#They're all dead everybody is dead Dave

[kilowogcore]

The Little Blue Elephant In The Room

"Your bio says fascists are not allowed on Oa, but aren't the Guardians fascists?" The Guardians are all dead. Koyos killed 'em. They've been dead fer three years now. Oa belongs ta the people. Well, technically Oa belongs ta the United Planets and that's its own problem, but the Guardians are all dead is my point. And before you say anythin', yes, everyone thinks I'm dead too, but c'mon. I vanished in a' unexplained flare from the yellow power battery on Korugar, an' Hal wakes up three days later an' is told I'm dead but there's no body? Please. Even fer comics that's paper-thin. The fact that Hal buys it at all is testament ta bad writin'.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

Hello resident Eridan expert! 0u0 I was wondering if you thought he might get on well with Aradia? Thank you for your time!

Actually yes! In moderate doses. After Eridan's character development. The list I like to keep of his platonic friends, from most to least close to him, is like.

Nepeta -> Dirk -> Feferi -> Vriska -> Aradia -> Other

So I already talked about how he and Nepeta seem like they'd actually make for really good friends - the Heart player who can't help but see the good in him, and Eridan liking nice people and the fact that the two of them have a lot in common. I've also made mention before about how I think he and Dirk would have an extremely lethargic, almost transactional bro-ship where they sometimes beat each other to death. A completely neutral friendship, where they do not make each other better OR worse, they just help each other take the edge off the Prince Ennui. Using extreme violence.

He and Feferi are also not so different, and, honestly, they're childhood friends. She's pretty fond of him, and he's TOO fond of her, but after his character development and he fully gets over her, I think they'd be perfectly decent friends. He and Vriska have much the same deal, but I think their personalities mesh slightly worse than his and Feferi's.

If you're wondering why Kanaya isn't on this list, it's because she hates his dumb ass and always has. I think Eridan thinks he's really good friends with Kanaya. Kanaya has literally never respected Eridan even a little bit. Same with Rose. It's really funny.

So Aradia is kind of the last person out of the characters that I think I'd emphatically call "Eridan's Friend." Everyone covered in "other" tends to be people who are everybody's friend (like John) or basically tolerant of his behavior in small doses (like Dave).

With Aradia specifically, there's a few factors to consider; first of all, she has a pretty negative view of highbloods in general, calling them "hateful sn0bs" at one point. She's a lot more tolerant as the stewardess of the afterlife, because Alternia's gone and everyone else is dead, but I think it should still stand that she'd be sensitive to anti-casteist sentiment, since casteism colored so much of her life back when she was, y'know, alive.

But the reason I think they'd work as friends is because Aradia has a bluntness and straightforwardness about her that happens to mesh well with Eridan's suite of issues. He's actually fairly easy to manage if you're fully honest with him and set and maintain very clear boundaries, because he doesn't catch social cues, but also doesn't really see naked hostility, bluntness, or aggression as bad things.

And Aradia can be viciously sarcastic, but her natural tendency is to be very blunt and honest and call things the way she sees them. This means that if she's ever too annoyed by Eridan, she will let him know that as bluntly as humanly possible, and then happily fuck off, with Eridan generally no worse for the wear (although he may have a negative reaction in the moment. But Aradia's self-possessed enough to not really give a shit as long as she's not in the wrong).

The main issue between them is that I think Aradia would believe Eridan IS a nasty, casteist highblood, unless somehow given reason to interact with him for an extended period of time. Eridan didn't really talk to the lowbloods, and the two generally had no reason to interact, so she'd basically have no reason NOT to believe him when he starts spewing bullshit. Moreover, Eridan's the type of aggressive idiot that would outright admit that if they'd FLARPed together, there was every chance she'd wind up orphaned or dead (this is just a neutral fact to him), and then comment that maybe it wouldn't have mattered because she wound up dead anyway (again, just a neutral observation to him). Writing Eridan mostly consists of coming up with words that make you cringe.

Aradia is smart enough that I think any extensive conversation or time spent with him would make her realize how performative his casteist stuff is, and how little he actually cares about blood color. Since she generally never had reason to interact or care about him before (not even her friends are friends with him), this would pretty much shift her opinion from "idgaf about him, seems like a snob like the rest of the highbloods" to "oh... he's funny as hell. what's wrong with him".

Once she figures out that he genuinely doesn't mean any harm or offense by the awful dumb shit he says, I think she'd be willing to engage with him on mutual interests (they both FLARPed, so they're presumably both roleplayers, and they could probably bond over death - something Eridan is unfortunately obsessed with and Aradia doesn't have many discussion partners over). Emotionally, she'd probably keep him at arm's length - he has a lot of Issues and Problems, and she's not really interested in helping him handle them (she doesn't really bother with trying to cheer people up on the bubbles so much as just explaining what they can do now that they're dead, and letting them make their own decisions). Not that she isn't a nice person, but I do think it'd just be kind of difficult for her to have too much sympathy for a guy whose problems were largely caused by being too aristocratic.

But, like, she would also pretty happily call him "her friend," because she always cuts it short when it gets too real for her, minimizing her negative experiences with him. I think eventually, like training a dog, Eridan would figure out that Aradia is just Not The Friend For That, so it'd become less of a problem as time goes on.

She thinks he's ridiculous and funny, calls him up when she wants to infodump on someone and her usual buddies aren't around, and I think they'd play good DnD together with Nepeta and Vriska. Yeah I know Vriska killed her but she killed Vriska so they're even. The energy at the table is deeply weird but Eridan wouldn't notice and Aradia would get a kick out of it, leaing poor Nepeta to suffer it alone.

Anyway, I love that Eridan's assortment of platonic friendships is so haphazard. Nepeta AND Feferi, who hate each other. Vriska AND Aradia, who killed each other. And also Dirk is there. He's the DM.

[thewertsearch]

?GG: im through humoring you, i dont even care about this stupid exploded robot mission, whatever that was FCG: OH RIGHT, ABOUT THAT FCG: YEAH WE NEED TO TALK FCG: I MEAN WE HAVE ALREADY FROM MY PERSPECTIVE FCG: BUT YOU'RE GOING TO BE REALLY BUSY SOON, BECAUSE YOU'RE ABOUT TO ENTER YOUR SESSION FCG: SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT UNTIL YOU DO, THEN JUST HIT ME UP, WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT

I'm not complaining - believe me, I'm not - but it sounds like this entire conversation was pointless. If Karkat's plan doesn't kick in until after she Enters, then all this Pesterlog really did was piss Jade off.

