There is no word of sufficient nuance and complexity to describe your relationship with it. I hereby commission SleepingOrange to devise one.
™ Slikutkilst ™
Originally Posted by Draykon
Andrew's policy of 'antialiasing is for squares'
Originally Posted by tynic
I do my best moderating drunk. Kind of a snippy bitch when sober, actually.
Originally Posted by Miff
Originally Posted by Mubbles
Originally Posted by willgame4food
I have a feeling I'll sound stupid saying this, but what is a jailed avatar? I've never heard of such a thing?
it's the avatar you get when you're jailed.
Honest-to-god, I thought that was KawaiiMelon's actual avatar.
Originally Posted by Ed
You're kidding, right? I mean it has all these memorable characters with tons of quirks, and they also use the internet. Also homestuck is different, it's not like everything else, it is very clever and also makes fun of things. Like shipping, by including ships in the comic, popular things like, twilight and pokemon. It's also very complex yet so simple, you just have to backtrack a lot to understand every minor detail, i also love getting hocked on a plot point and then just change perspective to another character who happens to know everything about everything and everyone else who talks to that character are like WUT?!? It also has it's own memes, because memes are the pinnacle of humor.
You're rude and ignorant, Ben.
Originally Posted by Wheeeeeeatthins
They will be willing to do such a thing for free if you make your work fandom-friendly, as fandom-types will devote sicknasty amounts of time under the abstract pretense that they are becoming an integral pillar of the fandom as a whole. Such a thing will win them fandom points and credits, which are good at any participating FanCon booths for the value of one free art of equal or lesser value. 4f4]Now to work on a flash where I 4f4]zoom in, pan across and zoom out 4f4]of other artists' detailed drawings at five seconds a piece.
This is called crowudsourcking in the business world and it is the newest way marketing departments across the globe have found a way to cut costs while ceasing to do anything creative themselves whatsoever so they can do more coke
Originally Posted by Wheeeeeeatthins
I, on the other hand, think that efficiency is more desirable than length. Any author can have a plot ebb out with enough updates simply by introducing more and more characters or foreshadowing and backshadowing and and having every single cause and effect chain together to make a gimmick clown alien seemingly essential to your plot because he made a plush toy appear with nebulous anger powers.
*Door opening*
W: Good God.
D: Mr Sherlock Holmes
SH: Welcome, Count Dracula.
*Dramatic music*
-- Sherlock Holmes v Dracula
Re: Homestuck According To My Parents (and others)
So, yeah
My mom likes to ramble.
She'll say something about a character, I'll get halfway through the sentence, she'll come up with another sentence or two and then suddenly I have a novel. Or at least that's what it felt like.
Thusly, I couldn't fit her quotes onto the picture itself, but I can tell you I showed her the grey-background one with more characters. By the end she desperately wanted to know who the characters were and how the heck they all fit together! (Considering she's a conservative Christian [whereas I am more of a liberal one] I didn't exactly recommend the comic to her. She's okay with me making my own choices on whether to read it though.)
ANYWAY
Aradia: What is she?
Tavros: Wickedly...I started to say "wickedly evil" but those mean the same thing, don't they?
Sollux: I don't know what to say about him.
Karkat: He looks confused. Like duh...
(Here, between two of the trolls, she interjected: "I just noticed none of them have arms! And that one's in a wheelchair!")
Nepeta: Aww, she's cute and has big eyes. And she's got candy corn on her head!
"All the horns are made of candy corn!"
But hers look like it!
Kanaya: She got attitude. Gonna get all serious in your face.
Terezi: *laughs* Does she have braces?
Vriska: Seductress. In her own little world. [Personal note: I found this oddly accurate, myself.]
Equius: *startled look* Uhh... *confused face* He's like missing parts and he can't see somethin'...he's a sad little dude. He needs a mama!
Gamzee: You ever seen the movie 'It'?
Eridan (note: Here she imitated a British accent to describe him): Very intelligent. High IQ. Looks down at others because no one is as smart as he.
Feferi: *points to her and Eridan* You know, these two look kinda like they have gills. [I explain a little to her about trolls and how some live underwater.] Well, she looks like a happy alien fish girl. Not threatening.
John: *confused* I'm gettin' nothin'.
Rose: Wonder if she's a ghost too. [I told her Aradia was a ghost.] Her eyes look kind.
Dave: Is he radioactive? They must be a pair *points to him and Rose* because they're both white. Either radioactive or an LP album.
