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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39120 on: June 19, 2012, 01:30:57 pm »

Yeah, I noticed. There's the ~ATH book, the Jujubbles candies, Doc Scratch's gun holster, and that's pretty much all the stuff I've noticed worth noticing. And the broken chess board of course.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39121 on: June 19, 2012, 03:00:41 pm »

Just finished updating myself...
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39122 on: June 19, 2012, 03:24:27 pm »

Yeah, I noticed. There's the ~ATH book, the Jujubbles candies, Doc Scratch's gun holster, and that's pretty much all the stuff I've noticed worth noticing. And the broken chess board of course.

Accept for the fact that she seems to be chained?
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39123 on: June 19, 2012, 03:25:06 pm »

The candies for those who want a better look.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39124 on: June 19, 2012, 03:47:11 pm »

Jujubes are the best candy.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39125 on: June 19, 2012, 03:53:25 pm »

so for some reason I have been inspired to write an AU fic where the Cavalreapers invade earth and cause a new ice age.

Dave is an air force pilot.

Yeeeeeaaaahhhh.

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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39126 on: June 19, 2012, 05:22:36 pm »

so for some reason I have been inspired to write an AU fic where the Cavalreapers invade earth and cause a new ice age.

Dave is an air force pilot.

Yeeeeeaaaahhhh.

The only problem is, you have to somehow explain why Bro did NOT stop the invasion single-handedly.
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This being Homestuck, I'm not sure whether that's post-scratch Rose or Vriska with a wig.

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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39127 on: June 19, 2012, 05:25:49 pm »

so for some reason I have been inspired to write an AU fic where the Cavalreapers invade earth and cause a new ice age.

Dave is an air force pilot.

Yeeeeeaaaahhhh.

The only problem is, you have to somehow explain why Bro did NOT stop the invasion single-handedly.

He's busy rap-battling their space forces.

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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39128 on: June 19, 2012, 05:26:52 pm »

Orbital Brombardment.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39129 on: June 19, 2012, 05:37:40 pm »

Wait, is one of those books a copy of Colonel Sassacre's Daunting Text? It's a darker shade of green than John's copy (and a much more green shade of green), though, and the pages are orange.
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« Reply #39130 on: June 19, 2012, 06:55:10 pm »

So, been doing some thinking on the nature of the 4th wall throughout the story. Homestuck started as a story that recognized reader input both in where the plot went, and even by the characters themselves. The characters made references to Hussie's earlier works, and the story recognized the author himself as a character (and a mortal one at that). Now, with how Calliope refers to the kids as "characters", and the fact that she seems to be reading the comic like us, it gets me thinking...

Calli's personality seems to represent fandom in response to a story, specifically to Homestuck. Suppose that Calli and/or her brother become Lord English, and that killing Hussie was a way for her/them to literally alter the plot in an authorial way, as some kind of supercharged 4th-wall-breaking fanfic writer who "assembles followers (ie. fans) to destroy universes (ie. stories) he has marked for predation".

It resonates with Hussie's thoughts regarding user-driven content, and the importance of an author exercising control over it... having the ultimate antagonist of a 4th-wall-breaking story be a fandom which reverse-breaks the fourth wall, and for all their love for it destroys the universe.

Basically, my theory is that we are Lord English, and we were already here.
« Last Edit: June 19, 2012, 07:19:17 pm by Solifuge »
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« Reply #39131 on: June 19, 2012, 07:41:07 pm »

That's very insightful.  However...

When it comes to Lord English, who knows?

Lord English exists outside of time, can command beings at will to arrange the events that bring about his own entry, knows all, sees all, and cannot be confronted by any power in the story.

I was so ahead of the curve, Hussie wasn't even planning on proto-English being a character when I knew it would be a stand-in for the reader.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39132 on: June 19, 2012, 08:35:39 pm »

Spoiler: Warstuck pt. 1 (click to show/hide)

Next part is going to be Rose as a UK ship captain and Jade as a cold sniper.

WIN.

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« Reply #39133 on: June 19, 2012, 10:04:11 pm »

Curses, Aqizzar! Just when I though my epeen was the greatest...

Though to be fair, this theory is several months old. I just got a few more pieces to flesh it out a bit. My ego can rest at east:
So... InB4 Lord English kills Hussie, starts writing the comic, and runs the last chapter of the story as a hellish character-action-determined-by-reader-submission Adventure Game, with no holds on remaining character death or plot-incompleteness barred?

That's about the only way the story could get more meta. "Universes he has marked for predation" indeed... apparently these universes are stories, and Lord English wrecks them.

Anyway, been rereading bits and pieces of Homestuck lately, and found Vriska's first conversations with John. In hindsight, it's a lot more adorable now.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: Vol. 9 Album
« Reply #39134 on: June 19, 2012, 10:36:00 pm »

small update, captchalogs and stardust ahoy.
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