#heart aspect

[thomasjefferson-johnegbertbinder]

I could never be a hero of heart because I have a cavity deep within me where my soul should be that is completely unknown to me

[dreambubblediaries]

on the downside I am homestuck with food poisoning today but on the upside MY BEAUTIFUL HEART MUG CAME AND I CANNOT GET OVER HOW GORGEOUS IT IS. Look at that DETAIL! LOOK AT THAT GLAZE WORK!! IT LOOKS LIKE BOTH LIGHTNING AND FEATHERS.

I am forty years old and what finally motivated me to create a budget was needing to free up funds to buy these mugs. I need a full set I need Derse and Prospit I want the Lands I’m going to be poor for the next year rip my wallet.

Thank you so much @the-east-art everyone go check out their shop RIGHT THE NOW!!!

[subjuggl8te]

the first rule of being a heart player is that you HAVE to have a weird relationship with the concept of death. the second rule is to love and care for your friends :o)

[theheartboundgamzee]

HEELLOOOO PEOPLE! here's my looovely little trollsona some background info: hes an alternian troll that somehow learned of the existence of aspects, and became extensively invested in the void aspect, almost worshipping it, believing himself to be voidbound, immersing himself in 'nothingness' and denying his 'heart' eventually during his sburb session, he ascends, and freaks the fuck out

ALSO: Cerulean blooded, prospit sway thats pretty much all i know abut him yo making a classpect-specific character is hard when i dont know shit ill be posting more about him soon i guess idk

[moonglide]

cyrano de bergerac? my impression is knight of mind

hold on i gotta look something up

ok so unfortunately i have not seen the classic 1897 french play about a slightly fictionalized version of the life of 1600s novelist cyrano de bergerac, assuming that's what you're talking about. funny to know that it's based on a real person, though. hamilton-ahh play.

...wikipedia says that it introduced panache into english?? crazy.

anyways, a cursory summary of the plot tells me that could be possible. a knight of mind would be one who fights through, and yet struggles with, logic, reason, conformity, the bigger picture, the non-self, and wider systems, generally directly, obviously, and for their own gain.

but i think a page of heart works a little better? a page of heart would be one who fights through, and yet struggles with, identity, desire, emotion, individuality, non-conformity, and the self, generally indirectly, subtly, and for the benefit of others.

again, i haven't actually seen the play. but from what i can tell, he seems to have self-worth issues and feels that he can't express desire for others because of his ugliness. He decides to be the load-bearing pillar in roxane and christian's relationship, giving her letters of his own passion under the guise of them being christian's. this is NOT to his own benefit. he's being very selfless here. when christian dies, he doesn't reveal that he wrote the letters, in order to appeal to her perception of christian. eventually, he dies still denying as much as he can to being the one who wrote the letters.

ideally this makes sense. for all i know i could be totally off-base here since i've never watched the play myself, but that was the vibe i got from the plot.

[supremeorphan]

huh neat

[moonglide]

heart is expansive, mind is contractive

reposting this as its own post rather than a reblog response to someone cause i think it should be its own post.

A lot of people say that heart is about who you are while mind is about what you do. And while Heart as the immutable self and Mind as the possible choices someone makes works great in theory...it doesn't so much in practice. Let’s look at the heart and mind players in base homestuck, for instance.

(this is hells of long by the way. sorry.)

There are three Mind players in Homestuck: Terezi (Seer), Latula (Knight), and Redglare (Knight).

And let’s look at what they do. Terezi seeks to understand the law. She talks about how Paradox Space has a sense of justice. When she kills Vriska, she does it not because she wants to, but because the wider system of the alpha timeline demanded it. When John was doing his retcon shit, he had no idea what he was doing, so Terezi systemized it and gave him a list of tasks to do.

We don’t see much of Latula. However, we know a couple things from her. She tells us that the karma cycle revolving around the Serkets and the Pyropes was an expression of Mind. And we know that she is a Knight—one who fights their aspect just as much as they fight through their aspect. Latula tries to present herself as this over-the-top rad gamer girl. Keep in mind that Latula can’t smell, and Beforus would ordinarily slate her for culling because of that. She doesn’t want to be coddled, so she tries as hard as she can to show self-sufficiency and identity. She fights against this system that would tamp down her individuality and autonomy.

Finaly, there’s Redglare, who is just an alternate universe Latula. Redglare is a Knight. She fights THROUGH Mind—she’s a legislacerator. The law is her weapon. But, again, as a Knight, she also struggles with imposed order and wider systems—she’s part of the cult of the Sufferer.

And then there’s the five Heart players. Dirk, Nepeta, Meulin, Bro, and the Disciple.

Dirk, as a Prince, one who destroys Heart, behaves much like a Mind player. I mean, he literally has an AI copy of himself. He hates himself, and while he loves his friends, he still tamps down their individuality—Jane remarks about how he regularly tells her to be more like Jake, and Jake mentions the opposite. He’s great at planning, being logical, etc. etc.. there’s also the irony, something he uses to not show sincerity (heart).

Bro is Dirk, so Bro is also a Prince. Again, the irony, the comparisons to being like a robot and a puppet master. He destroys Dave’s sincerity and ability to be vulnerable. Interestingly, he also has a whole thing with masculinity, with this toxic ideal of being big and tough and never showing emotion and constantly doing badass stunts. Dirk has this too, but it’s less pronounced (until obv. he becomes part of LE). He’s kind of the opposite of Latula in this way, because Porrim points out that part of Latula’s over-the-top-ness stems from a desire to stick it to misogynists, while Bro is the misogynist in question. Misogyny and toxic masculinity are (part of) Mind—they’re relentless systemization that reduces people to stereotypes.

Nepeta, the Rogue! Rogues steal for others—she, in theory, steals Heart and redistributes it. Now. Doesn’t that sound…like shipping? When you steal someone’s heart, that means they’re falling for you, but Nepeta wants to redistribute Heart. She doesn’t have much success in her own romantic endeavors—Equius, as much as I hate to say it, doesn’t stand up for her when it really matters, and Karkat is wholly uninterested in her---but she has a lot of interest in the relationships of others. She also just portrays some general Heart characteristics—she lives alone in a cave pretty much completely disconnected from society.

Meulin…doesn't have much going for her tbh. she's a dancestor. you know how it is. she likes shipping. she's being kind of mind controlled by kurloz? i have kind of a pet theory that mages and seers are more susceptible to manipulation than other peeps because their classes are about taking info in, but that's not really relevant right now. she's a deaf nepeta that smokes catnip like weed and that's really all there is to say on the matter.

the Disciple is a mage, since she's meulin. She was the closest follower of the Sufferer's teachings. She understood the rebellion against the system, and her love with the Sufferer transcended quadrants. (The sufferer was still a Blood player, though, because the rebellion was based on visions of the past.)

Anyways. Based on all that, my conclusion is largely that Heart is about the self, and Mind is about the non-self. Frankly the fundamental way I understand the two is that Heart is crackships and Mind is responses saying that you shouldn't ship that because it's not canon. Mind is the law, systems, logic, and Heart is individuality, desire, random idiosyncrasies that are hard to reconcile with larger systems.

People say Mind is the what-if, but like...look at Nepeta. Look at her shipping wall in her cave. There's all sorts of random shit on there. And you say Heart is about what the character is locked onto and can't unbecome, but look at Dirk (prince). He was the first to ascend to his ultimate self, the first to subsume to this wider "Dirk".

idk. do you get what i'm saying? am i making any sense?

[pdbmzhusband]

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i got bored yesterday and sand down some bottle caps to make custom pins because im too broke too buy merch💔