February 2018

EVERYONE HERE IS TALKING ABOUT THE FUCKING CODPIECE BUT WHAT ABOUT THE FUCKING RIDICULOUS HAT ON THEIR HEADS. JEGUS I SWEAR ITS LIKE ONE MASSIVE WHATS THE WORD... CODPIECE. ID LIKE TO HERE MORE SHIT ABOUT THE HAT THAN THE CODPIECE

The entire Bard outfit is just an insult to fashion really. And that’s why we love it, Karkat.

if you've read the books, what do you think Percy Jackson's godtier would be? I've been thinking something of Rage, if only for the contrivance part, because he's so powerful that things tend to end well for him, and his powers come in handy very often

Not a series I got into at all. And contrary to things like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars- None of which I’ve dabbled into much, Percy Jackson has remained relatively out of my dash and life in general so I know literally 0 about it.

can this be the last codpiece thing? it's a fanny pack. the bards keep a thing related to their deity/faith/calling in it :3

This is partially canon actually, Gamzee stuffs his codpiece with the money Jane pays him for the potions so there’s space in there to shove stuff in.

Can there be female Bards? If there can, would they wear Madonna cone bras instead of codpieces?

There can be female Bards, and I was going to argue about how the Codpiece is more of a Bard Thing in general rather than tied to gender, and how trans girls exist as well, gender and bits not being mutually exclusive, yadda yadda, but.

The thought of a Bard with cone bras to go along with the Codpiece- Not separately mind you, together with it, it’s way too funny to me.

can god tier players make their outfits look differently? because two things id change if i was a bard, the codpiece (cuz ya know), and id actually give myself a cape (do bards even HAVE a cape?)

Bard outfits have six strands of fabric going down from their hoods. And, Meenah shows us that yes you can edit your God Tier outfits any way you want. Hell you could keep the Bard outfit the same and just remove the Codpiece.

well, if you're thinking about reading them, I recommend them! They're great books, and the characters even pop up in other, albeit related, serieses, and they all have different pantheons being real! Such as Greek and Roman gods, Norse gods, Egyptian gods, I've only read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books so far though

I did know about the deities bit, but I’m not 100% sure if it’d be my thing. Never say no though, maybe some time!

I once came up with a fansession that eventually, through shenanigans, had every classpect except the lords and muses. The main antagonist captured all the Bards and trapped them in a prison spaceship. Eventually the main character bard, the Bard of Blood escapes, and leads the bards to victory, defeating their captors and crashing the ship into where the main action is, recreating the climax of Con Air.

crashing the ship into where the main action is, recreating the climax of Con Air.

You had me at the Bard-capturing, you didn’t need to go this far, and yet you did. I love it.

Bards of Heart can emit a charming spell from their codpiece, causing both friend and foe to fall in love with it. Bards of Life heal others by poking at them with their codpiece. Bards of Doom fire powerful beams from their codpiece. Bards of Breath blow others away by sturring up a storm by swinging their codpiece in the air. Y̶o̶u̶'r̶e̶ w̶e̶l̶c̶o̶m̶e̶.

What did I say about Codpiece talk! Shoosh! Come on guys, Tumblr is going to flag my blog as nsfw!

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'We all have a part that lowkey thinks the codpiece is kinda hot' this is lies and slander no part of me finds that monstrosity anything but ugly garish clown nonsense 'fashion' the likes of which i WISH i could erase from my mind ugly as Fuck and one hundred percent ice cold on a scale of one to ten id rate it minus. The fact that codpieces exist haunts me. If i see a bard in real life ill die

That is it, for April Fools I am going to change the entire blog’s theme to Codpiecestuck.

Is there any remaining features or side content in the SBURB game you particularly hope gets explored, somehow and someway, through the continuing Acts of Hiveswap and Hauntswitch? If not, whats your favorite thing shown thus far to us via Hiveswap? Or just about Hiveswap in general?

