Sburban Spectators Episode 27 pt 1 Cover Art - two frowning pixelated figures, one with black hair and glasses wearing an all-black outfit with an orange crying cat shirt and one with longer black hair, a beard, and glasses wearing a white shirt with a pink sauropod on it, stand in front of an edit of Kankri's talksprite in front of a wall of red text in his quirk style, above is the title Sburban Spectators in all caps followed by A Homestuck Book Club in all caps

Sburban Spectators

A Homestuck Book Club

> Episode 27 Part 1

Content warnings: mentions or discussions of suicide, relationship infidelity, loss of agency, mind control, dubious consent, necrophilia, fantasy racism, racially coded language, sexism, ableism, bullying, slut shaming, and transphobia.

Episode 27 Part 1 covers page 5263 of Homestuck. [note: summary covers pages 5263 to 5437]

In which Lexia purges the Beforan troll poison as they talk about Kankri and we fail to contain our discourse to a reasonable timescale. WELCOME TO OPENBOUND (Cursed Edition).

This discussion covers Act 6, Intermission 3 dealing only with the first Openbound game where we, as Meenah, meet Kankri, Porrim, and Latula. We do mention other characters and elements of the rest of the Intermission as it relates to the discussion, but we only truly get through this first game.

Text Reading Summary

Released 9 November 2025



Lexia Velika - Host, Former Editor, Designer
Ian - Host, Editor
Arkzyd - Theme Song
freesound_community (Pixabay) - Bonk Sound Effect

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