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by VAL
Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:07 pm
Forum: Homestuck
Topic: Broken Troll Worldbuilding discussion
Replies: 106
Views: 107612

Re: Broken Troll Worldbuilding discussion

IIRC there was a post that was advertising PQ with "timelines collide!" This leads me to believe anything related to Hiveswap would be an alternate timeline since MSPA reader is jumping over from the HSFS turn of events. It could just be a throwaway line I'm looking into too much, though. i also don...
by VAL
Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:51 pm
Forum: Homestuck
Topic: Broken Troll Worldbuilding discussion
Replies: 106
Views: 107612

Re: Broken Troll Worldbuilding discussion

i could argue that this is GOOD worldbuilding since you were able to come to the conclusion of fetish bars just based on the worldbuilding we already have. something doesn't have to spoonfeed you every individual fact to be good worldbuilding. I am well aware that readers can come to their own conc...
by VAL
Mon Dec 30, 2019 5:35 pm
Forum: Homestuck
Topic: Broken Troll Worldbuilding discussion
Replies: 106
Views: 107612

Re: Broken Troll Worldbuilding discussion

I think, for an unsatisfying an answer as it is, the main idea is that we're not supposed to think about troll biology. If Hussie wanted to build this alien race in a logically consistent way he wouldn't give trolls breasts and then dangle an answer of what the fuck their actual purpose is just out...
by VAL
Mon Dec 30, 2019 2:44 pm
Forum: Homestuck
Topic: Broken Troll Worldbuilding discussion
Replies: 106
Views: 107612

Re: Broken Troll Worldbuilding discussion

The gender confusion is also something I find tiresome and a huge headache to deal with. If the troll species is not sexually dimorphous, or is otherwise a eusocial species such as bees and ants and naked mole rats, their concepts of gender would be incomprehensible to us. Why do troll women have b...
by VAL
Mon Dec 30, 2019 1:38 pm
Forum: Homestuck
Topic: Broken Troll Worldbuilding discussion
Replies: 106
Views: 107612

Re: Broken Troll Worldbuilding discussion

There's a lot of contradictory information and inconsistencies with the trolls in general, but specifically with Swap vs Stuck Swap is meant to be like an AU spin-off sort of deal. That being said, the continued avoidance of setting things about trolls in stone has become tiresome. For instance: And...
by VAL
Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:38 am
Forum: Creative Works (Artbound)
Topic: FANTROLL CENTRAL
Replies: 85
Views: 176941

Re: FANTROLL CENTRAL

Terrible, awful creatures. Turn them into small gray paste stains on the floor.