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TG: i will call ur name like a million times TG: and shout it in 2 the void every chance i get TG: til u come back :3

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in one of homestuck’s many strange and vaguely prophetic moments, vriska predicts the entire year of 2017 with startling accuracy.

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Eureka, it works! Never a doubt in your mind. Grandma's technology is pure modern witchcraft, like she busted loose from a big silver screen playing the Wizard of Oz or some nonsense, which also isn't a thing that's occurring to you right now.

Besides Jade’s outfit and classpect, what’s the connection to the Wizard of Oz?

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[S] Caliborn: Enter (p. 5261)

This is one of Those Flashes. The Flashes that are so amazing the first time you watch them, that you just sit there dumbfounded for a minute when the flash ends. I remember images from this flash. I remember how it felt to hear the music, Eternity Served Cold by Michael Brown, for the first time. I remember looking this flash up on YouTube, searching the comments to find the song title, and then searching it out on YouTube. This flash managed to make that dumb Planet of the Apes reference feel like a meaningful artistic choice.

I could probably gush about this Flash for another while but I think this one probably speaks for itself. Or maybe it takes actually reading 5,260 pages of Homestuck for this to reach its proper emotional impact. I showed a Homestuck flash to my mother once, and that was a mistake. Too much happens, not enough context. It’s a pity really, that there are so few roads into this thing. Even if you don’t know the bible, you can appreciate a lot of renaissance paintings for the skill and the imagery but in this case it feels so contextual.

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[5247-5250] The Kiss

This scene looked very different to me the first time I saw it. The huge erupting volcano as he kisses Dirk’s severed head seemed ironic. The sweeping movie pose as he kissed the corpse was amusing. 

However, on this readthrough I have noticed all of the ways that Jake, and for that matter his alternate reality self Grandpa Harley, seems to be fixated on dead things, Even LE, who Jake has many clear parallels to, moves through ‘the corpse of a dead universe’. Given this, we can see the kiss as an expression of necrophilia, excitement at the prospect of a human corpse object symbolized by the erupting phallic volcano in the background.

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[4927] TFW you let a hottie into your room and she immediately finds the fanservice-y things you didn’t think to hide because they aren’t literally pornographic but it’s still embarrassing

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Earlier I hypothesized that Dirk has internalized homophobia, and this makes that idea seem more true to me. Despite it ‘not being used as a pejorative’, he is using it that way now, unambiguously, and if you take it at face value, you can say that this is something he feels on some level, and it would explain why he is so evasive about how much he is interested in Jake.

Earlier, when I discussed the way furries were treated back when Jade was introduced, I mentioned the way that people’s reaction to furries echoed patterns found in contemporary homophobia and transphobia. Like the latter, furry stuff was considered unmasculine, and the typical macho posturing bullshit would be to glibly dismiss something as “gay furry shit?” I’m not really sure when exactly people chilled out about furries, but at some point it didn’t seem like being a furry was the cringiest shit on the planet. Maybe it was when half the internet toughguys started watching My Little Pony, and all of a sudden it the venom got caught in their throats.

(That’s not to say people don’t make fun of furries anymore, just that the intensity of it is a lot weaker than it was a decade ago)