Obviously Most Things On Alternia Are Designed In A Particularly Slimy, Chitinous Way That Gives Them

obviously most things on Alternia are designed in a particularly slimy, chitinous way that gives them a uniformly alien (is that oxymoronic?) look, but I’m wondering if it’s more than a little conspicuous that a troll’s recuperacoon is basically identical to their computer.

I’ve broken down the basics of Alternian computing before, but the fact that the pus used in their insectoid computers seems to be the same stuff they sleep in has never been able to properly explain itself. the official line is that “the relaxing ooze helps assuage the terrible visions of blood and carnage that plague the dark subconscious of [trollkind]”; but considering Alternia’s governing class seem to have a vested interest in giving their subjects nightmares, we have to assume there is some misdirection happening here.

what has freshly occurred to me is that Jade, ostensibly the human with the most troll-like lifestyle, has a computerised bed of her own… and indeed one intended to monitor and affect the way she dreams.

it was already in the back of my mind years ago, writing what probably turned out to be my first ever proper Homestuck analysis, that there were insidious undertones to the fact that Alternia’s green slime of patriarchy seeps into every crack, right down to the beds the empire’s children sleep in. in Dave’s words, “your grandpa was a sick fuck why would he build a voyeurbot for a little girl”: it probably goes without saying that the subjugglators are kind of sick fucks for building voyeur puppets for little children too! the puppet as a voyeurbot is a well established tool in Dave’s own guardian’s repertoire (…I’m just now realising Dave is secretly relating to Jade with that line), and it says a lot that Dirk’s ultimate voyeurbot (slash fondlebot) took on a form almost identical to that of Jade’s (with Equius even trying a little bit of lowblood-puppeting of his own using another robot of the same type).

it must also be remembered that sopor slime is drugs, drugs is candy, and candy only serves to hide the grisly truth from the partaker. perhaps rather than “assuaging” the horrors of the troll’s dark subconscious, being hooked up to the slime merely masks the true nature of what has been placed there…

this brings to mind Karkat’s strange moment of seemingly unfounded paranoia about the Viewer, accompanied, in fact, by his own spontaneous voyeuristic fantasies about a certain little girl. the takeaway here is of course that the darkness lurking in the troll subconscious is none other than the Viewer, which is obviously true; all trollkind are merely the pawns of Lord English, the ultimate Reader-Author of their reality. but possibly also implicit is that if the Viewer lurks in the subconscious of every troll, then every troll is, themselves, deep down, a Viewer. which is also literally true! as the trolls watching the humans’ game unfold from their meteor laboratory act as yet another of the comic’s many audience stand-ins.

or in Persona Alchemy terms… just as the author of Homestuck imbued every character with an aspect of himself, every single troll in Lord English’s domain contains a little bit of ‘Lord English-ness’. in essence making them their own voyeurs, in the same way Jade is both the voyeurbot and the little girl?

help with artfight

hi! so i made an account and started adding my characters onto there, but when i got to one, i accidentally messed up and didn't mark that it was mine and when i went to fix that, it suddenly just wouldn't let me even pull up art fight online at all??? I'm not sure what todo about that.

the page for art fight is the only thing that wont load at all soo idk if its just my computer messing up, or if I just screwed myself over

my thing is niftyUranium

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help with artfight

the page for art fight is the only thing that wont load at all soo idk if its just my computer messing up, or if I just screwed myself over

my thing is niftyUranium

★ DAY 29

yes im a shrimp. yes i fry rice. we exist

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Me fighting the urge to post homestuck on my non homestuck blogs:

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please understand my vision

ok more seriously

calliope's species canonically only experiences pitch attraction and are specifically drawn to those that remind them of the half they lost in predomination

hussie mentions multiple times in the book commentary that many of eridan's personality and character traits were hazy ideas that eventually became caliborn, and frequently lumps eridan in with caliborn as a sort of proto-caliborn. also eridan literally named himself cal, caligulasAquarium. he also shares riflekind with caliborn and wandkind with calliope

adult cherubs have wings in the shape of the hope symbol, and mating forms that resemble massive serpents, and eridan is the prince (destroyer) of hope, as well as an angel killer (with angels being massive winged serpents in homestuck)

eridan is associated broadly with the number 11 (aquarius being the 11th number in the zodiac) and specifically 311; calliope sometimes types things 11 times for emphasis and ophiuchus would make her the 13th zodiac sign

eridan at one point rants about his kismesistude with vriska being the "kind you don't see in 10,000 sweeps" that will feature "rainbow rivers flowing through star streams all nebulizing and shit" which is basically what cherub mating is like

their . their personalities . they

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can i get a transcript on this fucking video

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I'm in school rn so I can't give a detailed response soo rq some things that I wanna correct/mention. Out of order and kinda messy because I am typing as I think so sorry if it doesn't make 100% sense.

