gulbanana replied to your post: gulbanana replied to your post: cosmo fanfic tips…

turnabout is fair play imo!

so that means it’s my turn to hijack your topic and change the subject now, so let’s talk about sports.

no that’s stupid i liked my original topic, please don’t change it again.

gulbanana replied to your post: cosmo fanfic tips for the discerning pondhopper

americans writing about commonwealth countries don’t change their slang, though…

ok…?

proserpine-in-phases replied to your post: cosmo fanfic tips for the discerning pondhopper

if it’s a closet in the kitchen it’s a pantry

haven’t seen that one get messed up but just in case: added!

cantankerousaquarius replied to your photo

I’ve been reading the recent updates and just going “…Luka is going to have a field day with this”

SUCH a field day. 

Also the worst case of battered reader syndrome ever because now I wait for the other shoe to drop.  Andrew Hussie has delivered unto me all but two of the items on my Act 6 Wish List, and now he’ll make me pay for giving a shit.

He’ll make me pay good.

EDIT: said wish list would read like this:

• More Sollux (preferably with bad things happening to him and him being hilariously brave and an asshole about it)
• More Aradia
• For Tavros to break free of Vriska’s manipulation and discover his inner Sailor Scout
• ~The Gay~
• For Aradia to be even more creepy and delightful
• More Feferi
• For at least two characters to refuse to support Vriska and not be instantly proved wrong and shamed for daring to doubt her the way they would be if this was a bad HS fanfic
• Authorial acknowledgement that the Treasure Hunt has been morally fucked from the get-go in ways that even teenagers recognize as unacceptable
• To know what the FUCK is going on with Gamzee
• Several hundred pages of Latula and Mituna hanging out and being amazing together, like maybe just at a coffee shop or something, I don’t know

Honestly if he takes it all back and rainbowbarfs the mutineers into oblivion in the next update it’ll be OK, I can let them die and still be content because I like it when he hurts me but I needed to be sure it was on purpose first.

snarp replied to your photo

You basically wrote John and Vriska’s dialog here in Brainbent (but without a magic ring). You should get like, internet royalties or something.

I was going to play this reply all modest like WELL HEY IT HAPPENED AGAIN WHAT A NEAT COINCIDENCE but it’s not a coincidence at all; I worked really hard to extrapolate character development from canonical cues and stay true to Hussie’s characters, while taking the story in a completely different direction. Having recent updates reflect numerous things I put into Brainbent means I’m doing something right.

This John/Vriska conversation DOES feel like Brainbent, in particular her immediate leap to distort the situation to suit her need to always be the victim. John pointed out a flaw in her behavior and she twisted it around into “FINE I’M A HUGE MONSTER AND EVERYONE HATES ME”. His good-natured refusal to play her game by excusing or condemning her behavior at all also feels right. It’s like OH MY GOD WE’RE ON THE SAME WAVELENGTH HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.

I don’t wanna be too much of an ego-fapping dick but I used to get a lot of hate for the way I wrote Vriska’s character and it was very stressful, and I honestly want to do a little dance of vindication right now for that.

Recent updates also give me hope that these kids might eventually find a way to overcome their shit in Homestuck, something I had given up hope of ever seeing (which is why I started Brainbent in the first place).

I’m pretty much giddy rn. 

rainbowbarnacle replied to your chat: ME AT THE END OF SUMMER: Shit, it’s 65 outside….

COULD WE? :D

we still have to wait for the ground to thaw and maybe dry out a bit :( 

Lilydale Park will reopen in May, though. There’ll still be a couple mini-glaciers in the clay pits but overall I expect it’ll be fine.

shellebelle93 replied to your photo: SO THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I GOT TO THE LAST…

oh lord. just. glad you are still freakin alive. I love how you’re laughing through the whole thing.

THE MINUTE I REALIZED I BEAT MY OWN ASS BY ACCIDENT WITH THE CREEPY GIMLET STARE OF NICOLAS CAGE WATCHING THE WHOLE THING AND JUDGING ME FROM MY LAPTOP SCREEN, I ASCENDED TO A HIGHER PLANE OF EXISTENCE

IT WAS EITHER ENLIGHTENMENT OR EXSANGUINATION. I GET THOSE MIXED UP A LOT.

foggypebble replied to your photo: SO THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I GOT TO THE LAST…

Holy crap, is this for real?? It stopped right?

yeah, it stopped. those pics were taken within about 10 seconds, in case you’re wondering how fast it went from “oh ney nosebleed” to “CARRIE STOP BURNING DOWN THE GYM I SAID I WAS SORRY”

shooshpapkind replied to your photo: SO THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I GOT TO THE LAST…

oh my god i’m laughing so hard at your nic cage related near death experience i’m sorry i can’t stop

I HAVE NO OBJECTIONS TO THIS, IT WAS FUNNY TO ME TOO, UNTIL I REALIZED IT WAS NO LONGER MERELY DRIPPING BUT ACTUALLY SORT OF FLOWING IN A STREAM

AND I REALIZED I MIGHT DIE OF BONER

AND THEN IT WAS FUCKING HILARIOUS

So, Vriska makes Cronuses fight when she’s upset.