I suppose not every conversation needs to be this huge plot-heavy loredump - hell, half of Act 1 was just the kids chilling. Sometimes it's worth it just to sit back and watch Karkat make an ass of himself.

Plus, it's probably a good thing that Jade lost her temper - it probably cleared the air a little. Karkat's been harassing her since day one, and something needed to be said.

?TG: dude i cant believe you were just getting on our case about hitting on the troll girls ?TG: and then literally the very next memo you are slobbering all over jade ?TG: thats just perfect hahahaha CCG banned ?TG: from responding to memo. FCG rebanned ?TG: from responding to memo.

Not the double banhammer!

Damn it, I wanted Dave to stay in the mix. Every group chat these kids have is fucking fantastic.

?GG: i also cant wait for past you to past drop dead and go to hell, PAST TENSE!!!!!!!! ?GG: when are those things going to happen?? or will have already past/future happened????? ?GG: i want to put another reminder on my finger so i know when its time to throw a party!!!!

And I think I know which finger you're most likely to use!

FCG: HOW'S THIS FOR A PACT, EVERYBODY. FCG: PAST KARKAT ONLY TALKS TO PAST JADE FROM NOW ON, AND THE TWO OF THEM CAN BICKER LIKE SHITTY LITTLE CHILDREN FOR HOURS/YEARS RESPECTIVELY. FCG: AND FUTURE KARKAT ONLY TALKS TO FUTURE JADE, AN ARRANGEMENT WHEREIN ONLY INTELLIGENT DISCOURSE TAKES PLACE BETWEEN TWO CIVILIZED, MATURE, GROWN ASSED ADULTS.

Woaugh,, so you're saying, like, your conversations should respect the linear flow of time, thereby sidestepping the headache-inducing complexities of Trollian's nonlinear messaging?

Dude, that is such a good idea. Why didn't you think of it sooner? Why didn't you think of it sooner, Karkat?

You consult your reminders to get your bearings on what to do next. But you can't remember what they mean at all. You have a feeling these are all useless now.

Many of those reminders were tied to Skaian prophecies, and were probably stored in Dream Jade's brain. To you, they're useless - and it's not like you can make any more.

Jade the Seer is dead.

The hour of the Witch is upon us.

[davekat-sucks]

Something that seems to attract the Davekat shipping is how the two can help each other from their trauma, at least that's what it seems to look like. But tbh I'm not seeing how their experiences help each other get better. If anything Karkat would do better healing from his trauma with a different human, since Dave is so closed off from his trauma. But no they're just awkward and closed off emotionally any time they are together. Anything else they're just arguing like friends.

Idfk who would help best, but at this rate Dave and Karkat are just platonic buddies who probably helped each other forget their problems for a while on the comet. As if friends can't cuddle and play together. No, it has to be romantic because what is the point otherwise!

Friendships of any kind does not exist in the Homestuck fandom. Everybody has to fuck with someone while also not actually fucking. Considering that Karkat was a leader of his troll session to parallel John, I would think John would also be the one to help Karkat the most. They were the closest of human and troll interaction out of everyone else. And yet, Post Retcon and fandom make it seem like they are total strangers to one another. But yeah, I'm not seeing how their experiences can help each other out. Karkat is upset that most of his friends had died and felt like a horrible leader. How would Dave help in that regard? Dave doesn't have any closer connection to the other trolls that had died besides maybe Tavros and Equius. Would he even sympathize that good trolls like Nepeta and Feferi didn't deserve it? Dave himself isn't a leader either, it's John. And Dave barely did much to lead besides maybe his dead Dave selves, but now he is seldom on doing that again. How would Karkat even help Dave for things like the issues with Bro? Even if his friends would technically be siblings in the troll incestuous slurry, Karkat doesn't exactly have a brother brother blood ectobiology connection like Dave, Bro, and Dirk. And all of the trolls are the same age as him. The only difference is in status of the hemospectrum and power from highbloods, but it doesn't really equate to how Bro was the guardian and raising Dave in preparation for Sburb. Trolls may not be the right person to talk about how a person is raised if their planet conditioned everyone that child soldiers is a good thing. Karkat may be a mutantblood, but this dude had a dream too in being part of the system despite his blood. But fanon and Pesterquest, make it out like he is in constant danger that he could never reach that dream.

[black-arcana]

HALESTORM's LZZY HALE: 'I'm Writing Some Of The Best Songs I've Ever Written'

In a new interview with Terrie Carr of the Morristown, New Jersey radio station 105.5 WDHA, HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale spoke about the band's plans for the follow-up to 2022's "Back From The Dead" album. She said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We're taking our time with it and we're writing a lot. We're doing our record with [producer] Dave Cobb, of all people, which is which is a new flavor for us. We kind of needed to shake it up.

"Just coming from a personal level, I'm in a really good place in my life," she explained. "I'm writing some of the best songs I've ever written, and this album, for me, and this is before I'm even discussing our collective M.O. as a band and what we want everything to sound like, but, for me, the songs that I'm writing… This is gonna be the HALESTORM album that kind of peels back the onion a little bit.

"I'm in a spot where I'm okay with giving myself permission to be open. And the fans have taught me a lot about that over the last album cycle, with 'Back From The Dead'. The difference between 'Back From The Dead' and this one being, 'Back From The Dead', that entire record, for me, was kind of a pep talk to be, like, 'Girl, you still got this. I don't know what's going on.' And it took, I think, the entire of that album cycle for me to actually settle into the point... It all kind of boiled down to this conversation I had with fans when we were in Europe. We were on a seven-week tour, so we always go through this messy middle; everybody does. You wanna know some folklore of being on a tour — four weeks is enough; seven weeks, everyone starts going a little crazy. 'Cause by the month mark, everyone's, like — we call it the messy middle; everyone's just kind of tired and there's no real end in sight. And we've all been living two feet from each other. Someone's being annoying. Someone's being a little bitch — it happens. And I was going through my own war in my head about whatever's coming next as this album cycle was kind of ending. 'I don't know where I'm at. I haven't written a new song in a while.' [I was] letting a lot of my disparaging thoughts get to me. And so here are our super fans, my ladies in shining armor — they call themselves the Lzzy Birds — in Europe. And it's a group of, like, 11 women, give or take, that just come to every show — every single show, every single meet-and-greet, front and center, without fail, they're there for the show. So during this messy middle, they started to ask me, like, 'Hey, are you doing okay? The show was great, but there's something behind your eyes that we can't see. And you don't have to tell us anything, but we're there for you' kind of thing. So I go through my normal bullshit in my brain. I'm, like, 'Oh, I'm just tired. It's tour. And I'm going through stuff.' And then the next day at the meet-and-greet, they all hand me these handwritten letters, and I'm paraphrasing for all of them, but each, in their own way, basically was saying, 'Hey, here's a list of reasons why we follow you. Here's what you've done for us. It's okay if you're not okay. And you don't have to be the savior. If you wanna cancel some shows, we will understand. Whatever you're going through, we're gonna be there for you no matter what, because you were there.' It really affected me. I was in the dressing room reading through all these, just crying my eyes out, and I immediately, the next day, because we had another show — it was, like, a three-in-a-row thing — next day, at the end of the show, I kind of held court with all of them next to the buses. And I'm just, like, 'I'm gonna tell you exactly what's going on in my life,' and this, and this and this, 'and I don't know what I'm doing. And I'm scared that I'm failing you,' and all of this, and I just let it out with them. And I realized something in that moment.

