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SkaiaMechanic here.

You may be wondering where Nora’s been for so long. Well, so have I. Her last communication with me was April 7th. She was last logged into Tumblr on April 17th. I’ve tried contacting her through every way I know how, including direct email, but I’ve had no response. 

She normally disappeared between answering asks and writing up liveblogs, so I tried waiting for quite a while. Still, I think everyone still following should know what’s happening. I hope she’s okay.

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frostingflames submitted to nora-reads-homestuck:

This video is one of the most nostalgic and peaceful things to ever come out of this fandom. The only part that could count as spoilers would be the appearance of the new players, but all that is shown could easily be guessed from their pre scratch counterparts. I’ll leave it up to trix to decide if it counts.

madamehardy submitted to nora-reads-homestuck:

Nobody’s sent in Lullaby for Gods? REALLY?

This is the fan animation that made me think “Shit, okay, I have to read Homestuck if the fanworks are this good.”  (That was in 2014, btw…)

(Skaia) Now that you’ve finished A6A1, this is no longer spoilery! I’ve always really enjoyed this one.

(Nora)  Wow, incredible!!! I had to pause it when Rose leaves Kanaya and steps off into the grimdarkness to let my chills dissipate before I could restart it. Great music. The animation is so fluid and flowing and expressive! I don’t know a lot about how animation works, but it’s hard to believe one person really put this together all by themselves. SO AMAZING!! Thanks so much for sending this in!

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From the Fanfest Archives

heatth submitted to nora-reads-homestuck:

Also, since you technically asked for it: Some tentabulge fanart (NSFW)

Okay, far from the grossest thing I could theoretically find, and it is not even really “porn”, but I hope you can forgive me for not wanting to go searching for weird Homestuck smut. =P Also, sorry for making it a separate post. I just kinda wanted to isolate it.

(Skaia) You did ask for it! (It’s not even really anything at all?) I’m not sure where they come up more, fanart or fanfiction. Like a Lovecraftian Mythos, the more confident you are about that answer the lower your sanity level is.

(Nora) Oh… jeez. Ok, you’re right, I did ask for that. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but… huh. (⊙‿⊙);

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Hey Nora! Just remembered your comment about the unironic Three Wolf Moon shirt guy and thought I'd share something. This link is currently clean even if you scroll down, but don't just in case it changes. [REPLACE TEXT WITH LINK]

[LINK] 

AAAAAH AMAZING. I’d buy that and wear it in public if it weren’t, like, three memes deep.

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Hello! I just spent like a week binging your liveblog aND I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION YOU WERE A LOT FURTHER ALONG THAN THIS I HAVE BEEN LIED TO BY THE DUDE WHO TOLD ME ABOUT YOU AND I'M PISSED BC I DIDN'T EXPECT TO CATCH UP SO SOON!!! What am I to do with myself now!?!?! Anyway I really loved seeing you read the first five Acts and start your voyage into Act 6! I can't wait to see what you think of the rest of this wild ride! ^u^

Aaah I’m so sorry you got caught up short!! Haha, would you know it was my goal a long time ago to try and finish the whole comic before Homestuck ended?? Let’s all breathe a collective sigh of YEAH RIGHT over that one. It’s already almost a whole year later, gosh! Anyway, here’s hoping it doesn’t take me as long to finish Act 6 as it did Hussie! Glad to have you around for it. :>

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Here's an answer Andrew gave on his Tumblr about the time dilation. Skaia, I'm PRETTY sure there are no spoilers in this, but you may want to check it out and make sure, and give Nora the highlights if there's anything she shouldn't know yet. i,imgur,com/jUk3hj8,jpg (replace commas with dots)

(Skaia) Happy 4/13 everyone!

I know I could drag this on for another MONTH at least, but let’s just blow it all out of the way with one big post for all the “relativity” asks since Nora got around to answering the above Ask and that covers all the rest, even the ones she hasn’t seen yet. So in order:

fates0end said to nora-reads-homestuck:

Well, yes, to /other people/ you’re going faster, but your own perception of it is lengthened; that’s why going faster than light would mean time travel.

sanctferum said to nora-reads-homestuck:

IIRC Hussie explained the “science” behind the three years somewhere. tl;dr he was aware that it didn’t make scientific sense, or only made scientific sense in reverse, or something like that, but fuck it, he went with 3 years anyways for narrative purposes? something like that

acamaeda said to nora-reads-homestuck:

The 3 nanoseconds/3 years thing might just be because Hussie is allowed to fuck with them in that one yard.

megazaprat said to nora-reads-homestuck:

I am going to blame the light speed weirdness as it existing in Hussie’s dimension, and Hussie not doing the mat properly

get-thee-to-a-shrubbery said to nora-reads-homestuck:

there’s a really good metareason for the time dilation being reversed, but one good reason is “thats just how things work in Hussiespace (where the kids are now)”

borktastic said to nora-reads-homestuck:

Hussie was asked about (and answered) the speed of light question in a tumblr ask, archived at mspaintadventureswiki*tumblr*com/post/63809439957/mad-answerins-archive. It’s pretty long, but I recommend you give it a read. (It was posted December 14 2011, which is past where you are in the comic right now.) (Skaia: Nora never saw this question because I’m lumping it with the rest and there’s too much for her to go through already (and the other link was edited for Nora’s viewing that she already saw), but the Heart Powers answer made me sad and laugh again.)

currentgoddess said to nora-reads-homestuck:

Remember that speed (and possibly by relation time) are relative. Its one of Einstein’s theorems or something. Source: recent portal episode of game theory

elmach said to nora-reads-homestuck:

The idea behind “being tiny makes you see the world slower” is that since they see distances larger (because they are smaller), they should see time as longer as well, to the same proportion (to keep their measurement of c to be the same as an unshrunken observer); a few other stories rely on this idea. However, for this to apply, the ship would be about the size of an atomic nucleus, so this is a moot point. (Skaia: Nora…never saw this Ask, which is amusing considering her answer below.)

(Skaia) Okay, I think that’s all of them!

(Past!Skaia to Nora) It’s clean. And finally a solid Word of God answer to all these time-dilation questions! (And a really good one at that.) Thanks for finding this!

(Nora) Hmm, yeah, I really like Hussie’s last explanation about them being forced to make up the lost real-world time! That’s really elegant, and neatly sidesteps all the physics bullshit. (I still maintain that physically shrinking them should have nothing to do with how fast they can go; after all, infinitesimally small neutrinos are subject to, and travel at, the same value c as any other object or particle.) Still, I wish he’d done a bit more lampshade-hanging in-universe to preclude this whole argument.

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Nora Reads HS Part 70

Pages 6246-6289

Hello again! Last time I started in on Act 6 Intermission 1, which seems to be an interlude following the human kids and trolls while they journey for THREE LONG YEARS to the new, post-Scratch session. My rage over having to wait (they wait!) so long for a reunion is somewhat mitigated by the fact that we’ll probably be seeing my babbus Dave and Rose today, along with my troll faves. What kinds of shenanigans will they get up to over the course of their journey? Will there be any shipping going on, despite that the kids are traveling with their siblings? Will ‘Daverezi’ be a thing, perhaps? Or ‘Jadavesprite’? Let’s find out! :D

*click*

[A6I1] Rose: Level up.

OH SHIT, we can actually see three rungs of Rose’s echeladder! Hmm, what have we got here?

Pentacle Therapist: Should have been ‘Puntacle Therapist’. This one is admittedly pretty clever, tying her chumhandle to her propensity for witchiness. Pentacles are strongly associated with Wicca, as well as being an alternate name for the Coins suit in tarot decks.

Ariadne’s Threadspinner: Hrm, I don’t have my Edith Hamilton with me, so let’s see what I can remember off the top of my head. Ariadne was a princess of Crete, and fell in love with Theseus, who was supposed to be sacrificed to the Minotaur at the center of a labyrinth. To save his life, she gave him a ball of thread that he could unwind as he traveled through the maze, which would allow him to find his way back once he’d slain the Minotaur. If Rose is Ariadne’s Threadspinner, then perhaps that means she will be helping them to navigate the Furthest Ring on the way to the new session, so they don’t get lost? That would be rich, considering she pawned off mapping duties to Dave earlier.

