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Rebloging so more people feel tempted to write one

The fact that no one has written a Kopix fic yet troubles me… SOEMONE PLEASE WRITE THE WOMEN LOVING WOMEN. I BEG. I CRAVE SPACE LESBIANS LOVING EACH OTHER 🗣️🗣️🗣️

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... What if I implode and cry all at once?

Leaves from the vine 🎶

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I know, that's why it's a crack theory. I like chaos and tomfoolery.

Also the sheer absurdity of it amuses me and tingles parts of my brain in ways I can't explain here. Like, just think of how it would be for everybody involved in that scenario, absolute insanity.

Crack theory: The Handmaid 2.0

Since there are constant parallelisms between Ult!Dirk and Doc Scratch, I fully believe Dirk will end up raising a female time player, specifically a satyr, in the orange moon we saw last upd8.

The only difference here being that I think Dirk would actually be a good father figure for this hypothetical character, kind of in an ironic twist of fate if we compare it to how Bro treated Dave and Doc Scratch's treatment of The Handmaid. The ultimate irony even.

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Crack theory: The Handmaid 2.0

Since there are constant parallelisms between Ult!Dirk and Doc Scratch, I fully believe Dirk will end up raising a female time player, specifically a satyr, in the orange moon we saw last upd8.

The only difference here being that I think Dirk would actually be a good father figure for this hypothetical character, kind of in an ironic twist of fate if we compare it to how Bro treated Dave and Doc Scratch's treatment of The Handmaid. The ultimate irony even.

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KREMY REEKS OF CLASSIC TUMBLR SEXYMAN TROPES!

NOT VOTING FOR HIM IS A CRIME AGAINST THE TUMBLERINA CODE AND I WILL CALL THE POLICE ON YOU!!! /j

LOA Tumblr Sexy Man competition

Kermmy Lecroux

Official Art of Kremy by saltmatey

VS

Gideon Coal

Official Art of Gideon by saltmatey

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I know we all headcanon Yiffy/Ruby to be a sylph (usually of rage), but what if she's actually a mage?

From what we know about her way of thinking and how the narration works when it's centered around her, she's pretty good at reading people and knowing how will they act even if it's usually in a negative way. She's more or less the most issolated of the omega kids, with Tavvy being the only one she really interacts with on screen. This all feels pretty akin to the way mages are thought to be

We know very little about the class, but generally speaking, they seem to have a sort of hermit-like behavior, prefering to keep to themselves and/or learning about whichever aspect they are bound to.

Imagine if the reason Ult!Dirk is so afraid of her is because he doesn't want to be read by her. She could clock that man's whole self-villanaizing thing with just one look at him.

I know this is a big stretch, but non of the other kids give that much of a mage vibe to me and the idea of Dirk cowering in a corner because of a teen is calling him out is just too funny to me.

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ROXY LALONDE, IS THAT YOU?!?!?!!?!?

In Death - Is Life - Submitted by: fastman27

#090B12 #1A3657 #DB4DCD #FCA4D9

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SHE HAS ARRIVED AND IN HER BIRTHDAY NO LESS

ALL HAIL JUNE EGBERT

Who's Retconning?

So the update's pretty exciting! Happy 4/13, it was a real good one. I'm very excited that Jake and Jane are on the Meat ship now, mainly because A) Jane being there means that permadeath is less likely for everyone, including Dirk and B) Jake is Dirk's biggest weakness and I want him to fuck that twink up.

That said, I've noticed the most popular understanding of this update seems to be that Vriska's doing retcons. I can understand why, she's certainly involved and doing a lot, but I disagree. I think what we're dealing with here is Vriska collaborating with Jasprose...and also June, who is the one doing the actual retconning.

Let's do a little bit of visual analysis of the imagery in this update so I can explain why.

First things first, let's consider the power we've been shown Vriska has gained here. Her ascension seems to have enabled her to travel through space at the speed of light, or even faster somehow--fast enough to escape the boundary of the black hole that divides Candy from Meat-- achieving the impossible, since not even Light can escape a black hole-- and then cutting through who knows how much Space to get to Deltritus practically instantly.

But there's a problem there. As fast as she is, Vriska is still depicted as traveling. She is moving in a trayectory across space and time.

If Vriska could retcon, doing this wouldn't be necessary for her at all. She could simply warp instantly from one location to another, like John warping into the Masterpiece. He doesn't *come into* the Masterpiece from anywhere--he's not there one moment, and in the next moment, he is. It cuts out the idea of travel entirely.

If Vriska is trying to get to Deltritus as efficiently as possible, and it sure doesn't look like she's wasting any time, then it doesn't really seem like John style retcons are an option for her.

The other thing that people are pointing to as a Retcon is Vriska burning John's farewell letters to his friends, with some even assuming this means she's retconning his death entirely from the beginning. I find this unlikely, because it would change Terezi's character arc and motivations considerably and a lot of weight has been put on the corpse in her wallet modus.

But honestly, it doesn't even look like she retconned the letters. It just looks like she outright destroyed them. There's still fire and scorch marks where they were laying--there's still a mark that they existed. Reducing something to ash isn't the same as making it like it never existed at all.