"I don't know if any of you people listening are front people or the spearhead of your operation. Sometimes it can feel really like you're an island and you're not even in the front seat of your life and you're just kind of white-knuckling it through," Lzzy added. "And what I realized is that instead of me being the strong person in that moment, I got more out of it as and more trust, more admiration, more connection with these fans of mine that have seen me through a lot of things than I could have just by keeping the veil up and being the strong person. I got more from it by opening myself up and being honest. And so I've taken all of those feelings and I am putting them now into this new music and working through them because they have allowed me to. My army that has been with me through every battle has given me permission to say, 'Hey, if you've gotta work through this' and 'we're gonna be with you no matter what,' that feeling of unconditional love from complete strangers — from strangers that didn't know you from before. And that was the connection. And then we're able to take that then past the handshake. I can put down the crown for a second and just be real with you guys. And then, what ended up happening after that is that then you have these conversations now, new conversations with the fans, not just about your touring or your vocal prowess or whatever, or whatever lyric, it's now about, 'Oh, so you're just as screwed up as I am, but you've also made it to the other side.' So it gives the bridge for hope. It makes it a little shorter. It gives it a little bit of gas to get through. Sorry, I'm blowing through analogies. But it affected me in a really positive way. And I'm very much looking forward to — the song that you guys helped me start, I am now ready to finish for you. And so it's gonna be this beautiful pass of the torch a little bit.

"Anyway, that's how it's kind of working out in my mind, but, again, best-laid plans… But we're excited for new music," Hale concluded. "And I'm sure there'll be some things that I'll end up sneaking in on this next tour because I can't wait to play new music for everybody. So for all of those that keep up with all the little tiny moments that go on in the set, keep your eyes and ears peeled, 'cause it could be a new song."

HALESTORM is working with Cobb after making three records with Nick Raskulinecz.

Cobb has shared in nine Grammy wins, including four for "Best Americana Album" and three for "Best Country Album". He's also been named "Producer Of The Year" by the Country Music Awards, the Americana Music Association (twice) and the Music Row Awards, and has been a Grammy nominee in the category.

Lzzy and her brother Arejay (drums) formed HALESTORM in 1998 while in middle school. Guitarist Joe Hottinger joined the group in 2003, followed by bassist Josh Smith in 2004.

Last May, HALESTORM teamed up with country singer Ashley McBryde for a reimagined version of the band's song "Terrible Things", which was originally featured on HALESTORM's latest album, the aforementioned "Back From The Dead".

[lil-munchie]

Has anybody drawn fern from adventure time and davesprite from homestuck meeting. Their themes are too connected for them not to meet. They're so similar yet so different. Davesprite has to come to terms with the fact he isn't "the real Dave" now and so does fern, but also they have sort of like opposing souls in a way. Deep down davesprite is heroic and just, he exists purely through his own sacrifice for the life of another whom he deeply TRUELY cares about, and fern has a sort of conflicted existence. All his memories are of a similar nature, heroic and just, but against his will he has something inside of him, a grass demon, corrupting his decision making, making him do things "the real Finn" would never do. Could you imagine being this guy? Your whole life you were this hero guy, you were always morally in the right and you had lots of friend and people who cared about you then bam you wake up one morning and everybody is looking at you like you just came back from the dead. But then not just that, you find that not only have you been replaced, but something inside you has changed for the worst and you can't figure out why. Your kidnapping people, your suggesting severing an innocent child's tendons, you kill without a second glance, you become an evil knight and help in a war against the candy kingdom, a kingdom in all your memories you swore to stand by and protect. Just holy shit somebody draw these two interacting please I can't take this anymore in fact I'm going to do it you just watch me.

[david-talks-sw]

So I have a question abd you just might be the only one who can answer it

So I recall reading at one point about a "what could have been" TCW arc, something about encountering the Yuuzhan Vong out in the far reaches of the galaxy with a whole alien abduction approach to it, albeit the Vong themselves would have been changed somehow to better fit in with Lucas' view of the Force

So my question is do you know what it is that makes the Vong not work with the George Lucas Force? I assume it's their own lack of the Force in them, but I can't find anything definitive and was wondering if you knew, or if it was just something that we don't know

Well, you've pretty much summed up all we know publicly about it:

At Celebration Anaheim 2015, they revealed this episode involved the Vong in a very minimal way. A scout ship tries to assess the strength of the Galactic Republic and what the Jedi were.

Dave Filoni said it'd be pretty creepy. Pablo Hidalgo stated it'd have an alien abduction vibe, cited "X-Files" as a comparable.

On Twitter, PH added that their depiction would have differed from what the books said, for instance the Vong weren't Force-immune.

Dave Filoni - big EU fan - had started drawing sketches of the idea, basically reasoning that "hey, we made the Mandalorians pacifists and brought Maul back from the dead. Anything's possible."

If I had to hazard a guess as to why the Vong wouldn't jive with Lucas' view of the Force and the Star Wars universe, I'd assume it's because - like you said - there is no Force in them, they're "outside" the Force.

And George Lucas stated it's in everybody. Back during story meetings for Empire Strikes Back:

"The idea is that the act of living generates a force field, generates energy. That energy surrounds you; when you die that energy joins with all the other energy and there is a giant ball of energy in the universe that has a good side and a bad side to it."

