#mrbookboy

[definedvines]

Just checking to see if you ever noticed that Captain Kidd’s eyepatch has a heart on it, just a fun detail I noticed

Ooh i never noticed... that is definitely a style choice for Tactica exclusively because in all other official media the design on his eyepatch is a skull, but it IS an insanely cute style choice!!! he is seeing the world thru eyes with Love...

[issteelballrunconfirmed]

I’ve never even watched or read jojo and I’m already rooting for Steel Ball Run

i hope you stick around to watch it when it comes out! it’s REALLY good

[clonerightsagenda]

mrbookboy

God I know the feeling, the book I couldn’t get through was better than the bland-ass YA dark fantasy stuff

mrbookboy

How do you get into the review business anyway?

As part of my job, I read a lot of trade journals that review books specifically for librarians to decide whether they want to purchase them. The journals put out calls for reviewers in certain areas sometimes. For non-librarians I think usually you have to establish a pretty popular social media presence and then try to leverage that to get review copies because the publishers see you as having enough of a following that you’ll impact their sales with a good review.

[wakraya]

Have you watched Mitchells vs The Machines? It was a really good film, plus we get a lil surprise at the end...!!!

Nope, but I’ve already been recommended it twice! :p

[sarcasmprodigy]

We’re there others in your session besides you and your sylph friend?

Roxie’s a Witch, actually! There were a few of us who spiraled off into other places but we stay somewhat connected thru text and Roxie’s weird connection to the void.

[lady-raziel]

My school sent out the shutdown message just as the musical cast was finishing their final rehearsal. The musical is now cancelled.

that’s the tough part. there are all these things that people have been working towards all semester like musicals and athletic events are cancelled and probably won’t be rescheduled because of this virus, and that really really sucks :/

[ardenttheories]

mrbookboy replied to your post “Dirk Route notes: Very long, very rambly. I went on a fucking journey...”

I think the director is fascinating in a lot of ways. First off, Hussie still exists, but is being restrained in some way.

Also, Director carries a lot of connotation a for Conductor, a heavy term in the original comic.

The Director locking Hussie away for the duration of Pesterquest’s ending is phenomenal to me. It’s likely a bit of a joke, since Aysha is literally the director of Pesterquest and therefore oversaw a lot of it’s creation, much the same way as Hussie is the author of Homestuck, but the symbolism isn’t lost on me. 

The author, being hidden away while a very non-canonical timeline plays out, which also just so happens to encompass an ending that absolutely betrays the general concept and creation of Homestuck? Allowing us to be in touch with a much more sympathetic creator who seems genuinely sorry for the pain she’s putting the Reader through? The creation of a Locked Timeline away from his heavy presence, where not even he can touch it and (potentially) continue it the way he has with Homestuck^2?

It’s poetic, honestly. And also funny as hell that he’s probably stuck with the stupid wolf head for the rest of eternity. 

The connotations of Conductor are also pretty easily explained by the fact that Aysha’s literally conducting/overseeing the creation (and conclusion) of Pesterquest, but if we step away from the literal and into the more meta element? Into the narrative itself? It’s pretty interesting fo a connection.

She’s not the author. She’s not the writer, the person who’s creating, per se, everything we see. At least, not in the same way Hussie does. Whereas Hussie is writing it freely, producing something specifically new and unique as the Author, Aysha, as the Director, is just... gently nudging things into place. 

She’s playing with what already exists. That’s why, maybe, it was the Alpha timeline that got so screwed up, the Alpha Timeline - out of all Timelines - that was chosen for her experiment. She could have created an entirely new timeline, but she’s not the Author; it’s not within her realm or power. Editing what is already there, on the other hand - that’s something she can do.

[geejaysmith]

Idea: Minkowski starting a community theater production of Pirates of Penzance and being both the most terrifying and most friendly director in existence

She runs a tight ship and if you’re on it, you’ll be putting your best effort forward. At first, you may think this means she’s a brutal dictator commanding the production with an iron fist, and she is very serious about her shows -  it’s intimidating at first - but what really ends up happening is that she is very serious about her shows and now she’s entrusted you with your part in one. And who in the world would dare dream of disappointing Renee Minkowski? 

Even though yes, she does make some odd directorial choices, like the cannon at the end of Act 2. Nobody ever believes that’s gonna go off without a hitch until they see test-fired during rehearsals (apparently, she knows a guy who really knows his way around pyrotechnics). 

On that note: post-finale, when she has the time, I like to imagine Minkowski writing out ideas for an in-universe musical adaptation of Wolf 359.