#sollux replies

[zenosanalytic]

do you think the Doom aspect has any direct connection to ghosts?

HMMMM

We've got two examples of doom characters in the story, and we really don't know THAT much about Mituna, but Sollux has some pretty strong ghost-connections. His relationship with Aradia, obvsl, his "whispers from the soon to be deceased" which are PROBABLY the ability to talk to/be talked to by atemporal ghosts, but more explicitly by BEING half-ghost after Cascade, and choosing to spend pretty much the rest of the story from that point with Aradia and the ghosts of the Furthest Ring rather than continue the story. You could also make a shakier argument about dream-selves being rather ghosty: activating only when you sleep(there was an old European folk-belief about the soul leaving the body at sleep), being able to float/fly, and generally acting on dream-logic; all of which are ghosty-traits. And there's John, our resident Ectobiologist, being the only Earthican kid(I think???) to interact with him in all of Homestuck. Then there's Sollux's romantic partners, Aradia and Feferi, who not only each have their own strong associations with ghosts but situate HIM, quite literally, between Life and Death XD XD XD BUT: we see Players pickup aspects of ppl they're close to all throughout Homestuck, so it's possible these ghostly interactions, particular to Sollux and (to our knowledge)not shared by the only other Doom player we have, are a result of his association with Aradia and not aspect-related.

BUT-BUT!!! I think there are good thematic reasons to suspect Doom has close associations with Ghosts. Obvsl there's the basic definitions and associations of Doom itself; when we say someone has "met their doom"(which tbf NOBODY SAYS), we mean they've died, and ghosts are dead ppl; Doom can mean judgement and prophecy and Ghosts are often related to judgement and prophecy(See: The Odyssey and A Christmas Carol); Ghosts are often associated with Dread, Inevitability, Stasis, Repetition, and Patterns which, in turn, are all associated with Doom. Then there's his Polycule again, and how it places Doom, as an Aspect, between life and death, which is Proper-Ghosty uwu uwu

So Yeah; I think you can def swing Ghost-associations for Doom. What I WOULD add tho is to remember to make it thematic for the character? Like: Aspects are huge broad ideas and each character expresses them in their own particular way through their much more specific interests and recurring story-motifs. And interests can be shared across characters and Aspects(for instance: wizards popping up as important concepts for Light, Hope, and Void characters, or Death and Ghosts across Sollux, Aradia, and Feferi as discussed here) which inform us primarily about the characters, while secondarily revealing things about how those concepts themselves work in the story, and Aspects more broadly.

[p1nkc4lyps0]

I hope that everyone who comments/tags something about how "x character shouldn't be here" on your overrated female characters post gives you 50 dollars

bro if we were counting the tiktok audience too. i could buy a house.

the thing with this post is that, everyone whos being on the defences and arguing against primarily vriska and rose is failing to realise that im not saying ''these characters did no wrong because they're women'' im saying ''these characters actually acted in a very understandable way, given their circumstance. but because they're all female, very few people are actually looking into the motives behind their bad actions due to fandom misogyny'' and then everyone proceeds to prove my point 10 times over by just looking at their actions and judging on that as opposed to practicing enough empathy to understand why they acted like that.

vriska was raised on baby hell murder planet, was constantly under the threat of being eaten by her giant spider mother unless she killed other trolls for her to eat, was groomed by The Fucking Devil at age 13 and lives under a society where if you don't have like 4 partners at age 16 theyll just fucking killlll you??? and i had several people refusing to acknowledge how maybe growing up in the no morals zone with 0 positive influences and needing to be an unrelenting bitch to win the game would maybe be reason to why vriska, kills, disables and in one case sexually assaults characters. vriska very much shouldn't have done all that shit but given her enviroment, fuck i'm not gonna really be blaming her for it now am i?

overall, ill give you tumblrinas a thumbs up for at least having more bewilderment than aggression than the tiktokers because fuck me running the amount of people who missed the point so hard they wouldn't get it if it hit them in the fact, tumblr isn't completely innocent but at least the comments are hard enough to navigate that i stopped trying to read them all.

[asksolluxcaptor]

Bro, are you in danger????

TA: Am i in danger?

TA:

TA: No.

[thewertsearch]

It's wert (heh) pointing out that the Aradiabot timeline where Gamzee flipped out and killed everybody in the session might not be one where Vriska was godtier, making this slightly less of an insane feat. With the error bars so large on what this could've been, I don't know what this tells us of his power level. That said, I do have a lot of speculations! (This is very long, my apologies.)

