#ectocooler

[spenglr-bts]

hey kiddo. you’ve been scrolling for a while so I got u a snack. yeah I know it’s green. idk if it’s safe to consume either.

guess we’ll find out :)

[xony]

something something Donna saying nobody makes things beautiful for her something something Sydney making the margins wider for Carmy

[gahdamnit]

imagine carmy saying this:

"You're wrong about us being on different paths, we're not on different paths, you're my path and you're always gonna be my path.

we've all gotta make a choice, well I choose you

i'm following you now, i'm just gonna follow you everywhere, i'm just gonna follow you the rest of my life."

i love petergwen so much and can't help but apply this scene to sydcarmy. i was influenced by a post by @afrofairysblog to post this. excuse my delusion, this is just me imagining and applying the lines to sydcarmy:

imagine after sydney reveals she is considering leaving and their explosive fight, sydney says defeated, "we keep failing at this partnership thing and maybe we were never meant to be partners. we clearly want different things. maybe we're on different paths."

carmy has the wake up call he needs and quicjkly begins his amends process with the people he hurt and who hurt him, and starts his first therapy session within a few days. off to a good start of his healing journey and knowing that every second counts, carmy asks sydney to have dinner with him. walking home from dinner he says the above.

"you're my path" sydney's his path because she is his future. she holds the ability to make all his dreams come true, to make his legacy come true. to make a panic-less, anxiety free environment.

"I choose you" after trying to convince himself for months that he wants claire, trying to fulfill some form of familial obligation and perfect cookie cutter life. the wake up call forced him to confront his true feelings for sydney and realizes who gives him peace, who he was doing all this for.

"i'm just gonna follow you everywhere, i'm just gonna follow you the rest of my life." he realizes his david fields inspired methods to get her star and prove he was worthy of her made everything worse. he remembers the brigade conversation and what she said her dreams were. to make her dreams come true he has to listen to her, he has to step back and let her take the reins. from there maybe their partnership begin to blossom.

im really hoping season 4 has sydcarmy reconcile and is it too much to ask for a declaration such as this. for carmy to open up to sydney and reveal his innermost thoughts and say he wants her in his future.

[xony]

I was going to leave this in the tags but it got long, so:

I was just thinking today that Richie might have a parallel scene like the one Syd and Carm have in S3. Sydney tells Carmy that he should call; Carm thinks she's talking about Claire but she means Richie.

What if after Tiff's wedding (and maybe after the fight with Claire?) Richie tells Carmy to "go after her", like don't make the same mistakes I made and lose the person you love, etc. And there we'll see the sleight of hand and The Choice™️ of who Carm will go after (spoiler: it will be Syd!).

I just think it would also be a very cool way of tying it all back to Syd's return in S1.

Anywho, if anyone wants to write this as a fic, by all means do it and TAG ME! lmao

Always connecting Tiffany and Claire

Every time, Claire is brought into the picture - they connect Tiffany.

Richie and Carmy are foils to each other. As we watch Richie overcome his past and try to find purpose, we're watching Carmy go through the same thing. So, as Tiffany is to Richie, Claire is to Carmy.

Carmy and Richie give the audience the summary of their journeys. Richie is going to find purpose after Mikey's death. While Carmy is going to find enjoyment.

But they have to overcome the past to get to their end goals.

It starts with 2x01 when Carmy is looking at the photos that Richie has spread out. There's Tiffany and Claire in the photos.

in 2x03, When Richie tells his daughter he needs a break from the past. Carmy is, in the next scene, connecting with Claire.

In 2x05 Richie reunites with Claire and instantly asks about Tiffany.

And the very next episode Richie telling Tiffany about Claire and carmy

Of course, there's more in season 3. Richie and Carmy have flashbacks of them. While Carmy avoids Claire, Richie avoids Tiffany.

Until 3x09, Carmy was still stuck calling and ending things with Claire, while Richie was on the steps of officially ending it with Tiffany by accepting the invitation to the wedding.

