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>Incidentally, Charlotte might think Taylor and Lisa are doing it at first. Noted Skittletale proponent Charlotte šKrixwell:
Pffft ahahahaha
Charlotte, as the building turns into a crazy semi-illusory realm and Merchants start dropping into drug trances one by one: āLook, Iām happy for you two, but guys, this is not the time for hot lesbian action!ā
(#Senegal: āItās always the time for hot lesbian action.ā)
I imagine Newter taking out Merchants from the shadows by spitting at them from the ceiling.
Turkish Wikipedia suggests that Karahindiba means Dandelion. Tesseractids is a lame name; you should call them Dandelions!
Yeah, that meaning is how the name Karahindiba came up in the first place. Hana didnāt explicitly name it, she just compared it to a dandelion in the way the pieces of it, the āseedsā, were scattering to the winds. The way her narration mentioned the Turkish word for it made it natural to pick that up as a name for that being, or possibly all of them (I chose to use it for the individual).
āDandelionsā is a rather elegant name for the species. They do seem to be flaking off whenever they move even when theyāre not dying, too. Iām not sure if I want to adopt it for all of them, though – Iāll have to think about it.
Youare tearing me apart, Lisa
oh hi asker
lisa this is the worst double date ever the guy im with s a creep and everybodyās fighting and I forgot something but now the exits are gone Lisa ou suck
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Damn, Lisa, there arenāt even candles! Unless you count the flaming torches some of those guys over there are swinging at each other. How is anyone supposed to get their romance on when itās like this?
Nice fireworks, though. Not super into the bloody remains of those unfortunate enough to cross their paths, but at least the light show is great.
Both Taylor and Hana just call the beings āentitiesā, which, while not very specific, is suitably mysterious if you proper noun-ize it. āThe Entitiesā. Much better than tessaractids, donāt you think?
I mean, if youāre going for mysterious, sure. I did come up with the name tesseractids explictly to have a better way to mention them than with extremely nonspecific terms like ābeingsā or āentitiesā, though.
Despite the Worm fandomās love of altpower!Taylors, I have surprisingly never seen one where she gets Skidmarkās power. Iād write one myself, except Iām not that good of a writer and would need to do a lot of research to figure out new tricks like Taylor did with her bug power.
Hereās one that might have interesting effects: Layering a skidmark that goes one way on top of one that goes the opposite way.
The boring outcome would be that theyād cancel each other out.
The less boring outcomes would have the potential to be far grislier.
Yesss letās beat druggies by getting them high.
Ahaha, good point. Maybe some of the Merchants are somewhat resistant to his power, though it does seem to be incredibly potent.
It just hit me that the Merchants *would actually love Newter (if they realized what his power did instead of just figuring that it knocks people out)*
Yeah, thatās probably true. His power – but not his personality – would fit right into their group, had he not been taken by Faultline.
Also, itās not like he makes his power a secret. He was perfectly willing to fill Taylor in on it (Taylor and some other characters we know are a lot more reluctant to inform others about the full extent of their power even while temporarily working with them), and, more notably, he openly sells his spit already at Palanquin. Thereās no way the specifics of his power wouldnāt be easy to find out, and the Parahumans wiki probably has it all listed.
(Now, whether the Merchants would bother to is a whole other question.)
Iām having a really good day. Some stressful stuff is behind me, and where I am weāve just had a couple of 70 degree (fahrenheit) days in a row despite it being February. So I wanted to let you know youāre awesome, and I really enjoy your liveblog. Just as much as I enjoyed classic ones like FOAL and lobac back in the day. You really succeed where liveblogs should, in being an entertaining and interesting person yourself to complement the story. Thank you.
