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it almost looks like meenah’s binding in that one. HEEMAN WIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the prophecies

i don't see what you mean even a little bit but i respect your commitment to the vision #HeemanSweep

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realistically meenah is one of those characters that i think probably is skinny but would be fatter if she knew what was good for her. what was there to even eat on the pink moon anyway. rocks?

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it's kinda cute they made meenah a lil chunkier than everyone else. like ok this is obviously nothing but it is surprising they even gave her visibly thicker arms than every other character sans jane. why does she have a pencil neck though

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aranea serket did not get all greased up with unethically sourced 18th century whale oils and shit to squeeeeeeeeze into that mindfang cosplay corset only for people to say 10 years later oh yeah she just naturally has a skinny waist

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literally what did they do to my fat queen...

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You're right that Meat-C probably won't matter much, but it would still leave a bitter taste in my mouth both meta-textually and story wise. Also that would have the unfortunate implication that Jane/Dave was right, but that could easily be fixed/avoided.

ok sure it would probably not be a good look for a troll to become president and then immediately fuck everything up. if earth c became a troll utopia off screen though then that would be awesome

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I was thinking about the Swifer thing and I realized that the whole "adopting a fanon name to refer to this background character" thing actually kind of makes sense for the epilogues fanfiction style presentation? I have read so much MLP fanfiction people LOVE making bg characters a part of their story and confidently referring to them by fandom names everybody already knows. Swifer's presence feels like the exact fanfic writer behavior the epilogues were imitating.

i mean i guess yeah having the characters adopted by the fandom appear in the official fanfiction makes perfect sense. the format that my little pony names take is a lot more conducive to coming up with good ones than the format of troll names though. like i truly would be ten times more receptive to swifer and cliper as characters if their names weren't swifer and fucking cliper

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Post comic HS has a strange relationship with both sanding off edges while also trying to one-up itself in terms of weird and gross stuff. And yeah you could just tie this to the fact that HS has multiple writers now, but it still doesn't help that off feeling for the reader. (In regards to the tags of your last answer)

i kind of talked about this already but the 2016-2020 era spinoffs were very fixated on bringing back the energy of the early 2010s fanfiction scene lol and for hiveswap this created a weird dissonance where act 1 was written in a very broadly accessible way but then act 2 was written specifically for people who were once super invested in the idea that the imperial drones force 13 year olds to fuck

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since you were obviously all so desperate to hear this, MY THOUGHS on the blood caste argument as of 2025:

rust: everyone actually seems to be okay with how these guys are depicted in the game which probably has something to do with Xefros being an actual character with a personality and not just a 2 dimensional NPC. so it's pretty clear the real problem people have with caste in hiveswap is that they expect every NPC to somehow be a fully unique and fleshed out individual which is ultimately friendsim's fault for tricking people into thinking the act 2 characters were anything but NPCs. on the other hand hiveswap has yet to make ANY kind of gag out of the fact that rustbloods seemingly work with buckets all the time so 0/10

bronze: there also seem to be fewer complaints about this one even though the bronzebloods are all clearly just variations on tavros. i think people are somehow okay with that because they're horny for skylla. BOOOOO. but it makes sense for the bronze caste to have that role cus tavros already had a ranch (even if we never rly see him do any ranching) and aspired to be a cavalreaper so it makes perfect sense that there would be other trolls with animal powers. so that's literally fine

gold: people love to point out that sollux' intro calls him a mutant even when the comic makes it so clear that alternia is bustling with mutants who are regularly used to power spaceships and shit. hiveswap even has a handful of goldbloods who aren't mutants for all the complainers. read an x men comic book noobs

karkat: ok obviously he is an outlier in terms of his blood but aside from that he is clearly the most normal troll alive that's like the whole conceit of his character

olive: this is a dumb one cus hiveswap still has not really told us what fucking job the olivebloods r supposed to have. i guess i could complain about the cat thing but at this point if hiveswap is telling us members of the same caste have similar lusii then that's probably FINE right. and the thing is people had been headcanoning olivebloods as having tails for no reason for YEARS before hiveswap came out so it's basically not even the game's fault. the real problem is that hiveswap tells us all olivebloods are feral kittygirls (ugh) but then pesterquest is like actttttually nepeta is a feral kittygirl cus she was made TRAGICALLY HOMELESS at a young age (UGHHHH). if act 3 can elaborate on this caste in any way i will probably be fine with it. it will be funny to find out what kind of Job a feral catgirl is supposed to have in this society

jade: don even get me fuckin started on tis shit.

teal: all of them being public servants is fine i guess. i've come to accept this. they're all just such boring characters

cobalt: having a caste of trolls whose job is being villains and miscreants is so funny at this point i've stopped giving a fuck what they're actually supposed to be about

indigo: if act 3 can make them grosser and less boring then they're literally fine

purple: i found the clown thing really cool before hiveswap but they have failed to interest me in these clowns so far. do something really cool with it

violet: do whatever will piss off eridan fans most

fuchsia: obviously there's only 2 of them but i have got into arguments with people who insist that trizza operating a reign of terror with an army of drones somehow means feferi was also in charge of alternia and responsible for everything that went on there. can someone give this girl a fucking break she just wants to play happy families with her pet fuckin squids

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that whole thing doesnt even make sense bc equius's interests dont make him an outlier for his caste lmfao. like he is interested in being strong and racist and misogynistic and an archer. the archer thing is only a problem bc he's SO strong he cant pursue it. like ???

right the joke with characters like equius is that like. okay yes guys who are obsessed with musclefurry porn are unusual outliers on earth but what if there was a planet somewhere out there where chauvinist musclefurries were literally responsible for defining what constitutes 'high culture'. if anything the problem with hiveswap is that the bluebloods aren't ENOUGH like equius

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2025 will be the year of the hair based meta

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serketzzz

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now I didn't say all that 😭😭

the fact that indigo is being portrayed as the “strength caste” and not the “archery caste” is such a bizarre decision. it defies explanation. equius’ whole deal is that he wants to be an archer like the rest of the bluebloods but can’t because of his freakish strength? references to the zodiac are even right there in hiveswap’s worldbuilding. tealbloods are the scales of justice, cobaltbloods have scorpions embroidered on their furniture. how the hell did the caste of “saggitarius the archer” end up not even incorporating a little bit of archery symbolism into their decor

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I'm still trying to figure out "it’s obvious to YOU because YOU know what’s happening." we all read the same comic dude I know everything you know

i don’t appreciate being talked to like i’m stupid for not understanding a very confusing turn of events. you didn’t have to be so condescending in explaining all that. it’s obvious to YOU because YOU know what’s happening.

Girl this is my fucking blog I'm gunna talk however I want it straight up is not about you 😂😂😂

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i don’t appreciate being talked to like i’m stupid for not understanding a very confusing turn of events. you didn’t have to be so condescending in explaining all that. it’s obvious to YOU because YOU know what’s happening.

Girl this is my fucking blog I'm gunna talk however I want it straight up is not about you 😂😂😂

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(On the topic of Swifer and Clipper that you brought up) God I hope they also don't follow through on the super telegraphed ending of "Swifer becomes president of Earth C", that some people already called back in the day, ever. Like good lord, if one of the points is that Ult!Dirk and Candy!John are wrong about Earth C being A Joke, it needs a win that is anything but THIS.

i guess i wouldn't really care if this were true like who's ever gonna see the meat version of earth again anyway. it would be kind of funny if caliborn's future was the result of some stupid side character being elected superpresident and then running new america into the ground with poor fiscal policy

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What happens if hemera has both eyes open. Does everyone explode.