I will be rereading Homestuck and analyzing pretty much every single page. It'll be a lot of yapping about things that stand out and connections I make. So check this out if you're interested
Immediately, the comic's narration takes on a sort of parental tone. It is strange, to me at least, to call John a "young man". This just feels like a very intentional phrasing
happy birthday, KEL! 🏀
to celebrate, we’re hosting a giveaway where one winner will receive one KEL’s Jersey Set (Size XL) and a second winner will receive one HEADSPACE KEL Plush, one pair of KEL Socks, one FARAWAY TOWN KEL Acrylic Standee, and one PET ROCK!
Latin fact: Horace's famous adage 'carpe diem' does not actually mean "seize the day". People simply confused 'carpe' for 'cape', the imperative of 'capere' ("to grab, hold, seize"). The phrase 'carpe diem' actually means "pluck the day" as one would a ripe fruit
I will never have the formative life experience of teenage romance because I am easily enthralled by things like undertale yaoi and Fortnite pirate token
Semitic fact: Maltese is the only Semitic language natively written in the Latin alphabet. It's very peculiar in a lot of ways. Because Malta's population descends from a population of converted Muslims, the word for "Lent" is 'Randan'
Romance fact: across Romance, the verb 'stāre' ("to stand") has started to take on the meaning of "to be" to varying degrees. It's rather typical for verbs meaning "to become", "to grow", "to stay", etc. to change into "to be" but you can see the stages of this across Romance