Homestuck Re-read Part 16: LESBIANS
Today has been fucking exhausting. My setup for doing cyanotype prints is not super efficient (those stairs keep happening). I needed to 3d print a sharps bin at the same time. I got started late so I had to rush it all. Most of this is my fault.
I think worst of all, I only got 1 good cyanotype result today which was really annoying. If you're interested, you can see it here There's a rather annoying lack of contrast on the best one around the upper cloud layer; It's not as bad in person but it's still lower then I'd necessarily like.
I think I want to try out a few more alternate photography processes at some point. I've had a container of tumeric staring at me hoping I'll use it for anthotypes for a while, but I've recently learned about carbon printing which seems, very highly involved but has the possibility for multiple colours.
Anyway, enough about photo processing and more about Homestuck.
WINDSWEPT QUESTANT
A character we haven't met yet, but who's opposite number we've seen two iterations of appears. The fourth exile appears in front of the giant egg from last time.
Dave is experimenting with the alchemiter jumper block/punchcard shunts. He gets a blender upgrade as well as a Gamebro upgrade. There is then a moment of genius where Jade uses the ghost-captchalougging(?) feature of her fetch modus to get a code for the punch designix to send to Dave for him to punch and insert into the shunt. It lets him type captcha codes directly into the alchemiter. There are further upgrades applied.
I think mechanics like this are one of the reasons I wanted to try running/making a Homestuck TTRPG. Interactions like this seem endlessly fun to me, it's just a pure creative exercise of trying random shit for interesting results. It's a shame how hard it is to get people together for a game, even when you're all trying to make it work the scheduling of sessions is just such a nightmare. I should talk to my friends about doing play by post or something, that could be a fun alternative to try for something like Homestuck/Sburb.
LESBIANS
While I was saying all of that about roleplaying, Terezi was trying to help John get shit done faster. Rose was fighting some very shiny imps and slaying ogres/
Dave is getting trolled by Kanaya in an attempt to extract information on human courtship. I'm genuinely surprised by how early in Homestuck Kanaya and Rose's relationship starts(? Would you describe this as 'starting'?) I thought it would have taken until the beta kids were with the trolls to start but we're less then 2000 pages in to Homestuck and it's already being laid out.
Oh god and now the lesbians are trolling eachother via temporal bullshit. I cannot believe Hussie is revealing my dating tips like this. Every date and girlfriend I've ever had I've got via complex manipulation of their feelings towards me by exploiting loose couplings of linear timelines. How am I gonna sell my pickup artist course now.
CASEY
I've never watched Con Air. I genuinely have no idea what the fuck it is about. I know that I love Casey the salamander, and that is all I know I need to know. Also hey the joke about troll movies having the same naming convention as Japanese light novels is here. Also this part:
CG: WELL WE DON'T OBVIOUSLY.
CG: IT'S LIKE SOMEONE SAYS, HEY GUYS WHY DON'T WE GO SEE A MOVIE, AND THEN EVERYONE JUST ENDS UP THERE.
is a reference to something specific but I cannot for the life of me remember what.
WV and AR are crowning the WQ. Incomprehensible statement. We see the White Queen in the present abdicate her throne.
LOLCATS
Rose talks with Jaspersprite and is initially extremely frustrated by her feline mannerisms. Rose you prototyped a cat. Another classpect is told to us: Rose is the Seer of Light. Swiftly followed by information about dreamselves(?) Rose needs to confront unfaced fears and intuitions about herself and all the shit she's scrawled on the walls.
Terezi and John discuss boolean subtraction. I imagine that Sollux's solution is probably just some form of brute-force search of some kind. They probably have fancy troll super computers or some shit. Do we ever get captcha codes for the cinder block, violin and plant pot?
Dave makes a bad decision on his second prototyping and John goes off to the seventh gate.
END OF UPD8
This is the end of today's upd8.
Thank you for joining me for tonight's Homestuck. I will see all of you again, very soon.