I know reality and fiction are two separate things?? I dunno why exactly you added that when I fully agree with that and say that fiction should be treated differently than irl in my post.

I didn't disrespect Roxy's pronouns. I wasn't even talking about roxy?? But also I was writing the original post on about 4 ish hours of sleep at most, so I kept going back and fourth between he/him and she/her for june. I'll admit I did fuck up on that part,,, june said that she was emotionally cheating on roxy with the younger Terezi and claimed that roxy was doing the same with caliope.

Andrew hussie said several times that he genuinely agreed on june being trans.

Vriska being an abusive asshole toward tavros has nothing to do with the name june coming from her (・・;) like. I'm not condoning anything. I'm just explaining her character and why she does that. Not saying it's okay.

On the dadbert thing, yeahh again. That one was a mistake of me quickly reading though a bunch of posts really quickly on very little sleep. Sorry for misunderstanding that. You are actually correct on that part.

As for the classpect,

You can absolutely be a girl in a male dominant class. Think of it kinda like how most babysitters are girls, but there obviously are still guys who are also babysitters. (Not the best analogy, but idk how else to explain that.) When it comes to classpecting it really is just taking what little we get in Canon and guesstimating from there.

As for you being a sylph of heart specifically, I think that heart still doesn't feel accurate. At least not paired with sylph. But obv how you veiw yourself and your classpect is always gonna be wayyy more accurate than what either any tests or what I may say. I really recommend you check out the classpecting brochure and go from there ^^ (I can send you a link to it if you want, but the website it's on has had a lot of ads and has been pretty obnoxious to use lately)

I hate @/davekat-sucks. Like, they're all open to their oppinions and good for them or whatever when it comes to that.

But they're trying to put social rules and laws on a fictional world that go off of completely different rules.

When it comes to the incest jokes and pedophile stuff, I can see why they're upset. I usually don't mind that kinda stuff but the creators of hs:bc kinda shoved it in there in a weird way and it felt icky.

But like every post feels like a weird circle jerk between them and the anons in their ask box.

They say "roxy is a pedophile, because Caliope is emotionally stunted." And everyone in their asks acts like was they say is scripture. (I am slightly overexagerating but you get my point)

Caliope and Roxy aren't even dating. They don't even have feeling for eachother. Calliope quite litterally can't, and in Homestuck Roxy learned about that and was okay with it. Calliope isn't even a child btw. Her cheeks aren't filled in because Caliborn never died. That doesn't mean she's a child emotionally or whatever. She grew up just like Roxy and the others did. The ring making it so she doesn't age does make sense but I don't think it can really be used to say Roxy is a pedophile, seeing they don't like eachother like that.

June did say that she emotionally cheated on him, but he was locked in his house for God knows how long without talking to either of them. He doesn't know shit about what's going on between them.

As for June being a pedophile,,,, I can't defend that one. I dunno why the authors made that decision,,,, bleh.

I don't even understand why davekat-sucks even cares that much anyways, since they've made posts about ships that are incestuous or pedophilic several times!!!

I attempted to explain june being trans in one post cause I saw one of their anons asking.

They reblogged and claimed that both Vriska and Dadbert groomed June into being certain genders???

That is actual transphobic rhetoric. You can't groom a person into being a certain gender. That's not how that even works???

June's dad was being supportive of his kid!!! How would he even know his kid was trans if his kid wasn't even aware herself???? Like it happens all the time. My dad never hesitated to supporting me being feminine, and when I came out, he was in full support of me being more masculine!!!

And vriska, while yes, does have a habit of pushing people to do things before their ready, she can't force a guy into being transgender. No one can!! As a light player, she tends to understand or realize things about people before even they know it themselves. That doesn't mean what she sees in people is just what she wants out of them, it just means she's impatient and tries to get it out of them as soon as possible. And btw. Vriska didn't even say anything about her being a girl?? She put a bunch of Os in John. (I didn't know when I originally reblogged their post, so I did just look it up rq)

I Hate @/davekat-sucks. Like, They're All Open To Their Oppinions And Good For Them Or Whatever When

Had to look it up to find someone more competent in explaining june being trans, so if you're interested here ya go. It doesnt go into the canonicity of her being trans or the in-story evidence unfortunately i think its still interesting to see where it comes from.

Ps. I got really pissed having to read through their stuff so to get myself to feel better I did classpect them. Keep in mind, I am absolutely biased against them, and I am only going off of their posts. I think they're a Bard of Mind. ••)b if you're looking for information on a bard of mind I recommend looking at Dahni's take and a collection of classpect's take on It.