Denizens. Sweet mother of God the Denizens I adore the concept of the Denizens and would love to know everything about them more in-depth, which ones correlate to what Aspects, how they all look, specially without glitches or blinding glows.

Also I love Hiveswap and while I couldn’t pin-point what I like the most about what it’s shown us, I’m deeply fascinated and intrigued by the mysteries shown thus far, and really want to see where the story goes.

Scrolling through my dash to see a flashing codpiece. This is the content i signed up for thanks for an a+ blog , love it, never stop, please never make me see that again

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what do you think the powers of a sylph of life would be? would it just be like overpowered/unlimited healing, unlike jane's once-and-that's-it? or do you think there's be something else to it?

They’d be pretty similar, I don’t see why they would have to be stronger than Jane’s, but I also don’t see why not. Unlimited Resurrection sounds a little bit TOO OP for God Tier powers, given Conditional Immortality is a big thing for God Tiers and outside of English, true Immortality is unheard of, so I don’t think that’d be the case. Still, I could see the Sylph of Life having some powerful area heals and chain heals. The Maid of Life could have that too but, Jane seems more focused to single-target Healing, so it’d be fun to see just. Healing everyone. I have commented that the Sylph of Life sound like the Ultimate Healer after all.-

homestuck act omega is so good, it feels like reading the original comic

Honestly I’ve considered reading it or Act 8 and other such projects a bunch of times, but I’m very stubborn.

On one side, love the idea- Continuing the story, giving your unique twist on it. I love it because I feel the more open end of Act 7 and how long it’ll take to get the Epilogue out, is basically Hussie handing us the story and letting us do what we want with it! Our headcanons and ideas, our theories. I love that kind of thing.

But given the general reaction of the Fandom to an Ending that, as I’ve mentioned before, I personally think is really good? I feel like all the Ending Projects aren’t continuing the story, but rather… Trying to ‘fix’ it. Projects started out of spite as a ‘We can do this better than you, look’ defiance of Hussie’s ending, shaping the Canon to their own Headcanons and going around what they thought was ‘dumb’ which in many cases misses the point Hussie tried to make in the first place. It may not even be like that- But that’s how it feels to me, and why I haven’t checked any of those kinds of project out. And likely, why it’ll take me a looooong time to check them out, if I ever check them out at all.

what do you think about a knight of life's powers? and their sessions, too since a knight's session tends to lack their aspect.would everyone be dead before entering the medium, or maybe their dreamselves? (this is a great blog and hearing your pov on all these things is awesome, thank <3)

Thank you!! :D As I’ve mentioned in the past, however, I am not 100% certain about the ‘Sessions lack the Knight’s Aspect’. I mean there’s a bit of a trend, but not as defined in my eyes. As for the Knight of Life, I’ve talked about them before!

I just wanted to say, in the middle of all this cod piece talk, thanks for what you do. You’re really helpful for me getting into the details of homestuck and your so detailed and really fast to respond. I really love this blog!!!

Thank you! :D I really wanted to do this kind of thing for a long while- It started more as a bit of an attempt to maybe explain misconceptions and get new people into it? But it’s become too Spoilery I’d say for that to happen, so I focus way more in giving my take about things and try to push common Fandom Misconceptions away and giving fresh takes that people may not have thought about. It’s really fun actually! And. I mean. I get Cod Piece Talk from time to time, which is hilarious in its own right and sort of a bonus to be honest.

Which is not encouraging anyone to keep sending those. Please. I’m getting Cod Piece asks faster than I can answer them.

Considering a class like Slyph of Life should be almost always played up as a Healer in the traditional RPG White Mage kinda style, what offensive twists on Slyph of Life powers could you find to be debateably plausible? My first thoughts for this would be summoning the dead/souls of lost allies and using Life to allow them to fight once again, or growing aggressive plants and flora to fight with you or on your behalf.

I feel the Souls thing would be more a Heart thing. Raising a dead body, however? Like a Zombie? Now we’re talking. Necromancers are just Healers applied to the Dead after all. Overgrowth of plant life works well, and taking the ‘Agency’ bit of Life, the Sylph of Life may just do what they want or let others do what they want just, empowering speeches or even spells.

