#dave_ebubbles

[correcthomestuckquotes]

[casey1618]

[eggylokingthign]

when you're arguing with someone and you decide it's not worth it

[homestuck--quotes]

A very lengthy collection of the DAVE_EBUBBLES from [S] ACT 6 INTERMISSION 3

(if you dont want to scroll past this on your dash/tag, press 'j')

DAVE_EBUBBLES: keep twisting junior all you get is clicks

DAVE_EBUBBLES: and

DAVE_EBUBBLES: not even he can convey the intention with his quickspun wit

DAVE_EBUBBLES: do you hear what youre saying oh my god

DAVE_EBUBBLES: oh also this cd which is 100 but i didnt drop cause it seemed like a stiff allocation of resources for now

DAVE_EBUBBLES: but he sounds like a total badass

DAVE_EBUBBLES: the thing with time travel is

DAVE_EBUBBLES: and yet as much as that guys the tooliest dude i could ever hope to meet he and i would still get along famously

DAVE_EBUBBLES: pretty cool guy here

DAVE_EBUBBLES: shit is wicked bananas i am telling you

DAVE_EBUBBLES: an antagonism ninja

DAVE_EBUBBLES: chumpelstiltskin

DAVE_EBUBBLES: an obscenely long, coarse kermit cock is being dragged across my anguished face

DAVE_EBUBBLES: like i know you dream about me enough already

DAVE_EBUBBLES: i got serves like a dude on butler island

DAVE_EBUBBLES: but i guess i forgot in the heat of battle

DAVE_EBUBBLES: jade hey

DAVE_EBUBBLES: cozy is a goddamn adjective

DAVE_EBUBBLES: sports

DAVE_EBUBBLES: unless you were planning on sailing that ogre down the mississippi with a runaway slave

DAVE_EBUBBLES: but i was all like IM A LITTLE BLACK RAIN CLOUD BITCH WATCH ME CLIMB

DAVE_EBUBBLES: are you suggesting someone put piss in my apple juice at the factory

DAVE_EBUBBLES: i mean damn

DAVE_EBUBBLES: dont expect him to rat him out either because of the "moirail" junk

DAVE_EBUBBLES: baboon?

DAVE_EBUBBLES: the glittering civilization before you was built on angry apefuck power alone

DAVE_EBUBBLES: naknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknak

DAVE_EBUBBLES: so why is the cat code so terrible now

DAVE_EBUBBLES: or semi-semi ironic

DAVE_EBUBBLES: ok im in

DAVE_EBUBBLES: my coolness is named after a dead president plus his middle initial to make it sound extra legit

DAVE_EBUBBLES: i mean like personal tragedies notwithstanding

DAVE_EBUBBLES: this fuckin thing

DAVE_EBUBBLES: cant explain to me why this aint condescension to think ill shit a brick

DAVE_EBUBBLES: anyway what do you think

DAVE_EBUBBLES: to piss him off

DAVE_EBUBBLES: juggalos

DAVE_EBUBBLES: youre the one who should be wrist deep in puppet ass

DAVE_EBUBBLES: he made this stupid leather bib for me out of a goddamn horse

DAVE_EBUBBLES: reverse psychology mind games sorts of machiavellian bullshit

DAVE_EBUBBLES: see not everybody always means literally what they say the way john and jade always do

DAVE_EBUBBLES: :V

DAVE_EBUBBLES: im more real actually cause ive been through some heavy shit already hopping around on red hot gears and i-beams for like a year

DAVE_EBUBBLES: needs to get worked over by some stuffy prude at finishing school

DAVE_EBUBBLES: caw caw motherfuckers

DAVE_EBUBBLES: like frankensteins incontinent fucking ghost

DAVE_EBUBBLES: ahahahahaha

DAVE_EBUBBLES: the kinds of wordtech ascend to godhood and look down on us patriarchally like urban watermarks in the sky

DAVE_EBUBBLES: its mostly pretty stupid and useless

DAVE_EBUBBLES: i dont know beach the thing first i guess

DAVE_EBUBBLES: why are you drawing all these human dicks

DAVE_EBUBBLES: the truth is a mystery tucked behind the pursed lips of a shitty riddler

DAVE_EBUBBLES: put their blowchutes to use and up-suck it

DAVE_EBUBBLES: ok so 2=6 awesome joke hahahaha

DAVE_EBUBBLES: even worse im wasting a killer fursona here

DAVE_EBUBBLES: turning out insane corkscrew haymakers of a billion dancing vienna sausages strong

DAVE_EBUBBLES: well youre you

DAVE_EBUBBLES: itll be called

DAVE_EBUBBLES: dont deny it bro its obvious

DAVE_EBUBBLES: the smug cracker parlor wiggle

DAVE_EBUBBLES: kinda feels like we should be drinking our asses off here

DAVE_EBUBBLES: ill be the fuckin one man welcome wagon for the john and jade teen old people and also our mom thats the plan

DAVE_EBUBBLES: i was worried we were on the verge of getting some shit done

DAVE_EBUBBLES: (yeah we know fucking squat)

