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davepeta being the difference that lets this specific jade finally escape the cycle of torment and isolation, and by extension all the thematic elements that brought davepeta to this moment. something about retcon decisions and catastrophic divergences. reality itself had to be shattered six different ways just for the miracle of jade harley having something for herself to be allowed to happen. homestuck itself had to shatter.
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considering now which version of vriska gets the better deal. like vriska not being sucked into the black hole is obviously better than being trapped in a dead end by design reality but that's implying there's a level of inherent betterness to a vriska that instead got kicked square out of homestuck and into something new.
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dunno i'm really out here pondering the myriad postcanon divergences of vriska. godfeels vriska meeting terezi in the void. tse!vriska and the slowburn promise that one day she will claw her way back to the one she loves. hs2!vriska wielding her relevance with a keen desperation. omelette route!vriska letting herself be used as a pawn in a cosmic scheme as the only viable route back home. i know this a jade chapter but i am now in my serket feelings once again.
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aaaah this is all so good. jade's reclamation of her power and selfhood in the face of a narrative reality that until now only saw her as a convenient puppet. it's so sad and so cruel and it Literally is the fact that the act of violence that is homestuck is gone and she still remains like it Really Is All About That Actually
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god the rebirth and reclamation in the depths of nothing after the end of everything. this is tapping so hard into similar emotional channels as gf2.1 like jade and june together are making up this twfold complete examination of this really specific emotional core. overlapping stories in different directions.
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funny how "beefing it" in this context refers to essentially disrupting the narrative enough that vriska is spared from enduring the epilogues. jade became silverbark in part to stop dirk's schemes, but jade becoming silverbark also in part stopped another dirk's schemes. it really is all about not letting orange guys get away with their bullshit huh
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despite everything we know from the future, these are still a bunch of sad and alone kids staring down something massive and terrifying. it kind of works out in the end but there's still the tragedy that it had to happen like this in the first place.
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@pochapal Sorry about all the stars but it's hard to hold them back while in the Realm of Good Opinions.
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i love this. this idea that lord english's narrative prison of an existence was essentially slapping blinders over paradox space. infinite possibility of homestuck beyond homestuck everything is Themes and everything is good