Tag: Steven Universe

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“If you’re pushing yourself this hard to prove yourself to me-“

I don’t think that’s the case.

Taylor has plenty of other reasons to push herself way too hard. Such as proving herself to Coil, and her massive guilt over Dinah.

“It’s not that.”

“Okay.  But really, you don’t need to prove yourself.  You know Tattletale just called me on the phone?  Ten minutes ago?”

The way Taylor sees it, she really does need to prove herself, just not to you.

So what did Tattle say?

Ten minutes ago, I would’ve just left the doctor’s place, en route for my lair with Charlotte.  I frowned.  “What did she say?”

“Chewed me out big time, about how I was being too hard on you, after the… revelations at the hospital, about turning you down.  Calling me a clod, basically.”

Huh. Why’d she end up doing that now?

Oh, right, Lisa and Taylor’s conversation on the way out to the mall.

I do not think Brian deserves to be chewed out over turning Taylor down. That sort of thing, that sort of pressure to accept, just leads to even more heartache than a straight turn-down.

Also, the word “clod” has not escaped the attention of my brain’s Steven Universe compartment. 😛

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“Want to buy a lady?  Or maybe a sir?” one of the vendors leered at Minor.

It really feels like Wildbow is going out of his way to give the Merchants every single negative trait.

Anyway, no thanks.

Got one already.

A group of men and women were gathered in a ‘stall’ behind him, watched by another Merchant.  Were they whores or slaves?

Bit of both, probably. The need for what seems to be a guard isn’t exactly a good sign.

I wasn’t sure I wanted to think too long about it.

Me neither.

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When in doubt, be vague.

“If you’re talking about Steven…”

Huh, I think that marks the first time I read the name “Steven” and thought of Steven the goldfish from The Adventure Zone before I thought of Steven Universe.

So who’s Steven? Is that her boyfriend?

Steven.  Regent could feel a reaction from Shadow Stalker at the name.  “I’m not talking about Steven.”  He put some inflection in the name.  He dropped the crossbow to one side, stepped away and stretched.  The mother didn’t budge from where she was pressed up against the wall.  “I’m going to my room.  Don’t disturb me.”

I wonder what sort of chaos he can stir from there.

He bent down and grabbed the mask, but he didn’t put it back on.  He stepped out into the hallway, and saw a vacuum cleaner parked in the corner.  An extension cord trailed from it to a neighboring room.  An office?  He unplugged the cord from the wall and the vacuum, and then headed upstairs, winding the cord into a simple coil.

…

Electricity would disrupt your control, right? Or was that too a lie?

Either way, not gonna be pleasant for Sophia if Regent decides to have her phase through that.

Or maybe he intends to trap her there for a while? Tie herself up like the Undersiders did with her before the mission, which means Sophia will have to call for help (if he makes that possible for her) if she wants to be let out?

Shadow Stalker’s body was a cocktail of emotion.  Fear, anger, anxiety, worry, panic and sheer fury.  Regent staved off the worst of the physical reactions, the trembling and the heavy breathing, and managed to make Shadow Stalker seem calm as she reached the top of the stairs.

Impressive.

Terry was up there in the hallway, staring, uncomprehending.

Oh boy, gonna say anything to him?

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So that means you’ve been using that horrifying Rose-Cal icon for over a year…

Not quite.

Discord updates icons and nicknames retroactively, and those screenshots were taken in late November. I’m glad I did that, because 2.5 weeks later, the server was cleared by a hacked bot (some of you may remember that I postponed a liveblog session because I was busy fixing this), meaning those messages no longer exist and I wouldn’t have been able to search them up now like I did in November.

Anyway, the image you’re talking about, Rose Caltz, was created in the beginning of March 2017, so we’ve still got a couple months to go for its anniversary.

Incidentally, I decided not to switch my Discord icon back to Rose Caltz for the time being (though it remains my personal Tumblr blog’s icon), which has led to a bit of a crisis of color on the servers where my name before Christmas was “King Krix the Pink”:

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Happy Anniversary! Here’s something interesting: you’re getting close to the point in the story in which Worm had its own first year anniversary.

