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diff --git a/chapter6.html b/chapter6.html index fcaf283..3c2cfa1 100644 --- a/chapter6.html +++ b/chapter6.html @@ -14,18 +14,18 @@ </nav> <article> <h1>CHAPTER 6. A Conversation Regarding Relevance</h1> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/145.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/145.gif"> <p class="alt-callie">space is vast.</p> <p class="alt-callie">an unproductive statement, almost a tautology. and although tautologies can be worthy thought exercises, they become virtually meaningless when it comes down to the actual transmission of information. i believe it is for that reason most beings don’t use them in day to day parlance. the lives of the many are far too volatile and instinct-driven to want to waste time with saying that which is already true.</p> <p class="alt-callie">tautologies are, in general, reserved for stories. for narrative device. for finding new and inventive ways to tell an audience that which they already know. and at the end of the day, are not all diffusions of knowledge at least somewhat tautologist in nature? in order to recognize the value of my words, you must first know what they mean. you must predict my intentions.</p> <p class="alt-callie">but i digress.</p> <p class="alt-callie">arguments with my brother would often dissolve into such nonsense. the shouting of truths back at each other, neither of us ever able to convince the other of the righteousness of our stance. we were never meant to agree. it isn’t in our blood.</p> <p class="alt-callie">space is vast. everyone knows it, but most sentient beings in their many universes never have any way or reason to experience it first hand. even in societies advanced enough for space flight, most people will never leave their atmosphere. when they scoff at my tautology ‘space is vast’, what do they really know? nothing. as far as any of them have experienced, space does not exist.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/146.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/146.gif"> <p class="alt-callie">very few have stood and looked into the abyss, the true gulf of nothingness that spreads out around the single point of consciousness adrift in a constellation. all the combined weight of sentient endeavour would quail underneath that sheer, irresistible truth. the realization that they are so small, that the universe cares about their puny lives so very little. sitting in the glowing light of the stars this becomes even more apparent</p> <p class="alt-callie">...</p> <p class="alt-callie">are we out of orange juice?</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/147.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/147.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="jade">JADE: are you talking to me?</p> <p class="jade">JADE: because if you are i would like to remind you that i hate!! orange juice!!</p> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ <p class="jade">JADE: well i had to watch my boyfriend and my brother die in front of me on a tiny scaled version of a world that i shrunk for them!</p> <p class="jade">JADE: and then spend the next three years talking to myself, wracked with guilt that id killed them!</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/148.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/148.gif"> <p class="alt-callie">i remind the witch that my time was in the void, which is far darker and lonelier than a ship full of lizards. i add that it was also eons, a length of time that is, traditionally, far longer than three years. i ask her to excuse my pettiness in pointing it out.</p> <div class="chat"> <p class="jade">JADE: youre a member of a species designed for long periods of isolation</p> @@ -85,14 +85,14 @@ <p class="jade">JADE: ugh, this is so annoying, i cant tell if youre being serious</p> <p class="jade">JADE: your voice is impossible to read and i cant see your face</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/149.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/149.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="jade">JADE: oh</p> <p class="jade">JADE: well thanks</p> <p class="jade">JADE: thats better</p> </div> <p class="alt-callie">of course.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/150.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/150.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="jade">JADE: youre right that i am being silly, and i didnt mean to start a slap fight over who has suffered more</p> <p class="jade">JADE: clearly you have been through a lot more than i could ever possibly imagine</p> @@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ <p class="jade">JADE: heheh</p> <p class="jade">JADE: i have never been particularly tamable, and my consciousness is huge!</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/151.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/152.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/153.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/151.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/152.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/153.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="jade">JADE: you are a pretty tough crowd, evil callie</p> <p class="jade">JADE: but yes, i can hear most of what you are thinking to yourself</p> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ <p class="jade">JADE: um...no i dont!</p> </div> <p class="alt-callie">she does. after all, she would not wish this sort of state of being on anyone else, and especially not on one of her friends. jade may have undergone a lopsided number of narrative hardships in her life, but at least she is used to them. why spread that suffering to another? jade understands and accepts her place in the story, which has always been to enable events to play out around her, just as it has been mine.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/154.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/154.gif"> <p class="alt-callie">because what is a story, truly? nothing but a series of misadventures and connections, actions spurring reactions, tumbling into one another, over and over and over. with so many competing interests, clearly the story cannot account for all perspectives, for all threads? it would be laughable, childish, even selfish, to demand that they do.