VINBRE THE NOVEL LIVETWEET THREAD. welcome to esther's special hell. https://twitter.com/0pacifica/status/1389732611916976129

major spoilers, ofc.

ALSO ALSO read esther's thread for content warnings. very important

i am being crushed under sooo much dramatic irony. the pains of knowing that these mentions of cannibalism and vivisection are going to pay off real good.

its super fucking interesting that vinbre just, grows up *completely alone* completely alone. like she really does just live at the bottom of the ocean with no company but her lusus and schoolfeeds and thinks thats fine. what <3

vinbre i am BEGGING you a little bit to stop idolizing eubala it is hurting me. please.

oh my god does eubala really talk like that. help im getting politicked

EUBALA: since if they’re HATCHING more, they’ll need to be disposing of the detritus more!!!! BASIC MATH!!!!!!

EUBALA: i think that’s what math is, anyway. whatever.

maam

PLEASE tell me about spearmaiden signclade lineages please please please youre nothing im just a humble Mage

it just occurred to me that eubala might have recorded these feeds fuck billion sweeps ago and just used mostly the same ones for all her descendants however many thats been. real possibility

EUBALA: so don’t buy the bullshit about upper-hemocaste stuff being BETTER. it’s DIFFERENT!!!!! that’s not the same thing!
EUBALA: ha. feel free to apply THAT pearl of wisdom as generally as you like.

@_@

vinbre malcos you are so fucking space player [sees my kid self in your kid self a little bit]

...vinbre are you literally going to tell the Board of Directors that you want to cure hemospectrum inequalities. if homestuck taught me LITERALLY ANYTHING about the hemospectrum it is that this is... maybe not the greatest idea.

fucked up as hell that vinbre has exactly one chance to figure out clothes and makeup before her meeting with the board. i would die (foreshadowing)

devastatingly, vinbre, devastatingly.

okay. yeah. the cannibalism part is gonna be now. right. vinbre malcos STOP bard of space'ing me.

ohhhh i cannot fathom how this feels im so sorry vinbre

^ top 10 funniest things to say in the first 13 pages of VtN

yeah i didnt think this would be such a great pitch.

w. well.

gee eubala something is suggesting to me you might have a little pitch experience

neopronouns in the vinbre the novel. esther i adore you

based for putting matespritship last btw

hee hee im having gay little sympathetic injury tingles

ok. anyway. holy shit.

absolutely nothing that rubs in just how hard to kill seadwellers are better than, that.

why did it take the grenadier for me to Actually Cry. genius breakpoint btw. give the audience that little reminder that everything is over and destroyed <3

do fuchsias look significantly different from violets. is vinbre going to make THAT much of a scene. is there some sort of caste-hiding she will need to do later

BIRTH OF JAEKAL EXIGWA AND THE TERRIBLE HORRIBLE NO GOOD VERY BAD SHIP PROPELLER... vinbre you get me [coming up with an alias and never ever changing it]

first Z:D 29 pages in. esther is SLACKING

swimming in neopronouns this is what heaven feels like

is vinbre going to IMMEDIATELY join the navy. how much of this book is navydrama. fuck yes space opera but with the ocean (excellent space substitute)

reflecting on The Board Meeting. its like _______'s Got Talent except only one X from any judge disqualifies you and technically instead of disqualifies its cannibalizes. HIGH STAKES!!!!! Z:O

vinbre i PROMISE that getting every fucking troll on alt2rnia to side with you against the Board is not going to make a difference at all

CARETT APPEARANCE!!!

dont vinbre and carett like. do quadrants later. guess ill have to wait and see!

