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hms-tardimpala · 2 years ago
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Jade Legacy liveblog pt 8 (last one):
"Hilo was surprised the relationship between Jeruya and Anden had lasted so long" you and me both, bro
What goes around comes around Santos, you fuck. At least Niko wasn't traumatized for nothing.
Go, Shae, destroy that fucking sale!
Oh my god, the mountain clan is disavowing its own pillar! Time's up, Ayt Madashi.
Fuck, the satisfaction of two and a half decades of plotting and criminal enterprising unfolding before the reader is something else. NONE OF THIS WAS IN VAIN. FONDA LEE IS A GODDESS.
AYT MADASHI STEPPED DOWN AS PILLAR!!
But...there are two hours left in the book...
Ayt Mada unkillable, what's new?
FUCK
What a fucking badass scene. Hilo is dying just too soon, he will have known only war!
Come on, Anden, be a doctor!
I can't contain my emotions. I'm painting stuff on the terrace with the audiobook in my ears and I'm crying in the sun.
I can't even liveblog this, it's too good and too precious.
Oh, shit this has been an experience.
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lucreziaces · 5 years ago
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Oh....oh that makes much more sense. He lied about be hunted every day. 
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harlivies · 5 years ago
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omg jade got her humanity back NO ONE TOUCH ME
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ellcrys · 2 years ago
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keplercryptids · 3 years ago
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should i liveblog my experience reading jade legacy or should i be normal about it
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wardencommanderrodimiss · 4 years ago
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God I feel bad for Ike. With all these changing alliances and the fact that his friend today could be trying to kill him tomorrow. I sense AU potential where he snaps and ironically Soren is the one who has to help him regain his faith in the world.
With the way circumstances are in the game, I think the only thing that’s kept Ike from descending into jaded bitterness is the fact that he’s not prone to...god I had the words I wanted last night. He’s a very action-oriented person - very hands-on when a problem arises, rather than deeply pondering it. He’ll get together a plan and a solution and go enact it.
But everything keeps piling up - which there’s way more to it than a few friends on the opposite side - and plenty of time in which I’m genuinely interested to see whether or not they go toward the arc of pushing him till he breaks. That would be interesting to see!
There’s already one very interesting Ike possible character moment that we’ve already moved past - so there was nearly the civil war in Crimea, with the nobility resenting Elincia for 1. promoting a common mercenary to a lord, 2. strengthening ties with Gallia, one of the laguz nations, and 3. acknowledging Daein’s new king. One of the dukes tries to ferment a rebellion, focusing on #3 as Elincia “kowtowing” to Daein. One of the chapters in Part 2 has two of Ike’s old friends kicking some shit-stirrers out of their little farming village and telling all the hotheaded farming youths that war isn’t fun and that they shouldn’t go this route. But there’s one of the Duke’s commanders who’s, in his shit-stirring, invoking Ike’s name in rallying people to fight for Crimea....against Elincia, the queen that Ike instilled.
Anyway once the duke is captured and his forces scattered, Ike asks Elincia if she wants to hire him to help shut down and round up the rest of the rebel army. She says no, that the Royal Knights are the ones for the job, and Ike heads off to Gallia and is hired by Ranulf to fight in their war against Begnion.
But there’d be a very interesting arc for Ike if Elincia did accept his help in wrangling the remainder of the Duke’s forces. There’s people who are invoking his name to ruin the peace and the queen that he fought for. And Ike might be a mercenary, but he takes jobs according to his conscience, as well - like, if the Duke had tried to hire him to go against Elincia, I’m sure Ike would kick his ass and then go tell Elincia all of it. So I think it’d be interesting for Ike to have to confont the fact that he has a legacy and a name now, and people will take it and twist it to serve their own agendas. Like fuck dude Ike just wants to fight people for money. He’s still a mercenary at heart at the end of this, but now he’s also this symbol that other people can invoke in ways that Ike would never approve of.
[This turned into a plot recap of why what’s canonically going on is even more massively awful, but here you go. Now everyone can get up to speed with the plot, because I know I’ve been glossing a lot of the plot in this liveblog.]
Instead of that, he heads off to Gallia, where they (along with the nations of Phoenicis led by Tibarn, Serenes which is literally four people because the rest were killed 20 years prior, and Kilvas led by Naesala who promptly betrays their alliance for reasons we don’t yet know) have declared war on Begnion. The people of Serenes were massacred by the people of Begnion, in retaliation for Serenes being framed for their Empress’ assassination. Last game, it was concluded that Ashnard was behind the assassination. This game, we found out that Begnion’s senate had their own Empress assassinated and blamed Serenes for it. Naturally, the remaining royal family of Serenes (five of them survived the massacre; Lallia was taken prisoner by Ashnard and died in captivity in Daein; Rafiel escaped but was presumed dead and only just popped up again; Leanne was hidden in a magic coma in the scorched forest of Serenes for 20 years; and Reyson and their father were sheltered in Phoenicis and then went to stay in Gallia for a while) are like “hey what the fuck”, and they’re closely allied and friends with both Phoenicis and Gallia, who also go “hey what the fuck”, and Naesala’s main inclination towards selfless actions is when he has his arm twisted by anyone in regards to Reyson and Leanne, so he goes “hey what the fuck.” They send an envoy to Begnion to ask “hey what the fuck”; Begnion’s senate murders the envoy.
