Important Homestuck question.

Am I right in thinking none of the post-scratch trolls ever use the word "love" in their dialog, even in terms of remarks along the lines of "I LOV3 L1CK1NG TH1NGS 1 PROB4BLY SHOULDN'T B3 L1CK1NG?" And that none of the humans or pre-scratch trolls have used it while talking to them?

I thought none of them ever used it at all, but when I applied Google to the question, I found Equius's introduction telling us that he loves being strong. Well, how could I ever have doubted that?

Aside from, I guess, downloading the entire archive over the course of a whole day, is there any more thorough way to find every instance of the word in all of Homestuck?

Thoroughly investigating questions such as this is an appropriate use of my time.

Theory blown.

Nepeta, Karkat, Tavros, and Mindfang all use the word "love" in a romantic sense, which is an interesting combination. None of the kids use it until after meeting the humans, though, so I guess one could call it a loanword, if so inclined. Karkat appears to have given up on his hate/pity model at some point in between the beginning of Hivebent and witnessing Eridan's murder spree; the first time he uses it he's shouting at Eridan, and the second he's explaining Troll Nalini Singh to Dave.

Jake is the word's heaviest user, followed by John and Jane. Jake and John use it mainly in dialog, and Jane in her internal monologue, as is fitting.

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Last night I thought of something hilariously mean to do to Kankri in Reviews of Young Adult Novels. I've been refining on it and smirking ever since. Thinking about this just makes me happy. I will patent this process as an antidepressant: getting way too invested in the suffering of a fictional MRA douche and making him miserable in multiple different fanfics.

I kind of think I'm infected with patriarchy, though, because I should really be coming up with more mean things to do to Rose and Kanaya. I'm unfairly privileging the manpain here.

That sounds facetious, but I really do think I do that. It's something I need to stamp out. I'm going to shove Rose down some stairs or something, that's pretty canon-compliant.

Kratom fail

I didn't sleep much last night - my muscles were cramping from all the digging I did, and my stomach was upset. So when I got up I forgot I was taking a break and mixed the stuff into my breakfast like usual. I'm kind of impressed I managed to measure it out while in that state.

(On less than five hours of sleep I'm pretty much a zombie before breakfast; I bang into things, move my stuff around, and have conversations, then can't figure out later why my glasses are in the sink.)

Anyway, my muscle pain from all the digging I did yesterday started feeling better right away, so I'm calling it a win. Still pretty tired, though.

Yahoo's other recent behavior.

They just bumped Flickr up to a terabyte of free space and inserted ads. I'll probably just let my paid account lapse, and I'm sure other people will, too; I guess they've calculated that the ads will bring in more revenue.