I NEED TO MAKE A SPREADSHEET. OKAY. VINBRE THE NOVEL THE SPREADSHEET TIME.

oh my god. if i can lift hex codes from here somehow i will literally die

i am a computer science major. my whole education has been leading up to this.

the answer, dear reader, was "zoom WAY the fuck in and use firefox developer tool eyedropper"

name: Jaekal Exigwa
pronouns: she/her
caste: violet
hex: N/A
quirk: N/A
bio: DEFINITELY NOT VINBRE MALCOS!!!!!!

okay so fuchsias seriously are illiterate. god damn

leaving off for tonight. i am sooo fucking hooked. incredibly excited to see where carett yronex-ARHINN development goes

also, im a vinbre stan for real now <3

we are BACK. for 5 minutes. very sporadic time.

This is going so much better than your pitch!!!!!

i mean. yes. objectively, you are not being literally eaten alive right now

keeping a character spreadsheet slows my reading process down significantly sometimes, i say as the pomodoro break end timer goes off having made it less than a hundred words

And shaken or not, fucked up or not, when it comes down to it, there’s nothing you can talk your way into that you can’t talk your way out of.
You believe that. Really, you do.

vinbre you have talked to Two other groups of people and one of them ate you alive

god i love how fucking calculating vinbre is. shes just a VERY CHEERY person!!! who also happens to be CONSTANTLY ANALYZING her situation!!!

You frown, realizing this sounds overfamiliar. Whoops. You look over across the space between you, and while they seem nonplussed about the whole thing, “regular conversation” still feels like a schoolfeeding subject you don’t quite get.

<3

OHHHHHHHH CARETT IS FUCKING CLOCKING HERRRRRRRR

VINBRE WHY DID YOU JSUT FUCKING OUT YOURSELF AS A WHOLE ASS FUCHSIA HOLY SHIT???????????? TOP 10 MOST QUESTIONABLE STRATEGIC MOVES but also highly relatable

that really threw me for a loop. guess its good to have an ally somewhere at least but like... wowie

"what about troll bbobbb" oh my god

im slacking on the livetweeting bc i put every single scrap of relevant info about any remotely named troll onto my spreadsheet. this thing is gonna rival my VE sheet

"ancestormom"... you are getting closer

Halian taught you how to shoot a rocket launcher, actually, and you have a specibus, now: artillerykind!

@_@ but also love the way people in homestuckstories will just pick up any old weapon and boom that's their Thing forever

The fact that it’s such an unquestionably good setup makes it seem like the problem is you. Something... keeping you from clicking in the way other trolls can. Ugh.

Autism and Autism Coding is a Space Trait, by Skylar V. Lalonde

EUBALA: look, i’d sooner fucking kill myself than sit around jacking off over fucking TOMES like some motherfuckers i could name.

this is why teal college is in fact for teals

EUBALA: it IS possible, and also important, to be both smart AND hot.
EUBALA: hot only gets you so far in a room full of coldbloods!!!! SAGE advice, remember that!!!!

*furiously scribbling*

i feel so seen

@SolarPowerdWolf i take it back eubala is fucking hilarious always. we stan a fishgirlboss

that completely tracks, and also, god damn did they have to like personally assassinate every Selach individually? i do not think trying to kill a group of fuchsias at the same time would go particularly stellar

oh we say months here! is it twelve months to a sweep? 26?

vinbre desribing her schoolfeeds as "stream of consciousness" is so funny because its just true. eubala stands in front of the camera and just lets out all her frustrations with the Board in the general direction of a topic

LAUGHED OUT LOUD. i mean... she hasnt personally *eaten* another fuchsia, so she sure hasnt partaken in that sense! Z:D

shark teeth. shark teeth

gender honorific... Board based for this. stan

NOOOOOOOO YSAORA YRONEX DONT EXPECT CARETT TO TRY TO GAIN A BOARD POSITION AHAHAHAHAAAA :monkaS:

holy shit. im getting politicked so bad

carett comes before commander brijis in the spreadsheet both because they were introduced first and because they deserve it