And even more recently, in The Star Wars Archives: 1999-2005.

"The Force is the energy, the fuel, and without it everything would fall apart."

One might say: "but the Vong come from a different galaxy!"

Okay? The Force is in the whole universe.

"I like to think that there is a unified reality to life and that it exists everywhere in the universe and that it controls things, but you can also control it."

To be fair, Lucas uses "universe" and "galaxy" interchangeably, at times, but the point still stands.

If you go by GL rules, the Vong only work if they're not Force-immune. Otherwise, they're walking, talking contradictions to the narrative.

[sobbingdistantnoises]

1. 2. 4. for the writing ask?

1. Do you know how you want the story to end when you start, or are you just tumbling through the figurative wilderness hoping to find a road?

100% the latter, I am so bad at endings, which is probably why I don't finish anything D:

With spin wick au, I'm wanting to hopefully actually get an ending for the main plot figured out by thinking without properly writing anything, so...who knows how this will work out. I am still in world building phase for that though :P

I am also thinking of trying to do a silly with Soulless Sam (who I am so normal about by the way. I UNDERSTAND him, I have thought so much about the sort of thought process he follows, it's so great <3) in which rather than a story with proper endings, I do a series of oneshots that portrays elements of how I think he thinks. I think. I have a teensy bit written on a google doc :) Must write more

2. Talk about a notable time a narrative or character has looked you dead in the eyes and said "frick your plan, here's what we're actually doing."

WELL. ABOUT EVERY FREAKING TIME.

Let's talk about Sam goes to Doom hell though, in which, you guessed it, Sam goes to the hell set in Doom! :D I did not have a proper plan for what was going to happen, (this question has actually made me realize that I can totally continue my planning for it and come up with a proper ending since I'm done with s5 and don't feel like extending it through s6), but I had a part in which Sam was killing these zombiemen demons, and then he (thinks he) noticed that, hey, that's a person he just killed. And then that led him to thinking about burying them or whatever else he could do, which then he put their body against a wall with their gun, which then I realized hey, Dean could use that weapon! So now Dean will go to Doom hell too, as part of his end of s2 demon deal :D I did not choose this

Only tangentially related, but I also have a google doc called "Insert Tangoesque Description for the Game! + also my fricking [cyber security competition I did] notes for some reason"

4. What is the plot bunny you've been carrying around for the longest? Do you ever wonder why you haven't written it yet and experience deep existential dread?

OKAY HM. Most of the stuff that haunts me is stuff I've written a teensy bit of, but I am going to say for this question that plot bunnies are stuff you haven't written at all because that gives a more interesting answer that I otherwise would have never given

Word for word the way I have it written down is "The thing in the satanic bible that said you should have your body mutilated if you defile something and it happens to Dave because he's a satanist" (because of course band people destroyed a bunch of furniture in their careers as band people)

I think about it sometimes. It's kind of a terrifying concept, even if it's not like...full on furniture throwing or whatever, because everybody's "hurt" nonliving things by virtue of accident or "they're not alive to feel pain". Hm. Some sort of metaphor for accidentally hurting people because you just didn't think is in here. Insane fic concept though, just randomly getting psychically tortured for sins against table.

I don't quite experience deep existential dread because there are too many fic concepts for that though, and I am too powerful for evil emotions (telling myself this is how I beat them up :D)

[wifegideonnav]

well i… finished act 5 act 2. gonna have to rewatch cascade a bunch of times and probably read the act summary on the wiki but i have officially reached the end of the act

still enjoying it a lot but it’s getting harder and harder to read. summing up a rant i gave my friend, i’m not super in love with the sense of predestined futility - or more accurately, i don’t feel that the narrative has properly addressed that yet and justified why i should be reading about these characters who were like 100x doomed from the start.

there are so many characters and so much happening that nothing is lingered upon, which is nice pacing-wise but not so nice emotional-impact-wise. i also think the “everybody dies a bajillion times and it’s fine until all of a sudden it’s not” thing works against it in a sense, especially when the narrative doesn’t stop to mourn anyone who’s actually dead, bc by the time you realize hey wait maybe like. vriska or dad or feferi/nepeta/equius etc are dead for real it’s been like 200+ pages and you’re like well ok. what do i do here exactly.

and i know that that’s an intentional choice hussie made for how he wanted to craft his narrative - im wishing for things that he deliberately chose not to give. im not trying to say that these choices are flaws in his writing, just that as an audience member i tend to prefer the tlt method of dealing with death, where one main character dies and then the entire next book is about another ripping herself apart because of it.

im not giving up by any means, or even saying that this is what’s dominating my reading experience. like i said im still enjoying myself and appreciate most of the creative decisions that hussie is making. it can just feel very draining i suppose, watching these characters i’ve come to care about - almost all of whom are literal children - fighting so hard so futilely, and so far, imo the narrative hasn’t paid that off. however, with that out of the way, here are (some of, bc this shit was long as hell) my thoughts on the act, more or less in order:

i have literally no interest in johnkat. probably partially bc my friend is so into davekat that ive been conditioned to just wait for that to happen but also bc they have no chemistry. sorry to any johnkat shippers out there but idc it’s boring

i have slightly more but still negligible interest in john/vriska. probably bc i… don’t really care about john. sorry to any john stans out there but idc he’s boring

karkat and terezi sharing a keyboard to argue my beloved

rose my beloved. but also. sweetie :/

vriska my beloved. but also. SWEETIE :/

kanaya my beloved. you’re doing great no notes

oh yeah dave and terezi manipulated the stock market. still don’t 100% understand that but whatever good for them

yeah ok the dream bubbles. christ. like ok i GET it but they’re still annoying

i love jade’s dynamic with karkat she really goes from “teehee im just a silly little girl haha” to “im going to eviscerate this motherfucker”

bec prototyping himself was genuinely such a good reveal

is it just me or is john's power like. way lamer than the other kids' lmao. like it's still cool, def better than nothing, but come on

not too much to say abt the exiles but i love them

also with all the fucking timeline bullshit that's going on i literally can't wait to reach the end and reread with the uhsc mod that lets you follow a specific person's timeline. i canNOT keep track of what's happening when for who

it is literally so funny that vriska has been the cause of jade's narcolepsy this entire time. like wow girl you really took the opportunity to be a massive dick to her huh

LET'S BE SANTA

frogs. ok sure. why not.