So they respond “fuck it, we’re going to war with you fuckers” and that’s what Ike signs onto. Like, Begnion is objectively in the wrong here; the Empress doesn’t want to fight, but the Senate is overruling her and wants all of the Laguz Alliance massacred. Ike has a strong sense of justice and he’s good friends with a lot of the laguz - he has supports with two cats and a heron last game - when a lot of other humans hate them. Ike hears all this, goes “hey what the fuck” and takes a contract with Gallia to fight for them. Because it’s the right and just thing to do.
And that “right thing to do” keeps going wrong and wrong, as Zelgius smacks down Gallia’s impulsive general and forces them into a retreat. He offers them a chance for a peace treaty, which they have no choice but to make, but before they can, the Senate basically deposes the Empress and orders Zelgius and the rest of the army to start the fighting back up and kill all their enemies. Begnion’s Senate just puts themselves more and more into the most morally abhorrent positions that they can. But they’re winning.
Then they call on Daein to help them kill all the laguz, and Daein’s dumbass king who’s definitely being manipulated by someone agrees to help, and Daein’s naive and idealistic top general believes that the king has to have some good reason for the sake of their country, and that’s where Ike’s last few old friends are. With Daein’s manipulated king and general, fighting on the side of abjectly the worst people in Tellius: the Begnion Senate.
Like, for sure if I were Ike I would be having a crisis about all this. He fought so hard to restore peace in Crimea and put Elincia on the throne and then the country very nearly split in civil war. He pushed hard for humans to accept the laguz as equals and now two of the three human countries are united in war against them, with the intent to slaughter them, as half of Phoenicis (all of the men of fighting age) were slaughtered. The Black Knight who murdered his father is still alive somehow. He’s got friends in the army in Daein - the army in Daein that is now with Begnion against the laguz. The Begnion Empress who he knows is a reasonable person has been quietly deposed. Everything sucks. 
And there’s still plenty of chapters left for it all to get worse before it gets better! Honestly if Ike does have a genuine breakdown that would be more than understandable and fitting. This entire ordeal is a crock of hot shit and keeps getting worse.
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nora-reads-homestuck · 8 years ago
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Nora Reads HS Part 68
Pages 6154-6184
Hey guys! Some quick background on why I’ve been a little scarce: I’ve mentioned a personal project that’s been eating into my free time, and that is... dun dun dun, a custom 5e D&D campaign I’m running IRL! The campaign is just starting, so I’m in the phase where I’m planning out a lot of details and building locations, etc. What that means is that sometimes I’ll need to take little breaks from liveblogging to work on the game, and other times, I’ll put D&D to the side to focus on liveblogging! I haven’t disappeared or anything like that, and once the campaign really gets going, my need to take short breaks should ease off. No need to worry! I am here and ready to find out what’s up with this robot bunny that young Bro has built Jane. *Seinfeld music* Does the auto responder have a connection to it the way he has a connection to the brobot? Does it fight with Jane? Is it... touchy feely?
Let’s... find out. Eurgh.
*click*
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Poor poppop's severed head got nicked by the FIREPLACE POKER.
OH SHIT. I’m so accustomed to seeing damaged eyes that it didn’t really register the first time I looked at this panel. Is this Hussie teasing us with the idea of a Poppopsprite? Because I would be PERFECTLY OK with that eventuality. Circumstantial simultaneity.
Also, damn, check out all those Astaires.
Jane: Put head back.
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You stick the poker down his neck hole and jam the head back on the spike as a temporary measure. That looks somewhat more respectable you guess.
THE PERFECT CRIME.
Looks like the troublemaker's father is calling.
That choice of language is weird and it’s skeeving me out. I DUN LIKE IT. On the other hand, yay, more kidchat! Or... robokid chat?
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KID SIGHTING. And... well, he looks exactly as expected. He appears to be standing on the roof of his building, surrounded by... fucking... are those doves?
TT: Why have you activated dear, sweet Huggy Bear. TT: Are you in danger?
...I... it’s gotta be Snoop Dogg Huggy Bear, right?
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TT: I disabled the AR for now. GG: Ok. Just making sure! GG: Jake was having some issues with it earlier, and I don't think he received its obfuscating tendencies in the humorous spirit intended. TT: Yes, I'm catching up with the situation now. GG: Oh, so you're talking to Jake then? TT: Nah. Just reading their chat logs.
Why does this seem weird and intrusive if the ‘AR’ is basically fucking him? (Haa haa.)
TT: Its demeanor leaves something desired though. I'd prefer it didn't make such aggressive and repeated claims of fidelity to my persona. TT: Be misrepresentin' hells of key subtleties, yo.
‘Subtleties’. Sure.
TT: Jake needs to be more skeptical. Rather than take a Pollyanna jackknife ass-first off whatever turnip truck is blowing through town that day, he's got to apply more critical reasoning to shit. TT: I keep telling him. TT: I keep telling him, dude, you got to be more like Jane. GG: These lectures I presume are roughly similar in complexion to those I'm familiar with? GG: Those wherein I have, and I quote, "got to be more like Jake?" TT: Yes, exactly. TT: You're finally fucking getting it. GG: I sincerely doubt that I am! TT: Said the stubborn skeptic, skeptically. GG: Let's not talk about my "issues" again, shalln't we?
