There's something interesting to be said about the page class in homestuck.
Of course, we have the title definiton of the page. Serving as an understudy to royalty to become great. But we could also take from Jake English’s introduction himself to consider what a page might particularly be:
There is a good SKULL at the heart of any mystery, haunting its EVERY PAGE.
A page, like an empty page in a book. Lacking in anything written on it, but by being a page, given the utmost to have anything, anything written on it. That page could be anything if you learn to harness a pen.
We could speculate that we see the potential of a page in the scratched versions, in this case The Summoner, or Grandpa Harley. This is presuming they carry the same aspects as Tavros and Jake English respectfully.
Grandpa Harley and The Summoner play incredibly influential and important roles on their respective planets by shaping the way their worlds were shaped. Grandpa Harley translated and prototyped the SBURB game for the Beta Kids, set up SKAIANET, which documented the meteors and created tech to bring SBURB to reality, as well as taking care of one of the meteor children and guiding her research to further reach their goal. The Summoners revolution against the condesce is so large, it leads to the exile of all adult trolls to outerspace and away from the planet, which shapes how the trolls that would play SGRUB think and react.
We never see it addressed all that directly other than passing, even though it plays a major part in the story because at the end of the day, a page is a medium for conveying thought, for conveying words, but a page is never the full front and center.
And really its sort of fitting how it comes back to the fact that pages,to quote caliborn, "HAVE TO PROVE THEY ARE WORTHY TO EXIST." Because what use is an empty page! Its just another piece of paper. You can coax and threaten all you like but the words will not appear magically on the page making it a masterpiece. A page draws its importance from whats written on it, like how a page draws its power through other people.
and all hope may die, but it lives on inside of me
i had these funni videos recommended to me and once the homestuck rot in my brain picked up on some dave coding— i couldn’t help myself ↓↓
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guys… i don’t think he’s doing this for all of us
you; have to understand that everyone in homestuck is a girl and everyone in homestucj is a boy. Adn also eceryone in homestuck is mnot a girl and also everyone in himestuck is not a boy and everyone is nonbinary also. you Understand. rebnlog
"John says he's not gay. I mean, sure, I guess he technically is "not a homosexual." But aside from that, who are we trying to kid? Everything going on here is really quite spectacularly gay. All of the trolls' involvement with the humans originates from one poorly thought-out, helplessly hate-smitten and gay overture made by a cranky teen boy. Karkat had this whole tirade bottled up inside, ready to unload, but because John is totally expecting it, and already knows Karkat well, he is able to completely disarm, flummox, and redirect all of the hostile energy. The ensuing backwards-chatting idiot spiral is a direct result of John affably and naively sabotaging Karkat's high-strung, breathlessly romantic overture. The lesson is clear: the entire Homestuck universe turns exclusively on the axis of of gay teen follies." -Andrew Hussie
hi!! I'm elusive from the Homestuck Daily team (a Homestuck news & showcase site), we're doing a fanart showcase soon to show cool art people did about the last upd8 (we delayed it this time to wait for extra fanarts), can we feature this artwork you did?
you'll be fully credited of course, with the link on your artwork leading back to your post here (or on a different site if you want) and the link below it redirecting people on your preferred social platform (or a linktree)
thank you for your time! u-u -elusive
heya! thank you for asking, and I'd love for my upd8 art to be included! no problemo, it's awesome to be part of something like that. it would be great if you could link it back here and credit it to this tumblr blog as well.
can't wait to see the showcase and everyone else's talent too! :)
What a daring dream.
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