fuck doc scratch all my homies hate doc scratch. i will say though. he is a fantastic character.

holy shit eridan and gamzee snapping and killing like everyone. that was buckwild what the fuck. not gonna lie idc that equius is dead, and nepeta, feferi, and tavros were never my faves. but got damn it sucks that they're dead. (ostensibly. still not one thousand percent convinced)

sad karkat :(

murderous kanaya :D

WV "DRIVING" AHHHH

oh god the ancestors. sorry but i simply do not care about that shit. like i know that they're actually relevant but. :/

also i don't like the trope of chains of events being echoed across generations. like damn get your own plot. also it ties into that determinism and futility that i'm grappling with

i will say though. mindfang mentally thanking redglare for taking her arm because then her battle against his honorable tyranny because it made it "a fair fight"? hot. i'm brave enough to say it.

aradia is cool as fuck. i wish we got more of her/her personality

aradia's ancestor is also cool as fuck. sucks that literally nothing she did to resist her fate worked or mattered

the scratch stuff is genuinely interesting narratively/in terms of a plot device. again it still sucks that the beta kids aren't actually going to get to win the game themselves. like i assume they'll be talking to/guiding the alpha kids but like. god it's so unfairrr i bet there'll be angst about this

rose going grimdark is so fun. also LMAO john trying to chat with her in that flash game portion

TEREZI god i love her. sucks that she killed vriska tho bc i love her and also i ship them. oh well murder is not necessarily a roadblock to them getting together. troll romance sure is weird. i have hope in my heart.

vriska isn't dead forever bc no she isnt <3

the betty crocker shit. is funny. and also stupid as hell.

SAD KARKAT :((

ok i guess the stuff about karkat's ancestor and the history of the troll race is kinda interesting. whatever.

everyone's in love/hate with gamzee all of a sudden?? literally why. troll romance sure is FUCKING confusing

that was a pretty anticlimactic climax to the gamzee situation, gotta say

cascade was confusing as fuck i don't have thoughts on it yet

so yeah that's it! if you're still reading, why? let me know what your thoughts on act 5 act 2 were when you read it, or your thoughts on my thoughts lol. just pls no spoilers for anything past cascade!!

[nostalgia-tblr]

u kno what's stuck in my head now? that bit from the first episode of red dwarf where holly is explaining that "everybody's dead, dave. yes, everyone. all of them. everyone is dead, dave. dave, everyone is dead. they've all died. they're dead, dave."

[carcinocommander]

HI [[hello]] I AM ACTIVELY [[asking you about candy davekat]] !!!! SITTING DOWN LIKE ITS [[storytime]]

My gawd.

Warning for mentions of unhealthy polycules, mentions of Davejade, death, etc.

The main reason I'm obsessed with it is because. Well. I'm that Kat in Davekat. Hi I'm Commander Karkat nice to meet you.

But it's about the tragedy it's about the angst and the hurt and the heartbreak. It's about the fact that there's the Meat timeline where Davekat actually happens and they're together but in Candy they aren't. They're separated. All because Jade loved them both and Dave was having a sexuality crisis and all three of us were unwilling to say why this wasn't working out.

It's about the fact that both Dave and I went to extreme lengths to get out of that situation without ever actually having the breakup talk. I snapped, storming out of Jane Crocker's mansion and started a rebellion against her and the bullshit she's caused. Dave put up with it longer, and when meeting his life-long hero Obama (don't ask) he went Ultimate, leaving this entire timeline to fight his brother. We both had things that were bigger than us that we needed to help with, needed to contribute to, or leader, and you can't tell me a part of us wasn't relieved to have that happen and get out of the hellhole that our house became.

It's about what happens afterwards. After when everybody finds out that Dave is "dead." After when the guys from the Meat timeline meet with Davebot and Aradia to stop Ult Dirk. It's about what happens to us when it's all over. If we meet. Will it be a sweet reunion? Will it be complicated and messy? How will we meet? Will the rest of the people from Candy join in on the space trip? Who knows. No one does because the comic is on "hiatus." Probably dead forever, so we can only theorize as to what happened.

That's all the thoughts I have for now. Candy Davekat is just so. Aiufhgduifhfbdf. And I'm obsessed with it.

[the-firebird69]

We have a few things to recommend to these guys if you're going to try and mess around with a credit card don't do it for hours now people see how you're doing it and where and a whole bunch of you we're being hauled in and lots of you die probably like 99.9%, and you're like continuously doing it pretty soon you'll all be dead that's the biggest dragnet I've ever seen in my life and I've been around forever. I've never seen so many of you all in who's helping to run this program he's got to be the wisest guy I've ever seen last times and you don't respect him at all and you just slaughtered half of your intelligence what you need because we're using tech which you cannot discount unless you're actually messing it up and you won't be able to in a lot of you Are pulling yourself and mostly when questioned and all this other horse s*** you're being questioned and situ and you're failing and people are acting on it from what they get in situ and if you don't know what it means that's terrifyingly bad it means you're dumber than a piece of crap we have a whole bunch of stuff to talk about but I thought I would put that out there because he's just wrapping it up for now and it is a huge concept it's massive there's nothing that overshadow this humongous massive effort by practically everybody who's not Trump just to rip him to shreds and they're going after it a lot of you today because of what just happened and you yourself are probably not going to make it so you can smile at some of it other people you weird piece of crap you're such a loser just like he said we think it's funny you shouldn't you're the one dying I'll tell you what you only have hours before you're completely gone sometimes you fall for it you know why because you know so many of you are dying and it's really not impressing anybody at all only you I guess so you want to class time to other people so causing harm to yourself does it I've seen a lot of that and it's faulty math.

