JOEY’s true classpect is, and thus why I haven’t felt confident making a Joey video yet. I am going to have to say fuck it and bite the bullet soon because Joey deserves better from me, honestly.
If A. Claire is a Jane well into her prime and roleplaying a Light player rather than Life, that could maybe explain her early death from a classpect perspective, and it would suggest Joey might be roleplaying LIGHT as a result of A. Claire’s influence, when she’s actually naturally a Life player like her mom.
This would be delightfully ironic, and if true I’d wager Joey is actually an Heir of Life by nature, since it would account for how she feels she can’t be assertive all the time.
It would also make sense if her rise to stardom along with Xefros is orchestrated by Doc Scratch, who’s always been fond of manipulating Light players, and her arc eventually involves moving a bit further away from her desire for stardom/the spotlight and towards simply enjoying spending time with her friends and pets.
This makes a degree of sense, especially since her Life imagery is displayed pretty much entirely through the variety of pets she’s accruing–Byers, Slothdad, Deercat–and pets are so far a more consistent source of joy to her than her dreams of stardom. But then, part of Joey’s light imagery also has to do with imagination and stuff like video games, so its not all bad or anything!
Still, if she were an Heir of Life, she’d be a mix of John and Jane’s title, which would be quite fitting, I think. Hence why I just don’t know right now! I think it may be a mystery we’re meant to riddle out as the Acts continue, but maybe Act 2 will contrive to give her a True Sign and thus give us the answer.
Flying through Storytelling 