DAVE_EBUBBLES: "OH SHIT EVERYONE IN THE MINIVAN"

DAVE_EBUBBLES: oh shit youre kidding

DAVE_EBUBBLES: slammer means jail

DAVE_EBUBBLES: BOOYEAH

DAVE_EBUBBLES: ok yes that image is definitely conclusive proof of something and is 100% understandable by anyone who looks at it

DAVE_EBUBBLES: your mirthful messiahs

DAVE_EBUBBLES: were are basically bruce willis and ben affleck from johns shitty crappy movie

DAVE_EBUBBLES: if youre gonna spit that kind of bravado at me im just saying put in a rhyme

DAVE_EBUBBLES: always low to the ground gettin a good prowl on

DAVE_EBUBBLES: ive been fuck deep in alt daves before

DAVE_EBUBBLES: am i supposed to break that thing

DAVE_EBUBBLES: this is the worst shitting thing ive ever seen

DAVE_EBUBBLES: im grieving to the max like a widow on dead husband island

DAVE_EBUBBLES: AWESOME

DAVE_EBUBBLES: all your books are bizarre and terrible

DAVE_EBUBBLES: what happened with the monster that is totally definitely in your room did you kill it

DAVE_EBUBBLES: hey where are you

DAVE_EBUBBLES: thats the spooky thing about penis ouija you can never be sure who did the dicks

DAVE_EBUBBLES: you dont seem to harbor any sympathy for the fact that ive burrowed fuck deep into lively, fluffy muppet buttock

DAVE_EBUBBLES: in the athletic arena of competitive achievement

DAVE_EBUBBLES: you told me how it worked all christopher ribinning my ignorant ass about that egg

DAVE_EBUBBLES: even crazy hard dudes like my bro slash weird covert biological ghost dad

DAVE_EBUBBLES: im gonna do some sort of acrobatic fucking PIROUETTE off the handle and win like a medal or some shit

DAVE_EBUBBLES: i was a little bogged down

DAVE_EBUBBLES: welp

DAVE_EBUBBLES: no one likes a basketball hog

DAVE_EBUBBLES: in the epic swaddle of legendary puppet taint

DAVE_EBUBBLES: asshole thinks its candy

DAVE_EBUBBLES: who

DAVE_EBUBBLES: youre probably burning your nutjob meow book to spite her too arent you

DAVE_EBUBBLES: just roll with it and see what happens

DAVE_EBUBBLES: skepticism is the crutch of cinematic troglodytes

DAVE_EBUBBLES: maybe even too deadpan but its a start keep at it

DAVE_EBUBBLES: im thinking none of that was actually ironic that was all pretty straighup wasnt it

DAVE_EBUBBLES: dont make me bop you on the head with a wizard

DAVE_EBUBBLES: hey bro check it out im wokring on some new rhymes

DAVE_EBUBBLES: but theyre all in outer space being insane badasses

DAVE_EBUBBLES: be honest with me cause im busy

DAVE_EBUBBLES: in bruse almighty. whoops, different bruce from the one i just mentioned

DAVE_EBUBBLES: its hot as the sizzle side of the steak

DAVE_EBUBBLES: time/shades lets go

DAVE_EBUBBLES: fist bump my future self til i got bloody knuckles and write you an even sappier bday note in my own blood

DAVE_EBUBBLES: so if youre done whipping that ogre like a rented mule

DAVE_EBUBBLES: shes mackin on me so hard all the time i start to feel embarrassed for her

DAVE_EBUBBLES: if not then we just bail everyone out yet again

DAVE_EBUBBLES: its awesome where you put that

DAVE_EBUBBLES: instead of leaving them trapped under three inches of fucking yarn

DAVE_EBUBBLES: where future me is now helping dave and we just keep playing

DAVE_EBUBBLES: THATS REALLY ALL THERE IS TO SAY ON THE MATTER

DAVE_EBUBBLES: actually no envermind it doesnt explain that

DAVE_EBUBBLES: like the new maconnohey jam where he smirks and like all but deliberately draws the audiences ire like a goddamn magnetron

DAVE_EBUBBLES: i dont cry

DAVE_EBUBBLES: went and perved up some sleeping girls room to take my mind of it

DAVE_EBUBBLES: this probably comes close but that doesnt make it not lame as hell

DAVE_EBUBBLES: dog it as long as possible

DAVE_EBUBBLES: the fuckin welsh sword dave broke

DAVE_EBUBBLES: i cant read this shit im sorry

DAVE_EBUBBLES: (be passin out yarn like cheap cigars)

DAVE_EBUBBLES: im going to find somewhere to pee

DAVE_EBUBBLES: like a few hours into her magic stupid quest

DAVE_EBUBBLES: dont tell john this but i think he might have been right about the puppets

DAVE_EBUBBLES: yes those exact bitches

DAVE_EBUBBLES: yeah case the fuck closed

DAVE_EBUBBLES: we both know theyre fresher than your moms change of drawers and tighter than when shes wearin them