--I'm sending orders about this idiot yeah it's taking too much time already we are going to have a pretty busy day today A lot of people are running in circles saying they've looked forward to this for months and people are trying to store it they're trying to use extortion and you wanted to ride around in this bike so they're going to go after you idiots it's really stupid what you guys are doing is your fixing things breaking things fixing things breaking things of your own and the group that can see the advantage of that and eventually you won't have anything and we're going to take you apart because it's a severe weakness and we're going to utilize it and boy you a bunch of assholes for people who are dying fully completely and you see your army dying you're a bunch of assholes and we do understand why you're a bunch of simple pieces of s*** who are not really into programming you think you found some group that will do you want what I say is call dodos call dodos p a u l todos thinks he can do the same thing and so does so do a lot of people with the AI but a lot of them actually have it it's funny because you're so stupid yeah these crappy programs are you stuck everybody else's together that you took and it's junk and you are giving out the code to disable your stuff and it's really it's really kind of easy and you don't know how it works you should rewrite it at least maybe someone confusing but wow what a moron you are and he knows what he's talking about he heard you talking about it they're really Dave wanted to do a few things to make his stuff work better and cause disruption and interference but still won't do anything and you say it will you're going to occupy them and you're not that's not going to occupy many of them because we're going to be doing it in foreigners because he keeps telling everybody what you're doing and you are saying that you're going to win by ratting on everybody of yours I'll tell you what Pearl harbor had a problem and they're only a few warnings and they're subtle and then they did that to say we warned you and you did nothing you're out there telling everybody every 10 or 15 minutes and then you tell them exactly what it is say the hour or two now if that happens at Pearl harbor in Japanese their own harbors they be stuck there and they'd be on fire and you're doing it to your own self and your forces and it's not impressive and listen it's funny to us that you're dying and yeah we we find it funny that you laugh at it even though it is painfully ironic it's like you don't digest it and we really don't want you to but we're not doing this much stuff to you you have to admit that you're really not worth massive numbers of hours of messing around with you to get you to have absolutely nothing when all these people before you taught you all the dumb stuff you do you're gross too idiot you're a massive idiot running around yelling at people because they're smarter than you and people see what you're doing and right now they are slaughtering your people like cattle they're murdering them and they're murdering a lot of them and all over the world right now your numbers are shrinking and they're going down to it's another percentage you've lost this past week and you're like two tenths of a percent already today and that's a lot and to make matters worse you're losing the forces in power in critical areas and you said it on the phone today and you mean door and started harassing us on you you leaned over and start to harassing and you're an animal we are going to have to terminate you and your cadre of jackass because you're eating and abetting massive fugitives who are hell-bent on killing off all humanities symptoms and we are going to treat you in that manner and a son and daughter suggested it years ago and there's a whole bunch of you that are going to be treated that way because of what you're doing you're useless buddy

Thor Freya

Olympus

I can't stand this guy okay I need him gone and I've been seeing it a lot now what we're going to put forward is great this is awesome I hate to say it's about time but we did say he's not a rebel these people are rebels they're all delusional want to get rid of everyone else so their program can work and what's the damn difference you idiot and what are you going to use your program for when everyone's gone I mean what a piece of crap that they will beat your ass in so we don't like them and we're going to get rid of them but really people should put it like this and say okay well what's their plan then and study it and find out that they're just end of Earthers and have to go

Hera

I want them brought up on formal charges and brought to the Hague by somebody else of course because not only are they eating a bedding but they are participating and they are also part of this conspiracy even though their angle is very weak they should be brought up on charges for the same thing and I'm sure the max will love this oh yeah we're going to bring you up on charges I'm sure that's going to be helpful for them to understand that everybody's fed up with this dumb s*** and yeah you can laugh and say you're going to win but you're competing with each other and that's fine and dandy I agree that you probably should look more like jackasses cuz you are and this guy is the epitome of you he's that he's the height of what you can become when you turn into the jackasses look in that movie with the visitors when he's breaking open the vial and drinking it glass and all there you are. No joke though they are within the conspiracy and part of it and they are co-conspirators with the Mac proper including that little squirt piece of s*** Paul dodo and I have turned evidence.

The city of trying to threaten me to get rid of people and I'm getting rid of your people I'm not getting rid of mine and we have jobs and places to go and bases people can see them and they're trying to extinguish your stupid race because you're so f****** stupid

Zues

I believe the same thing we got to get going on the day here but boy you people out of line and yeah you need to be brought up on the right charges

Hera

Then we're going to treat him like the criminals they are

Thor Freya

Olympus we're getting into it and we're going to get rid of them but you're right these people need to be treated much more harshly we're going to begin now

[pesterloglog]

Terezi Pyrope, John Egbert, Roxy Lalonde

Act 6, page 7022-7025

TEREZI: TH3 POW3RS YOU W3R3 T4LK1NG 4BOUT 34RL13R

JOHN: huh???

TEREZI: DO NOT HUH M3 3GB3RT

TEREZI: YOU LOOK L1K3 4N 1D1OT, BUT W3 BOTH KNOW YOU 4R3 NO FOOL

JOHN: hey!

ROXY: i wouldnt argue w her john

ROXY: shes all bloody and she clearly means business

JOHN: er...

JOHN: ok, you're right.

JOHN: yes, terezi. i agree to the fact that i look like an idiot.

JOHN: primarily because you seem badly wounded and angry.

JOHN: are you sure you're ok?

TEREZI: SHUT UP!!!

TEREZI: ON ROS3'S R41NBOW C4NDY PL4N3T

TEREZI: YOU 4PP34R3D 4ND S41D YOU H4D TH3 4B1L1TY TO CH4NG3 TH1NGS

TEREZI: TO 4LT3R H1STORY W1THOUT DOOM1NG TH3 T1M3L1N3

JOHN: oh.

JOHN: yeah.

JOHN: the thing with that is, um...

JOHN: wait a minute.

JOHN: terezi, are...

JOHN: are those jade's shoes???

TEREZI: M4YB3

JOHN: maybe?????

TEREZI: Y3S

JOHN: yes as in yes??

JOHN: or yes as in maybe?!

TEREZI: Y3S 4S 1N M4YB3

JOHN: terezi.

JOHN: why are you wearing jade's shoes?

JOHN: WHERE'S JADE?!

TEREZI: J4D3'S D34D

JOHN: aw, man.

JOHN: not jade too.

JOHN: are you sure?

TEREZI: Y3S JOHN

JOHN: you mean like DEAD dead?

TEREZI: 3V3RYBODY'S D34D, JOHN

JOHN: everybody??

JOHN: even dave???!!!

TEREZI: H3'S D34D, JOHN

TEREZI: 3V3RYBODY'S D34D

TEREZI: 3V3RYBODY 1S D34D, JOHN

JOHN: so...

JOHN: jade, dave, karkat... they're all...

JOHN: EVEN THE CUTE MAYOR GUY WHO DAVE LOVES SO MUCH??????

TEREZI: JOHN L3T'S NOT DO TH1S

JOHN: dammit.

JOHN: well, did you actually take jade's pulse?

JOHN: you know, she does like to sleep a lot.

