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Is the comet bigger on the inside because of Edie being an heir of space? Just been rereading and wondered a bit

that's a good guess! unfortunately i can neither confirm nor deny the specifics at this time.

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godfeels askbox is open

got questions or thoughts about the latest updates? want to pick a writer's brain on their past creative choices? curious to see if you can coax sarah into accidentally writing another 2000 word essay on a throwaway ask?

you know where to find us.

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blood players am i right

godfeels: the party upd8

calliope lets her have it.

read it here

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godfeels: the party upd8

calliope lets her have it.

read it here

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tfw the most toxic couple you ever met in high school left town only to show back up a decade later still together and somehow more well-adjusted than anyone else in your adult life.

godfeels upd8: the party (8/14)

(terezi) makes a terrible confession, and karkat shares a piece of his mind.

read it here!

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godfeels upd8: the party (8/14)

(terezi) makes a terrible confession, and karkat shares a piece of his mind.

read it here!

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everyone knows godfeels is that one june egbert fanfic

but they're wrong! really she was just a cover for my true masterstroke:

PITCH JANEKAT.

dave is out of the picture for reasons that have no impact on their relationship. karkat is lonely and jane is stressed. one is a communist, the other a capitalist, but they're both loud and obstinate in similar ways. the trick is that you have to think of jane as something of a miss piggy figure, with karkat playing the role of cussin kermit.

judge for yourself below the cut.

gf3.1 ch1 (wednesday):

gf3.1 ch6 (thursday):

gf3.1 ch8 (friday):

gf3.2 ch4 (monday):

gf3.2 ch8 (monday night):

damn, i started them on this path in 2020 and it hasn't even been a week in-fiction. anyways i think they're great for each other. long live janekat

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godfeels upd8!

the party continues as jane and karkat try not to snoop, while vriska worries about the future.

read it here!

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godfeels upd8!

the party continues as jane and karkat try not to snoop, while vriska worries about the future.

read it here!

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godfeels upd8!

calliope takes a walk, (terezi) plays it cool, and vriska wonders what to do. read it here.

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Is Zaria Empty important?

clearly she must be if you're thinking about her enough to ask

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godfeels upd8! the party continues!

vriska and terezi share what they've been up to for the last 16 years, and karkat tries to hide his shame.

read it here!

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actually i've had time to think about this since last night and i want to give a more nuanced answer. so in paradox space, now is only now when a narrative eye commits it to memory. let's remember this bit of exposition from the ch8 epilogue:

the whole thing operates on the logic of a sort of layman's woo woo fantasy version of quantum mechanics (mine) in which the prime mover of a narrative universe is audience attention. everything we don't know is something that simultaneously has happened, is happening, and hasn't happened yet. if the audience hasn't seen it, it's in superposition. actually, i'm gonna digress a second here to illustrate a larger point, using information we know but haven't had occasion to think about in a long time.

my original core conceit for Dana waaaay back in the gf3 prologue was that she despised people knowing things about her without her consent and resented any narratorial eye prying for secrets. this kind of fell by the wayside as more of her personality emerged, but her awareness of being part of a narrative remains. we know characters in this universe are aware of the metaphysics of fiction and are capable of manipulating it to their advantage through narration. June does this, Dirk does this, Alt!Calliope in the Epilogues does this, anyone who meets a critical threshold of metaself-awareness can do this. and you'll remember, i'm sure, that the whole gf3 prologue itself is a trap set by Dana, using technology similar to the prompt terminals that WV used to communicate with John back in Homestuck proper, essentially hijacking our attention to trick answers out of Jade. and then once it's over and she leaves with Vriska & Terezi, their ship somehow manages to arrive at Earth C in only three days despite being a functionally infinite distance away. but for everyone else, the prologue happened more than a week ago! from 3.1 ch1:

so "now" is a phenomenologically squishy concept, because it's always subjective. it's influenced by countless variables. is a metaself-actualized character present? is it/could it be happening at a moment when the story is in need of dramatic/poetic/ironic contrast? but then the flip side: does a character need time to breathe? do we need to feel like time has passed in the meantime? a character can wander through paradox space and find themselves traveling backwards or forwards in time, traveling vast distances in footsteps or go for weeks and still be in the same place. Vriska and Terezi spent 16 years in the pix but they were only gone for 7. Jade's been gone for thousands of years but she only left a year ago. "now" is a function of our attention. it's what happens when you read the fiction.

