@land-of-boredom-and-confusion / land-of-boredom-and-confusion.tumblr.com
Are you still alive?
surprise i've been alive all this time. i have like four active blogs right now but i've had a dozen over the years. i was 15 when i started the homestuck blog, i'm 24 now and soon to graduate with a master's degree. hope you're all well!
hmmm
that’s not quite what i had in mind but you know what??? i can relate to this skeleton. i mean, it looks like it doesn’t know what the fuck it’s doing, but it’s still havin a good time. just sorta poking its head out and then punching its limbs through the soft soil one by one going “AYYYYY” instead of rising majestically or digging its way out like a sensible unperson.
it’s a decent visual metaphor for what’s about to happen here, because, to reiterate:
this is NO LONGER a proper homestuck liveblog. those days are OVER. what i’m doing now is reviewing pictures of skeletons while occasionally skipping through bits of homestuck and throwing a few lines of (emotional, not analytical) commentary on this here “blog” so as to not leave you all hanging completely after sticking with me for like three years.
i was fifteen when i made this tumblr account. tomorrow, i will be eighteen!
fittingly, it seems like we’ll also have started and ended at approximately the same level of quality, which is to say, absolutely none, despite the initial rise in readability we experienced... sometime around the one-year-mark?
anyway, let’s do a lil bit of pre-birthday blogging!
YO!!! I’M AT A CON AND AFTER THAT I’M GOING ON HOLIDAY, SO I WON’T BE AROUND FOR LIKE… 10 DAYS? I’M SORRY AND I’LL RETURN TO YOU ALL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IN THE MEANTIME, PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF IN THIS HORRIBLE HEAT ( ;´ ᗨ `; )
I DON’T GOT MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THIS TWIST EXCEPT IT’S NICE, AND ELEGANT, AND I DIDN’T REALLY SEE IT COMING, AND, ON A COMPLETELY UNRELATED(?) NOTE, I HAVE A HUGE HEADACHE
I’M REAL GLAD WE GET TO MEET BIZARRO GOTH GIRL but first i'm gonna drop a little confession here cause all this screentime with female characters made me realise something...
i said i was gonna shut up but i can’t. i cannot.
THERE’S BEEN TALK OF HATEDATES AND SHIT BEFORE AND NOW... BLACK ROMANCE... KISMESIS... LIKE... LEGIT HATEMANCE???
IS THAT WHAT’S GOING ON WITH ARADIA AND EQUIUS??? IS THAT WHY ALL THIS IS HAPPENING NOW???
TBH I’M ABSOLUTE TRASH FOR ANY AND ALL ARCH-ENEMY-SHIPS SO THIS IS? RIGHT UP MY ALLEY TECHNICALLY BUT I’M STILL A BIT CONFUSED
LIKE, REGULAR ROMANCE IS STILL A THING, TOO?
BLACK ROMANCE AND... RED ROMANCE, IF I’D HAVE TO GUESS? THE MOST TYPICAL ‘LOVE’ COLOUR
THEN THE DIAMOND THING COULD BE YET ANOTHER KIND? WHITE?
AN IN-UNIVERSE SHIPPING WALL.
ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.
A HOPEFULLY LIGHT-HEARTED JAB AT THE FANDOM, I GUESS.
KARKAT♡VRISKA: POTENTIALLY STRANGELY INTO IT TBH NEP, HOWEVER, IS NOT, BECAUSE KARKAT♡NEPETA: OH NOOOO CREEPY-LOOKIN ARADIA♡WHAT LIES BEYOND THE PANEL BORDER: OTP ARADIA♡EQUIUS: EEEWWWWWWW GAMZEE♡TEREZI: NOT SERIOUS AT ALL, BUT ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE GA♡TAVROS: EH, NO.
LOOK, JUST LOOK AT ALL THESE HET SHIPS. GOD DAMN, NEPETA, STEP UP YOUR GAME. DIVERSIFY A LIL. YAWN. TEREZI/VRISKA MAKES WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY MORE SENSE THAN KARKAT/VRISKA, BUT NOOoo
what’s the diamonds on the right side supposed to mean, though? context-wise, i’d say they’re friend-ships? only noteworthy thing there is Karkat/Gamzee which is V GOOD!!! EXCELLENT!!! GOOD SHIT
AWWW IS THAT A SMILE I SEE THERE? IS THAT A LIL SMILE (´▽`ʃƪ)
...WAIT, NO. THAT IS A SMILE.
