I think reading Homestuck is bad for my blood pressure; also a brief writing report

[edenfalling]

Agh, oh god, the latest Homestuck update! (Aka, [S] Jane: Enter) Whatthefuckjusthappenedthere???

So GodCat zapped poppop's stuffed corpse away before the Auto Responder could drop it into the kernel? But that means the kernelsprite didn't get prototyped. Is that why the pre-punched card did not produce a way to enter the Medium? Why didn't the AR try again with something else? (Distracted by a Dirk-related crisis, perhaps? I though it/he could multitask better than that; wasn't that half the reason it took over as Jane's server player in the first place?) Anyway, the meteor comes in point blank, the blue tree vanishes... and boom, Jane ends up floating in a field of stars surrounded by blue glowy shit (maybe with another iteration of herself still at home facing the meteor???), her house just vanishes in another flash of blue (no meteor explosion), and the shadow of the Condesce's battleship floats overheard.

Then everything gets deeply, deeply weird. (And when I say that about Homestuck, which is already so far beyond weird that weird is not even visible on the horizon, that is pretty seriously weird.)

What I can't figure out is if somehow everything changed right then, to reflect a shift in reality, or if everything was like that all along and we've just been seeing the outside world via Jane's hypnotized view of the 'normal' world. I mean, we have seen Dirk's city, but I think whenever we've been in his POV he's been indoors. Ditto Roxy and her house and lab -- I think she's always been inside. Jake's been outside, though, and I am pretty sure the frog temple wasn't three-quarters submerged and surrounded by red spikes. I think I would have remembered that from how many times I rewatched [S] Prince of Heart: Rise up.

Also, if the changed world is "years in the future, but not many," then how and why are Dirk and Roxy still there and still apparently the same age? How badly have this game session and this universe been derailed? How are they going to deal with the approaching Imperial Drones? (Tangentially, since when can Imperial Drones fly? ETA: Nevermind on that one; they have jetpacks or something; you can see the flames shooting out from behind their hips.)

What the bleepity bleeping bleep is going on???

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I wish I had the self-control to only read Homestuck in, say, once-a-week binges. I think it would make the cliffhangers much easier to bear, if only because I'd run into fewer of them. But no. And so this is me, swearing my way through the vagaries of serial reading.

[[ETA: For answers and discussion, please read comments on the LJ version of this post!]]

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In other news, this weekend I hope to get a good start on the illustrations I owe another writer for her Narnia Big Bang story. (Yeah, I signed up to draw as well as write. At the time we seemed to be short on artists. It will be an interesting challenge!) I also hope to knock off my own NBB story for good.

And in other other news, last night I wrote about 1,400 words of a weird kinda-sorta Homestuck fantasy AU centered on Dave and Aradia as childhood best friends, and I am not going to say anything else because it would take too long to explain the concept and also I have no idea if I'll ever finish the damn thing. Mostly I started writing it because there is one particular scene I desperately need to get out of my head, but it makes no sense without a lot of context, and then its inherent nature will demand some continuation.

So yeah. That's what I've been up to.

Comments

[vehrec.livejournal.com]

Probably for the best anyways-in our new hellish regime with culling centers set up in cities that haven't been flooded out, to provide the raw material for drone slurry and stuff like that, the living truly do envy the dead. And they really don't care about things like food distribution, you know?

At least I don't live in Japan. They got eaten by a tentacle monster.

[edenfalling]

They got eaten by a tentacle monster.

Ha!

[vehrec.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Gl'bgolyb is at large in the Pacific now. We've gotta deal with it. Alien conquers Earth, raises sea level so her Mom has a place to live.

[edenfalling]

This and other heartwarming stories along with your daily culling schedules on the nine o'clock news. :-)