I think the lower bound of what the doomed Gamzee did was something like this:

Gamzee kills Equius (free) and then Nepeta (not using her hunting skills and speed to her fullest advantage). Nobody realises anything is amiss; the meowrails could simply be doing moirail things with their phones off.

Gamzee gets the jump on Eridan who doesn't know to take him seriously and whose best weapon is at this point the long-ranged Ahab's Crosshairs. People assume he's moping.

Gamzee kills Tavros and Vriska while questing at Vriska's. Aradiabot at this point probably knows that the timeline is doomed, so if she finds it odd Eridan hasn't duelled Sollux yet she'll either put it down to divergence, or not care because doomed innit. She's making preparations to leave, not fix things.

Gamzee kills Terezi and Karkat. Even if they know at this point, I doubt Karkat could fully believe it until he laid eyes on the bodies, and Terezi could well try arresting him before she goes to kill him. Karkat was the one who sent Equius after Gamzee in the main timeline, and while that was a doomed venture, he is pretty much the only person thinking in terms of team strategy in the trolls' session.

Kanaya, having worked out some of what's happening, has been messaging people like mad to rally some sort of party together to beat him, but she's getting a lot of no replies, except for Aradia who just unhelpfully tells her everything's doomed innit.

Gamzee kills Sollux before Feferi (we've seen Feferi's revenge leap, whereas Sollux's power and range and ability to fly make me think his revenge blast might well level anything within a few miles).

Kanaya goes to fight him and is killed. She goes down. When she comes back up again, Gamzee is gone to collect the bodies into a single place, and without any blood to suck, her rainbow drinker powers can't bring her back fully. When he gets back to retrieve her body, he kills her again, and this one sticks.

Aradia arrives after he finishes covering the book in blood and, forewarned and forearmed, kills him.

Gamzee has a lot of strength and speed, so if he gets near somebody who doesn't realise he's snapped, he could probably kill that person. Stealth and miscommunication do most of his work for him, with the rest largely down to people in the right order (Equius before Nepeta, Karkat before he can wrangle people into a defence, Kanaya not around any blood sources, etc).

While on the other hand the upper bound could easily have been:

Gamzee kills Karkat and Kanaya publicly but without immediate access to more victims (i.e. somebody's watching them on the Server side, or Karkat was mid-memo rant when he dies). Everybody knows immediately that he's snapped.

He then kills Nepeta, which is enough to send Equius into a rage when he finds out. He doesn't find out yet.

While people are talking about Karkat and Kanaya's deaths, he attacks Tavros and (godtiered) Vriska. He kills Tavros and is so much of a threat that Vriska has to retreat (as you can imagine, when she realises she had to run away, she gets very pissed and starts hunting Gamzee).

Kanaya comes back to life, sucks Karkat's blood, our girl is back in action and she has no mercy.

Equius realises Gamzee killed Nepeta.

Terezi, realising Gamzee is a big threat, lures him to a favourable location for her with plans to kill him. She does this on a public memo so everybody knows where she is and where he's planning to be.

On his way to Terezi's planet, Gamzee runs into Feferi and she fights him and gets killed. Sollux and Eridan learn this right away.

As Gamzee arrives at Terezi's trap, Vriska and Equius arrive pretty much at the same time. Terezi fights Gamzee and dies.

Immediately after, Vriska and Equius try to defeat him. Vriska might not be going for the kill straightaway, but Equius 100% is.

Gamzee kills Equius, which makes Vriska see it's to the death. Kanaya and Eridan (armed with a science wand Kanaya gave him for other reasons at some point) arrive, but fail to put a dent in him. Vriska manages to stay alive for longer, maybe Kanaya does too with her speed, but Eridan dies.

Sollux arrives, and it's a 3v1 with Vriska, Kanaya, and Sollux versus Gamzee. Kanaya dies, and then Solluz, and then Kanaya again, and then Vriska.

Aradia arrives to find Gamzee distracted by scrawling over the book, and as he finishes the last character on the last page, she kills him.

I don't know which one is more realistic or where the actual event lies in between them, but those are kind of the upper and lower bounds I feel like there are for what 'Gamzee flipped out and killed everyone' could mean in that timeline. And incidentally, if anybody wants to write those up as fanfics I'll absolutely read them lol

Sorry for the pages of text, just thought it was an interesting thing to note: we don't know how Gamzee killed everybody! Thought that was ripe for speculation.

Loving the liveblog, hope you're having a great day!

I love the level of detail you're put into this analysis.

There are some extremely evocative scenes here. A confrontation where he forces God Tier Vriska to retreat is something I'd love to see expounded upon - and I particularly like the image of an Aradiabot who stumbles upon a barely-coherent, HONKsick Gamzee, silently observes the bodies, and telekinetically snaps his neck.

