From the album Homestuck - Volume 8 available at: homestuck.bandc... ---- Track art by Chaz. S. S. H. "Mep" Canterbury at www.ratherdashing.net/mspa/ Temporary by Robert J! Lake, parts sampled from Temporal Piano by Erik "Jit" Scheele
This tune is one of the reasons why Dave is a deep character. Apart from the name of the song, the main melody of the piano is very obtrusive and, most importantly, restless. Accompanying this melody are deaf sirens, disturbing sounds. Dave, through the fault of his Bro and Lil Cal, all his childhood was in alarm, his life - the constant stress that he suppressed, because believed that everything was fine. He needed to constantly move, do something, fight, or reassure himself, convince that the dolls are cool and Cal is not creepy. Constant movement, vanity and stress, and ,attention, all in one tune.
The unresolved tension of this song matched with the cover art makes this feel like something Dave would write himself, as he reminds himself that the bad things are Temporary. Dave had such a sad background.
This pain, it's only temporary. These mistakes are only temporary. Those lives are only temporary. Everything can be remade. everything can be fixed. You just have to know what to throw in the mix. Left to right, forward to back, past to future. in control of everything, life is only temporary, give it the best you've got. Grab your record, Scratch it , now drop it like it's hot. man dave gives me so many feelings.
All I can picture is Alpha-verse Dave finding a short piano piece that Alpha-verse John wrote many years earlier and remixing it, with various audio glitches from the age of the file. My brain is hardcoded to various breeds of Johndave feels.
It's so strange to stroll through the comments, only to find out that most around 7 years old. It was like chatting among friends, only to realize you're alone, and they're ghost. That accompanied by the heartfelt tune in the background gave me the strangest feeling of nostalgia and loss
tiptipkitten - god this is so relatable, i'm listening to the soundtrack and whenever there's a song like this i feel like i just realized i'm in a room full of ghosts that i've been talking to
Some of us ghosts are still restless and wander back to this tune from time to time - you're not alone, as long as you don't mind the company of a ghost :)
hello, fellow ghosts! glad we could all find each other, at least, so we’re not totally alone here. looks like that lonely feeling, like the song, is Temporary.
I just can't get over how frantic and sad this song sounds. Like it's rushing to relive something past because time is running out. It just gives me so many feelings,ugh.
I love the little tick you hear through the whole song, so that it sounds of like a record being played. And then the little mixup at 2:40 ITS THE SCRATCH OH GOD
i think that could be intentional. like for instance he has the ability to go back in time. but it might be a commentary on how even if he goes back in time nothing changes about how he feels. it all sounds/feels the same
@@evo683 it's fine, I've mostly moved on to other cringe media haha. Oh and Revolutionary Girl Utena became my next real obsession which has treated me pretty good so far :^)
time players are known for their inability to sit still, for their constant, desperate need to change the world around them, to d o. dave grew up being unable to rest. he was incessant in all things he did, even in his speech. he was CONSTANTLY experiencing a level of stress that would be difficult for a grown adult to handle, much less a CHILD. see, trauma, especially prolonged stress trauma, like child abuse, makes you incredibly anxious. its like your brain refuses to let you rest, for even a second, because you might slip. that stress eventually becomes comforting, a constant, and as an adult, it becomes difficult to trust the calm, the safe, and the peaceful. in fact, its common for trauma victims to grow anxious if things are too calm for too long, sometimes resulting in the fabrication of emergencies to ease their own stress. its like,,,, a really shitty version of spidey senses the reason why dave was such a successful time player is that he grew up constantly needing to outpace everything. a constant, perfectly precise forward movement, or else face the fall. And what is a time players role? to be constantly on the move, to constantly fix the next big emergency and make no mistakes. trauma victims make perfect time players.
Kind of makes me think of what Dave would have been like if the events of Sburb never happened. He'd just keep going on being a cool kid, making sick beats.
since midnight crew is a comic in universe and the original (temporal piano) is from the felt album id love for this to canonically be a fan remix dave made
This song suits Aradia's monologue during the end of Act 5 Act 1. It constantly repeats like a scratch on a record, and the title definitely references the trolls' temporary victory.
