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As I post the latest chapter of Breaking Mirrors, I realize I am in an unanticipated and uneasy situation where my work is now more forgiving toward Vris.ka than the end of the real comic

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It’s been 84 years, but... TLC update is here! 1 page. 

Track is Homestuck by Mark Hadley. 

Thanks as always to the indomitable @ltparsons for tech work, including preparing us for the tragic passing of Adobe Flash. 

Working on tumblr mirror now. The accessible version is a few updates behind, but the described version will be available at Accessible TLC stuck. 

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JOHN: i know i am! JOHN: thanks, karkat. JOHN: now that we've all agreed though, can we agree on at least a five minute break? JOHN: we've gone through a lot, after all. DAVE: as far as im concerned this is a vacation DAVE: spring out the towels and parasols im getting my beach episode ROXY: not 2 mention SOME PEOPLE havent had their bday party yet!!! JAKE: Thats right! JAKE: Jane after yesterdays debacle we really have to throw you the best bash ever. JADE: johns last birthday was kind of a mess... DAVESPRITE: i said i was sorry JOHN: just as long as there is no cake. JANE: I like cake! JOHN: ok, you can have cake. but i won't eat it. KARKAT: I'LL EAT IT. KARKAT: YOU DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW WHAT EVERYONE ON OUR ROCK OF DESPAIR HAS BEEN RELYING ON FOR SUSTENANCE. KARKAT: IT'S DISGUSTING. KANAYA: Jade Recently Introduced Me To Her Planets Fresh Fruit KANAYA: Its True We Have Been Missing Out ROSE: I'm afraid as ambassadors of Earth's culinary tradition Dave and I weren't ideal. ROSE: My specialty is microwave dinners. DAVE: i dont know what youre talking about lunchables are great JADE: we can probably find some things to eat ROXY: and all the party prep stuff from yesterday is still lying around ROXY: 4 sale party hats nvr worn :( DIRK: Well that clinches it, we're not getting out of this one. JOHN: then let's have fun!

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ARADIA: wed better be on our way! ARADIA: no one wants to get trapped as a ghost like i did SOLLUX: h0w did that happen anyway? SOLLUX: that wasn't n0rmal. SOLLUX: 0h wait, n0thing ab0ut 0ur lives 0r deaths is ever n0rmal, what was i expecting? SOLLUX: f0rget i asked. ARADIA: will do! KARKAT: WHERE ARE YOU GOING? NEPETA: :33 < were not sure exactly! EQUIUS: D-> Our e%istence trapped in this void was temporary EQUIUS: D-> It is my understanding we now proceed to a more permanent rest EQUIUS: D-> Or something ERIDAN: or somethin ERIDAN: thats highblood code for wwe dont knoww FEFERI: Don't give away caste secrets like that, S)(-E-ES)(. FEFERI: I'm s)(ore we'll be fine. NEPETA: :33 < well catch up with everyone whos gone already KARKAT: OH. OK. KARKAT: WELL KARKAT: I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER LEADER. KARKAT: ONE WHO COULD HAVE GOTTEN YOU ALL THROUGH THIS ALIVE. KARKAT: BUT I'M GLAD I GOT TO SAY GOODBYE. KARKAT: ... TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES? KARKAT: IF THAT'S A THING YOU CAN DO OUT THERE. TAVROS: wE WILL,, NEPETA: :33 < and i think you did a purretty good job leading us whatefur you say TEREZI: T3LL VR1SK4 1 S41D H1 JOHN: oh, if you see my dad, could you... JOHN: wow, what should i say first? JOHN: i should have written a letter or something. TAVROS: i THINK, vOLUNTEERING TO CARRY MESSAGES, tO DEARLY DEPARTED LOVED ONES, aND COLLECTING LETTERS OR WHATNOT TAVROS: wOULD BE BAD FORM, sINCE WE CAN'T GUARANTEE MEETING THEM, oR EVEN KNOWING WHERE WE'RE GOING TAVROS: bUT IF WE SEE THEM, wE WILL CERTAINLY PASS ON WELL WISHES, iN A GENERAL SENSE KANAYA: So This Is Goodbye Then FEFERI: In a way. NEPETA: :33 < you had better believe we will s33 you again NEPETA: :33 < thats what i told equius and it was true EQUIUS: D-> Sometimes it just takes a while longer TAVROS: cATCH UP WITH US, wHEN YOU'RE HAPPY, wITH THE TIME THAT YOU'VE HAD, aND READY FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT ERIDAN: take your time ARADIA: ok everyone, make sure youre well within the margins of the bubble

