#thems the 8r8ks

[gavagecunctation]

upd8 re8ction

so it is tavvy i knew it. im surprised yiffy managed to get 8way seeing as like last we saw her she was 8eing yelled at 8y harvris 8ut it checks. i love tavvy and yiffys duo. we 8oth know we weren't meant to 8e 8orn.

(P.S. I left you guys some trail mix. Don’t pick the raisins out; they’re healthy.)

he's so silly. 8rother of all time. or uncle i guess

love his fuckass rich 8uoy sigil or wax seal or wh8tever

(sorry for the num8er of 8s this upd8 is really fucking me up for reasons you'll see on like the next panel)

cool panel love the composition love the everything. harry and vris look so silly. their heads are 8igger than jades. rose you're so 8ad at your jo8

harry stop 8eing a pussy. L.

this is the first time im actually enjoying the idea of tavvrissy 8eing kismeses and not just a guy and the 8oy she 8osses around

VRISSY: And neither is that Arrog8nt Hivewrecking 8ITCH!

HEY DON'T CALL ME THAT

this panel. just gorgeous. and 8lso heart8reaking for me. 8ye dad and fuck you to the anonymous shooter.

oh so N8W you do your jo8 . another 8anger panel. the choice to make rose shadowed/grey against harvris' regular colors is interesting to me. she's re8lly lost all her light huh

shed a single (8rave 8oy) tear. rip dad

was talking in the hs8c discord a8out whether this would 8e heroic or not. someone 8rought up that it could 8e just 8ecause of jades homewrecking which yeah i 8elieve. also the w8y she was trying to manipul8 the narrative could 8e seen as just. sad day for me i wanted candy jade and ult dirk to talk theyre 8oth so thematically simil8r

the sweat is interesting. does she know jade is dead? pro8a8ly. does she regret it?

may8e. most likely not

another 8anger as usual i love hs8cs artstyle

this shot is pretty interesting to me. is that the 8ell tower where dirk died? why is it glowing white? is cave the point under it too or is the 8attermaid using it as a vessel for the 8eam? lots of thoughts

yiffy and tavvy are not dead that's all i know for sure. they would not die they're too important

i really thought the flash would end act 1 8ut this is cool as fuck too

W8?????

these fucking pages loaded l8 for me oh my god. hs union you rascals

gavageCunctation [GC] began negging adamantGriftress [AG] 801 MINUTES AGO.

ayyyy its a deltrit8n. delta detritus hey did you know detritus means trash 8ecause for the longest time i didnt and now i feel stupid

801 minutes = 13 something hours. that's many imo 8ut you do you hs8c

this guy's really interesting. i think the delta kids (petition to call them that) are going to 8e 8ased on 2020s internet tropes. gc seems to 8e 8ased on a tum8lr user of some sort.

GC: if i'm being honest we cooked hard with this GC: haha... tag that shit i'm fussing... GC: AA (that's oomf)

my proof for the a8ove st8ment 8ut also this reads like a millenial desper8ly trying to speak like a gen z/alpha kid (which i guess it is). i cant tell whether "i'm fussing" is aave or not

i'm curious though how did they get vrissys handle?

gavageCunctation's [GC'S] computer exploded.

L + r8io

gc defo has a crush on vrissy which is funny as fuck to me. go girl 8r8k up with your technically uncle gc is right there!!! you can do 8etter!!!

aa seems interesting i get the feeling they're pro8a8ly in contact with ultrose or at least that sort of rose-rezi stand in of the session due to how it seems like they have some sort of seer a8ilities

GC: um anyway she's like an oracle... GC: except she's not an oracle. GC: she's some other shit...

you guys get what i mean? oh aa could 8e like jade too as in they could 8e awake on prospit and thats why they know all this stuff

GC: yet i still stay up to my buccal mass

a sea species so this is one of roses delta kids neat

ok done for now 8ye

[meeowerzz]

THEMS THE 8R8KS !!

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[thewertsearch]

I love these combination names. Breath/Light is an interesting one, because the 'Mixolydian' implies a musical theme, and I thought Time was the musical Aspect. Maybe it's not that simple.

