This guy in the blue diving suit is Slick. He had secretly entered the atmosphere in hopes that he would be able to find some water and solve some problems.
Coming from hidden far-away lands (that are on Earth, mind you. He keeps reminding you that he isn't an alien because that would be stupid), Slick has been charged with grabbing up a bunch of water and bringing it back to his people in order to prevent them from dying due to drought and all that other nasty stuff.
He laid on the ground, having been recently ejected from his repair module after landing in a fairly quiet area, on some sort of long black strip. What did he do first?
I just wanna say that I really, really like the concept of the afterlife in this story. Maybe that's partly because I had a fascination with that topic beforehand, but I think Hussie handles it in a really unique and interesting way I hadn't quite seen before. I loved that segment with Aradia and Doomed Dave, particularly when Dave asks if there's anything he can do to keep helping his friends, and she tells him no, because it's no longer any of his business.
Which is why I don't really understand all the complaints that the presence of an afterlife cheapens death. They're still dead, aren't they? Cheapened deaths are stuff like in DBZ, where a character dying meant absolutely nothing because you knew they were just gonna bring them back with the damn dragonballs anyway. Here you can still fear the death of a character because it means they won't be able to participate the same way in the story, but not completely erase them from the story if they do. And that's not pandering, either. Thinking that a dead character means they should be gone forever without a trace and we'll never see them again is a pretty shallow way of looking at death. Who's to say there isn't an afterlife in the real world? We just don't have the privilege of being able to see it while we're still alive, but these characters do. I'm completely fine with dead characters still being part of the story, as long as their deaths have consequence and it means there will be some degree of separation between them and the world of the living, since they are no longer part of it.
Originally Posted by Perseverance
I've made it quite clear that I personally have tremendous respect for what Andrew Hussie has accomplished with Vriska "as a character." He's written her perfectly into a character I have a visceral emotional reaction towards, a character that I "love to hate." Most other authors I've read do not match Hussie's skill in the department of creating such characters, and most other authors should be desperate to match him -- because in some respects writing great villains that leave a lasting impact is even more difficult than writing great heroes.
As for your point regarding Jack, the key difference there is that Jack is acknowledged by the author and by most readers as a villain -- or even as something "less" than a villain, as a mere "force of nature" that simply wantonly and haphazardly inflicts harm. My issues with Vriska are twofold: first, that the author and other readers refuse to acknowledge her as a villain, and second, that she rarely (if ever) faces serious consequences for her actions. It's not either issue independently but both in unison that cultivate my greatest fear: that Vriska will in some way be "absolved" and "forgiven" for her indiscretions despite a failure to change in any meaningful way, and that her role in the story will be as a lauded hero or antihero despite the abhorrent manner that she's treated Tavros and others.
I'd be just as worried if there was evidence that Jack was going to end up celebrated as a misunderstood hero who ultimately saved the day -- but there's no evidence whatsoever that could be interpreted to support such a conclusion. It's not that I hate Vriska so much because I've misinterpreted her into "being a real person" and I'm holding her to "real person moral standards" or anything. I "hate her" because her victories in Homestuck (and she always seems to win) represent what I view as bad moral lessons for literature to enforce: that bullies suffer no consequences, that sexual and violent action of a coercive nature can be justified, that such behavior requires no apologies to the victim, that the victim is actually the one responsible for his downfall and not the perpetrator. That's the nature of my visceral reaction -- it's not against Vriska as a character, but against the themes Homestuck would incorporate assuming that Andrew continues to adamantly support the notion that she's a misunderstood hero and not a villain. Does that make more sense?
Silly Antics:
Originally Posted by HasABeard
john: Karkat's log, stardate...beep/beep/meow. My space-wizardly vassal of the Planet Derse and I have just landed on a...strange structure surrounding the entire planet of Skaia. Niether asteroid belt nor planetary ring, it appears to be formed from the same material as the planet below...but connected and twisted like the gnarly roots of a stump in the Land of Frost and Frogs. There is no other structure like it within the Incisphere, perhaps...all known Paradox Space.
