Have a video. It's on the house. Or the tubes.
Well I feel a lot better now.
I guess I just got frustrated at having to figure out stuff. Particularly with Paradox Space with all its comfortably clear references.
Colors and Mayhem isn't meta crap, it was mentioned in-comic way before it was an album.
Caliborn isn't being self-deprecating and everything you see is... actually completely outside the realm of what Hussie has done, so I don't see any self-deprecating at all?
hasn't Homestuck been a good chunk intentionally inane bs since the beginning? Especially Acts 1-5(1).
Whenever Caliborn talks about his art, I feel like it may as well be recap-Hussie addressing the audience through a sock puppet. Like talking about how witty obscure references are, in a self-deprecating way. Or the way Caliborn directly criticizes Hussie and the narrative in their talks. Homestuck's been meta as fuck for years now.
But yeah, I was just frustrated at having to think hard to understand anything. Doesn't help that I just watched an MLP episode. I'll get used to this again.
That Skaia reference is still super obscure and pretty stupid though. But I guess that is half the fun, collaborating to collate obscure references that barely make sense.