So I changed my phone notification sound the other day as a joke and forgot about it because my phone is almost always muted, until i today when we were at the kitchen making lunch and the damn thing goes
i have spent the last half year quietly begging the cast to scry on caleb and beau, completely forgetting the pivotal part of the plot where they murdered people and stole devices specifically to prevent scrying
It's wild but like, if you've read homestuck you definitely view time and timelines and spacetime differently than people who have not read homestuck.
I don't know how to describe it, really?
It's not like I'm saying that "Homestuck is superior read it nowww" it's like. Reading fanfictions involving time travel, you just know who used to or still reads homestuck.
Like...a homestuck fan (or past fan it doesn't matter you just had to digest the comic at one point) is more likely to follow along when a Flash Comic goes hog-wild with timelines and multiverse.
That webcomic cracked our brains open to the concept of timefuckery to the point where it's leaked into how we write it, if we write it at all, and how we understand it if it's being read.
And I dunno where I was going with this, but I just think it's neat that one comic had that much impact on how an entire group of people thinks.
Other books and comics do this too, tbf, but the homestuck one popped out at me after reading like four time travel fix-its in a row, three of which were definitely written by people who have read homestuck. (i ain't gonna call y'all out some people don't wanna be associated w/ homestuck these days, given how the fandom was and can still be)
TLDR: if you used to be a homestuck fan we can still tell, you will never outrun homestuck, it's permeated how you write and understand the concepts around you.