boondollars are only a sburb thing because they were a crockercorp/skaianet thing first. that's why certain humans and, well, probably a lot of alternia(and potentially)some of beforus was capable of earning them and scaling the echeladder before the game, because crockercorp/skaianet existed before sburb did. opinions?

this is kind of a difficult thing to reach a definite answer about because even the statement that skaianet existed before sburb did is problematic. like, skaianet developed sburb from code written into the walls of the frog temple, which sburb itself sent back in time, and it seems pretty likely the rest of skaianet’s product was either derived from this code or swindled from sburb worlds itself during grandpa’s travels (or from alternia! hiveswap will definitely shed some more light on this particular topic).

the same sort of paradox comes up with sylladex cards. obviously they’re an absolutely vital point of sburb to the point where a majority of the game’s infrastructure involves the reading and production of them, but they’re also an important part of everyday life on homestuck earth to the point where you get books with fetch modi included in the back page. sburb is intrinsically connected with the worlds of homestuck to the point that getting rid of sburb basically breaks down every bit of worldbuilding; but is this because the worlds develop in a way that benefits sburb, or because sburb creates worlds rich with its own mechanics? personally, i’d say that that you can’t unlink the two concepts, but…

this ask has given me a thought. caliborn as the lord of time is, of course, the lord of time and as such responsible for many deep-rooted time-related phenomena. currency itself seems to be a concept related to the time aspect, and we do know that caliborn is responsible for creating a currency of his own. it seems like a kind of silly thing to do if a currency already existed, so, is it possible that as lord english, caliborn introduced his currency to the worlds under his influence and it become boondollars at some point? it would certainly be fitting for Lord “Analogy For Anglo-Saxon Colonialism” English, i think.