Also unique take on Life powers: Forced replication of cells or messing around with the Genetic Code to make fast growing cancer cells in their enemies or produce gruesome bodily mutations.

Have you done anything on heir of space?

Briefly talked about them here. I didn’t quite say much though did I? Changing through Space definitely means they’d be able to shrink and grow just like Jade with her powers, likely warp around by changing their own position… It’s possible there’d be something about changing the material they’re made off? So imagine skin hardening like steel or something like that. I could see the Heir of Space being sort of tied to the Genesis Frog just like Snowman, too.

If tavros mastered his pyrokinesis and wasn't so passifistic he would have been the most powerful fire tornado creator ever he might even been able to effectively kill all of his enemies and it scares me to think about his "true" potential as a character

There’s two things to note here. The first of all is- Does. Tavros really have Pyrokinesis? I always took the Sick Fires thing as stylization rather than actually creating fires, a visual pun on him trying to ‘burn’ others through the Internet and make some sick raps.

But the second… Would Tavros be one to do that kind of thing? Maybe a Page of Breath able to do Pyrokinesis could do that sort of stuff, yeah, but it doesn’t sound too… Tavros-y to me. When you consider someone’s “True Potential”, you have to consider what their personality would allow. Think of John. His powers can tear apart a planet, but his use of wind is to blow his enemies away and poof away- He could drill through Bec Noir or Condy with a giant wind tornado, but that’s just kind of not the John way of doing things.

what are some cool things that all doom players could do? like general abilities

Anxiety.

Okay, in all seriousness, Doom is a pretty vague Aspect when it comes to general powers, but anticipating bad things to come does seem to sort of happen even for Non-Seers- Like how Mituna knew something bad was going to happen. Maybe a sort of Spidey Sense? I’ve also argued about the connection between Doom and Fire, so maybe Pyrokinesis could be common?

What i meant by my time ask was that i made a group for a fan session and submitted it for a session analysis. When they posted it, the seer of time could not use the time turn tables like the time users (knight and sylph).

That’s silly. Anyone can use Time Tables, even non-Time Players. Hell- A SEER should be the most qualified person to use the Time Tables since they’d be able to know the Time Loops they need to do and not mess up at all.

Fraymotif Suggestion: Time + Mind + Doom = Inevitable Demise. Time and Mind players parse potential pasts and futures using Doom's ability to hone in on the Bad Outcomes to inflict potential past and future wounds on a single enemy, including just rapidly reinflicting the same wounds/damage on a foe but layering them in different ways to maximize the damage. Alternatively, use this on an ally to makeshift heal a fatal wound by making it happen once again but less effectively or directly.

Ouch. Do remember the Fraymotifs need to be related to Music though! Inevitable Demise is a cool name but not Music-y enough~.

demise's sweet serenade? ( im a diff anon but it came to mind )

Oooh cute. Maybe dropping the Sweet, I kinda like Fraymotifs with only two words. Demise Serenade.

breaking off the classpect talk for a moment; can you please explain what exactly happened with LE in intermission 2? i still dont really understand it.

Back during Act 5, Sollux shows us this.

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“ You did not write this virus. You copied it from an obscure server, far beyond your planet’s global network. This application is running on that server perpetually.

It is an extremely simple ~ATH program. Its main loop is tied to the lifespan of the universe. When the universe dies, a mysterious subprogram will be executed. You have no way of knowing what that subprogram does. It runs on a protected part of the server. It is completely unhackable.

You delete the file, but it won’t do much good. The program is already running elsewhere. Luckily, whatever harm it will do will not be done for many billions of years. And even then, what harm could a virus do after the expiration of the universe? This file always struck you as quite odd. “

By this point, people knew Spades Slick was Karkat’s Exile from the first Intermission, and that the Felt are all Billiards-coded, so this was an obvious nod to something regarding them. And specifically, to Lord English, given the Flashing Billiards are the O of his name.