Alright then. Young Bro is apparently trope savvy, so let’s see what tropes we can apply to him, so far. A: a fair few.
TT: Shalln't? TT: That ain't a thing to say, even for you. GG: Shush! GG: The word shalln't escape my vocabulary any longer, just as you SHALLN'T nitpick my language! That's my turf you're on, buster. TT: Alright. Kinda don't care.
WOW, what a jackass.
GG: What were you saying? TT: About what? Jake?
Careful, Strider, your crush is showing.
GG: About leaving the responder on! TT: Yeah. TT: Anyway, I kind of owe it to him to let the program run as often as possible. GG: Jake? TT: No. TT: The responder.
AHAHAHAHA. Yeah, this is going to get mined for drama later, isn’t it? Normally I’d be fucking allergic to the idea of a teen love n-gon, having experienced enough of them in YA fiction to make me sick, but then, this is Hussie. It’ll be amusing if nothing else.
(IF LITTLELONDE IS THE ONE TO END UP WITH JAKE I WILL SHIT. I might actually ship it??)
TT: It is a fully cognitive, self-aware entity I am responsible for, not even to mention an approximate cerebral duplicate of myself. TT: You don't just make a clone of yourself to live in a dead end existence where it has no chance to thrive as an individual or surpass its limitations. TT: That'd be sick.
That’s a charitable view to have toward an AI, and I’m going to remember this moment in case he reneges on his words later.
TT: Also. TT: The more the software runs, the broader and more detailed its experiential canopy becomes. Makes for a better dialogic partner. GG: Dialogic? GG: Are you saying you have conversations with your own auto-responder? TT: Of course. TT: Why do you think I made the thing? GG: Hrm, that's interesting. GG: I guess I always thought it was just a really elaborate gag! TT: It's that too.
Let me guess; the gag lies in the enormity of the narcissism involved in valuing yourself as the best possible dialogic partner, and is somehow tied up in ‘the ironies’.
God, what an insufferable prick. I think I would like him better if he were charming. Rose, for example, can get away with quite a lot by virtue of her rapier wit. What’s interesting to me, though, is that the most intelligent character in any work of fiction can only be as intelligent as the author. Rose and Doc Scratch were conduits for Hussie to show off his sense of humor and sesquipedalian loquaciousness, but Bro might be his chance to show off his raw intellect.
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OH MY GOD JANE, YOU LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT. <3 And what the hell is the rabbit doing?
GG: Sometimes your sense of humor seems more impenetrably advanced than your robotics. I'll never understand this tapestry of irony you weave.
Replace ‘honor’ with ‘irony’.
GG: Maybe I'm just stuck in the dark ages of pranksterism with my funny mustaches corny old joke book. TT: Yes, you are. But that's fine. TT: We come from different traditions. Someone needs to keep that racist southern asshole's legacy alive.
WOW SUCK MY DICK. How can you even be mean to Jane.
TT: There's dignity in taking up the work of our familial predecessors, even if what they did was insanely fucking stupid.
So... adult!Dave is still all about irony post-Scratch, and Bro claims to have gotten his shtick from him, instead of the other way around, but... he thinks Dave’s work was stupid?? This is infuriatingly circular.
GG: Is that a note of bitterness directed at your superstar brother I am detecting?
I AM SO HERE FOR FAMOUS DAVE, YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW.
TT: No way. He's awesome. TT: I've told you, I don't begrudge any of his success. TT: I've also told you he isn't my real bro even though I call him that. We're related through an esoteric process of genetic reamalgamation. GG: Oh lordy. Yes, yes, I know. I don't need another ironic lesson in science fiction!
Wow, yet another Sburb process the post-Scratch kids are inexplicably aware of. Does Bro know the actual nature of their relationship? Because that’s got to be weird and squicky in a Freaky Friday parent-kidswap kind of way. Maybe... Did Dave tell him all this stuff about the game, and Rose told LittleLonde, and that’s why Jane is still in the dark? Because Dad wasn’t a player???
IT ALL MAKES SENSE! :D
If Dave and Rose remember the game and their other lives, that would explain the continued existence of SBaHJ without adult!Bro’s awful comics to inspire him! And maybe they were the ones to encourage this troll friendship the Scratch kids have got going on! It would seem to run counter to the previous example we have in the troll ancestors, who didn’t recall game details after their Scratch, but it’s not exactly a game-breaking retcon to have the humans remember.
I still wonder why Jade would make all that Lord English-themed stuff, if she knew he was an evil motherfucker, but ah well. At least we know why she was so adamant about engaging “”Betty Crocker”” in corporate warfare!
TT: The point is, obviously his satirical methods have flaws, and whatever tempered brand of hero worship I might be practicing isn't keeping me from seeing that.
WHATEVER, HE LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU.
...LITERALLY.
GG: Flaws?? Talk about understatement. Those movies are unwatchable. GG: Unless your name is Jake English.
AHAHAHA.
TT: Yes, spectacularly so. But they will have profound historical significance. Mark my words.
Consider them marked. And knowing Hussie, it’ll be played for drama just as much as laughs.
