Astute observation from the Homestuck Made This World discord:
( It’s the Lara Croft buckle, the one from the Angelina Jolie movie )
The association with Jake makes this a good companion to Cronus's headscars, which form the jagged SS of the Schutzstaffel emblem. But in the same way that ICP being the alchemical fusion of Laurel & Hardy with Hitler was a way of encoding black culture as an Evil corrosive influence, I think this moment may be a homophobic (slash misogynistic?) encoding of Jake's adoption of a feminine signifier as evil, corrosive -- in addition to comparing himself to Jolie, it's the first mention of Jake's interest in shorter shorts, the apotheosis being the banana hammock that triggers Jade's traumatic memories and/or homophobia (or perhaps her trauma is just an unknowing cohort to the narration's homophobic spin? I'm honestly still somewhat murky on the extent to which this aspect of the metanarrative flows back into character psychology).
@dingodad says:
i've got dr manhattan on the brain, but the reaction to the banana hammock seems to be foreshadowed by Jane covering up manhattan's penis on the watchmen poster: an ongoing "gag" in watchmen was manhattan wearing shorter and shorter shorts until he was totally naked, followed by a veiled-homophobia plotline where his mutant penis was accused of giving his sexual partners cancer
Major synergy with her Tobias Funke poster too