</p> <p class="alt-callie">in other words, not everyone will achieve a happy ending. this is a truth that jade had come to grips with a long time ago.</p> <div class="chat"> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ </div> <p class="alt-callie">you are, to an extent.</p> <p class="alt-callie">she is. but the truth of the matter remains that humans are capricious and emotional. and even jade herself can admit that she hasn’t been the most...committed example of her species in the last few years.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/155.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/155.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="jade">JADE: ...what is that supposed to mean?</p> </div> @@ -196,9 +196,9 @@ </div> <p class="alt-callie">she points off into the darkness. it’s nothing, of course. there is nothing here besides the two of us. this space is utterly under my control. jade could control it too, if she had any access to her own powers. but with my grip around her cortex, there is no chance of that.</p> <p class="alt-callie">i know there is nothing behind me. she is being silly. but i’m not dirk strider. i don’t mind indulging the whims of silly girls, if it makes them feel better about their situations. there is nothing wrong with humoring.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/156.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/157_1.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/157_2.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/156.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/157_1.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/157_2.gif"> <p class="alt-callie">and here i make my first mistake.</p> <p class="alt-callie">up until this point, i have counted on my superior narrative power and class strength to keep her under control, but bringing her into a place where we can both physically manifest has left me, foolishly, vulnerable. when you are dealing with an epically powerful space player and former borderline omnipotent being, you forget that even with her powers stripped, she is still quite a formidable physical force. a young woman in the prime of her life, with a canine’s instincts and the fierce desire to sink her teeth into something she can tear apart.</p> <p class="alt-callie">and right now that something happens to be me.</p> @@ -207,12 +207,12 @@ <p class="jade">JADE: who!</p> <p class="jade">JADE: are you talking to!</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/158.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/159.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/160_1.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/160_2.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/158.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/159.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/160_1.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/160_2.gif"> <p class="alt-callie">during the ship’s trip through space, there have been numerous experiments; modifications to the nutrition output of the various machines designed to create sustenance for the various species on board. i myself have been content with orange juice and synthetic proteins, but dave and roxy have both expressed longing for various ‘earth snacks’, and so the trials and errors began.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/161.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/161.gif"> <p class="alt-callie">the results were mixed. as roxy told us in a previous chapter, alchemized food all sort of tastes the same, although the visuals really help to bring about the flavor. and at the end of the day, isn’t it the journey that is more important than the destination? the stories you tell as you create the strangely flavored nutritional paste?</p> <div class="chat"> <p class="jade">JADE: ????????????</p> @@ -230,10 +230,10 @@ <p class="jade">JADE: shouldnt you have run some sort of psychic physical before you possessed it?</p> <p class="jade">JADE: its definitely what i would have done!</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/162.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/162.gif"> <p class="alt-callie">jade must know that i am well-aware of her family-wide peanut allergy. a story thread that has been extremely important and weighed in on in multiple parts of the narrative. how could i have forgotten such a key detail?</p> <p class="alt-callie">but of course jade knows that. she is just being silly and dramatic. she knows that a suicide threat is utterly meaningless when made by a god. there is nothing remotely just or heroic about dying from self-imposed anaphylactic shock in the throes of a childish tantrum. at the most i’ll get a relaxing few minutes of sleep.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/163.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/163.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="jade">JADE: do you really want to risk it?</p> </div> @@ -260,9 +260,9 @@ [S] ==><br> (View on homestuck2.com) </a> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/165.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/165.gif"> <p class="alt-callie">i don’t let the witch manipulate me. i refuse to falter in the face of her whispers. without my careful planning and swift action, the prince would have taken full control over this timeline. none of my friends could even begin to imagine the turmoil.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/166.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/166.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="jade">JADE: they arent your friends!!</p> <p class="jade">JADE: you took them from me!</p> @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ <p class="jade">JADE: you said that being a space player is all about sacrifice</p> <p class="jade">JADE: well</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/167.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/167.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="jade">JADE: bet</p> </div> @@ -282,11 +282,11 @@ <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/168.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/168.gif"> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/169.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/169.gif"> <p class="command-line">> <a href="chapter7.html">CHAPTER 7. Distress Call From the Closet</a></p> </article> </body> |