Bucky [voiceover]:
Well, I was in such a state of shock, I completely blacked out. I can't remember a thing. It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead.
Terezi and Dave used their combined powers to “revive” Dirk, after Dirk was killed by Spades Slick via dozens of point blank gunshot wounds. We can assume this death was heroic, as he didn’t begin to revive on his own, and he certainly didn’t deserve a “Just” death. So for a few seconds of the flash, Dirk Strider was permadead.
But then Dave and Terezi used their classpect powers in conjunction with each other, in the fraymotif you see above.
Now, from the image, we can get an idea of what exactly their combined power actually is. You can see Dirk and Jack English doing a variety of different actions, with the timeline splintering off in different directions based on the choices Dirk makes as to how to go about fighting Jack.
Once the fraymotif fades, Dirk is fine, and is in a much different situation combat wise than he was originally- the battle never went in that direction, so he never died. This is, obviously, time travel- that’s clear from the get-go. But what’s remarkable is that it’s a type of time travel we’ve never seen before in Homestuck.
Time travel in homestuck- even John’s retcon powers- involves the person in question physically traveling back in time, so that if they want to change their own actions, they have to carry a conversation with their past self and convince them to act differently. In Terezi and Dave’s fraymotif, though, nobody actually physically travels back- at least not in the sense we’re use to.
Considering that, in the picture above, every cyan branch represents a barrier between potential timelines- there’s actually no duplicates in the image. Every given timeline shown has one Dirk, one Terezi, and one Dave. Rather than there being two of someone, because someone went back and changed things “manually”.
Mind as an aspect represents choices, the reasons people have for making those choices- and other choices they could have potentially made. Combine that with time travel, and it’s clear that their combined ability is to retroactively cause people to make different choices than they originally did. Dirk never died because he never made the combat decision that led to his death. It’s a type of time travel that leaves no fingerprints- nobody runs into another version of themselves, nobody meets anyone from the future.
you just happen to make a different choice than you would have originally, probably not even realizing something is different.
and odds are, only the player(s) who did it are aware.
it’s a form of time travel where you BECOME your past self, rather than encounter them. and that’s remarkable. that’s unprecedented in homestuck. seamless time travel like that has endless potential, it’s like an “undo” button in photoshop. considering that it forces the person in question to make a different choice, it’s arguably a form of mind control.
This is a (very long) post about the massive cock-up leading to the Battle of the Five Armies.A cock-up in which everyone one (dwarves, elves, and men) played a huge role. Mostly because I’m sick of the gross simplification of the politics and economics surrounding the cock-up; also, Hobbit Fandom (esp. fanfics) has this huge thing for Thorin being ill with gold sickness, which is really arguable, but also totally not the reason for the cock-up.
This post is going to be divided into four parts. First, the characterization of Thranduil, Bard, Thorin, and Bilbo in relationship to treasure and specifically Smaug’s hoard. Second, the history of the dwarves and their surrounding allies in the Erebor region, and the effects of the loss of Erebor. Third, the interaction of Thorin’s dwarves with the elves and men. Fourth, the numerous confrontations at the front gate of Erebor. If this looks like it’s going to be pseudo-academic, that’s because, well, it is. I’m bored, and also I was rereading parts of The Hobbit today, while at the dentist. There’s even going to be quotations and potentially endnotes. Fuck yeah.
[Note: there’s cursing, as there always is when I talk; also, this is over 7,600 words long, so it’s—very long.]
[Also, I really fucking hate tumblr’s shitty excuse for formatting. Jesus fuck.]
i have no meaningful lyrics to add here i am sorry about that but i thought it would be really cool if john could do things like this with his.. windy thing……
one day i thought hey im gonna do this huge awesome little thing but then i realised i didn’t have the means to make said thing so i decided to do something a little more simple and voila that’s how this came to be omg
i hope these links work, full views here!!!: first, second
I believe these guys were on Americans Got Talent!
THIS. VIDEO. OH. MY GOD.
MOTHER. OF. GOD.
Yes they were. the tech was actually created by a dancer who fought a debilitating illness and would no longer be able to perform at her capacity. She then delved deep and found new insp to create this!
So basically this guy that I go to school with had to do a video about this academy called the CTE Academy, which is ridiculously far from our own and takes up three class periods, with you only earning one credit. He was told to make a video to promote this academy. He made this.
This was about 823742 times better than I thought it would be
You know what really annoys me more than anything else? Bad Homestuck cosplay. I mean seriously, if you’re going to cosplay a character, at least take the effort not to make it completely half-assed! Like look at this asshole right here. This has to be the worst Sollux cosplay I’ve seen in my life. I’m willing to bet that this guy hasn’t even read Homestuck. It just pisses me off to no end.
Dude, calm the hell down. you don’t even know that this guy was in cosplay. More likely, he was just taking a picture of the horns he was using for a future costume. There’s no need to fly off the handle.
