Through my deep and studious observations of troll culture of which have been facilitated by this site, I’ve come to determine that clubs, or mediation, translates roughly to the human concept of “chill out”.
If you were a true follower of mine you would know that I already did ask and received a wide breadth of answers, all of which became datapoints in my trollthropological study.
Chill out.
Apologies. Speaking before knowing all available information has continuously proven itself to be a habit of mine. A poor one.
We are only human.
BZZT!! FUCKING WRONG. THAT IS, AT A TERRIBLE BEST, A SHALLOW AND REDUCTIONIST INTERPRETATION OF THE ASHEN QUADRANT. I ACTUALLY EXPECTED BETTER FROM VERSIONS OF ROSE, SHAME ON ME. CLEARLY YOU DID NOT HAVE KANAYA TO TEACH YOU ABOUT THE FINER POINTS OF THE QUADRANTS. I WILL RECTIFY THAT, BE THANKFUL I AM TAKING PRECIOUS MINUTES OUT OF MY LIFE TO INFORM YOU OF SHIT EVEN WIGGLERS UNDERSTAND. THE ASHEN QUADRANT IS ONE OF TWO CONCILIATORY QUADRANTS, AND THE ONLY ONE OF THE FOUR QUADRANTS WHICH INVOLVES MORE THAN TWO TROLLS. IT IS ALSO THE ONLY QUADRANT DEPENDENT ON ANOTHER QUADRANT, SPECIFICALLY THE PITCH ONE. LET'S ASSUME THERE ARE TWO TROLLS LOCKED IN A CONTENTIOUS RELATIONSHIP. THEY MAY BE IN A LONGSTANDING FEUD OR SIMPLY BE DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO ONE ANOTHER. THEY ALSO MAY WORK AS KISMESIS, BUT BECAUSE THE PITCH QUADRANT IS NATURALLY VOLATILE AND CHAOTIC, BEING OFFICIAL WOULD *STILL* GO ASS OVER SIDEWAYS AS IT PIROUETTED INTO THE DEPTH OF BULLSHIT. WHATEVER THE REASONS ARE, THE PROBLEM COMES DOWN TO TWO TROLLS WHO ARE ON THE BRINK OF FALLING INTO A MESSY, NO DOUBT TOXIC, CALIGINOUS RELATIONSHIP. THE RELATIONSHIP WOULD NOT ONLY HURT THE TROLLS INVOLVED, BUT LIKELY HURT ALL THE OTHER TROLLS IN THEIR FRIENDSPHERE AS WELL. THIS IS WHEN AN AUSPISTICE WOULD STEP IN. DESPITE THE OFTEN EMOTIONALLY UNFULFILLING NATURE OF THIS QUADRANT, IT IS UP TO THE AUSPISTICE TO STEP IN, IN ORDER TO KEEP THE TWO OTHER TROLLS FROM GOING AT ONE ANOTHER'S THROATS AND RIPPING THEM OUT WITH THE SAME GLEE AS A HUMAN GRUB RIPPING OPEN THEIR PRESENTS OF THE DAY OF THEIR BIRTH. IT IS AN OFTEN THANKLESS TASK, WHICH IS WHY I PERSONALLY THINK IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR AN AUSPISTICE TO END UP IN THE ROLE OF THE ONE BEING AUSPISTICIZED, ALBEIT WITH A DIFFERENT GROUP OF TROLLS. THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE ASHEN QUADRANT, FROM ITS DEPENDENCY ON THE PITCH, IT'S INHERENT GROUP DYNAMIC AND POTENTIAL GROUP ENTANGLEMENT DYNAMIC WHICH LEADS IT TO BE THE LEADING QUADRANT FOR UNEXPECTED AND UNWANTED VACILLATION. AS WELL AS JEALOUSY BETWEEN GROUP MEMBERS, ITS TASKING AND UNFULFILLING NATURE, AND IT OFT BEING MISUNDERSTOOD, EVEN BY TROLLS, ARE JUST *SOME* OF THE REASONS WHY YOU CAN'T FUCKING SAY IT'S THE QUADRANT THAT ROUGHLY TRANSLATES TO CHILL OUT. THERE IS NO HUMAN CONCEPT, ROUGH OR OTHERWISE. IT IS A UNIQUE TROLL CONCEPT OF ROMANCE, AND JUST ONE FOURTH OF OUR CONCEPT OF ROMANCE AS A WHOLE. FOR THE RECORD, YOU CAN NOT REDUCE *ANY* OF THE OTHER THREE QUADRANTS TO ROUGH HUMAN EQUIVALENTS EITHER. THOUGH THERE ARE SIMILARITIES TO BE FOUND, SAYING OUR RED QUADRANT IS LIKE HAVING A PARTNER, OUR PALE QUADRANT IS LIKE HAVING A BEST FRIEND, AND OUR PITCH QUADRANT LIKE HAVING AN ENEMY, RIVAL AND HATEFUCK ONLY SERVES TO BREED CONFUSION BETWEEN HUMANS AND TROLLS. WE DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE RED, PALE OR PITCH QUADRANTS IN A WAY SIMILAR ENOUGH TO HUMANS FOR COMPARISON. WE ARE NOT FRIENDS WITH OUR REDROM QUADRANT MATES, AS YOU ARE OFTEN FRIENDS WITH YOUR PARTNERS. BY AND LARGE, WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DEVELOP RED OR PITCH FEELINGS FOR OUR PALE QUADRANT MATES. WHILE IT DOES HAPPEN, THAT IS CONSIDERED VACILLATION, WHICH CAN QUICKLY BECOME TOXIC IF IT IS NOT NIPPED IN THE ASS. BY COMPARING OUR CONCEPTS OF ROMANCE AND SEXUALITY, YOU ARE INVITING