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things the homestuck fandom never managed to come to an agreement on during the entire duration of the comic’s seven-year run:

how the fuck to pronounce peixes

#i pronounced it with a hard ‘ks’ sound when i was younger #idr what vowel sounds lmao #but now i pronounce it like in catalan bc its spelled exactly like the catalan for fish #like pey-sh[schwa]z ish. #apparently the last name is from portuguese so im not far off

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pop discourse in the strilonde household

#im sorry op this is fantastic but i have one issue: #isnt rose from the northeast? #like i think new york specifically? #she almost definitely says soda

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fuck myer briggs fuck astrology

if you ask someone who their top 3 favorite homestuck characters were you literally know everything about them

#hm. dave kanaya terezi i think #with karkat and roxy as honorable mentions who would have made the top 3 at past points in my life i think #terezi in particular i think i came to really like as i got older but she wasnt top 3 when i was a teen

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Everyone on 4/13, crawling out of their secret homestuck bunkers,

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homestuck canon is so wild that you can tell me virtually anything happened and i’ll believe you. like you can say “terezi murdered dave” and i’ll be like “that sounds about right” and actually i’m gonna have to refrain from writing the rest of this post because i just remembered that terezi did, in fact, murder dave

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did vriska do something wrong

i feel like this question is a bomb i have to defuse

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#what!!!!!

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homestuck does a LOT to make character death painful even though almost none of the deaths are permanent (and even the permanent ones are eeeeh because of the dreambubbles) but i think it mostly boils down to pulling away from the traditional idea that the tragedy of death comes from losing a loved one/a life being cut short, and towards a very compelling idea of death as personal trauma

 the dead aren’t lost, and they can continue pursuing their ambitions and growing as people, but the tragedy is that they died at all, that they had to experience that violence and come to terms with existing in the amorphous semi-stasis of ghosts- or just keep living, knowing that they died

it’s not a major thematic thing and it’s communicated almost exclusively through art direction but it’s a very juicy idea that i really really like 

#also!!! when 'death' comes as the result of a personal failure of betrayal #you still have the impact of that narrative beat even if the physical death isnt permanent

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homestuck day observed

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why are the homestuck kids so recognizable in all fan art. there’s a million ways to draw each one but you fucking know jade harley when you see her 

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A young man stands in his bedroom…

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terezi was like: LOL 1 ROL3PL4Y COURTROOM DR4M4S W1TH DR4GON STUFF3D 4N1M4LS *proceeds to be one of the best-written female characters on the internet*

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dave went through a huge sexuality crisis when he realized he liked karkat meanwhile rose realized she liked kanaya and went “Ah. So it appears I have been the homosexual all along.” and i think that’s very funny

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I know the big allure to Davekat is the “two fucked up kids finding solace and understanding in one another, reclaiming their childhoods” I love that but also the idea of being a mid-twenty something and having built a life with someone and reaching a point in your relationship to have the sort of intimacy where you are just a stable pillar in someones life and they in yours is the most healing shit in the world, it’s so good

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identity disturbance: the one with baby birds imprinting, good intentions and repeated patterns.