This whole thread is part of what is so interesting about Homestuck. It pulled from so many sources and alluded to so many other ideas that are fleshed out in other sources that exploring those sources and ideas deepens the text in really fun ways.

@spicyyeti @wickedgoogly
I always noticed the wizard of oz like surface connections but I never thought deeper into it because the wizard of oz was one of the most influential movies ever made, but you bringing it up again really makes me think on it more. The cowardly lion-jake/tinman-dirk/scarecrow-roxy/dorothy-jane connection is fascinating once you really look at it, and then the whole thing with terezi and the ruby slippers and jade and the ruby slippers, and something about how we only focus on the shoes when folks can't go home again, and jade in the doomed timeline getting killed like the wicked witch under a house, poetic cinema

@spicyyeti

Also I was wondering why fnafworld resonated so hard, it plays like an openbound flash game! Like i realize now with fnafworld I expect a dancestor around the corner. Combine that with the metatextual themes and the themes of authorial intent and suicidal ideation makes it a really compelling parallel

@perigator
The trans thing is completely real. Honestly the biggest trans evidence in homestuck for me is the beta trolls' haircuts. Who else would have styles like that if they didn't do it in their own bathroom with a pair of scissors/electric razor and a gender dream. Tavros has a mohawk, sollux has zigzag bangs, and if homestuck was written today vriska wouldve had a mullet and/or wolf cut

@jakemorph

The call for parks and rec and jane's character is beautiful. Pointing out the sort of americana glaze on everything jane loved actually explains at least half of everything about her. It also applies to her interest in the noir detective genre which also has that sort of,,, expectation of the 'american way of life' to it. Those kinds of influences are brainwashing all on their own lmao

A fun callout that I haven't seen yet but realized recently is Peter Pan. Aside from the classic Tavros vriska stuff there is an interesting Gamzee connection. Makara comes from the hindu astrological equivalent of capricorn. Makara also means crocodile. Gamzee eventually becomes part of a large reptilian time beast that eats everything, and in Peter Pan there is the tick tock croc. This is a loose connection but interesting to think about.

And of course before I forget 17776, infamously like homestuck. I feel like it expresses isolation and then connecting with others via chatlog and random shared interests in a similar vein to homestuck, with similar success.