theenglishmanwithallthebananas:

theenglishmanwithallthebananas:

okAY so i was just thinking about homestuck cause im always thinking about homestuck and I think i just figured out the ultimate riddle.

let’s talk about the Choice:

It’s been long accepted that the Choice is largely related to facing your own mortality. Alt!Calliope chose to die, Caliborn chose to be immortal, Roxy and John chose to live, all the trolls chose to fight. but we all forgot one.

davesprite chose to fix the sword instead of himself.

listen. LISTEN.

The Choice isn’t about facing your own mortality, it’s about choosing between being useful and being a good person.

Keep reading

bringing this back because with hiveswap, we now also know pretty much every single ancestor got to be big and important at the price of being a really really shitty parent. or they could lead a simple life and be dead.

Oh yes, I like this quite a bit. More fuel for the fire:

Gamzee choosing to be important over his friends.

This entire exchange from (Vriska) about LE and, by implication, Vriska.

AR being isolated from his friends and incredibly important/powerful, and later Arquis going on about this incredibly specific and important impact he later realizes through the Masterpiece.

There’s also Dirk struggling with his own innate self-worth and morality so much he ends up not really doing much of anything himself. I think that case is interesting because, if you think about it, Dirk is at his most impactful and successful in a healthy way only when his powers are working together with Jake’s.

Which I think suggests something about Homestuck’s logic with regard to how to break out of the two extremes–it’s in working together that we get the best of both worlds and all that. Makes me hope the content we start getting through Viz really starts exploring the implications of fraymotifs and what characters are capable of together, to be honest.

Anyway this is great, sweet catch!