In season 4, that leaked argument will happen after Tiffany's wedding—because that will be Richie's end of the cycle, and it will be a test for Carmy to end his past with Claire.

Jessie and Sydney, meanwhile, show signs of being part of Richie and Carmy's future.

Jessie shows Richie that she has a purpose in what she does at Ever, and Sydney shows Carmy that their passion can also be enjoyable.

Jessi and Sydney also have similar reasons to staying inspired:

Lastly- I love Carmy and Richie watching Sydney and Jessie Work:

[roguerainbowfr]

Ectocooler and Lemondrop. They’re brothers

And their sister Twizzlers

Gonna be a new Coli team I think

I’m going to end up with a whole collection of Radioactive/Magenta/Lemon dragons at this rate

[ironmyrmidon]

The X-Com reboot had a pretty clever plot that provided a satisfying answer to the obvious question that haunts the X-Com franchise: why don't the aliens send down a dozen sectopods day 1 and just instantly win the war instead of slowly ramping up the difficulty and giving X-Com a chance to reverse engineer the alien technologies and incorporate them into their own arsenal?

The aliens in the X-Com reboot are searching the galaxy for better soldiers. The aliens want X-Com to steadily improve their soldiers to reach the peak of human performance, so that the aliens can incorporate elite X-Com soldiers to their own ranks. If the aliens just send down a dozen sectopods, then they will win the war, but humanity won't have the chance to make those elite X-Com soldiers that the aliens want. X-Com 2 cleverly points out that humanity usually loses and the aliens incorporate mutated human soldiers into their army.

Unfortunately, X-Com 2 changes the aliens' objective to rendering humanity into genetic ectocooler. Which raises the question: why didn't the aliens send down a dozen sectopods to win the war day 1? Aliens, hit me up, I will sell out humanity and help you win this war with what I call: Strategy Dozen Sectopods.

[mmmmalo]

If I ever finish my book, its subtitle will be "A Paranoid Reading of Homestuck" I think. Describes both form and content

Mobster Kingpin (whose bust is depicted by a mosaic of urban murals, who lords over the dollhouse world the heros inhabit) is located, like many of Hussie's villains, along the 4th wall, and his career of moonshinery seems related to a characterization of perception as the distillation of the perceived objects' essence -- Roxy's orange pumpkins give way to Dirk's orange soda, as one of the little ways their early relationship s premised upon a division between simplicity and abstraction. In Homestuck abstraction kills the simple (RIP Jaspers), and Dirk becomes a Daunting Text when he "sucks the fun out of shit. like a turd hungry dracula" -- a phraseology that returns us to the liquid conception of essence and points us to Kanaya, "rainbow drinker" being among other things a euphemism for the eyeball, which takes in color -- and insofar as troll reproduction is vaguely judicial in tone, the drones holding their buckets like scales, the Mother Grub seems posed in part as yet another threatening paradigm of viewership, demanding of you your essence. The earliest instance of this is in act 1: John's allusion to being allergic to the scorn of the peanut gallery is followed by a commercial for Hi-C Ectocooler -- a weirdly obtuse seeding of Her Imperious Condescension, whose character is downstream of a more general racialization of the 4th wall. Act 1 drags the sylladex into the fear of abstraction, first by having the narration express apprehension toward alien lingo like "captchalogue", and again when John drops the cat-killer, causing his arms (both fake and real) to be locked away in a box. Right? Right.

Dave shouts/throws his NINJA SWORD at a sticky fingered crow (crows would later, in a dream, act as Dave's personal 4th walls) and implicitly hurls an N WORD at a black figure, contributing to the comic's general air of racialized paranoia. A stupid pun, yes. Prior to this incident, there was a collision in Dave's hash map between NINJA SWORD and JUICE which, given the pejorative status of the former, suggested the latter might be an implicit JEWS. A stupid pun, yes. But as point 1 indicate, we actually have a pretty broad pattern of paranoia surrounding "juice"

