#THE SCHOLAR. dash commentary

[haresvoid]

“&– - I appreciate the sentiments, both the interest in my dietary health and the..... other interests it seems that are had. However, I can assure you I do not need feeding nor would I request anyone procure items that fit my species requirements, and with the other area I am still ill practiced in determining intents.”

[kingofthedesertfoxes]

"His sense of humor is still leagues better than most of the Akademiya's."

[squaretablehold]

"I don't know if I've actually said anything cause people'd think I'm way rude if I did, but like, I told you so," Hunter says to no one in particular, "I mean honestly he struck me more as the type that'd go around gouging people's eyes out for dark knowledge rituals, but the blood sings to us all I guess."

[aercnaut-deader-than-lee]

tag dump: blog things

[siixkiing]

“You know, it’s amazing how much people can forget simple facts. Remember when I ‘flexed’ on Tripitaka about ‘eating people’?”

His calm voice seems out of place in the moment. Long fangs now protruding from his mouth, crimson marks around his face, and tiger stripes adorning his body. Gold hues swimming in a sea of blood red.

“That wasn’t just a ‘flex’. So, how about we step away from the scholar or I break my oath?”

“And that’s not a suggestion.”

[nighthawkes]

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[aercnaut]

tag dump; general blog things

[venomstayed]

A sigh. ❝ Some of you are really, really stubborn. I just want to understand hollows a little more. ❞

[29pageshomestuckeveryday]

Homestuck, page 3,176

Jade: Make this legendary piece of shit.

Author commentary: This is possibly the first time Jade refers to "J" as her grandson? I can't be bothered to check, but let's assume it is. Future knowledge of the story can have kind of a distorting effect on some of this earlier content that was dedicated to nursing along big mysteries. We (assuming you're a devout Homestuck scholar like me) take lots of foreknowledge for granted. Like the Alpha Kids, and the facts that Jade's dumbass grandpa is a kid in a rebooted version of the universe, his name is Jake, and he's the actual penpal. But right now, we know none of that, and we don't know the Scratch is a huge universal reboot that will shuffle the target destinations of all the slime babies. So consider how wide open everything feels now. Revealing that Jade's penpal "J" is her grandson, as reported by him, really fires up the imagination. At this point it seems the most likely conclusion an uninitiated reader would draw is that this is just a literal truth being stated. I seem to remember fandom at the time regarding that as likely. Which means at some point, all these kids are successful, they grow up, Jade has kids, then her kid has "J," and he penpal-collabs with her back in time to make a robo-bunny. It really fleshes out a future portrait of the story which turns out to be quite deceptive. In a way, this false projection provides some glimmers of optimism that are kind of dashed by the series of brain-cramping revelations about what's actually going on here. The truth of Homestuck's future turns out to be So Much Weirder.

[haresvoid]

“&– - The decision to call our spawn tadpoles was a ploy developed by Elder Brains to make them more appealing to humanoids once it was discovered they consider such things as frogs 'cute'.”

[rosmcrinus]

She pretends she is only working and wasn’t staring.

[tacetnix]

---- “Ah... the officer returns to his prowl. I wonder what secrets he will find tonight, and what knowledge will burn under his boot.”

[daily-rubbersoul-redux]

“Wh

Where did the pond go-”

[yeleltaan]

“I believe in second chances. Just saying. If anyone feels like they’re alone, or like they aren’t treated fairly maybe there’s a place for them here.”

[kcystotheheart]

🎲 Are they taking bets?

🃏 You bet.

[fclsusrex]

“...I’m not even going to ask.”