The Mind’s Light And The Light’s Mind

its time

I mean, windy powers just so happen to be great for utter tomfoolery and the most mischievous of antics....

one sun two sun green sun yellow sun

it's a mix between their aspects and their origins (kind of), jade has the green sun and space while rose has horrorterrors (look close!) and light. tbh I just thought the two sun symbols mirroring each other would look cool lol — and I wanted to paint jade's fur and a gothic-y outfit for rose :))

someone reboot botboy, also aradia ayo-

you; have to understand that everyone in homestuck is a girl and everyone in homestucj is a boy. Adn also eceryone in homestuck is mnot a girl and also everyone in himestuck is not a boy and everyone is nonbinary also. you Understand. rebnlog

Not to be controversial, but I do think it's quite silly to knock on Homestuck: Beyond Canon for having references to internet memes in it, saying that this will "inevitably date it", and calling that an inherently bad thing. I understand if that's just not your personal taste, modern pop culture/online culture references is definitely something that will turn a lot of people off, but... Homestuck itself was filled to the brim with those same kinds of references. It's truly just keeping in the spirit of the original work, people only find it jarring now because they aren't experiencing it in a state of being a beloved time capsule.

Homestuck, as a piece of fiction, is fundamentally extremely derivative, referential, and reactionary, completely chock full of inside jokes and references to at-the-time modern media and memes. The level in which HS2 is engaging with current memes and media is honestly substantially lighter than Homestuck itself was. During early Homestuck in particular, it's difficult to go even one page without some kind of reference being present in it, especially considering a major point of the setting design and character writing is their relationship to other media. The posters on their walls, the games they play, the fact that Dave is living in a Saw trap, et cetera.

I find this train of criticism to be particularly fascinating, as to me it shows that, in some way, it doesn't really feel like a lot of people ever look at Homestuck as something that was ever new. The time period it was made in is almost never taken into consideration when analyzing the work. Homestuck never was, it just is. HS2 has current-day meme references because it is a current-day Homestuck story. This is exactly how things should be. This is just how Homestuck is.

and all hope may die, but it lives on inside of me

i think straight up one of my favorite set pieces in all of homestuck is the chamber at the core of the battlefield where the tumor sits. where there's these stone tiles on the walls demarcating the aspects and lunar sways of the players of the session. a place that might have had another vitally important purpose in a proper session maybe

Shit man, this godtier war is fucked. I just saw a guy raise his hand to the sky and say "TALLY HO" or some similar shit, and every one around him vaporized, had their skeletons crumble to dust and then disappeared. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is wielding an assault rifle and an energy sword from halo. I think I just heard "ancestral awakening" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

Hey lol so like. So like space players and they're red saviors huh