Surya’s Lurid Glare: IIRC, Surya is the Hindu god of the sun. This one might just be a crack at her robes being so VERY BRIGHT compared to her old duds, and also having a sun on them. Otherwise, maybe it has something to do with the Green Sun and the fact that she created it? But then, why would it be the next rung on her ladder, and not the current one? Hm.

[A6I1] Dave: Level up.

AHAHAHA. Ok, let’s see here.

Hotpotato Butterfingers: When the pimp’s in the crib, ma, drop it like it’s hot. What does it mean that he’s already achieved and surpassed this rung? Has he physically dropped something at some point that was significant, and I missed it?

Revenge of Ricky Schrödinger: I have no fucking idea what this one is supposed to actually mean, but Ricky Schroder if you’ll recall played the main character of Silver Spoons that Terezi giffed for Dave, and ‘Schrodinger’... well, that should be obvious. Hmm, I wonder whether that god tier clock functions sort of like Schrödinger’s box.

Pimpslayer: Hmmmm. If Lord English is the pimp, then maybe Dave will be somehow instrumental in killing him? That’s kind of a scary idea. What exactly constitutes the ‘pimp’ being in the ‘crib’? Ah!! Maybe he can only be killed while inside Felt Manor, kind of like Oryx can only be truly killed while he’s in his Ascendant Realm! Come to think of it, that’s a pretty longstanding video game tradition, going to heaven to kill God.

OHHHH MY GGGGOOOOOODDDD, MY BODY IS READY. KARKAT LOOKS SO ANGRY AND I LOVE IT. On the other hand, the way Gamzee is staring at Dave is a bit creepy. Is Kanaya looking at Rose, or is that wishful thinking? I’d also say Sollux was looking at his own corpse, but it’s hard to tell. Is it for spriteflip reasons that their white/black eyes are opposite? Hm.

ARADIA: you see?? ARADIA: i told you they would bring your body

OH MY GOD THEY’RE TALKING, THEY’RE ALL TALKING,,

SOLLUX: ok, well i believed y0u about that, but yeah, i can see that.

*snrk* Does his corpse also look 2D? (Incidentally, why did 2D’s eyes recently change to white?)

ARADIA: oh!!! ARADIA: sollux lets do it! SOLLUX: what. ARADIA: the corpse party! ARADIA: theres no better time and there are so many corpses here to work with ARADIA: is everybody ok with that? do you want to have a big corpse party? ARADIA: we can incinerate the remains in the sun it will be just glorious

OH MY GOD ARADIA THAT IS INAPPROPRIATE.

ROSE: Corpse party? ARADIA: rose! ARADIA: can you please explain to my friends what a human funeral is like? ROSE: Of course. ROSE: I would describe it as an occasion marked by a great deal of jubilation at the expense of one or more well dressed cadavers. DAVE: hahaha oh god

PFFFSSHSHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Also, d’awww, look at Dave laughing! :D

ARADIA: i couldnt have put it better myself ARADIA: could you go into more detail? ROSE: Well, in my experience, a loved one, typically an elder, arranges to have the departed placed in a small box, and then forces you to stand in the rain all day. ROSE: Then, presumably winded by all the deeply ironic catharsis, she gets drunk and passes out on the couch.

I CAN’T... MY FINGERS ARE GOIGN NUMB FROM LAUGHING TOO HARD

ARADIA: i just thought it would be a nice thing to bond over SOLLUX: not everyb0dy is as into death as y0u though. like, it's c0ol t0 see you s0 excited about s0mething, i'm seriously thrilled ab0ut that. SOLLUX: but frankly it's all pretty fucking morbid t0 everybody, i just th0ught you sh0uld know. ARADIA: am i really that bad? TEREZI: Y3S >:|

FFFFFFFUCK Aradia really is the perfect psychopomp. M-m-m-myyyy Charona!

TEREZI: YOU 4R3 PR4CT1C4LLY B3S1D3 YOURS3LF W1TH G1DD1N3SS 4T TH3 1D34 OF S3RV1NG 4S TH3 M41TR3 D TO 4LL DR34M BUBBL3S TEREZI: YOU LOV3 B31NG TH3 C4R3T4K3R OF W4YW4RD SOULS 4ND DR34M3RS!

Heeee! Also, hah, it just occurred to me that Terezi fucking speaks in 13374.

TEREZI: LUCK1LY YOU M4K3 4N 4DOR4BL3 H4NDM41D TO TH3 M4ST3R OF D34TH, 3SP3C14LLY 1N YOUR CUT3 CH3RRY P1X13 3NS3MBL3

Uh, no, that would be her ancestor. Wait, how the fuck does Terezi know about that?? I guess because of the legends?

ROSE: I'm going to agree with my fellow seer on this. TEREZI: S33??? TEREZI: 3V3N SNOOTY M1SS C4NT4LOUP3 ROB3 4GR33S!

*chokes on sip of water*

TEREZI: OH, 4ND GUYS, JUST FOR TH3 S4K3 OF MULT1CULTUR4L CL4R1TY, W3 TROLLS TR34T D34TH 1TS3LF 4S 4 MYTHOLOG1C4L F1GUR3 TEREZI: H3 1S 4 M4N W1TH 4 FR1GHT3N1NG SKULL FOR 4 H34D 4ND 4 T3RR1BL3 HYPNOT1C GL4R3 TEREZI: 4LL TH3 L3G3NDS S4Y H3S GOT TH1S SUP3R FOXY H4NDM41D TO DO H1S D1RTYWORK TEREZI: 1 M34N TH1S 1S 4LL F4NT4SY OF COURS3, BUT W3 C4NT R34LLY UND3RST4ND 34CH OTH3RS CULTUR3S UNL3SS W3 UND3RST4ND TH3 MYTHS B3H1ND TH3M! DAVE: yo terezi weve got a grim reaper too

Uhhhhm. Yeah, Dave, I don’t think it’s exactly how you’re picturing it. (DAVE AND TEREZI ARE TALKING, FUCKING HOLD ME)

DAVE: wait wait no how about hes got a BLACK ROBE too DAVE: and a fuckin scythe to fuckin slash at you with in case you didnt die all the way or whatever DAVE: daaaaaamn now youre talking bro DAVE: lets go ahead stick that in our culture forever

Yeah, definitely not like you’re picturing.

TEREZI: SO WH4T YOU 4R3 T3LL1NG M3 D4V3 1S TEREZI: TH4T W3 BOTH H4V3 D34TH *4ND* COTTON C4NDY??? DAVE: hell yes TEREZI: W3 M1GHT 4S W3LL B3 TH3 S4M3 D4MN SP3C13S!!! >:D

GREAT!! LET THE UNDERAGE SHENANIGANS BEGIN! >:D

(toyshiptoyshiptoyship)

KARKAT: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

!!!!!

HE SPEAKS! And of course the first word out his mouth would be that one. 

Never fucking change, Karkat.

KARKAT: IS IT GOING TO SHIT ON EVERYBODY'S GREAT TIME IF I DARE TO BRING UP IMPORTANT THINGS NOW? KARKAT: IS IT SAFE TO POKE OUR HEADS UP FROM THIS GULCH OF IDIOTIC BANTER AND SEE IF THE COAST IS CLEAR FOR ADULT, BUSINESSLIKE CONVERSATION? KARKAT: YES, YES, HUMANS, SO NICE TO MEET YOU, AND IT SEEMS YOU'RE GOD TIERS NOW? NEAT, YADA YADA, WHAT THE FUCK EVER.

Ahhhh, this is bringing back memories of Karkat’s feelings rant at John. <3

KARKAT: IT SEEMS WE HAVE ALSO CHANCED UPON NONE OTHER THAN THE GREEN FUCKING SUN ITSELF KARKAT: WHICH UNLESS MY RAW, RUDDY GANDERBULBS ARE STILL A LITTLE GRIEFBLEARY, STRIKES ME AS STILL BEING SOMEWHAT RATHER FUCKING *UNBLOWN* UP. KARKAT: SO WHAT AM I MISSING HERE DAVE: dude chill out we just got hornswoggled is all KARKAT: OH! KARKAT: CASE CLOSED KARKAT: OK THEN, LET'S START PITCHING DEAD PALS INTO THE LIMITLESS INFERNO. MY CURIOSITY WAS TOTALLY FUCKING SATED JUST THEN!

I am like... motherfucking GIDDY. THIS IS EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER DREAMED OF. These kids could talk literally for-fucking-ever and I wouldn’t get tired of it.