TT: And flaws aside, it's a legacy I'm proud to inherit. My duty isn't to appropriate his methods with absolute loyalty, but to apply reason and improve upon them. To leave my own mark. TT: To perfect the art of irony.
UGH. Improve upon his methods by “”applying reason”’, as if, had Dave only been just a little bit smarter, just a bit more logical, he’d have told better jokes?? Bro’s one of those “let me play devil’s advocate, if I may” douchebags, isn’t he. He should’ve had a fedora on his shirt.
...OH MY GOD HE HAS THE KATANA TOO, IT’S PERFECT.
TT: It's just like what you're doing with the work of your ancestor. You are striving to perfect his hokey vaudeville bullshit, or something. TT: You seek the Zen of a pie to the face. The Tao of falling the fuck down.
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Alright, that one’s actually funny.
TT: Can't fool me. You take your shit as serious as I do. TT: And if I wasn't serious about it, I wouldn't have made you that rabbit. Then where the hell would you be?
Still literally homestuck, if with an intact grandfather-son. But you don’t gotta be a fuckin’ prick about it.
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Whoa, they’re not doves, they’re seagulls! Not unheard of, that close to Galveston. Also, the sky is lovely and blue. I would expect the post-Scratch Earth to be more of a crapsack world, a la post-Scratch Alternia, so this is interesting. Maybe it’s just because it’s Fall?
GG: Well, aside from thousands of dollars in corpse-repair richer, I can't say.
Ahahaha. Fuckin’ tell ‘im, Jane.
TT: Has he been sleeping in the old man hollow again? Shit, that's adorable. GG: I can think of cuter places for him to sleep, frankly! TT: Yeah, bullshit. TT: He's just being instinctive. In the wild, he would gut a carcass and sleep inside for warmth, as well as to secure tactical advantage for ambushing would-be scavengers. GG: Oh, please.
UGHH I AM QUICKLY APPROACHING MY LIMIT FOR DOUCHERY.
On a side node, what is the internal temperature of a tauntaun?
(What do you mean, an African or a European tauntaun?)
GG: Anyway, property damage and desecration to cherished elders aside, Mr. Bear has been a lovely addition to the family. TT: You haven't renamed him yet? GG: Oh... no. GG: I keep forgetting I'm supposed to! TT: You've got to fucking rename him. Or change him to a girl if you want. That was important. TT: When pets change owners they get new names. Fact. GG: Sorry.
Ok not only is that patently untrue, but I swear to god if this asshat keeps being rude to Jane, I will TURN THIS FUCKING COMIC AROUND.
GG: I will name him right now! GG: How about Lil' Sebastian? TT: Fuck if that isn't the best name a thing could get. GG: Yeah!!!
HALF MAST IS TOO HIGH.
GG: So then, are you saying Mr. Sebastian here was an ironic present? GG: Relayed strictly for guffaws?? >:B TT: Yes, but it's not that simple. There were many layers involved. TT: Some of them are literal layers, of metal and plush. GG: Huh? TT: There's a real stuffed rabbit beneath its exoskeleton. GG: What! Really? :O TT: Yeah. TT: It belonged to my bro. GG: I thought you said you didn't have such an heirloom to complete the plushie trifecta? TT: I didn't. He didn't give it to me, and never intended to bequeath it. TT: I stole it.
Huh. So, like Dave’s gift to John in the pre-Scratch universe is the “original” bunny, having at that point taken no trips through time, so the bunny inside Lil’ Sebastian is the post-Scratch universe’s original. Why did adult!Dave have it in his possession? He didn’t give it... to... 
Oh. Con Air came out in 1997, and John died in 1995. So he bought it and kept it as a keepsake, in memory of his departed friend, only to have Bro steal it. For a good cause, yeah, but still. :’(
GG: Ooh. Risky! TT: Nah. I got a little help from RL and ganked it out of his museum. TT: It's this whole "priceless" collection of stupid shit from movies, defended like Fort Knox. Ironically of course.
PROBABLY NOT IRONICALLY, YOU JACKANAPES.
GG: So it's from a movie? TT: Ever hear of Con Air? GG: Nope. GG: Wait... GG: Wasn't that some bit of action schlock from the 90's? TT: Yes. GG: Some of the silly nonsense referenced in his work was well before my time. I don't have the wherewithal to investigate all this minutia. TT: Yeah, it doesn't matter really. But it was from that. Dude weirdly obsessed over that shit movie for years, among others.
Awww, noooo, he's sad about John!! D:
GG: That does sound a tad obsessive. Wasn't he furious about your burglary? TT: Pretty sure he didn't even notice. In years since, I never saw a news story about a "daring heist" or anything. I feel like he would have made some hay outta that. TT: And if he did know, he'd probably just want to give me a stoic fist bump or something. 
Maybe, but probably not for the reason you think.
TT: Like I said, there are layers. TT: On one level, I gave you a filthy tattered piece of shit, albeit of tremendous cultural significance, manhandled by some old B movie actors, now candy coated to function as a highly practical defender droid for your personal protection. TT: On another level, I needed to incorporate something passable as a real heirloom. TT: For sentimental reasons. GG: D'awwwww. GG: Wait, real sentiment, or ironic sentiment? GG: Or is there no difference?? Am I missing the point here? TT: No, it was genuine.
So he’s not completely without a heart, even if it is, to quote him directly, a filthy tattered piece of shit.
