Dave: Read Complacency of the Learned. Much as I did with Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, the first couple times I read Homestuck I kind of breezed past Complacency of the Learned. It's definitely difficult to penetrate; I have a pretty decent vocabulary and I had to look up seven words while I was reading it this time around. Even so, I didn't fully ( Read more... )

Dave: Read it.

I think this is the first instance where we see Rose's MEOW code. If I've deduced correctly, this is the secret that Jaspers whispered to her right before he disappeared and turned up dead. It's also the genetic code used to ectobiologize Bec.

Dave: Combine skateboard and Hella Jeff drawing.

Unreal air seems to be a throwback to this panel of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.

Dave: Combine shitty sword and Hella Jeff drawing.

The SORD reminds me of much later in Caliborn's shitty rewrite when Dave the "Alpha Male" forges a sword from his "smut" (in other words, drawings of the alpha kids touching hands).

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So Rose threw Dream Cal out the window.

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TA: iif ii 2ee one more 2narl of wiire2.
TA: kiind of juttiing out and beiing tangled or whatever.
TA: ii am goiing two perform 2ome 2ort of athletiic fuckiing 2omer2ault off the deep end and get a call from the pre2iident or 2ome 2hiit.

Dave said almost the same thing about puppet ass jutting out impudently.

AH: Retrieve arm from background.

Character!Hussie has his own weird version of Lil' Cal. It looks real and like he photoshopped it in. It's fucking terrifying.

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Dave's dream room is very red. It also has crows in it, as well as a Dream Cal wearing a matching Derse nightie. He's moving around with no Bro to flashstep him.

Locate fourth wall.If I'm not mistaken, this is the first "prompt" we've gotten without a character to receive it (i.e. John: Get trolled by CG). It's no surprise that this is the beginning of the section where Hussie (the character) speaks to us directly for a while, one meta-layer removed from what we've seen so far. We start to get warned up to ( Read more... )

[S] Jack: Ascend"Ascend," as a prompt, is rarely used in the literal sense. It usually means "level up" in some way; in this case, B1's Jack Noir went from middle-level agent on Derse to, essentially, the black queen ( Read more... )