not an ask exactly, just wanted to tell you you make excellent metas, like, i could (and have) spent days just reading your metas that's how good they are, and in a fandom like homestuck where so many people come and go, it would be a shame to see your blog dissapear or deactivate like so many others. you're somewhat of a fandom celebrity for me ngl
anyway yeah your metas are awesome i love them thank you for making them!!!!
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Intrusive thought for you: could the limeblood genocide have been Alternia's "Butlerian Jihad", riffing on Dune's anti-computer cults? as a means of explaining the green goo inside Alternian computers and general adherence to biotech/psychics for automation. Equius building robots only to ritually destroy them feels in line with this, in a loose sense
as in, a reimagining of the sopor theory wherein blood of the lime caste didn’t just become bed slime, but also the data pus alternian computers run on? i bandied the idea around last time i was thinking about limebloods - somewhat jeeringly, but as far as limeblood conspiracies go it’s probably among those i find the most believable. “lord english paints his conquests with his sister’s green blood” is pretty solid ground and “there’s patriarchal significance to the ooze that fills alternia’s machines” is a pet tenet of mine, so there’s certainly merit.
to my mind, i guess that would be more of a reverse butlerian jihad? where the mentats are done away with so that they can be replaced with far more ruly machines. the reversal speaks to my assessment that the extermination of the limebloods should be in some way linked to the extinction of humanity on earth, where the condesce consistently had to replace unreliable old biological machines with robotics; and the comparison to dune’s jihad seems consistent with an ongoing theme we see on alternia where dramatic political change occurs as a reaction to social upheavel. first war with the signless sets the scene for hivebent’s arc, and then the summoner’s rebellion turns alternia into the creche planet we’re familiar with; it makes sense to presume, as many have in the past, that the limebloods were done away with in response to some uprising of the organics that mirrors the rise of the machines on earth?
in one of the linked posts over on @dingodad i make the connection to aradiabot as an example of a blood-powered machine (which is more relevant if we see things through the lens of robots as vessels for human spirits, which has become all the more prominent postcanon, but i digress), but I guess the unspoken parallel is the gold-blooded sollux who acts as custodian to his gold-filled beehouse machines? i won’t rehash territory i’ve already explored but there has very much always been the sense that alternian computers could be running on the blood of the proletariat