Then we meet Doc Scratch.

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The Cue Ball to the rest of the Felt’s Billiards. He tells us some more information about English and about the Code Sequence above, specifically…

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This tells us that the code is basically representative of how Lord English gets into the Universe. We’re also told several times through Act 5 about how he is Already Here and that he cannot be stopped- He will arrive one way or another.

We also learn that Doc Scratch has done this before- He’s been born through the Multiverse, and in every single Universe he has been in, he’s managed to die and bring his Master forth into it.

We also learn an interesting detail from Aradiabot in the Bubbles. While on Pre and Post Scratch Earth we had a single person holding the Genetic Code that creates the First Guardian- MEOW for Rose, BARK for Jake, on Alternia this is a little bit different. The code is split through the four Players of FLARP. t1ck t0ck, 8r8k H34DS… But then we’re told that there’s one extra sequence to this First Guardian code. honk HONK. Something that comes from a Gamzee of a Doomed Timeline, after going through a rampage and killing everything, writing the sequence in a ~ATH book. This code is what makes Doc Scratch- Combining the First Guardian code, along with a Cue Ball- Which Scratch calls his ‘Seed’, and with Lil Cal- The vessel of Lord English’ Soul.

The result is Scratch being, fundamentally, no different than the Host Plushes Tavros plays Fiduspawn with. And in fact? He even tells us outright- He is an excellent Host.

As such, in retrospect, we know that Doc Scratch’s presence in the Universe basically means he’s corrupted the First Guardian creation to insert himself in the Universe, and now Lord English is going to be born through him eventually. Lord English is fully immortal- As Caliborn, he destroyed his own God Tier Clock and absorbed the Rainbow Majyyks, becoming 100% immortal. So when all is said and done, when the entire Universe has collapsed, when Doc Scratch, who contains Lord English’ Soul, perishes? The God Tier clock starts to swing. But there’s no Just or Heroic Death for English. There’s just resurrection.

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As his code tells us, his coming begins with the Death of the Universe, represented through those billiard balls activating in the ‘server’ in the Furthest Ring.

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And so the Clock Ticks.

It t1cks. And it t0cks. t1ck. t0ck.

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And so Scratch’s Fate as a ‘Host’ truly becomes evident. Lord English starts to be reborn, through his body, through him as a ‘Vessel’ of his Soul.

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Almost like with Calliope and Caliborn, when Scratch goes to ‘sleep’, English wakes up. Once the Host dies, what was inside blossoms forth, and through him. And since Scratch has been leading the Felt, they have the Cairo Overcoat and his Peg Leg ready for him to warp with the First Guardian powers he now gets from being born out of Scratch.

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And then we have the next part of his transformation. The moment he is fully reborn and spawns as Lord English. When the last bit of Doc Scratch shatters to reveal his appearance. When his Cue Ball shatters. When his Head breaks. Break. Heads. 8r8k. H34DS.

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This is not just for the code, either. Doc Scratch calls the Cue Ball his ‘Seed’, from where he’s born. But there’s something else the Cue Ball is called in Homestuck.

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“The bird struggles out of the egg, the egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird then flies to God. That God is Abraxas.“ To be Born you must Destroy a World. To be Born you need to Break through the Egg. This concept of the Egg is seen in various religions and cultures, but this tie to Gnosticism ties well with the fact Lord English is the Yaldabaoth of the story- The one entity that claimed its grip over reality as a supreme ruler, who causes death, pain and suffering to everyone within, who the Protagonists must escape from. This theme of the Egg Breaking, of the Cue Ball, of English’ only weakness, a cycle of Creation and Destruction, appears several times through the story. But while the Cue Ball appears mostly in opposition to Lord English, as the Hope Bubble, as the actual Cue Ball, as the first form the Treasure takes when it pops out of the Juju Chest, this time it’s featured with Lord English tearing through it to be Born, to come into being, in both the Alternian Universe, and, for the first time, into the Story itself.

