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Ask Comp 19/10

That's true - we don't know for sure that Trollian can fully emulate Sburb's surveillance capabilities.

If the trolls were sufficiently motivated, though, they wouldn't actually need to. Sollux could probably hack one of the kids' computers, to gain access to their Sburb viewport - although if he did, he wouldn't need a camera to snoop on their messages.

Is there a paranoia Aspect? I think I've finally found my calling.

anonymous asked: heya! ive just finished re-reading your ENtIRE liveblog and i to send asks about some stuff but i waited to finish so im sendind everything at once! (im gonna send stuff in a bunch of small asks so cat can stop just one instead of the whole thing in case of accidental spoilers) (aslo hi cat!) (also its ninnoy, havent sent an ask in a while but i changed my pfp to something slightly more spoilery so im in anon now) [...] the jade pen pal thing, do you have any new theories on who it could be?

None! I'm sure that it's someone derived from Grandpa Harley, but everything else is a mystery.

I have no particular theories about who he is, how he knows Jade, where he got his hands on so many endgame weapons, or why he's got such an antiquated accent if he's watching movies from the 80s. I assume time travel is involved, but that doesn't really narrow anything down in a comic like this. He (she? they?) is a complete enigma, and I'll just have to wait to learn more.

ALsO WHEREs YOUR sONAs? we havent seen them in so long im afraid sahlle might have actueally died of meteor strike (joking of course) also have you realized that "sally" and "cat" are both one letter of from a valid kid name? you could lend her one of your "L"s

I've actually been workshopping some Quest stuff for Sahlee this week! I suppose I'd need to figure out her Title first, though, and for that, I'd need to get a more solid idea of her personality, and how her experiences on Alternia have shaped her.

in one of your last posts you seemed to imply that the multiverse exists inside the timeline, but ive always read it as the opposite, the timeline inside the universe that would explain why the trolls can pick any time from the humans universe to talk to them but cant have private conversations with their own futute/past selves, its not an inherent part of trollian, they are just outside the human timeline (the memos are still trollian being time fucky) dont know if that makes any difference but its a thought also i realize the tag may be unecessary due to my quirk, but its too late to stop now

(NOTE: quirk omitted for readability, but the substitutions are [t -> 7, s -> 2] - sort of a variant of Sollux's quirk. I actually don't think we've seen any quirks which add a 7, so the voice here is distinct from any trolls we've seen so far. I like it!)

Originally, my assumption was that each timeline contained a duplicate of the entire multiverse. Doomed timelines don't seem to let you communicate with other universes/dimensions, though, so they don't need to contain other sectors of reality. I'm currently of the opinion that doomed timelines only contain an instance of the dimension they were doomed in. The only timeline which contains the entire multiverse is the Alpha.

This mechanic keeps doomed timelines simple, but in-universe, I don't know why it exists. Much like the Alpha itself, it's a mystery I can only speculate about.

has the shipping chart been updated since the last time we saw it? also you (at some point) said that equius<>feferi was a controversial ship so i had to go back to check the notes and i was the only person i found talkig about it so i guess im the whole controversy? if thats the case i would like to thank you for recognizing me as the equius<>feferi number 1 hater (all jokes of course)

I got a few skeptical asks about Equius<>Feferi, but you're the only one who discussed it on the post itself. I guess by some measures, you are the most dedicated hater, because your hate was posted publicly! 🤣

I could make one or two changes, but I don't want to post a new chart until the kids meet the trolls in person, hopefully at the end of the Act!

The Scratch, naturally - but I'm also looking forward to seeing exactly how WV was Exiled. He's currently on Skaia, and Jack has lost interest in him, so who's actually sending him through the portal?

Tavros is barely a presence on the Land he's ostensibly the hero of, and all of his actions are being dictated by a third party who can physically control his body. This third party does not acknowledge or respect Tavros's own desires, effectively forcing him to play the game in a way that she personally approves of.

She claims it will make him stronger.

@bladekindeyewear submitted: That was a long, thorough, and fantastic response! It's fascinating seeing your opinion on these things-- and I'm glad to see that considering the questions we've given you seems to have made you more paranoid. But I'm just not entirely sure you're paranoid ENOUGH. Not yet. Much like how you just found that "BREEZE" quote in your Breath research, back at around the time you've now reached in the comic, we had dozens of theory-miners combing back through everything that had been said and shown in Homestuck, over and over again, searching for anything we might have missed that might have been of some importance. [...] So, uh….. how do I put this… Would you prefer to strictly handle that sort of thing all by yourself, as you've said? Which I'd agree is still the best way that you should keep to, for the most part? Or would you mind if I gave you just a CRUMB of an example, only one? A tiny bit of text that we in the theory community only found at about the time you've reached in the comic, even though it was more than a thousand pages earlier?

Shit, this is such a dilemma. I'm honestly really torn.

See, I'd probably find old fandom theories absolutely fascinating to analyze. I'd love to know how closely my ideas align with those of the early Homestuck fandom, and whether I'm saying anything really out-of-pocket. My analysis of Sollux's ~ATH script was apparently an original theory, and it's honestly one my proudest moments.

But that's also sort of the problem, isn't it? If I dive too deeply into other people's fan theories, they'll start to affect my own - and if I'm introduced to a really compelling fan theory, it could end up replacing any homegrown theories that I could have developed in lieu of it. If someone had send me a well-reasoned ~ATH theory before I did my own analysis, I'd probably have been less motivated to make the analysis in the first place. After all, many of my questions would already have been answered by a clever theory I just read.

