@chthonikix thank you!! and advice taken lol

@magicmirror good analysis! on post-canon: i think most of that stuff is still very relevant. the complication comes from how post-canon intentionally muddies homestuck's ending, which for all its ambiguities is still pretty pure up to act 7, by intentionally having this beautiful freed new world immediately start repeating the mistakes of the old world. the kind of fight for existential control is still very present w/ ult dirk and such, though the gnostic aspects might be getting more strained there since i don't THINK there's an aspect in gnostic mythology where if a bad enough dude overthrows the demiurge he can just become the demiurge jr or whatever... i always took it as more of a commentary on the struggles of actually breaking from the past and building a post-revolutionary society, paralleled later by psycholonials in the same ways homestuck parallels problem sleuth