THE SPEARMAIDEN BEING ON TROLL TWITTER. THIS IS FUCKING KILLING MEEEE

VINBRE: i can’t BELIEVE you let me EXPLAIN THE OCEANOGRAPHY OF YOUR OWN HOMETOWN TO YOU!!!! GAH!!!! YOU’RE A FUCKING LIEUTENANT!!!!

jkDHSFGBRUSDGJUFIUORHIGUD

VINBRE I LOVE YOU

VINBRE: heh, better not gamble on the embryonic contents of a mermaid’s purse until the casing’s open.

you are such a fishgirl =:P

crying so bad

we now return to our regularly scheduled eubala stanning

i PROMISE i only stan eubala malcos ironically. like one would stan, say, vri[i am killed by a sniper] [the sniper is me]

"hire whatever sadsack teal your best applicant paid to format their resume." AADJABFHJKSDH STAN

EUBALA: so much for the TOLERANT LEFT!!!!

does anyone even say "tolerant left" anymore or has it been replaced by red scares? i liked that one it was so funny

EUBALA: sorry for being the bitch loading the carcass with tnt. but nothing else has fucking worked.

malcoses and their willingness to solve problems with extreme violence IF NECESSARY...

stories that are important

the existence of captchalogs and strife specibi in casual everyday adult life is so interesting actually. like there just... exist extradimensional storage spaces that everyone can use, and thats just a thing. so fucking cool. also tell me the science behind them <3

there MUST be science behind them, because either science invented them or they were around when science was still in the stages of Explaining Shit

novel shit, that is. ykwim

"i wasn't even fucked up too bad" [flashback to manually securing her fucking organs in place]

okay yeah i remember from the excerpts that vinbre and the commander are pitch and i can really see that brewing. homestuck < everything else in terms of good kismesissitudes

EUBALA: if you’re a malcos, i’ll show you how they work someday.
EUBALA: the demonstration is a lot better face-to-face!!!

PAIN. PAIN AND MISERY

okayyyy leaving off again this essay still isnt done

AND IT WILL REMAIN THAT WAY! FISHGIRL DISEASE

"Untovy must sincerely care about her, to keep her away from your mom’s attention. Your ancestor. Whatever." please babe youre getting there

how hard must it be to just, erase the idea of a mother figure that you spent so long developing

>mfw i literally forgot Sasara is the current spearmaiden

VINBRE THE NOVEL THE SPREADSHEET is getting pretty beefy with Board lore. added a SIGNCLADES page for general clade info but it only helps so much

;w; nooo stop making me care so much about halian ahaha this is only a feel-good story for so long

EUBALA: . . . THAT’S the IMMUTABLE BIOLOGICAL REALITY for you.

vinbre voice we'll see about that! Z:)

[realizing why there hasnt been a single goldblood] battery caste! normal one

the timescales that fuchsias live are fucking incomprehensible. how many generations of warmbloods can live and die under the exact same Board. all fun and games to write down ages in the thousands over and over until you remember those are sweeps

eubala would possibly appreciate my diligence in taking notes. hi, im SKYLAR TSINOV,

oh quirks are mostly a warmblood thing? i guess the uniqueness is more important to you when there are more than Six People with your blood color at any given time

oh man i passed 100 pages a while ago without even noticing, so happy page 114!

vinbre i get it so bad if i didnt have so much adhd i would be you exactly. the grind is so real and my inability to focus on it is probably a blessing sometimes

holy SHIT vinbre when you said you literally felt like you were dying you fucking meant it huh!!!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

yayyyy ancestor not mom yayyyy!

...Newport Agneju was warmblood friendly, also? You didn’t pick up on that at all, but you guess the bigass fucking solid gold Osikis Versii sculpture should’ve been a tip-off to something happening politically.

yeah, maybe the statue of Fuchsia Murderer would suggest that...

the way vinbre was educated as a *fuchsia* but has mostly just spent time around warmbloods... its so interesting to see how that affects her, and i say that in an empathetic way

thinks about what esther said about how the point of Vinbre the Novel is to convince you that vinbre CAN make a change, that she could actually talk and coerce and politick her way into a position to FIX THINGS—and then tear it all down in one terrible moment

VINBRE: like a DATE????
CARETT: I think... anything would sound like feudal-era torture, if you said it in that particular tone. But yes. Like... a date.

this isnt abt the them its about caretts line sdjfdshjf get her ass

things that violets say that make me feel so much affecti—WAIT.

