Reading Homestuck means coming to the slow, horrifying, yet inevitable realization that it is actually really fucking good, and that there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it [he/it]
Your name is ALEXANDRITE [He/It]. It is a weird name because you PICKED IT YOURSELF. You are a system, which means you DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING MOST OF THE TIME. You are very particular about BOOKS AND LANGUAGE and will geek out about it for hours if given the chance. You enjoy it so much you are GOING TO COLLEGE ABOUT IT.
You love FORMALLY INNOVATIVE MEDIA and METAFICTION. One day you were unfortunate enough to come across a WEBCOMIC written by some freak over a decade ago, and even though you didn't expect to like it, it has INFLICTED YOU WITH A MENTAL ILLNESS you may never recover from.
You've created a blog to safely contain all your THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS about it, without alienating your established audience of 5 whole followers with your INCESSANT AUTISTIC YAPPING and CRINGEWORTHY ART.
Your TUMBLR URL is @carnitiousabductor but when you are not trying to separate yourself from your more socially unacceptable interests you are mainly known as @lyxthen
What will you do?
> Go to blog.
⋆.˚ ★—NAVIGATION
#carnitious yapping for personal opinions, analysis, and general low-effort text posts.
#carnitious art for drawings, fanfiction, and other creative endeavours.
#translation notes for posts regarding language and the translation process.
#personal for personal posts.
#misc for everything else.
[This list will be expanded as I grow this blog. Everything is always a work in progress.]
quirky fourth wall breaking character but theyre just fucking. wrong about the medium theyre in. they keep making references to cinematic techniques and directorial styles and the other fourth wall breaking character is like "dumbass we're in a fucking comic book" and they are in a video game.
Here is the Actual Alternian Project:tm:'s mascot, Tokuil Lingua [to-kuɪl liŋ-gwɐ] (tried my hand at IPA here)
It's made in Xamag Fantroll Creator. There is a slight edit in that teal should have loafer slippers--- although I can't do that in Xamag Fantroll Creator.
Tokuil's pronouns are teal/teal's, as a reference to this conlang. Teal's typing quirk will be made later (I'm not that great at that---)
Here's a piece of art I did, kinda lost steam after the head---
-- tentacleTherapist [TT] began pestering turntechGodhead [TG] –-
TT: Pardon me if I'm misremembering things.
TT: But you, yourself said how,in your last conversation with him, John mentioned “blasting off to the seventh gate”
TG: yeah
TT: And you have now entered and are walking around in his planet's core…?
TG: right
TT: hm…
TT: Please don't take that as a challenge or, worse yet, as an insult, but …
TT: Are you sure you can handle that?
TG: what
TG: im not gonna fight any crazy nonsensically powerful monster if thats what youre asking
TG: im not an idiot
TG: im pretty sure I need to get to the top of the echeladder to even stand a chance against a denizen
TG: or something.
TT: No, this isn’t about that.
TT: I trust you won’t try and kill yourself just yet.
TT: It’s not your skill I am worried about, to be honest with you.
TG: then what
TT: Dave, both John and Jade have been unresponsive for days.
TG: yeah
TT: I am inclined to believe that both of us have come to the same conclusion…
TT: Well, to be blunt with you: I am asking you if you are psychologically prepared to casually stumble across your deceased best friend’s body in those catacombs.
TG: yeah see
TG: you keep assuming stuff about what i think and how i feel when i told you to cut that shit out
TG: we dont even know if john is gone yet
TG: lets try and be realistic and reasonable about this
TG: instead of making shit up to feel worse about ourselves
TG: knowing John he probably lost whatever stupid looking device he was using to contact us
TG: and just wandered off in this maze until he got lost
TG: or something
TG: or maybe he found a fucking teleporter station that took him to a new completely diffrent session and cant contact us anymore
TG: i bet hes made a few new friends up there
TG: hell maybe he went ahead and met the trolls before us
TG: the bastard
TG: maybe hes having so much fun he just forgot to message us for a few days
TG: no big deal
TG: that would be a typical john move
TG: classic john
TT: Okay.
