Homestuck update!!!
Aug. 31st, 2012 01:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Kankri Vantas. Jesus Christ, Kankri Vantas. I about died laughing every time he opened his mouth. Meenah's crazy fun and Aranea is an appealing mix of adorably awkward and overly-wordy Exposition Girl, both of which we already knew -- and Latula Pyrope and Porrim Maryam are awesome in their respective ways -- but oh my holy fuck, Kankri Vantas.
I never thought I'd say this, but man, compared to his pre-Scratch self (or Beforus self, I guess?) Alternia was so good for him. In terms of personality, self-awareness, social sensitivity, and ability to usefully relate to other people, I mean. Obviously there's the whole hunted fugitive and horrible death aspect, but oh wow, his first incarnation is a self-righteous little twit.
I kind of want to pat him on the head and punch him in the face at the same time. Seriously, what the hell.
(Karkat's expressions all through their various conversations are PERFECT. Oh god, poor Karkat, I am so glad I finally figured out how to rescue him and get through that locked door. Nobody deserves that kind of torture.)
Rose was totally flirting with Meenah. I am bad at catching things like that unless they are freaking blatant, and that was pretty blatant. Not as blatant as Kankri's "I notice these things because we're platonic friends and isn't it great that we're platonic friends so romance doesn't stop me from noticing how beautifully your hair flows in the wind, etcetera" speech -- which, that kid has ZERO SELF-AWARENESS and NO SOCIAL SKILLS WHATSOEVER -- but still pretty blatant. Kanaya was adorable and I hope she works up the nerve to speak with Porrim! They're as drastic a contrast as Karkat and Kankri in a lot of ways, but I think they'd get along much better. (Meenah and Feferi have wildly differing approaches to life, but the same level of gleeful enthusiasm and a taste for snarky gossip; Latula and Terezi have similarly divergent priorities but I think not too dissimilar senses of humor.)
The bits with Dave felt a little disconnected from the rest of the walkaround -- I mean, they're obviously connected to the ostensible "Meenah tries to recruit her friends to fight Lord English" thing, but they got deeply meta very fast and didn't have much to do with troll friendship issues. (They did explicate some points of the Tumblr gimmick, though. Which was a brutally hilarious skewer job, funny because it's true.)
Hmm. Also, let's see, we found several Felt-related items in the chests, Calliope's cosplay horns (...unless they're Hussie's cosplay horns? or did he somehow get hold of her horns so they're actually the same pair?), and there is the very important clue of a JUJU BREAKER, which is self-evidently Crowbar's crowbar, given that Eggs's timer is a juju and Spades Slick used the crowbar to destroy it and all its effects. And he also used the crowbar on the God Tier clock, didn't he! Hmmmm.
I like the dropped names and exposition -- oh god, the Peanuts gag and Aranea paying Meenah to let her exposit because nobody wants to listen! Little things like the Disciple's (Meulin), the Psiioniic's (Mituna), and the Handmaid's (Damara, IIRC?) names; the revelation that the Ancestors were stuck in their dead-end session for three sweeps, which is like six and a half years (WOW); some titles for various players (Knight of Mind! Maid of Space! Seer of Blood!) and consequently the implication that the Ancestors shared their Descendents' aspects but not their titles. There was a lot to think about!
(I had to install Chrome to get past the 98% stall-out that I kept running into in Firefox, but oh well, it never hurts to have yet another backup browser even if I'll probably keep on using Internet Explorer out of habit.)
Kankri Vantas. Jesus Christ, Kankri Vantas. I about died laughing every time he opened his mouth. Meenah's crazy fun and Aranea is an appealing mix of adorably awkward and overly-wordy Exposition Girl, both of which we already knew -- and Latula Pyrope and Porrim Maryam are awesome in their respective ways -- but oh my holy fuck, Kankri Vantas.
I never thought I'd say this, but man, compared to his pre-Scratch self (or Beforus self, I guess?) Alternia was so good for him. In terms of personality, self-awareness, social sensitivity, and ability to usefully relate to other people, I mean. Obviously there's the whole hunted fugitive and horrible death aspect, but oh wow, his first incarnation is a self-righteous little twit.
I kind of want to pat him on the head and punch him in the face at the same time. Seriously, what the hell.
(Karkat's expressions all through their various conversations are PERFECT. Oh god, poor Karkat, I am so glad I finally figured out how to rescue him and get through that locked door. Nobody deserves that kind of torture.)
Rose was totally flirting with Meenah. I am bad at catching things like that unless they are freaking blatant, and that was pretty blatant. Not as blatant as Kankri's "I notice these things because we're platonic friends and isn't it great that we're platonic friends so romance doesn't stop me from noticing how beautifully your hair flows in the wind, etcetera" speech -- which, that kid has ZERO SELF-AWARENESS and NO SOCIAL SKILLS WHATSOEVER -- but still pretty blatant. Kanaya was adorable and I hope she works up the nerve to speak with Porrim! They're as drastic a contrast as Karkat and Kankri in a lot of ways, but I think they'd get along much better. (Meenah and Feferi have wildly differing approaches to life, but the same level of gleeful enthusiasm and a taste for snarky gossip; Latula and Terezi have similarly divergent priorities but I think not too dissimilar senses of humor.)
The bits with Dave felt a little disconnected from the rest of the walkaround -- I mean, they're obviously connected to the ostensible "Meenah tries to recruit her friends to fight Lord English" thing, but they got deeply meta very fast and didn't have much to do with troll friendship issues. (They did explicate some points of the Tumblr gimmick, though. Which was a brutally hilarious skewer job, funny because it's true.)
Hmm. Also, let's see, we found several Felt-related items in the chests, Calliope's cosplay horns (...unless they're Hussie's cosplay horns? or did he somehow get hold of her horns so they're actually the same pair?), and there is the very important clue of a JUJU BREAKER, which is self-evidently Crowbar's crowbar, given that Eggs's timer is a juju and Spades Slick used the crowbar to destroy it and all its effects. And he also used the crowbar on the God Tier clock, didn't he! Hmmmm.
I like the dropped names and exposition -- oh god, the Peanuts gag and Aranea paying Meenah to let her exposit because nobody wants to listen! Little things like the Disciple's (Meulin), the Psiioniic's (Mituna), and the Handmaid's (Damara, IIRC?) names; the revelation that the Ancestors were stuck in their dead-end session for three sweeps, which is like six and a half years (WOW); some titles for various players (Knight of Mind! Maid of Space! Seer of Blood!) and consequently the implication that the Ancestors shared their Descendents' aspects but not their titles. There was a lot to think about!
(I had to install Chrome to get past the 98% stall-out that I kept running into in Firefox, but oh well, it never hurts to have yet another backup browser even if I'll probably keep on using Internet Explorer out of habit.)
