2019-07-29 6:36:08 ¶ ●

I know this is an unusual post from me, but are any of my followers aware of any existing analysis of parallels between Homestuck and the film Being John Malkovich?

I saw the latter recently and was struck with the presence of potent MSPA and Homestuck motifs and themes. Most obvious among them was the puppeteer character who uses his puppetry skills to master control over people’s bodies, and the related concept of living eternally by hopping from host body to host body, but the use of a small door as a portal into somewhere completely different also reminded me of the recurring portals in Problem Sleuth.

I also had in mind the technique where a character with one name is used to represent another character with the same name, ala this conversation where John Egbert attacks himself through Cusack as a proxy. Malkovich’s name is dropped a handful of occasions in Homestuck itself because of his role in Con Air, but I haven’t seen that movie to be able to analyse that connection myself :(