Arrghus

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hello, Arrghus. I hope your doing okay, havent seen this blog updated in a long while. Still, a bleated welcome to the year of 2026. May the year not be as bad. Stay safe and healthy. Dont forget to drink water. :D

Yeah this blog has fallen by the wayside as other things took priority. Not quite as into Homestuck these days.

Drinking plenty of water.

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RAGE

The Only Thing I Know For Real

I'm still alive, I'm still alive I cannot apologize, no

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I’ve been thinking about using the aspects in my dnd campaign, having them replace the usual good/evil, law/chaos spectrum that make up the outer planes in dnd. Do you have any suggestions for what an entire world aligned with one aspect would look like?

That's more or less what the beta kids' and trolls' Lands are so that's where I'd draw inspiration from. Just, you know, larger, flatter, and with less salamanders. My Aspect Keywords post might also have some ideas that can be used for landscaping.

D&D has a lot of alignment-aligned critters that need to be mapped to things too if you want to use them for stuff. As a rule of thumb I'd suggest connecting Good-aligned creatures to the Notional Aspects (Breath/Hope/Life) cause they fit the flashy bright-color aesthetic, Evil-aligned creatures to the Material Aspects (Blood/Rage/Doom) also for aesthetics, Lawful creatures to the Cold Aspects (Space/Void/Mind) cause they're organizers, and Chaotic creatures to the Hot Aspects (Time/Light/Heart) cause they're individualistic. Their personalities would probably be pretty different though since they're now working in service of their Aspects instead of their alignments.

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Hello! I've been rewatching and rereading your class videos and Medium posts recently :) In your Destroy and Create post you've added a hyperlink to what was supposed to be a destroyer unifying myth.... except the link leads to an empty tumblr page. Is there any way to access the additional information? Has it been reposted somewhere? I'd be very grateful for a link! Thank you!

Ohhhh hm that must've broken when my url changed. Hoooopefully if you search for Royalty and Outlaws on my blog right now, the corresponding posts should show up. Let me know if they do and I'll try and find a spare moment to update those hyperlinks, I still love those essays and would like them to be as complete as can be

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Unifying Myths: Prince/Bard - Royalty

I’m more than a little upset I’m going to have to work these into my Force and Flow essays soon, but I figured I’d write these posts on the

For any broken links created as a result of the name change you can simply replace the 'revolutionaryduelist' part of the url with 'optimisticduelist2' and it'll work. The post itself hasn't actually changed, it's just been moved to the new name.

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The Water

The cabinet is overflowing The river runs through her house Never seen Always heard It coats each surface With irony And bronze Her name is Sophia The water is her enemy

The storm tears the land apart The only escape is the unknown She leaps She leaps The water is trying to kill her

Rain fills the sea The waves are still and beautiful And dead

She scours the beach Tears it apart Tears it apart Unveiling what lies within She is seeking the flame

The water Is the water Is the water Is the water Was

She is drowning She is burning The fire betrays her She is alone at sea The water was The water was

W W W W W W

She seeks the water In the cabinet In the sea of stars In tears She is trying to understand

She finds She finds M Her name is Sophia The water is her kin

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HEART

The Haystack Principle

kokoro goes doki doki

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Someone asked about the update schedule for the Aspect essays, and the answer is unfortunately "when they are done". All I can say is that I'm still working on the next one.

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MIND

The Road Not Taken

Please don't take off my mask My place to hide

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Hello! I’ve really enjoyed the medium articles, and now i have a question just for fun, what do you think would be the worst classpect combinations that could still win a session?

Answer 1: I don't really think much about classpects in terms of what they could be in some hypothetical scenario where the roles were recombined in this way or that, I'm more preoccupied with what they are in Homestuck itself.

Answer 2: Maid of Time, Page of Breath, Mage of Doom, Knight of Blood, Rogue of Heart, Sylph of Space, Seer of Mind, Thief of Light, Heir of Void, Bard of Rage, Prince of Hope, Witch of Life.

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LIFE

When I Grow Up

Between the good and bad's where you'll find me, reaching for Heaven.

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The following content was cut from the essay DOOM for purposes of thematic consistency (that is, it didn’t add much to the reader’s understanding of the Doom Aspect’s symbolism) but is preserved here for posterity.

