Tag: jake english

How do you feel about the way Tavros’s and Jake’s relationship in the end of the comic was portrayed, and how they relate to their characters?

I feel like I don’t really want to talk about late-game Jake because so much of how I feel about him is tied up in what the Epilogue seems to be leading towards, so I’ll abstain from the question for now.

That said, hit me up again once the Epilogue happens, and I might have something more thoughtful to say for you. It’s a good question!

Hello! First off, great Homestuck posts and discussions, furthering my enjoyment of the comic in general. In a post you said that Jake English’s being… Well, English, was a fan misunderstanding? I’ve been looking into canon references and other discussions and I am no clearer, I was wondering your reasons for thinking the fan assumption is wrong? Kind of a silly question. Anyway, keep it up

I remember that post, but I also remember a conversation that followed where I recanted the position because there wasn’t actually much explicitly debunking the position and I don’t see a need to harsh on the headcanon. British Jake is pretty neat, I like imagining it contrasting against Dirk’s affected Texan accent. 

Angels might as well be servants of LE, representing the worst of the Aspect of Hope – blind devotion and forsaking others in the name of one’s ideals – Eridan’s hinted to be influenced by them. Could they represent the cult of LE? And aren’t they blind, like LE himself? Eyes seem to be significant in Gnostic tradition. – With due respect, A

aspiringwatcher:

revolutionaryduelist:

You might be right–though Jake being able to summon them makes it kind of murky, its not like they were presented in a very nice light then, either. I honestly don’t feel I have the angels “Figured Out”, and I’m not even quite sure I’m supposed to.
Jake’s arc is, after all, rather incomplete–his big showdown with Caliborn in the Masterpiece is still ahead of him.

Maybe we’ll learn more about angels in the future, or, frankly more likely at this point, i’m missing some gnostic myth or other source that contextualizes them really well. Hard to say.

Jake didn’t summon a single Angel during the Masterpiece – only during pre – Game Over sequence, when he was forcefully enlightened by Aranea and wasn’t in control of his powers as a Player of Hope.

Sure, but he’s still able to summon them. And I’d say Jake’s summoning of the angels is, if anything, informed by his relationship to Abraxas, not anything related to Yaldabaoth.

So I don’t really feel like I can really make a call one way or another, just yet.

ink-and-homestuck:

revolutionaryduelist:

landofsomethingsomething:

the strilondes would all die for each other and anyone who devalues their relationships on any axis between them is my sworn fandom enemy. also, all their SOs know and support this. they are All Family and they all love and value each other deeply. 

the striders know the lalondes are dramatic highkey performative disasters but also that they are brilliant, kind, caring, dependable and willing to throw the fuck down when it’s time to do so. 

similarly the lalondes know that the striders are desperately insecure clingy bullshit bandits who deny everything but also that they too are brilliant, kind, caring, dependable and absolutely also willing to throw the fuck down when it matters most.

dave and roxy know that dirk and rose are desperate to appear Intellectual and Above Everything and are content to mostly let them have that with the occasional ribbing as long as they know that if they ever need help they always have support here waiting

and dirk and rose know that dave and roxy are Exuberantly Irreverent of everything to hide the fact that they care about everything way too fucking much and are mostly content to let them cavort around idiotically because it makes them happy as long as they understand that people do in fact generally care and love them, the real them, the parts of them that are broken and tangled and messy, the Reatalk under all that quality Shitpost

and also all these dynamics can be applied almost 1:1 in reverse because that’s how they fucking roll

the strilonde family is ride or die to the end and I love them so much anyway thanks for reading

This is also true about the Prospit clan, and about the way Prospits and Dersites generally feel about each other. It’s pretty amusing when people dunk on Jake while also talking up how much they love Jade, because being mean to Jake is maybe the fastest way I can think of to get Jade pissed at you???

The same is true about like, Dave and Jake, or Dirk and John. Dirk loves Jake and Jane so much he’d p much lose it constantly being aware that John and Jade are their kids, John talking to Dave and Dirk would lead to him understanding Dave’s childhood a LOT better, like.

Idk I could do this forever, the eight human kids are a mobius knot of interwoven friendship, acceptance and mutual love and it’s the best thing tbh.

I always said that these kids love each other and genuinely care about each other.

I also imagine Dirk and Jade talking about growing up alone in the middle of the ocean, and resolving their issues about being in human society.

John and Jake would arrange movie nights and watch so terrible movies, that sometimes even John would say he is done. John would help Jake with his self-confidence issues.

Gosh, I love homestuck.

mmmmmmmmmm yessss good moisturize me more, dirk and jade talking and being friends is my actual lifeblood