however that's all basically unrelated to the question of whether now is now in a general in-universe sense, in which case i guess the answer is "yes, except when it isn't." when is "now" in any given place? why, whenever you happen to be looking of course! why is "now" 2025 and not any other year? because it just happens to be when we're alive. hope that clears things up!

along the lines of the EWL’s timekeeping processes, what’s some other lore rabbit hole of the legion’s functions that would be unwieldy to exposit within the story proper?

honestly there's a timekeeping-esque rabbit hole attached to pretty much everything related to cohabitating species from different universes. what do you do about people acclimatized to wildly different G forces? what do you about species that are exponentially larger or smaller than the statistical humanoid average? IS there a statistical humanoid average??

the obvious answer that a lot of speculative fiction comes up with is that you have multiple civilizations of vary scales occupying the same space. sorry, i'm so sorry, but i'm thinking of Zootopia here, where there's little mouse cars on separate mouse roads next to the big regular sized roads. every time i see this kind of reality proposed it just seems wildly dangerous and inefficient. i mean, there's ALWAYS a tiny person who almost gets squashed! imagine trying to build a highway in a world where a really big fox girl might step on it accidentally. just imagine! are you imagining it? god, can you even imagine...

but like, seriously, it would be catastrophic. either you have strict "big creatures here, little creatures here" boundaries between spaces, or you have a form of integration where inherently one size of creature is going to be preferenced over the others (presumably whichever occupies the largest statistical average of the population/generates the most economic activity....... which, if we assume all creatures regardless of size share equal intelligence and ability, is a logic that would actually preference the smaller creatures, since they tend to reproduce faster and at higher volume. ah, our anthropomorphic perspective is really doing us in here!)

so, let's do away with the obvious answer. if the Legion can dynamically manipulate time to synchronize a wide variety of circadian rhythms, why not do the same thing for size/mass/gravity? i've toyed with the idea that Legion members are sort of squashed and stretched to be able to comfortably occupy the same space, such that if you and Godzilla met in a EWL hallway, he'd only be a normal amount of intimidatingly taller than you. presumably the Legion is capable of increasing someone's size without increasing their mass, and perhaps even of locally varying G forces to the comfort of the individual. i'm not 100% sold on this idea yet for various reasons. like idk, maybe the big fox girl doesn't want to be regular person sized. maybe being huge is part of her gender and making her small again induces dysphoria, did you ever think of that?!

so i think, like with a lot of stuff in the Legion, there just won't be a universal explanation. some facilities might have automatic body size normalization, and others might not. maybe there's a commune that has mouse cars on mouse highways next to dog cars on dog highways next to people cars on people highways next to elephant cars on... you get it. i think the answer is that you go where you can be comfortable. the Legion is big enough that it has accommodations for basically anything you can imagine.

this is connected to the notion that while the Legion has the ability to freely manufacture pretty much anything by way of universe engine game mechanics, they still try to preference handmade or uniquely crafted goods where possible/sustainable, because it is good for a society to have something constructive to do with its hands. not that they OUTLAW alchemy, that would be unfeasible, but rather that they don't let the absence of scarcity push them away from technologies developed in scarce conditions. many EWL members are immortal, remember. it's not just about having a lot of different kinds of leisure, but different kinds of everything. building a society that encourages Gods to remain grounded and engaged with material reality. chronological syncopation, size normalization, and the rankscipline system are just three ways that the Legion tries to put everyone on equal footing, not preferencing one particular variety of member just because they happen to represent a statistical majority (by one arbitrary unit of measure) or fulfill a specific cultural role/expectation.

anyway, i hope that was a suitable rabbit hole. i'm sure there are others around here somewhere.

