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[6708] OH Y3S, CLOWN. YOUR R3CKON1NG 1S 4T H4ND

This gif is unsettling. maybe it’s the juxtaposition of the SBAHJ gamzee and the non-SBAHJ Terezi, the way that she seems to be stabbing him at a very weird angle, the way he’s vibrating while leaning on nothing, the fact that the last time Gamzee looked like this was when Nepeta attacked him and we all know how that went. Maybe it’s the combination of all of these.

I’ve just finished my synopsis for Homestuck Act 6 Act 6 Act 1 “HOMOSUCK” and Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 1 “Stardust”. About a month ago I added pages for each A6A6 act-intermission pair and Act 7. Now I’m filling in their synopses one at a time. You might find my website useful even when there isn’t a synopsis for an act, as it has a nice way of browsing scenes by update summary.

The pleasure of writing these synopses is that while writing I recognize more of the structure of how the story unfolds beyond mere chronology. I discover that an act is usually about something, that it has a unifying subject matter. For example, A6A6I1 “Stardust” isn’t just a bunch of stuff that happens between John reuniting with his friends and the Ring of Life going missing. It’s a reveal of the parts the kids are forced to play in Condy’s plan for creating and ruling over Universe C. It’s also about how being dislocated and confined to different worlds has blunted the kids’ resistance, turning it into mere individual stubbornness.

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