Desumaytah posted:I just want to find out who Lord English is, drat. He is us. The fans. The ancestors surrendered their agency to LE, and so were turned into exactly the kind of people that make for great fanfiction and shipping, despite the fact that it ruined their lives. And LE will do it again and again, for every universe that is born, forcing each one to bend to his desire for sick fetishistic fantasy. 
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Wow. Bro is my new favorite. That kind of eloquence and introspection totally speaks to me.
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Fast Backward posted:Hussie would rather mess around with Ms. Paint than just plain mess with her. He wants to gently caress her. Tell us more about your projected carapace fetish.
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Bobulus posted:Wasn't there a thing where 4chan was going to mail him a bunch of dildos or something As it should be.
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Dec 14, 2011 10:54
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Gods almighty, I have never felt this way about a webcomic. I absolutely cannot be satisfied. I NEED more, all the time, no matter how much I get. Everything about it is just so perfect. The whole group dynamic is changing, scores of once-divided characters are finally meeting and are guarenteed a long stretch to just, socialize. Chill out and play some fuckin scrabble. This kind of tempering to all the high-strung drama is just so cathartic. I am having so much fun! 
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Dec 17, 2011 11:50
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pumpinglemma posted:
This passage is what makes me pumped up to see Bro more than any other character.
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Dec 18, 2011 23:17
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VJeff posted:
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Dec 19, 2011 06:39
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Dolash posted:A combination pizza hutt and taco bell, obviously. I will elaborate for those not privy to the joke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUgnQdBEiz8
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Dec 22, 2011 06:38
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So in actual discussion news, doesn't Karkat having a 'this is stupid' moment mean he's going to stop having a loving cow about poo poo that doesn't actually matter anywhere that isn't his own head, as John did after his own such moment? Because as joyous as that was little leader man needs to get off his nook and do some loving leading. 
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Dec 23, 2011 13:46
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Jack you are the worst. What even is this poo poo. Personally I'm expecting an x3 expectation subversion combo and Jane's realself isn't actually dead, just taking a nap. Because otherwise HUSSIIIIIIIE
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Dec 31, 2011 08:19
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KoB posted:Am I the only one that thinks her realself isnt dead? She had the smoke pellets and the ominous red pellet. I assumed that it was mirroring John since he used the smokescreen to run off with Sburb and the package. No. You are not. As evidenced by the post you literally just quoted. 
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Dec 31, 2011 08:38
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Looks like Jack is just poised to flip his poo poo when the kids hit thirteen years, and the two extra years for this set of kids gave him time to plot a clean coup. That devious son of an inkwell.
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Nate RFB posted:Could we be getting another big god tier flash at midnight? Doubt it. I think this is Maid stuff going on; Aradia could do some weird poo poo before any of that god tier stuff happened, and I'm pretty sure dying on your mailbox doesn't make that happen.
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Jan 1, 2012 04:19
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MSPaint Adventures - Come for the theory, stay for the creepy.
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Since there's a poo poo load of overlap here, Radiation did a couple tracks for I Miss You - EarthBound 2012. I just want to say that anyone who hasn't clicked this link should do so literally right now. It's magical.
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Hey. Hey guys. Hey. What makes the Condence different from Feferi? She's Meenah. 
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King of Solomon posted:So, Tavros. Tavros is a pretty perfect example of a character death that makes sense not only for his own character arc, but pretty much everyone else's, as well. He was kinda useless and pathetic, but after getting robot legs from Equius (with help from Kanaya's friendly chainsaw), he emboldened himself and modeled himself after Vriska, the most confident person he knows. This is a Good Post.  All the talk about agency in this thread is getting so dense, and it seems like the comic's own narrative can lend credence to multiple, even conflicting, points of view. I think that lends a certain weight to this story, a permanance that may make it last longer than it's shiny veneer of pop culture would suggest. It's a story that makes you think drat hard.
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I am grooving so drat hard to Jade Sylph. It is 2CHILL 
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/\/\/\ e:  Kazy posted:Can someone please tell me what Sonic Adventure level music Sunslammer reminds me of? It's driving me crazy This got me listening to a lot of the tracks from that game, and while none of them truly sync up they share the same riff structure throughout most of the stage songs. Twinkle Park, Emerald Coast, and Final Egg. None of them are close enough to really make you go OH MAN THAT ONE but you can feel the link between them nevertheless. Dice Dingus fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Apr 6, 2012 |
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creationist believer posted:I just feel like I need to say it... Does anyone else feel like at about 3:10 in Rain, there's a sound that sounds like someone chewing on a pen and breathing heavily or something like that? It's always grossed me out and kinda ruined Medium as a soundtrack to me... :\ It only lasts like 10 or 20 seconds and I guess I'm just sensitive about it. Especially since the other 6 minutes of that song are so great :| There are samples of mouth sounds, yes, but that actually makes it my favorite because it fits so perfectly for it's original intent. I always thought that in that lull towards the middle-late part of the song it sounded like... How do I put it, like whispers just barely too quiet to make out, like the secrets of the dripping earth were calling to be found. To this day, I get chills every time I hear it, it's my favorite track off that album.
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I'm going to level with you all here, because this is a thought that I have never had about anything that has ever happened in Homestuck. I don't know if Andrew can make this work. It's just a little too hosed up, and I'm not sure the gimmick will really function comically. And it skirts the line between mocking fanfiction and becoming fanfiction REALLY HARD. Hussie, I need you to make this work. Seal the deal, man, give me something that makes me bust my rear end laughing or I'm going to succumb to the creepiness of what just transpired here.
