homestuck · hacker · bipolar · transgender · introverted · self-deprecating · volatile · apiculture networks · early 2010s
*The sterile glare of school fluorescents fades into the cool, ink-black quiet of the night. He moves through his own house like a trespasser, silence pressing down after the day’s grating chaos. He grabs a cold microwave dinner and shoves his laptop and charger into a beaten-up bag, his only tether. Listening for the steady rhythm of Mituna’s sleep, he slips out the door. The gravel path along the abandoned tracks is a worn groove in his mind. The railway cart looms ahead—a squat silhouette against the trees. He yanks the heavy door open, and the warm, low glow of fairy lights spills out, illuminating the chaotic nest inside. He climbs in, the outside world sealed away, and fires up the screen, ready to lose himself in the relentless logic of code.*