Feel like posting these again. They’re “title pics” for the first five acts (plus intermissions) that I drew on notebook paper way back in 2013 when I first discovered Homestuck. Admittedly, these pieces are pretty important to me, so reblogs are appreciated!
English was invented in the year 927 by Lord English of England. Because 927 was a long time ago, he called it "Old English." Lord English of England was German, so the language was mostly just German with a dash of the language spoken by the original inhabitants of England, the Romans.
It became popular to speak English until 1066, when English Island was taken over by a French guy named Norman. Norman insisted everyone speak French, but they didn't know French so he just dropped some French words into the middle of the language and called it "Middle English."
After Middle English, trade patterns and technology such as the printing press and podcast allowed the infusion of numerous other languages, which all melted into English in their own way. Because they melted with each other, the new language was called Modern English. Several sounds and phonetics changed over the years as well, so this was called the era of the Colossal Vowel Movement.
About this time, England did its usual bullshit and colonized pretty much every place on Earth that it could. English thus spread like a linguistic coronavirus across America, Africa, Australia, and Atlantis, which managed to purge the English influence by sinking to its total destruction and thereby avoiding the horrors of having to speak English.
Today, English is the most spoken language on Earth, not because the most people speak it, but because those who do just never shut the fuck up. Several books have also been written in English, including "Fifty Shades of Grey," "A Weasel in My Meatsafe," and "Pounded In The Butt By My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly But In Reality Is Just A Natural Part Of The Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides."
So was anyone gonna tell me that Chilchuk Dunmeshi was like EXTREMELY Karkat coded or was I just supposed to find that out when my bestie @maize-is-lost forced me to watch it a month ago? He’s even voiced in English by that one Karkat Shinji person like was that on purpose??? Anyway the cursing at Laios scene almost made me go feral and I KNEW I had to make this.
Anyway so Homestuck AU where they all actually go fight Lord English after fighting the other final bosses or whatever and John does something stupid.
KANAYA => SWOOP IN WITH YOUR CHARACTERISTIC AIR OF BELEAGURED YET DEBONAIR COMPETENCE AND RESCUE YOUR IDIOTIC CLOWN FRIEND FROM HIMSELF
Gamzee I Do Not Even Want To Know Why There Is A Shout Amplifier Halfway Down Your Throat
Frankly I Would Prefer To Forget Every Searing Detail Of This Grotesque Scene And In Particular The Colour Of Your Tonsils Which Is Not Information I Have Ever Once Yearned To Possess
That Being Said The Shouthusk Is Amplifying Your Gurgling Noises And None Of Us Need That So Unless You Can Choke To Death With Less Honking Clamor I Will Be Forced To Intervene
KANAYA => SIGH UPON REALISATION THAT YOU ARE THE ONLY TROLL CAPABLE OF MEDDLESOME FIRST AID PRAXIS
KANAYA => RELUCTANTLY CONSIGN YOUR POOR, BEAUTIFUL GLOVE TO EXCAVATION OF THE NON-EUCLIDEAN HORRORS OF A CLOWN'S SPASMING ESOPHAGUS AND CURSE THE GODS THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE
Lord English's symbol being a black hole, or singularity, is a double entendre - because a "singularity" is also the hypothesised end result of machine supremacy, the point at which technological advancement outstrips human advancement and spirals out of control. AR alludes to this theory when he brags of "the jaw-dropping speed of [his] post-singularity cognition."
the machine uprising, à la the Terminator, is the inevitable outcome of technological expansion in just the same way Lord English himself is the embodiment of inevitability itself!