KARKAT: WASN'T THE WHOLE POINT TO TAKE OUT THE SUN TO NEUTRALIZE JACK? ROSE: It shouldn't be a problem. KARKAT: OH NO??? THEN WHAT'S THE PLAN NOW??? ROSE: It's simple. ROSE: We regroup, and then defeat him in person.

Yeah, because that went so well for you last time. They’re only newly god tier; how could she possibly already know what to do?

KARKAT: OH! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. KARKAT: FUCKING OH. KARKAT: AND HERE I THOUGHT THE NEW PLAN WAS GOING TO BE SOMETHING INCREDIBLY STUPID AND SUICIDAL. KARKAT: DID I SAY OH YET? KARKAT: BECAUSE THAT'S THE SOUND I MAKE WHEN I'M FUCKING RELIEVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You fuckin’ tell ‘em, Karkat. No way Rose or Dave dying while trying to fight off Noir is anything other than Heroic.

GAMZEE: honk. KARKAT: WHAT. GAMZEE: HONK. KARKAT: WHAT DOES HONK MEAN THIS TIME YOU WHIMSICAL PIECE OF SHIT????? KARKAT: DON'T YOU START WITH ME KARKAT: DO. NOT. START WITH ME. KARKAT: I WILL GET YOU IN A HEADLOCK SO TIGHT IT WILL BE A MIRACLE IF PEOPLE DON'T MISTAKE OUR TUSSLE FOR AN ILL CONCEIVED VENTRILOQUIST ACT. KARKAT: I WILL SHOOSH YOU AGAIN, SO HELP ME GOD. I WILL SHOOSH YOUR CLOWN ASS TO SHANGRI-BULLSHIT-LA AND BACK, AND FILL YOUR EAR WITH MY WHITE HOT PALEBRO SPITTLE. KARKAT: I AM FULL AND FUCKING WELL PREPARED TO GET CONCILIATORY WITH YOU AGAIN IF YOU SO MUCH AS PASS GAS MURDEROUSLY, DO YOU UNDERSTAND? 

Karkat is fucking ROCKETING up my list of favorites at the moment. I just... this is all so perfect. <3

KARKAT: IT'S SO BRIGHT, I NEED SUNGLASSES OR SOMETHING. KARKAT: QUICK, WHICH ONE OF YOU AWESOME DUDES HAS A RADICAL PAIR OF SHADES I CAN BORROW??? KANAYA: One Moment

Oh god, does she still have Equius’s shades?

Heheheheheheh.

FACEPALM x2 COMBO!!

TEREZI: 1 4M SO SORRY YOU GUYS TEREZI: W3 4R3 4CTU4LLY 4 LOT COOL3R TH4N TH1S!

Are you though? ...Are you???

DAVE: are you actually TEREZI: ... TEREZI: NO TEREZI: NO W3 AR3 NOT

AHAHAHGHJSGHKGHSDJKGAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

KARKAT: I NEED TO KNOW WHO THE LEADER IS KARKAT: I NEED TO KNOW IN WHOSE DIRECTION I MUST BEHAVE AS THE MOST PATHETICALLY USELESS SUBORDINATE I CAN BE. KARKAT: QUICK, SOMEONE BOSS ME AROUND! I'M FUCKING INCOMPETENT AND RARING TO GO.

Why, did somebody try to explain time travel? All joking aside, I wonder what this says about Karkat’s psyche. Probably that he would actually be intensely relieved to have the reins taken from him, but he has to save face about the transfer of power by being as sarcastic about it as possible. But if he doesn’t want to be in the lead, who'll step up? Dave and Rose? Does Dave still have the map the Horrorterrors provided? Or... is this a situation where Karkat really does need to be in charge, and just has to regain his confidence in himself? Honestly that’s what I’m hoping for. As much as things fell apart in the end, it’s still my opinion that he’s a good leader.

KARKAT: THAT'S WHAT YOU DO WHEN THERE'S A LEADER AROUND TRYING TO MAKE PLANS, RIGHT? KARKAT: YOU DROP YOUR IQ HARDER THAN A PAIR OF HILARIOUSLY PLUMMETING PANTS, YOU CEASELESSLY RAMBLE ABOUT VAPID BULLSHIT, YOU RUN AROUND HIDING ALL OF YOUR WORLDLY POSSESSIONS IN TREASURE CHESTS, AND THEN EVERYONE STARTS MURDERING EACH OTHER. KARKAT: IF THERE'S ANY OTHER EXPERIENCE CHARACTERIZING LEADERSHIP, IT'S ONE I SURE AS FUCK NEVER HAD!

...Ah. Well, that’s a sharp dig if I’ve ever seen one. Watch out, Karkat, or you’ll hit the Balrog. KARKAT-SENPAI, PLEASE STAY THE LEADER!!

ARADIA: karkat i dont know if anyone cares about formal ranks like that anymore ARADIA: or if anyone ever did! ARADIA: but for what its worth i suggest that from now on you all listen closely to the advice of our human guests DAVE: wait DAVE: really ARADIA: yes!

Man, don’t tell me we’re going the route of Dances with Avatar Samurai. Human outsider barges in and becomes a better leader than Karkat ever was? Please. Unless, going god tier makes them tactically superior somehow?

ARADIA: no need to be so modest dave ARADIA: tactically speaking a knight of time and a seer of light is a nearly unbeatable combination

...Ah.

DAVE: ok DAVE: i dont really have any orders to give though DAVE: except for karkat to shut the hell up because that horseshit is more obnoxious in person than i ever imagined KARKAT: OH WOW, I WOULD OFFER A RETORT TO YOUR VICIOUS BARB, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT UNLIKE EVERY ASSHOLE EVER, I CAN ACTUALLY FOLLOW ORDERS AND SHUT MY MOUTH! KARKAT: CHECK IT OUT, "DOGG" KARKAT: ...................................... ARADIA: yes you are off to an excellent start as a subordinate ARADIA: keep doing that!

PAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh man, all this Dave/Karkat interaction is even better than I imagined. Do I smell blackrom coming on???? :D

ARADIA: but dave dont worry if you do not have instructions for us ARADIA: the knight of time is not necessarily the tactician ARADIA: he is a powerful warrior class which exploits the flow of time as a weapon ARADIA: rose is the one who must play the role of the strategist ARADIA: the seer class knows her aspect comprehensively ARADIA: as a knower of all fortune she can see the circuitous path that will lead to the most favorable outcome for everyone ARADIA: personally i would defer to her judgment!

Ah, interesting! ‘Light’ as ‘Luck’ is as good as confirmed! I’m not sure exactly how Aradia knows all this stuff, but I’m a glutton for any kind of knowledge of the god tiers I can get my hands on, and I’m inclined to believe her. What she’s saying about Dave here seems pretty obvious; he’s already done these things even when he wasn’t god tier. This information about Rose, though, is REALLY interesting. What Aradia is saying makes sense for a Seer of Light, but it’s the polar opposite of what Rose has been doing so far. She knew her aspect so poorly that she all but abandoned it by going grimdark. And even though creating the Green Sun and in the process going god tier was technically a fortuitous outcome, she still had the wool pulled over her eyes by Doc Scratch. Did going god tier somehow just... flip a light switch in her head, and now she’s magically enlightened? (I’ll see myself out.)

TEREZI: R34LLY? YOU C4N DO TH4T?? ROSE: Yes.

Welp. I’m not really a fan of Instant Character Development, so hopefully her personality hasn’t magically done a 180 along with the nature of her powers. I know I've gotten frustrated with Rose bizarre genre blindness in the past, but I’d rather see her undergo a gradual realization and a return to the light (goddammit) than a sudden character derailment—even if it’s for the best. You could maybe argue that the same thing could be said about Aradia, but she at least had the excuse of being dead for years.

TEREZI: TH4T SOUNDS 4 LOT MOR3 US3FUL TH4N MY S33R POW3RS >:[ ROSE: Illumination of the road to victory for all is an asset considerably different from command over the outcomes of decisions made by individuals. ROSE: How do you know your talents won't be critical in blazing this auspicious trail? TEREZI: UM TEREZI: 1 GU3SS 1 DONT ROSE: That's because you're not me.

ROSE, WOW. Looks like she took a level in smartass, too. That said, it’s interesting to have a differentiation between the Seer powers of a Light player and a Mind. Maybe it would be accurate to say that Rose sees the bigger picture, and Terezi is more of a ‘people person’.

