Anonymous asked: Are you, like, bored of Homestuck or something? Is there a reason you only update in spurts, because you have to force yourself to actually liveblog this shit you don't care about anymore?
First things first: I am absolutely not bored of Homestuck! I just want that point stated flat-out.
Basically, what happened is this: I’ve started zipline again, which means I’m at work upwards of ten hours a day. Which would be fine! However, I think I mentioned before that I was working on a show? Since opening that one, I was cast in two more and made stage manager of the second show, which puts me in charge of 50+ people. By the time I get home in the evenings and make dinner/do email/various network checks and do whatever administrative tasks I have waiting on me, it’s usually late enough that either the liveblogging would last ~45 minutes before I had to go crash in preparation for the next day, or I don’t have the mental capacity to think critically enough to really read. (Remember how recently I’ve been making stupid statements like wondering where Karkat knew about shipping from? …yeeeeeeeah. There’d be more idiocy like that. So much more.)
I won’t lie, there have been a couple evenings where I went, “I really ought to liveblog tonight! I should do it! …I’m just gonna read Game of Thrones/play Birth By Sleep instead…” But the majority of evenings it’s been “I should really update my files/write that email to my old professor/make next week’s sign-in sheets/respond to that post that’s waiting on me/do laundry/read/work on fleshing out that new story I want to do/search for full time jobs and apply… Iiiiiii’m going to sit here and stare blankly at the computer until I give it up as a bad job and go to bed instead!” (…to name a few of the many, many tasks I keep procrastinating on.)
The “spurts” you mentioned? Those have generally been either days off, or days where I wasn’t at work nearly as long as I was supposed to be and so had more than enough energy for blogging.
It’s all about balance! At the moment I’m struggling to adjust to not really having any time off, as I’ve become accustomed to having plenty of time to laze about and do nothing. Which is certainly not a good excuse at all! …Actually, can I quote Hyperbole and a Half? This post is long enough as it is. I’m going to quote Hyperbole and a Half: “The longer I procrastinate on returning phone calls and emails, the more guilty I feel about it. The guilt I feel causes me to avoid the issue further, which only leads to more guilt and more procrastination. It gets to the point where I don’t email someone for fear of reminding them that they emailed me and thus giving them a reason to be disappointed in me.” REPLACE PHONE CALLS/EMAIL WITH LIVEBLOGGING AND THAT IS ACTUALLY PRETTY ACCURATE?
Anyways. Long story short. Definitely not bored! Just being terrible at time management and sleeping my life away. I’m working on it.
And it looks like we’re moving over to John and Jade…
Which means I end here for the night. (Honestly, I probably ought to have a whiiiiiile ago but NOPE I WAS ENJOYING THAT SECTION TOO MUCH TO STOP.)
Answers to the shipping question = yep, Karkat has referred to Nepeta as the “shipper” before. Wow, self. Can I blame the long hiatus for that one?
…didn’t think so.
At any rate, thanks for joining me tonight and I WILL CATCH YOU GUYS NEXT TIME WHICH WILL HOPEFULLY BE MUCH SOONER THAN THE BREAK BETWEEN THE LAST ONE AND TONIGHT.
Also, I broke 1000 posts tonight.
So that’s pretty cool.
Filed Under: The night Homestuck brought PFS to tears.
(Of laughter. But still.)
karkat
karkat romance doesn’t work that way
you can’t just decide whether you’re flushed or caliginous
you can’t
it doesn’t work that way
edit: important question
KARKAT: WAIT, I THINK IT’S COMING.
KARKAT: HERE IT COMES, MY FIRST “SHIP”, IT’S GOING IN THE SQUARE!
…karkat understands shipping.
But “ship” is in quotation marks, signifying it’s a concept he doesn’t generally use
where did he discover it
(I now have images of Karkat just. Reading all the terrible, horrible fanfic ever. And getting way too invested in shipping wars.)