TT: The upper echelons of irony should always include measures of sincerity. And if the satirical practice is executed faithfully it will achieve something bona fide in its own right regardless. TT: Through an intense commitment bordering on religious devotion to the absolutely inane, absurd, or plain fucking stupid, a very different kind of sincerity begins to materialize. One of reverence to the ridiculous. You begin to "mean it," but what exactly it is you mean is never quite what appears on the surface, and is utterly inaccessible to obtuse and literal minds. That you "mean it" then becomes inseparable from the joke, and additional rich strata of humor may be stripped aggressively from this irreconcilable truth.
I’m torn. On the one hand, I want to reach through my monitor and punch this kid in the face. On the other, even I can recognize that this is basically Andrew Hussie sock-puppeting his own ironic ideals. It’s just somehow more insufferable when Bro says it.
GG: I have so much to learn. And I am not even saying that "ironically!" GG: Will you teach me your ways one day, sir? Perhaps an apprenticeship will open? TT: Oh god, I'd love that. TT: Consider the position yours for the taking any time. Feel free to approach and kneel before Cal. With my sword and his floppy mitten, you will receive my flashstep anointment shoulder to shoulder, and to shoulder again.
UUUGHHHH. His head’s stuck up his own ass, but at the very least, he does seem to be sincere about enjoying teaching people things.
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JESUS RABBIT, WHAT ARE YOU DOING. If it’s really got a mind of its own, then it’s like a hyper-competent dog with a sword. If you don’t walk it or play with it enough, it starts destroying things. LIKE SOMEONE I KNOW. *stares down the dog*
GG: Lil' Seb is beginning to act out, and I must put his fidgetiness to constructive use!
‘Fidgitiness’, that’s putting it politely.
TT: Cool. TT: Jane, one more thing. TT: I'm sure you must be aware by now that you'll be the leader of our group, as you will be the first to enter the session. GG: Um, no? GG: This is news to me. I never gathered that "team leader" was a thing for this game. TT: Trust me. It's a thing.
Hmm. Frankly, it’s a little surprising to me that Bro would both know about the leader position, and willingly give it up. He seems like the kind of person who would want to be calling the shots, if for no other reason that he’s SOOO SMAAAART.
GG: Are you sure? I have my doubts. GG: I believe as a group we will have the temerity to succeed, without my having to order people around like an insufferable bossypants. TT: That's why you're our leader, Jane. GG: Hm? TT: Optimism through stalwart skepticism is an affect not everyone is plucky enough to be graced with. GG: That's stupid! TT: Yeah yeah. I know. TT: You're not our leader, you're our FRIEND, right? GG: Precisely! GG: There is a BIG difference! TT: And statements like that are also why you're our leader.
Whoa, whoa. So like... Bro and LittleLonde have certainly been privy to a lot of things they have no business knowing, which I’m still assuming was imparted to them by their troll friend or by Dave and Rose. But either that’s just an extremely coincidental call back to that exact conversation between Rose and John, or... Or I don’t know. It’s probably just him knowing her really well, and her being a lot like John and Bro being a lot like Rose. B...Brose?
TT: But only in name and in spirit. Less so, functionally. TT: If it puts your mind at ease, I'll be the one pulling the strings here.
Oh. Oh, wow. Never mind. You know what? I hope it all backfires spectacularly, so that the pre-Scratch kids can swoop in and save the day, while Bro looks on in stupefied wonder.
They wait, bitches.
GG: Oh yes? GG: Then this whole affair will be one of D. Strider's grand productions in puppetry?
Alright, so his name starts with D. Not all that many 4-letter male D names. Dean, Doug, Drew (ahaha), Dale, Dane, Dirk, Dion, Dann, Dill... Dick...
Also, ‘grand productions in puppetry’ makes me want to punch (and judy) something.
TT: I will be the unseen hand whose nimble digits are behind every subtle twitch in our session's bulbous foam ass. TT: At least those gyrations not happening by the volition of its own quivering absorbant proboscis. TT: If you ever need help, Jane. If you're ever in any trouble at all, let me know. Just say the word. TT: I'll whip the toggle stick of this ludicrous marionette, cavorting its humongous bottom to intercept your freefall through the abyss.
Well, that’s... sweet? I guess he’s saying he’s got good intentions, but still, I can see this (and am sort of rooting for it) to backfire horribly.
TT: Snowcone you up in the fluffy crook of its cleft. Don't be alarmed if you're in no hurry to unpry yourself. TT: For the great jut of this impudent rump has more yield to your touch than you ever dreamt. Remember to catch your breath as it cherishes the imprint of your hand like a memento from a lover gone to war. TT: There's a lot of give to that ass, you may say. TT: Might like to settle in. Make myself comfortable. Start a family. TT: Bounce a coin off that ass, you'll demand of visitors. It's not going anywhere. TT: Bet that coin'll take a good nap there. TT: It's a gamble you win every goddamn time. TT: Yeah.
I hate to use the same gif twice in one post, but...
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GG: These lessons we talked about... GG: They've already begun, haven't they? :o TT: Jane, soon you'll believe what I've told you. TT: You'll believe it all. TT: It's just a shame that believing will take something so coarse as seeing, for a girl as sharp as you.
How biblical. What all exactly is he talking about? Game stuff? Betty Crocker stuff?
