So.
Homestuck is an acerbic, meta, and constantly self-referential piece of fiction. This ought to be obvious to anyone who can read. It loves to make little pot shots at you for reading it, and being invested in what it considers the wrong ways.
Did you like Gamzee when he showed up? Fuck you, is what the comic says.
That said, Homestuck is also very interested in giving its readers potential ways to read into it. Classpecting is one of these meta analysis methods that, whether or not it's the "right" way to read Homestuck, is developed consistently in fiction, and has had thousands upon thousands of words spilled about it since. I think it's worth mentioning that most of the characters who confidently speak on "classpecting facts" from are bad guys; Aranea, Scratch, Caliborn, HIC.
My main squeeze, however, is this. Circumstantial simultaneity. The big phrase given by Scratch, a bad bad man, to justify metaphysically and metatextually, that all of Homestuck's little callbacks and reused art are not purely stylistic, but are essential elements of its world. This is so important that the deaths of universes depends upon it. Taking Scratch at his word (foolish, I know, but doesn't seem to be strictly wrong) Circumstantially simultaneous events give us information about both events, the rules of Paradox Space, and what Homestuck means in a metatextual sense.
This is what the refrance. Paradox Space is defined, to some extent, by these rules. It seems like the comic wants its reader to reread, and look for circumstantial simultaneity for more information. It seems like it wants you to reread for a lot of reasons.
Then Calliope starts reading into penis ouija.
It's dicks on a page, and she's the asshole for reading meaning into them. This might be the meanest Homestuck is directly to the reader.
It gives us a lot of information. It gives us novel internal methods for reading that information. It says we're trying to read meaning into random dicks scrawled on a page.
Am I crazy?