THAT MEANS SOMETHING HORRIBLE IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
ARADIA’S HAPPINESS CAN NEVER LAST FOR MORE THAN TWO PANELS.
the way she just shrinks, after all that talk of heavy grown-up stuff, revenge and death and murder, while she’s so desperately angry and upset, and suddenly reverts to sounding like a child again, like, i don’t wanna go there, nobody likes me there, they’re all jerks anyway :(
it is Killing Me (´-﹏-`；)
CAN’T IMAGINE HOW SHITTY THIS FEELS THOUGH
like, that was
i imagine it also felt shitty in a more physical sense. like, being bathed in blood is probably fairly uncomfortable.
She can't be serious. What could POSSIBLY lead to your demise in a matter of minutes? WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY BE???
A HILARIOUS SLAPSTICK SEQUENCE THAT BEGINS WITH YOU SLIPPING ON ONE OF YOUR MANY STREWN ABOUT DICE AND ENDS WITH SOME UNLIKELY CHAIN REACTION SET OFF BY FLINGING YOUR CUEBALL INTO THE AIR AS YOU’RE FALLING, CAUSING YOU TO GET CRUSHED BY SOMETHING LARGE AND HEAVY
AM I RIGHT OR AM I 100% RIGHT
//sneaks onto blog while almost everyone is asleep
I feel like we need to sit down and have a serious talk, here. I mean, we both realise that it’s been months since the last sign of life from me, right? Don’t you think that implies a certain... lack of interest, or at least ability?
And even before that, we weren’t really getting anywhere. We just never recaptured that spark that enabled us to fly through this thing dozens of pages at a time, several days a week - it’s become a drag. It’s just, people change, you know? I know I have. I bet you have, too. And so, I’d just like to say, once and for all:
If you’re not feeling this whole liveblog thing anymore, then it’s timE FOR YOU TO JUMP SHIP SAVE YOURSELF AND GET OUTTA HERE CAUSE YOU’RE GONNA BE SEEING A WHOLE LOT OF ME ON YOUR DASH IN THE NEAR FUTURE WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *AIRHORN NOISES*
I’M DOIN IT I’M TEARIN THRU THIS THING, I AM *NOT* LIVEBLOGGING IT THE WAY I USED TO, BECAUSE OF ALL THE ABOVE REASONS AND THE FACT THAT I WOULD NEVER, EVER FINISH AND I DON’T WANT TO END UP HAVING TO TEARFULLY TURN THIS INCREDIBLY SILLY BLOG OVER TO MY HEIR AT MY DEATHBED, BUT
I’LL BE READING IT REGULAR
AND I’LL BE DROPPING IN HERE TO LEAVE WHATEVER COMMENTS I MAY HAVE THAT I JUST CAN’T KEEP TO MYSELF ( ƅ°ਉ°)ƅ
Less of a professional liveblog and more of an intimate get-together where we all cry and scream and laugh together, which sounds super super lame, so yeah, if you don’t wanna bear witness to this horrifying homestuck power hour, this is the time to leave! Bye, I’ll miss you!!!
ALRIGHT SO, AS I MENTIONED I'M CURRENTLY RE-READING THIS THING
AND THE REASON WHY I'M DOING THIS IS... WELL, IT WAS MEANT TO BE PURELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF RE-REMEMBERING ALL THE SUBTLE AND NOT-SO-SUBTLE SHIT I FORGOT OVER THE PAST FEW... WEEKS. MONTHS. POSSIBLY YEARS. WHATEVER
AND I GOT REALLY INTO IT, LIKE, OK, WAIT A SECOND...
THIS IS WHAT I SEE EVERY TIME I TURN AROUND:
ALL OF THOSE NOTES ARE LIVEBLOG-RELATED. PLOT POINTS THAT MUST BE REMEMBERED AT ANY COST. FROG-RELATED EVIDENCE. BUZZWORDS WITHOUT CONTEXT THAT SEEMED RELEVANT AT THE TIME AND WILL LIKELY STOP MEANING ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING TO ME BEFORE THE WEEK IS OVER. THAT'S NOT EVEN ALL OF THEM, TO BE HONEST.
THE POINT IS!!!
I WAS NOT EXPECTING TO COME UP WITH OR NOTICE ANYTHING NEW ON MY SECOND GO AROUND.
BUT I JUST GOT TO ACT 5.