I'm also wondering if I should read into the prices here. Like, is the expensive Breath/Space combination the strongest? If so, does that mean Breath synergizes particularly well with Space?

I guess there's only so much you can glean from a single menu. For all I know, each shop has a random selection of Fraymotifs, with multiple combinations for each price tier.

I can't wait to see these in action - not least because the presence of combination moves implies the kids are going to start fighting as a team. That's a development which is well overdue.

The Quest Bed isn't exactly hidden, is it?

I was assuming the god tier mechanics were obscure, since no one's brought them up before. Maybe the Quest Bed has other uses.

EB: i am not sleepy at all! [...] AG: Would you like me to put you to sleep? [...] EB: you mean, you're asking me this time, instead of just doing it? EB: what happened to you wanting to be responsible for me becoming a hero! AG: John, I am clearly involved in your rise to power now regardless. That can't 8e changed! AG: I am giving you the option, 8ecause at some point a hero has to start making choices. AG: Once you take a 8r8k from hunting treasure and stop getting distracted 8y side quests, you eventually realize that's what this game is all a8out. AG: The choices you make affect the destiny of the universe you cre8te, as well as the type of hero you 8ecome.

Plus, you're modelling him as Better Tavros, so you're trying to make him a little more decisive.

I'm not sure what to make of all this talk about choices. The comic is really emphasizing it, but it really seems to fly in the face of what we know about Paradox Space, which is really all about lack of choice - or at least, lack of meaningful choice.

You can choose 'the type of hero you become', but you can't opt out of being a hero entirely. You can shape your universe however you want, but you never chose to burn your world and light the Forge.

AG: It would have 8een nice if someone was around to explain all this to me, and let me have some control over my own f8. AG: I had to do this a much less pleasant way. I'm sparing you that indignity. AG: 8esides, it's not like you're some loser who doesn't know how to make tough decisions.

And I really don't know what to make of this.

Something obviously happened between Vriska and Tavros - something we keep alluding to, which may or may not have involved her Quest Bed. She can't put herself to sleep, I guess - so did she want Tavros to knock her out? Drug her with Sopor Slime?

Maybe the incident happened after she fell asleep, and started ascending the God Tiers. Perhaps her sleeping body was vulnerable, and Tavros failed to protect it - or maybe he followed her inside the god tier dream, and something went horribly wrong.

[dingodad]

wait this is driving me a lil bit crazy... we know Rose's MEOW code was written in a journal, presumably after the interview with Jaspers in which he told her his secret. so, presumably, Rose was under the delusion that when she was filling a journal with the word 'MEOW' she was actually transcribing some incredible secret Jaspers had revealed to her.

but Tavros, Aradia, Terezi and Vriska wrote their codes in Flarp books. which means that when they wrote them they were probably under the delusion they were filling in Flarp books. right. so were they filling in character sheets? like Vriska thinks her Flarp character is called Mindfang but when you look in her book does it actually just say the word 8R8K over and over again. was the entire Flarp campaign between these four trolls literally just a shared delusion

[gaslightgatekeepgirlbosscombat]

Quarterfinals, Poll 1

Propaganda under the cut

Miss Piggy

She is the queen of Girlbossing. She lies to get what she wants, and keeps out any she thinks isn't worthy of what she has to offer. She is perhaps the original Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss.

Vriska Serket

It’s Vriska baby!

it's vriska

not only manipulates people the traditional way but also literally has mind control powers.

she manipulates her disabled friend constantly and is the reason why hes disabled in the first place. she is constantly telling lies and half truths to make sure she has all the cards in every possible situation. she does basically everything by herself and turns on others if they dont follow her lead and dies multiple times in her struggle for the spotlight, her one true goal. she has an eyepatch and a robot arm. she gets all the women. ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!

shes girlbosses her way into SOOOOOOOO MANY other competitions AND WON!!!!!!!! and like okay yea, she mostly won bc some of them were rigged but also shes just like that lol shes got a whole lotta lucky 8r8ks >:::;)

[lunaticli8rarian]

i'll 8e real, i kinda h8 people who say kanaya like-h8s rose or should 8r8k up with rose. (also kinda strikes me as people who'd 8e 8ad in rel8tionships 8ut that's a different topic.)

i've read the last upd8 so many times just to 8e certain of myself, and i really don't detect resentment from kanaya. not the 8r8k up kind. she's mad-do not get me f8cking wrong she is the maddest she's 8een in years.

