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11/19 Update Thoughts

Well, that was certainly a thing, wasn’t it? Spoilers under the cut, further than the superfluous image above.

It seems like those recurring memes the cherubs suffer might have a canon source:

[11/19/12 10:10:16 PM] Ash: update
[11/19/12 10:13:00 PM] blastyoboots: well
[11/19/12 10:13:04 PM] blastyoboots: that’s a thing isn’t it
[11/19/12 10:13:13 PM] Lucyha: …huh
[11/19/12 10:13:58 PM] Mel: You can’t explain that.
[11/19/12 10:14:22 PM] Mel: Radio tower, causing Caliborn to think thoughts that Calliope would think because of their unstable brain merging sequence.
[11/19/12 10:14:40 PM] Mel: Text on the screen, text in the narrative, never a miscommunication.
[11/19/12 10:14:44 PM] Mel: You just can’t explain that.
[11/19/12 10:15:11 PM] Romulus: once again this comic reaffirms its dedication to be the most meta thing in existence
[11/19/12 10:15:23 PM] blastyoboots: uu: AND THE FACT THAT I MIGHT NOT CLuE YOu INTO YOuR FATE ALL THE TIME.
uu: DuE TO MY AGGRAVATED APATHY OVER THE MATTER.
uu: IS AN IMMuTABLE FACT. I AM STATING FOR THE RECORD.
uu: IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT GIVING A SHIT IS WHAT IS TAKING PLACE HERE.
TT: I feel like you’ve said something like that before.
TT: Different statements, but in that exact syntax.
uu: OH. YOu KNOW WHAT ELSE I HATE?
uu: WHEN THAT FuCKING HAPPENS.
TT: Wait. You mean it wasn’t intentional?
TT: I thought it was kind of like… this thing you were doing.
uu: SHuT uP.
[11/19/12 10:16:05 PM] blastyoboots: uu: I SHOuLD HAVE KEPT IT BRIEF. AND SuRLY. LIKE I WAS GOING TO.
uu: LIKE JuST SAID.
uu: “HELLO DIRK."
uu: "I WANT TO PLAY A GAME."
uu: AND THEN LIKE.
uu: "BRO."
uu: "ROOF. NOW."
uu: "BRING JuJu."
uu: AND THAT’S IT.
uu: YEAH. THAT WOuLD HAVE BEEN GOOD.
uu: COLD FuCKING BLOODED. TO THE POINT. DAMMIT.
TT: That actually sounds familiar too.
TT: Are you sure you haven’t said something like that before?
uu: HAVE I?
uu: FuCK. I DON’T KNOW. WHATEVER.
[11/19/12 10:16:49 PM] Mel: It turns out, Caliborn was the future-past author of Homestuck all along
[11/19/12 10:16:53 PM] Mel: :V

(Mel’s ramblings are more IDE-ish, don’t take them as me committing to them.)

Perhaps this control station manages to spread memes farther than their little planet, and those two are just at the epicenter?

…Oh, shit. What if this is where the arc numbers come from, like 413??

Also:

Note the red/green dichotomy: How most of them are red, but a few green ones persist, representing Caliborn’s domination. Also… the [A6I4] ==> is prefaced by red, the link that titles and indicates the progression of Time, and the Space underneath is filled by descriptive text!

EDIT:

[11/19/12 10:27:33 PM] colwag: And now I’m like
[11/19/12 10:27:39 PM] colwag: I don’t know if I can trust the narrator at all
[11/19/12 10:27:47 PM] colwag: Like, at points in the past too
[11/19/12 10:30:02 PM] blastyoboots: I wouldn’t go that far, even though Andrew’s obviously trying to mess with us that way
[11/19/12 10:30:46 PM] blastyoboots: ahahaha!!
[11/19/12 10:30:48 PM] blastyoboots: I just realized
[11/19/12 10:30:57 PM] blastyoboots: in *ANY OTHER COMIC*
[11/19/12 10:31:10 PM] blastyoboots: this kind of revelation would cause us to groan and roll our eyes extremely hard
[11/19/12 10:31:17 PM] blastyoboots: but in *THIS* one
[11/19/12 10:31:27 PM] blastyoboots: even if we groan and eyeroll, it also gives us vague chills!
[11/19/12 10:31:39 PM] blastyoboots: it actually *scares* us

How amazing Homestuck is. :D

EDIT2 (for completeness’s sake): hellstobetsy asked:

If you missed it, the light bulb has the MSPA "Jailbreak Guy Face” logo on it, and appears to be being lit by a firefly-shaped light.

EDIT3:

[11/19/12 10:38:35 PM] TheFinalWraith: I’m pretty sure Caliborn can only enter the commands, but not control the narration
[11/19/12 10:38:56 PM] TheFinalWraith: What with the way the red and green lights are spaced, and there being a red light on the keyboard
[11/19/12 10:39:27 PM] blastyoboots: lemme copy that in
[11/19/12 10:39:55 PM] TheFinalWraith: Could make some kind of sweeping statement relating that to the whole
[11/19/12 10:40:02 PM] TheFinalWraith: Active/passive Lord/Muse thing
[11/19/12 10:40:14 PM] blastyoboots: yeah that’s what I was getting at

2012-11-19

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