Re: miniQuiny one major theme of Gnostic theology (at least as people understand it now) is that the world has a flawed creator: the Demiurge, which means "craftsman". The Gnostic seeks to escape this flawed/false reality and seek out the True reality. Homestuck sometimes uses this framework when getting at the idea that people are stuck inside of a story -- John wanting to get out of the Candy timeline (which is on some level Calliope's fanfiction, making her the Demiurge) and experience something REAL was a Gnostic impulse. To the extent that the Gnostic story is like a cosmic escape room, all of the MSPA stories (where you try to get out of your jail/office/house while the higher power responsible for you and your world's existence messes with you) are Gnostic in their very format

... is how I would summarize things