it’s been three years since my last relapse into it and holy shit I don’t think I’ve actually tried to comprehend it before but I sure fucking wish I hadn’t what the fuck everything is absolutely fucking insane and like self-replicating infinite layers of meta down :copium:
I have so many fucking questions and I'm going to vent under spoiler tag
What the fuck is canon. What the fuck is L🎱 rd English (besides caliborn) and what is the extent of his powers. What the fuck is paradox space. What the fuck is juju. What the fuck is the green sun. What the fuck are the horrorterrors. What the fuck is the incipisphere. How the fuck does the scratch work. How the fuck does death work. How the fuck does time work. How the fuck does the power system work. What the fuck is Sburb and why does it exist and how does it exist and what is its purpose and what the fuck
I am aware of the literal fucking mechanic that is Weird Plot Shit. I refuse to apply it until I know there is no reasonable explanation.
This shit is unironically harder to understand then King Crimson if you’d literally only read the shitty initial scanlations of Vento Aureo. I’m so fucking confused. It’s one in the morning. I am literally losing sleep over this shit. I must u n d e r s t a n d.
This is my love/hate relationship with meta. Mostly love. I unironically love metafiction so much it is the embodiment of infinite potential both beyond tropes, referencing tropes and containing tropes but half the time you need to be equipped enough to write a fucking d i s s e r t a t i o n on some of this shit to even begin to comprehend it. I love and hate that. Mostly love but it’s also tedious as fuck.
You coming off the Deltarune high too? lmao
I think Toby Fox actually lived in Hussie’s basement for a while, guess it rubbed off
It’s truly the neverending cycle.
Toby Fox does thing > Enjoy thing > Need more thing > Look for similar thing > OOPS STUMBLED UPON HOMESTUCK OH GOD OH FUCK OH SHIT IT KEEPS HAPPENING :i-told-you-dog:
I fucking love metafiction anyways and it’s one of the most metafictional works I’m aware of. It’s just fucking scary in a weird lovecraftian “cannot comprehend” fear and I am resolved to comprehend as much as I fucking can
Have you read House of Leaves? You need a physical copy for the full effect but it left me with the same feeling you described in OP
FEW was right 😔
You just throw in tons and tons of random shit, and then if you decide to make something significant later you look like a super big-brain plan genius
everytime someone mentions homestuck I’m like “I should read it” but then invariably always manage to wind up dropping it at the same place
spoiler
the desert area as the meteor’s falling with the dude who loves cans of food
I should read it again
If you like metafiction, have you read Umineko? It almost makes Homestuck look sane and linear, but is a lot better at making the concepts clear imo. The final arc is the most meta thing I’ve ever seen.
