Subject: Re: Thanks!
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Posted on: 2014-04-21 23:33:00 UTC

Yes, to borrow Roxy's words: The Robin Hood of Time! Pretty sure it doesn't get cooler than that. At least for me. Those are some pretty cool powers. Sounds like the sort of thing designed to challenge me, though, as I'm terrible with time management.

That speech was pretty cool. But yeah, I know what you mean. She's very 3-dimensional as a character. Actually, I've met a couple of people now who refer to her as "the spiderb*tch" and it makes me so mad! Yeah, she wasn't the greatest person ever and did a lot of bad things, but you can't just slap the word b*tch on it and leave it at that! There's so much more to her than that. And like you said, her character development is probably the best, so gradual we hardly notice it. I kinda hope she gets to have another chance at affecting the story, but I won't be too upset if she doesn't, because she's influenced so much of it already.

I was kind of left wanting more about her relationship with Terezi too. Which is unusual; generally a decisive stab makes for pretty good closure. I suppose that was what was used to facilitate her spending the better part of a year soaking in juggalo juices. But I'll try to reserve judgement until her arc is over. At the moment, I'm just a little more concerned about her continued survival... Although I don't suppose it should bug me. After all, I think the only character who has died and not come back (yet?) is Doc Scratch. (Is it bad of me to admit that I'm actually not all that worried about Jade being dead?)

I read the bit where Terezi killed Vriska right before going to bed and then cried myself to sleep. I haven't done that since I read Martin the Warrior, which was when I was twelve. It really struck me that I could completely support Terezi in her actions and yet still be incredibly sad that Vriska died.

Yeh... Feferi. I like her, but I think it might be primarily because she's just that girl everybody likes. I do think more could have been done with her, but all we really get besides some initial exposition is her breaking up with Eridan and then being friends with Sollux. We haven't really seen her since she died, too, so I'm wondering if she'll come back or not. Unfortunately probably not.

Nepeta's awesome. She looks like that cute little girl who is so sweet and just loves cute little puppies and kitty cats, but bear in mind that she is one of three characters to have successfully landed a blow on Gamzee, and the only one to do it while he was sober/otherwise in possession of his mental faculties. It was really very awesome, but I expect the fight just didn't last much longer after that.

I found a box of Betty Crocker food coloring in one of my church's cupboards yesterday. Holding the cupboard door open, I turned to the person closest to me and asked, "Why are we supporting the Batterwich?"

She kinda looked at me funny and said, "What?"

"Nothing," I said, and then I closed the cupboard door.

... Yeah, I'm probably the only one who finds that funny.

That story... was actually incredibly funny. The basic concept is ridiculous, but hey, I've seen stupider. The bus was actually pretty funny. I read the whole series and I'm currently wondering how it still runs. (Given the premise of the last one, that will probably change soon.) But... yeah. My AU "parody" idea was to get a bunch of the characters stuck in a hotel room with three laptops and a sticky note that says "Don't read the fanfic." As I was "plotting" this out in my head, I realized that it would degrade into a cacophony of Karkat swearing up a storm within the first four pages and there were only so many times I could dredge humor out of Terezi licking fan art. So I dropped it, because I don't think I would read that. But things like that always seem worse to the writer, y'know? I liked your idea.

As for Eridan's romances in the story, the only one I noticed was the one where he decided to be Tavros and Vriska's auspistice. Which was... weird. (Although I am perfectly capable of subconsciously blinding myself to romance I don't like, so there might have been other things going on I didn't notice.) Is there a good way for people to be psychopaths?

Oh, wait... Heh, I can't believe I just typed that.

And I'm feeling the urge once again to add loosely related self-indulgent comments. You can probably skip this bit if you want. So I got my brother into Homestuck. I actually got to say, "Let me tell you about Homestuck." It was awesome. Actually, no, it was stupid. But it was also fun.

Hang on, I appear to have run out of space.

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