AND I FEEL LIKE??? I FEEL LIKE HUSSIE, WITH NO EXPLANATION OR NOTICE OF HAVING DONE SO, PLACED SOMETHING AKIN TO A GIANT, INCREDIBLY DETAILED AND LIFE-LIKE BUST OF DANNY DEVITO IN THE ATTIC WHILE I WAS OUT
BECAUSE I'VE JUST DISCOVERED SOMETHING IN A FORMERLY FAMILIAR PLACE AND
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG IT'S BEEN THERE
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ITS PURPOSE IS
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO ABOUT IT AND, FRANKLY, EVEN LOOKING AT IT MAKES ME FEEL ALL KINDS OF UNCOMFORTABLE BUT IT'S THERE AND IT'S OMINOUS AND I MUST INVESTIGATE
What do you guys think, should I keep going with audio reacts for a while or nah? I'm in the middle of re-reading the comic right now (it's a LOT more fun than my first go around was, holy shit), covering all flat surfaces in my room with sticky note reminders in the process, in order to avoid embarrassing myself too badly in the future (๑･▱･๑)
But, yeah, any opinions re: future updates? Like, maybe every few dozen pages you could just tell me whether the next part of the comic is better audio or text-reacted to, so we could get the best of both worlds...
I videoblogged a bunch of pages today ヽ( ´￢`)ﾉ
Above: The Literal Worst Thing To Ever Happen (apart from Jade's dreamself dying, I can't believe I forgot about that)
Below: The 1 page that's missing from the beginning of this video (and took me 10 minutes to read for some reason) I am mostly just growling at the screen/Doc Scratch's existence, so I don't think you really need to watch this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mlw3D1pIhs
HOLY SHIT
ARADIA'S BASICALLY GONNA TURN THE CONTENTS OF HER MOM'S FRIDGE AGAINST HER
It's a shame it had to come to this. You don't like summoning the spirits of the dead to settle scores. But if she had to face her victims again, maybe she'd finally learn to feel remorse.
Well, she definitely doesn't think of her victims as people, and forcing her to confront their ghosts COULD potentially snap her out of it & cause her to just completely break down and reconsider her homicidal lifestyle, so, this technically isn't a bad plan at all
but... we've already met post-ghost-incident!Vriska
and she did not seem like someone who had a downright dickensian revelation about the sanctity of life after being visited by the 88 ghosts of senseless murders past, present and future
so this'll likely just piss her off and fuel the 3NDL3SS CYCL3 OF R3V3NG3
I'M SO SORRY I would have started posting again earlier, but I spent the last 75 hours just staring at the new text post window, paralysed by fear of the unknown
ANYWAY, DAILY MINI-MICRO-UPDATES ARE GO, LET'S... MOVE... ON...
...HOW THE FUCK DO I INSERT A QUOTE (◎益◎;)
WAIT, ALRIGHT, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS YOU HAVE TO HIGHLIGHT THE TEXT FOR, NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN INSERT AT A NEW LINE THAT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE AT ALL TO ME BUT ALRIGHT HERE WE GOOOO
And much earlier than that...
AND OF COURSE THE VERY FIRST THING WE SEE IS ALREADY ENOUGH TO GIVE ME HALF A HEART ATTACK LOOK AT TEREZI'S FACE! UNOBSTRUCTED BY ECCENTRIC EYEWEAR! HOLY SHIT!!! SHE'S ADORABLE!!!
I AM, AS ALWAYS, REALLY DREADFULLY SORRY FOR DYING, AND WOULD LIKE TO OFFICIALLY APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE IT MAY HAVE CAUSED
I completely forgot that the vast majority of Silent Liveblog Observers does not follow my personal blog, so after I mentioned it there, I didn't think to talk about it over here as well
Basically, january is a bad month full of Math and Finals and Math Finals, so I was gonna save myself a ton of time and stress by putting up some effortless videoblogs until I was finished with, all that
But then I caught a cold and had a sore throat and just felt really miserable overall, so that didn't work out, and instead I sort of spent most of my time sneezing at vectors and matrices and feeling sorry for myself
But now I am just about ready to return to you all I still have one week of tears left until I'm all done with math, after that it's smooth sailing until like, march
anyway, I've accumulated a bit of an ask backlog during my brief period of activity, so I thought I'd answer 'em here, before poor nokob starts feeling like he's really just chucking all these messages straight into the void, never to be seen again
it's... been a while since i've last done this
like
a year
( ; ᐞ ;)
