Subject: You can use the section if you want.
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Posted on: 2014-05-09 01:09:00 UTC
It's a subject that would've eventually come up anyway, after all! It's important that the little fanwriters get some guidelines on how to decide troll blood color. I've seen too many trolls who declare that they're silver-blooded or black-blooded or something. Deciding to use a different shade of brown from canon or to add in the implied orange blood is very different from deciding to give something rainbow blood. Actually, rainbow blood wouldn't only be painful for the reader; since rainbow blood would mean that the various chemicals giving the blood its various colors are not mixing, that would more likely than not kill the troll within its first few hours of life.
Also, I've managed to pin down one of the main OOC points in that Equius piece: He didn't spell "paradox" with a %! I forgot that part of his typing quirk. I wonder how he pronounces that in speech. We know the typing quirks do manifest in speech somehow, since Sollux 2peak2 wiith a biit of a lii2p and Eridan has a wwavy soundin accent, but a % isn't exactly obvious. You pronounce the % in Karrank% as a double glottal stop, but that wouldn't really work as part of words with the x in the middle. Would it?
Good! I have no OFU-writing experience, but it seems like taking extra time and effort to keep things in order are very important for a project like this, since the OFU cast of characters being fluid means it would probably be difficult to put a story in the right direction otherwise. I hope that's why we've gone so long without a new OFAS update, because of planning. If it's because it's gone the way of most of the other OFUs and vanished halfway in, then that would just be depressing.
Well, the definition of gender is pretty much the same even if the trolls fill the biologically male role in their species, since the two aren't the same thing. The other two seem to be relatively valid challenges, though. Of course, Homestuck's been challenging the definition of shipping ever since it introduced the ashen, pale, and black romances.
I like to see when an ashen fic is done well. It's difficult to keep the dynamic properly without it degrading into something that would more easily match with a three-person moirallegiance, but it's great when done properly. On a related note, I definitely ashenship these three.
Hmm. I don't know about having Nepeta's class being only available when students have already taken all of those other classes. Shipping is kind of a big deal in the Homestuck fandom, and if there's going to be a primary shipping class, it should be covered fairly early on. Maybe the shipping course will need to be taken alongside Dirk and John's and Karkat's, to ensure best effects and to make sure that no one is missing important components. Aranea's class can be linked to that, but I doubt it would work as a requirement, because come on, people are not going to go to a class taught by Aranea for reasons other than being able to speak freely amongst themselves while she goes on and on about whatever she's been given free reign to exposit on. Also, we don't know that much about leprechauns in general, so there might not be enough material to make a class. We don't even know what the majority of their nine romance symbols mean. On the plus side, this means there can be plenty of student-planning shenanigans. And Caliborn should just in general not be allowed near children unsupervised.