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exhausting di nome e di fatto, addio cavallo

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So.. I went to kissmanga since I wanted to check on something and on the homepage I spot a cover that heavily resembled Golden Bat. Except it's called Wahhaman. I kinda remember you pointing that out one time... still, I tried giving it a try. And... it's literally Golden Bat. Except in a more comical way, no bats involved and in a more modern enviroment. What even...

AHHH YES.  WAHHAMAN IS A TREASURE.

It’s absolutely a parody of Golden Bat in every way, down to the “evil twin” of our skeleton superhero.  Wahhaman, as his name implies, laughs one variation of GB’s famous cackles, and is basically just an ancient robot skeleton created to fight evil.

Otherwise, yeah – mostly a comedy plot, not serious in the slightest, but lots of fun to read through.

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can we take a moment to just think about how incredibly scary magical healing is in-context?

You get your insides ripped open but your friend waves his hands and your flesh just pulls back together, agony and evisceration pulling back to a ‘kinda hurts’ level of pain and you’re physically whole, with the 100% expectation that you’ll get back up and keep fighting whatever it was that struck you down the first time.

You break your arm after falling somewhere and after you’re healed instead of looking for ‘another way around’ everybody just looks at you and goes “okay try again”.

You’ve been fighting for hours, you’re hungry, thirsty, bleeding, crying from exhaustion, and a hand-wave happens and only two of those things go away. you’re still hungry, you’re still weak from thirst, but the handwave means you have ‘no excuse’ to stop.

You act out aggressively maybe punch a wall or gnash your teeth or hit your head on something and it’s hand-waved because it’s ‘such a small injury you probably can’t even feel it anymore’ but the point was that you felt it at all?

Your pain literally means nothing because as long as you’re not bleeding you’re not injured, right? Here drink this potion and who cares about the emotional exhaustion of that butchered village, why are you so reserved in camp don’t you think it’s fun retelling that time you fell through a burning building and with a hand-wave you got back up again and ran out with those two kids and their dog? 

Older warriors who get a shiver around magic-users not because of the whole ‘fireball’ thing but the ‘I don’t know what a normal pain tolerance is anymore’ effect of too much healing. Permanent paralysis and loss of sensation in limbs is pretty much a given in the later years of any fighter’s life. Did I have a stroke or did the mage just heal too hard and now this side of my face doesn’t work? No i’m not dead from the dragon’s claws but I can’t even bend my torso anymore because of how the scar tissue grew out of me like a vine.

Magical healing is great and keeps casualties down.

But man.

That stuff is scary.

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How pure each type is

As pure as a child: ESFP, ESFJ, ISFP

Has seen some stuff in life: ESTP, ENFJ, ISFJ, ISTP, ENFP

Jaded mess of cynic and anger: INFP, INFJ, ENTJ, ESTJ

Might murder you for fun: ENTP, INTP, ISTJ, INTJ

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Combine your chinese zodiac and astrology sign to make your true fursona

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Illuminating! Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) scientists use blue light to study fluorescence in deep-sea critters like this strawberry squid, spotted during an expedition last week.

See how the strawberry squid uses fluorescence to hunt:

Or if you prefer your science in Vine form:

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Not taking any chances

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How Lord English’s Defeat Was Achieved

Whilst talking to a friend I was suddenly struck by a realization that I think explains the precise nature of how Lord English was defeated. I’ve already spoken a little about how the destruction of the Green Sun should not have depleted his Clockwork Majyyks, and therefore shouldn’t have made him any more invulnerable. Here is my take on what I think happened, and how it explains not only the ending, but the entire plot of Homestuck (seriously).

I’ve already spoken a fair bit in the past about Homestuck’s underlying themes in relation to the comic’s name. At first, when taken literally, “Homestuck” appears to be named for only a very small portion of Act 1, when John is literally “stuck in his home”. He is able to leave later on, so he’s no longer home-stuck, right? Now, my take has always been that this depends on your definition of “home”. Homestuck is a story about people leaving behind “homes” of various scope. John leaves his house, yes, but then he leaves his universe, his session, and ultimately his fundamental reality behind. He becomes unstuck from canon itself. From what more is there left to become “unstuck”?

Let’s remind ourselves what the “treasure” juju does. I mean, obviously we know that Caliborn initially used it to seal the souls of the beta kids, and then later Vriska deployed it against Lord English. But what else does it do? John put his hand through it and it became distributed throughout the canon of Homestuck. This is an ability with a very specific scope; he is distributed not throughout reality, but throughout Homestuck itself. There’s a reason why it is shaped like the Homestuck logo; the ultimate weapon is a gateway to Homestuck.

Lord English cannot be destroyed by conventional means, he can only be defeated by the exploitation of glitches in Paradox Space. So far, the glitches in Paradox Space we have seen have taken a very specific form also; metacanonical altering. Caliborn jams sparkle dust in the game cartridge, and .jpeg artifacts appear across the comic. John sticks his hand in the the juju, he gains the ability to use a retcon glitch. This is how one “glitches” Paradox Space, they interact with the narrative itself; with Homestuck itself. The juju allows one to do this, and this is why its so powerful.

Here’s my hypothesis. The weapon/treasure juju does not have three different abilities, it has one. We’ve been seeing it as 1. being able to trap four souls, 2. being able to impart retcon abilities, and 3. having an offensive ability to be used against Lord English. In reality, these are all one ability! The ability to act as a gateway to the Homestuck canon!

Caliborn did not seal the four kids within the juju! He sealed them within Homestuck. This is why the comic is called “Homestuck”! The kids are literally trapped within the narrative by the power of the juju. But, this power is also how Lord English is eventually defeated! Here is what happens in the [S] Act 7 flash.