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Thank you so much! This makes me really happy to hear! ^u^
(#foal and lobac are/were good
#check them out at hslivebloggerextraordinaire and land-of-boredom-and-confusion if you’re into homestuck and haven’t read them yet
#unfortunately lobac stopped partway through act 5
#but she was pretty good while she lasted)
I just wanted to comment on how much I love that Krix references some of my favorite things. Whether RAFOs – which I admittedly know from Sanderson instead of Jordan – or his reference to A Noble Circle, or his casual inclusion of XKCD (I donāt think Iām making that up, right?) or any other one of dozens of references Iāve caught, itās awesome that heās just casually referencing things that I normally have to introduce people to IRL
Nice!
Iām sorry to say Iāve never heard of A Noble Circle before, so that mustāve been accidental (maybe I was talking about the Noble Circle of Horrorterrors from Homestuck, though I canāt find any mentions of that on my blog), but itās fun to hear that my references are landing. š
I know references can be off-putting to those who donāt get them, so I try not to rely on them too much for people to enjoy the blog without them, but I do like putting them in there. I mean, this is all about recording my thoughts, and my brain just so happens to love latching on to reference opportunities. And hey, I think theyāre funny when you do get them, so why not?
It does mean some of my readers will have slightly different experiences from others, but thatās always the case, whether itās because of references or other forms of differing life experiences and opinions, so I donāt think thatās much of a problem.
(By the way, there are probably many more subtle Homestuck nods in my blog than most of my non-Homestuck readers realize. Homestuck has a lot of little turns of phrase that can easily be woven into otherwise normal sentiments.)
[At least on Tumblr I would fairly consistently tag the names of works I’d referenced in the posts… I’m not bothering with that on WordPress, so many references are a lot harder to spot after the migration.]
I guess the reason why most people donāt write Skid!Taylor or anything similar is that theyāre working on AUās from shortly before Taylorās trigger event. Skidmark was already active when Taylor triggered, so it couldnāt happen.
Ah, yeah, that makes sense. At least if you assume powers are unique, which I find questionable on a large scale but largely supported on a smaller one.
āIām sorry to say Iāve never heard of A Noble Circle beforeā Oh, Itās a pretty good game by the guy who made A Dark Room and The Ensign, both of which are phenomenal if you havenāt heard of them. Itās about a circleās journey through Flatland, and a big part is about jumping above obstacles because Flatland is 2 dimensional. I assumed you were referencing it when you said āThat would explain how they can appear gradually out of nowhere like a sphere descending into Flatlandā in a previous post.
Oh! It sounds like the game is referencing the same thing I was, namely the 1884 satirical novella āFlatland: A Romance of Many Dimensionsā by Edwin Abbott Abbott (I guess one abbot wasnāt holy enough), under the pseudonym A. Square. It can be read here.
The former half of the book goes into detail about the social and biological structure of the (horizontally) two-dimensional world of Flatland, in a way that satirizes Victorian-era English culture, and the latter half details A. Sphere teaching the protagonist about the one-dimensional Lineland, zero-dimensional Pointland and, most importantly, the three-dimensional Spaceland.
Notably, two-dimensional beings see a horizontal line. Thatās the extent of their visual input in Flatland, though they also have a sort of fog that gives them depth perception (much like we see a two-dimensional image and use perspective to determine distances along the third dimension). So when A. Sphere descends into Flatland, A. Square sees him as a line increasing in length, and through depth perception and touch, he determines A. Sphere to be a size-changing circle, a priest, the noblest of shapes.
(Similarly, thereās a scene where A. Square enters Lineland and is perceived as a series of points along the line.)
So when I brought up this scene from Flatland in relation to the tesseractids / dandelions, it was in the sense that these four-dimensional (or more) beings ādescendā along the fourth dimension into the Wormverseās three-dimensional section of four-dimensional space, and the portions that intersect that three-dimension space are perceived there as three-dimensional beings that seem to shift and change in ways that donāt seem to make sense for such a being. (ā¦I hope that sentence made sense.)
Flatland is an interesting read, though without the context that it was satire of Victorian culture, which I only learned this morning, the in-depth information about the two-dimensional worldās social structure might get a bit tedious.
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