Jade: [She said nothing for a bit, I asked "anything at all" and she shook her head.]
Cal: *What the heck face* Kinda looks like a character off Spongebob. Legs look like pretzels.
WV: The Mayor! Mayor of What? "Can Town." So a can of mayonnaise? He added the R?
PM: Obviously a policeman in Can Town? No, a postman.
AR: He's either an accident waiting to happen or an officer in caution tape.
WQ: Now that is an alien in human clothes. At least it has alien eyes.
Jack: *scared face* Spade...at first I thought he was like a devil or demon...but he's been injured so much!
CD: Oh, that's that hat you told me you like! Now we have clubs with a different sword and a great hat. He's a cat and *points to Jack* he's a dog?
Doc Scratch: Head looks like a lamppost light.
Snowman: How did they [Doc Scratch and Snowman] score arms? I'm really curious as to why she has the 8-ball symbol on her hat.
Bro: *laughs* That's right! *sings* I'm Bad! I'm Bad! Jump back!
Andrew: Oh, he doesn't have any arms! His shirt almost looks like yours...first human looking one...except for those ghastly eyes!
Dad: No identity. Just an everyman, maybe a door-to-door salesman.
Mom: See, now that's why [Dad's] so sad. His wife's an alcoholic and she flirts with other characters!
Bec: And that's their dog.
Grandpa: He looks like Mr. Bombay from Bewitched!
Maplehoof: *whisper* Oh my gosh. *end whisper* I hope that has nothing to do with the Mr. Bombayish guy.
Casey: Is that a little froggy or a little lizard?
Colonel Sassacre: Oh my goodness, this just gets worse. You have Einstein...at first I thought he was smoking a cigarette but now I think he's suckin' on a candy cane.
Grandma Egbert: A discombobulated jester, and a female at that!
Jaspersprite: A catfish!
Davesprite: *shakes head* I'm just shocked.
Jadesprite: Isn't that the same character that was up there, only in color or something?
Nakodile: A crocodile of some sort.
Hearts Boxcars: *shakes head indicating she doesn't know*
DD: -"Same as before?" I asked, and she finally had something to say about him and the previous!- I don't know what to think about these guys. Maybe evil...Laurel and Hardy. Abbot and Costello, but they look mean. Or at least mad.
Mutie: Awwwww...cute. I can see how it would be paired with those two [HB and DD] because it's black and white, but that's all I can see because it looks cute and friendly!
Yes, all but a couple of them take up a single line, but it felt like much more writing them down...especially since we had to use the front and back of two sheets of notebook paper, normal-sized. @_@
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Below: A nasally-voiced twenty-year old who has just woken up addresses the MSPA Forums with way too many pauses. (Unless tindeck is down right now)
Re: Homestuck According To My Parents (and others)
So, I got my sister to fill this out. Her answers are rather entertaining, if I can say so myself. The only things she knows about Homestuck is that a) there's a character named Vriska Serket, and that b) there are trolls in the series.
...I still don't understand why she thinks poor Kanaya and Terezi are guys. xD
Aradia: Derp.
Tavros: "They see me rolling, they hating." He has a wheelchair!
Sollux: Short with four horns.
Karkat: Emoooo kid
Nepeta: Blanket girl.
Kanaya: Why does he have a red skirt? No arms. (wait no one has arms!)
Terezi: Pretty cool and fearless. He has cool shades.
Vriska: Not an eyepatch? Those are glasses? What? Blue lipstick? WHAAA!
Equius...is that a guy? oh, okay. he has a tiny cheese puff on his head
Gamzee: Medusa-juggalo?
Eridan: Purple streak? Cool. That looks like a skirt! Why is he wearing one?
Feferi: WTF IS WRONG WITH HER srsly, that outfit is awful. Hair is cool, though. Golden unibrow?! Dumb skirt. Is that a towel skirt?
John: HERP DERP
Rose: Looks...I don’t know. Reminds me of Mandy from Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Dave: Pretttttttty cool.
Jade: SO ADORABLE!!
Cal: WTFFFFFF
WV: Some weird armor guy...armor made out of toilet paper, pretty defenseless.
PM: looks like a racist extremist
AR: STOP CALLING STOP CALLING...telephone!lady gaga junkie
WQ: Speaking of Gaga...just found her. Gaga and Lord Voldemort’s love child
Jack: Cool wings, explain why he’s wearing a Hawaiian bandana.
C Is he like a candy princess pope? He looks adorable!
