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brandleys;
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September 23rd, 2014 at 08:48pm
I was imagining more like meadows of glue.
NotYourKindOfPeople
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September 24th, 2014 at 12:14am
I got an image of dandelions with globs of glue instead of white puffs.
brandleys;
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September 24th, 2014 at 04:09am
What if instead of glue it were semen?
NotYourKindOfPeople
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September 24th, 2014 at 03:30pm
And instead of crystals it's penis' and instead of a hometsuck session it's a wet dream.
brandleys;
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September 26th, 2014 at 12:42am
Yes.
NotYourKindOfPeople
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September 26th, 2014 at 04:16am
forget it. I'll work on it later
brandleys;
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September 27th, 2014 at 12:01am
Uhh...? Work on what later?
NotYourKindOfPeople
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September 27th, 2014 at 02:53pm
What's going on with homestuck. People keep on saying something is happening on tumblr but never what it is
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September 27th, 2014 at 02:57pm
brandleys;
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September 27th, 2014 at 03:46pm
Yes I was about to post the news update. I just read it.

Posted on 27 September 2014 by Andrew
Giga-Almost-Unpause, Probably.

Let's see if I can "tldr" a few things up top, since this news item might begin to nose dive dramatically through the vertical space of this web layout. Am I finished HS yet? Um, nope. But I think enough is probably enough on the site's indefinite period of hibernation, so it's likely I will just start posting some stuff I have anyway, starting next month. Either mid or late October, let's say.

I said it would be a long pause, didn't I? Let's face it, a gigapause is just one big ass pause. It contains the smaller word "giga", which, in addition to literally meaning "one billion", you will find to be the root of the word "gigantic", which as we all know, means super huge. This intriguing fact reminds us that in our culture of words, we hold the number one billion as the indivisible quantum of general bigness, as a matter of principal. Food for thought!

We're coming up on almost a year since I paused. So that means I got like, SO much done on the story, right? Wow, no. Innumerable unspecified problems happened which badly prevented this from being true. I'd estimate out of those 12 months, I maybe squeezed in a grand total of 3 months worth of work on HS in there. Kinda dribbled across the year in the most frustrating way possible. So, I'm just gonna cry uncle on this dogshit pause and start posting stuff, but probably in a regimented way so I don't blow through everything I have too fast, thus giving me some time to work on the rest.

Back at the onset of the pause, I said I'd just post everything at once. (I was oversimplifying. I had always intended to stagger the final content to whatever extent, so as not to destroy the server.) But also that "post everything at once" idea was predicated on actually sorta... having it all done. Which as I have already culpa'd, is not the case. So I'm improvising at this point. I'll (probably) relaunch the story next month, come up with some kind of update schedule, and we'll see how it goes.

What have I been doing all year? Let's chalk it up to, in this order of relevance, a swirling multitude of Daunting Life Challenges, a flurry of accidental weird adventures causing me to thrash wildly across the nation, and the escalating complexities of running a business while tending to peripheral creative projects, not the least of which has been overseeing the development of an expensive video game. Actually, all things considered, I'm surprised at how much I actually HAVE gotten done this year. It just happens that "making a ton of HS pages" isn't one of those things.

What were the problems? What were the adventures? Sorry, nothing to see here. Me and the General Public just aren't that tight, and wild sob stories ain't my bag (unless they pertain to visits to the Olive Garden). Well, maybe I'll mention some things some day. But definitely nowhere in the proximity of a virtual stage adjacent to the sphere of rhetoric which could conceivably be construed as a series of excuses for why a mammoth load of free entertainment hasn't been finished yet. Did you follow that? Look over there. (When you look back at me, I am slowly rolling into a pile of trash.)

The good news is, I'm still all about horses. Did you know that about me? It's true as shit. Horses; wow. Pretty good weird big animals? Or pretty GREAT weird big animals??

What else should I say here. Oh.

We've also been chipping away at upgrading the server over the last year. It's been surprisingly complicated and slow-going. Actually, prior to the pause, it was one of the most difficult things about updating, having an insufficient server that was GUARANTEED to crash every time I posted something. This was even after many, many upgrades over the years. It gets a little demoralizing trying to make tons of cartoons every day for a small nation of lunatics when the server constantly struggles to keep up with the ever-burgeoning readership, no matter how much I upgraded it. This was one of the (lots of) factors which contributed to me finally just saying, fuck it, time to pause.

Hopefully it can handle it now, but guess we'll see. It all runs on fancy clouds and such now. Which has been tricky to configure for such a complicated site utterly dependent on all the garbage ass-backwards code I've written over the years. Maybe... maybe once I start updating again, nobody will notice?? Man, wouldn't that be sweet. It will just be me and like a cozy little clique of 50 randos and 10 web bots, just like the old days. We'll bring this sucker home together, then hit up the local bargain Italian restaurant to celebrate. (Then a horse nuzzles me out of my sleepy dream fantasy, and the hammock flips over and dumps my screaming body on to the lawn.)

Feels a little odd even TALKING about revving up this monstrosity again. It's been pretty serene on the web these days. I've been reluctant to even drop a pebble into the pristine glass-like state of the fandom, before being good and damn well ready to. Why wake the beast prematurely? We'll enjoy more than our share of blistering pandemonium when all is said and done. We are slowly building to a particular moment I foresee on the horizon. It's not just characterized by the end of the story, though that should be a factor. It's more than that. Things I have planned, and some other things we'll say may be fortuitously aligned. Invisible pieces of a heinous machine all snapping together, mechanically congealing with a grim sense of purpose. I'm tentatively branding to this moment as The Rapture, and it will be more than you can bear. More than anyone can. And everyone won't.

How has your year been?
brandleys;
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September 27th, 2014 at 04:50pm
Some people are getting a "defeated" or "depressed" vibe from that, but when I read it I didn't get that sense at all. What do you think?
brandleys;
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September 29th, 2014 at 11:22pm
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October 1st, 2014 at 03:13am
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October 1st, 2014 at 03:24am
whipstickagostop;:
Some people are getting a "defeated" or "depressed" vibe from that, but when I read it I didn't get that sense at all. What do you think?

I see why people said that but from what I've read, hussie has never liked being famous or at least not reveled in it like some might expect. Nothing really surprised me in terms of tone.
brandleys;
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October 1st, 2014 at 12:10pm
Either way though, I do hope he's okay, of course.
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October 8th, 2014 at 08:07pm
I'm taking a class called Liberaty and Equality and rn I'm studying the definition of justice. My transformation into Terezi Pyrope is almost complete.
brandleys;
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October 8th, 2014 at 09:55pm
New Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff

Also, question: When it starts updating again, should we post it here? I mean both of us will know but still...
NotYourKindOfPeople
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October 8th, 2014 at 10:52pm
Um why not
brandleys;
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October 8th, 2014 at 10:53pm
WELL I WAS JUST WONDERING BECAUSE IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S ANYONE ELSE HERE EVER.
brandleys;
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October 12th, 2014 at 02:10am