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Yammering: thinking about that post pointing out how the Felt Manor map was lifted from Resident Evil and wondering if there's anything to do with that. Was the name Itchy for the first member of the Felt not just pun on the Japanese number 1 "ichi", but also a reference to the zombie phrase "itchy, tasty"? Apparently one of the games featured an RNA virus called Uroboros that was supposed to advance a eugenic project, advancing compatible humans unto a Master Race (and killing the rest) -- is that why the Auryn in the trickster lollipop creates a viral whiteness? Is that why the serpentine Cherubim have RNA's Uracil in their chathandles instead of GCAT? Is Dave straight up /supposed/ to look like Wesker?

The first game's on sale for 5 bucks so I might pick it up if only to ground my expectations.

#hoho!

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Yammering: thinking about that post pointing out how the Felt Manor map was lifted from Resident Evil and wondering if there's anything to do with that. Was the name Itchy for the first member of the Felt not just pun on the Japanese number 1 "ichi", but also a reference to the zombie phrase "itchy, tasty"? Apparently one of the games featured an RNA virus called Uroboros that was supposed to advance a eugenic project, advancing compatible humans unto a Master Race (and killing the rest) -- is that why the Auryn in the trickster lollipop creates a viral whiteness? Is that why the serpentine Cherubim have RNA's Uracil in their chathandles instead of GCAT? Is Dave straight up /supposed/ to look like Wesker?

The first game's on sale for 5 bucks so I might pick it up if only to ground my expectations.

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📢Official Stuck at Home Con 2024 announcement mega-thread!

SAHCon will be happening this year on July 20th, 2024, with the Friday Showcase on July 19th!

Links to applications for everything below!

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Deadlines for all applications are May 17th, 2024 at 11:59 pm Eastern time!

Note that this is just the deadline to APPLY - you don't have to have everything done for the showcase or your panel by then!

We'll be posting more announcements about guests, events, and more as we get closer to SAHCon!

#sahcon 2024

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You know if you subscribe to any kind of ‘troll computers are brains / brainlike / compatible with troll brains’ ideology, you could probably see chucklevoodoos as having applications almost similar to automatic administrator privileges, even just from what we’ve seen in canon; the ability to read and exploit weaknesses, spawn in items and remotely override and puppet the system are all pretty examples.

Basically what I’m saying is, chucklevoodoo users are basically biotech hackers and I’m ashamed the idea didn’t come to me sooner.

#lime-bloods has a lot of writing on Alternia's biotech so I'm revisiting #this reference to programming as a means of inflicting Terror lines up with my thoughts nicely #others analysis #homestuck commentary #east mapping

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The most important character in Homestuck fondly regards the miracle of a new beginning.

The most what? Important what?

Curveball after curveball. So far, Gamzee has done nothing noteworthy. He's a silly stoner who likes to drink Faygo and hang out in the background of the comic. The only thing I can think of that might make him important is - and I can't believe I'm saying this - he's one of the most meta-aware characters in the comic.

Is this something more than a joke, after all? Has Gamzee's sopor abuse actually granted him a more profound awareness of reality?

...oh my god. I just realized something genuinely bone-chilling.

He's looking directly at Homestuck's Fourth Wall.

Let's move on. I need time to digest the fucking implications of this.

Oh, shit!

Up until now, Becsprite could be counted on to project Jade from perils such as this - but Becsprite's no longer in the building.

Doc Scratch? Here?

This is exactly what we don’t need right now.

"The kingdom of heaven is within you."

What a strange and specific choice for Hussie to make, when deciding what should be visible through Homestuck's Fourth Wall.

#ooh sweet catch #gamzee #4th wall

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Haha Kanaya's face starts emitting light after she becomes Hole-y

#there is a probably a serious way to address this #but for now I just have jokes

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Murad II had a dogshit tughra. very off-balance. terrible

#they can't all be winners

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Hilya (Votive Tablet). second half of 18th century. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/447313

#hilya are dope #calligraphic descriptions of muhammad in lieu of portraiture #east mapping

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Read the translation below:

“Ali said the following things when he described the Prophet: ‘The Prophet was neither excessively tall nor extremely short. He was of medium height. His hair was neither curly nor wavy.  It was not too curly nor was it straight. It was both curly and wavy. His face was not swollen or meaty. It was fairly round. His mouth was white. He had black eyes that were large with long lashes. His joints were rather large. He had little hairs that stood up, extending from his chest down to his navel, but the rest of his body was almost hairless. He had thick palms and thick fingers and toes. When walking, he lifted his feet off the ground as if he were walking in muddy water. When he turned, he turned completely. The Seal of Prophethood was between his shoulders. That was the sign of the fact that he was the last Prophet.’” Prophet Muhammad was known as the most generous, the most righteous, and the friendliest of all people, and one with a mild nature. Those who saw him were taken aback by his grandeur, however those who knew his high virtues would love Him more than anything else while conversing with him. A person who tried to depict Muhammad’s superiority and beauty would state their inability and incapability to represent him correctly, saying “I have never even seen a person like him. May the grace and peace of Allah be upon him!”

