@anonezumi I got into it pretty late but I always assumed homestuck, but especially sburb in particular, was meant to be hard to understand. tell me you understand what “circumstantial simultaneity” is. tell me to my face..

(tumblr keeps eating my direct reply to the post, sorry)

but yes? “circumstantial simultaneity” happens a lot of stories that involve time travel, Hussie just gives it a pretentious name. its just a common narrative tool used in a lot of non-linear stories to make things easier for the audience to understand. the events are not happening at the same time chronologically, but they are grouped together for the audience in such a way that makes it easier to understand. like, imagine for a moment that Cascade was told to you piecemeal across like 100 panels interspersed through Acts 5.1 and 5.2 instead of the way it was. it would become incomprehensible.

i’m genuinely not trying to Gotcha here, I just don’t…. actually find Homestuck that difficult to understand as an archival reader. I have many reasons to side-eye Hussie, but the one thing I will always give credit for is the pace of the storytelling and the way they slowly teach the reader the Language of the story before testing that knowledge. That part if truly very masterfully done, in my opinion, and I’ve talked a lot in the past how [S] Jade: Enter is essentially your midterm exam on “hey are you understanding this story” before your final exam at [S] Cascade.

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