WAIT. FUCK. CARETT IS A JASTIN, OR MAYBE JASTIN IS A CARETT, BUT. THE. THE, YEAH

**DO I HAVE TO MAKE A JASTIN WEMLON (AND THUS NECESSARILY SKYLAR KITSEN) ALT2RNIA AU**

jastin's whole THING as a kid is being adrift. jastin would *actually* be a jaekal exigwa, joining the navy to feel like theyre *doing something* (except they would not join as a deckworker like jaekal)

one rollercoaster revelation to another with this book! ohhhhhhhh eubala's kismesis was TOTALLY osikis. that is SO eubala.

if im wrong thats gonna be really funny but this is hitting the same radar as when i can tell i have chemistry with someone but i assume i could be wrong and try not to act on it. (skylar loredump in the VtN livetweet thread!)

yep.

did this module not get transmitted because eubala:
1) expressed a desire to eliminate the troll race
2) talked about Board cannibalism
3) rambled about her kismesissitude with OSIKIS VERSII
4) talked about killing OSIKIS VERSII

is "fortunate, then, that, no one seems to" a typo with that last comma? i dont intend to call esther out here but i know they read the first day of my livetweets so im just like, trying to help. or maybe its just there for sentence rhythm and im wrong. could be!

WOOOO TROLLIAN HANDLE COLUMN TIME

REGINA GEORGE?!?!?!??!?! mean girls canon in alt2rnia........

i have to put Regina George in vinbre the novel the spreadsheet

PLEASE GIVE ME THE GALA HOMEWORK PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE YOUD BE EVERYTHING

epic how vinbre very casually and without prompting (other that, okay, granted, being eaten alive a little bit) came to the conclusion that the hemospectrum sucks and must be dismantled

it just hit me that vinbre is genuinely like, My age, within a couple months. i... wow

unless alt2rnia uses a different sweep calculation that my default 2.16 years : 1 sweep, in which case fuck lol

i should be in my room instead of the building common area so i can properly cry with oanjou right now

Women like edible gifts, like fish. You’re pretty sure that’s a thing.

SO true bestie

are trolls mammals? fish? reptiles? arthropods? is there a blurring or breaking of that classification when you pass into the seadwelling castes?

the weight of adding characterization notes to riente

!!!!!!!!!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!

OANJOU!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?

OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You freeze. Her eyes go to your un-dyed and un-filed armfins, first, then your face. Curious, more than anything. You cross your arms protectively over your chest.

WUH OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

pensive emoji rn because my new homestuck special interest DLC is 130k+ original fiction about a single fucked up fishgirl

[sees carett's hair] FUCK they ARE a jastin

EUBALA: fuchsia hands don’t get dirty, except in the metaphorical sense.

of all the Board members to say that,

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE ME EUBALA'S MODULE ON EVERY IMPORTANT VIOLET LINEAGE AND EVERY EVERY SIGNCLADE ON MALCOS SUB-BOARDS DOWN TO THE TEALS IM SOBBING I WAS BORN FOR THIS

its becoming... easier to see how vinbre thought eubala might be with her on the whole fuchsiaification scheme

OKAYYYYYYYY its late and i hate to do this but im leaving off for tonight. im 159 pages in already?? man im going faster than i realized! blame it on the riveting story and incredible writing i guess <3

no vinbre today which is deeply tragic but also break days while reading are underrated. give you time to digest, and to think forever in advance. and in this case, time for esther to keep writing so that maybe it will be a little less not done by the time i get there

today in my program of Yes, I Am Allowed To Have Nice Things, Actually, Regardless Of My Current Academic Performance: VINBRE THE NOVEL

thinking about the rules about doing murder in alt2rnia... i remember a great thread about it somewhere

vinbre...

