minor-locrian asked:

on chapter 7 of almost nowhere and i have no clue why so many people are comparing it to homestuck but as with tnc i really enjoy how well you write weird mental states. i've also found myself wondering if chesscourt's "skycrash" and the "mooncrash" are connected

also you use the terms you introduce really well. this is one of the things that really makes me nostalgic for the weird people i used to meet on the internet (someone who used "canon" to mean "relevant", as in "this discussion is non-canon", and very specific jargon like giblangs, idk)

also also. i found it funny in chapter 4 when we take a moment to appraise a fairly comprehensible aspect of the ells' voice (agree vs agreed) after having struggled or skimmed our way through like 5 different voices which are at most a quarter as penetrable.

tl;dr good story thank for writing

Thanks!!

If you keep reading, the Homestuck comparisons will eventually make sense.

The Mooncrash goes back a long way. It randomly appeared into my head one day in summer 2008, fully formed: the idea of this perpetually moonlit “bubble world” meant for waiting/hiding, and the name “Mooncrash” for it. Then much later, when I was starting to write AN, I decided to give this old idea a home.

I don’t remember clearly how I came up with the term “Skycrash” in TNC/Chesscourt.

I think that I was planning to use “Mooncrash” there at first, but settled for something else that sounded similar, because I wanted to save “Mooncrash” for some later story where I’d also use the attached concept. But I could be making that up.

In any case, the resemblance is in name only – the “Skycrash” in Chesscourt was an event, a natural disaster, not a persistent world like AN’s crashes.