Mental illness

It takes a certain kind of person to bear up under all this pressure. Sollux’s visions, at one point likened to a chronic pain condition, leave him fatalistic and irritable, with a temperament that can change from calm to angry, from proud to self-recriminating, in an instant. Accordingly, the narration dubs him bipolar. This is precisely backwards. While Sollux’s fatalism is reminiscent of depression, the key characteristic of depression is listlessness, a lack of feeling and motivation, and Sollux is anything but unmotivated. Similarly, though mania (and the less well known hypomania) can take many forms, it is most commonly associated with a feeling of euphoric joy, another trait largely absent from Sollux’s emotional makeup.

More importantly, bipolar mood swings are measured in days, not instants. Because of this, it is actually impossible for a story that packs nearly all of its action into discrete segments of no more than 24 hours to convey the full experience of bipolarity in any meaningful way. Ultimately, Homestuck is a work designed to challenge both reader and author, and with that challenge unfortunately comes the possibility of failure.

Mituna continues this theme of authorial challenge. Like most of the dancestors, he is presented first as a joke, a mockery of the psychologically disabled, the full weight of his story and sacrifice only reluctantly hinted at by Aranea after the fact. He is part of the Hussnasty Hell (medium link), a complex, artistically lofty experiment that by design can be very difficult to properly digest after enduring the bitter, unpleasant first bite.

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DOOM

All Hail Shadow / Good Riddance

https://medium.com/@Arrghus/doom-7f99a8b4c4a4

The Aspect of Finding Out.

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BLOOD

Heavy

You can’t break those cuffs.

https://medium.com/@Arrghus/blood-5474277a0163

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BREATH

City Escape

The Aspect of Pure Thot.

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SPACE

Be Wherever You Are

https://medium.com/@Arrghus/space-f5d430b36d4b

Why don't you let yourself just be somewhere different, o whoa oh

Why don't you let yourself just be wherever you are?

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TIME

The Ballad of Barry Allen

https://medium.com/@Arrghus/time-827f6fe7da9c

time then shades

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Elemental Aspects

The Aspects take many forms both subtle and overt. Pumpkins, shaving cream and rays of light are all expressions of one Aspect or another. When gods and prophets go to war, however, they frequently employ a purer form of their Aspects, one I’ve taken to calling Elemental [Aspect], a shapeless energy field of tremendous power, unique in nature to each Aspect.

Elemental Time: The Clockwork Majyyks (https://www.homestuck.com/story/4043), a twisty, spiraling technicolor power wielded by the Handmaid, a Witch of Time, and later Jack Noir when he is infused with the essence of Lord English.

Elemental Space: The flames of the Green Sun. Kind of obvious, but come on, it’s a torrent of green fire formed from ignited spacetime.

Elemental Breath: The Breeze. Again, obvious. Wind given shape, color, and occasionally solidity by the power of the Heir of Breath.

Elemental Blood: The Red Miles. Never wielded by a Hero of Blood, but as a semisolid crimson energy emanating from a symbol of duty and expanding into the shape of branching blood vessels, it seems likely.

Elemental Heart: Soul-rending lightning (https://www.homestuck.com/story/6745). Probably not soul-rending in the hands of a non-Prince, but the lightning theme seems pretty solid for the intensity of the Heart Aspect, especially with

Elemental Mind: Neural electricity (https://www.homestuck.com/story/7956) Terezi uses Elemental Mind more to perceive alternate timelines than as a weapon, but the neuron pattern is consistently associated with her and the tamed electricity works well as a contrast to Dirk’s lightning.

Elemental Light: Pure Light (https://www.homestuck.com/story/6832). A bit on the nose, perhaps, but Rose weaponises Light well with the skills she learned as a Void magician. A similar energy surrounds Vriska when she initiates her Ancestral Awakening. (https://www.homestuck.com/story/3825). Varies in color from white to blue to purple.

Elemental Void: Stabby Darkness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5wYN6rB_Rg&t=3m18s) Only really seen in Collide, Roxy’s darkness tendrils resemble the Void symbol in shape and fit right in with John and Rose’s similar elemental attacks.

Elemental Life: Raw Aura (https://www.homestuck.com/story/4408). Elemental Life is unique in that it conforms to the text color of the user, Jane’s is pale blue while Meenah’s is Fuschia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5wYN6rB_Rg&t=10m52s).

Elemental Doom: Hithertoo unseen, unless you count Sollux’s red/blue psionics (questionable).

Elemental Hope: It’s the big yellow Hope field. I mean duh.

Elemental Rage: Nope.