TEREZI: 1 SN1FF3D BOTH H3R 4ND D4V3'S PO1GN4NTLY OV3RL4PP1NG TORSOS V3RY C4R3FULLY FOR 4 HUM4N PULS3

TEREZI: 4L4S 1 FOUND NON3 >:[

JOHN: oh.

JOHN: and then...

JOHN: you decided to take her shoes.

TEREZI: Y3S

JOHN: and you thought that was an appropriate thing to do...

JOHN: why, exactly?

TEREZI: JOHN, H3R SHO3S W3R3 R3D, SP4RKLY, 4ND D3L1C1OUS

TEREZI: 1 4M ONLY FL3SH 4ND BLOOD

JOHN: ugh, you are such a weirdo.

JOHN: why are all troll girls so WEIRD?!

JOHN: every single one i have met is some kind of depraved lunatic.

JOHN: all the troll boys i have met are just lame weenies though.

JOHN: well, except for karkat. karkat was great.

JOHN: may he rest in peace :(

TEREZI: DON'T FUCK1NG S4Y TH4T!!!

JOHN: what?!

TEREZI: H3 1S NOT D34D!

JOHN: but, you just said...

TEREZI: 1 M34N, H3 DO3SN'T H4V3 TO B3!

TEREZI: 1 D1D NOT COM3 H3R3 TO B4TH3 1N TH3 R3PUGN4NT 4TT1TUD3 OF 4 D3F34T1ST DORK

TEREZI: 1 C4M3 H3R3 TO FORC3 S41D DORK TO US3 H1S 1NCR3D1BL3 4ND TOT4LLY UNPR3C3D3NT3D POW3RS TO S3T 3V3RYTH1NG R1GHT, 3V3N 1F 1T M34NS ST4BB1NG H1M UNT1L H3 COMPL13S

JOHN: ok! you don't need to stab me, really!

JOHN: don't you think i WANT to?

JOHN: we just lost everyone we cared about! of COURSE i want to go back and change things!

JOHN: i just have no idea HOW!!!

TEREZI: TH4T 1S NOT MY PROBL3M

TEREZI: JUST 4S 4 L4CK OF STYL1SH G3MSTON3 STUDD3D FOOTW34R 1S 4LSO NOT MY PROBL3M, 4S OF PR3C1S3LY TOD4Y

TEREZI: TH3S3 TH1NGS 4R3 YOUR PROBL3MS TO SOLV3

TEREZI: BOTH TH3 P1T14BL3 L4CK OF COMM4ND OV3R YOUR Z4PPY PROW3SS, 4S W3LL 4S TH3 GROT3SQU3 P41R OF B4N4N4 LO4F3RS ON YOUR F33T

JOHN: EARGH, I FRIGGIN' *HATE* TROLL GIRLS!

ROXY: john

[hydrate-or-diedrate]

Mm this stage is getting more and more sus

HELL YEAH DIRK RIP HER SOUL OUT

Vriska self reflection hour we love to see it

FIDDLE FADDLE

EVIL CAPITALIST JANE YOU PIECE OF SHIT

Terezi don't stop he fucking deserves it goddamn it

Oh Jesus fuck

Gamzee leave her alone oh God oh shit oh fuck oh shit oh

Demon Gamzee is so scary wtf

TEREZIIII

Oh God the condesce is here

Everything's gone to shit

DAMMIT CALIBORN

I just unlocked something called tales from paradox space I think it's time for a break

Oh my goodness these paradox space comics are adorable

John spending quality time with his dad is gonna make me cry

Oh boy Caliborn looked at the manga book apparently

Oh gosh he god tiered

Krabkrab. Honk friend. Cape douche.

Oh my god he made a deviantart

OH MY FUCKING GOD ITS AN ACTUAL PAGE

Thanks, manga! 👍

SHE IS NO DOUBT HOPING FOR... *MUCHAS SMOOCHES*

I'm gonna cry caliborn's art self jerk is so funny

HIS SELF INSERTION GUY

"MY'LADY"

Oh hey, John. Nice to see ya

Oh shit he's mad oh fuck

GAME OVER?

BAHAHAHAHA

OH FUCK MURDER IS HAPPENING

KARKAT NOOO

NO NO NO NO NO NO NOT MY BOY GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

YES KANAYA KILL HIM

NOT DAVE TOO

TEREZIIII

EVERYBODY I CARE ABOUT IS DEAD EXCEPT FOR ROSE AND ROXY AND JOHN

AND MAYBE THE DIRK THATS STILL FLYING IN AT THE EDGE OF THE GODDAMN UNIVERSE

WAAAAAAAAA

FUCK

FUCK YOU ARANEA THIS IS YOUR FAULT

(Little Misfortune voice) Yikes forever

CALIBORN GO AWAY

Screaming

ZILLYLOOT! HONK WHEE TOOT BOING ITS A KICKSTARTER PARODY WHEEEEEEEEEEE

Oh my god caliborn already made a cryptocurrency

All my favorite blorbos are dead how is there supposed to be another entire act of this unless the condesce either brings Jane to life with the ring so she can resurrect people or this is a doomed timeline

Or maybe John can figure out his dumb anti-canon bullshit and fix everything

Hi John:(

Hi Dirk :(

Hi Rose and Roxy :(

NO GODDAMIT ROSE IS DEAD TOO

They're dropping like flies

No fuck off terezi you were so dead back there don't you dare

JADE MADE HER TROLLSONA 🥺🥺

The denizens oh my god John start moving right the fuck now

I have so many tumblr notifications right now and I swear if it's all of you people vaguely giggling in the comments about me approaching the part where everyone dies for real this time I'll lose it /aff

"There's no place like home." John you cheesy motherfucker

Okay so this is not the alpha Jade

Or, judging by adult calliope's story and how John died, it might be the new real Jade?

PISS ASS FUCKING THE OIL BITCH ASS MOTHERFUCK SHIT FUCK AAAAAAA

Hussie you motherfucker you've either been playing the long game from the very beginning or you went back and edited the pages later

WE GET TO HEAR JOHN PLAY MUSIC AGAIN YESSSS

The fireflies 🥹

Oh gosh it's another game

I guess I have to stop here for now aaaaaaaaaa

Day 19 of reading homestuck wow

Oh yay! Roxy got to build her fort! I mean yeah she's still in jail and all that, but fort!

