2024-10-27 14:22:08 ¶ ●

the whole gravity thing has kind of been staring me in the face from my very earliest post on the subject - where I fail to even comment on the fact that Dave conflates Dragon Ball Z’s “Gravity Machine” and “Hyperbolic Time Chamber” by referring to a “hyper gravity chamber”. (of course, the real-life relationship between gravity and time as a plot device is seeded all the way back in Problem Sleuth, which I’m also yet to mention - though possibly because PS infamously gets the relationship backwards.)

but I honestly think the centrality of gravity as a concept might be even more deep-rooted in Homestuck than that: understanding that at the very fundamental level the name Homestuck is supposed to evoke the name Earthbound, doesn’t it make complete sense that the force keeping the characters ‘earth bound’ would be the very same one keeping them 'home stuck’?