#Krixwell liveblogs

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@necrowyrm asked: happy new year!!! enjoy the last little bit of homestuck before act 6! Anonymous asked: You have NO IDEA how much I was looking forward to your reaction to this flash :D @teddy-bearer-of-bad-news asked: a very late congratulations from me for making it this far! i gotta say, saving CASCADE for new year's is probably the smartest thing i've heard all week. may your experience be nothing short of righteous, comrade Anonymous asked: Cascade … Even years latter knowing it almost by heart, every once in a while I will take a little quarter of an hour to rewatch it, Say what you want about Hussie but there is a good reason Homestuck became so iconic. @adeptarcanist asked: The leadup to Cascade was honestly my favorite sequence in Homestuck, and maybe one of my favorites in any media ever? The way the narrative splits apart into all of the different scenes swirling in towards the critical moment, both advancing main plots and finding time to spend a moment of melancholy with characters who’d been left behind (The Jaspers and Nepeta scene :( )… it’s such a strong narrative device, and the tone it generates is impeccable. @calamitascalliope asked: I literally watched the flash again, and it still gives me chills every single time. Welcome to your post-Cascade life. You won't be able to think about anything the same ever again @iris-in-the-dark-world asked: "she looks so cool… but she’s so tragic… but she looks so cool…" has become a brainworm for me. i too love the handmaid's design btw, cascade time has been i think the most anticipated non-personal event of the entire year for me. i'm so excited @publicuniversalworstie asked: I want you to know that I also opened Cascade and started watching with you right after I saw your "oh my god it has chapters" ask, and I finished just as you posted "I will never be the same" !! And I bet lots of other people did too <3 so it's like we all watched it together!!!! Happy New Year and thank you for liveblogging!!!! It's been a pleasure！(and will continue to be) @krixwell asked: I would like you to know that your "Right, we're good to go!" and "oh my god it has chapters" posts were posted right as I was outside watching midnight fireworks ring in 2025 for the Central European timezone. Happy new year! @captorations asked:

hey remember when rose just up and fucking said that. anyway congrats on reaching cascade! it absolutely wrecked me back in the day, i think i stared at those flaming curtains for a solid ten minutes as my brain permanently reconfigured. the first few notes of the track alone still give shivers. getting your reaction to cascade was a wonderful birthday present. (speaking of getting older: aradia 🤝 dulcinea also got that "distressingly short lifespan only to die early anyway" story thread going on. the parallels are paralleling.) anyway happy new year and congrats you are… slightly less than halfway done with homestuck. have fun!

Hey, guys. Cascade was so fucking good.

Like, there's really no competition; this is the best Flash page in the comic thus far. Peak music, peak animation, and absolutely a peak narrative. It tied up mountains of plot threads, providing complete answer to questions we're been asking for literally thousands of pages. It completed over a dozen arcs, both big and small. It made me gasp three times in fourteen minutes. It let Jade become a furry.

11/10, and I'm glad people had as much fun here as I did on New Year's Eve. Happy 2025, and happy Act 6!

@morganwick asked: Sally, predicting Cascade: "I have approximate knowledge of many things." @morganwick asked: "You literally have the whole world in the palm of your hands." -Sally to Jadesprite, December 16, 2024 (You might also want to reread post/770701212350857216 in light of recent developments.)

Hah!

I mean, based on her powerset, it made sense that Jadesprite would do something like this eventually, but it's pretty funny that she did it more or less immediately.

And in the end, CD really was a tricky little bastard. We'll definitely need to keep a closer eye on him, next time around.

Anonymous asked: Take a moment to consider that if anyone were to use the Homestuck website as it stands now instead of the Collection program, Cascade would have been presented in the YouTube player in Standard Definition, artifacted to hell, with a clear boundary showing the dimensions of the video from the very start. Preservation is so important.

Jeez, you're not kidding. The 1080p is fine, I guess, but it certainly doesn't hit like the Flash version does, especially with its lack of moving panels.

I know something had to change when Flash kicked the bucket, but surely there was a better way to preserve the video's soul.