TT: Critical thought can lead one to accept the unlikely, just as much as dismiss the impossible. TT: I can help with this too. Would you like me to program a Jane Crocker responder for you? TT: I only require a simple captcha of your brain.
Alright, Doctor Fuckin’ Jekyll; let me just get right on that.
Wait, doesn’t DAVE have a captcha of his own brain? ...Oh no. Also, that means the auto responder isn’t n% indistinguishable from Bro just because it was programmed to be; it’s literally a copy of his brain. That’s kind of disturbing.
GG: Holy moly! GG: Um, thank you, but no. GG: I'm not ready to get dialogic with my cyberself just yet. My friends keep me busy enough as it is.
YES, JANE, THIS IS A GOOD ATTITUDE TO HAVE. KEEP IT UP.
GG: Speaking of which, I really need to go. I know you love to talk my ear off, and it's always a treat,
Pahahahaha.
but let's catch up later after the game starts, ok? GG: And if I do need your help, I promise I'll take you up on your offer! TT: I made several. Which one? GG: The one where you, hopefully not literally, offered to catch me in the crevice of a great big squishy butt! Hoo hoo hoo!
I fucking love this kid. She’s a little more assertive than John so far, though she’s also less mean-spirited. What will it be like when they meet? Can’t wait to find out! :D
Jane: Command Sebastian to lift fridge.
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You order dear, sweet Lil' Sebastian to put his fidgetiness to constructive use. He is eager to assist, and lifts the appliance with ease.
Y’know, I was about to say something like, ‘how the hell is that tiny little robot supposed to lift the’ but then he did it. Welp. that certainly makes for a convenient escape route! After all this trouble Dad went through to keep Jane inside, she’s not going to get, like... sniped or something, is she?
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He finds a note taped underneath the fridge. It seems to be addressed to you.
UGH I want to hate this bunny because Bro made it, but it is SO CUTE.
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Fat chance, dad. This bird's gotta fly!!!
Jane, come ON, you’re courting danger now.
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Never would have seen that one coming. (Jane, I’m about to throw a fridge through your wall.)
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I like to imagine that the water pressure from the hose was at blasting power just before this panel, and drooped along with Dad’s confusion.
Jane: Throw down your hat in disgust.
Here it comes...
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Wait for it...
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You've been climbing your echeladder very gradually for various minor accomplishments here and there since you were 13. That was such a sweet textbook HAT POF, it earned you just enough to clear the next rung, FEDORAFLEDGLING. Nice going!
Huh, now this is a more interesting panel than you might think. First off, the mostly irrelevant details: Jane’s hat has what looks like a flag or a tag on it, instead of a feather, and her boondollar total is inching closer to 111,111,111 (damn, she’s rich). Now for the real meaty stuff.
The lowest level we can see on the echeladder, which, since the scrollbar is at the bottom, we can pretty safely assume to be the actual lowest level, is ‘Baby Ectobotananna’. This one took me a second to figure out, but then I realize it’s a combination of John’s ‘ectoBiologist’ and Jade’s ‘gardenGnostic’ via ‘botany’, and then ‘Nanna’.
Batterlass represents the obvious; she’s the heir to BCCorp, next in line after the Batterwitch.
‘Overbite Restart’, ha ha. John had ‘Overbite Upstart’.
‘Snorkbait Sporkplu’g, I have no idea, other than that it’s a call back to John’s ‘Sharkbait Sparkplug’.
‘Bespectacled Skeptic’ reflects what Bro was telling her, that she’s gotta believe more.
‘Haberdasher’s Daughter’, because Dad and hats.
‘Britches Healer’ connects back to the earlier rung ‘Britches Ripper’, and is either a reference to her being the Maid of Life, or else she just sews things a lot?
‘Sodajerk’s Confidante’ took a little digging, but it seems to be a Problem Sleuth reference.
‘Maid in the Shade’... this one’s interesting. It’s already lit up like she’s achieved the rung, and I wonder what prompted it. My first thought just looking at the name of it would be that she’d have to visit the Land of Wind and Shade, but obviously that has not happened. ...Unless she mysteriously achieved the rung shortly after her 13th birthday, when Nannasprite “”concurrently”” appeared in LOWAS.
‘Mourning Starlet’ is also a mystery. I get the pun, but who or what was she mourning? Her freedom? Poppop was long since dead, and her Dad is still alive.
The next rung up from the current ‘FedoraFledgling’ is ‘Heiress Sans Parent’ (a reference to John’s ‘Heir Transparent’), and if that isn’t leading, then... then... THEN I’LL THROW DOWN MY HAT! *levels up* Sadly, it looks like this Dad’s going to bite it too. T_T
And that’s all I’ve got for now!
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The well traveled HAT shares in your glorious spoils. The battle-hardened accessory reaches dizzying new heights, leapfrogging from the DOUCHEBAG'S DOMESUCKER rung, to the rare, highly coveted MARTYR'S PISSCRADLE rung.
This is because FedoraFreak tried to use his hat to strain his piss, isn’t it. Did we ever find out what happened to ol’ FF? Did he go god tier?
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How can these things be so fast on land???
JESUS.
...Now, wait a second. Gamzee never spent much time with his lusus because it was always out at sea, and I assumed that was because it couldn’t come on land. But if it could, and it just didn’t want to...