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ROSE: And it's been hanging over our heads the whole time. JAKE: Hold on a tick! JAKE: I may be a newcomer to all this cosmic mythology but i recall being informed that skaia was one of the good guys. ROSE: Informed by who? JAKE: Well... by our sprites and some of the carvings in the ruins and things like that. HALSPRITE: Everyone knows we game guides are completely trustworthy. DIRK: Wait, are you working for an even bigger bad? HALSPRITE: No. But there are certain things I can't say, or have to be party to. HALSPRITE: We've been over this, remember? HALSPRITE: My ectoplasm is still sore from your Emperor Palpatine tantrum. KANAYA: Skaia Controls The Narrative We Are Privy To KANAYA: Especially For Prospit Heroes Who Gain Glimpses In The Clouds During The Eclipse KANAYA: I Thought Those Images Were Random KANAYA: But JADE: but its pretty suspicious that it kept so much of the bad stuff from me! JADE: i might not have been so eager to play otherwise JADE: even if its not like we ever had a choice :/ JADE: and the other calliope said she had a hand in choosing those images soooo DAVE: i thought skaia "sees and knows" and couldnt do jack shit DAVE: howd we get from there to here JADE: we didnt know until today that skaia had a "cherub behind the curtain" :o CALLIOPE: after her speech i'm not sUre whether skaia reflects her will entirely or is only inspired by it. CALLIOPE: bUt it is not a neUtral actor. CALLIOPE: and she admitted to having a hand in the rUles of the game that broUght Us here. ROSE: Feferi mentioned the gods might have had something to do with it as well. ROSE: Aradia, do you know anything about that? ARADIA: i suspected something like it ARADIA: it made sense, considering derse dreamers role as emissaries to the noble circle and each incipispheres presence nestled within the furthest ring ARADIA: how they struck that deal or what it involved i dont know though DIRK: The point is, this game didn't come out of nowhere. DIRK: Someone had to make it. KANAYA: So To Clarify KANAYA: If The Other Cherub Is Skaia You Wish To Depose Her KANAYA: But If She Is The Consciousness Guiding Skaia You Would Replace Her Instead CALLIOPE: hold on. CALLIOPE: i don't trUst myself with that kind of responsibility. JANE: I'm not sure anyone should be! JAKE: Yes its like galadriel getting the ring! JOHN: if you don't make yourself the person in charge, but skaia has like... what did you call it? JOHN: a consciousness? JOHN: could you give it a conscience? KARKAT: HOLD UP. KARKAT: I KNOW ROSE ALREADY CAME TO ME PEDDLING THIS LATEST HERESY BUT I THINK IT OUGHT TO AT LEAST COME TO A VOTE. KARKAT: THIS COULD HAVE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES, AND THE DOOR IS RIGHT THERE. KARKAT: IF ANYONE DOESN'T WANT TO RISK THEIR LIVES FOR THIS, SPEAK NOW. JANE: Could we get a description of what this plan actually /is/? ROSE: We'll need to work the details out. KARKAT: SHE WANTS TO MEDDLE WITH THE GENESIS FROG'S DNA. KARKAT: LIKE THAT WENT SO WELL LAST TIME. DAVE: the tadpoles already flown the coop on that one DAVE: unless you want to send john all the way back to our breeding session JOHN: oh come on, i can't be the solution to EVERYONE'S problems. ROSE: I wasn't going to suggest that. ROSE: Once we have a better grasp of what we want to change, we have someone with an even better skillset for reshaping reality to our liking. CALLIOPE: my other self got Us into this mess. CALLIOPE: i don't know how exactly bUt it's only fitting i get Us oUt of it. ROXY: soooo ROXY: we need 2 come up w/ a world we like ARADIA: without breaking too much ARADIA: this system works for what its designed to do ARADIA: you cant abolish it entirely without some kind of replacement SOLLUX: she's saying maybe d0n't torch the place with0ut at least reading the manual. ROXY: so we gotta reverse engineer it ROXY: sounds like a plan 2 me JAKE: I could take another look at those carvings... JANE: /clears throat/ JANE: I think Karkat is right, we should have a show of hands. JANE: Everyone in favor of pursuing this? ROXY: this game sux ass ROXY: if i can stop more doomed ppl gettin axed just bc they were in the wrong place then im gonna do it ROXY: count me in DAVE: wait i thought english was the guy behind most of our doomed timelines DAVE: with his alpha timeline forcing everyone to make one set of decisions DAVE: didnt we beat him and get rid