Even if the Frog is physical, I doubt neutering it would do anything since universe creation doesn't rely on Frog gonads at all. You'd probably just end up partitioning that universe into a couple of disconnected pieces, where you can't travel through physical space from one to another anymore.
I mean, physically it doesn’t work like that, but thematically it may work. I mean let’s be fair, it’s not gonads, but the entirety of SBURB’s last steps has the Genesis Tadpole as the Sperm Cell shot from the Volcano and into Skaia as the Egg Cell, fertilization has NEVER been more graphic yet symbolic at the same time! Sooo, thematically, yeah.
I like to think that, overall, strife specubi are actually pretty abstract. My friend, an Heir of Time, and I were discussing weapons for a fansession RPG thing and brought up the point that rockkind could probably be either a literal rock or a rock instrument, and bladekind is kinda just anything that has a blade that's bigger than a knife
I think Bladekind would also accept knives? I also think Bladekind would accept badass vampire hunters.
Wouldn't trying to stop sburb from happening be futile? Unless you were a Lord I don't see much of a chance of you stopping sburb.
I mean let’s be fair- Easiest way to stop SBURB is to not prototype anything. If a Session is Void, there will not be a Reckoning, and there won’t be any meteors.
stopping the reckoning would fail your session. it'd still doom the planet because failed sessions are earsed if im correct? since to goal is to reproduce the universe and all.
It’d Doom the Session, but not necessarily your World.
If having a void session means no reckoning, and no meteors sent back to destroy Earth, how come a meteor coming to destroy Jane's house?
There was none! It was actually the comic PSYCHEing us with the Countdown, we see at the end of the Entry Process it wasn’t a meteor- It was Condy’s ship. That being said, while a Void Session doesn’t send all the Meteors in the Veil, it’d seem that either the main meteors ARE sent (The Frog Temple), or that Jade simply flung the Meteor Temple towards Skaia (As we see with the Troll’s Meteor, any approaching meteor is intercepted regardless of whether the Reckoning has started or not)
Strife specibi: Dualkind. You can use any kind of a weapon in existence except you must wield two identical copies at all times. If you lose one of the copies, you're fucked until you get a new one.
Vinesauce Vinny rejoices with his glitched, Double Dawnbreakers.
so is the ability to retcon an inherent part if an heir of breath's possible skillset, or did john specifically gain it from sticking his hand in the house juju thingimabob?
He gained it from sticking his Hand in the Plot Hole Treasure Juju- However, its effects make it seem like they’re an hypercharged version of John’s Heir of Breath Powers.
What happens to the old universes that the players leave behind? I mean i know the planet is destroyed but the condesce was still in the unverse 600 years after Sgrub started
It keeps going until the Universe dies. For the Red Universe, that’s 413 years after SBURB, and for the Blue Universe, that’s 612 years, but arguably if the Session happens early on and there’s no weird anomalies like. First Guardian Fuckery and Cancer, the Universe could potentially last several million more years.
you can't stop the reckoning, but could you postpone it? I had the thought that if I played and made it to the battlefield, I'd take the scepter of the white king for myself, and if possible hide it where noone could get it until everyone feels sufficiently ready, and then just lure the black king to us. just in a fansession thing. the white king seems pretty willing to cooperate.
You could- However this is assuming you know how things work. In reality, most people’s general knowledge of SBURB is going to come from experience.
i'm having trouble understanding the role of the doom aspect in homestuck, what it represents, how characters utilize it, etc. it always seemed like a strange aspect to me. have you talked about it at all on this blog?
Were Life shows Agency, Life, your Impact on the World, Doom shows Inevitability, Death, the Impact of the World on you. Doom is the conflict that happens, and Life, how you deal with it.
Yknow it’s kind of funny that due to a very complicated sort of family line, through marriage and adoption, that Trizza is kind of related to Joey. Or at least, I think she is.
Trizza is a Heiress to Condy, but not related in any way, not any more than any other two random Trolls though.
How can you get to a scratched session? Would a rouge of hope be able to steal the session over there? Even if that's so, what other ways could you get there?
If the Session has already been scratched from your perspective, there’s no way there, it simply doesn’t exist.
I mean, because of weird time stuff in the Furthest Ring it may be possible to travel to a scratched session. Although if you could get there you run the risk of getting scratched.
I mean yeah, that’s why I said if it’s been Scratched from your perspective, since Circumstantial Simultaneity and Timelines running parallel to each other are a thing.
Is it possible for more than one Heiress to be on Alternia at once? We do see the blood of a fuchsia-blooded lusus in one page of Hivebent.
More than one Heiress is Unlikely, but I’d imagine Fuchsia Grubs COULD be born while a Heiress is alive! Which may actually get them insta-culled. Of course there’s Fuchsia Lusii though, there’s a surplus of Lusii of every Caste.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the only times Gamzee is shown being truly violent and insane is after being released from suppression. What say you?
