Homestuck Liveblog Thread 5.5

Well, he's really not enjoying those walkarounds and is currently stalled at the third one.

Oh I checked it. The poor child is audioreacting to it.

Seriously if Hussie ever releases an archival version of Meenahquest he should consider making an abridged version of it or something like that. Or just take the Karkat/Terezi dialogue off it and put it in regular pages so people can skip it.

Btw, I might start reading this "Rune" you people speak of. Looks interesting.

I think Andrew will probably make Openbound into its own book, what with how big it is.

Bolded what I suggested. Sheesh, your list is long. Some of these I'd totally do without, such as the games and the fakeouts. But Shes8ack and Calliope's revelation are actually good ones I didn't think about.

Reading Rune. I love how he (she?) theorized about Jade being in the future. In 2011. Before people had even heard of Roxy/Dirk.


FOAL.

Ministrife could work, as long as she doesn't read it out loud.

Though I didn't suggest it myself.

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I didn't~ I haven't listened to any albums.

In my ask I said she doesn't need to, but I don't mind if she does. I just said that because she did a long-ass out load reading of Mindfang a while ago so I wanted her to know she doesn't HAVE to do those.

Also Jake/AR dialogue is pretty cringe-worthy.

I think Morgan was the one who says it messes with the headcanons.

Reading through duckgetsstuck right now. It looks like even though they say they made it as far as A4 the last time they tried to reach HS, their (screener?) seems to pretty cavalier about spoilers. If that issue hasn't yet been brought up with them, I'll probably send an ask about it when I'm caught up.

Don't ask her to do Openbound; look what happened to FOAL.

Edit: HERP DERP THERE'S A SECOND PAGE

Edit 2: Where does Trix say no non-flashes? The post about Audio React says "Keep in mind that you can also suggest a range of pages in addition to single pages! I don’t mind doing short multi-page sequences."

Edit 3: Found it.

I think she already had Intermission 2 suggested as part of the Cascade react. My question is whether, if 6013 gets chosen, whether Intermission 2 would get linked to THAT rather than Cascade, though it seems like Strawhat would still prefer it linked to Cascade.

I would prefer Jane: Get mail over Karkat: Mental breakdown. I hadn't even thought of that as a react candidate; it's short, not very plot relevant, and not even all that funny or "WTF?"-inducing outside the easter egg, especially if she doesn't react to the surrounding pages at the same time. Meanwhile, her reaction to Get mail is probably going to be the same as R-stuck's, where she's pretty much certain Jane's not really dead, but the chance it does produce a freakout out of her, even if she does figure Jane isn't dead, is worth at least putting it on the poll.

Remember that she wasn't sure she had the setup to audio-react walkarounds last time, and Meenahbound has neither the linearity nor the strict plot-relevance of the Murderstuck walkarounds that would otherwise warrant a react. Myststuck is fairly linear but not all that plot-relevant and mostly concerns Jane except for a few select asides, meaning any react is mostly going to be her playing the game more than actually reacting to anything. Both would work better as text IMO.

Also recall what she said about potentially not doing the lesser-voted of two nearby but unrelated flashes, which could mean even if the lesser-voted one has plenty of votes to warrant a react normally, she might not do it. That means you might be risking her not doing Synchronize/Unite if it's not grouped with Caliborn: Enter, which may or may not be okay with you. Similarly, MSPA Reader: Mental breakdown should probably be grouped with Vriskagram if you want her to do both, and the Suppening should definitely be grouped with Pipeorgankind if you want her to do it, especially since it more or less directly follows from it. I would at least clarify that the first two cases are separate flashes she should strongly consider doing both of, though.

If she does the A6A4 flash, it should be grouped with the following page so she reacts to the act-act's shortness.

Finally, John sticking his hand into the plot hole would be a good static-page react candidate if it weren't for, you know, the whole password-guessing thing...

My suggestions would probably be Jane: Get mail, Roxy: Sleepwalk, Prince of Heart: Rise up, Jane: Enter, DOTA, DD: Ascend/Ascend more casually, Synchronize/Unite, Caliborn: Enter, ACT 6 ACT 4, the A6A5 intro flash, Spring trap x2 Combo (possibly starting a bit earlier), the 4/13/13 flash, A6A6I1, Game Over, Pipeorgankind, shes8ack, MSPA Reader: Mental breakdown/Vriskagram, and Terezi: Remem8er, though I wouldn't necessarily vote for all of those. So basically, Eric's list minus walkarounds, the ministrife, Trickster Mode, Terry: Fast forward to Liv, the Sup-penning, and the start of the act (though I wouldn't be opposed to it, the ministrife, or Fast forward to Liv), and plus Jane: Get mail.