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The Patreon commentary from the Artists and Writers of Beyond Canon for the start of Act 2 is here! As per usual, I’m going to try and extract anything I think is particularly plot-relevant for us to know under the cut, and leave the full enjoyment of said commentary for those who subscribe to Homestuck's Patreon.
(Updated the Kid in King Arthur's Court theorypost to "PARTIALLY DEBUNKED" on my theorylist and noted so at the start with a discussion of the Page's true canon definition according to HS2 writer commentary (straight-from-Andrew) word-of-god at the end. Sorry that took so long for me to get around to!)
I just watched the newly released Homestuck animated pilot and think it was pretty fun, well-translated to the new medium and gorgeously rendered! Hopefully a good way to tempt people into experiencing the series for the first time now that the main site is (steadily) being rebuilt, though downloading the Unofficial Homestuck Collection from github and its asset pack is still viable and probably a more complete way to reexperience the comic/music/side-stuff etc and fandom's progression for those lucky enough to have Homestucky friends to guide 'em through the setup process. Excellent performances all around, even the few I'd been privately skeptical about from the teaser; on-point sound design, catchy and fitting music... and the breakneck pace DOES make it difficult to keep up with if you don't already know what's going on from the source material, but I think that just leaves more to discover for those who leap off from this to delve into the Webcomic for the first time. Brief spoilers for the animation under the cut as I discuss it for another paragraph. Really really good marks overall!!!
I'm not in the mood to do a full breakdown or record a reaction to the Homestuck pilot tomorrow by the way, I'll probably just enjoy it on my own terms and give my thoughts here after the fact on what I enjoyed/didn't about it. (Mostly expecting to find it generally enjoyable with no real objections, if I had to predict, except for the probable lack of the Sburban Jungle theme.)
The sugar cube thing is probably in reference to the meat/candy plot vs. fluff concept? Of course if Dirk and Rose want to keep their relevance and make the Deltritus session so crucial they'd discourage candy. It's interesting that to Dirk's species concentrated sugar is mirth-inducing but illegal, whereas to Rose's species it's outright poison.
Your metaphor's sound, but I'm not entirely sure if you have a point there or not-- TC certainly gets his hands on illegal stuff, sure, but the phrasing on the sugar cube page leaves it ambiguous whether it's only illegal in the Nymph world as "contraband" smuggled from the surface, or if sugar is somehow also illegal topside despite that not making... too much sense outside the metaphor.
I'm sure we'll have it cleared up sooner or later when we get to spy on a Satyr and see for sure what their society considers illicit, because a society where even Dirk's favorite Orange Soda would be seen as too stimulating for an upstanding Satyr citizen seems a little weird to me until we get positive proof. Could be a compromise he had to make to get his desired Satyr biology, I won't discount the possibility.
STOP UPDATING SO FAST I CAN'T HANDLE THIS AAAAAAAAA
FUCK
It's okay I'm happy I'm gonna blog it, more fanbox commands probably, let's go
Here's the top of the general chatlog from the decomposed gif now that I've belatedly realized the tinyurl probably led somewhere:
<DB:> is there a walkthrough posted yet? idk wth is going on ToT [CC:]> oki https://tinyurl.com/shurbwlkthrululz <GH:> DO NOT CLICK ON THAT desperateBystander was subsumed <DB> <IT:> fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu[...] <GH:> \@darkgeniuses please ban CC already <GH:> he's bringing a harsh radioactive vibe to this server auguryAside [AA] has banished greasedHogman <GH> <IT:> he wasn't wrong!!!! auguryAside [AA] has banished idleTriffler <IT>
I dunno if that creepy clip cloisteredConnosewer linked us is some sort of cognitohazard in-canon or what, but desperateBystander being "subsumed" by it seems ominous. AA doesn't seem to want to entertain any complaints by the plebs about their in-group, or maybe is just generally predisposed to defend CC.
Whoops, I didn’t realize CC’s tinyurl link in that gif was probably an ACTUAL tinyurl link that leads somewhere. When I’m awake on my computer to decompose the gif again (instead of groggily checking my phone temporarily awake at 4am) I’ll check it out, unless one of y’all gets to it first and links me or puts it in the liveblog post’s replies. EDIT: TY for the link, though I managed to manually write out the whole rest of the top of the log here.
The Caretaker for Ly'lac's -- area? hivecluster? what was it... ah, her shubhurb's catacomplex -- just got knocked TF out by (presumably) her package's anti-piracy incantation. Oof. What now?
September 1st has brought us new Artist and Writer commentary on Patreon, presumably for the "INTERMISSION" just before Beyond Canon Act 2! I'm going to try and extract anything I think is particularly plot-relevant for us to know under the cut, and I'm going to make it quick if I can because I'm tired AF today.
Since last time I liveblogged, we learned a cool detail about our new squiddle nymph's name and saw the Homestuck Animated Pilot Trailer (it was cool!). Now we're back to Ly'lac and trying to identify which specific bit of neglect will cause her to get exploded out the side wall, which is surprisingly hard to narrow down. Continuing the liveblog under the cut...
