I can’t tell if this is serious or not, because it’s plausible yet absurd.
I’m utterly serious.
On the subject of Dril’s identity, wikipedia says:
Jacob Bakkila, one of the writers behind the similarly absurd and popular Horse_ebooks Twitter account, claimed to have been hired for a project by the person behind dril.[5] According to Bakkila, dril’s author is a graphic designer who lives somewhere in the New York metropolitan tri-state area.[5] John Herrman and Katie Notopoulos at BuzzFeed speculated that dril may be a collaborative project or that Bakkila himself was behind dril.[5] Bakkila denied the rumor that he was dril, but said dril was “a friend” and that dril had contributed to the Horse_ebooks sequel, Bear Stearns Bravo.[6]
At some point, people apparently made a connection between Dril and somebody called Paul Dochney, at least partially due to a linkedin page which shows Dochney’s contributions to Bear Stearns Bravo. Apparently there were further connections as well, to do with old accounts and comparisons of artwork, etc. I’m not up to scratch on the precise details of that, but an old tumblr reblog from 2014 from somebody claiming to know Dril also lists his name as being “Paul”. Why is this relevant to Hiveswap, you ask? Here’s part of the Hiveswap credits:
In addition to this, it’s worth noting that one of the 205 twitter accounts that @dril follows is Cohen Edenfield, the lead writer of Hiveswap.
Also, I spoke to somebody who did audio effects work for Hiveswap shortly after the Act 1 release, and while they seemed to not be entirely privy to the details they also brought up a connection. Now that we know that Dril is working with Hussie for certain and is a contributor to the new SBaHJ book, I think it’s pretty much confirmed to be legit at this point.
so i combined derse and prospit together with painttoolsai using the luminosity feature and…………
look at it…….
that’s so…. pretty… omg let’s all dream here pls
I’ve lived here all my life.
And then everyone lived on Derspit, the end.
soft grunge
headcanon time!: derspit is what happens when one person tries to play Sburb/etc by his or her self. Either through two computers running the program at the same time or through bizarre cheating methods.
It’s an attempt by the game to create both moons despite there being only one bed, forcing the player to go through weird glitchy mixtures of events from both areas.
The Derspitiatites (dersite+prospitian= Ders-pit-ti-a-tites) are at war with themselves and are extremely glitchy and volatile, expressing both Heroic and Just traits. They both wish for the game to be continued and for the game to be lost, and are neither helpful nor harmful towards the player. They are so volatile that they become neutral by default.
It is extremely difficult, if not impossible to win the game, due to the black and white king being the same character. The reckoning, along with all other moon-based events, must be started by the PLAYER in order for them to get farther into the game.
heres a Derspitiatite arch/antiagent (cheap jack edit) to make reading all that worth your while a bit
“…are at war with themselves and are extremely glitchy and volatile”
so baSICALLY THE TRICKSTERS
CAN THIS
BE A THING
CAN THIS BE WHERE THE TRICKSTERS DREAM OMFG
OH MAN EVEN THE COLOUR SCHEME WORKS FOR TRICKSTERS
i’m going to rip off someone’s arms and legs next time i see someone go
“omg that’s like blahblahblah in homestuck!11! they’re like exactly the same tehehe!1121!1”
NO, FUCK YOU.
GO DIE.
Doesn’t this post remind you of Karkat? It reminds me of Karkat.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: one of the reasons Homestuck was so popular and omnipresent (and subsequently overloaded everyone’s dashes) was Andrew Hussie’s uncanny ability to make significant symbols out of (or even mythologize) SO MANY random everyday things.
I totally get why non-fans found it annoying. Homestuck was (is!) basically 1000 semi-incomprehensible in-jokes. On the other hand, it’s a FASCINATING example of effective world-building and symbol transformation. Let’s call a spade a spade – but what’s a spade? What is the significance of a chainsaw, a bike horn, a broken sword, a cue ball, a cake? Consider: a pool table, a deck of cards, a computer program, a chess board. Would you like to play a game? The list goes on and on.
Yes! Homestuck tied the repeating nature of story-telling and coming of age myths to meme culture. Because myths ARE memes. Memes have existed forever. And they’re everywhere.
OP fucking deactivated
well, if you’re on tumblr and the mere mention of a popular fandom gives you a rage aneurysm, that’s your only recourse, isn’t it
Can we just talk about Dave saying “one of us needs to die” and John automatically volunteering himself, and then trying to convince Dave to leave time frozen and go on adventures with him because he would rather live in a world with nobody but his best friend than in a world where Dave is dead
i gotta say, figuring out this wasn’t about homestuck threw me for a goddamn loop
I am writing this on February 20th, 2013. I do not
know when, or if, I will ever post it. But since you’re reading it now, it can
only mean one thing: the MSPA Prophet is dead, and it is now safe for me to
tell the world how I knew when updates were coming.
I turned my laptop back on solely to reblog this fucking post because we just realized this and I am Livid. There is really no evidence that this is not possible. We know life powerups of some type at least can work on spirits and transition them into physical bodies bc of Aranea and the ring. This is entirely feasible. This is what happens when you introduce 20 ways to come back to life and then tpk your maincast. The Homestuck epilogue is Jane bringing the entire Game Over crew back to life and them dogpiling Aranea’s ghost.
just moving along like everyone else 