I think there's an alternate possibility, too. If the hellfire is a new manifestation of Light specific to Vriska, then she could have stolen the letters through Light instead. At the moment, most of Meat's cast doesn't even seem to know what happened to John.

What would happen if Vriska put John's letters, now abandoned completely since not even Jane and Jake are on Earth C to pick them up otherwise, in all their hands? It seems like a good way to get everyone organized and motivated to help John.

And Vriska probably isn't thinking about the Candy timeline folks, but what if John's letter to Jade reached Candy Jade, for example? There could be a lot of narrative utility and emotional catharsis in a beat like that. So I think it's likelier she just took them than that they're retconned out of existence.

Now don't get me wrong--Vriska definitely did something to the Meat crew. She's the one causing that turbulence, after all, and whatever she's doing definitely involves her powers. But her powers are also very, very visually distinct, in a way that conflicts with the idea that she's the one who put Jake and Jane on the Meat ship.

Because the narrative goes out of its way to show us this panel of Jasprose, and the wisp of blue depicted here looks nothing like the dark blue lasers and hellfire that Vriska manifests.

Instead, it looks very distinctly like a wisp of air, J00N's breathy blue.

As if June was just standing in front of her, and whisked out of the scene with Jane and Jake in tow, leaving her alone in Midnight City.

This is as Jasprose expected, of course. In her 666 conversation with Davepeta, Jasprose outright says that she's made progress improving Jane's politics, and that while Jake is still heartbroken over Dirk, she's confident she can bring out his latent heroism before "curtain call"--in other words, before it's time to take the stage where it's relevant.

Jasprose told us this was going to happen ages ago. She's been preparing Jane and Jake for it this whole time. So Catnapped's arc hasn't been retconned--it's simply been concluded, and this panel is signaling to us that Jane and Jake have just left her neck of the woods and departed for the Meat Ship plot.

So again--if Vriska's responsible, then why not her standard blue light and hellfire here? Why this wispy, breathy blue instead? If that's just meant to be smoke from her pipe, then why the breathy blue at all? Wouldn't a noir-ish grey make more sense?

Here's something to consider: We've already seen June Egbert exists at some point in the future. Whether she's a revived Meat John or a Candy John that has broken out of the black hole, as the most fully realized version of herself, she will almost certainly reclaim her Retcon power anyway.

To be honest, it's such a unique and character specific ability that I'd be pretty surprised if Vriska just happened to get it through helltier too. It just seems like a strange ability to give to multiple characters, though I suppose its not impossible. What it would be, though, is a little redundant.

If June exists and has retcon *ever*, even far in the plot's future from our perspective, then she can by definition go back in time to fuck with the plot at any time, in any place, retroactively. We may not have seen June directly yet, but it makes perfect sense that her touch would be felt:

She is already here.

Lastly, consider that if this Jake & Jane retcon on the Meat Ship is a product of Vriska, June and Jasprose collaborating to bring about a tactical timeline change, that paints a much stronger picture than if its just Vriska dominating the plot and taking charge of everything herself as is her traditional route.

It would speak to an increased ability to engage in genuine teamwork and coordination with equals on Vriska's part. I like that better for this new phase of Vriskaing. After all, she's normal now. She doesn't have to do everything by herself.

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SHE APPEARED FOR ONE PANEL AND SLAYED

Starts hyperventilating

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...Sooooooooooo

The TV was definetly glowing guys, took a while to notice but now I did.

@sturmdunkel was right all along. For context, she thought I was not cis since she met me and by that point we knew each other for well over 6 months irl (we are classmates and friends).

Forshadowing truly is a great thing haha...

Anywho, go support my friend, she makes cool art and merch. Yes, I did tag her just to promote her stuff, I love and support my friends like that.

Hey guys so I may or may not be Librafemenine (mostly leaning on the femenine side), but I am too busy to think about that atm or for the next year or so.

Here's the flag btw, it looks pretty cool.

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Vriska is gonna crack her egg next upd8, trust me I am the pumpkin cake

I don't think I've seen anyone talk about the fact that you can see Vriskas smile at the end of Junes flash page.

Like what's up with that?

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Hey guys so I may or may not be Librafemenine (mostly leaning on the femenine side), but I am too busy to think about that atm or for the next year or so.

Here's the flag btw, it looks pretty cool.

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WHY THE FUCK GOD DID NOT BLESS ME WITH A HAPPY TRAIL?!?! I WOULD BE AN ABSOLUTE BADDIE WITH ONEEEEEEEEEEE

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"What if I really was someone else very far away on the other side of a television screen?"

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I legit want the Omega Kids to meet up with some of the meat timeline characters.

Just think of all the possible scenarios people, think of Yiffy/Ruby getting to meet an alternate version of her mom.

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WE ARE NEVER LEAVING THE FUCKING BUILDING! CURSE YOU JUNE EGBERT, MY GORGEOUS WIFE!!!

I say this through absolutely gritted teeth, but I am sadly invested in Homestuck again.

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To this day, I think about how insane is that... Richie basically just confirmed that Kremy and Gideon have had some freaky ass sex. Those two motherfuckers are not vanilla in the slightest.

Like, they've canonically gone to orgies togheter and we have to exist with that knowledge... God I love LoA

Absolute insanity at the TooManyGames convention

Added the follow-up clip out of necessity. A beautiful story arc