It’s pretty cool how Dirk and Terezi have parallel arcs about nannying much more dangerous individuals who they conflate their own identities with, huh?
Also neat how they have similar parallels with regards to being desperately in love with a seemingly distant/uninterested best friend but approach those feelings in contrasting ways–Dirk owning them completely, Terezi hiding them under a carefully crafted persona.
I feel a full-on essay brewing in me about this though I’ll probably hold off on writing about how Jake has about as many similarities with Vriska as he does with Tavros ((Vriska) especially) until the epilogue shakes out but the Dirk/Terezi parallels are sorely underappreciated and important and if i wasn’t so busy i’d literally be writing dirk & terezi fic tbqh
Here’s the last one of this Classpect essay series! This is on the Know and Change pair, the quartet of classes closest to the Spectrum:
Mage and Seer & Heir and Witch
Coming soon will be:
More Homestuck Explained videos, covering Homestuck’s core themes from beginning to end
Writing about Jane Crocker, Davekat, the Alpha Timeline… .
Hiveswap lore and analysis, linking the game to Hiveswap once it comes out and probably handing streams and such if all goes well!
And more stuff as I think of it, too. Really, figuring out the Classpect system made me realize we’ve only scratched the surface of Homestuck (it keeps happening), and this is only the beginning of a new extreme.
If you can spare me a buck a month you can help me make all this content and, like, not die and stuff– and get your hands on it earlier, too! Higher reward tiers will let you invite friends to the Discord so they can access this stuff and talk about it, too!
Feel free to @ me, reblog or send me an ask with your thoughts on these first two essays. There may be some things I can’t answer as they will be answered in later posts, but I might use those as inspiration for what teasers to release from sections of the next two essays over the course of the week.
You can also feel free to talk to me in the Hiveswap Discord where I moderate and cry about Homestuck. I’m very interested in seeing how my thoughts stand up to scrutiny, so don’t be shy!
Here’s the first teaser for the last essay, on the Know and Change classes! This one on Terezi pulling off something that could be described as a Miracle 😉 (No association to bad clowns)
Not gonna lie, this is the essay I’m most excited for, and the Change/Know classes have ratcheted upwards to become what are likely my favorites.
You can access this essay early by hooking up with my Patreon–otherwise you’ll be able to read it on Thursday, when I post it here! You can also talk to me about it on the Hiveswap discord and on the r/Hiveswap subreddit. And here on Tumblr, obviously 😉
Jade listens to Dirk ramble about human culture or current Earth C pop culture or the nature of pornography as a philosophical language/art and is in awe, it’s like listening to someone who knows what they’re talking about like Rose but with the intense phallocentric interest of Dave and she thinks it’s by parts fascinating and hilarious. Jade is probably the person who makes furries evolve from an interesting sociological field of study into a full-blown fandom for Dirk. She helps him design his Horsesona or whatever. They hide all this from Jake for a while because neither of them is ready to deal with the inevitable Na’visona but it happens eventually anyway.
Dirk listens to Jade ramble about the secrets of the universe and science and technology and high-level engineering mechanics. Like I said he tutors her and Jake to get them up to speed on the last 400 years of engineering progress but Jade picks it up in like, a week, and from then on immediately starts crafting innovations that leave Dirk confused and beffudled and FRUSTRATED just trying to keep up–he loves it. He also helps her out doing grunt work for sciencey stuff and is mentally freaking out all the goddamn time because he wants to impress her so bad. They commiserate over Jake’s awful taste but Jade clowns on him hard over how in love he is and Dirk sits there and takes it getting owned like a chump.
Roxy and Terezi:
They bond hard over falling for people who put out very strong personas that made them feel unloved for years (Dirk is also in this club even though he was the person Roxy was in love with after they talk it out. Terezi is like. Human romance sure is weird.) They also work together to tease the fuck out of John and eventually that grows into an interest in teasing the fuck out of each other. Also Terezi becomes Roxy’s go-to source for all the primest, juiciest Rose and Dave meteor years gossip/embarassing moments/secrets. One time Roxy teases Rose about, like, hey so i herd you willingly watched Twilight with Kanaya once and Rose is like FIRST OF ALL THAT WAS A FACETIOUS VIEWING AND SECOND OF ALL I WILL MURDER TEREZI PYROPE SHE’S THE ONE WHO WALKED IN ON US AND WE HAD THE COMMON ROOM -SCHEDULED- AND,
stares at the ceiling thinking about terezi and dirk’s parallel arcs
wheres my fic of terezi and dirk connecting about their issues and talking about being in love w/ people they thought were uninterested for years
wheres the fic where terezi and dirk watch revolutionary girl utena and cry about juri arisugawa together
im fucking laughing @ this cause its terezi and rose specifically and i love it
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