Out of these two scenarios, I believe the second is probably closer to the truth. While Frenzied Gamzee is capable of being sneaky, he seems to generally prefer shock tactics and intimidation, so a bloody warpath seems more plausible than a stealth-focused approach.

[subjectseventeen]

@system32-official

uhm Absolutely thank you this is the highest honor 🙏🙏

i think the bugs in my body may also be the voices in my head? if that makes sense? not every single one of course, but like the majority

they have their own convos and buzz in my head, sometimes they swarm and it's very loud

[dave2olkat]

Do you have any drawings of the prior solluxes from GOLDP1LOT?

Sorry it took so long to reply, I was making a reference pic for all the Solluxes! Also, we finally have a Mage face reveal. I do have a doc with information on all of them so I can answer any questions you've got about any of them and their Iterations, but certain stuff about them won't be revealed until later on the fic, so you'll have to keep reading

[landoffreaksandfrogs]

what type of youtubers would the trolls be? Karkat would definitely make rants and reviews of romance movies, Kanaya would make makeup or fashion tutorials, Sollux has an IT channel he made so people stop bugging him (nobody ever bothers checking it instead of asking him)

quick spitballed ideas bc this is such a cute prompt

aradia - reviews of inaccurate halloween decoration skeletons. theyre not rated on anatomical accuracy but by how much swag they have. most of her other videos are short clips of her livevlogging her day and telling short stories, but shes funny and witty so they do numbers. very low effort and low cost, but shes having fun.

tavros - CARD PACK UNWRAPPING. guy who in no way can afford his hobby but keeps getting these card packs for his channel. surprisingly relaxing to listen to while you have him minimized in another tab while you do something else. he goes over each card in the deck and their effects as well as rarity.

sollux - basically what you said. IT guide on walking through common computer problems. horrible mic quality, but really helpful information.

karkat - ABSOLUTELY would be a movie reviewer. no facecam but for whatever reason has CRISP mic quality. somehow NEVER peaks his mic despite all the screaming he does. he loves media analysis and getting pissed off over fandom drama so hed probably also do breakdowns of scandals in fandom spheres, and somehow almost getting sued.

nepeta - SPEEDPAINTS. and like. flipnote hatena style amvs. obviously very amateur but its a very cute art style and she has no concept of copyright infringement.

kanaya - makeup tutorials and fashion reviews. would definitely be like that one youtuber who reviews the accuracy of historical fiction dresses in film and tv. everytime the virgin mothergrub is in the background of her videos her comments are spammed with "MOTH MOM REAL"

terezi - animated shitposts. like. grinchs ultimatum, garfielf, shit like that. REALLY bright colors and shitty linework with windows moviemaker transitions. no one knows who she is and shes never done a face reveal so shes a total enigma. there are deep web theories that her videos are anti-empire propaganda.

vriska - flarping tutorials. genuinely. she goes over mechanics, spells, class breakdowns, even shares stories of her own flarp campaigns. VERY passionate about it and kind of has an asshole youtuber persona. posts an apology video like once a month then goes on like nothing happened. replies to every mean comment.

equius - weightlifting videos. dead silent. just grunting and metal clanking. no editing. addresses every comment in every video. lots of heavy breathing. very uncomfortable. almost like performance art in how desolate it feels.

gamzee - cooking videos. its as bad as it sounds.

eridan - showing off everything in his hive and talking about it. his guns. his outfits. ranting about pollution. each video is an hour long. its mostly just him complaining or bragging about the stuff he owns.

feferi - has a live feed of her cuttlefish pen going constantly. posts animal care videos. posts music. does challenges. her youtube is kind of an inconsistent mish-mash of content but one thing remains: you will watch her cuttlefish.

[homestuck-music-tournament]

Time for more "weekly" propaganda. Please, using an ask or by replying to or reblogging the correct post, send in propaganda for tracks you like! Especially tracks you think are not so popular: people need to know what's good about your favourites, or they won't vote for them!

Each propaganda request will be focussed on a different album, although you can submit propaganda for any track in the Official Discography at any time, whether or not I've made a post for it yet.

Alternia was the first Homestuck solo album, comprised of only songs composed by Toby Fox, many of which were made as the characters they pertain to were being revealed.

It's full of initial themes from the 12 trolls (or some of them, at least), and forms the basis for many key leitmotifs that represent them later into the discography, and the comic.

