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And that's the end of the chapter. Let us keep this brief: Really good, Anya is putting more breadcrumbs on the floor about her past, Melinda is moving forward and we're so in, Twilight is apparently making peace with his past and focusing on the present, that's also amazing.

Got all that? Good, now let us finish the fucking reading, shall we?

We already got three of the cards: The Future, the Present, and the Past influences. Let us see the other ones:

1 - The Problem

The situation at hand, be it the good or bad of it. We have the Ace of Cups reversed there.

The Ace of Cups upright is a card of Love, intuition, and emotional awakenings, while reversed it is a card of coldness, emptiness, and feeling unloved.

It does match the thing going on, Anya feels like Damian doesn't like her, and being honest he does give her that impression, because he himself is in denial about it.

2 - The Positive influences

Things that are affecting the situation in a positive way, and you should keep doing because it is helping.

The Card here is the Three of Swords. Upright it refers to trauma, grief, sorrow, heartbreak, separation, betrayal, while reversed it refers to recovery, reconciliation, healing.

For it to be here it can mean that there are wounds that have not healed, for both of them, and giving it time for them might be better, because conflicts and third parts might be coming to get in the way.

3 - The Negative influences

It represent things that are being counterproductive for the current situation and should be minimized or avoided.

The card here is the Four of Cups upright, a card that means apathy, indifference, feeling disconnected, while reversed it means awareness, acceptance, choosing happiness.

The meaning here is pretty straightforward, not caring about each other is a problem, both of them need to care for things to work out.

4 - The Past influences

We already covered this one, things that are not working anymore for the current situation and should be let go.

Death upright represents change, transformations, letting go, and reversed it means stagnancy, fear of change, and resisting change.

In that position we can infer that trying to change the relationship between you two is not working. Trying to force him to move to a next step is going to push him farther away, you should be show some restraint in this situation, and go slower.

5 - The Present

Also already covered. What is the current state of the situation so you understand if change is necessary or not.

The Three of Wands upright is a card of momentum, of looking ahead, growing, confidence, and when it's reversed it shows limitations, lack of progress, delays.

For it to be at the Present means that the current situation with Damian is stagnate, that things are not going forward, and that commitment from both of you is needed to make things grow.

6 - The future

Also covered. The future spot is the immediate future of the situation, what will happen the soonest.

Ten of Pentacles upright is a card of Family, ancestry, affluence, tradition, while reversed it is a card of instability, family disputes, and breaking of traditions.

Ten of pentacles in that spot means a relationship successfully and financially stable, and also family approval.

7 - The final outcome

What will be ultimate outcome of the situation, but apparently the name is a bit misleading, because some people claim it only covers a period around six months ahead.

The Star upright is a card of hope, renewal, healing, faith, while reversed it points at negativity, hopelessness, despair.

This card in this position might be a bit of a bad omen, that things might not go smooth, but it also can mean that neither of them is ready for a relationship due to their own inner turmoils, their own insecurities and the harshness they put themselves under. Not even taking into account they are 4-6 here.

SEE MELINDA? THIS IS HOW YOU MAKE A FUCKING READING

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me: i don't know about capitalism

capitalism: here's the elevator scene from evangelion but rei is holding a bag of mcdonald's

me: capitalism is great

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if you ever get impostors syndrome when applying for a job remember they let fucking anyone aboard the belgica

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fedorafreak: eureka.

Hang on. Is that...

...son of a bitch. The king is back!

I can't even be mad that it's not actually Dad Egbert, because this is an entirely different kind of treat - and one that I didn't think we'd ever be getting.

I’d long since given up hope that we’d ever hear from Earth again – Bec’s apocalyptic meteor laser seemed to have bookended that chapter fairly unambiguously. How, then, did Homestuck’s favourite normie survive such a cataclysm?

fedorafreak: yes. it is as hoped for beyond hope. fedorafreak: unusual devices may be used to duplicate fresh, perfectly pressed garments. inexhaustibly, afaik.

FedoraFreak is a fucking Sburb Player.

This is the best day of my life. I've always wondered about how Earth's other sessions are going, and this is the one we get to see?

This is the greatest gift Hussie could give me. This is my Christmas.

fedorafreak: alas, devices appear to hold no such promise for departed family members, misplaced hand-held steam press.

