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Why I Like Showtime

by @marathemara

John Egbert is a perfectly normal middle-class kid. So normal, in fact, that he engages in the stereotypical middle-class middle-school extracurricular exercise of piano lessons. The first sound we hear in Homestuck is John practicing the piano before starting up SBURB; the piece he plays is described as a “haunting piano refrain.”

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