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Oh no, it's a hostile swarm of those little fairy bulls! They are probably pissed off about the one you killed earlier. They have come for revenge!
Maybe the tinkerbulls and the goatdad will fight each other, allowing Jake to escape! Or... maybe the goatdad will follow in Gamzee’s footsteps and get all weirdly attracted to the tinkerbulls, and the tinkerbulls will get all shy and moe. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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OH MY GOD THE HUMANITY. HOW THEY EXACT THEIR POUND OF FLESH. OH GOD NO OH GOD OH GOD OH GOOOAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH.
AHAHAHA, I love it.
> [S] ==>
Oh? Oho? What is this? *click*
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This might just be the singular most beautiful moment in all of Homestuck. This is it. This is everything I’ve been waiting for. Everything I have ever wanted.
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Nearby, someone or something bleats like a goat for strategic purposes. And also
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Ironic purposes.
I can die happy now. Seriously, what was that, like, 3000 pages later?
Jane: Run.
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The jig is so totally up. Nothing left to do but scurry your little legs to that box, snatch the mail and scram!
Ooh, are we going to get a strife? :D
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God dammit, I love Dad so much. That his reaction to WORLD SHATTERING SHIT is just a mild ‘?’ and moving on just makes my fucking day.
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Gasp!! He seems to be concerned about Jane being outside most of all! She’s totally gonna get sniped, isn’t she.
> [S] Jane: Get mail.
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Wow, or that. I’m assuming Hussie’s pulling the whole ‘OH LOOK JOHN’S HOUSE EXPLODED, SURELY HE COULDN’T HAVE SURVIVED THAT’ thing again, but still, yikes. Poor Dad. :(
Also, if that ‘HOMESTUCK’ logo in the sky is an actual physical object like the words floating around Prospit and Derse are, can people see it? Does it spook the U.S. government? Have people been on manned missions to the Homestuck instead of the moon?
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END OF ACT 6 ACT 1.
And that’s the end of this Act Act! (I think. I’m not gonna click that arrow just yet.) I know it makes for a short post, but I said I’d divide things up this way so that I didn’t get overwhelmed making an EOA reaction post for what is essentially half the comic, so there you have it! If you’d like, you can send me fanworks up through A6A1, though I warn you I’m still not done looking at all the stuff that got sent to me for A5A2.
Next up, Reactions, and then Act 6 Intermission 1! Or... maybe the other way around, if the Intermission deserves being included with A6A1′s impressions? We’ll see.
Until next time! ^0^
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Jade Legacy let's go!!!
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It's time to finish this thing, I've been on the trilogy for almost two years and I wouldn't have continued without Andrew Kishino's narration. It's the main appeal for me, and I want to know what's going to happen to the new generation of Kauls and to Anden
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Jade Legacy pt 7:
Bero and Ru meeting?!
Oh no, don't hurt Ru, my baby
Honey, you're your father's best child.
Ru in a clean-blade duel, FUCK YEAH! And he does clan politics at the same time. What a great guy. Please can he be pillar? Pretty please.
Okay but please stop, Ru.
RU????!! Please no, he can't die! NO!
Fonda Lee, I'm coming to your house for a chat.
I'm delaying the moment when Hilo and Wen learn that their son is dead. I know there are losses every generation in mafia stories, but out of Ru, Jaya and Niko, why did it have to be Ru??
The only good thing to come out of that is that Niko is back. Yeah, slice your ear off, boy.
Niko meets Bero?! How is that gonna go?
Also, now that Niko is back in No Peak and supposedly the prospective Pillar, is Jaya going to be jealous?
Bero, what the fuck are you saying?? He's not gonna believe him. Is he gonna believe him?
Yes! Make that boy into a pillar!
YES SHAE AND NIKO, FUCK THESE ESPENIANS FUCKS! THE OTHER SHOE DROPPED, IDIOTS! THAT'S FOR THE JANLOON BOMBING!
Oh, Tia is not going to be a green bone. Nature is healing.
Oh, Ayt Mada, you're so seductively clever, it's so sexy.
There are more and more hints that this war is going to end with peace-making or a stalemate, and suddenly! The Mountain is all set to swallow No Peak whole. Shit. Could this trilogy end by the defeat of the main characters? Fonda Lee has me in a chokehold.
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hms-tardimpala · 2 years ago
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Jade legacy liveblog pt 6:
Anden is NOT thirty-eight
Oh no Tar 😢😢
"I need one of my brothers to live" I'm crying
Oh fuck, Niko. That's what you get for working for a private military firm. I'm so sorry.
So Niko is gonna be even more fucked up than his father, oh dear.
Tia is too cute for this world and this family. See, I want a clanless future for her.
One thing I don't get is why we see so little of Jaya, if she's going to become the Pillar now.
Please, Ru is such a good son, I don't want him to be traumatized.
Okay, but. But. What if this epic 25-year long mafia war ends not by one side destroying the other, but by peace-making? What if. What kind of pillars will Ayt Ato and Jaya/Niko(?) be? Could the current generation end the war? Or the next? Because this war started when Ayt Mada had Kaul Lan killed. And the new generation doesn't even know Lan. He's not even a memory. What remains of this war when its protagonists die? Could peace come out of all this? Fuck, what an interesting book.