The sight of them running at each other made me laugh but in a very black way, and then comprehension dawned and I was like “oh.”

Cronus sleazes around giving off date-rapist vibes, but the one going around actually forcing herself on unwilling people has always been Vriska. He’s the potential, she’s the kinetic. We are less inclined to be grossed out by Vriska’s mental violation of others, the same way Harry Potter love potions are sort of hilarious, whereas real-world date rape drugs are the same concept, except without a protective coating of magic.

Having one boundary-violating creep as the victim at the mercy of another one,  and playing it as a joke, ramps up the awfulness so high that I am pretty much gawping in wonder. This isn’t me complaining about the writing, or being upset with Hussie at all.

I feel like I need to say that because a lot of the time, people treat story developments as the personal beliefs of the writer being endorsed in the narrative. Character does bad thing? WRITER CLEARLY THINKS IT’S OK TO DO BAD THINGS. Black humor? WRITER THINKS ______ IS GOOD WELL I’M NOT LAUGHING MISTER MAN. Nah. I very much admire the fact that Hussie is screwing with my head this way.

Here’s exactly what I could have wished for for (Cronus V. Cronus, kicking each other’s asses!) but then like a  monkey-paw wish, there’s has a twist that turns it into something terrible that I do not want. This feels like a sly wink at audience rage toward Cronus, complete with his victim as the audience.

Making him the victim of a vastly worse act of violation than he’s ever committed in canon (despite being gross and a terrible person) is a masterstroke. Even though I really detest the victim, the whole reason I hate him is because he gives off real-world cues that he might do things that Vriska actually does do continually and with glee. And now here she is, doing it to him, and just… damn! There goes my bloodlust!

I can’t stop thinking about what it means about Vriska’s current character. She’s got billions of “not real” people to play with, and when she’s upset she makes them harm each other to blow off steam. She has done a running cannonball dive into complete corruption. Everyone around her now acts out her fantasies, from treasure-hunting to war games to impulsively violating each other on her whim.

I was waiting to see who would win the awfulness war. Cronus initially stomped Vriska among the trolls, because he acts like known human quantities of awful (the Harry Potter love potion thing again), instead of Vriska’s magical mind-rape, but this? This is going to be tough to top. Further proof that NO ONE one can beat Vriska at anything, she’s just too GR88888888 at everything she does, including being the most horrible person in Homestuck.

This comic, man. It makes me feel bad in the best possible way sometimes.

mercurialmalcontent replied to your post: just woke up and saw last night’s update

I think she’s taking out her frustrations on some random Cronuses now that she’s realized that the ring the weird orange guy tried to give her was important.>:)

oh man i totally meant cronus. first thing after waking up: use tumblr! YES

luciidcatnap replied to your photo: Breakfast sausage sushi complete. edit: fucking…

what did you dip it in tho, assuming you did dip…

just plain old sriracha. it’s not very spicy but it adds a wonderful almost-tomatoey taste and i like the way it makes my tongue buzz. i think next time i get a craving for those little sausage things I’ll get the spicy variety and ditch the nori, which was only there because I didn’t want to deal with plastic wrap and didn’t really add much to the roll.

also thinking next time i’ll add bacon too, because the thought of elitists experiencing severe emotional pain over the ~desecration of food~ by my uncultured ass gives me multiple orgasms.

oh i have ideas. i have ideas.

miraclemodus replied to your link: the fefexorcist

to be honest i could see feferi having a facedown sobbing tantrum on her bed over her hair being such a mess it accidentally strangled 8 or 10 beautiful seaponies, but only if their corpses were too mutilated to consume

“O)(, F-bubbles!” she whaled, flinging herself into her recuperacoon for a good cleansing cry, “I forgot Mot)(er was allergic to lobster! Now t)(e peasants are all s)(itting blood!”

rainbowbarnacle replied to your post: i can’t get notification eraser to work properly…

WHY DO YOU HAVE THE THIIIIIIIIING

PRRRRRRRPR-PPPR-PRR-FWEEEEEEEEE

doiecism replied to your post: doiecism replied to your post: doiecism replied to…

omfg every time I refresh my dash the tags get better

honest to fuck if I didn’t think social media’s current configuration [and tumblr especially] was on its way to “make sure you type the HTTP://” obsolescence i would get a fucking hashtag tattoo over my tit and write rude trigger warnings on myself every goddamn day.