#4035

step 1: write it

step 2: edit it

step 3: read it

step 4: spend fifty-two hours trying to work out what's wrong with the opening of that one chapter

step 5: oh god oh fuck if i change that then i'll have to change all of the fucki

Scratch is speaking frankly with her about the author of Homestuck, so it seems that Aradia's gained some meta-awareness of her own. I'm sure Scratch would consider that to be very dangerous knowledge, so maybe he's simply trapping her here so she can't make use of it.

That said... is this scene 'actually happening' in the context of Homestuck's canon? We’ve seen some unexplainable events in Hussie segments before, such as this memorable scene where Vriska commands Hussie to ride Falkor the luckdragon. It’s clear we’re not meant to be taking those seriously, so that might also be the case here.

But, well... this doesn't feel non-canonical, does it? The current scene isn't part of an interlude, recap, or Intermission, and it's sharing space with several plot-critical events. I’d call it ‘dubiously canon’, but that’s something of a loaded phrase in this comic.

I don't know. My instincts are telling me that this is 'real', but I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

Yes! Fuck him up! Bust out those moves you used on Vriska!

I see. It's another one of your moods. We will have to work on ironing out this behavior before you meet your true master.

Aradia’s service to Lord English has transitioned from ‘unaware’ to ‘unwilling’ - but what use does he even have for her? What can a Maid of Time do that an entire gang of time manipulators can't?

Maybe he's actually got no Time abilities of his own, so he has to enslave Time Players to carry out his plans. Watch your fucking back, Strider!

No, stop that. You render yourself in a more symbolic manner this instant.

After spending some time in the Furthest Ring, our girl's acquired a pair of needles.

A special spiral galaxy for over 200 000 Facebook fans

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The image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows part of NGC 3621, an unusual spiral galaxy located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra (The Water Snake).

The small, bright nucleus on the right of the image does not have the significant bulge of older stars that is common in spiral galaxies, marking NGC 3621 as a "pure-disc" galaxy. Many luminous clumps of blue young stars are scattered along the loose spiral arms, which are partially obscured by the dark dust lanes snaking across the frame. This galaxy is very useful for astronomers; some of its brightest stars can be used to estimate extragalactic distances, allowing us to measure the vast scale of the Universe.

A version of this image was entered into the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition by contestant Claude Cornen. The Hubble Space Telescope is the astronomers' tele-lens; a wider view of this galaxy was obtained with ESO's Very Large Telescope (potw1148a), and a wide-angle image with the Wide-Field Imager (WFI) at ESO's La Silla Observatory (eso1104). Just as for normal landscape photography, different lenses – or telescopes, in this case! – are used depending on what the photographer wants to shoot.