Crustacean, The Lemonsnout Turnabout, psych0ruins, Walls Covered In Blood, dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS,, Virgin Orb, The La2t Frontiier, and Spider's Claw form the basis for Karkat, Terezi, Aradia, Nepeta, Tavros, Kanaya, Sollux, and Vriska's musical representation within Homestuck. mIrAcLeS, Staring, and Keepers are also here, I guess, but Gamzee, Equius, and Eridan and Feferi don't really receive many references back to them in the discography. There's also Theme, which re-occurs in Toby's follow-up album, Alterniabound, in many of the trolls official themes, used in the same-named walkaround flash.

There's a neat fact about this album. Toby started working on it around the time we started seeing what the trolls were actually like in the comic, with them as the kind of tracks that would have scored their game session, which he thought we'd never get to see. He named it Alternia, as a lot of the tracks were "alternate versions" of certain Homestuck themes: Skaian Summoning for Sburban Jungle, Crustacean was Karkat's Harlequin, and Showdown was his Showtime.

However, out of the blue, Hivebent started, and the very first few pages called for the troll planet to be named. Toby rushed to the forums and inputted "Alternia", and now it's the name of the planet.

Anyway, here's a link to all 18 tracks. Please submit propanganda for your favourites! They need all the support they can get.

Thank you, and please reblog this post to help spread the request!

[chthonianconversationalist]

Colored version, because i wanted to, lol.

Sollux and Kanaya being childhood best friends :33 moirails perhaps even ?

Thats very cute. Kanaya would use him as a sewing base while they feelings jam.

[davekat-sucks]

wanted to reply to a comment you got from aurosoky about solkat vs davekat since they actually seemed to be respectful and polite about their viewpoint. i swear i'm not trying to be combative or anything so hopefully it doesn't come off that way.

"i mean i enjoy solkat too okay but davekat is just great because they have all this simbolism that makes them feel kind of meant to be. Karkat hided his red blood. Dave hided his red eyes."

I'm sorry but right off the bat if the main argument as to why their relationship is "meant to be" is their shared color or class that's really superficial. By that same logic, do you think Dave or Karkat should end up with Latula because she hides her insecurities behind a facade like they do? And remember, Karkat stated that he and John were meant to be.

But if we're talking about symbolism, Solkat shares the same kind of symbolism, because Sollux has a red eye that matches the color of Karkat's blood, which is even more meaningful since Sollux is ALSO a mutant, making him just as cullable as Karkat. Terezi also fits this idea because she loves the color red, and her eyes are that color as well. It's as if she empowers Karkat through their shared connection to the color he hates so much. Neither Sollux or Terezi treated Karkat as less for his mutancy, and in fact they became best friends with him. This shared life experience is something Dave wouldn't understand, as he wouldn't face being murdered for having red eyes on Earth. Besides, why are Dave's eyes special? Rose/Mom had purple/pink eyes, which are more unnatural and they didn't cover them or the story tried too frame them as an angst point.

nepkat also feels more symbolic because the Disciple was in love with the Signless, Karkat's ancestor. Nepeta's love for Karkat feels like the Disciple's love for the Signless was so strong that it transcended generations, crossing over to their descendants.

"Dave had this abusive mentor he defended for being super cool and it took him 3 years on the meteor to realize he was fucked up. Karkat was super appreciative of alternia and it's culture and it took him 3 years on the meteor to realize it was a shitty classist place that wanted him dead."

Where did you read about these realizations in the actual comic? The actual last time Karkat talks about it he still thinks the Empire was great and that HIC was cool; that never changed. Dave realized he was messed up because he thought all his friends' troubles were insignificant. Jade was isolated from almost birth and had to do taxidermy with her grandfather's corpse, and Dave called that "complaining" even thought Jade never once complained about her childhood. Even in HS2, Karkat admits that Dave is a whiny deadbeat.

And they didn't improve anything by getting together, in fact it ruined what little character buildup they both had, especially for Karkat. The Condesce didn't want mutants or limebloods to reproduce because she's a eugenicist fascist. That's why limebloods were genocided to extinction. Culling is about preventing the "undesirables" from reproducing. Karkat is a mutated limeblood, so if he doesn't reproduce with another troll, limebloods remain extinct, and everything stays the same. Davekat actually aided her plan of troll eugenics.

And back to Solkat, what could be a better "FUCK YOU" to the Empress than the descendant of the Singless, a pariah tortured to death, ending up with the descendant of the Psionic, the slave she ALSO tortured to death and saw merely as a durable ship battery?

Dave was totally not a homosexual till he met karkat. Karkat was obsessed with quadrants until he met dave and felt attracted to him in many different quadrants.