KAUL SHAELINSAN IS FUCKING UNKILLABLE, FUCK YEAH!
Oh she might never wear jade again. From a pragmatic and clan family, that family os so damaged and weakened. The only jade warrior left in the original generation is Hilo. He's starting to be quite alone.
Also today we learned that Hilo killed the man who was supposed to have an arranged marriage with his little sister and never told her. King.
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Jade Legacy liveblog pt 5:
I fully support Niko's decision to work outside of the clan, but NOT AT THIS COMPANY WTF. Also, I hate to see the Kaul family destroyed 😢
Jesus, even when Anden's got a stable boyfriend, it's not quite the right man for him. When will my boy be happy???
Maik Tar, what are you doing?!
Good Hilo, good. Niko will be mad when he'll discover he's being watched, but at least Hilo is acting like a father.
How is Bero 36???!? He's supposed to be sixteen 😭
Ru is so well-adjusted for now, how is he going to be fucked up?
Yeah, let's talk about Jaya, we barely know her. Hmm I don't dislike her, but I sort of almost do...?
So now Maik Tar has jade again. Not good. FUCK HE KILLED JON REMI!! I knew it was a plot! Who is he working for? Hilo? Not Ayt Mada?!
Anden did what? Why would he want to have Remi killed? So long later? Come on, Anden, I want your version.
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hms-tardimpala · 2 years ago
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Jade Legacy liveblog pt 4:
Wait, Ayt might die yet! Shae, I don't care that this is a temple, you let her die. Shae don't you dare be compassionate now. Don't. Yes! Knife! No, I see where your brain is going, Shae, stop it.
Hm. I see the reasoning of it, I guess.
An Anden chapter called "Make your choice", this outta be good.
Okay, good choices made here. Good job, Anden.
Ooh 5-year time jump again.
Political negotiations, my beloved
Jon Remi spitting truths I love him
Oh, Niko, why is Hilo disappointed in you? Please don't be sad
Also, LOTT JIN IS GONNA BECOME HORN
Anden has so much unresolved gay stuff. Jon Remi. Lott Jin. Cory.
Hilo whipped Niko??? I'm gonna KILL KILL KILL
Niko is autistic, isn't he.
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hms-tardimpala · 2 years ago
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Jade Legacy liveblog pt 2:
This book fucks so hard, it's the best in the trilogy.
My cringe cockroach Bero is still alive yayyy
Everytime I wish something good would happen to the characters, it commes at such a high price you wonder whether it's really worth it.
Shae and Anden are my favorite.
Niko, 8 years old, "You killed my Ma?", Hilo, "First of all, I did it very quick." You fucking sociopath
MAIK WEN IS PILLARMAN FUCK YEAH
Oh shit, 5-year time jump
The Anden/Lott thing is so weird and delectable
Omg chap 16 Anden you badass motherfucker!!!
Fuck, what an exceptionally good book. I'm so glad I stuck with the series.
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Jade Legacy liveblog pt 1:
What the fuck Hilo. You're married to the most beautiful best woman in Janloon, what the fuck are you doing?
Okay, props to Fonda Lee for portraying with no frills what happens to a marriage when one of the people becomes disabled. But also. HILO YOU BETTER STOP BEING ANGRY AND BE IN LOVE WITH YOUR GODDESS OF A WIFE AGAIN STAT
I take it back, he's an asshole, she deserves better. I get that he's angry because he takes what she did as a personal affront, but if he could look past his ego for two seconds and forgive her like an adult that would be great. Dude, she's pinned to a bed and barely able to speak, can you be a husband and not a moody teenager who leaves the room without answering? She's been punished enough ffs
In this house we stan Shae and Woon Papidonwa. You go, my beloved beaurocrats
Omg Hame Tumishan, are you saying the No Peak clan could be declared a criminal entreprise because they use and distribute a dangerous substance?! Like a mob?! In my asian mob fantasy series? More likely than you think
Also, Hame rolling back in Janloon after two years in Espenia (USA) with a strabucks-like macchiato with spices and nuts and wearing a tank top under his shirt is iconic.
Andrew Kishino's voice for Ayt Mada is perfect. I 100% believe he turned into an old snake in the studio booth to record her parts.
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Jade Legacy liveblog pt 3:
Oh that Cobin woman is so rude, tear her a new one, Wen!!!
Omg Hilo turned forty
Hame Tumishan, I'm so proud of you
Nooo the duel between Ayt Mada and Shae was 12 years ago?! I feel so old.
Times are changing in the world, aren't they? Is the future jadeless?
Ru is 12 but he's still stupid. He could have caused No Peak and the Mountain to return to open violence in the streets.
Wait, if Hilo is forty, how old is Ayt Mada? She must be a hundred years old. Oh they say it it, she's in her fifties.
FUCK FUCK FUCK AYT MADASHI STABBED IN THE NECK???!??!?!
Have we seen Ayt Mada in action before? She's so fucking dangerous.
Oh shit this is huge, GO HILO!
The bitch is never going to die, she's too powerful. What a green bone.
Oh so many people are gonna die in this building, how many had time to Steel themselves? Please don't kill Woon, Ms. Lee, he just had a baby!
Bero, you're do dumb, how do you survive?
Fucking Espenians
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