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Luminous Obscurity posted:In other news, mr. liveblogger just discovered SBaHJ and has predictably flipped the gently caress out. I need a link to this. SBaHJ is unironically my favorite part of MSPA and I need to see his puny Troper brain flatten like a bad souffle.
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Apr 19, 2012 06:55
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Bobulus posted:We really should go easy on him. He's apparently 15 years old, and everyone thinks they know everything at that age. Even the TvTropes bullshit is forgiven. Strongly disagree. Internet humiliation has and continues to teach me valuable lessons. Also, how can he hate Rose? Dislike I can understand, but it's not like she doesn't add to the story or doesn't have funny moments.
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Seoinin posted:It is a good thing indeed that sprites don't have feet, because otherwise Tavris would have socks, sandals, AND skrillex hair. More like dude-that-would-make-you-elbow-your-friend-if-you-saw-him-in-the-foodcourt-sprite Put him in a bathrobe and beach shorts. The Dudesprite. All his advice would be made cryptic only because it was poorly enunciated, pockmarked with expletives, and broken up by drinks of white russian.
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Krinkle posted:what's in the pumpkin I'm sorry I don't understand, can you put that in the form of a jittery animated gif?
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Ominous Jazz posted:I think English is as much part of the natural ecology as MissingNo. is to Pokemon. He's natural because every universe has this mistake of coding in it. That is a STAGGERINGLY apt analogy. I wasn't having a hard time wrapping my head around LE or anything, but that really just sealed my understanding in good and tight. Look at you go.On a different note, it just occured to me that reading Homestuck is kind of like playing a really, absurdly long Chrono Trigger. You keep thinking you know what's going on and then it's like 'nope part of something so much bigger you look like a chump, chump!' and you love it every time.
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May 11, 2012 12:27
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I hope we get to see some more, because they all have totally gobsmackingly cool names. "Fantasia's Inhale" "Feathercadence" "Breathless Battaglia" "Ivories in the Fire"
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Gabriel Pope posted:There's also the fact that uu is explicitly an audience surrogate figure and that opens up some fascinating possibilities for Lord English. Skaia, with its "infinite creative potential", becomes a metaphor for the storytelling process as a whole--creating whole new worlds which ultimately only exist for the "consumption" of the audience, which has the entire span of the story laid neatly out in an archival format which they can jump back and forth through at their leisure. And like the old saying goes, wherever you go, there you (already) are. Some people, myself included, have been insisting on this for months, and it's going to make a fantastic narrative climax. And the hyperfans who are simultaneously creepy as all get out and sharp enough to figure out the commentary on creepy fans are going to write the most bitter, vicious screeds the internet has ever seen. We're on our way to the goldmine already. 
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I gonna throw in on the side of 'Calliope is actually really there but intangible, or at least has powers that have the same effect'. Here's some more tumblr-sourced theorizing, this one's really good. Here's a linkback.magitechnical-geovivency posted:SO, basically Calliope and Caliborn are both self-inserts but they do it in VERY different ways, based on how their powers work. Basically, Calliope is already here too, but her power is not to dominate, to insist that things go a certain way, it's to inspire, so that the actors themselves in the story act of their own will a certain way. And if I may be so bold, though Caliborn may think and present himself as the more powerful force, I suspect they are equal at the very least, and possibly the ultimate 'moral' of the story will be that Calliope's creative, cooperative, supportive power is the greater of the two.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:If I had a nickel for every time someone called something a "Gnostic story"... For what it's worth, reading something into a story is considered just as valid if not moreso than authorial intent in the post-modern framework. Something doesn't have to be premeditatedly gnostic to come off as gnostic. And that wouldn't be a valid argument in this case anyway, because it's very blatantly obvious that it's intentionally trudging about waist-deep in gnostic symbolism and archetype and you either have to be really lucky or really knowledgable to do this good a job of it. And also that article is a really great read. I'm gonna go read about gnosticism when I get home because wow cool.
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A cute face! The cutest face! 0u0
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MyFaceBeHi posted:It's the STRONGEST gift you can give. The angel Makara on Zahhakmas Day...
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mr. stefan posted:
Andrew Hussie you can't do this to me. I am going to laugh until I DIE.
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Line Feed posted:But is the unseen riddler Lord English, or Gamzee? It's Andrew Hussie, always pulling back the prize of whole understanding and satisfying resolution, leaving only... Absence.
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I've been only-just-barely following the comic for the last I don't know how many microacts now, because it's all getting a bit drawn out for me. And then, the Huss did something magical. He finally made me understand why some people love John so much. John is basically Finn The Human.
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With the benefit of hindsight provided by this extended hiatus, I have begun to realize that maybe Homestuck isn't very good. Certainly, the pacing is atrocious in the extreme, and as I go back to read over earlier sections I find the extended chatlog presentation cumbersome once the obnoxious typing quirks are introduced. The inconsistent visual style is also jarring, and it's use of diction is at times impenetrably obtuse (kind of like this sentence). All this is a pity, because underneath it are some really endearing characters and heartwarming stories. I'm ready for it to end. And then I'm going to play Namco High and hopefully laugh my butt off.
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