Dave's not homosexual, if anything he's bisexual. Why disregard his relationships with Jade, Terezi, and Rose? And why Karkat? Because he drew dicks with him? Why not say Dave realized his feelings when he met John? John gave him the glasses he's wearing now, which I find way more meaningful and touching. Karkat was also vacillating for Terezi, whom he specifically said he wanted in every quadrant like a desperate fool. And I suspect he had similar feelings for Sollux and Jade as well.

Not to mention, they just have a nice dynamic! And karkat and sollux being besties is super valid and they're also super cute. I loved that scene we got in the last homestuc 2 update sm

Dude, again, I'm sorry, but I just disagree completely. There's nothing there. There is nothing unique, compelling or special about their dynamic that couldn't be better achieved with better options like Sollux, Terezi, John, Nepeta, Jade, etc. Davekat literally started because Dave quoted the same phrase Karkat used with Sollux. It's a rebound at worst and a forced downgrade at best.

Your respond is amazing, Anon. @aurosoky

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[poorlydrawneridan]

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[asksolluxcaptor]

Important question. are you Feeling sad or depressed a of right now sullox?

TA: ii haven't felt much iin 2weep2.

TA: I haven't felt much in sweeps.

[prpfz]

🖤 25+, they/she, and i've been out of RPing for a few months and wanna start up some new threads! so i'm just gonna yell a bunch of ships and fandoms into the void and see if anyone (21+ partners only, please) yells back~! my preferred muse is in bold:

final fantasy: cloud/sephiroth, cloud/zack, cloud/squall, cid/vincent, tifa/aerith, rufus/kadaj, cloud/kadaj, noctis/promptis, noctis/ignis kingdom hearts: axel/saix homestuck: dave/karkat, john/karkat, sollux/karkat, gamzee/karkat my hero academia: dabi/hawks bleach: ichigo/grimmjow free! iwatobi swim club: rin/haru yugioh: kaiba/yugi, kaiba/atem stranger things: eddie/steve, steve/billy x-men films: charles/erik, logan/scott, logan/wade bungou stray dogs: chuuya/dazai

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[didhomestuckdeservebetter]

Consider not only how he was handled, but how you wish he was handled, and if you think he had any potential that was unused.

[flare-dragon]

I thought of what feels like a kinda funny Homestuck AU: Deafswap (or just Deafstuck)

Basically, instead of characters wearing glasses and being blind/low vision, they're various levels of deaf (and some would wear hearing aids)

So, with John and Jake being basically blind as a bat without their glasses, would have moderate-severe/severe hearing loss (and would use hearing aids regularly)

Jade would have moderate loss, and would mostly rely on lip reading (but I could imagine her picking up some kind of sign language)

Jane would be mild/moderate (I see her glasses as being akin to reading glasses/"old person blindness", but her having glasses from birth and being Crockerbert means vision wasn't a strong suit anyhow), and would have subtler hearing aids and use lip reading where she can (I'm...not sure why she wouldn't really know much sign, but something something mainstream habitat/class compared to the others something something batterwitch)

Dave and Dirk swear their hearing is fine ("EB: so why do you wear those lame earbuds all the time? EB: don't you know you look like a douche with them?"), but they don't even know if that's true or not. Turns out, their hearing is within average levels. They just have auditory processing disorder and the earbuds help for some reason)

Sollux is half-deaf, with one ear perfectly within average levels (perhaps sensitive?), and the other just as deaf as it gets (just low frequencies at super high levels). It very much disorients him at times.

Terezi...I have no idea. In this AU, she should become completely deaf due to Vriska's "Make Her Pay", but she was blinded by the Alternian sun. Maybe there's a creature or plant that, if you stand too close to it, your hearing just gets eviscerated? But yeah. She uses her nose and tongue to hear people. "But what about lip-reading?" This is absolutely funnier.

Vriska would have mild loss and would do everything she could to mask it. She'd still have glasses - since vision 8fold - but they'd just be aesthetics. When the cue-ball blows up and she loses the vision 8fold, that ear gains moderate loss, which she still refuses to tell people to the very end.

Equius isn't deaf at all. He just likes wearing ear muffs because protection against robot construction/destruction noises. They're also notably scuffed.

Eridan is also not deaf. Instead, he has a bunch of ear bling that comes close to looking like he's wearing hearing aids but definitely isn't. For some reason, he still wears those glasses of his.

Feferi isn't deaf by the classical definition, but her hearing is definitely different to land dwellers due to spending all her time in the water. She wears fancy-looking earplugs when she's out of the water since her hearing is extra sensitive out of the water.

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