HUMANS TO THINK IT IS OKAY TO ACT PALE WITH THEIR MATESPRITE, OR WORSE, EVEN ASHEN OR PITCH. THAT CAN ONLY SERVE TO HURT ALL PARTIES INVOLVED, GIVEN THAT THEY'VE NO DOUBT *NOT* DISCUSSED SUCH VACILLATION BEING ALLOWED IN THEIR QUADRANT. A SIMILAR SENTIMENT CAN BE SAID OF THE OTHER QUADRANTS. TROLLS DO NOT WANT THEIR HUMAN KISMESIS TO START ACTING RED, PALE OR ASHEN THEM, TWO CALIGINOUS TROLLS ARE NOT LOOKING FOR A PALE PARTNER TO PAP AND SHOOSH THEM. PALE QUADRANT MATES DO NOT EXPECT TO RAIL. IF I MUST, I WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH MORE EXAMPLES. I CAN ALSO PROVIDE YOU WITH MORE DETAILS ON HOW EACH OF OUR QUADRANTS *SHOULD* WORK, BE IT HERE OR IN A DM. BUT, YOU SHOULD ALSO EDUCATE YOURSELF SO YOU DON'T STUMBLE INTO THIS SORT OF MESS AGAIN. IT IS EASILY AVOIDABLE IF YOU BOTHER TO PUT MORE THAN THE BASIC AMOUNT OF RESEARCH AND OBSERVATION INTO TROLL CULTURE, SOMETHING YOU *CLEARLY* DIDN'T DO, DESPITE YOUR CLAIMS. #NSFW- Quadrant talk, Sex mention,
Jesus Christ.
Right. Karkat. I do appreciate the lengths of your explanation and the time and passion you have clearly invested in this; far be it from me to joyfully gallivant through misconstrued cultural customs. That being said, the site we currently communicate through seems to support my more flippant take on what these symbols mean, and so if you have such a conniption over my observational interpretation, I suggest you take it up with the site’s staff. All that being said, it does concern me why a seemingly anonymous troll seems to express such loyalty to these seemingly fragile troll touchstones. Do you not feel oppressed by this system of contradictory statuses? Both vacillating and yet necessarily ridged. I have to admit, you particularly intrigue me, even despite my general distaste for loyalist trollkind. Perhaps I will open myself up to hear more from you, if for no other reason than to better myself in defending my own culture from yours.
OH *WOW* I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE THIS MICROCOSM OF A SITE SUPPORTS A VIEW THAT IS *GASP* DIFFERENT FROM REALITY AT LARGE. IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU CAN'T TAKE WHAT'S SAID HERE, A SPOT WHERE STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET ARE FUCKING AROUND, TRYING TO OFFEND ONE ANOTHER, AND PRETENDING TO BE CELEBRITY AND POLITICAL FIGURES THEY ARE NOT, AT ANY SORT OF VALUE. NOR, FOR THAT MATTER, CAN YOU TAKE A POORLY IMPLEMENTED AND BADLY THOUGHT OUT LIKE AND DISLIKE SYSTEM TO MEAN SOMETHING TO THE QUADRANTS AS WHOLE. TROLLS, HUMANS, CARAPACES, CHERUBS AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO HAS THE SHITBRAINED IDEA TO EXIST HERE ARE PRESSING THE BUTTONS THEY *VIBE* WITH, NOT THE ONES WHICH ARE ACTUALLY FITTING OF THE POSTS THEY ARE REPLYING TO. NOT THAT IT'S ANY OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS, ROSE, BUT I AM NOT A LOYALIST. MY GANDERBULBS WERE OPENED TO THE FECULENT TRUTH OF THE CONDESCE *SWEEPS* AGO. HOWEVER, I DO NOT BELIEVE THE QUADRANT SYSTEM IS A RESULT OF HER HER RULE, BUT RATHER AN EXISTING BIOLOGICALLY BASED SYSTEM WHICH SHE STOLE AND TWISTED TO FIT HER NEFARIOUS ENDS. THAT IS WHY THE CONCEPT OF QUADRANTS EXIST ON BEFORUS. THERE WAS NO ALTERNIAN EMPRESS THERE TO DEFINE HOW ROMANCE WORKED, AND STILL THEY BEFORIAN TROLLS ENDED UP WITH THE SAME SYSTEM. WHEN PRACTICED RIGHT, THE QUADRANTS ARE NO MORE LIMITING THAN ANY OTHER SYSTEM OUT THERE. IT IS NOT A POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE, BUT A NEUTRAL AND NATURAL WAY OF EXPRESSION. IF YOU *MUST* COMPARE IT TO A HUMAN PHENOMENA, THEN CONSIDER OUR QUADRANTS MOST LIKE ANY OF THE MAJOR HUMAN ORGAN SYSTEMS. YOU HAVE SPECIALIZED ORGANS AND OTHER ASSORTED VISCERA PURPOSE BUILT FOR A PARTICULAR TASK. WHILE THERE *CAN* BE SOME OVERLAP IN THOSE TASKS, BY AND FUCKING LARGE IT IS A PROBLEM WHEN ONE OF THOSE TASKS ISN'T BEING DONE PROPERLY. SHIT COULD *LITERALLY* HIT THE FAN.