Let's Blow Up The Moon

what would your sylladex be?

FITS FETCH MODUS: items you pick up are attached as extensions to a single FITS file, in either table or image format, whichever seems more appropriate according to some arcane set of rules. It's pretty flexible, but items can only be retrieved using astronomy software.

are you as catastrophically attached to Casey aka Viceroy Bubbles von Salamancer as I was?

I would not say catastrophically attached, but I was *delighted* to see Casey's giant skeleton army turn up for the final battle.

doomed timelines. thoughts?

Mainly the implication that there were SO MANY OF THEM at least in the troll session, given the number of ghosts who showed up, haha

Okay, actually, I really loved and resonated with a quote that Vriska's ancestor Aranea said here: AG: Look at it this way. Imagine that over the course of someone's life, they are truly capa8le of every conceiva8le action at any moment, and did indeed take each of those actions in different 8ranching realities. Doesn't a scenario like that deaden a person's agency just as much as one where their fate is decidedly etched in stone as a single path of unavoida8le decisions? Who exactly is that person who can and does take all conceiva8le actions, other than someone perfectly generic, who only appears to have unique predilections and motives when you examine the ar8itrary path they happen to occupy? So like I think the doomed timelines (and ghosts thereof) represent a sort of parameter space of decision-making that's consistent with whatever certain characters would choose to do and the impacts those decisions would have had, without encompassing literally everything that those characters could *possibly* do (we have talked about this concept elsewhere haha). As represented by Terezi having to choose between two bad options and not being able to see a third way at the time until John was able to retcon his way in. But also some conversation by the sprites(^2) towards the end suggested that in a way all off these offshoots of people created by specific timelines not working out are all still, in a metaphysical sense, part of the same whole person, and I think that's neat and interesting too. Anyway, this is one of the ideas and themes that Homestuck spends a long time dwelling on that I find really fun and juicy to think about.

IS THIS ENOUGH QUESTIONS OR WOULD YOU LIKE MORE

Are you aware of the Epilogues and Beyond Canon?

Favorite moment?

Thank you!

Honestly recognising Hussie's shadow when I see it was part of the motivation all along so it's all good :D

I am aware of them, though I am also aware that opinions on them are decidedly mixed and am still deciding to what extent I want to engage with them and the games and whatnot. I've certainly achieved the part I set out to do, so I'm not in a great hurry to do anything else - maybe poke around in some old fanfic for a bit.

Why?

I'm gonna take this one in good faith and interpret as I like because you really haven't given me much to go on.

It's something I've been meaning to get around to for years in order to get more of a sense of how influential it's been, and I'd set myself an arbitrary deadline of 'before Alecto the Ninth comes out' to do it.

This is so hard given the enormous size of the cast, but here goes.

Top:

Rose

Karkat

Dave

Rose was a favourite right off the bat, but Karkat and Dave took a lot longer to grow on me, though grow on me they absolutely did. Terezi and Jade both come very closely behind though.

Hon. men. goes to Sollux whose deal I find absolutely fascinating and would probably have rocketed up to blorbo status if he'd had a little more screen time (though I respect and admire his choice to sit out the drama at the edge of the universe with his bestie, good for him).

Bottom:

Eridan

Gamzee

Lil Cal

Does Lil Cal count as a character? I dunno, but the dread and disgust I feel every time he shows up is real.

A lot of stuff *happens* in Homestuck but at its heart it's *about* lonely kids playing a game with their online friends, and the stakes and importance of that game they play together being infinitely high.