#dreambubble posting

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i dunno if this is just a me thing but when i say stuff like “looking for my rose/jade/dave etc” i do not necessarily mean someone who aligns with all my perceptions of who they were/are, because my thoughts about that are kind of hazy anyways! i kind of just mean someone who i can get along with in the same way, and who gets along with me. like, somebody who has the same role in my life i guess, and vice versa. being able to understand and feel comfortable/at ease with each other is the most important to me! i don’t necessarily believe there is a singular incarnation of my friends from my exact universe, i think it is more complicated than that, or less complicated, or something.

i won’t lie, even with that qualification it is still kind of a pipe dream! but i want to have best friends again, i guess. i have a lot of friends but i get really lonely. there is something really different about having best friends like you guys, and i have not been able to feel as close as that to anyone in a long long time. people tend to attach to me more than i do to them. i just never feel connected! i love them but for me it works differently. breath thing i guess?

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it doesn’t really make logical sense, because of the whole most of sburb took place in one day thing, but i feel like i remember(?) laying on my bed while my house was already in the medium. so i had the bluuuuuue glowing prettiness of lowas coming in through my window and stuff. it never got SUPER dark there, it always just kind of stayed the same level of relaxing kind-of dark! it was nice, i like imagining it.

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also, unrelated. i think my ultimate dream is to be able to have a group chat with all the beta kids. it would be so so amazing to talk to every one in a group again.

on pesterchum i remember it being kinda hard to get everyone on line at the same time with the different time zones and clunkiness of everything, so it was super rare that we would be able to have a memo with each other, but it was THE BEST when it happened!! so much fun…

but NOW there are group chats where you can just reply at any time, so it would be SO SO SO FREAKING COOL!!!!!!!!!

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my really good sprite edit thank you everyone.

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i keep putting off writing this stuff down for some reason so here goes some stream of consciousness memory stuff:

a lot of my memories have to do with the day to day mechanics of reality in general.

sylladex/captchaloguing:

- i don’t know how to explain this properly since it doesn’t really translate, but viewing your sylladex, echeladder, etc takes place in a seperate field of vision than your normal one. the best example i can think of is like, a nintendo DS, where you can view both the top screen (your eyesight) and the bottom screen (your menus). but this screen isn’t necessarily open all the time, so functionally it’s more like closing and opening an eye, although everything you see in your sylladex is completely detached from your normal field of vision.

- using the sylladex is really innate to your being. it’s basically like any other body function, if that makes sense. like moving your arm or blinking. this means that if you want to captchalogue a thing, you generally just touch it and then mentally “flex” that “muscle,” like pressing a button. same deal for uncaptchaloguing (as long as you follow the rules of your fetch modus). you just make that invisible decision/movement and off it goes.

- i guess the more interesting part about this is you don’t actually HAVE to touch the thing. there’s a really small “radius” around you where you can captchalogue things hands-free, though as you can imagine sometimes you fuck up and get the wrong thing so it’s not the best method! it’s much easier to coordinate when you are physically in contact with the thing, but for something super familiar to you, like your glasses that are always on your night stand or what ever, you might not even need to look at it.

- uncaptchaloguing things is kind of the same: if you’ve got a hand open and held out with the intent to put somthing from your sylladex in it, it will work that way nine times out of ten. but if you are not particularly concerned with where it ends up, or other wise not paying attention, it will just pop out somewhere in the radius around you, often on the floor or at eye level (which makes it fall and hit the floor, oops.)

okay, i have a lot more to say about this actually, but i’m kinda tired. hopefully later.

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in my canon the distribution of our childhood shirts was like this:

my shirt was spades and dave’s was hearts, like in the comic. jade’s was clubs, and rose’s was diamonds.

pretty sure i found this out before the game. we didn’t show each other pictures of ourselves for a good while; i think someone brought it up off handedly and we realized it was a funny coincidence.

i always found it sort of neat that we were a package deal like that. brought together by fate! and ectobiology, i guess. in retrospect, i think the derse dreamers being the red suits and us prospit dreamers being the black suits was probably another weird skaia sponsored parallel, too.

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i keep drawing my god tier pants with pockets, even though i am not sure if official art shows them with pockets, because i am like 80% sure i had pockets. is this really going to be my point of canon divergence? having fucking pockets?????????

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random ask but if troll food was compatible with your biology in your canon did you ever try any?

sorry this is so late! i have been thinking about it for a while, because there is some stuff i know for sure and some stuff that is hard to pin down!

i don’t remember getting the chance to eat the real deal, since i am occupied with other stuff during SBURB, and afterwards we don’t have food that is actually from alternia anymore since the planet got destroyed or whatever. although, it’s possible somebody had the captchalogue code for something.

not sure if it is compatible… in my case i am pretty sure troll food is mostly bugs, or whatever the alternian equivalent to bugs were, because i heckled karkat about it for a little bit, hehehe. but that also might be an oversimplification? i was more focused on making fun of him for the bug eating than the accuracy of it. sorry karkat.

either way i am actually not a very picky person, so if i had the opportunity i would have liked to try. the main chance i can think of is during kanaya and rose’s wedding… there might have been some kind of recreation using the materials we had, but i am unsure about that. theoretically, she or dave probably has a better idea given their living situations.

tldr, if i tried it it was either alchemized or an approximation. i don’t have any clear memories of trying it, though.

i wish i did! and i wish i asked more about the different kinds of food they had! if i knew at some point i don’t remember anymore. if you or anyone else has any details on alternian cuisine i would love to hear! :)