DONE.
I AM DONE.
ROSE’S LOOK OF SHEER AND UTTER DELIGHT AT THAT DESCRIPTION
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN SHE’D BE A HARLEQUIN GIRL.
oh god it’s like troll fabio
sorry guys i am still stuck on that image I am trying to read the page and I just
keep
getting
distracted…
(N-DRANGLES)
WHAT
IS
THIS
NO REALLY
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS
FUCKING HELL I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING
KARKAT
KARKAT ARE YOU READING THE TROLL EQUIVALENT OF HARLEQUIN ROMANCE NOVELS?
IT’S OKAY WE’RE ALL FRIENDS HERE YOU CAN TELL US
(OH GOD I REALLY CANNOT STOP GIGGLING HOLY FUCK THAT COVER I JUST
I CAN’T
I HONESTLY CANNOT)
KARKAT: NOT SO FAST STRIDER, THIS HEAVILY CONCERNS YOU.
oh god this can only end terribly
and by terribly
i mean it is going to be amazing
edit:
DAVE: no mayo is like grub sauce but without grubs
now curious as to what and how they have been eating over the past year
what manner of alternian delicacies have dave and rose been introduced to
DAVE: that way we can totally avoid anything awkward
ROSE: You do realize we’ve seen her already, right?
DAVE: what
DAVE: whenROSE: Months ago.
ROSE: In a dream.
ROSE: She was floating along in Derse pajamas, asleep.DAVE: wait that was her
ROSE: Yes.
DAVE: oh
DAVE: huh
DAVE: …..ROSE: You’re wondering why I didn’t tell you?
DAVE: no
ROSE: You’re specifically wondering why I wasn’t forthcoming with an answer to your question at the time, “hey who was that choice babe in the pajamas?”
DAVE: god fucking dammit
dave
dave…

So.
Forgive me if this comes out convoluted, but this section and this image are making me wonder.
We’ve seen in the past (this page in particular) the two pieces constantly circling each other. I originally assumed that this was just an illustration of the eternal battle between the two sides, but now according to that top image it seems that that’s the Battlefield’s first form.
What are those pieces? They’re kings, but are they the actual white and black king? Are they prototyped alongside the Battlefield to become more humanoid pieces? Or are those two pieces more allegorical, symbolizing the two kings and eventually prototyping to become fortresses and strongholds that the armies try to hold?
I expect it’s the latter, but imagine the ramifications if it were the former. It almost makes sense; the queens are the ones creating the laws and ruling their kingdoms, while the kings are nowhere in sight. Does this prove true prior to the Battlefield’s prototyping, too? Considering we never saw hide nor hair of the black king when we saw the Batterwitch in [S] Prince of Heart: Rise Up, I’m wondering.
(This is probably a really tangential idea that only I am interested in I AM LIVEBLOGGING VERY SLOWLY TONIGHT I MUST SAY)


![So.
Forgive me if this comes out convoluted, but this section and this image are making me wonder.
We’ve seen in the past (this page in particular) the two pieces constantly circling each other. I originally assumed that this was just an illustration of the eternal battle between the two sides, but now according to that top image it seems that that’s the Battlefield’s first form.
What are those pieces? They’re kings, but are they the actual white and black king? Are they prototyped alongside the Battlefield to become more humanoid pieces? Or are those two pieces more allegorical, symbolizing the two kings and eventually prototyping to become fortresses and strongholds that the armies try to hold?
I expect it’s the latter, but imagine the ramifications if it were the former. It almost makes sense; the queens are the ones creating the laws and ruling their kingdoms, while the kings are nowhere in sight. Does this prove true prior to the Battlefield’s prototyping, too? Considering we never saw hide nor hair of the black king when we saw the Batterwitch in [S] Prince of Heart: Rise Up, I’m wondering.
(This is probably a really tangential idea that only I am interested in I AM LIVEBLOGGING VERY SLOWLY TONIGHT I MUST SAY)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3j435jPkC1r7yejho1_500.gif)