Revelations Cycle 12.5: Seven Stars in Hand

[half_life_wolf]

Okay so I guess when I said 'Friday' what I really meant was 'later tonight', derp. I guess this just proves that you can just really never trust my judgment on when I will get around to doing things at all. It helps that this was short. By the way this shit is laden with metaphor and pretty heavy and obtuse so I hope people can follow it. I'm not

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[inverts]

screaming

oh god

why is it bedtime now

I will give you a real comment tomorrow but fuck all, this is the best thing. ♥

no okay before I head out for the night I will tell you that I counted each and every goddamn italics'd "i" in that fiiiiiiiine, and then I skreeeeeed like a goddamn motherfucker, and christ that's not why karlkat has all those blackouts is it??? ._.

[half_life_wolf]

♥♥♥

I highly anticipate this real comment! Though this one is pretty damn good too, bro.

Though I AM CONFIRMING NOTHING, that is certainly one interpretation of it. I will just say that John and Vriska (wherever she is lolol) are connected, even if John isn't particularly aware of it.

[inverts]

Okay real comment may be a let down XD
but first, because I am too much of a huge wimp to actually play the games: IS there a good ending to SH?

Also I am just geeking out in all kinds of ways about the binary star descriptions of Sollux, especially since I just had to do a bunch of research on the life cycles of stars and eeee. Delicious. X9

There is just so much happening in this fic, and the way you wrap it all together and simultaneously give us more information while drawing us further into the story is so well done. I hope you realize that your writing is really something. =]

[half_life_wolf]

Nothing is a let down, bro.

I think there is a single good ending to SH, but like Sollux, I have never gotten it. It may be entirely apocryphal, for all I know.

Hehe that part was fun for me to write. It's always nice when metaphor manages to overlap with my other interests, i.e. science. Star biology is goddamn fascinating.

♥♥♥ I am glad to hear you feel that way about it! I often worry that I am coming off as too pretentious or suchlike, so.

[skeetzybug]

FFFFFFF-

You just kept me up til 3:30 WHYUDODIS

Okay so. I probably need to think about things and form a more coherent comment on the morrow. But. I'm just going now anyhow. First off I looked at the comment already here and I see I'm not insane and not the ONLY ONE noticing that John (and I kind of noticed Jade a little bit too? but not in the exact number like John so IDK) is doing drawn-out words in a very familiar fashion. -eyebrow wiggle- I am suspicious but I am patient since you're pumping this story out like no OTHER. (I applaud you. Look at my applause)

Second I just... love this fic. This fandom is full of CRAZY TALENTED PEOPLE are you are certainly one of them. <3 Man. I just love how you write everything. I usually have to read it more than once to pick everything out - I just sat down the past two days and reread the entire fic, so. That was pretty helpful. There's so much I didn't pick out the first time through!! Just. Damn. How do you DO IT and will you share

[half_life_wolf]

I have just been kind of. Sitting here for the last few minutes trying to formulate the kind of in-depth, properly appreciative, wordy comment that you deserve for this rather than my usual incoherent flailing, and mostly failing, so here goes.

First off, thank you so, so much for all your nice comments and speculation and enjoyment of this fic. It makes me happy that I have fans who take the time to pick out all the subtle, hidden stuff I snuck in here, since that was kind of the main point of this fic as a writing exercise, to see how many foreshadowing elements I could put in without making it too obvious or obtuse and such. I have no idea how I do it, to be honest! My process usually involves a lot of sitting and thinking and meditating and drawing connections and then plotting, which is why I keep having month long hiatuses waiting for things to kind of settle and gel in my mind

[skeetzybug]

Ha, replying to this totally flew my mind until I saw the new part! So sorry.

Man I wish I could write a SHADOW as good as you, haha. All these subtle little things! I mean I had to have a friends break down how to build a plot yesterday cause I was just derping around like a dunghead. Man. I should probably think more and OMFG RUSH less. I just get too excited and before you know it I'm putting in the organs before I have a skeleton to support them. Tch.

The new part with Vriska made me squeak a lot and omfg I don't even know whose point of view it was from and I have a theory and auugghh squeaksqueaksquueeaaakkkk~ <3Re: Re: fanart - I was HOPING to have at least the sketchwork done by now but getting ready for my trip took more than I thought! So it'll probably be two weeks, unless my friend's scanner was fixed. If it was I might be able to get that one to you soonish! I couldn't bring my paintset but I'll be sure to figure out what exactly I'm doing so I can sit down and do that one the first week of June. I'm excited to get

[aleniakalain]

Oh why you! I was supposed to be studying!...but this is so much much much better than that! ;_;
I feel the urge to draw something for this amazing fic but I wouldn't even know where to start from.