Roxy you boy crazy bitch

John you are exclaiming about the magic ring WAY too loudly

STFU CALIBORN YOUR CURTSINS ARE UGLY

Act 6 act 6 act 2 this is getting egregious

Hi John!! Welcome to scribble hell!

"Respectfully plagiarized"

LOSHIT

FLY, SHIT BISCUIT! FLY!!!

Smut blade? Really??

Me too, John. Me too

I love John so much he's such a little guy

YEAH JOHN TELL HIM

I need to chill before this turns into me just posting frames from the story agsjhdhjs

Okay but this one is really good

Caliborn's ugly ass curtains don't even close 😭

FUCK OFF GAMZEE

FUCK OFF GAMZEE X2 WHY DOES THIS MOTHERFUCKER HAVE THE RING

Aranea?! I swear to fuck you better not turn out to be evil

GODDAMMIT ARANEA THIS MIGHT EVEN BE WORSE THAN BEING EVIL

Aranea this is a really dumb plan

NO NOT THE HUMMINGBIRDS

HEY ARANEA THIS KID IS STILL 16 QUIT GRABBING HIM LIKE THAT

ARANEA THIS IS NOT CONSENSUAL HEALING FUCKING STOP AAAA

Hell yeah Roxy shazam yourself outta there

Aw fuck Jake is going nuclear

Oh my god

GAD ZOOKS

BOY HOWDY

HOLY TOLEDO

LAND SAKES ALIVE

HELLO NURSE

BY GUM

AY CHIHUAHUA

Oh my gosh Dave has a puppet butt watch

BOBS YOUR UNCLE

JUMPIN JEHOSAPHAT

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

WIN

ONE

FOR

THE GIPPER

Aranea what are you doing

ARANEA STOP

JADE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FUCK YOU AND YOUR STUPID WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST UNDER THE HOUSE IMAGERY

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Aranea you are so fucking awful

Everything was gonna be fine but nooooo

I am Brain Ghost Dirk.

You kissed my boyfriend.

Prepare to die.

SHUCKY DARN

TEREZI WOOOO

OH FUCK JACK IS HERE

Poor Jade and Calliope waaaaaaa

Jade is making a trollsona 🥺

[viviantimmet]

AU where grimdark!rose is revived by the horrorterrors while dream!rose is going on her suicide mission and now there is two of them. And also there is one full friendgroup on the battleship.

They just replace all the missing organs and blood with void.

They can't seal the skin though, which is fine because people remaining alive with a hole through their abdomen is kinda a motif in homestuck.

This void happens to be a superposition of the Furthest Ring, just like the kings's scepters are Skaia.

Grimrose is unconscious for all of Jade's part of Cascade, and then sometime after she wakes, circumstantially simultaneously with dream!rose going god tier

One of her eyes gets replaced with the Green Sun.

(because it would be cool, fuck you)

Featuring:

Everybody learning sign language because Grimrose still can't speak normally.

(this is because she doesn't actually have vocal chords. Its all void in there. She screamed them out when she first went grimdark.)

Davesprite having friends.

Everybody assuming other Dave is dead, and not knowing there's another Rose, so they're very surprised when they get to the alpha session.

I can't think of anything else because it has been forever since I read act 6 last. Maybe I'll extend this once I get there.

(did John and Jade know Rose and Dave were going on a suicide mission? I do not remember.)

[asukaskerian]

Fanfic ask game: B, C or F?

B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?

not... really? i'm trying to remember whether i took anything from RL and only coming up with "this reddit post would make a hilarious fic" and then the fic is like, not even that much like it. XD;;;

C: What character do you identify with most?

atm, none. i used to vibe with karkat and dave because they're awkward nerds but in the old person naruto fandom there isn't much of that.

F: Share a snippet from one of your favourite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Bleach, Oxytocin: this whole scene basically but XD

--

"Oh," the girl said in a strangely shivery, way too stunned voice. "You want to eat Kurosaki-kun after he dies so you can keep him." Which, honestly, was so fucking stupid it made him lift his head again, despite how much he really didn't want to.

"Why the fuck else?" he asked in the middle of two or three gasping bullshit interruptions, staring at her in bafflement. She had a dainty little hand across her mouth and was staring right back. "Ain't like I can still starve to death." A slow, thoughtful blink. "Or regress to gillian. Think I'd still prefer starving to death."

"Wait, wait, what the fuck. Keep me? What?"

"Keep your soul, Kurosaki-san," the guy with the hat at the opposite end of the room said all slow and unctuous; reminded him of Aizen pretending he didn't think everyone around him was a pitiful moron. Which... Kurosaki and the girl and the big one seemed to like him alright, but... Hrrm. "Rather than allow it to go through the cycle of reincarnation and rebirth."

"He'd forget everything," Grimmjow retorted, lip curling up, as he glared him down. "I'd have to hunt his ass down an' sharpen him all over again and he'd have none of the half-hollow fuckery he does now. Take even longer."

"Aaah. Whereas, if he's a dead, dormant soul in your keeping, he can... slumber on uselessly...?"

Well. Said like that it sounded a bit like... Not quite sound reasoning.

"He can reincarnate when I do," Grimmjow grumbled in disgust. "Along with the fucking rest of them."

0000"Oh my god," Kurosaki mumbled, and Priss of all people patted his shoulder for some reason.

"Well, that was very serial killer romantic," Priss said dryly. Grimmjow absently felt for something on the table to throw, ended up chucking a coaster. It hit the big guy instead, right in the middle of his chest.

"... My bad. Throw it at the priss."

"Hey," the priss protested prissily. Big guy blinked slowly and obligingly lobbed it overhand at Priss, who batted it away with a scowl.

Grimmjow flashed the big guy a quick grin. He could tell he'd been humored, but he'd been kind of joking in the first place, so. "Good 'nuff."

--

i love it because that's where the normal humans figure out exactly how alien grimmjow's whole way of thinking is, BUT, he doesn't mean it as disrespect. he likes ichigo! he thinks he's cool! that's exactly why he's gonna eat him. this is a pretty important scene in that it starts the karakura kids thinking more about understanding hollows and grimmjow in particular and being kinda forced to think about exactly what they go through more in depth.

it was so much fun to write it from the inside and let everybody's reactions be guessed more than explained clearly (because we're not cannibals and don't need it, but still, fun.) orihime comes up with a weirdass explanation and grimmjow is immediately "you're fucking stupid" and then next paragraph follows up with "of COURSE that's why, why is that even a question".

also the serial killer romantic line, that was great, okay.