I mean, isn’t it obvious though, that if he’s being suppressed he’s not going berserk, so of course he will go all Rage-y on everyone when he actually gets the chance.
What do you think about these lands for Time players: Land of Gears and Cogs, Land of Minutes and Hours, Land of Ticks and Tocks, Land of Clocks and Hourglasses
Perhaps a bit too samey? Like, Clocks and Hourglasses may work, but Gears and Cogs, Minutes and Hours and Ticks and Tocks are extremely Time-based and convey the same thing-ish.
What if when someone goes Grimdark, they get like a power up or something from their Alpha/Beta counterparts aspect? Like for Rose it was Void bc that’s Roxys aspect and for Jade it was Hope bc that’s Jakes aspect. Eridan didn’t really get one bc he and Cronus share an aspect.
Jade didn’t get a Hope-y Power Up though, she’s very much a Space-y wrecking ball, and Eridan didn’t go physically Grimdark, only thematically- He was corrupted by nothing at all but his own ideals.
This one time me, my friend and her classmate were talking about time loops and how confusing they can be, the classmate and my friend suggested that we were stuck in an infinite time loop thus we can't play SBURB nor will Earth get rained on my meteors. Which honestly is sorta... Existential in a way. But then again when are time loops not existential?
I mean as existential as it is, you can’t just claim everything to be stuck in an infinite Time Loop and not elaborate on it or what it means!
Consider: alchemizing gloves and some overwatch merch to make symmetra gloves, setting turrets around your house so you can sleep, and every moring u wake up with mad crazy grist to pick up
There’s speaker system in the house meant to play the “Welcome to my Reality” voice line every time an Imp goes in.
That being said, that’d not be that mad grist, Imps only provide so much. It’d keep your house clean from Imps though.
What's the difference between alchemizing with AND (double punch a card) versus OR (overlap two cards)? They both combine two items, but is there a consistent rule for what aspects of which things get combined in which way?
No consistent rule, but the more you && combine a thing, the closer to 00000000 (Perfectly Generic Object) the card will be, and the more you || combine something, the closer to !!!!!!!! (Perfectly Unique Object?) it will be. As such, when combining multiple items, you have to take into account that the more you abuse && or ||, the less variety of items will show up, just because more or less holes will be punched on the cards.
I read a post that Jade had been dealt a bad hand but I think that being a space player means you have a lot of push and shove to get through as you might give up, but persiver and you become the player to win it all.
I mean everyone has been dealt a bad hand honestly? SBURB is fucked up.
Have you listened to black hole/green sun backwards? The violin goes from powerful to a air of tragedy
That’s. A really interesting song to put on backwards, it may as well be its own entirely separate song, you could make a Remix like that, like SBURBan Reversal.
It's said that trolls lower than purplebloods sleep in recuperacoon to prevent nightmares against chucklevoodoos. That means violetbloods and fuchsiabloods don't need to sleep in recuperacoons?
No idea actually, I couldn’t find anything regarding Seadwellers aren’t affected by Chucklevoodoos. Purples are an enforcer Caste, and while Seadwellers rule the empire, the world is more controlled by Purples than Violets or Fuchsias, so they may still affect them, with Fuchsias being a likely exception.
Do you think tarot can be a thing for a seer of mind just like Terezi had with coins and dragon plushies? I had an idea that in their mind a character gives each a player a specific tarot card that identifies them and it kinda helps them make a plan and and have their chart of alive/dead players up to date. And each dead player will have their card marked in a special way. Like, if a player’s head gets cut off there will be a line crossing someone’s neck on a card. What do you think?
I like Tarot but I don’t think I know enough about it to make a Judgement call about anything more in depth. Don’t want to make a Fool out of myself in front of the entire World.
Okay, Major Arcana puns aside, Seer of Mind could work with that, don’t see why not! But at the same time, I feel Tarot is dense enough that you could make an entire Fan-Session all about Tarot Cards, so while it can be a one-off schtick for the Seer of Mind, having it all apply to like, everyone, could be interesting, with the Seer providing insight on what it all means for everyone, but they all being actually related to their cards more than just for the Seer’s thing.
Can you summarise rules of troll fashion on Alternia and Beforus? Do you think there are differences in clothes each blood caste wears?
They all wear their symbol some way, lowbloods have generally less fancy clothes and sometimes straight up uniforms on Alternia, and wearing their color seems common. Aaaand that’s about it as far as I can tell.
Do you think some low/mid-bloods have to take calming pills to prevent harming the high-bloods?
The idea that Higher Bloods are biologically more prone to harming others is a Social Construct of Alternia, and not actually real, it’s influenced by the environment rather than being innate.
How does the Mind aspect influence the Time aspect? Same question goes for the influence of Mind and Space towards each other
I have no idea what you mean by this, they’re all interwoven in different aspects of Reality, there’s no specific interaction between Aspects that’s more noticeable or relevant than any other interaction.
