madeoftime:

Fun fact: we can acknowledge that Vriska abused Terezi when their relationship was flushed, and simultaneously acknowledge that they are both healthier and happier together in a pale relationship than they ever would be apart, given the circumstances of their universe.

obviously, the two are individuals, but so much of their characterization is tied together, if you try to logically explain half of the story without explaining the other, you don’t even have half of the understanding

(Terezi) and (Vriska), too, are important to the understanding of Terezi and Vriska’s endgame relationship.

(click through for what essentially amounts to an essay on their relationship status throughout chronology, and my own thoughts)


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I don’t have much to add to this–just that I’d never read Terezi and Vriska as being flushed that early on before, and it’s an interesting reading since I think the feelings are definitely there, if repressed.

Unsure how I feel about Vriska and Terezi’s moirallegiance being healthy, too, but I’m genuinely not sure how the comic is aiming to present that and suspect I won’t until the Epilogue and Terezi finding Vriska in the bubbles. Guess we’ll see! 

Either way this was an interesting read and I’m in a vrisrezi mood and jesus fuck i’d never seen that kiss panel so that exists. Vrisrezi is gay

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 😉

Keep rising,

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[Active/Passive Masterpost] [Destroy and Create] [Serve and Steal]

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? 

Heres a secret: Vrisrezi is actually one of my favorite ships and has been p much since I started reading. May as well post this now since I’ve been meanin to for the last couple days.

[ CHVRCHES | Night Sky | Terezi Pyrope ❤ Vriska Serket] 

I’m the night-sky
I’m the fire in your eyes
And I want you
Now and for all time
I’m the cold heart
I’m the secret that you hide
I’ll be listening until you decide

I will carry you and give you life
I will cover you and show you the way
It’s a sequence that you never learned
It’s a lesson I will never forget

I can hear you in the overtones
Just an echo of the promise we made
Change the future, we can travel time
Or make us blind so we can never look back

We can never look back

I communicate in simple strings (take your time)
I’m the only one who gave you the truth (speak to me)
Once you leave me you were really gone (far and near)
Give me something to remember you by (always be)
All that’s here is what you left behind (majesty)
Slowly moving in the back of my mind (can’t forget)
Take a moment to remember me (and our ways)
Make me blind so I don’t ever look back

Only in your name
I will ne’er be free