Walking this curving ground reminds me of...how far I truly am from my home on the Land of Wind and Shade. Our vehicle, the USS Dad's Spare, is...inoperative. Its pilot cannot properly control it in his current state...the device keyed to its ignition has been missing for some time...worst of all, its power source, the so called...Wind of the God-tiered, has been removed. Its removal somehow...coincided with our departure from Dad's Spare, a mystery yet to be solved.
Our mission..is to find a mythical bomb, The Tumor, at all costs. One lietent commander Rose Lalonde has requested our assistance in finding it, for...purposes unkown. However, I have been good personal friends with Miss Lalonde for several years, and I have come to...trust her judgement. We can only hope the natives prove as friendly.
End...Transmission.
Originally Posted by I’m
WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!
Originally Posted by Solaris
FOOL
YOU HAVE DOOMED US ALL!
Originally Posted by I’m
I"M SORRY!!!!
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS TRUELY CAPABLE OF!
Please, forgive me!!
Originally Posted by DgallowsCalibrator
NO! There is NO forgiveness!
Originally Posted by I’m
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Originally Posted by Nox
NO, FOR GODS SAKE WILL YOU SHUT UP AND PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER, YOU ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY
Originally Posted by DgallowsCailbrator
COME ON
DON'T YOU FIND THE SITUATION TO BE JUST THE SLIGHTEST BIT INTERESTING?
Originally Posted by Nox
Wait wait wait...if I'm reading the interaction right here it makes me Jade, "I'm" JADESPRITE, and you Dgallows are Karkat...
...does that mean your picturing us making out now?
Originally Posted by DgallowsCalibrator
Wrong, I've never seen you two, so instead I'm picturing sloppy makeouts with sauron's eye and bec noir.
ps. in case it wasn't clear, those are your respective avatars
Originally Posted by Nox
ULTIMATE BLACK ROMANCE CONFIRMED!
Sauron/Bec Noir: This is how Lord English was conceived!
Excellent:
Originally Posted by Hero Parker
ANDREW.
YOUR STORY IS INCREDIBLE
AND THE CHARACTERS ARE GREAT.
I AM SO PROUD OF YOU.
HERO PARKER.
Originally Posted by AgentSAMa
While "honk." is the sound that signals the doom of all and the lasting destruction of the universe, "BEEP" is the clarion call for righteousness and truth, and the signal for all that is good.
I have been rudely retconning people's fanfics with unwelcome canonical developments since 4/13/09.
Originally Posted by NotASenator
Originally Posted by markus
Agreed. I have never known a thirteen-year-old to have a room full of muscular, nude, anthropomorphic horse paintings.
You didn't grow up with me then.
Originally Posted by Midoriko
Originally Posted by unscrupulous user
Originally Posted by Cervos
DAMNIT MIDORIKO JITTER YOUR AVATAR FASTER
noone could draw while jittering so fast!
Originally Posted by Rose Bro'd
Snowman is also his mom. Doc Scratch has ALL THE MOMS. ALL OF THEM.
genericAnomaly: Apparently trains in this movie work on the Micheal Bay principle.
Originally Posted by Drillgorg
Actually I am Slenderman.
Originally Posted by rapidBlitz
brb fighting gangs with sponge armor.
Originally Posted by MayorSillyBiscuits
Whats that? ˙ıqÉן sızpēɹʇsÇı ɹı sıuÄØ¸
Timmy is stuck in a well? Ë™nņıʌ ʇqÄןb ʇÇıĨ¸ ɹı sɯnɯ
Lead me to him, Cthulu! Ë™suÉɯ ɹı ÇןÇsēʌp nsūظ
Originally Posted by Esrever
Originally Posted by MayorSillyBiscuits
Originally Posted by Esrever
some people like bare nipples
Some people have nipple rings.
some people don't like nipple rings.
that's because nipple rings cover the nipple!
Originally Posted by Maydame
everyspermissacred.avi
Originally Posted by Bandages
You ever think trainers have sex with their dittos
everything else can
Originally Posted by Dr.DMX
I will play the sex too.
I will play it all night long.
It will be super fucking weird.
Originally Posted by MayorSillyBiscuits
DMX can be on the sex as long as I get to play anal.
