#drblackgaard

Avery! I loved your sermon yesterday! It was a very insightful comparison you drew, which highlighted a lot relevant to today. I especially thought it was interesting to think about how Jacob's situation and struggles as the last-born, which he failed to fix as a structural inequality in his family, then affected Joseph's relationship with his brothers when he was perceived as favoured. It mirrors how Hamilton's fatal personality flaw was his pride in his legacy, which not only caused his (cont)

For clarification to anon, I think some of the confusion about the age thing is that in Japan (and I think in the US as well), you're sorted into school grade based on how your birthday falls into the school year, whereas in some other countries like Canada, it's based on calendar year. Being Canadian, I went to school with kids born in 1994, but if I was in the US, it would've been Sept 94-Aug 95 or whatever, or in Japan, my class would be born April 94-March 95, if im not mistaken

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The anon wondering about Dirk implying to Jane that she was related to Jake; I believe they're thinking of Dirk's explanation of the future to Jake, wherein he explains the Condesce's past and Grandma English and Dirk hints to Jake about connecting his grandma's brother who inherited the company to being Poppop Crocker, but Jake is simply too dense. No biological relation, only adopted. (page 6758)

all of this begs the question: when do we get to see your pretty face???

Building on the Pesterchum handle ask, I like Homestuck because if you take everyone's handle initials and put them in a table sorting GCAT on both axes for first and second letters, you arrive at a table where the humans occupy the 4 corners (Sburb logo), and the trolls fill the other 12 spots (shape of the Sgrub logo).

For the ask about alpha Dave's money, remember the rules of alchemy. The game is designed so that the only stuff you can make pre-entry is really basic stuff like cubes and what's already in your Phernalia Registry. Most stuff requires non-build grist, like shale, and that requires imps, and that requires entering. Rose theorized this was to prevent someone from starting the game and alchemizing infinite stuff without ever opening your Extruder and potentially causally invoking a meteor (1/2)

To the bullied anon: I've been exactly in your shoes. I spent several years in high school with realization that I had none nor had I ever had any truly close friends, and was completely isolated from having anyone to talk to about anything person, which is especially hard when you're going through the confusing time of realizing your sexuality might not be what you thought it was. I was ignored and/or bullied by the people I'd thought were my friends, and I frequently cried myself to sleep (1/2