He’s had a pretty rough time, though, which is par for the course when you’re playing this game.

Departed family members are a given, but all hope is not yet lost. If they're Players too, he might still be able to reunite with them in the Dream Bubbles - but sadly, I don't think the Gods will be preserving the soul of his steam press. Guess he'll just have to prototype it!

fedorafreak: now combining expensive leather pipe tobacco sleeve with handsome, gray fedora. fedorafreak: to document result shortly. fedorafreak: resulted in hat w/ outlandish and frivolous appearance. fedorafreak: do not care for; shall discard immediately.

Alchemy, of course, is far too twee for our king. Perhaps, with some experimentation, he can make some business-themed gear which is both serious and viable?

fedorafreak: made unwelcome determination. production requires expense of glittering abstractions called grist. fedorafreak: such jewels remaining in cache, libation in reserve, at premium. fedorafreak: consumed final swallow of carefully rationed urine. soon to seek water elsewhere in exotic new surroundings.

Damn, dude. You can’t even field the grist cost for water? Fedorafreak is clearly having a lot of trouble with Sburb’s earlygame.

John did a lot better, but he had a lot of help from Nanna early on, and Fedorafreak’s lack of familiarity with the game’s mechanics suggests that his sprite is inert.

He also hasn’t mentioned a server player, so he the poor man might be completely alone, with no context for the tragedy which recently tore his life apart. He may have escaped the apocalypse, but things still are looking pretty grim for our serious businessman.

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Aspencore

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that said i still mostly do horsefoolery like this LMFAO

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EB: so, i started getting crazy nervous the longer i was down here, and i was starting to wonder if my silly iron pogo hammer would even do any damage against the monster.

John normally goes where he pleases, and doesn’t worry about the consequences – but Typheus’s sheer aura was enough to rattle even him.

AG: *Snort.*

Heh.

Sorry, John, but you had no hope here. You were meant to show up at the tail end of a month-long campaign, not three hours into your session. This was impossible.

An endgame piano, for the most powerful Fraymotif of all.

...hang on.

Wait, shit. I'm pretty sure I just solved LOWAS.

The entire planet is a fucking pipe organ!

This is how John’s supposed to commune with the Breeze and complete his Quest - by repeating the first [S] page in the entire comic!

Damn, that's cool. It reminds me of how LOLAR's architecture seems to evoke stringed instruments, which may or may not be relevant to Rose's own Quest. At some point, I'll have to check if any other Lands feature musical symbolism.

AG: You were right to 8e nervous. Denizens are incredi8ly powerful monsters. You had no chance whatsoever at this stage of the game. AG: You might have stood a chance after I started helping you. 8ut Terezi really screwed you over 8y leading you here so early.

Would John's early God Tier really be enough to prevail here?

It can be assumed that Typheus himself is a powerful master of airbending. The rapid development of John’s powers has been extremely impressive, but Typheus commands the Breeze across all of LOWAS. It definitely wouldn't be a steamroll.

EB: i guess if i ever see her, i should thank her too. […] EB: because this was important. […] EB: if i didn't make the decision to go, then dave would not be able to go back in time and fix things. EB: in fact, if i didn't die here in this palace, we never would have been born in the first place! AG: How could you know all that?

That’s the sort of thing that Typheus himself could probably clue him in on.

Hephaestus, Dave’s Denizen, was explicitly aware of the fact that he was in a failed timeline. Typheus probably had the same understanding – and furthermore, it sounds like he informed John that this particular doomed timeline was critical to the existence of the Alpha.

Denizens were introduced to us as powerful boss monsters, but we're slowly learning that they have meta-knowledge of the game's deeper mechanics that rivals even Sprites. If you're really supposed to just kill them and leave, then why do they seem so wise? Why do they have an obvious intelligence that Underlings lack? What are they for?

It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Davesprite’s right - we don’t understand the Denizens at all.

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gif request meme

marvel ↪ #7 favorite villain  |  requested by hoechofahale [insp]

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Yeah Kaguya, if you stop to help others you'll be late and won't be able to fulfill your objectives, huh? I wonder...

And thus Kaguya went her way, and this child was left crying alone.

Nobody stopped to help her, and that's how she realized there are no heroes, that nobody can save everyone.

This girl then was recruited by a secret kingpin of the underworld and years later lead an army of villains to overthrow society and bring destruction upon the world