Ooh, that’s a neat-looking visual. But... is she... pointing at another meteor? What’s going on there??? I thought they were standing on the meteor. Are there two now??? Also, what’s that lozenge-shaped whatever in the top left quadrant of the panel?

ROSE: But reasonably soon, within a certain window, it will be time to leave.

Within a certain fenestrated plane, you say?

ROSE: We will then pilot this meteor as fast as we can make it go in that exact direction. SOLLUX: what's that way? ROSE: Nothing whatsoever. ROSE: As of now, that way lies darkness and uncertainty beyond description. KANAYA: I See KANAYA: Then Perhaps We Should Reserve The Infinite Darkness Plan For The Maybe Column For Now

Hahahaha. Oh, Kanaya. <3

Anyway, I guess this means Rose’s Seer powers allow her to navigate the Furthest Ring, in a sense, which precludes the need for Dave’s map. What’s Dave supposed to do, then??

KANAYA: I Think Im Even Willing To Let Dave Take A Crack At The Logistics Before We Commit To That Particular Maneuver Daring Though It Sounds DAVE: aw yeah DAVE: i got sicknasty logistics up my sleeve DAVE: i just call them stics fyi which is how you know im way savvy about them DAVE: most of the stics im fine tuning atm involve rap though i should warn you DAVE: but dave what if that dope as hell plan falls through i can hear you ask DAVE: plan b DAVE: involves drawing some shitty cartoons DAVE: and not giving a fuck about stuff

Basically his entire M.O. Fuck, I love these kids.

ROSE: Trust me, it is. ROSE: Just as you should trust me that by the time we leave, if we leave exactly within the designated window and are able to travel at nearly the speed of light, the meteor will trace a route through the Furthest Ring which will topologically resolve as a straight line. ROSE: It will lead us directly to the new session. ROSE: For a brief moment, the sun will be visible from that session. ROSE: And we will be riding the chartreuse coattails of its photons.

Ah, interesting! So, not only is the Furthest Ring a Gordian knot of time and space filled with ample pockets of weirdness, but it’s constantly shifting. That’s why the timing is essential. It’s still fucking bizarre that Rose magically knows all this all of a sudden, but if it gets them to the new session, hell. Go for it.

ARADIA: this is why you all needed an advanced seer!

HOW DID SHE GET THERE THOUGH. I mean, I guess Jade knew how to use her powers as soon as she got them, but they didn’t equate to a giant shift in the fabric of her very personality. That’s the difference between Rose and all the other god tiers we’ve seen so far, I guess. All their powers were more... shall we say, offensive? Physical, or outwardly-focused? And Rose’s are more existential. Even Vriska, as another Light player, was defined by her very VERY offensive Class. This makes me wonder what a fully-realized god tier Terezi would look like, or god tier Karkat. We still haven’t seen Blood in action, but my guess is still that it has something to do with him being The Tie That Binds.

ARADIA: i have become familiar with the ways of the fabric out here but even i couldnt chart a journey that long or complex ROSE: That's because it's almost impossible to do so voluntarily. ROSE: If we were to head right now in the session's true physical direction, it wouldn't be long before we found ourselves traveling in just the opposite direction. ROSE: This is not even to speak of the chronological peculiarities. After traveling some distance, we could discover we were suddenly tailgating our own meteor from several days ago. ROSE: If we are particularly unfortunate, we might even collide in an intersection of spacetime with a meteor piloted by our future selves. ROSE: And if we looked closely at that meteor before impact, we might notice a very large dent in it, which it originally suffered during the very collision we were about to experience.

Oh shit!! Is that meteor up in the right-hand corner in fact their meteor in the future??

Rose’s whole description of the Furthest Rings peculiarities is cool. I know it’s not the same thing, but it brings to mind the ice rings of Tigrin from Titan A.E.

ROSE: It takes precision and timing to reach your destination out here, and most importantly, the grace of the gods themselves.

Oh? And which gods are those? The Horrorterrors? Yourself and your friends?

KARKAT: PPPFFUUUUUUUHHHHHHH......... WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE... ROSE: Hm? SOLLUX: kk, what the fuck? SOLLUX: were you h0lding your breath that wh0le time? KARKAT: YEAH KARKAT: SO? TEREZI: OH GOD, YOU DUMMY TEREZI: YOU DONT 4CTU4LLY H4V3 TO HOLD YOUR BR34TH WH3N YOUR3 B31NG QU13T! KARKAT: OK YEAH KARKAT: I MEAN, OF COURSE IT SOUNDS OBVIOUS WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT DAVE: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha DAVE: rose i told you this dude is fucking incredible KARKAT: STFU. KARKAT: LOOK I'M JUST A LITTLE OUT OF PRACTICE AT STAYING QUIET FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME, OK? TEREZI: H3 R34LLY 1S >:|

AHGKJGHSKDGHSKD OW MY FUCKING SIDES. Karkat is just TOO DAMN MUCH, as is Terezi. Poor thing, trying to look cool the whole time she was chatting with Dave, only to have her entire party outed as hilarious goofballs. Also, look how much Dave is laughing when it’s not over chat!! :>

KARKAT: ANYWAY, WHATEVER, SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING LALONDE IS KARKAT: WE'RE GOING TO BE ON THIS HORRIBLE ROCK A GOOD WHILE LONGER TO GET TO THIS PARADISE SESSION OR WHATEVER IT IS? ROSE: Yes.

SIGH.

KARKAT: AND SINCE WE PROBABLY AREN'T GOING TO FORCE SOLLUX'S BULLSHIT "HALF GHOST" OR WHATEVER TO POP HIMSELF AGAIN LIKE A PACKET OF NASTY FETID MUSTARD SO HE CAN SHOOT THIS THING INTO HYPERSPACE... SOLLUX: hey man, come 0n. not c0ol. KARKAT: I'M GUESSING THAT MEANS IT'LL TAKE CONSIDERABLY LONGER TO GET THERE THAN IT DID TO GET HERE? ROSE: Yes. KARKAT: I JUST KNEW IT KARKAT: THIS IS MY WORST NIGHTMARE REALIZED

I KNOW THAT FEEL, BRO.

KARKAT: I'M ALMOST AFRAID TO ASK, HOW LONG IS THIS TRIP GOING TO TAKE? KARKAT: PROBABLY SOME ABSOLUTELY PREPOSTEROUS AMOUNT OF TIME, LIKE THREE LONG MADDENING SWEEPS, RIGHT???

Jesus, I fucking hope not. What’s the ratio again? ~2.16 earth years per sweep?

KARKAT: THANK YOU, DARK GODS! THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH!!! YOU WIN THIS ROUND! YOU WIN ALL THE ROUNDS APPARENTLY!!!!! THERE ARE NO ROUNDS EVEN. THERE'S JUST YOUR SLIMY TENDRILS, OUR NAKED BODIES, AND EPOCHS OF MOLESTATION.

Hmm, I’m guessing ‘gods’ does in fact refer to the Horrorterrors, then. It’s interesting that Rose still seems friendly toward the Elder Gods, despite her new-fangled Light powers showing her the waaaay~ and her admission to being hornswoggled about the Green Sun.

ROSE: Don't be ridiculous. It won't take nearly that long. KARKAT: OH ROSE: It'll only take about three years. KARKAT: OK KARKAT: THAT'S NOT SO BAD I GUESS. KARKAT: WAIT, HOW LONG ARE YEARS SUPPOSED TO BE AGAIN? KARKAT: WAS IT LIKE TWO WEEKS OR SOMETHING? ROSE: Yes, two. ROSE: And then fifty more.

*snrk* At least I can take enjoyment out of somebody else’s suffering.

My Aradia, what large eyes you have. Gosh, that’s almost creepy. I still love her, though! :>

ARADIA: karkat go back to holding your breath!

PAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

ARADIA: this is going to be a wonderful adventure for everyone ARADIA: im a bit jealous honestly! ARADIA: or i would be if i wasnt having such a good time with my death fangirl thing :p KANAYA: So KANAYA: You Arent Coming Then ARADIA: no ARADIA: i still have important work to do here TEREZI: 4WW >:[

Wait, what, no!!! D: I mean I can’t say I’m entirely surprised, but what exactly does Aradia mean by important work? Are lost souls drawn to the Green Sun like moths to a flame, or something?

