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[derseprinceoftbd]

Do you think Hussie was ever considering the idea of Jake being possessed?

It's a pretty common belief that large parts of Act 6 were relatively unplanned, with Hussie essentially having a beginning and end in mind and just sort of moving things about to fill time in between them. And this lead me to wonder; was one of Homestuck's first truly big theories possibly based on real, abandoned foreshadowing?

It's no secret that Jake had an immediate association with Lord English that a lot of people picked up on, speculating about them having some kind of connection. And some went so far as to float the idea, based on some of the language surrounding him, that Jake would specifically be possessed by English in some manner, a theory which eventually made its way into DDOTA, easily Homestuck's most well-known rewrite project to have reached Act 6.

So, do you think that this might have been part of the actual plan? That Hussie had some number of ideas he considered enough to leave potential retroactive hints for, but then abandoned after reconsideration, and that this was one?

@bladekindeyewear

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Happy Holidays!! 

[homestuckexamination]

BKEW had an interesting theory about Haloween and pumpkins and headless horsemen. It was one of his theories that were wrong, but if they did come true in Homestuck, Homestuck would make a lot more sense.

Oh, you mean the parallels between Dirk and Jake with the Headless Horseman imagery? I mean, it didn’t go further into their theory of Jake’s head bursting like Lord English’ and him becoming a Big Bad alongside Jane, but it WAS foreshadowing for Dirk’s entire decapitation shtick.

[komo-mai]

"All right everyone. Time to save the world!! Let's show 'em who's boss, huh!"

[utopianparadoxist]

your class analyses have been wonderful and incredibly helpful!! but do you know of any good aspect analysis out there?

Absolutely and hell yes. I don’t really feel the need to write about Aspects the way I did about Classes at all, because I think the fandom mostly has them figured out. I can add some little nuances or interesting tidbits with Aspects, but nothing I say there is going to be game changing I think.

There’s a lot of pretty great thinkers on the Aspect level, so here’s three recommendations:I’ve gotta mention @bladekindeyewear , who in some not insignificant ways got me started in my interest in reading Homestuck analytically (along with @what-the-fuck-is-homestuck ‘s character analysis). I don’t buy into inversion theory and I think BKEW’s key verb for Knights and Pages is off, and obviously I think he’s got their Active/Passive designations reversed. Those would be my personal caveats.

But in terms of Aspect theory, his writing is on point! I’m particularly fond of his posts on the Breath/Blood dichotomy and his masterpost on Aspect Dualities, in particular his identification of physical symbols for each Aspect (I am particularly fond of the symbols for Hope :P).I’d also recommend @dahniwitchoflight , who I haven’t read as much from but greatly enjoyed what I have read. In particular I’ve pretty much adopted  her view on Denizens until further word from the canon, because I like it and it meshes with what I already see in the system. Same quibbles as I have with BKEW re: Pages and Knights, some key verbs, and inversion theory stuff. 

Finally, definitely definitely check out Tex Talk’s videos on the Aspects, because they’re the best cases laid out yet for Homestuck’s like…unifying themes, and the writing on the Aspects themselves is completely transcendent and pushing the envelope in a big way. 

Those are my reccomendations! A lot of this stuff is kind of the foundation I work off when doing my own writing, too. Feel free to let me know what you think of any of them :) 

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Voice of Malpercio

Happy 17th anniversary Baten Kaitos!! 💜🐋

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Lady death 

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Happy 16th Anniversary Baten Kaitos!!