The first time I became aware of possible antisemitism in Homestuck was a scene where Jack Noir commands all the Felt to get in the oven -- a couple readers wondered if it were a coincidence that the page had been published on Holocaust Remembrance Day, like a sort of hostile spin on the Christmas alchemy binges, or the New Years ball-drops at Jade and Jane's towers. With point 1 in mind in strikes me as curious that the (tentative) archetypally antisemitic archetype of the story would be the locking away of "juice" in a container, here invoked by the genocidal antisemitism of the Nazis. Likewise the way Lord English's manic glare often resolves into an 88 -- a number twice invoking the 8th letter of the alphabet H and thereby Heil Hitler -- would be consistent with the eye's general depiction as that which distills "juice". I had some anons wondering if the hints that the Mother Grub collects the blood of Alternia's children amounted to a blood libel smear, and I still don't know tbh, but we've apparently problematized rainbow drinking from another angle, so cheers to that

That the hostility towards abstraction might be among Homestuck's ciphers for antisemitism casts a different light on John's sharp rejection of psychoanalytic paradigms and "psycho-babblery"...? Like Freud is being invoked partly for his Jewishness... and that Freud's widely considered indefensible is utilized to let the antisemitic antiintellectualism pass through smoothly, I guess...

[kriketbatra]

Here's my two-headed Lisa Frank-nightmare dog: Ectocooler

[starryneitz]

A four year old came into work today and asked if we have EctoCooler here and if I had turned my head any faster it would've spun off my neck and shot-put into the wall 30 feet away.

[gritzy404]

New drink idea: Vision of Christ

Ingredients:

2 parts Hi-C Ectocooler

1 part Xanax

[blubparadox]

i forgot that 90% of the people im currently following are homestucks. anyway hooray my ectocooler is here :3 (thank you very much @masonmarmalade for this wonderful art you gave me a while ago, i love it to death)

[xony]

I am possesed by a sydcarmy spirit and I need to have this out. Completely hypotetical scenario based only in what we kinda know from s4. So, spoilers? Maybe.

Say Carmy does invite Syd to the wedding as his +1, she sees commitment on his part, calls Shapiro and tells him to fuck off that she feels like The Bear is the one.

But! during the wedding Carmy pulls the same shit he does at the funeral and ditches Sydney to go apologize/confront Claire (and that's why my girl is alone and Donna takes the chance to go talk to her). Carmy goes after Claire and the fight occurs, and, same as with Chef David, it's completely anticlimactic (like when they went to drop that permit to the mailbox) and it just makes it clear that everything is broken beyond repair and was probably never gonna work anyway!

So, next day, Sydney is furious because Carmy abandoned her AGAIN and she just turned down a great opportunity, and this is the very last straw and THE FIGHT™️ breaks out. Carmy finally realizes that this was the real confrontation he's been avoiding and that this is the thing that he has to fix to get back on track and find the peace!

Idk what would happen as a result of that fight but I'd like at least a little bit of Carmy angst, as a treat.

[tilthedayidice]

Hey, could I request a character palette? I have a Halfling Paladin called Rickin who I'm experimenting with at the moment. His family ran a tavern and he has green and blue hues in his outfit.

I've drawn him on a d6 side so I could visualise him, since i don't really know what else to describe.

This little d6 doodle is stupid cute dude

Dice Envy Midnight Potent

Dice Envy Ectocooler

HD Dice Kiwi

HD Dice Blue Pearl

Little Dragon Corp Book Dragon

Fennek & Finch Sulfur Pools

LegendaryPants Champaign

[gahdamnit]

leaked video of carmy running to the adamu household to beg for sydney back:

It isn't Carmy and Donna I'm holding onto my seat for - it's Carmy meeting Emmanuel.

[gracelandtoolover]

the xanax in the ectocooler is crazy

[battiesstimboards]

hi hi ,,, could I maybe have a stimboard with ectoplasm (slime) and fursuits and anything you feel matches their vibe for my secondary sona ectocooler,,, https://toyhou.se/13623671.ectocooler /nf

HI ECTOCOOLER. I LOVE YOU

stimboard for @manhattancrossrip !

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