ARADIA: but that doesnt rule out the possibility we could meet again in bubbles along your journey!

Wait, if they’ll be traveling through dream bubbles, why doesn’t she come along with them?? She could still get all the ghost action she wants that way, and it also wouldn’t necessarily cut her out of the story. ...She’s not going to be entirely gone, is she??? D:

SOLLUX: yeah, i think i'll hang behind here t0o, if that's 0k with you guys. KARKAT: WAIT, WHAT? KARKAT: NO COME ON, DON'T BE LIKE THAT SOLLUX: be like what? a ghost?? SOLLUX: i d0n't think i belong with the living anym0re.

Nuh... noooooooo... I was so looking forward to Dave and Sollux getting to know each other! Not to mention maybe seeing him and Aradia display the differences between their Time powers by training, or something. T_T

SOLLUX: kk, SORRY. SOLLUX: i'm just d0ne with this crap, this insane adventure bullshit, it's nothing pers0nal. SOLLUX: i just want to spend time with aa and chill 0ut and catch up with some 0f our dead buddies, is that 0k? KARKAT: WHATEVER, FINE.

Awww. Well, I guess I can understand that. He did basically pull double duty a lot of the time. In that case, rest well, soldier. (￣^￣)ゞ

KANAYA: Maybe I Will Stay Here Too

OK NO. NO NO NO NO NO. NONONONONONONON SOANSIJUNIJSMNOOOOOOOOOO. DON’T YOU THINK YOU KIDS HAVE BROKEN  MY HEART ALREADY?????? FUCK OFF, IF KANAYA GETS LEFT BEHIND, I FUCKING QUIT

DO YOU HEAR ME??? >:(

...Ahem.

ROSE: Why? KANAYA: As Nice As It Sounds To Move On KANAYA: I Dont Know If I Can Stand Three Of Your Human Years Of More Darkness KANAYA: I Like This Sun Its Comforting In A Strange Way KANAYA: Like Home ROSE: But what if we need your help? KANAYA: What Could I Possibly Do KANAYA: Aside From Providing A Light Source As You Navigate The Dim Corridors KANAYA: I Would Function As A Premium Escort To The Load Gaper And Thats About It ARADIA: but kanaya you still have important work to finish too! ARADIA: we cant ignore our duties KANAYA: What Are You Talking About ARADIA: our race is extinct remember ARADIA: and after a few more casualties it is now hanging by a thread ARADIA: your job was to see to the resurrection of our people [...]  KANAYA: I Would Like To Have The Orb Again And To Keep It Safe This Time KANAYA: And I Guess To Not Be A Total Failure ROSE: Ok. ROSE: If you follow my advice, I can at least promise you will find yourself in the best position to determine whether that may come to pass. KANAYA: ...

DO IT, HOE

ROSE: Can you please come? ROSE: Between the two of us, you with your inexplicably heretofore unmentioned phosphorescence, and I with my nigh-reflective traffic cone orange sun-sari, the meteor should never be too dark.

AAAAAAAAH, MY SHIPPING HEART!!! o(*°▽°*)o

KARKAT: (sollux, oh my god is it me or is everybody already just fucking hitting on each other left and right? oh god i can't take sweeps of this shit, don't leave me alone here, please don't) SOLLUX: ehehehehe.

Heh heh, Karkat and Sollux know what’s up. Troll/human sloppy makeouts??? :D :D :D

KANAYA: Well KANAYA: All Right

THANK FUCKING GOD.

KANAYA: But Must We Really Leave So Soon ROSE: It's soon or never. But not immediately. ROSE: Even if the route were accessible right now, it would still behoove us to wait. ROSE: There's correspondence from John yet to arrive.

Ah, so not only does she know what to do to achieve the most fortuitous outcome for the party, but she can straight up tell the future, kind of like Aradia did when waiting for Rose and Dave to emerge from the Green Sun. While it’s a logical extension of the powers of a Seer of Light, I still have to reiterate how fucking strange it is watching Rose accurately predict the future and not fuck it up. ...So far.

ROSE: And after that, we have to wait for one final guest to appear. ROSE: Then we ride like the solar wind. The race will be afoot. KANAYA: Wait Another Visitor KANAYA: Who

Whoa whoa whoa, yeah, who? The only people I can think of besides Noir himself are PM, Serenity, and/or WV. But since Noir took off after them first, how would she catch up with them before Noir did? Unless teleport??

KARKAT: FUCK! ROSE: Oh lord. ROSE: Now what? KARKAT: BRO, WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR BODY

BRO. WHAT DID DOC SCRATCH FUCKING TELL YOU. DON’T TURN YOUR BACK ON THE BODY.

...Also, what the fuck????

...Oh jesus.

KARKAT: SOLLUX, WHERE DID YOUR BODY GO??? SOLLUX: hell if i kn0w. ARADIA: oh nooo :(

Ahahahaha, Aradia is so fucking cute. You just know she’s only disappointed because she wanted to have a corpse party.

KARKAT: WAIT A MINUTE. KARKAT: WAIT JUST A FUCKING MINUTE, WHERE'S... KARKAT: SHIT KARKAT: VRISKA'S BODY IS GONE TOO!

Haha oh shit, I completely fucking forgot about Vriska. Yeah, she did get killed here on the surface of the meteor, didn’t she? Was her body already gone by the time Dave and Rose showed up?

KARKAT: DID ANYONE SEE WHAT HAPPENED?? KARKAT: DAMMIT, WHEN THE FUCK WILL I LEARN NOT TO TURN MY BACK ON THE BODIES.

He WARNED you about bodies, bro.

KARKAT: HOLD ON KARKAT: OH NO, WHERE'S GAMZEE KANAYA: He Took Them KANAYA: Look At The Trails KARKAT: OHHHH FUCK KARKAT: NO, FUCK NO, FUCK THAT CORPSE HOARDING SACK OF HORRIBLE GARBAGE.

AHAHAHAHA. Fucking Gamzee. Where the fuck does he even get off on stealing bodies? Unless he... actually... gets off... on stealing bodies.

KARKAT: STICKS THEM IN BIG SCIENCE JARS, FOR SOME REASON?? KANAYA: Im Pretty Sure He Kisses Them Too Sometimes KARKAT: NO NO NO I'M NOT LISTENING TO SHIT LIKE THAT, I DIDN'T EVEN HEAR THAT.

LA LA LA LA LA, NOT LISTENING.

DAVE: when i was really young DAVE: he made this stupid leather bib for me out of a goddamn horse DAVE: for the ironies obviously ROSE: Was that the one you mentioned had a pink heart on it? DAVE: yeah ROSE: Hmm. DAVE: what ROSE: It's just that with the clarity afforded by my new abilities, it occurred to me just now that dead horse was likely the beautiful pet pony my mother gave me recently. ROSE: It was crushed to death by your newborn ass. ROSE: You bastard. DAVE: well shit DAVE: thats a hell of a mystery no one thought was a mystery and didnt even really need solving DAVE: but damn if it didnt just get solved so nice work ROSE: Thanks.

I fucking love these kids, you guys. Man, the segment with John and Jade was good, but the trolls and the Derse kids are where it’s at.

KARKAT: KANAYA WHERE ARE YOU GOING?

KANAYA: Clown Hunting

OH MY GOD FUCKING MARRY ME. UGHHH. Kanaya is officially invited to join in the harem I’ve already got going with LittleLonde. Haha, the other Lalonde looks pretty taken aback by this scene. In a good way, or no? I wonder.

YES. YES YES YES YES YES. >:D

KARKAT: HOLY

KARKAT: FUCKING

YOU GUYS I’M DYING AND IT HASN’T EVEN HAPPENED YET

I’M FUCKING WIGGLING IN MY CHAIR. I AM SO EXCITED. I’M SO EXCITED. AJSHGSDJKHGDKJGHSDK

KARKAT: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

JGSKAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA

KARKAT: HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

KARKAT: IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

JKHJKHFFUUUUCKKK HIS FUCKING FACE AHAGJHGFJKADGHSAAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

KARKAT: IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.

FUCKSHIT M YSIDES I CAN’T BREATHE FUCKING CALL LIFE ALERT I CANNOT FUCKING BREATHE

I’M WHEEZING

And the bucket does an acrobatic pirouette for a perfect 6.0 points!!