...and end act 1? Oh my...how many acts are we going to get? This is prospecting to be a veeeeery long fic...not that I mind...quite the opposite! *_*
Right now I'm jumping around and squealing like there is no tomorrow! And I'm eager to see what's going to happen next!

[half_life_wolf]

Fffft studying, what is that. (It is summer for me now, hooray!)
And man, if you wanted to do art, I would be so honored. I am beyond flattered every time someone draws me something, I would treasure it forever.

There are... hmm. There is at least one more full act plus a (very short) intermission planned, but I am having trouble deciding if I want to break it up as one long act two and then the epilogue or one medium length act two and a shorter act three and the epilogue. I am estimating that we are approximately at or around the halfway point right now, though that could change at any time. When I started writing this, I thought that this chapter would be the start of the rising action up to the climax and THAT obviously isn't happening quite yet, so.

[aleniakalain]

Pffff, planned number of chapters? What's that? Fics never go according to plan...I know one fic I've in WIP has already grown 3-4 chapters on its own accord...

[half_life_wolf]

Christ I know. FIC I THOUGHT I'D BE DONE WITH YOU BY NOW. WHY WON'T YOU END. DDD:

[doctorv]

OKAY WHEN YOU SAID ACT 1 WAS DONE I DIDN'T REALIZE YOU MEANT YOU'D UPDATED AND NOW I FEEL KIND OF STUPID BUT IT'S PROBABLY FOR THE BEST BECAUSE IF I'D READ IT I WOULD'VE PROBABLY BEEN TOO BUSY FLAILING TO DRAW. SO YEAH. *FLAIL*

[half_life_wolf]

lolol yes your time was legitimately much better spent doing male!Terezi/Dave comics and I mean that sincerely. BUT YES UPDATES HAPPENED and now, a few weeks of hiatus again, most likely. >.>

[doctorv]

I AM ONLY OKAY WITH THIS HIATUS BECAUSE IT'LL MAYBE GIVE ME ENOUGH TIME TO WORK ON AND FINISH THINGS. BECAUSE YOU ARE A GODDAMN PLOT-TEASE, THAT'S ALL I'LL SAY FOR NOW. ;)

...I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD BE THROWING A GRAY FONT AT ALL THIS TEXT, BUT FUCK IT. XD

[half_life_wolf]

H3H3H3H3 I await these eagerly. There may not even be a very long hiatus, WE WILL HAVE TO SEE HOW MUCH FREE TIME I HAVE.

lololol god I hate HTML coding in LJ comments so much. Don't do it, bro. That way lies madness.

SOLLUX.

[asher_blackwood]

MY GOOD MAN.
But really now, I highly doubt that was necessary. The meteors usually take care of that sort of thing.

Also the bit with Karkat I just. 8D Yeah I just that.

(Also John can do the sleepy thing? Where is Vriska why can he do the sleepy thing with the eights?)

[half_life_wolf]

DIY apocalypses: for when meteors don't feel batshit crazy enough.

And now, several chapters of neither version of Karkat showing up. >.>

(Yes, he can! Vriska is... not going to be appearing in this production for awhile more and her absence is Very Significant in a rather subtle-ish way. CAN YOU TELL I LIKE GIVING OBTUSE NON-ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS.)

[asher_blackwood]

But really man. Wasted resources there. No need. Sigh.

Le sob. D8

(It's all good man. I don't answer at all usually because sometimes I honestly don't know and I change my mind on the things I do know. Like, Terezi living in Don't Cry Out? That wasn't actually supposed to happen for the longest time. At least you have plans. xD)
I really don't mind. I actually really don't like Vriska.

[half_life_wolf]

I figure after a couple thousand cycles of watching everyone you love die horribly and then horribly dying yourself and being able to remember all of it eventually you'd reach a point where it was just like "fuck it, let's have some goddamn explosions". (My impression of Sollux pre-blindness was always that he was a little mentally unstable to begin with even beyond being bipolar, so)

(Oh yeah I think I've retconned my off record statements about how many people get godtier in Revelations about five times now because unexpected things keep happening. Consistent planning, what is that, how do I do it?)
I am actually not the world's biggest Vriska fan though I guess I should state for the record that that isn't why it's taking her so long to appear. I'm liking her better lately, but eh.