On Worm’s first anniversary (which fell towards the end of Arc 11), Wildbow posted a chapter every day for a week. You should do the same thing now. Or when you reach the anniversary chapters.

Ooh, nice! So that means I’m not that much slower at reading this than Wildbow was at writing it… granted, writing it was probably a more time-consuming process than reading and commenting on it, so his publishing rates were (and maybe still are) still impressive. 🙂

I like the idea of a week-long Skitterbomb, to borrow a term from a different fandom… No promises I’ll make it through a week – there’s a reason I don’t regularly do this every day – but I might actually try that and see what happens.

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Anything can become a badass title if it’s italicized and subtitled with “Extermination”.

  • Arc Thoughts: Extermination
  • Worm: Extermination
  • Lucky Bunny Bounty Show: Extermination
  • My Little Pony: Extermination
  • Homestuck: Extermination
  • Die Hard: Extermination
  • Steven Universe: Extermination
  • Taylor Says “Mucho Cred”: Extermination
  • Miraculous Ladybug: Extermination
  • Border Control: Extermination
  • Little Witch Academia: Extermination
  • …Etcetera: Extermination
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Search your blog for Angry Banana Bunch, you’ll find an untagged ABB gag.

Another untagged ABB gag: Awesome Beach Bodies.

More unmarked ABB gags: Ablatives But Better, Amplified Banana Blasters, Absolute Beetle Buffoons.

Two untagged ABB gags when Bakuda makes her entrance: Achoo Blessya Babes and Asplody Beach Balls.

More untagged ABB gags: Antithetical Bottle Breaker, Actual Bad Boys, Archer Biting Babies, and Anti-Bitch Brigade (one of your better ones). I was also wondering if you intended to make a “Fuck you, Max” tag.

Another untagged ABB gag. Allflavor Bean Bags. Also, I’m seriously considering starting Homestuck and Steven Universe just so I can get all your references.

Another untagged ABB gag: Amorphous Basket Balls.

Thank you!

Due to blog search being kind of unreliable, I was unable to find some of these, but I really appreciate this nonetheless. Those I could find have been fixed.

I think I decided against making a “Fuck you, Max” tag at some point, but I’m not sure. At least that gag wasn’t constantly changing, so it’d be way easier to apply retroactively if I were to change my mind.

And as for Steven Universe and Homestuck, I think you should do it. They are both great. Though fair warning, they both have a sort of slow start (SU does it better than Homestuck though), so I recommend you avoid judging them too early. With Homestuck in particular it’s worth noting that up until a point in Act 4, the story was being based on people’s suggested commands, which explains a lot of the floundering early on.

By the way, when you finish watching/reading, I recommend you check out the liveblogs of my friends @loreweaver-universe (SU) and @mindareadsoots (Homestuck). 😉

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“Right.”

“What if you could choose both?  Choose both A and B, so your A self knows what your B self knows and vice versa.

Intriguing… go on…

When you know path B is the right choice, you can make it so.  The world where you chose to go down path A is gone, vanished, so when you comes to the next choice, you can do it again.”

This sounds a lot like how future vision works in Steven Universe.

“Sounds pretty useful.”

“Trick being that you can only have two realities running in parallel at a time, and the only differences between those realities hinge on the choices and calls you make.

Hm.

Is she describing Coil’s power here? Because this sounds a lot like Coil’s power, except with more of a bent towards knowledge.

The choices in question here wouldn’t affect the flip of a coin, though, unless you’re parahumanly good at physics.

So you delegate.  You find people who will follow orders.  Sometimes you send them out to do something in only one world, so that if things don’t go the way you want, you can default to the reality where you didn’t send them.

Okay yeah, this is absolutely sounding like Coil now.

What does he have to do with any of this, though?

Or, in simpler terms, in one world, you flip a coin.  In the other, you hold on a second, delay, say something.”

…the character I was talking about in the previous post also does a thing involving a coin flip and parallel timelines.

“Until every coin you’re flipping gives you a heads.  You’re talking about Coil,” I realized.

I see… so that’s how it works. Thank you! I’ve been really wanting to know the particulars of his power.

But again, what does this have to do with you knowing about Taylor’s secret since before you met her? Did you (or Coil) know something about the other reality’s Taylor, or something?