AHAHAHA, that foot twitch tho. Man, for a second I saw Terezi’s red boots and thought they were Vriska’s orange ones. But I mean, if anything were enough to magically call Vriska back from the dead, it would be Karkat’s complete and utter humiliation, wouldn’t it.

TEREZI...

YOU DON’TEVEN...

Ok but Davesprite’s humorous defacings are a lot less nonsensical in the face of SpaceX’s Falcon 9!!

PAHAHAHAHAHA. I know I’m spoiling myself by looking at this panel before reading the actual text, but come on. This is the best thing to happen to me all week. >:D

this is john. actually, it is john, jade, and dave sprite. we all contributed to the contents of this bucket!

JOHN NO

karkat, i deeply regret that i will not be present for these highly touted "TROLL/HUMAN SLOPPY MAKEOUTS", ha ha. maybe in three years, assuming you all aren't totally smooched out by then!!! (i am just kidding around, btw.)

Suuuuuuure, just kidding. Uh huh. But with Vriska deader than dead, who would he make out with? :\a

rose and dave, you both look totally sweet! i can't believe you're both god tiers now. did you know jade is too? also, she has dog ears. she looks fantastic.

Worrying furcest implications aside, John is 0/2 on living up to his promises to rib the shit out of Dave!! D:<

how cool is it that we're all god tiers? it's like we're a super hero team, or some kind of anime squad. like the sailor moons, i guess, but not as lame, or as sexy.

Pictured: Cowboy BeBop at his computer.

it was a fun adventure we had today, wasn't it?

Jesus. It’s so easy to forget that this has all taken place over the course of a single day! I wish there was some kind of internally consistent clock so you could see at what point in the 24 hours everything was happening.

vriska, if you read this, thanks again for all your help. i don't think i'd have made it this far if not for you! i just thought you should know that.

(ಥ﹏ಥ)

she wants me to throw this bucket and its heartfelt payload through her mysterious portal.

JONATHAN MARIE EGBERT. He can’t have been completely innocent of what he was suggesting with this sentence; I don’t believe it for a second.

> [S][A6I1] Karkat: Mental breakdown.

Oh my god this is going to be INCREDIBLE, isn’t it?????? >:D

SPOILER: It’s incredible. DAVE’S SMILE. ROSE’S FUCKING EYEBROWS. I’m giggling like a madman, here. Is it all in Karkat’s head, or what? And don’t think I missed that hidden Nic Cage head, either!!

*gives Nic a love tap*

...Welp.

Nor can a boner be un-boned. ...Well I mean technically, yeah, but for the purposes of this analogy let’s pretend.

Aww, are we saying goodbye to the kids so soon? Though, man, that imagery really is gorgeous.

Gasp! What is PM doing, exactly?

OH! OH!!!! The other visitor!! She’s going to do what Jade did and use herself as a portal to get WV to the trolls! Maybe they can help him somehow, if he really is still alive. God tier powers??

AAAAAH!!!! Save him, save him, save him!!!

DAVE: whos this guy ROSE: The visitor I mentioned earlier. ROSE: He will be traveling with us too.

Oh my god he’s going with them the whole way???? THIS IS GREAT. Just, make sure he doesn’t die already!! What the heck will an exile even do when face to face with humans?? Will WV talk, and if so, will he be unusually persuasive?

Hmm, let’s see how much of this I have to translate before I can make out the rest via context. Looks like...

YOU THERE, MISS! PLEASE SAVE MY FRIEND!

DAVE: is he dead ROSE: We should be able to get him some help along the way. ROSE: But only if we leave immediately.

Yesss!! I wonder who from. Somebody in the new session, or via the dream bubbles somehow?

ROSE: When I said the race would be afoot, I was being literal. ROSE: He will follow our trail, and match our speed. ROSE: And since this is not the ideal scenario for a final showdown, the best we can hope to do is outrun him.

Couldn’t he just... teleport to them?? Like, I know Jade can’t use her powers to teleport because she’s currently outside the domain of the Green Sun, but Noir is about to be literally RIGHT next to it. If he can teleport anywhere he wishes within a game session, then why not also here in the Furthest Ring which they inhabit? Is teleportation also subject to the limit of lightspeed?

KARKAT: SOUNDS LIKE IT'S TIME TO HIT THE FUCKING ROAD THEN KARKAT: HOW DO WE MAKE THIS THING GO ANYWAY. DOES IT HAVE ROCKETS OR SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW ABOUT?? ROSE: Maybe it does. I'm not sure. ROSE: But one good push in the right direction should be all we need. ARADIA: i can help with that! ARADIA: sollux do you think you can lend me a hand? SOLLUX: huh? ARADIA: theyll need the biggest push we can give them SOLLUX: 0h. SOLLUX: yeah sure.

Waitwaitwait, this isn’t going to result in Sollux AND Aradia giving themselves aneurysms, is it??? Because as much as I enjoy the mustard/ketchup flavor combo...

KARKAT: WHAT, SO JUST ONE "PUSH" IS GOING TO LAST THREE YEARS? KARKAT: LET ALONE OUTRUN JACK?? BULLSHIT. SOLLUX: calm down kk, it sh0uld be fine. SOLLUX: y0u won't sl0w down. KARKAT: HOW THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW THAT? ROSE: Troll Isaac Newton told him.

Pffffffffff.

DAVE: what is he the mayor of anyway DAVE: it kinda looks like he just made that sash himself KARKAT: HE'S THE DULY ELECTED MAYOR OF THE FRUITY RUMPUS ASSHOLE FACTORY, AND HE JUST CUT THE RIBBON TO A BRAND NEW MUSEUM FULL OF PRICELESS SHUT THE FUCK UP.

ARADIA: ok you guys can keep arguing if you like but im going to send you on your way now ARADIA: then after you leave i should be able to buy you a little more time KARKAT: HOW'S THAT? ARADIA: when jack comes ill slow him down for a while ARADIA: it wont be for very long but its the best i can do! ROSE: That should help us greatly. ROSE: Thank you, Aradia.

OH MY GOD.

OH MY GOD, IT’S THAT SCENE. I’ve been wondering where exactly in the timeline that took place, but now we know!! It was AFTER [S] Cascade. Damn that’s fucking cool.

That image is ALSO fucking cool. Holy shit. Please don’t asplode yourself again, Sollux!

PCH00000!!! It looks like this is PM, witnessing as Bec Noir catches up to the Green Sun just a moment too late. Is she going to give chase? Maybe we’ll find out in the flash!! EOA6I1 is due to be my next audio reaction, so we’ll have to wait just a bit to find out. But not long, I promise! :>

Until next time! ^0^

[nora-reads-homestuck]

Late Submission for fanworks fest

(SkaiaMechanic) Another fanfest post! This person named Marco actually used their email to send these in, rather than a screen name. I’m attempting to remove it in the editable areas to deter spam but it might just attach to the top anyways. Sorry if that’s the case! Anyways this was just a few images, many from the same sets, but I passed on the ones she hadn’t seen. Original sources as well as Nora’s response under the cut, as usual!

Name (marco[EMAIL REDACTED FOR PRIVACY WHEN POSTING] submitted to nora-reads-homestuck:

Late Submission for fanworks fest

I hope this okay with the lateness and all?

Well without further ado…

http://imgur.com/a/CbbPf (13 Images)

Okay hopefully I didn’t screw that up. Enjoy!

Name (marco[ATTEMPTED EMAIL REMOVAL FOR PRIVACY, MIGHT SHOW UP ANYWAYS] submitted to nora-reads-homestuck:

I hope this okay with the lateness and all?

Well without further ado…

http://blushmallet.tumblr.com/post/144522768742/can-you-draw-jade-harley-from-homestuck

http://technicolordame.tumblr.com/post/119385244142

http://industrialrage.tumblr.com/post/131562715055/10-fave-guardian-dad

http://fairyfun099.tumblr.com/post/145576590401/figured-id-post-these-too (these ones are transparent so I recommend clicking on them so that the blog’s theme doesn’t get in the way)

http://ethereal-owl.tumblr.com/post/136382209746/they-were-supposed-to-originally-be-transparent (ditto)

http://mspabooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=29796 (the source deleted their blog or something?)

http://aoicocare.tumblr.com/post/37117627846/subtly-saying-im-not-yet-dead-im-sorry-john

Okay hopefully I didn’t screw that up. Enjoy!

