Because she doesn't have to worry about her revival limit if she's technically not DEAD yet. She's not constantly reviving herself, she's just KEEPING herself alive. Even when it quite nearly only makes only cartoonish sense and the only way she can speak is magically, ignoring the fact of her lungs with sheer godhood (ignoring any need for breath or blood with sheer Life Energy), which is just hilarious and I'm all for it.

Jane's actions throughout this final conflict and here have also shown the true scale of power a God-Tier player can tap into that the players weren't experienced enough to try or figure out back in their youth, which really makes her FEEL like a Goddess, and I greatly appreciate that.

[S] 8r8k artist/writer commentary part 2

(Part 1 link) Part 2 of the commentary for the flash just came out on Patreon! I'm reading through for anything especially clarifying or plot-relevant under the cut, skipping most of the fluff and not-specifically-understanding-relevant stuff as usual so Patreon subscribers can enjoy it.

Light/Void and Ascent/Descent, Outward/Inward

I was helped in putting together something pretty huge this week, Aspect-ways. Sometimes lately, I've been chatting with Taz (aka optimisticDuelist, @utopianparadoxist) and we discuss or debate over character and Aspect interpretations, or they link me some interesting thoughts they've posted blogways or from a third party. This time we were discussing a post they made on Void's potential connection to Gravity and all its potential conflated meanings, such as Love pulling things together, which they based on analysis stemming from @lime-bloods's Void/Home association theoryposts -- I was skeptical of this Gravity interpretation, for reasons I'll go into later below the cut, but one of those reasons was I felt as if paired terms between Light and Void are important when solidifying the domains of each Aspect, and I couldn't think of one for Void's "Gravity" that had a Light equivalent. For example, recently I had the belated inspiration in terminology, for instance, that Light is "Location" where Void is "Dislocation", a perfect tie between Light's links to Maps and Landmarks contrasting it with Pumpkin-like "disconnectedness from spacetime" and ability to appear anywhere, which I quickly added to the Aspect Duality post in late February (I should add the edit date in on that).

And while we were tossing the idea around, we stumbled on another set of even MORE important paired Light/Void terms that made me do an acrobatic pirouette off the fucking handle. I got permission to paste the conversation:

And that Gravity is wrapped up in this association as everything is naturally PULLED DOWN. The rest of the conversation is under the Read More cut where we started listing out more than a dozen freakin' examples to each other that show how UTTERLY PERVASIVE a theme this has been throughout the entire goddamn comic, from the start right up to and including the very latest update of Beyond Canon. (Contains HS^2/Beyond Canon spoilers if you're coming here from elsewhere, stop reading here if you're not caught up to the 2025-03-26 update!)

EDIT: (Just a brief note I'm adding to this above the cut, but a Discord friend just gave me ANOTHER association to add to Light and Void: Outward vs Inward, Light's outward projection the pair to Void's inward gravity!!! Shining Stars versus Black Holes! Void's Inwardness finally brings together its metaphysical ties with Heart and how the latter often sits isolated in the Ocean of Void like Dirk's house, the natural inward-looking nature of Heart-- compared to the outward-facing nature of Mind and its façades, tying Light and Mind together like Vriska and Terezi!)

(If you have strong questions or disagreements about some of the assertions I've made about Beyond Canon in the past few posts, such as how many characters are "wrong" or not and how, please consider using an account to send your disagreements to me instead of Anonymous so I have the option to answer privately! I have no obligation to spend too much public blog space rehashing arguments I've already made elsewhere, and if I feel like that's what I'd be doing but a public response to an Anon Ask is the only way you give me to answer you, you probably won't receive any response from me at all. I'm getting quite a number of anonymous Inbox messages like this in the last couple days, and they won't get answered, but if you send it with an account instead I'll Private Respond as much as you want. And if it's worth clarifying or changing my position publicly, THEN I'll publish my answer publicly instead.)

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We're finally at the post-flash wrap-up and end of this Act! I'm real freakin' excited. Getting straight to it under the cut.

HS:BC update just dropped but I’m sick tonight I’ll blog it tomorrow

[S] 8r8k artist/writer commentary part 1

The artist and writer commentary on the first half of the [S] 8r8k flash just came out on Patreon, and I don't read any huge surprises in there, but there are a few interesting things there I'll put under the cut and discuss briefly.

That's pretty fun!

I figured she might have the power regardless of whether or not she was God-Tier, but thanks for refreshing my memory that she is. 👍

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THE FLASH IS HERE! [S] 8r8k! (EDIT: On a day that's "612" backwards, I'm told.) It can't all just be a flash recap of what we already know was happening just out of sightline during the battle, so since they thought it deserved a flash, I'm expecting at least a few surprises. Not least of which, from the name, would be the consequence of Vriska's time The Point ending, probably still one step before she's achieved the true enlightenment she most needs to somehow resolve the problem.

I'm going to watch it live first and comment on what I can, give an idea of my initial reactions as-I-was-watching and then my thoughts afterward; I'm not sure whether I'll bother going back and taking screenshots but it really depends. My text reaction to the flash under the cut!

Flash is done, according to Homestuck’s twitter! We’re just waiting for the upd8 to come out, could be today, tomorrow, who knows.

Oh shit! Flash progress!

(Why does the eight ball have tiny shoes??)