Anonymous asked: to give you some of an idea of what homestuck fandom looked like during this time period, im cribbing from a very popular homestuck post: “first, this upd8 was something that we had been waiting for for WEEKS. A literally unprecedented wait period at the time. We were used to suckling at the teat of daily updates, a constant stream of conversation and plot twists and buildup, and as EOA5, we were finally going to figure out what all these countdowns and plot threads and disconnected elements were building up for. And when the progress bar reached 100%, and when the page FINALLY loaded on 10/25/11, it was chaos. This was 2011, a primetime peak point and growth period of Homestuck fan density.” (…) “MSPA crashed, as it had started to during the last few big [S] updates. Hussie had already bought new servers in advance, but even when allegedly thousands of dollars were spent it couldn't handle the accidental DDOS attack of Homestuck fans. People were up all night waiting for this upd8, the curiosity was killing me. I know at some point he was receiving at least 1 million unique visitors per day to his site [correction: according to Hussie’s tumblr, upwards of 2 million during this time], and even though Hussie had foreseen such traffic and thusly hosted [S] Cascade on Newgrounds, a dedicated video streaming site, Newgrounds was similarly unprepared for the sheer amount of people frantically mashing the play and refresh buttons, and also crashed. Immediately. MSPA and Newgrounds crashed definitively for at least two nights in a row” (…) “Andrew Hussie has gone on record to say this was one of the few times he thought Homestuck wasn’t worth it, because the sheer unbelievable cost (was it $10,000?) [correction: according to Hussie’s tumblr, it looked like it was going to cost $100,000 to keep [S] Cascade up for several days] of servers and the chaos of no one able to see the upd8 and crashing nearly every site after. He was tweeting during the whole debacle, stating he was reluctant to put it up on Youtube because of all the moving elements of the flash, and style, and how youtube degraded the quality of the file size, and how he tried to scratch out buffer time and pauses by putting periods of silence between each section of the 14 minute upd8, the longest upd8 yet” “So after Newgrounds patooted, he didn’t put it on youtube and instead put up the entire flash file on Megaupload, where it could be downloaded in it’s entirety to be watched. UNFORTUNATELY, Megaupload also crashed very quickly, which Hussie felt much headache over. But before that happened I managed to get the file, since I happened to be up very early that night! Next it was on dropbox, which didn’t crash but had “link unavailable” on and off. ”Spoilers were flying everywhere, people didn’t understand everything that had happened, and by the time the timeline of events in and out of [S] Cascade was all straightened out, people became even MORE hype. Like this whole thing lasted at least four days, and on top of that, the upd8 was good. Fandom exploded.” it is impossible to quantify the experience. The fact hussie was going to have to fork over A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS to host it is crazy. I am never going to be over it.

Cascade's complete obliteration of the Flash-hosting internet says a lot about huge Homestuck truly was - but I think an even bigger indicator of the comic's success is the fact that Hussie dropped literally thousands of dollars on server upgrades to host the thing. That's not an investment you make unless you're expecting some serious returns.

[somewhere-in-the-dungeon]

could you link some worm livereads? favourite format for psyching myself up to go back and finish worm

Krixwell is the only liveblog I ever read much of. It's not a format I've ever used much but Krixwell was fun while I kept up with it.

[loreweaver-universe]

@disgustedorite I don’t think so!  I might read them and post my thoughts, but I don’t think I’d be comfortable liveblogging the written word.  For those interested in seeing someone liveblog text, though, check out Krixwell, who does Worm and a few other things.

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Hey there!

Just wanted to let those of you who haven’t been paying attention over on the new site know that I just finished migrating Arc 14. We’re on the homestretch now!

I hope to be back to liveblogging proper by next week at the latest.

Damn, how I’ve missed it.

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So here's a thing I just found out...

In the English dub of Madoka Magica: Rebellion, Madoka's parents are voiced by Taylor Hebert.

Sorry, I mean, they're voiced by

a Taylor,

and an Hebert.

That's a thing.

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Ahahaha!

widdle cwocky-wocky wants to fweezy-weezy the buggie-wuggies?

hewe, wet taywow bwing them cwosew fow you! ¨¨,w,¨¨

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Lung, post-Gestation:

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So here’s a thing:

I have a friend with whom I tend to discuss linguistics and translations. This friend, Glass, speaks Spanish as a second language, non-natively, which means that language comes up a lot.

I also sometimes talk to them about Worm, which they haven’t read (this makes me feel a lot safer about discussing it outside the blog than I usually do).

So when I encountered an Anglo-Spanish pidgin in Worm, of course I had to talk to them about it!

Krixwell: So here's a thing you might appreciate The last chapter of Worm I read included some lines in an Anglo-Spanish pidgin 

Glass: Huh What'd it sound like?

Krixwell: ----- “To gustaria livir?” She asked, in the local’s anglo-spanish pidgin.  Do you want to live? His eyes widened as he seemed to realize she was there.  “Eres an gwarra engel?” “No,” she replied.  She brushed his hair out of his face with one hand.  “No an engel.”  Not an angel. “Livir,” he breathed the word before slumping over. -----

Glass: "Livir" That's... weird to hear It's an English word with a Spanish sort of conjugation

Krixwell: And later: ------ “Eres okay,” she said, in his language.  “Eres livo.” It’s okay.  You’re alive.  She forced herself to smile as reassuringly as she could. ------

Glass: Now that I think about it that's just the actual word for live/alive (vivir/vivo) but with an L

Krixwell: Nice.

Glass: If "live" were directly used in Spanish as a loanword it would probably be "livear" “Eres an gwarra engel?” Something like "are you a war angel?"

