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HUGE thanks for YuriAkuto for all of this

From the Book
I don't have scans for this, but you know the books that are basically the webcomic but in book form? YuriAkuto has those, and she found this

"There are two things absolutely fundamental to this reality: platonic idealism-based concept and trolling."

"It's a universe not so much of physics as of concrete ideas, and devices that trades with these platonic concepts can understand nothing else."

"This is another indication that the device is dealing with ideas, not material construct"

"But photo of Snoop which is an object unto itself and carries the IDEA of Snoop for alchemy purposes; is a conceptually different thing than the ghost image of Snoop, which contains the ESSENCE of Snoopness."

"They carry the IDEA that they are magical, and so, producing conceptual concotions where that idea is in play will yield real magical results"

From the Webcomic
Rose explains to Dave how Alchemy works on Ideas, and why apples are really hard to understand as ideas

Caliborn mentions the "perfect circle" idea

"if you want your powers to reach their full potential youre going to need to become more familiar with the fundamental building blocks of ideas and how they translate into more complicated thoughts and forms... then it becomes a simple matter of using your abilities to snatch those concepts from unreality.

Dirks says time does not exist and is just a part of all of this

We have Dirk explaining some things about the "you-ness" linked to the well-known command in Homestuck "Be the other guy"

Ultimate selves and how they work
Your ultimate self is an Archetypal, Ideal, and True version of someone, being made of everything that makes you who you are.

The understanding of things like time or the aspects in general is one of the thing which make a different between a "normal Self" and Ultimate Self, as the Ultimate Self understand that it's nothing more than "an illusion. It also gives a true vision of all the metatextual stuff of existence. However, a physical body can't bear the power of the Ultimate Self, the ones who ascended to the Ultimate Self needed a specific body created for the occasion.Not only that, but an Ultimate self is "a superceding bodyless and timeless persona that crosses the boundaries of paradox space and unlike god tiers or bubble ghosts or whatever, it really IS immortal"

TL;DR:

LE solos maggots 