hi :) i love your analysis. i think it's super interesting. i know you have made posts about Quadrants before and the way that they mimic heterosexuality (i will never be over the "sounds like she started beating his ass back" kismesistude joke. that was just real). the moirallegiance discussions of how moirallegiance mimics real life heterosexual norms has really got me thinking before and i've incorporated it a lot into my analysis of meowrails. my question is: have you sort of thought about how auspisticism factors into this model, and do you have any thoughts on the role that it plays?

I know that ash romance is relatively... rare in where it appears in homestuck, so i understand if not. me personally i think of ash romance as a way to more directly instrumentalize outside parties in order to preserve the mechanisms of society, specifically in romance. i will never forget how rose, for example, becomes a party to gamrezi's relationship that is paralyzed between preserving that relationship or intervening because she is too focused on if this romance is 'normal' on alternia, to the exclusion of understanding that it doesn't matter if it's normal, it's still deeply fucked up. given that this is one of the few examples of auspisticism that we see, it feels important that this is part of it, but i'm still unsure. thoughts?