#pg84

[melted-memories-a-pizza-tower-au]

Ready to go in, guys?

Peppino: "Ready as we can be I guess....but....I'm with them, Gerome. You sure it's actually safe to go in? I'd rather not get buried before I'm dead you know..."

Gerome: "It's probably the most stable part of the tower....and it's not like it's gonna collapse again anytime soon."

Peppino: "...guess you're right about that..."

[dafukdidiwatch]

Part 1 End of

And there we have it folks! The first in many installments of Problem Sleuth.

I can see where a lot of the Homestuck themes and references come from. I mean, outside of it being the same “point&click command text” games Hussie did. The random bullshittery that is cause and effect. The installment of clowns. Panels siminarily drawn to match like the dead body in the hallway, and John posing like Sleuth. Even random items like the teleportation window becoming major plot points when used in Homestuck. That actually has to be cool for the fans of Problem Sleuth to like point out and know what an object is, and see it be used for a bigger purpose than before.

I feel like since I’m reading this I would have to give it a score on my Fibonacci Scale since this is a new series. So I would have to give it an 8. But I feel like that this is for nostalgic reasons since this series is the birth place of so many jokes and humor style of Homestuck that I truly love. Because, well let’s face it, so far the fucking plot is just an escape room with no actual sleuthing. Not much to go on so far. But I will do my due diligence for all of my wonderful followers. And Jack. Especially for Jack.

[livestuck]

But the mailbox, it beckons.

[macklives]

wow the author’s finally resisting to those daft people who decided to add in “make john shit on the desk”

[mercuryismygenius]

For resistance to succeed, two boundaries must be crossed.  First, ideas about change must encourage people of various backgrounds who do not agree about everything. Second, people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends.

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

[collectivecontemporarymedia]

Fredrick Douglass

Underlying themes in both excerpts have similarities although at first glance the two short stories may seem unrelated. Douglass was trying to “break” oxen and domesticate the animals, while slavers were actually trying to domesticate him. In the Zen parable, a boy also struggles to tame an ox and also goes through trials to obtain the ox. In the end of the parable the boy is indentured and set free, much like after Douglass’ life as a slave, he was indentured. Like the boy in the parable, Douglass to lost his “way” or “freedom” and had trials and tribulations with oxen, and was eventually indentured from his condition. It is not at all obvious but obtuse, subtle meanings tie the two stories together.  

[gizoogletranslateshomestuck]

John: Leave a surprise fo' tha mailman. I aint talkin' bout chicken n' gravy biatch.

N... No!

> John: See if yo' daddy left tha mail up in tha car. Shiiit, dis aint no joke.

[linguinismansion]

I have never encountered a fictional character more like me.