Krixwell: I interpreted it as "are you a guardian angel", but you'd know better than me and "war angel" makes more sense with the setting of the specific scene 

Glass: In Spanish I believe it would be "��Eres un ángel de guerra?" The U in "guerra" doesn't get pronounced, but I guess that's where the pidgin part comes in

Krixwell: There and in the construction of the compound using the English format

Glass: Oh, and in Spanish "eres" means "you're" so I'm surprised "eres okay" didn't get translated as "you're okay"  And in fact I'm surprised it's not "estás okay" or whatever the pidgin variant of "estás" would be The actual way to say "you're okay" would be "estás bien" which uses another word for "you're"

Krixwell: I did translate it as "you're" before the POV character gave her translation.  Honestly, "you're" makes a little more sense.

Glass: I wonder if this is an actual pidgin

Krixwell: It would be like Wildbow to use an actual one

Glass: The words "an" and "engel" are intriguingly ambiguous about which language they come from "an" could be from English "a"/"an" or Spanish "un"/"una"/"unos"/"unas"

Krixwell: I like how it ends up getting spelled like in Norwegian. The latter, I mean

Glass: "Engel" could be from English "angel" or Spanish "ángel" Would probably be clearer if I heard how it was pronounced, though Spanish one is very roughly pronounced like "AHN-hell" (I need to learn IPA one of these days.)

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Migration clarification

It's come to my attention (via Sharks) that there's a bit of confusion about the current hiatus and the WordPress migration, so let me clarify a few things:

I'm currently manually mirroring the blog's contents to WordPress, due to Tumblr making stupid executive decisions and being quite likely to die as a site within the next year or two.

(For anyone not in the know about that: Tumblr suddenly went "no porn, guys" and entrusted their bots, which have long proven to be completely incapable of identifying whether something is porn or not, with identifying whether a post contains porn or not. Any post they flag is blocked from public view and requesting a review by a human on an old flagged post is a pain in the ass. And it doesn't even stop the porn bots because they can just tag everything with #sfw and, for now, the bots believe it.)

There's a lot of blog to go through and I have limited time each day to do it, so it might take a while. I'm currently at 6.9 after about a month of this, so I hope to be finished around March. Ideally earlier.

The reason I'm not blogging more chapters while I do this is that I can't trust my Tumblr posts to stay accessible anymore. I have multiple backups from before the NSFW ban took effect (December 17, 2018), but anything I post after that is unsafe, and any further backups taken afterwards would potentially miss any posts (new or old) that have been flagged.

The WordPress site is already available to view, but since I'm not finished mirroring it (and fixing the mess left by the automatic Tumblr mirroring suddenly partially working after I'd dismissed it as broken and started doing it manually), I consider it under construction.

The site can be found here.

When the migration is finished, I will continue liveblogging on the new site.

I will also update this blog with links to new posts on the WordPress site as long as Tumblr stays functional enough to let me do that.

Comments are, for now at least, enabled on the WordPress site, but I will not be reading them.

I hope this clears things up a bit. :)

[krixwell-liveblogs]

Some songs for Worm

...pulling exclusively from songs that are already on my main playlist:

Worm itself: Ghetto Rainbows by Insane Clown Posse

Brockton Bay: Theme For Great Cities by Simple Minds

Skitter: Here Comes a Thought from Steven Universe

Grue: Spooky Scary Skeletons by Andrew Gold

Tattletale: Icarus by Emma Blackery

Regent: Everybody Do The Flop by LilDeuceDeuce / Hearts Are Made For Breaking by Disneyfanatic2364

Bitch: Dogsong by Toby Fox

Imp: Shake It Off by Taylor Swift

Panacea: River Run Red by Rachel Rose Mitchell

Glory Girl: Megalovania by Toby Fox / I Burn from RWBY

Marquis: Bonetrousle by Toby Fox

Bakuda: Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom (Creeper Rap) by Dan Bull

Coil: I Can't Decide by Scissor Sisters

Leviathan: Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid

Behemoth: Pompeii by Bastille

Legend: The Hero Within by James Paget

Alexandria: Reach Out by Westlife

Armsmaster: Popular by Eric Saade / Ambitions by Donkeyboy

The Wards: Ward by C418, from Minecraft

Trickster: Desperado by The Eagles (cover by Westlife)

Jack Slash: Mack the Knife from The Threepenny Opera (cover by Westlife)

Siberian: TIGER by Neil Cicierega

Bonesaw: Like a Surgeon by Weird Al Yankovic

The final threat: How Far We've Come by Matchbox Twenty

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Sharks: Sent in by an account called "Cauldron Memes."

Pfffft

It sure is!

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There's still a ways to go for the migration, but in the meantime...

Happy second anniversary of the liveblog! 🎉

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I saw this awesome Captain America cosplay by Dania "Hijabi Hooligan" Khalil and was immediately reminded of Worm's Miss Militia.

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Concept: Tinker whose power lets them create - at random - objects from this generator.

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IT IS FINISHED