DAVE_EBUBBLES: ok im gonna change out of this wet suit and into a dry shut your fucking mouth

DAVE_EBUBBLES: its like a grubby baton in some huge douchebag marathon

DAVE_EBUBBLES: like hey mom dad theres a dinosaur or a ghost or whatever in my room. "yeah right junior go back to bed"

DAVE_EBUBBLES: shut up and draw another penis

DAVE_EBUBBLES: ill probably forget half the shit i said anyway

DAVE_EBUBBLES: fuck im tearing up my ishades are gonna fry

DAVE_EBUBBLES: oh fuck there i am hiding behind that column

DAVE_EBUBBLES: the only thing im getting is out of this goddamn idiot cauldorn here

DAVE_EBUBBLES: im your 300 pound matronly freight-train

[irony-of-turntechgodhead-blog]

ok im gonna change out of this wet suit and into a dry shut your fucking mouth

[sinceritystuck]

==> HS: But wait! There's more!

Homestuck achieves the greatest height of its ergodicity not in gifs and animations but in interactive games. The first game was introduced in Act 2 with [S] YOU THERE. BOY, and most recently, as seen in the above video, the whole of Act 6 Intermission 3 was comprised of three games (collectively referred to as Openbound), all of which demonstrated more detailed graphics and more complex game structure than any interactive pages before them. Openbound, like its predecessors, allows readers to fully interact with the text in a manner than continues Homestuck's videogame metaphor to the greatest possible extent. Like Homestuck's use of second person narrative, which lends itself perfectly to the inclusion of video games, these interactive portions are immediately engrossing to the individual reader. "While gaming can be watched it’s clear that any audience is peripheral and insignificant; all that matters is the playing self." (Kirby 169) Video games are meant to capture the undivided attention of the player/reader, and require no more than this one individual to create what Kirby calls a "super-subjective" experience. "You play, then, as yourself [...] but vastly inflated." Readers begin the game in control of the character Meenah Peixes, ancestor of Alternian troll Feferi Peixes, and through her are able to fully explore the game environment by finding treasure in chests, interacting with objects, and holding conversations with other troll ancestors as they are introduced for the first time into the story. In order to fully access all the information available in this portion of the text readers must solve puzzles within the game by taking control of a variety of characters to perform certain tasks that eventually allow admittance into new areas of the game. It is possible to entirely bypass all three installments of Obenbound, but the most serious of Homestuck fans will often choose to play through every part to the fullest extent in order to read and learn the information made available by every item and conversation in the game.

While other portions of Homestuck are undeniably ergodic and rife with hypertextual elements, thus far it is only these interactive games which branch out into the realm of cybertext. Cybertext is described by Espen J. Aarseth as being created through a combination of focus on "the mechanical organization of the text, by positing the intricacies of the medium as an integral part of the literary exchange," as well as the part of "the consumer, or user, of the text, as a more integrated figure than even reader response theorists would claim." (Aarseth 1) Cybertextual works present to their readers a text which holds the potential to be experienced in a variety of distinct ways. Unlike hypertext, which functions on a Point A to Point B structure, cybertext demands more "selective movement," and contains options that link together in more complex ways. In Openbound, it is possible to reach the end of the game sequence without speaking to every character, investigating every treasure chest, or exploring every pixel of the world, just as it is possible to do the opposite or something in between. It is up to the reader to decide how they will traverse this section of the narrative and what selections they will make in-game, and these decisions will determine what portions of the entirety of the text they are able to experience.

Many of the extraneous information tidbits in Openbound can be found in its heavy references to social media and fan culture. For example, through examining certain objects in-game it is possible to view a twitter fascimile which displays mock tweets made by Dave, under the username "dave_ebubbles."

(This element of the game was inspired by popular twitter account "Horse_ebooks" and following Openbound's inception was briefly made into an actual twitter account which published 345 tweets and gained nearly 8,000 followers."

Each character's dialogue is accompanied by hashtags, in the style of tumblr or twitter, that add extra information and personality to their speeches. Likewise it is possible to "rebubble" conversations and receive a corresponding message. The characters Meulin Leijon and Kurloz Makara communicate primarily by the use of gifs that are used to represent their ideas and emotions, a common practice amongst tumblr bloggers. The character Kankri Vantas is likewise inspired by tumblr, as stated by Hussie on his twitter. Presumably his long-winded lectures are intended to satirize tumblr's so-called 'social justice warriors,' who frequently warn other users against often-innocuous 'triggering' material and post misguided rants in the same style as Kankri's endless pages of text. An understanding of these portions of the text requires not only an understanding of Homestuck's story up until this point (something that is arguably not entirely necessary, as Openbound features entirely new characters and plotlines) but also a familiarity with the culture of social media, which implies the reader also possesses a fluency with various social media platforms, primarily tumblr. Homestuck is written for the internet user, for individuals who will seamlessly understand the usage of gifs and hashtags in casual speech and will not pause to question or misunderstand their presence in the text.

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