Pt. 5/5 of thoughts on Homestuck [A6A6I5 - Act 7]

spoilers ahead for the end of the webcomic (not including any epilogue or other side post canon stories)

accurate picture of me uh... um.. uh so I don't have an accurate situation for that picture. Me (dave) when i make crossover between my two favourite interests of the moment. Sure I guess.

SO Thought??? Okay so many thoughts. I don't think it'll be in order it's such a mess in my head right now.

Everyone finally meeting was so nice. The huge smile on Roxy's face as she sees Rose Alive. Like. Okay I am weak to Families. Not found families, just Families. Especially Families where things go wrong but then kinda end up well but it's sad but it's happy. Like. I know no families in homestuck are any sort of healthy. But oh my god do I love them talking about their problems and their own thoughts and experience with their parents and. Ueueueueue.

I genuinely am irritated by one (multiple) thing though, it's how Jake and Tavros get treated? And Vriska. Not how Vriska gets treated just Vriska.Well also how Tavros and Jake got written. Like, i get theyre all like teenagers and there will always be teenagers who are just a bit too different and end up being bullied and isolated. As terrible that is. (i have more thoughts on that, but this is about homestuck, and thus will move on). Tavros had like. so much potential. But i guess because of vriska (i'm unsure if it's because of her or if it's just. how he is), anytime he gets confident he becomes too confident, not seeing any issues in how he acts, and otherwise, he's just being walked all over by Vriska. He's like. He needs better friends like come on (michael really said "I can fix him"). As for Jake, i just find that it sucks that he's just. Alone. And he thinks that the others hate him, while they think he needs to be alone. Like. JUST COMMUNICATE (but we all know, no stories would exist had people just talked to each other).

anyway they both kinda annoy me but they deserve better than that.

As for vriska... Well, I just. Really don't like that she got such a good afterlife, and she became so much better at understanding herself and just. Became chill. Finally. But no we're not allowed to be happy i guess. I guess instead we break up a couple because one is just too comfortable with herself being "bad" (her words not mine) while the other keeps thriving to have fun and be happy after a lifetime of being constantly stressed about the irons in the fire (yeah i did forget her catchphrase). And I get it. Vriska is a complex character. She really frustrates me, but she's very interesting. But would it kill her to just stop being so selfish and egocentric all the time! That's what I'd think if she was a real person, but she isnt so i wont complain.

that leads me to Terezi and Vriska. Terezi : Remem8er (Terezi : Remember) was like. It hit me. The whole lead up to that just. made me feel so sad. At the same time i was already so tired and just wanted to get done with Interlude 5. don't spend your days reading from morning to night trust me. But. The "Best" version of Vriska meeting the "Best" version of Terezi, and the two of them are the "First" versions of them so these two haven't seen each other since Terezi killed Vriska in the first timeline. And they both had time to grow, evolve, Terezi went through some shit with the whole Gamzee thing, Vriska lived in an idylic paradize with her now ex-girlfriend for forever, and they finally meet. And. Oh my god. I cried. Of course it didn't help to see every dead characters waking up in the furthest ring, like, i am weak to multiple things, some of them being Flashbacks, Photo montages over emotional music, and characters realizing the consequences of their actions, and it had ALL that in one video like they wanted me to cry. And so I did. 

My thoughts on dave and karkat is that i love them and i genuinely saw oven mittens that had their colors and thought of them so i guess i can't escape them anymore.

Um thoughts on sprites. Davepeta was a necessary existence to my life and i strive to become like them. But becoming a sprite, not just a sprite, but a sprite^2, sounds like actual hell. I love fusions, i really do, but. That's a step too far. Wait what happened to the sprite after they finished the game. Wait. Go back. We didn't see what happened to them.

SO LIKE TAVROS' LAST THING IS BECOMING A CAT, AND GOING TO SLEEP??? THAT'S ALL???

also the final showdown. the throwback. "Why are we so fucking awesome?" and "Dave, that's the best fucking question anybody ever asked" like I was screaming. Exaggeration. I was agressively pointing at the screen trying to find the screenshot of when it happened with davesprite instead of Dirk.

Oh my god Dirk and Dave. I have many siblings. Most of which I don't speak to much because I am awkward and really don't know what to say to them. So the whole conversation they had, together, and honestly I hadn't considered how awful Dave's brother was so like i knew stuff wasn,t right but I didn't notice i guess how awful of a childhood that'd be. Anyway that whole thing was just so. Hit too close to home. Just seeing your sibling for the first time in a WHILE, and not really knowing what to say. Like. What are you supposed to say? I don't know. Also there's something that worries me a lot about Dirk, and it's how he is very okay to take the blame for everything bad his other versions of him did like man you didn't do that.

also the part where dave cut off dirk's head to be able to do the same with the other jacks. um. Yeah i think that uh. I need to think about that it really worries me 

But homestuck has a lot of thoughts and reflections on identity, the "true self" and stuff like that, which I find so cool, I love thinking about that. It kinda ruins my day though so I will not think about that here and now.

 Also something about the passage of time. I don't know if it's a me thing or if others are as amazed as me about this, but the idea that there was a time Thing didn't exist, then it did. Do you remember when it didn't? What it felt like not knowing about it? Like, reading that, i just had to keep looking at when that was posted and think what the hell was I doing back then. Back before I knew about vocaloid, undertale and stuff. And during that webcomic, undertale didn't exist, until it did! Like! I know it's probably stupid but I find the passage of time terrifying and fascinating.

I think that's all. Oh my god. It was so good. i'd say a good 7/10 with an advantage of +3 so 10/10 because I have an hyperfixation on it and thus am biased.

to celebrate the ending, let's have my favourite quotes out of context (where i removed the typing quirks too to make it readable).

"[Nepeta] really just has no idea what the hell is going on"

"Shit would like to reconcile with the handle, and perhaps seek marital counseling."

"Most of the interrogation is in the intimidating silence"

"You don't have to be all that unlucky to get whacked around with a newspaper. It's sort of a gray area"

"YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU" (it goes on for a while but it makes me laugh a lot)

"YOU ARE THE LAW WHOOPS"

"And with righteous pap and blessed shoosh he did quell his brother's fury. [...] And the Knight in totally settling a murderous clown's ludicrous shit down proper said, Let there be Moirallegiance: and it was so."

"Now be a good girl, put the fridge down, and stay inside."

"I will shoosh you again, so help me god."

"You know how it is with clowns. [...] They are notoriously difficult to kill for reasons that basically don't make any sense."

"From now on I should just wear a shirt that says don't ask me about my disability or my mortality."

"Karkat just threw a tantrum about a chair. I just won Karkat tantrum bingo"

"What is it with girls and their universally constant tendency to rip out plumbing fixtures"

"I am brain Ghost Dirk. You kissed my boyfriend. Prepare to die." (i just really like the princess bride)

"I heard you were talking about quadrants, so I decided to pause my tantrum."

and finally two quotes which aren't funny but that I just really need in my life.

"It still feels comforting that even if you flip the universe upside down and change it all around, pull us apart by centuries, kill humans off, flood the world, we're still connected to each other in a mysterious way that goes beyond genes and circumstances."

"It's nice to have uh, like a witness I guess? Someone to authenticate the rough shit u went through. Even if we never end up talkin about it again, the fact that at least SOMEONE else knows makes it feel like it didnt all mean nothing?"

anyway thanks for reading. depending on how much i feel about the epilogue, i might share more thoughts, otherwise it'll be for the next fixation.