Yup.
There's pretty much no way mindsoap is not needed.
Originally Posted by Maydame
Originally Posted by Bandages
It's an STD
Now lemme penetrate your eye
lemme put a contact in! ;n;
Originally Posted by MayorSillyBiscuits
I am the groin wizard
its me
I can make dicks talk
of course the conversations are relatively short and awkward.
You can only guess why.
Originally Posted by spook blotter
Originally Posted by MayorSillyBiscuits
I am a groin wizard, quick spook, be a butt wizard.
So I can sodomize you with my magic.
>
UM
NEVERMIND
NERVERMIND
DYGISOHD
BAD TOUCH!!!! STRANGER DANGER!!!!
Originally Posted by Stij
Originally Posted by spook blotter
Originally Posted by Stij
Originally Posted by spook blotter
i have such a food boner for black olives right now
yeeeeeeeeeeeah black olives are awesome
you're one of the few people I've met who actually likes them
welcome to the boner club
wait what
please baby i am the founder of the boner club
and i mean that in the least creepy way possible
Originally Posted by NotAPumpkin
I really want to hug a squid right now ;_;
Originally Posted by AtomicFeedback!
THATS WHAT SHE SAID
oh wow, that was.. that was terrible
i'm new to telling sex jokes, maydame
can you... teach me how? be gentle, i'm... inexperienced
Originally Posted by inexpediency
CaptainZaven quit groping the chat thread
Originally Posted by ectocal
In any case get naked and dance
TF2
[S]: BrogutsBLT : *on mic* I like my women the way I like my calculations
[S]: |MiC| Disgruntled : *on mic * It keeps trying to eat my fucking rainbows
[S] Angry Mechanical Cuttlefish: None of the things I love are alive
[S] CaptainChip: Oh so youre necrophiliac
{felt/8}bidoof : amc would you go on a hot date with hussie or would his freakish lips be a turnoff
[S] Angry Mechanical Cuttlefish : i dunno i guess, why?
[S]BrogutsBLT: *mic* One day I will get a pug, and call him Ronald Reagan.
[S] Angry Mechanical Cuttlefish : clearly she's a pyrophiliac
[S] Angry Mechanical Cuttlefish : this is me giving a fuck
[S] Angry Mechanical Cuttlefish : Have you ever seen a homemade thermite bomb detonate on a car? It's the most beautiful thing I've witnessed in a long time.
Neveo : MY AIMBOT IS STRONG TODAY
[S] Angry Mechanical Cuttlefish : !kick nev "omgf u hax"
[SM] ADMIN: Kicked Neveo (Reason: "omgf u hax")
Player Neveo left the game ("omgf u hax")
[S] Angry Mechanical Cuttlefish : wait
[S] Angry Mechanical Cuttlefish : WAIT FFFFFF
Starscream: If you want, we could do it right here, right now. We just have to move umbreon's corpse.
[S] Angry Mechanical Cuttlefish : does it ever cross your mind to just
[S] Angry Mechanical Cuttlefish : go out and buy like fifty muffins
>Slick: Wonder how the heck you are going to move that thing.
Stick in in his Inventory, of course.
I mean, I guess those cisterns et al could be in the capsule, but the implication seems to be that they would have been assimilated into the suit, so I'm guessing he has them in some Hammerspace somewhere.
The guy is capable of all sorts of space-warping nonsense and you're wondering how he'll moving that thing?
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Re: Waterworks
This is basicly the best update.
Great music
Great animation, AND the music and the animation syncs up.
brb watching it for the third time.
also can I have the music source by anychance?
Meta pedaaaaa!
Your pesterchum is absoluteTranquility and you tend to staple you're eyes +u+
Originally Posted by KevKevOnFire
I am pretty sure you will not get banned unless you forget to revise out your comments on how jews deserved everything that happened to them in the holocaust, followed by some hardcore pornography.
If that is something you might accidentally leave in a post it is a matter of time until you get banned anyways.
Originally Posted by Trihan
Originally Posted by foobar
Spewing your stomach contents is a surefire way to impress the ladies.