VINBRE: make sure you HAVE FUN WITH IT, okay? this is fun!! challenges are fun, parties are fun, FIGURING STUFF OUT about how to deal with these sorts of trolls is FUN!!!!

vinbre's trick is my urge to take notes

VINBRE: there is NOTHING anyone in here can say that would throw me.

surely this is another vinbre moment.

call me traumatized and a CS kid, but i keep thinking "what if someone took a glance at the access records for fuchsia commchip databases and the addresses they came from?" maybe, hopefully, fuchsia database access records are above scrutiny

hits rather

Overt beauty is everywhere. You drink it in eagerly. Names, titles, information, who looks where and says what and whether their eyes linger curiously on your earfins.

yeah

the fact, that you thought this,

You nudge them back. These are good lines of communication to have open. And you don’t mind touching them one bit.

sometimes, i simply post lots of quotes and expect you to understand im saying "yeah"

VINBRE: fuck, yes. i don’t have ANY idea how, but if you can swim, you can dance, right?

this is why eubala tried to kill you

VINBRE MALCOS WHY DO YOU GET ME SO BAD

dangerously close to doing something TRULY deranged

stopping here for now. good point to do so!!!!! Z:)

PICKING BACK UP its time its time its time fish fish fish fish fish

oh they actually DO name themselves at six thats pretty damn cool

I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT IM ABOUT TO SAY.

eubala is so convincingly on the edge of good and terrible

also Z:( vinbre when no crab claws

VINBRE MURDER HUH

:THEFOODCHAIN:

ok that one is clever but surely this WILL have repercussions. there ARE still rules about fuchsias killing titled violets, eubala WILL find out and wonder who could have done it. best case she keeps it quiet as a scrap of evidence against whoever she thinks it is

but it's *eubala's blood*, she would *know* herself that she didn't do it. then it must be down to whether whoever finds her thinks to report the details of her death to her superior, or just assumes that it truly was her doing. but—im not seeing any good ways out here

god. vinbre ;w;

really well put

vinbre: i could sell ice to an auburn!!!
also vinbre: fuck, my disguise is collapsing! maybe, i should try... MURDER????

i really cant decide whether or not i would do this, so its probably safest to assume... i would :(

THE WORDS, THEY ARE COMING BACK TO ME AS I READ THEM... VINBRE Z:(

haliiiiiiii you are so.

it IS "al2rnia" no T i finally looked at it closer

"quadrilateral" as "quadrant-wise" is hilarious and im stealing that

wow i havent added to this thread in a hot 14 minutes a lot's been happening. i had ANOTHER moderately less heated gamer/lesbian moment over oanjou because i am a lesbian and 19. good for her (both of them)!

son of a bitch vinbre is 19 too i almost forgot.

NEED to keep that a little more in mind it kind of helps contextualize this (her) a lot

once again i pass a major milestone without noticing! 200 pages :D

god that eubala monologue on warmbloods. things i might have to print out and hang on my wall

You’re good at waiting, though. An ambush predator. And you seat yourself primly, fix a pleasant expression on your face, and try to plot your way through the conversation in advance, just so you’ll be ready for it.

<3 vinbre moments

ok im PRETTY sure "Liasson" isnt a quirk thing since i havent seen a letter quirk out of the commander yet and google suggests it should only be one S. maybe *this* time i am right about it being a typo

VINBRE: by the way, if you’re not going to address me by my rank, you might as well call me jaekal. that’s my name. Z:)
IVELLI: v^As you wish, Lieutenant.^v

KJFIDUOSHJBUGIUF

i swear ive seen this excerpt somewhere before

oh god oh no haha dont talk about xeidin's aspirations ahahahaaaaaa :monkaS:

VINBRE: i’m IN, carett! this is going to work!!!
VINBRE: we’re going to save the world. it’s step zero, but it’s a legitimate step. Z:)

:(

sad face cancelled kiss time.

ive DEFINITELY read this one before

is that so...

