I guess this is now the ALL HOMESTUCK, ALL THE TIME channel?

[sentientcitizen]

I think I'm finally starting to get a feel for Homestuck fandom. Sorta ish kinda? At the very least, I'm starting to get a feel for my prefered ships - which is far more complicated than usual, and less a matter of names than the symbol between them! Off the top of my head, I ship Terezi <3< Vriska, Vriska <> John, John <3 Karkat, Karkat <> Kanya,

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[sentientcitizen]

The practical thing about phrasing it as moirallegiance is that there is no obstacle to John having a matesprit, too. If he wants to. And that wouldn't lessen the bond between him and Sherlock at all.

Yes! See this is precisly the kind of problem that normally requires a threesome to solve, but the quadrants are so much more tidy. Have you read - ah, crud, where's that link... right, Indecorous? In the author's own words: "In which John learns to balance a kinky girlfriend, an asexual boyfriend, a ten-inch cock, his sister, the neighbours, his friends, and his blog. Some are more balanced than others." It's ace!Sherlock/John/Mary in a stable poly triad, basically. I adore it, but I'd also lovelovelove to read something like that re-imagined as Sherlock <> John <3 Mary!

Aahaha yes, okay, Doctor <3< Master; when you put it that way, suddenly kismesis makes more sense! Although seen through the light of quadrants, suddenly the dynamic in "Last of the Timelords" is completly different and yet somehow much more logical. And also now all I can picture is the Master as Eridan, all, "dammit doc wwe got the wworlds mother glubbin best blackrom here wwhyre you tryin to shovve us in the pale zone huh" because you KNOW the new series Doctor just wants to be the Master's moirail. *laughs*

Wrt to gender I'd be curious to know more about the transition from child-on-the-planet to adult-wageing-war in Alterian culture. Maybe the visible gender thing happens during that part? It wouldn't shock me if there was some kind of very real trial or transition at that point in their lives, given the whole pysical metaphorphisis and gladiator-style trial they have to undergo to get out of the brooding caverns.

Oh my goodness, the poor Dolorosa! I hadn't really thought much about the role she played until I read your "Treading Unknown Ground", but good grief, imagine having to learn child-rearing from scratch in a society with absolutly no prescedent for it! I think there's absolutly canonical justification for her having inadvertantly mucked up his gender. Certainly, I think she inadvertantly mucked up his sexuality, from the trollish point of view. Instead of having four quadrants like a normal person, he has a mother and his "transcends the quadrants" relationship with the Disciple. ~Unnatural~!

[shayera]

I haven't read that fic, no - I think I've seen it around though. Thanks for the link! It's now on my to read list.

Bwaha, you made me picture the Master as Eridan. Why does that suddenly feel so apt? *is amused* I totally agree that Ten wanted to push the Master into the moirail zone, and the Master wanted nothing to do with it. Hee. They do have an epic blackrom, though, ever since the Third Doctor.

You know, I hadn't even thought of that, but the idea that there are trials for trolls to enter adult society makes so much sense. OMG there's so much fic potential in that.

And yeah, the Signless was definitely Troll Queer. :D