Originally Posted by CheeseDeluxe
I know it's not, but it would impress if you caught it.
WITH YOUR MOUTH.
And suddenly, the reason for the ratio of single men on the forums became crystal clear...
Originally Posted by KevKevOnFire
Also, He said, fully erect, you're going to need more than some of your fancy elitist pants to get the best poster spot. Even if your name made that sentence really awkward.
Originally Posted by Niaya
by the way I still find it hilarious that you can "cheat" on the person you hate
I mean how does that even go
"I heard you sent someone else a death threat the other day! YOU BASTARD, HOW COULD YOU???"
Originally Posted by dky.tehkingd.u
Originally Posted by Pokolo
What happens if the fireplace is aflame?
Then Santa dies and the gifts burn with the item inside one of them, and none of the children in the world will ever get their Christmas presents and so the world will be reduced to chaos because there is no longer an incentive to being on Santa's "Nice" list.
Nice job breaking it, hero.
Originally Posted by Differential
Originally Posted by Antonym
Originally Posted by Differential
This is the first time I have supplied the title for a thread. I can die happy now.
Have you been sigquoted yet?
Never mind...
Originally Posted by Flamerider64
Originally Posted by Pokolo
Originally Posted by Flamerider64
Originally Posted by Pokolo
Originally Posted by Flamerider64
Originally Posted by Pokolo
Originally Posted by Flamerider64
Originally Posted by Pokolo
Sorry, Changed it.
YOU WILL LOVE TEREZI FOREVER
YOU WILL WAKE UP AND NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THIS CONVERSATION
Look whatsyourface, I just woke up, and Sleeping would be the worst thing ever right now.
...*moving fingers stupidly*You will sleeeeeeeep
well maybeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
OJA BONGA UKA FUTU NUZULAAAAAAA
...is this working?
TOKA MA WA WRENU
Bluh...
Urgh. I have the Headaches. All of them.
Hey thats not fair, my powers should make people sleep not get headaches
I wonder what yours do-*Falls asleep*
...
Christ.
Originally Posted by ghastlyBones
Throw a kiwi at the meatbitch. :V
Originally Posted by XFactorInfinity
she looks high
you made jade high
she isn't even fourteen and she looks like she's tripping balls
Stuff from IMs
TheSadMummy2: see if pokos solution is to say eff it ima go play on a spinny chair i say theres hope for kids these days
21:58 Ripcord "WHO STOLE THE IRON DOOR"
21:59 Ripcord Pokolo: Scientists.
00:14 factiousCacaesthesia also he thinks I have motherly arms
00:14 factiousCacaesthesia I am somehow not surprised he thinks you have a sweatervest
Fuf: Derp derp, on the navigator. traffic, augh. derp derp, on the computer in teeaaaa paarrrttyyyy oh whoops.
Fuf: this one's perfect
Fuf: it describes me so well
>CC: Take notes on that equipment exposition, especially the equipment given to the blue boys. Whether they end up as friends or enemies, knowing what they can do would come in handy.
(Besides the soap grenades can freeze things when they explode, that's just cool in and of itself.)
> Slick: Be thankful that your body didn't liquefy upon high-speed impact with the ground. Surely it's because of the suit's... inertial dampening... molecular... stuff? Y'know?
You are the Chief of Doom in the Land of Steppe and Silence. Your chumHandle is absentmindedThinker. --you tend to think too much and sometimes you get a bit ahead of yourself-- (you now have a pesterchum)
Originally Posted by crash826
"I KN3W W3 SHOULDN'T H4V3 H4D N3P3T4 DO TH3 3CTOB1OLOGY"
Originally Posted by Cervos
Karkat explains this with bandicoots. I'll explain this with Pokemon (again[again{again}])
You've got your Johnvee and evolved him into Joltijohn and you're like well shit fuck this ground gym leader can't beat him. Gotta restart
But you wanna keep Joltijohn. So you trade Joltijohn to another game session.
You can now restart the old game. You still have Johnvee there to pick up again. He's the same but now he's different. He can live another life that's different from the original like turn him into Flarejohn.
You can also bring your old Joltijohn into your game too. You now how 2 Johns.