Music and Colo(u)rs and Mayhem

[flutingfrenzy]

Listen up, everyone, because I'm only gonna say this once: if you ever get the chance to go on a tour of a radio station, for the love of God, DO IT. I won a tour of the Minnesota Public Radio studios that took place this past Tuesday, and it. was. awesome. Partly in the "this is how your sausage is made" way, and partly because it was basically

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[evilhippo]

Oooh, you got to tour MPR! I think WBEZ owes me a station tour that I should take them up on sometime... (I should've done it when I knew Ira Glass was in town over the whole Mike Daisey thing, but I'm not sure I want my station tour full of Drama, as interesting as it might be...) (-;

I'm digging the new album, though I haven't given it nearly as much attention as you have. I'm going to have to go back to it again with your comments in mind.

And darn you for linking me to that fic! Now I have to read it. (I like this idea. Also I like horribly long universe/game-centric Homestuck fics.)

Also, while we're here... what did you make of the April 2 update? I wanted to immediately put up the flutingfrenzy signal after I read it, but I haven't been sitting still much lately so I was just sort of left laughing to myself and going "Holy crap what is even going on anymore!" I love not having a clue what's actually going on (I'm torn between Late April Fool's and Horribly Relevant to the Plot in Some Twisted Way, PS Did You Notice Hussie's Been Dead

[flutingfrenzy]

Yes, you do have to read the fic. You, personally, will love it, I promise. Definitely read the comments, too, because there are a lot of people RPing in them as Sburb-playing OCs, getting advice on their weird game problems from the author and each other. The only thing is that there are quite a few mechanical errors in the fic, and strangely, a lot of them are the type that non-native speakers tend to make - but there is no way this author isn't fluent in English.

Haha, the April 2nd update. Is it weird that my entire reaction to AH's death, Vriska's appearance, the LOSAZ(?) setting, everything, was completely eclipsed by "HOLY CRAP DID THE REAL ANDREW HUSSIE JUST USE HIS COMIC TO PROPOSE TO SOMEONE? Will he be okay when he finds out that Ryan North is already married?" But since the answers to my questions continue to elude me, I GUESS I can consider other angles too

[evilhippo]

I'm definitely enjoying it so far! Man, I really need to keep better track of the fic in this fandom... I basically have to rely entirely on randomly stumbling across things.

I think there was a lot of speculation as to whether or not he'd actually proposed to someone, but supposedly his girlfriend denied it. Though Ryan North hasn't denied it.Yeah, I think that death was definitely heroic... But does that matter if someone is already dead? (This plays right into my curiosity about the absolutely huge amount of stuff in the dream bubbles, and why it doesn't/whether it does count as its own separate universe. I'm kind of left wondering whose dreams they're actually meant to be... I mean, they're influenced by the players, but what with all the dead-ended timeline people (who can still do lifey things and influence living players/Dersites/etc.? That's sort of sticking awkwardly in my brain right now) and things, it makes me wonder if it isn't the game's dreams/Skaia's dreams or something

[flutingfrenzy]

It must be really awkward to have to field questions about whether your boyfriend just proposed to you via his webcomic, especially if the answer is no. (Especially especially if the answer is yes but you want your family and friends to know before the whole internet does, and even more especially if the answer is yes, but to his married bro instead of you, but moving on

[evilhippo]

I can't even imagine what it would be like to deal with this fandom as Hussie's girlfriend. She seems to still be alive and not going all vengeful evil mastermind on the rest of the world, though, so the girl's definitely tough. (-;

I'm sort of approaching the crackpot theory under the assumption that any new info we get is going to be of the "it's been like this all along, you just missed the clues" variety. I just... haven't spotted the rest of the clues yet. (-; We've been building up toward a proper explanation of player deaths for a while now, since apparently they work differently than any sort of real death... I think you might be on to something as far as Skaia and the players being one in the same, in a way. I mean, there's definitely a meta aspect to the people who get to play S___b, in that they recur across scratched sessions and exist in the dream bubbles across timelines. From what I remember, that isn't true of anyone/anything else in the universe. And what is with ectobiologizing two sets of players each time?

[flutingfrenzy]

I really enjoyed reading this comment, because it only convinced me more that you and the Sburb Glitch FAQ are meant for each other.

Is the game necessarily unwinnable in its first iteration?I believe that we will know the answer to this question by the time the story is over. Either way, I think there are practical reasons for having two sets of players. I've always considered the players from a given universe to be a race - maybe even a species - unto themselves, and I suspect that allowing members of the actual native species of the planet they came from to enter the medium would be...hazardous. How and for whom, I'm not sure, but I think we can all agree that there are some unanswered questions regarding Dad. But anyway, if players end up living with families who weren't created via ectobiology, those people might end up in the medium, and that seems like something Skaia would want to avoid

[evilhippo]

Re: "has Homestuck been weirding you out lately?"... Yes! It is rapidly becoming the sort of thing I read from between my fingers. Leaving the allegory thing to the side for the time being, I'm pretty sure there's some awkward behind-the-scenes plot-tweaking going on in the midst of this nonsense that the narration is meant to cover up. I also suspect the reason that the story has gone off into uncanny allegoryland is going to turn out to be that it's being written by someone else entirely (stupid Hussie, killing himself off), and my suspicions are that it's either Gamzee or someone related to him (or at the very least is a troll

[flutingfrenzy]

Oh, and I forgot to mention this in my other comment. What I REALLY want to know is what DOTA stands for. _ of the _? Dead or _ _? Why did he do that?

[evilhippo]

I'll get to the rest of this later, but since this is a shorter thing to answer... I've been reading it as "Death of the Author."

[flutingfrenzy]

Of course! Okay, mystery solved.