People are free to send me their own off-the-cuff opinions on what's happening in the comic, or their own takes on any meta I write. I get a lot of asks like that, and they're some of my favorites. There are also asks which spoil a little too much, but I'm still interested in their takes, so Cat's saving them for later. We don't really delete asks - we just delay the ones that aren't necessarily appropriate for a blind liveblog.

Obviously there's a fine line here, and whether a given ask is a theory or just an opinion is a little subjective - but in my opinion, the influence that asks and submissions have had on my analysis has been relatively minor. I don't think many of my theories have been spawned from an ask, or killed by one.

This is a little different, though, because it's part of a theory that was crowdsourced over several years. It doesn't sound like something that could be inferred by an individual, so I'm not sure if it's something an individual liveblogger should necessarily know about? If I start crowdsourcing my analysis, my theories will be less Wertsearch and more fandom consensus, and I don't think I'd enjoy that as much.

I really want to know, but I think I'll enjoy the liveblog more if I don't. When I finish the comic, I'll gleefully analyze any fan theory that anyone sends me - but for now, I'll just have to wonder, and come up with theories of my own!

Yeah, we've really been getting into it with Vriska lately. I've enjoyed trying to explain and predict her actions, and I'm glad people don't think I'm going overboard when trying to analyze her.

When a character does something interesting, I don't like to move on until I have a theory about why they did it. Sure, it may be refuted later, but it needs to be something that's consistent with what I currently know about their personality.

Vriska takes a particularly long time to puzzle out in this way. Her motivations are derived from a complex web (lol) of factors, including Scratch, Spidermom, her rivalry with Terezi, her horrendous relationship with Tavros, classism, teenage hormones, quadrant politics, highblood society and the Alternian culture of violence. They all inform her decisions, and any combination of them could have been the catalyst for the latest Vriska Incident.

I want characters to make sense to me, and Vriska is written to deliberately challenge my attempt to achieve this. Her meta is fun to write, so I'm glad it's also fun to read!

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LMAO what makes you think you know anything about my life to send this in???????// you literally said you were reconsidering friendships because they don’t want to hear about the genocide. Are you drunk or just stupid? Plus this white woman crying bit is annoying. Pick and choose your genocides and then get butthurt when others don’t care. Maybe your friends have already dropped you, boo.

Oh honey

I have a few things to say

First of all; maybe if you had friends you wouldn't be spending your time sending in hateful anons to a person on the internet you don't even know.

You know literally nothing about me. Do you realize that? Fun fact! Mandy isn't even my fucking name. Because this is a site where I am anonymous, which means that you know nothing truly personally identifying about me, including my actual name or where I come from. So for you to assume you know anything about me, or my life, or what I am like, or what my friends are like, is simply ludicruous. My pfp is a fucking animation??? You think you know anything about me, at all???? You are delulu.

Second of all, I spent all of tonight with my friends. Here's something that's actually, inherently true about me: I spent time tonight with friends I have known for 8 years and all they did was talk about their job. We used to work together, that's how we became friends, but now I am in law school and working at a law firm while they have ended up in the same field, working for the same franchise, which means they know the same people.

so for basically five hours they talked about THEIR job and THEIR colleagues. And I smiled and nodded along, despite knowing literally nothing about any of the people they talked about. Did I mention this gathering was held at my house? So they came to see me, they said, "I miss you" and that's why we hung out.

Then, as they were leaving, I said (and this is a direct quote)

"As you're waiting for the bus, or sitting on the bus, or taking the subway, I encourage you to watch my stories to educate yourselves on the genocide happening in Palestine because it is important."

I said this because

I had not mentioned the genocide happening in Palestine for one SINGLE moment during our time spent together

One of those friends have actively dismissed me in the past when I tried to have a conversation about it, but it was early on and they said they "did not know anything about it and didn't care to know more"

I study law, and currently international law, which makes me arguably the most educated person about this particular topic in the room

I recently had a 2 hour long facetime with a friend of mine (also known as Taylor, from my book The Stranger) where he said "I do not understand whats happening, could you please try and explain it" and I did so, because he wanted to hear it, and it changed his world view

What is happening around the world, political and humanity wise, is important to me, and they both know that

When I brought this up, the friend who had previously dismissed me once then said "Oh my god, would you stop posting about that? I am so sick of seeing it on your story, from now on you will have to message me to tell me what parts of your story I should watch because I am so sick of seeing that shit"

I replied "I won't stop posting about it until Palestine is free"

She said "Well, I will watch a documentary on it, so whatever"

I said "I sincerely hope that documentary was made by a Palestinian and not an Israeli, if you want recommendations I can give them to you"

And then she walked off.

This is a person I have lived with, worked with, and known for 8 years. She is my best friend. She is considered part of my family and frequently goes on trips with me to visit my parents (they live in another country)

She is, however, also a person who got annoyed with me being too invested in the 2020 US election where I spoke out largely about Trump. She is also someone who dismisses my view on the Patriarchy regularly.

She does not want to hear anything regarding politics, in general.

But this to me is not politics. It is about human rights. Genocide should not be brushed over, it should not be ignored.

You should not be allowing people around you to be privileged enough to ignore it entirely.

Being privileged is just that - A PRIVILEGE.

The utter privilege of being able to IGNORE genocide is abhorrent to me. It is disgusting.

Involve yourself. Use your voice. Educate yourself. Fight in whichever way you can.

Fight for humanity.

Fight for Palestine.

Do not brush over the fact that a fascist religious state is wiping out an entire nation, and that they are funded by a super power of the world. Because while it isn't you now, it could and will be you in the future.

Support Palestinians.

They are humans. They deserve human rights.

They deserve to have us screaming their names from the fucking rooftops until someone, anyone and EVERYONE listens.

#mandy answers #palestine #free palestine #genocide #war crimes #international law #united nations #united states #israel #propaganda

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