Oh my goooosh these are all so super cute!! This Jade in particular just makes my heart go all squidgy. Just look at that face! The confused!Dad has got to be one of my all-time favorites so far. Dad as a character is just SO DAMN HILARIOUS to me for some reason, and nothing about him delights me more than his dadly consternated question marks. All these sketches of John are so great!! They’ve got a really 2D animated quality feel to them, with the care taken with his expressions. They also do a wonderful job portraying that awkward gangliness most boys that age have. Thanks!

[nora-reads-homestuck]

I think Hussie was going for a time dilation thing with the 3 years to cross the yellow yard, but in reverse. Traveling at 99% light speed, time slows down by 86%. Light takes 3.05 ns to cross a yard; Hussiebot sees them take 3.08 ns; they should only experience 0.43 ns. He just picked 3 years to match it back up with the audience's time.

That’s fair enough, it’s just… man. Why not make the distance 3 lightyears somehow, rather than literally reverse physics? Or lampshade the inconsistency, and turn it into a lol?

[nora-reads-homestuck]

It's part being really tiny and part relativistic time dilation. The closer you get to light speed, the slower time gets relative to you.

Shouldn’t it be the opposite? You wouldn’t travel at near lightspeed to get somewhere even slower. And c is the same regardless of an object’s size. I will say that I like the Lorentz transformations going on when we see Hussiebot from their point of view, and will take this opportunity to plug A Slower Speed of Light for anyone who hasn’t played it yet.

[nora-reads-homestuck]

what video game has you upset about synchronized timelines?

I don’t want to ruin anything for anybody. Let me just say [POSSIBLE VAGUE SPOILERS AHEAD?] that it’s not about synchronized timelines precisely and more about the need to take a break from the story and ‘power up’ for a long period of time, and that the game is the latest in a long-standing Japanese series.

[nora-reads-homestuck]

(SkaiaMechanic) Another batch of fanart, this time from televised-flowers! 

As usual, I’ll put what I gave Nora up here after removing what she had already seen, and throw both the original submission (with sources) as well as Nora’s responses under the cut! Enjoy!

televised-flowers submitted to nora-reads-homestuck:

Hey Nora!

Here’s a big damn pic dump of my favorite HS art by my favorite HS artist, Pukind. She mostly draws the trolls so I’ve been looking forward to showing you this stuff for aaaaages. Hope you like it!

http://imgur.com/a/6sjKx (Around 24-38 images, depending how you count them)

Bonus: Comics she’s made for Paradox Space (Trix, I leave these to your better judgment. They’re non-spoilery but I dunno about the ads…)

(Past!Skaia)...Yeah, I’m currently saving all the Paradox Space comics for after Homestuck. Or at least until when they were all released.

televised-flowers submitted to nora-reads-homestuck:

Hey Nora!

Here’s a big damn pic dump of my favorite HS art by my favorite HS artist, Pukind. She mostly draws the trolls so I’ve been looking forward to showing you this stuff for aaaaages. Hope you like it!

Here’s the non-troll things:

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/116352069797/finished-her-just-in-time-b-happy-413-peeps

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/92274949857/what-would-happen-if-i-just-posted-these-two

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/42492150816/1000-followers-waaah-thank-you-heres

Here’s the trolls:

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/82643746449/this-is-stupid-y

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/127192819462/idk-i-was-just-sketching-vriska-and-this-weird

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/82880202229/went-braindead-while-working-on-a-commissions

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/88628690482/from-my-heart-and-from-my-hand-wwhy-dont-people

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/88465177782/request-for-kanaya-with-matriorb-palette-3

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/108965800912/idk-someone-asked-for-a-gamzee-sketch-earlier-and

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/103764989857/was-struck-by-an-overwhelmign-urge-to-paint-while

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/83424346456/reading-trashy-trollmance-novels-in-bed

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/111069626532/you-just-might-be-starting-to-regret-your-choice

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/87074014467/i-may-or-may-not-have-a-problem-here-a-matching

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/91970943012/karkat-wallow-in-the-disgusting-miracle-of

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/144280366647/a-lot-of-people-have-asked-so-while-i-wait-on

The Ancestors:

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/92349633872/then-the-customer-said-fix-me-a-dead-grub

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/144259829637/quite-possibly-the-greatest-masterpiece-to-ever

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/83828503108/those-great-dreams-with-your-new-friends-stopped

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/100250284442/its-a-pomesignless-i-have-no-idea-what-hes

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/94279882027/hes-not-pinin-hes-passed-on-this-mutant-is-no

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/84389972632/dont-listen-to-really-sad-music-when-youre

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/37926602146/lmao-hahaha-diid-he-2have-hii2-piit2-or-what-ha

And look, she makes plushes too!

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/45542395010/karkat-vantas-posing-armature-plush-finally-got

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/46986819206/additional-detail-shots

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/69655633806/do-the-windy-thing-boy-like-all-the-others

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/88548094607/merry-june-christmas-paula-i-took-a-ton

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/52678362439/extra-shots-that-didnt-fit-in-the-first-photo

http://dammek.tumblr.com/post/51436751734/gamzee-is-finished-yaaaaaay-i-never-want-to-make

Bonus: Comics she’s made for Paradox Space (Trix, I leave these to your better judgment. They’re non-spoilery but I dunno about the ads…)

http://www.paradoxspace.com/night-at-the-100dseum/1

http://www.paradoxspace.com/psx-book-2-preview-vrisky-business/1

THAT ROSE. I love how the tentacles kind of ‘become’ her dress in a way. Gorgeous!

OH MY GOD snaggletooth Karkat is the best. I love the dark circles around his eyes, and his general expression.

Kanaya is bae. Gosh, I don’t even have words for how much I love this. I think my favorite part is the way her hair is all curly with wavy lines, like Tin Burton drew it. <3

Hah!! I love the colors and the expressions in all of these--the artist has a fantastic style; I love how ‘toothy’ everyone is. This one really takes the cake, though. KARKAT’S FACE.

THERE HE IS, MY PATRON TROLL. ...I’m not sure how I feel about this.

OH NO, THESE BABY SIGNLESSES ARE KILLING ME. Now I’m thinking about that fucking song from Dumbo that my mom used to sing to me when I was little, and I’m tearing up. UGH. I’M NOT CRYING,  YOU’RE CRYING, DON’t look at me

WHAT?? How are those plush things even POSSIBLE??? THEY’RE SO GOOD, I DON’T UNDERSTAND. I love god tier(?) Sollux’s little outfit, John is adorable and Karkat’s Homes Smell Ya Later is amazing, but I think my favorites are Terezi, Signless, and Gamzee. Their expressions are PERFECT, and Gamzee’s glow-in-the-dark stuff is stunning. I also really like the care that went into the photography! Looks like professional product shots.

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I would like to join the LittleLonde harem too... She's amazing.

Jump on in, there’s plenty of room!

[nora-reads-homestuck]

Besides the possibility of Dad death forshadowing, can you think of another reason for Jane being "sans parent"? Like even right now with Dad alive?

I’m guessing it’s not a reference to Undertale. A reference to the fact that she’s a walking paradox? …That would be the more (onto)logical explanation.

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The way I look at it, Rose was the only one of the original kids to type in mixed case, so her mom is the only one of the new kids *not* to type in mixed case.

There are probably any number of arbitrary explanations you can give for the ‘why’, but more importantly, it’s FUCKING ADORABLE AND I LOVE HER.

[nora-reads-homestuck]

"Fan" Album, old archived posts by Hussie, some videos, and two actual Fanworks!

(SkaiaMechanic) Another Fanfest Post! What Nora responded to here was actually done back in December. However, various parts were incomplete (for reasons you’ll see) so this just sat around in the Google Doc for months. It’s getting to a point where it’s just clogging up the shared document, so I’m posting what’s here and will make additional posts based on the rest of the content when/if she gets to them. Enjoy!

brrrrrrrrd submitted to nora-reads-homestuck:

Visual art has never really been my thing, and other people have been far better at sharing pre-Act 6 art than I could be, but I can submit a few things you may have missed.  They’re all somewhat dubiously labeled “fanwork” being that most of them made by either members of the music team or Hussie himself, but I don’t know of any better time to post them.  

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Before we get into the meat of this post, there is one more “fan” album you are current on.  It came out just a week after Act 6 began and has no songs about anything from it.  It’s called Tomb of the Ancestors and is by Kalibration (aka Robert Blaker) who also wrote Upward Movement (Dave Owns), Skaian Flight, Play the Wind, and Ira Quod Angelus, among other things.  https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-the-ancestors-unofficial-album 

There’s nothing more recent than Nov. 17th, 2011 on that page.