Doc Scratch: ANONYMOUS!
Snowman: FEMALE ANONYMOUS!
Bro: Uh, some weird alternate version of Black (The guy from Pokemon's fifth generation.)?
Andrew: IDK, he looks like Justin Bieber
Dad: He looks like the Neighborhood Watch guy on those signs!
Mom: She’s like a 1940s hooker.
Bec: Puppy.
Grandpa: Vendetta. Wait, you know the anonymous mask?
Maplehoof: It’s a pony. The one from Animal Farm who loves ribbons! Yes, because she betrays the animals because she eats sugar and NOM NOM NOM
Casey: A yellow deformed Mudkip.
Colonel Sassacre: KFC guy with a party hat? With a Doctor Who bowtie?
Grandma Egbert: Harlequin juggalo thing?
Jaspersprite: WTF. Squiggly tiny party-hat thing.
Davesprite: He has a sword through his body. He’s dead, right? He has cool shades. Looks like that other guy from earlier.
Jadesprite: Dead troll? Unsuccessful troll?
Nakodile: It’s a Charmander.
Hearts Boxcar: FROSTY THE SNOWMAN! LA LA~
D Uh, he looks like...whatshisface from Pokemon...oh Looker!
Mutie: NYANYANNYANCAT, Purrloin, and a Skitty!
Well that was exciting.
>> your patron troll is Vriska Serket.
>> your favorite land is of quartz and melody
>> your statements tend to be very straightforward. most of the time~
Re: Homestuck According To My Parents (and others)
Okay, according to my sister.
WV: Asian. Has no arms. Old. He's like an emperor.
PM: Gandalf! He looks older and useless but uses magic. Like the kind of guy who is secretly strong.
WQ: Looks like a bitch.
AR: Looks like a thief from a silent movie. Clumsy and comical.
Bec Noir: Evil! And dead. Is that a dagger?
Aradia: He's cute! But kind of psychotic.
Nepeta: Awww!
Equius: Trying to be cool... But fails.
Tavros: Why is he a cripple?!
Kanaya: Is it a girl? I think so. Powerful but quiet type.
Gamzee: An insane vampire.
Sollux: Hahahaha!
Terezi: He's a bit... He looks personey, social.
Eridan: Awesome. Like him.
Karkat: He looks like a zombie.
Vriska: Pretty!
Feferi: Is she a fish or something? Like a sea goddess?
Snowman: *just a sad face until I changed the page*
Doc Scratch: Electric? Reminds me of Doctor Octopus. A mad scientist.
Hearts Boxcars: Slenderman's nemesis!
Diamonds Droog: A taxman?
Courtyard Droll: Fun and giggles!
John: Young magician?
Rose: A misunderstood wannabe.
Dave: Looks like you!
Jade: She's the geeky one. Who loves snakes?
Dad: Just an everyman office worker.
Mom: Bitchy businesswoman. She goes to all the parties and sleeps with rich men. She might be rich or she might just be sleeping with rich people, dunno!
Bro: A monkey?
Bec: DOG! Angry dog!
Nannasprite: Jester ghost. Female?
Jaspersprite: Oh my god. Are those sails on its head? Terrifying.
Davesprite: You again! But as a flying ghost angel.
Jadesprite: Like a smart cat ghost.
Sassacre: Like an inventor on his sixtieth birthday.
Maplehoof: Aww!
Mutie: Menacing kitty! A kitty, not a cat.
Cal: Terrifying! *whispers "I hate puppets" until I change the page*
Grandpa Harley: A builder! Oh, no, like a project manager.
Re: Homestuck According To My Parents (and others)
I managed to get my brother to sit down and look at it, mostly since I ambushed him while playing Fallout: New Vegas. I also gave my other, much younger brother a shot. My comments are in green text. Brother #1 is in black, and Brother #2 is red.
Brother #1
Aradia: Ugly. Tavros: Retarded. Sollux: Emo. Karkat: Faggot.
I don't really care about any of them. I don't even know what they are. So you don't want to do this? No, go away.
Brother #2
Aradia: Weird. Tavros: Umm.... Sollux: Wth? Karkat: Landon (That's a weird-looking friend of his) Nepeta: I don't know. Kanaya: Red pants. Terezi: I really don't know. I don't want to do this! They're all weird and I don't know what to say! *Sigh* Okay.
I didn't get far with either. I guess they just aren't open to new ideas.
Damn that's a lot smaller than it looked in Photoshop. I guess I'll write it then...
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