In topic: "The Ring Of Void"

Tuesday, August 12th, 2025, 1:18 AM16 days ago

i don't think they're the same ring, i think they're different rings, but the way the rings work is that when one turns up, the other disappears from use. this seems like it works on a diegetic level, like the ring would disappear after the moment in time depicted in the panels, but it actually works on a non-diegetic level. there's a legitimate case to be made that the ring of life first appears in problem sleuth's epilogue, missing from the weddinghearst, which AH (character) then brings into homestuck from problem sleuth, and that puts the rings at the scope of MSPA, and not the scope of "the medium".


the timeline these rings are working on isn't years in the past, years in the past (but not many), now, years in the future (but not many), years in the future, but the timeline between page 1 to page 8129. so i don't feel bad at all about suggesting that it does just disappear and reappear, in the same way that the retcon is more than time travelling operating on the construction of the story's timeline, but acting on the construction of the story itself.

SHAPED OR MOLDED FORMS appear to have been formed from a plastic material through directly applied force.

ABSTRACT FORMS are of uncertain origin.