Here is where we see English, fully, for the first time…

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A moment to make us realize the similarities between him and Lil Cal, a first glimpse at the skull-like head of the Cherubs, before Cherubs are revealed as a species themselves.

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And just like that, the Cairo Overcoat doubles as English’ Time Travelling device, his Sarcophagus (Which ties him to some Egyptian Themes as well)…

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And he warps back to Alternia’s Universe, where as we know, he has already been. He was already there. Always. We can see this in the closing shots of the Flash, when the Billiards envelop Alternia, showing us that he’s always had a deep grip in how Troll Society works, through his Servants being there, through Him controlling everything.

But, much like the Code, we are not done yet. We had the t1ck, and the t0ck. We had the 8r8k, and the H34DS. Of course, the only thing we have left…

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… Is the Vast Honk Gamzee’s Religion speaks about. honk. HONK.

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Lord English is Born, into the Universe, into the Story. And his Coming marks a turning point in the narrative of Homestuck, and the entire flow of the story, much like his influence changed the way Alternian Society should have gone.

Inevitable d-mise? I was gonna say d minus but idk shit abt music is that a thing??

I think letters can be Flat and Sharp, not quite minus or plus…

would Deadly Prestissimo work? I saw the Inevitable Demise ask, and this was the first thing to come to mind

Lots of good ideas pouring through. No idea what the original person would prefer though.

what do you think a destruction-class light and a rogue of time's fraymotif could be?

Remember that it’s not just the Classpect, who the person using the powers is also influences the Fraymotif- Like Roxy making a Wizard for hers, so it’s hard to tell without knowing the specific case. Rogue of Time and Prince/Bard of Light, though, sounds like something that would happen in a split second. Rogue slowing or freezing time, perhaps even stealing it and skipping through the Timeline, while the Prince/Bard annihilates the Time-distorted enemies with lasers. Or maybe, removing someone’s perception of Time, and Blinding them, would create a sort of sensory-deprived state to lock someone in and take care of them.

What are fraymotifs?

Aspect Combo Attacks you buy at the Consort Shops for a shit load of money.

I'm sure you've answered this before, but how does each class interact with their respective aspect?

It’s on my Class descriptions, linked on the Class Quiz post, which is linked on my Sidebar!

Sure!

Fraymotif Suggestion: Doom + Hope + Life = Abraxas' Contour. A Double-Edged Sword technique. Through Life (preferably a Creation Class), Doom and Hope conseal 1 enemy in what resembles an Egg made of highly resiliant material. If the enemy cannot escape the egg by breaking (or teleporting) out of it, their Life is forfit and used to heal contributing players. If they can break out, its a free heal via draining the Players health plus an overall attack boost. Can only be used once per foe.

Huh! You just read my post about English and the Egg Symbolism didn’t you? :3c

fraymotif idea: Light + Time = Flash Percussion, Time player freezes the enemy in some way, while the light player uses their aspect to illuminate the weak points of the enemy so both can hit them as many times as possible before the freeze wears off or is taken down

Oooh that’d be visually cool to see, specially paired with an offensive attack from the Time Player at the same time.

What might be a fraymotif for a theraputic/counseling rogue of breath and an animal loving/intelligent mage of life?

I have no idea but for some reason, ‘therapeutic breath’ and ‘animal loving life’ has given me the mental image of them summoning a puppy and getting all relaxed and calmed down via puppy licks.

Fraymotif Suggestion: Time + Space + Void = Apollo Decrescendo. Void and Space teleport the foe/object just outside the Furthest Ring then slowly draw them back in like a homing missile to a location of their choosing. Time and Space gradually speeds the foe up and they eventually fly into the target surface much like a burning meteor of the Reckoning. Broken out of easily by a foe who can fly, but is harder to do the closer they are to the target location. Also sorry I send so many asks. ;m;

It’s okay! That sounds kind of brutal though, jeez, slamming someone at those speeds would likely reduce them to a fine blood-colored mist in the general vicinity.