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along the lines of the EWL’s timekeeping processes, what’s some other lore rabbit hole of the legion’s functions that would be unwieldy to exposit within the story proper?

honestly there's a timekeeping-esque rabbit hole attached to pretty much everything related to cohabitating species from different universes. what do you do about people acclimatized to wildly different G forces? what do you about species that are exponentially larger or smaller than the statistical humanoid average? IS there a statistical humanoid average??

the obvious answer that a lot of speculative fiction comes up with is that you have multiple civilizations of vary scales occupying the same space. sorry, i'm so sorry, but i'm thinking of Zootopia here, where there's little mouse cars on separate mouse roads next to the big regular sized roads. every time i see this kind of reality proposed it just seems wildly dangerous and inefficient. i mean, there's ALWAYS a tiny person who almost gets squashed! imagine trying to build a highway in a world where a really big fox girl might step on it accidentally. just imagine! are you imagining it? god, can you even imagine...

but like, seriously, it would be catastrophic. either you have strict "big creatures here, little creatures here" boundaries between spaces, or you have a form of integration where inherently one size of creature is going to be preferenced over the others (presumably whichever occupies the largest statistical average of the population/generates the most economic activity....... which, if we assume all creatures regardless of size share equal intelligence and ability, is a logic that would actually preference the smaller creatures, since they tend to reproduce faster and at higher volume. ah, our anthropomorphic perspective is really doing us in here!)

so, let's do away with the obvious answer. if the Legion can dynamically manipulate time to synchronize a wide variety of circadian rhythms, why not do the same thing for size/mass/gravity? i've toyed with the idea that Legion members are sort of squashed and stretched to be able to comfortably occupy the same space, such that if you and Godzilla met in a EWL hallway, he'd only be a normal amount of intimidatingly taller than you. presumably the Legion is capable of increasing someone's size without increasing their mass, and perhaps even of locally varying G forces to the comfort of the individual. i'm not 100% sold on this idea yet for various reasons. like idk, maybe the big fox girl doesn't want to be regular person sized. maybe being huge is part of her gender and making her small again induces dysphoria, did you ever think of that?!

so i think, like with a lot of stuff in the Legion, there just won't be a universal explanation. some facilities might have automatic body size normalization, and others might not. maybe there's a commune that has mouse cars on mouse highways next to dog cars on dog highways next to people cars on people highways next to elephant cars on... you get it. i think the answer is that you go where you can be comfortable. the Legion is big enough that it has accommodations for basically anything you can imagine.

this is connected to the notion that while the Legion has the ability to freely manufacture pretty much anything by way of universe engine game mechanics, they still try to preference handmade or uniquely crafted goods where possible/sustainable, because it is good for a society to have something constructive to do with its hands. not that they OUTLAW alchemy, that would be unfeasible, but rather that they don't let the absence of scarcity push them away from technologies developed in scarce conditions. many EWL members are immortal, remember. it's not just about having a lot of different kinds of leisure, but different kinds of everything. building a society that encourages Gods to remain grounded and engaged with material reality. chronological syncopation, size normalization, and the rankscipline system are just three ways that the Legion tries to put everyone on equal footing, not preferencing one particular variety of member just because they happen to represent a statistical majority (by one arbitrary unit of measure) or fulfill a specific cultural role/expectation.

anyway, i hope that was a suitable rabbit hole. i'm sure there are others around here somewhere.

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it's always so weird when you break in to your ex's house only to find that it's a museum now. hate when that happens

godfeels upd8!

tonight at the party: jane gives a speech, karkat has some thoughts, and... uh oh 😬

read it here!

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In my heart of hearts I believe that Arnold is the kid from the magic schoolbus

can't wait for this kid to be a load-bearing pillar of the narrative lol lmao

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godfeels upd8!

tonight at the party: jane gives a speech, karkat has some thoughts, and... uh oh 😬

read it here!