TT: I’ll try to look past your reluctance to use “dead” when confronted with this matter, instead opting for the much easier-to-deal-with “gone” verb, which is in no way telling of your mental resistance to the notion of losing a loved one.
TT: I’ll even try and ignore how nonsensical and so far from “classic John” the last scenario you conjured up was.
TT: I understand that the frustration you showed in the first few messages was not directed at me, but rather at the entire situation, so don’t waste time worrying about that, as I don’t feel hurt by your lashout.
TT: This notwithstanding, you still ignored the question.
TG: i wish i had literally anybody else in the universe to talk with rn other than crazy psychopath who analyzes every single letter i type
TG: even the trolls were easier to deal with
TG: alright that was a lie
TG: but okay i dont want to entertain your stupid doomed scenario
TG: youre just trying to pry into my psyche while im all vulnerable and shit
TG: then boom
TG: John is gonna pop out and be all like
TG: there you are dave!
TG: wait
TG: There you are Dave!! Sorry I was gone! I somehow lost my goshdarn Nick Cage binocular-phone device! and couldn't contact you guys for a bit there!! So silly of me!
TG: and i will be like
TG: don’t worry john its fine rose was all worried and shit but i always knew i could count on your stupidity
TG: and hes gonna be like
TG: ok nvm this is stupid
TG: but the point is
TG: there is no point in answering your grim question
TG: because it’s not gonna happen
TG: and that’s all to say on the matter
TT: It seems I have upset you with my question.
TT: I now realize that being blunt may not have been the best approach when discussing this matter with you at this point in time.
TG: what the hell does that mean
TT: I apologize for being so intrusive and pushy earlier.
TT: Although I am certain you have let the notion of your friends dying cross your mind for a second, it seems you have not allowed yourself to entertain that thought further, perhaps due to how much pain it brings you. So my handling of this topic was crude at best and disrespectful and insulting at worst.
TT: I guess we don’t really know what happened to John and Jade, and going off of assumptions isn’t gonna bring us anywhere.
TT: Even the little information I have gathered about this game from playing these last few days is not really enough to move us forward.
TT: We have to work with what we've got.
TT: I guess the truth is that I’m worried for them both.
TG: same
TG: but i also dont think someone like john could just be taken down like that
TG: hes john fucking egbert man
TG: hell turn up at some point i promise you that
TG: hes like a fucking cockroach that guy
TG: not even a goddamn texas sized bomb can get rid of him
TT: I hope you are right, Strider.
TG: i hope so too (unsent)
TT: Well, contact me if you find anything of note. I’ll be progressing as well.
-- tentacleTherapist [TT] began pestering turntechGodhead [TG] –
TT: I am checking in to ask if you have come across any findings of note yet.
TT: I have also been thinking more about your messages, and re-reading our conversation from earlier
TT: And as embarrassing as it is to admit, I do think you might have been right. Or at least, I might've been more wrong than I originally realized during that exchange.
TT: I suppose I don't really know things for certain, so I should stop acting like I have a magic all-seeing 8-ball…
TT: After all, I can’t even really see what you are doing right now, so I shouldn’t act like I know everything that has already happened, or things that are going to happen in the future, either, for that matter.
TT: All I am allowed to see on my computer is John’s empty, untouched house. And as the days pass, it just feels a bit eerie to even open the viewport.
TT: Furthermore, the more things I find out about this game, through my quest and just general clues left around on the planets, the more it seems like there really isn’t a restriction to what CAN happen during a session.
TT: How many limits you can break, how much you can bend the rules.
TT: And I might've been too close-minded just to assume John had been killed by a game boss.
TT: So I don’t know, I apologize again for my bold approach.
TT: I realize I can get carried away with beliefs of visions and foresight. And not realize how much I can take other people’s views on things for granted.
TT: So again, I apologize for my usage of words earlier. And I take this chance to thank you for broadening my horizons on this matter.
-- tentacleTherapist [TT] began pestering turntechGodhead [TG] –
TT: ..mhm….
TT: I can’t help but notice you have not sent a single message back to me in the last hour or so.
TT: This wouldn’t be a problem if we weren’t the only humans left in this universe and you were currently on another planet looking for our missing mutual friend…