Space + Light = Solar Cadence, the Space and Light player combine their aspect powers and basically create a sun, with the Light player making the light and Space player creating the heat, finishing off several enemies at once, any that somehow survive are blinded

Be careful not to tear your Land apart with the Gravity of that Sun!

I'm not sure if you've ever answered this before, but what exactly would a Knight of Light be able to use their aspect for other than the light-manifested weapons mentioned in an earlier ask? How would they likely "give to" and "aid" their teammates other than helping out with Genesis Frog stuff?

Offering Information about things others may not know, offering them through their Sight and what they may be able to find, serving them through sheer luck or serving luck to increase their chances of success…

What kind of things do you think a Mage of Blood would be able to do? Obviously, there's creating relationships, but how could that be used to do damage, whether emotional or physical?

Knowing Blood likely means they know exactly where to cut to make their target bleed out with a single strike. Blood Majyyks may permit them to also manipulate Blood a-la Red Miles or just general Blood Magic, not to say anything of just being able to manipulate friendships and get their way with that.

Fraymotif Suggestion: Space + Void = Subito Incognito. Move a player or sizeable object/group of material across a distance of Space, using the power of Void to be (generally) undetectable or silent while doing so. Technique at most effective when performed by a Thief/Rogue of Void and a Witch/Heir of Space.

Huh, basically a Trojan Horse but with whatever the hell you want and not just a Horse. Except it’s also still probably a Horse, because this is Homestuck.

This will be my last ask for today though! Good night y’all.

Who are qualified for frog breeding? We know that a space player and a time player are a canon pair, but in the fan session I submitted for analysis it was my heir of space and the knight of breath that got frog duty.

Karkat helped Kanaya. People mention, because of that, that the Knight is the one to aid, but I don’t know if Latula ever mentions helping Porrim. Really though, I think it’s just anyone who’s able to and free to help, and generally, Knights are always up to lend a hand.

Does Vriska sees the world like this in her left eye?

Not completely- She only has 7 spots to gather light through on one eye, rather than it being a huge composite net of hexagons. Chances are her brain wouldn’t quite parse it like THAT either. However, checking Hussie’s more detailed drawings…

Those are individual pupils with their own irises, so yes her way of seeing would be kind of weird, with her left eye having 7 different points through which Light enters. I don’t know enough about Biology to know how that’d work though.

hopefully someone sees this since i lack the creativity to make one but a fraymotif Space+Doom+Time+Heart

Sounds like killing someone’s Ultimate Self or like, dealing damage to that person through every single Timeline they exist in.

if the only knight in a session is a knight of space, then who helps them with frog breeding?

Anyone! Hell, the Frog Breeding isn’t even that difficult, it’s just tedious, given enough time even a single person would be able to pull it off.

How about a bard of blood making people nosebleed just by showing their codpiece ?

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this maybe a bit of a stretch but if Doom represents rules then can't Doom players affects the "laws" of certain sciences like physics? so destroyer class Doom players could technically destroy the laws of physics and like turn off gravity?

I mean… It does tie in to restrictions and limits, so you could make a case for that. Turning off the law of Physics would ALSO cause an immense amount of Doom, so. I’d say it sorta checks out.

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how do you make your sprites and stuff?

Photoshop! It’s really just getting a bit of a hang on Sprite Art.

can a witch of doom pinpoint exactly where to cause the most damage around them?

A Seer or Mage may be better at that, but I could see a Witch doing that as well.

I find it a little frustrating that the powers of Witch and Maid are so undefined

I mean, there are context clues scattered through the entirety of Homestuck. The Classpect System is a puzzle within the puzzle that is Homestuck.

Can you explain them?

1/2

Thank you :D

No probs! Remember it’s all just Headcanons, you may check about the Maid and Witch yourself and come to different conclusions. 

You’re all officially banned from Tumblr.

Yes, even you. I don’t care if you had nothing to do with this.

We’re all banned now.

There’s no redemption left for us.

This has to be an unspoken Cardinal Sin.