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Battery’s interlude is a tiny bit less than 9500 words. Canary’s, which took you three liveblogging sessions to finish, has a word count of less than 7700. I was shocked to see you finish the former in one take, how exactly do you decide when to stop?

It’s a complex formula involving the phases of the moon, the distance to the nearest butterfly, the number of stars visible through the closest window, the current date in the Eternal September calendar, and a frankly excessive amount of cheese.

Alright, actual answer: It varies. Sometimes I set myself a limit, a time to stop near, specifically to avoid cases like what happened with Battery’s Interlude. This is the healthiest option. Other times, I go by how I’m feeling in the moment and how late it’s getting. And sometimes I get stuck in a loop of “I can’t be far from the end now”, which is a leading cause of extra long sessions.

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“And herself” The Doctor is not white. “A woman stood there, dark-skinned”

Wait, did I imply she was white at some point? If I did, that must’ve been an accident, since I did catch the bit about her skin color (and later brought it up in the context of Cauldron’s location).

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Wildbow did start out with a buffer of prewritten chapters. I think when he started he had arc 1 written, and arc 2 mostly written. However he ended up burning through the buffer pretty quickly. He used up the last of it some time during arc 6 or 7. Since then, most his chapters were written the day they were posted. Despite this, he’s manged to go 6.5 years without ever missing one of his regular Tue/Sat updates.

Damn.

No wonder he had some choice words about my early schedule. This is clearly a guy who’s good at sticking to his own while still producing high-quality content.

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Re: Crystal Gems having Manton protection from Shatterbird, remember Weld has certain power immunity: (from 9.1) “In addition, his biology fell into some optimal middle ground between organic and inorganic. For those whose powers affected only living things, he counted as inorganic. The opposite was also true.” So it depends on how the powers see their gems.

That is a good point, though it’s worth noting that in SU canon, Gems are explicitly inorganic life (which hits a weird spot with the Manton effect, since whether it operates on “organic vs inorganic” or “alive vs lifeless” seems to vary). But who knows if the power will see it that way?

By the way, while we’re on the topic of SU and the Manton effect: I think it’s in effect

along the “alive vs lifeless” axis for one of Steven’s powers, but the characters don’t realize it.

Steven has the power to heal, but for a while he’s presented as having “lost” this ability due to lack of confidence in it after Greg pretended it didn’t work. I think that’s bullshit and conclusion jumping on the characters’ part – his healing power not working for a while is far better explained by him not trying to use it on anything he perceived as alive between “losing” the power and “regaining” it, nor have we seen the reverse outside this period. 

It didn’t work to heal a crack in a giant stormy rock that wasn’t a living being like the Gems and humans are (the power works on both Gems and humans, so it’s not an “organic vs inorganic” thing), so he concluded it had outright disappeared.

(He does discover that “it’s back” by way of accidentally healing a teddy bear, to which you could argue that it isn’t alive, but I think MC Bear Bear is alive to Steven.)

I think what rubs me most the wrong way about the whole thing is that if I’m right about this and Steven couldn’t heal lifeless things in the first place, taking away the healing power he only unlocked three episodes earlier didn’t even serve any narrative purpose beyond the (mediocre at best) episode it happened in.

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As of Jack’s interlude, you’ve read 500,000 words of Worm. On a somewhat related note, Ward is almost 7 months old and is closing in on 500,000 words soon.

Nice! Only 1.34 Homestucks to go!

Also damn, that man is productive.

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I’m gonna have to postpone tonight’s ask session. I’ve started a course that’s intended to help me get into the work life, and now I’m feeling the side effects of the process of getting my sleep schedule more in order. Mainly, I’m sleepy.

I should be fine to do it tomorrow, though we’ll have to see if I can combine it with the chapter or if I have to postpone that too.

Let’s push this back a little more. Sorry, it’s just gonna take a little bit of time to get used to regularly getting up in the actual morning again after half a year of waking up between ten and four most days, and meanwhile I’m not really feeling up to much blogging.

Don’t worry, I’m alright. Just sleepy and maybe a little bit… grumpy, at the end of the day? The latter is the main reason I’m not doing asks right now, as I don’t want to approach them from that frame of mind.

I’ll see what I can do tomorrow, but no guarantees.

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I’m gonna have to postpone tonight’s ask session. I’ve started a course that’s intended to help me get into the work life, and now I’m feeling the side effects of the process of getting my sleep schedule more in order. Mainly, I’m sleepy.

I should be fine to do it tomorrow, though we’ll have to see if I can combine it with the chapter or if I have to postpone that too.

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loreweaver-universe: I was asked my thoughts on this by @krixwell-liveblogs, and it got long enough that I decided to just make a post about it. It’s a fair criticism, but I find the story is more about Midoriya’s spirit, the qualities that made All Might CHOOSE him.  It shows All Might’s priorities in choosing a […]