EUBALA: i sound like a broken record: you don’t need to quadrant to fuck!

literally fucking imagine. the REPERCUSSIONS.

esther cursor editing word choice spotted... am i truly that far along

KELTOC :thefoodchain:

had never seen the word staid before this book and now i have seen it dozens of times

VINBRE: jeez, do i come off as THAT MUCH of a commitmentphobe?
CARETT: ...
VINBRE: don’t answer that.

HDLJGKLIDFSG

ohhh you are so. i would have done this

OH ***CARETT*** IS PITCH WITH THE COMMANDER ***THATS*** WHAT I REMEMBERED. yeah that makes, slightly more sense

one worth making continuously and enthusiastically, for the forseeable future

oh shit this is a CHIONO monologue oh SHIT

SWEEP NUMBER MENTION!!! give me calendars i adore calendars

oh chiono was like, almost a Mom a mom

Naming an oiler ‘Bounty’ seems a little on the nose for a hemotype with only a vestigial nasal ridge,

LNJFIVJPROWHGISUOFUW JLVKHSMOF8UYIYCUSFHIUBVYFODJ8CSIDF

VINBRE: come on, don’t you want BRAGGING RIGHTS? are you really going to let a dumb little VIOLET like me outswim you?

back to fucking BACKSHDFJKHDSIF

VINBRE: ANOTHER crew member drowned while you were lecturing me!!!! this is so sad and fucked up, how this keeps happening.

STOP being funny

Black and blue and even greenish tones follow you down, but true fuchsia is one of the first colors to disappear, and within fifteen meters, both you and Carett are functionally invisible. You more than them; a touch of violet clings to their fins.

oh right the fish facts!!

OH SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DUMBASS FISH

god. god. thank fuck im more like, teal about this kind of feeling

There’s never just one fish. They aren’t meant to be alone in the dark. Where there’s a fish, there’s another. Ideally, at least.

;w;

VINBRE: don’t be ridiculous, why would i work AGAINST you?
VINBRE: you agree with me about all the important stuff. you’re on my side.

girl listen to yourself sdjfhidfkjhsd

suddenly mean to vinbre apparently she is just being, oh so silly

CARETT: It surprises me that... the Board allowed you to walk away. I would not sleep easily, in their position.

well,

man at this rate shes GOT to tell carett about the cannibalism at SOME point right. right?

A stuffy, over-formal series of agonizing dinner meetings is emphatically not the right way to identify your allies and... equally-potential allies that will need more work!

and after that wonderful interlude we are RIGHT back to vinbre moments of this variety!

VINBREEEEEEEE

‘Desire to do the right thing’ isn’t as compelling a force as you expected, or else the inertia of even these sad, insane, stupid little roles is incredibly arresting.

when you are,

when you are, material growth. then you will see and understand.

call me a mage but vinbre, you need to, you have some things to still figure out

KELTOC :thefoodchain:

the eubala board quads rant my beloved...

i feel like such an asshole subtweeting esther but @'ing them outright just feels way too rude and messaging them directly feels, well lets just say we do a little 1:1 social ineptitudeing

it is so supremely fucked up that fuchsia inheritance happens at sixteen fucking years of age. homestuckian for sure but like, holy shit

KELTOC: °⫷what can i do for you, mademoiselle?⫸°

shut your little fucking clown ass mouth is what

i will admit, usually im something of a homestuck clown appreciator. but thats when EVERYONE is a cultist and they dont, like, have a choice. fuck keltoc

die

just rambled at my joyfriend about my disastrous first s/o, and this goes in this thread because i had to Ok Vinbre myself a couple times. material growth bitches get it