8ut no one seems to care WHY she's mad. she's mad she wasn't let in on this-she's mad the people who she cares a8out excluded her-she's mad that on top of all that THEY WENT TO F8CKING CONDESCE 2.0 INSTEAD OF HER!

and despite how f8cking angry she is, she isn't gonna just-cut them off. or kill them. are you kidding me? are you f8cking insane? do you do that? cut off people the second they majorly hurt you? what the f8ck? she's angry, she's expressing that anger-and all of this anger matters 8ECAUSE she cares a8out them. 8ECAUSE SHE CARES A8OUT YIFFY DESPITE ONLY KNOWING A8OUT HER RECENTLY!

Kanaya cares a8out and loves rose and jade. and is really upset they lied to her and went to jane instead. furious even. 8oth of these things are true. and it really makes me sick seeing people say she should kill rose.

[neuroviolentgraves]

In high school during the awards assem8ly th8y would give out prizes to every single student just going through them randomly to 8r8k up the monotony and shit

When th8y would call out a n8me everyone wanted to like clap for them 8ut th8y do EVERY SINGLE STUDENT so it would've t8ken up so much time to applaud every single one of them

So like the teachers wanted us to just clap at the very end. 8ut instead we decided that, after every single n8me, we would do ONE 8IG CLAP (and many of us stomped on the 8leachers at the s8me time) so it'd just 8e like

"John doe..."

[loudest sound you've ever heard]

"...j8ne doe"

[loudest sound you've ever heard]

[lobotomy-maybe-bestie]

shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals <3

If I already sent you this you gotta do it again. Thems the 8r8ks!

AFSJSGSH

1. Overdose - Katana ZERO OST

2. The Middle - Jimmy Eat World

3. drywall - Paris Paloma

4. Full Confession - Katana ZERO OST

5. Metaphor - The Crane Wives

[gendertrickster]

my elaboration on snowman is that she's the (former) black queen , and there's been some meta written on the skaian kings/queens as trans (specifically the black king bearing skaia as an emblem (the "dormant crucible of unlimited creative potential!!!", which i kind of extend to the queens because i think the kings and queens of skaia can and should be t4t. who is stopping them. not me).

i also think that while snowman being vriska's on-and-off patron was like. hussie definitely wasn't thinking about this at the time. but there's something incredibly compelling to me about snowman having been vriska's patron during the game, and then vriska mentoring june. (i will never get over the "thief, why don't you just control him" scene. other people will forget it. i will not). this list of complicated messed up trans women trying to mentor other complicated trans women, and mostly failing and trying still.

okay so like. i think it's important to note for one that mindfang is 100% the most cis character in homestuck, and that vriska not having come up under any trans mentors is a large part of what fucks her up so badly. also the king and queen are generated with every session and are always that same weird-looking gender dichotomy and i think anything that establishes that gender is an inherent immutable thing across existence cannot possibly be trans. sorry to 8r8k it to you like this but homestuck absolutely has thorough ideas about gender woven into it already

[thegodshavehorns]

Hi Vriska! I wanted to know how it was when you and Rose were getting closer- when did you realize you had a palecrush? How long did it take you to put your pale seduction plan into action? How often do you get to visit her?

AG: Oh, it wasn’t something I intended from the get-go. I mean, I liked her spunk and gall, 8ut I don’t just go around with a crush on every mortal who dares look me in the eye. That would 8e really stupid!!!!!!!!

AG: I was originally hoping to turn her against Eridan. Or ruin her so she wouldn’t 8e useful to him anymore.

AG: 8ut then our mind-games started turning into

AG: a real feelings jam.

AG: She pro8a8ly had no idea, 8ut it was a classic way to 8uild a pale relationship. I didn’t want to get involved, though. I meant to keep her at an arm’s length, 8ut I was aware of that pale spark early on.

AG: Then we 8oth learned she was eventually going to ascend, so……..