(Past!Skaia) As a single person fan-album, it’s not necessary to review this, at least not now. If you were going to, I would suggest holding onto it for later, when the amount of music albums in the story dramatically drops off.

(Nora) I agree, and will hold off for now! Album reviews actually take me a while to get finished because I can only listen to things at certain times, and I want to save my steam for meatier posts right now.

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Most of this stuff is stuff that has previously been deleted by Hussie or hidden by the original poster, so if that’s not kosher then feel free to skip down to the section below this one.  A little background:  Hussie at previous points in time had both a Formspring and a Tumblr on which he would talk about various things Homestuck, and other various things.  He also has a nasty habit of deleting old things, meaning a LOT of his old posts are gone and most of them only exist as archives.  Here’s some of that stuff, most which was posted before Act 6 or if it was posted during only very early on and not referencing events of Act 6.

To start things off, the origin story of Hussie’s horse painting.  This one actually still exists, but the images are broken:  https://web.archive.org/web/20140408053025/http://andrewhussie.blogspot.com/2009/01/need-for-steed.html

(Nora) I’ve seen this one before, but I read it again and I think I guffawed just as hard, if not harder. Hussie has quite the way with words… and homoeroticism.

Hussie’s infamous trip to Olive Garden: https://web.archive.org/web/20130312060633/http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/12963616983/land-of-souls-and-olives-a-conclusion-pasta-la-vista

Olive Garden part 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20130312060012/http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/13585722775/land-of-souls-and-olives-a-conclusion-plmfers-part

(Nora) Trix once suggested I audio react to these. Would that be a good idea?

(Past!Skaia) Nah, just read them through. It’s definitely worth a read, but nothing more than that. (Current!Skaia: As of 3/5/17, there’s no indication whether she’s gone through it or not. I’ll keep it in the GoogleDoc just in case though.)

The post-Cascade recap part 1, in which he talks about the the process of creating it and then the content of it.  Really great insight into his creation process:  http://web.archive.org/web/20111028175330/http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/11938555890/about-eoa5-part-1

Cascade recap part 2: http://web.archive.org/web/20111028222551/http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/11941710181/about-eoa5-part-2

Recap part 3: http://web.archive.org/web/20120801112223/http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/11960418585/about-eoa5-part-3

Recap part 4: http://web.archive.org/web/20111029142442/http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/11975241895/about-eoa5-part-4

There are more posts on his tumblr if you go to the archive and and mess around with the Wayback Machines captures, including a reddit AMA that for some reason only collected the questions from reddit and answered them on tumblr.  But that’s for a point much later in the comic.

(Nora) Huh! Fascinating read-through. I enjoyed him talking about the process in particular (he makes it seem deceptively simple, doesn’t he, considering the lion’s share of the comic was a completely solo project banged out at a nearly inhuman pace). It hadn’t occurred to me that [S] Descend was actually scored, as opposed to simply animated to existing music, which is a bit embarrassing since it is obviously a medley. I also like what he says when he clarifies Doc Scratch’s means and motive—it’s basically exactly what I’d surmised from reading all his conversations. That tricky, tricky bastard. I am however still mystified by the Horrorterrors, and neither does Hussie seem keen to provide a real explanation for their actions:

The dark gods helped chart their course through this spacetime maze to deliver them to this location, at this time. Take that for what you will

(Nora) Also… why the hell did I not ever realize that Lord English is literally a giant green space pimp??? He’s got the gold tooth, the horrible gaudy coat, the pimp cane cue stick peg leg…

First of all, [Jade] didn’t actually conjure the 4th wall out of thin air. Remember when Karkat told her to turn the wall off, and then draw it? He was asking her to captchalogue an undamaged copy using her Pictionary modus, for this exact purpose. The eventual getaway. So she had it on standby, waiting for the right time to use it.

(Nora) Ohhhhh. OHHHHHHHH. Wow, this whole plan was even more convoluted than I thought, and with the whole password system and all, it was already pretty damn convoluted.

What’s waiting for them on the other side, beside a big ugly coat? Recall the setup I had with the two 4th walls facing each other, separated by one yard. They will break through the wall on the right, traveling nearly the speed of light, and presumably, break through the wall on the left to enter another reality. If you were thorough during Seer: Descend, you might have caught this excerpt on a bookshelf. “Though we adore Him we shall never enjoy His beauteous Croak. We spill our blood on acres of black and white so they may cross the yellow yard. At last in Skaia’s reflection through broken glass He may find the pond in which He’s meant to squat.”

(Nora)You may recall that when I played through the minigame, upon coming across that excerpt I said the following:

(PastPast!Nora) ….’They’ may cross the ‘yellow yard’? This must be referring to Hussie’s aforementioned interference with the story. It’s pretty abstruse, but I feel like it’s telling me something that I’m going to come back and go ‘OHHHH’ over, when I’ve seen more of the story.

(Nora) Consider me motherfuckin’ OHHHH’ed.

However, speaking of AMAs, Hussie’s Formspring was essentially a year and a half long AMA and most if not all of the questions answered there have been compiled here:  http://irratio.org/andrew_hussie_formspring_archives.html

Most of the early questions are inane, but after a while (after he stops answering everything that comes across his message box) there’s some really great responses in there (and some really funny jokes.)  Only thing is, it is *LONG* and will take a really long time to get through.  It went on from late February of 2010 to early October of 2011, with the last responses being around the beginning of the pause during work on Cascade.

(Past!Skaia) It truly is long. Kinda worth it though, and amusing to see Hussie’s actual trolling. 

(Nora) Hahahaha, Hussie is a troll and I love him.

Who do you think should be the next president of the United States?

dumb

(Nora) Welp, consider that one prophetic.

Once there is a reasonable number of strips, is there any chance of a Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff book with commentary by Dave Strider?

yeah

(Nora) That one too, I guess.

When do you think HS will be over?

ive been considering ending it on 8/26/10.

but who the hell knows if that’ll pan out.

(Nora) AHAHAHAHA. HAHAHAHA. AHAHA. HA.

(Nora) I’m going to leave it here for now, as there are SO MANY DAMN QUESTIONS and I really ought to finish my text post.

(Past!Skaia)Sounds good. Once you finish the post above I’ll set up a queue for your responses to the messages above.

(Current!Skaia) This was the main reason I held onto this post. It’s no telling when she’ll get back to this though, so I’m posting what I have. I’ll keep the link in the document, and if she ever does go back to read and comment more I’ll make some more posts!

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Enough decidedly *not* fanworks, here’s some things you might possibly call fanworks!  If you can call things made by Bowman or Toby Fox fanworks.  And bonus actual fanworks!

(Current!Skaia) I have not shown Nora any of the below. I think…they’re not really necessary? Except Savior of the Slamming Jam, obviously, but that’s also in a submission she hasn’t gotten to yet. If enough people think she “needs” to see them I’ll pass it along but otherwise I’m just leaving it here.

A concert in someone’s front yard!  http://www.nospoiler.com/y/HRT758PTmpw

Toby Fox’s Homestuck Abridged!  [Removed for Giant Spoilers!]

An actual fanwork, Savior of the Slamming Jam! http://www.nospoiler.com/y/CKrO8kS8D6g

Chorale for Jaspers & Pony Chorale, Live! http://www.nospoiler.com/y/o0Z0oopPGpM

I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew, Live! http://www.nospoiler.com/y/xR5vN0ve4lY

How Do I Live, live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDSEXd4KyO8

Actual fanwork, Club’s Deuce’s Homework! http://www.nospoiler.com/y/dLo22lvynNg

And two shitpost videos by Bowman:

1) Cascade announcement (can’t no spoiler link to this one, but comments are disabled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o4NvBz8xac

2) “Toby Fox” is now on YouTube (can’t no spoiler link to this one either, unfortunately.  Still, comments disabled):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=WL&v=pA9uy3KdeEU

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I don’t think I have anything else at this time that either definitely has spoilers or possibly does due to having come out squarely in 2012 or later.

[nora-reads-homestuck]

it's never actually confirmed in-comic what the plural of lusus is, but in the Alternia album there's a track named "Death of Lusii", so 'lusii' might be the proper way to say it.

SHH IT’S A JOKE