The best of beats. I literally can't believe how music can make so much. With the touch of an instrument, with the reading of notes, styles and flavors of a persons imagination...with an inch of time. Suddenly, new music comes our way like the waves of the ocean, taking us all with it to such a wonderful feeling. To a wonderful sight. Damn. This song ROCKS!!!
the beggining is when she starts to build up,, the siren-like noises happen(don't nkow what else to call them) represent Jack coming in as things begin to go down hill.
i feel sorta......lost somewhere like on the midnight fast track someplace...the moon maybe? jugus i got to lay off the the clowns pies for a while.....@_@
He spent so many years perfecting and completing Homestuck. Of course he would want people to appreciate his other projects like HiveSwap and Toby Fox's projects but Homestuck is almost complete. For some reason I just feel he'd want a gradual increase in fandom activity after 4/13, instead of the fandoms interests gradually fading into other things. There'll indefinitely be a place in all of our hearts for Homestuck but the attention won't be there. Now I give it a little thought I'm sure the attention will go into other things, like his other projects, Hussie might even develop a homestuck cartoon/movie of some sort?? Wouldn't that be cool?
+Andrew Farrow Hussie is actually encouraging people to go play undertale. after all Homestuck is on a pretty long term Hiatus for Hiveswap. (Cite: Twitter Hussie.)
For some reason this song reminds me of the part in final fantasy VII where you have to climb the mountain and have to keep cloud's temperature up. I love this song though.
i blame my modern music taste on this track. i always loved the absolute melancholy of its sound and the overpowering, almost drowning beat theres too much interesting sound design here ... it kindof reminds me of OFFs ost
@TheWarnerSister i believe the LE thing is over the fact that jade is the current most powerful, IN TERMS OF POWER, god tier...er dog tier. the space witch powers are very useful when fighting an omnipotent and omniscient opponent.
@TheWarnerSister To answer one of your questions-remember Scratch's troll ancestor discussion? In a past universe, the trolls' ANCESTORS were the Sburb players. When those ancestors had to initiate a scratch, they switched places and the current trolls became the Sburb players. The same thing is happening here: the guardians have switched places with the children. So yeah, in a nutshell, these guardians are the Alpha universe's version of the children.
outpace, outlast. get out fast, the dogs draw near. give your heart a flame, for it sure will never be the same. there is a fight against the quiet death
@Armydude1233 True. Dave probably would have grown up to do something pretty awesome. Now... where is he anyway? He's never going to get his old chill life back. Kinda sad since he never even wanted the game in the first place. Dave is INTERESTING.
@TheWarnerSister coincidental. its just like AH to have a coincidental. he will most likely BECOME the most powerful god tier, second probally to jade, by this coincidence. jade and jake will most likely share some form of power, possibly of space...could be involving his love of firearms and/or cerulean ladies however.
@TheWarnerSister They are the same Dave. I'm still on the wall about English, but Jane is Gransprite in non-dead-non-sprite form. Hmm. Actually, J-J could be ol' Granpop. Would explain the love of guns. And famous movie stars. But then... What if he's also LE? HUSSIEEEEE.
@Derpdederp200 Clubstuck. I would go. Even though I have to take the plane, since I live in Austria and it would be in the US. But I would attend. For sure.
Pinch* not inch but whatever. I'm counting time with the amount of songs I hear. Not the measurements of days nor the ticking of time. Tick Tock Tick Tock, updates come!
wow it sounds just like sirens in the beginning. i always thought it sounded siren like with how daves emotional state was always in a constant state of emergency and how restless he was. like an ambulance rushing to the scene of a trauma scene. or better yet an emotional trauma.
@Airedar Jake is definitely Grandpa Harley. It also explains his love of blue ladies and the word "eclectic"! The Lord English thing just makes me want to smash my computer in confusion so let's not go into that. Wait, so there are Daves in two different universes? God Dave met Aradia after they blew up the Green Sun, in that place where time has no meaning (must be a downer) so I would presume he's still there. How did he also raise Littlebro? I'm confused.