AG: Suddenly it didn’t seem that 8ad, to give in to it.

AG: 8ecause she’d be a goddess soon, too

AG: As for the ‘pale seduction’, that was kind of… One night I just lost patience and wanted to do it. So I did it. Not much of a plan, ha ha.

AG: I visited her that summer as often as I could. At least once a week.

AG: Then Eridan started up teaching her again in Li8ra, and we had to switch to long distance. Them’s the 8r8ks!

[benjamindeez]

Thems the 8r8ks! :::;)

Humanstuck Pokemon Trainer Vriska + her team

[29pageshomestuckeveryday]

Homestuck, page 3,604

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Author commentary: --> Anyway, more about this weird code. You can look at it as a subconscious expression of the kids who wrote it. Also, when you consider its relevance to Doc and Lord English, once you know how LE is actually summoned, it all starts seeming almost absurdly literal. But let's look at the code writers. Team Charge (Aradia and Tavros) wrote t1CK, t0ck. Aradia is a Time player, so it makes sense for her. It only squares with Tavros once you take his Pupa Pan lore into account. The previous page said they were "sounds said to accompany the ultimate demise of the tyrant less an arm and an eye." Captain Hook has been used as one of these moving-target symbolic figures. Does it apply to Bec Noir? Vriska? And now Mindfang is in the mix (though we know Vriska modeled herself after her, so there's some inherent redundancy here). But when you examine Vriska's demise later, it does seem to pin her down more concretely as the Hook figure mentioned here. Her death is presented along with the ticking of her magic clock, which was deliberating over her death as either Just, Heroic, or neither, when it's rudely interrupted with a crowbar wielded by yet ANOTHER tyrant less an arm and an eye, Spades Slick. Okay, that's some cool stuff, but back to the code. Vriska contributes 8r8k, which is pretty obviously suited to her. Both in terms of the lucky kind, but more notably in the context of those 8-balls she smashed all the time, which is a cursed gesture that evokes LE's summoning process. Terezi's H34DS makes sense in the context of her two-headed coin, and in particular the slashed head side, which could be seen as a "broken" head. Then there's the wildcard addition from Gamzee, which is just honk HONK. What is there to say about this? Dude just says honk a lot, case closed. But when you string them all together, and read it as more of a sentence than a random series of words, it tracks with LE's summoning very closely, which we see immediately following [S] Cascade. The clock in Doc's home is ticking, then stops. Doc, who's lying there as a lifeless puppet, begins growing horrible green appendages. His cue ball head cracks, and then breaks. A triumphant Lord English opens his horrible jaw and releases the Vast Honk. When it comes to his summoning, this isn't just a code that gives birth to his host, it is also a literal description of the process.

[ardentguilt]

“Finding out that my escape from the research facility where they made me what I am spawned a local cryptid is really something…

So this facility was 8uild in the swamps on the outskirts of this 8ackwater little town called Deadwater. No8ody in that town had any idea just what was going on in this research facility so of course when alarms start 8laming from this facility and all hell 8r8ks loose one night it catches people’s attention.

Now I’ll admit at the time I wasn’t exactly….’domesticated’ for lack of a 8etter word…or clothed. Not to mention that 8y the time I got near to the town itself I was very much coated in the viscera of the facilities staff and security…

I do recall that I stuck to the outskirts and didn’t actually go into the town 8ut turns out I did get seen and now this town has an ur8an legend of sorts a8out what they call the ‘Deadwater Demon’.

They descri8e it as a large naked 8east that 8leeds with all the colors of the spectrum and has the strength of a thousand trolls, teeth like daggers, one 8right red eye, impervious to 8ullets and 8lades alike. They warn that the demon roams the swamps and the ruins of the old research facility, that no8ody should set foot in those ruins else the demon will hunt them.

They say that some nights when the fog rolls in and the moons don’t show you can see a red glow in the distance and hear the distant alarms sounding, that anyone foolish enough to investigate is never seen again.”

[thewertsearch]

AG: It only makes sense that I would be the one to cre8te him. AG: Since I am also going to 8e the one to kill him.

And how, exactly, are you going to do that?

