love the posts in here so far! agreed that the hashtags add a pretty great comedic rhythm, and i definitely think the dancestors are an interesting example of the many many ways characters in homestuck reflect each other. i'm realizing now how terezi meeting latula falls into with her general arc of disillusionment with everything she did in act 5... and yeah the aranea/vriska dynamic is incredibly fascinating.

i also think it's interesting how much the 'potential' of the dancestors/beforus has been mentioned. one subtle but striking thing about homestuck to me is how, despite being incredibly long and at times incredibly granular, so much of the comic is out-of-frame - not just specific events but whole entire aspects of the setting like the denizens, horrorterrors, and yeah, beforus! it's a whole society we only ever get glimpses of through the viewpoints of the 12 dancestors, most of whom we also only really get glimpses of. i think it's interesting how mysterious homestuck manages to be, and openbound leaves a lot of interesting details and hanging threads around. there's something so weird and melancholic about it, all these people mostly just going through the motions of stuff that happened uncountably long ago in a world that doesn't even exist anymore, with their lives and world not lost just to them but to us! not to mention how they only still exist because of the horrorterrors, who are themselves a largely unexplained and vaguely horrifying (and terrifying) part of the setting. always lots to think about with this comic