Hilya of the Prophet SAW.

#illustration

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Short video from 2015 on a guy making an all-Arabic programming language called Qalb ("heart"). Most notable to me is his reflection on how the flowing form of Arabic allows words to be stretched out for aesthetic purposes (like justifying paragraphs) without changing the semantic content -- a practice called kashida or tatwil (Persian and Arabic terms, respectively, both meaning 'stretching'). To whatever degree the troll quirks borrow from Arabic script, this seems to be the feature that best maps to Vriska's "overdramaaaaaaaatic statements".

#links #homestuck commentary #east mapping #vriska #Youtube

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@vexingsibilant says: C++ is also a programming language.

An excellent point!! And it's a high-level language too, which puts it in the same league as LISP and FORTRAN, which determine the quirks of the Captors...

Okay, so Karkat having an inaccessible (ie illegible) sylladex and failing to understand the ~ATH handbook are both symptoms of his function as the normative Christian figure in an othered Islamic environment. Sollux's code proficiency (and his Lisp) could then be understood as corollaries of the Twin Tower jokes around his character, doubling as Arabic signifiers? Likewise Mituna's 4chan/Fortran quirk would go hand-in-hand with his helmeted falls from the skateboard, which misrepresent a turbaned head falling to a rug in prayer. When the Sburb code on C+ island was represented as hieroglyphs, the medium was the message: "Oriental language is an esoteric code". See also Damara

Left to my own devices, I was gonna plug the potential "island/islam" pun into the phrase "butler island" and try to connect Dune's "Butlerian Jihad" against thinking machines to Alternia's ubiquitous biotech, but this is way more straight forward, comparatively

Insofar as the Genesis Frog is represented in its temple form as being orbited by numerous planets, does it represent a star? Despite officially being an entire universe... we eventually see a star composed of universes, but that's a bit flakey as a basis for collapsing the two.

I ask because I'm wondering whether Jade/Jake's island is an abstracted star-and-crescent ☪️, a symbol commonly associated with Islam. It would be thematically consistent with my post from last week posing the twin volcanoes as camel humps...? And it would form a clear line of association with the frog temples by Aradia (Indiana Jones > Egypt excavation) and Kanaya (desert oasis)

#still kinda ogling the jihad tho #since the story is obviously attached to the Evil Robot Takeover narrative for various purposes #homestuck commentary #east mapping

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Man... so I'm reading a list of Arabic star names, right. The name Fomalhaut (part of Pisces) apparently derives from Fum al-Hut, meaning "mouth of the whale". And the star Algebar was originally (Rijl) ul-Jabbar, "(foot) of the giant".

So I'm surmising that naming your desert king "Jabba the Hut" is akin to christening them "Big McLarge".

#movies #star wars #bubbles #east mapping

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Insofar as the Genesis Frog is represented in its temple form as being orbited by numerous planets, does it represent a star? Despite officially being an entire universe... we eventually see a star composed of universes, but that's a bit flakey as a basis for collapsing the two.

I ask because I'm wondering whether Jade/Jake's island is an abstracted star-and-crescent ☪️, a symbol commonly associated with Islam. It would be thematically consistent with my post from last week posing the twin volcanoes as camel humps...? And it would form a clear line of association with the frog temples by Aradia (Indiana Jones > Egypt excavation) and Kanaya (desert oasis)

#literally occurred to me because I found a Homestuck post where someone misspelled island as islam #accidental error is a great way to discover possible puns #homestuck commentary #east mapping

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SOME SKETCHES👁️👁️👁️👁️

#a splendid rose

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I wonder if her being a drug dealer is an "alchemist" joke too

The red scare motifs in Hiveswap persuaded me that the dog motifs around Elwurd were a Laika reference (a second L-word to complement Lesbian), but knowing now that the superposition of girls and dogs is sort of the point ("huge bitch"), I wonder if its (also?) a Full Metal Alchemist reference -- there's a certain dog-girl in there famous for saying "Edward". Hence her relationship with Bronya Ursama (Armored Momma Bear), whose clapping gesture references the alchemy of Alphonse Elric, a boy who was often armor-pregnant (and was under frequent threat of armor abortion).

Also even if "Edward" is positioned as an dog-girl's enunciation, having "Alphonse" break up with "Edward" adds a vague incestuous overtone to remind us that trolls usually share the same mother, which is nice.

#elwurd

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I was listening to an Eastern Orthodox rebuttal to iconoclasm on youtube and he pulls up near the end with a "If it's evil to depict the idea of God as an image instead of word, what do you have to say to logographic languages? Are you calling Chinese bibles demonic?" Lovely countermove