We know it can't be through raw combat ability - we saw Vriska reach her limit in that department when she fought Aradia.

EB: if he is as strong as karkat says, he will probably kill you! AG: Karkat doesn't know nothing a8out anything. AG: He never really appreci8ted how powerful I 8ecame. No8ody did! I am easily the strongest troll 8y far. AG: I am also extremely lucky! That is one of my powers, John. 8eing super lucky, and making my foes super UNlucky. ::::)

That said, she seems convinced that she's currently stronger than all the trolls, Aradia included.

Presumably she's factoring in her luck manipulation - an Aspect power that must be fairly new, otherwise she'd have whipped it out during Make Her Pay.

EB: you sound pretty cocky! you should be careful about that, that is totally how people have bigtime downfalls. EB: especially when they act kind of nefarious!!! AG: Nope, I don't have to 8e careful! Too lucky for caution to matter anymore. Them's the 8r8ks!

I don't think Vriska is quite as confident as she's pretending to be.

Back in her walkaround, she was tapping Aradia for information on Jack's weaknesses, and any tactical insights she had. She is, in fact, taking this fight seriously - so deep down, she knows her victory isn't assured.

AG: 8ut don't worry, once all is said and done in your session, and 8y some incredi8ly lucky 8r8k of your own you manage to survive the scratch, we might actually get the chance to meet. AG: And if so, assuming I haven't gotten too 8ored w8ting around and mopped the floor with Jack already, may8e we can take him down together!

That's a weirdly heartfelt sentiment from Vriska.

EB: i am not sure who would make me more nervous, you or jack.

So I imagine that this - while understandable - really hurt.

EB: um, if we meet… EB: are you going to… [...] AG: John, what the hell are you trying to say? EB: karkat said that… EB: you might…

Oh my god, John. This is not the time!

[gaslightgatekeepgirlbosscombat]

Group C, Round 3, Poll 2:

Propaganda under the cut

Heather Chandler

heather--the chaotic evil of all movie mean girls--managed to become the dictator of high school in ohio. OHIO. if that isn't impressive idk what is. furthermore, not only did she girlboss to the grave, she girlbossed from beyond it.

Vriska Serket

It’s Vriska baby!

it's vriska

not only manipulates people the traditional way but also literally has mind control powers.

she manipulates her disabled friend constantly and is the reason why hes disabled in the first place. she is constantly telling lies and half truths to make sure she has all the cards in every possible situation. she does basically everything by herself and turns on others if they dont follow her lead and dies multiple times in her struggle for the spotlight, her one true goal. she has an eyepatch and a robot arm. she gets all the women. ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!

shes girlbosses her way into SOOOOOOOO MANY other competitions AND WON!!!!!!!! and like okay yea, she mostly won bc some of them were rigged but also shes just like that lol shes got a whole lotta lucky 8r8ks >:::;)

[lunaticli8rarian]

"i don't want to fight" get the f8ck off my f8cking account then, get the f8ck out of my house. you don't come into my house and 8r8k my windows and say "woah man i'm not looking for trou8le" go jump down a pit. secondly too, mother f8cker using aj and dash's 8ad dresses as proof against me. as if that's not jut proof they have no fashion sense-ALMOST LIKE THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE F8CKING EPISODE! THAT THEY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY WANTED 8ECAUSE THEY DIDN'T TRUST THEIR FASHION FRIEND TO JUST MAKE SOMETHING NICE FOR THEM, WHICH THEY ENDED UP GOING WITH AND H8TED THEIR OWN VERSIONS ONCE THEY REALIZED THEY WERE GAUDY AS SH8T, NOT TO MENTION IN THE FUTURE THEY CONTINUE TO WEAR DRESSES, AND IT'S NOT LIKE RAR8TY COULDN'T GO FOR A 8UTCH LOOK FOR THEM IF THEY WANTED, SHE IS NOT SOLELY A DRESS MAKER SHE DOES SUITS AS WELL SHE'S VERSATILE DRESSES AS JUST HER FAVOR8, GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! NOW! YOU DISGRACE! LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND QUESTION WHERE YOU F8CKING WENT WRONG WITH YOUR LIFE! I SPIT ON YOU!