Vriska activates the juju, it grows big and the kid’s symbols flash on its surface.

The symbol on the victory platform flips around, and turns white, the same colour and size as the juju. A door appears on its surface.

A door also appears on the side of the juju facing Lord English! This is not a coincidence. There are two doors here, one leading one way, and one leading the other way.

Homestuck is ending. By that expanding convention of the Kids, John in particular, escaping their bonds, then there is one more bond for them to break, one more door for them to pass. They need to leave the comic itself.

This is what the white juju with the door represents! The door on the Kid’s side leads out of Homestuck, whereas the door on English’s side leads in.

The kids will get to live on in a happy life beyond the narrative, possibly in the extracanon epilogue, the Paradox Space comic, not to mention fanworks. English will not. Caliborn gaining his power is shown at the moment of his defeat because his timeline is cyclical, marked by two circumstancially simultaneous events; his birth and his defeat. Similarly, the kids leaving Homestuck and Lord English “entering” it are two circumstantially simultaneous events orchestrated by the juju. Lord English has become trapped within Homestuck. While the comic may end for the kids, and they can move on, English is forever trapped within a loop of destruction, held by the bounds of canon.

The reason the juju flashes with the kids colours is because it is preparing to release them, but not to fight English, it is preparing to release them from Homestuck itself, by the comic’s ending.

This is why the comic had to end right after this moment, because otherwise the kids would not have escaped and English would have more canon scope throughout which to dominate.

This is why the juju is white, this is why the Act 7 curtains are white. White is the colour of Homestuck itself, as shown in the text for the logo displayed in the flash in act 1. The white curtains close on the comic, the white juju acts as the gateway into canon.

Perhaps the Green Sun had influence that reached beyond the canon (Paradox Space comic)? If this was the case, the English can no longer use it to access anything outside the canon, because Calliope destroyed it.

This is what Homestuck means. The clue was hidden in the name all along. This was a story about four kids who had literally been trapped inside their own story, and escaped it, trapping their unkillable villain inside it as it ended, meaning that he could spread his destruction no further. Of course Lord English can no longer cause harm within Homestuck, if Homestuck itself has ended! What an appropriate way to defeat an undefeatable villain in a comic where fourth wall breaking and metacanonical interactions with the main narrative are such an integral plot device.

Here is Hussie, deciding to kill off Lord English the only way he can; by ending his own comic. If the ending seemed abrupt to you, this is why.

That magnificent bastard.

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Ahah no c’mon, it wasn’t so bad! After heavily thinking about this finale I come to conclusion that’s ok and I’m fine with it. You feel clueless, you don’t know if they will be happy after all or if they’re fucked again... AND IT’S OK Part of me thinks that eventually in a timeline (maybe *this one*) the kids will teleport to fight Cal losing and starting the loop as we know in the Masterpiece BUT anyway, Vriska saves the day (because she’s the best wooh =<= fuckyou8itchandEridanisstillajokeSOB) and bring back the kids AAAND confine LE in the VOID. AND WHO IS ALWAYS HERE? IN THE FUCKING VOID?? OH YES WE DO NOTHING! GG

....coff* btw I think that the game, or eventually Hussie himself, will explain the end better but you can still think all the best/horrible ending for them and be happy after all.

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Ok vediamo se riesco a rispondere da qui...  

Preso come base il LE-artista e il suo masterpiece quella che segue da qui è la fine/inizio del loophttp://www.mspaintadventures.com/ACT6ACT6.php?s=6&p=009314 (anche da qualche pagina prima, ma vabbè... si sa sempre che le cose utili sono sempre infilate nelle intermissioni) 

Ora, se facessero come dici tu avverrebbe quel "THEY ALL STEAL A RIDE WITH THE WIND PRICK'S SNAPPY GHOST MAGIC" dove John effettivamente trasporta tutti da un Cal meno bulky e avviene il primo uso del juju. Quello che viene usato da Vriska dovrebbe confermare il "THE JUJU WHEN ITS SHAPES ARE FILLED. CHANGES IN NATURE" (e in parte anche i poteri di retcon di John, praticamente ora dovrebbe essere un semplice portale così come lo sono le finestre "credo"). Bashato da English più tardi (nella stessa linea temporale del Masterpiece/loop) gli prenderà il nome, segue alla fine che sì, il LE che rompe continuamente le scatole è quello derivante dalla fusione delle anime di Arquius+Gamzee+Cal in Lil'Cal MA quello che abbiamo letto è esattamente il secondo giro. 

Il loop dovrebbe finire adesso perchè non c'è nessun motivo che spinga John a teletrasportare il gruppo e non credo ci sia una reale intenzione di affrontare LE avendo ora il juju. Fra l'altro, Jack, che potrebbe fungere da vessel è morto e aveva gli occhi di Lil'Cal, quindi si dovrebbe essere anche annullata la possibilità stessa di usare l'orrida bambola (zunzun per gli occhihttp://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=009348) Quello che ora dovrebbe accadere, ma è lasciato più che sul vago, è che, se quello è "lo stesso" Caliborn, allora i Kids vinceranno aprendo la porta... ma non ne sono troppo certa. E' abbastanza chiaro che LE non morirà (e la cosa dell'orologio mi fa pensare sia infattibile) ma può essere imprigionato nel void per sempre (destino comune a Callie-simpatiaportamivia che sta diventando di fatto un buco nero). Tutto ciò ha senso? Apriranno la porta e non troveranno nulla? Solo una base per il nuovo universo? Una sorta di formattazione pulita del sistema? Ecco, questo mi confonde (insieme a mille robe).

SPIEGAZIONE DELL’ATTO 7 italiano solo e piena di spoiler

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