of that JAKE: I think its fair to say calliope did! CALLIOPE: ^U^ ARADIA: its true that his influence generated far more fruitless offshots than would exist otherwise ARADIA: and constricted our paths to prioritize a single narrative ARADIA: but timeline dooming is always a mechanism available to players ARADIA: and the game sets up certain loops on its own ROSE: Lord English isn't the one who sent meteors to destroy our planet. JOHN: no he isn't. JOHN: and that's not fair, that is not what any of us signed up for. JOHN: i've been rewriting rules all day, and this sounds like a great one to get rid of. JOHN: i'll help you guys out. DAVE: well then DAVE: might as well go two for two TEREZI: SK414S T4ST3S 4R3 DR4CON14N 3V3N FOR M3 TEREZI: WH4T K1ND OF JUST1C3 SO W4NTONLY T4RG3TS 1NNOC3NTS TEREZI: 1 WOULDNT M1ND T4K1NG 1T DOWN 4 P3G JADE: i dont know how long ill have my first guardian powers back, but im willing to use them JADE: no one should be treated like pawns no matter what your justification is ROSE: My anti-authoritarian streak is already common knowledge. ROSE: I guess they were right warning you away from dreamers from the wrong side of the tracks. ROSE: Derse is a hotbed for radicalism. DIRK: It must run in the family. DIRK: Why do away with a good tradition? HALSPRITE: There's no way I'd turn down an opportunity to fuck with a fundamental component of the universe. KANAYA: Creation Is Under My Jurisdiction KANAYA: But Creation Pursued At Any Cost Can Be Just As Destructive As Intentional Violence KANAYA: Maybe I Can Put My Inclinations To Pacify Dangerous Forces To Good Use JAKE: Im through with being shoved around! JAKE: If this will help some other people out there in the multiverse who might get saddled with all this games expectations then i think its our duty to try. JANE: What kind of Empress would I be if I didn't try to secure the best possible future for whoever comes after us? JANE: Besides, I've sat back in the face of tyranny long enough. NANNASPRITE: I have too. DAVESPRITE: my programming wont allow me to participate in this DAVESPRITE: nah im just fucking with you lets kill the suffering orb ARADIA: ive spent a long time doing things because they had to be done ARADIA: to fulfill some time loop or the will of the game ARADIA: it would be nice to make a momentous decision on my own for once CALLIOPE: my other self said i woUld never be a proper mUse, bUt i take issUe with her methods. CALLIOPE: i think it's proper to set them right. SOLLUX: i feel like i'm c0ming into this discussi0n missing a lot of c0ntext but if it means we'll get a move 0n, sure. SOLLUX: sgrub 0r skaia or whatever cosmic f0rce we're ganging up on can suck my bulge. TEREZI: COM3 ON K4RK4T YOU KNOW YOU W4NT TO KARKAT: I GUESS MY REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTOR WOULD BE ASHAMED OF ME OTHERWISE. KARKAT: EVEN IF HE WAS KIND OF A JACKASS. KARKAT: AND THIS GAME HAS BEEN PRETTY TERRIBLE. KARKAT: LET'S JUST TRY NOT TO GET ANYONE KILLED THIS TIME. KARKAT: OK, WE'VE ALL GOT OUR HANDS UP NOW. KARKAT: THIS STIRRING SHOW OF CAMARADERIE WILL MOVE THE HEAVENS. KARKAT: "LOOK, THEY HAVE THEIR HANDS RAISED! WE WERE WRONG. GIVE THEM WHATEVER THEY ASK FOR, AND PASS ME THE TISSUES." KARKAT: GOOD JOB TEAM. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY WITH YOURSELVES.

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ROSE: And your efforts are appreciated. ROSE: If it's any consolation, I don't see anything like that coming. TEREZI: M3 N31TH3R TEREZI: W3 4R3 1N TH3 CL34R TEREZI: FOR ONC3 TH3 HOR1ZON LOOKS... BR1GHT TEREZI: 4ND 1 DONT TH1NK TH3 GLOW 1S 4N ONCOM1NG J4CK KANAYA: Is There A Reason You Do Not Wish To Proceed ROXY: wellll ROXY: no1 rly knows what were gonna find on the other side ROXY: i wouldnt mind taking a liiiiitle bit of a breather b4 we jump in JADE: i wouldnt mind a few more minutes either JADE: what if were supposed to be all godly right away? JADE: i dont feel very godly at the moment JAKE: I'm not eager to throw myself into some new battle situation! Or whatever it is that we pop out into. JAKE: At least here is a known quantity. SOLLUX: aa are y0u g0ing t0 remind them 0f their c0smic duty s0 they'll g0 thr0ugh the g0ddamn d00r already and end the suspense? ARADIA: nope! i dont see any harm in a small delay, and everyone has earned a rest ARADIA: weve got all the time in the world

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