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I still don't know what Becquerel's angle is. Is he smart enough to plan ahead? And is he obedient to Lord English or not? Doc Scratch's intro implied that the secondary DNA donor is the limiting factor in a First Guardian's intelligence, so it's possible he's just jumping in to help Jade like a faithful dog.
Come to think of it, I wonder if this was the result DD was hoping for when he used the MEOW code on Halley.
Why would Vriska pick THAT moment to put the whammy on John? Well, she's probably slightly in the future from her previous reference frame, immediately after Karkat figured out that the demon was an export from the human session. I bet she's trying to help out her own side by keeping Jade out of the medium, frantically backpedalling from the help she just unwittingly gave.
Note that until Jack got his tier four prototyping, Bro and Davesprite actually had him fought to a standstill. That's pretty badass, considering he was already able to wreck minor planets.
Well, that's it for the rest of Earth, then.

Maximalism ... new vocab word.

Some examples I noticed:

- Early on, there's two or three analogies that go something like: "A dude without a hammer is like a gentleman without a pipe. THAT IS, HE CAN HARDLY BE CONSIDERED A DUDE AT ALL." I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact structure of belaboring in DFW.

- Then this specific thing:
"TG: im gonna fly off the handle
TG: im gonna do some sort of acrobatic fucking PIROUETTE off the handle and win like a medal or some shit"
... where Dave takes a figure of speech and exaggerates it. Extremely DFW.

But I don't read much anymore. Maybe these mean nothing, and maybe other people do it. Maybe DFW had imitators, and the Homestuck dude copied them. Or maybe these things floated around before DFW. Or they're too vague to be attached to any specific person.

Damn, I'm still not sure what intermission you're talking about. I might have to go back.

The intermission is between chapters 3 and 4, and you definitely won't mistake it for anything else. The reason I said don't skip it is because you might be tempted to—the story proper stops dead on a cliffhanger and the intermission looks like 200p of unrelated silliness stretching out in front of you.

Oh. I've been under the impression this whole time that it was between act 1 and act 2. All right. Won't skip.

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