#2628

[thewertsearch]

CG: WE BEAT THE GAME YOU ARE PLAYING AND CREATED YOUR UNIVERSE. CG: WE WERE GOING TO ENTER YOUR UNIVERSE AND RULE OVER IT. CG: LIKE TYRANTS. [...] EB: but to be quite honest, it doesn't sound like your intentions were all that great.

Old habits die hard. Karkat was raised in a space empire - so when he's handed a universe, thirteen years of propaganda are telling him that it's something to be conquered.

He's probably picturing a Second Alternian Empire, here - just on a larger scale, and with his team at the top. Well, at least he's not paying the hemospectrum any heed.

CG: YOU ACTUALLY WANT ME TO TROLL YOU? [...] EB: i just think it's kind of funny when you do it.

Karkat is getting destroyed here.

No wonder he kickstarted Project T - he needed a years-long trolling campaign, just to get back at John for this one conversation!

CG: I MEAN THAT IT SEEMS LIKE WE ARE CONNECTED IN SOME WAY, DON'T YOU THINK JOHN. [...] CG: LIKE OUR HATE FOR EACH OTHER IS SO STRONG IT MUST HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN THE STARS. CG: YOU KNOW, THE ONES I FUCKING MADE FOR YOU.

If this really is kismesis flirtation, it's a lot more tame than I expected. I was imagining a much more toxic Karkat, one who's genuinely trying to hurt John's feelings, trying to generate the strong negative emotions that characterize the quadrant.

What we're getting, though, is a Karkat who is trying to communicate to John that he's important to him. What we're getting is - basically - a love poem, or something adjacent to one.

I think I understand kismesissitude a little better.

EB: hey, i don't have a problem with your weird sort of alien hate-love thing! EB: it is just that, uh… CG: WHAT EB: i am not a homosexual.

Hilariously, it sounds like John would, in fact, be open to a kismesissitude - but it has to be a straight kismesissitude.

[dolphelecat]

Wifehead x

[harveyphotography]

Quartieri Spagnoli - Napoli (Agosto 2023)

[albertxylin]

Dead Desire

I've always been good at building things up in my mind, Always been good at laying expectations brick by brick, Always been good at substituting fantasy for reality.

I realise a desire has been a mirage, And I am not at the stage where I pray for oasis. There is enough water to keep me alive And I am not in a desert.

The grass does look greener at a distance, But up close it becomes clear that it's artificial, Plastic facsimile that will never grow beyond superficial. The desire dies alongside the fantasy, And I find myself content with the imperfect grass around me.

[tmt-sketch-a-day]

Sketch a Day 2628- A figurine - 3/21/23

like those kissing figurines everyone grandma always seems to have

[hon3ycor3]

i can't believe i only vaguely understood this. as a teen, i didn't even think this was karkat literally courting john in kismessisitude

[saradiation]

HAPPY CRAB KARKAT DAY!! 🦀

[nocontextmythical]

that's a long snickers.

[hyunpic]

the bbgirliest of the bbgirls of all time

[tokillamockingbird427]

I biblically need a Cod Ghosts scene where it’s just Logan and Hesh hugging after Logan is out of the pit. Full on embracing each other.

Agree. Don't care if it's literally just a dream from one of them, as long as said dream is eventually repeated just irl. (Like one of them has the dream and then it happens for-real as a parallel.)

They deserve a good hug. One of the nice "Feels like you're wrapped in a warm quilt" type hugs. And it needs to last like.... until the end of time. Please and thank.

[thewertsearch]

EB: it is like, when a boy likes another boy. EB: or i guess hates, in this case. CG: HUMANS HAVE A WORD FOR THAT? EB: yes. CG: HOW IS THAT EVEN A THING?

Diversity win! The space empire that created your universe has no concept of binary sexual orientation!

Any set of trolls can be combined in the Mother Grub - and on Alternia, there's no such thing as a parent, let alone a nuclear family. It's frankly unclear what purpose sexual dimorphism even serves for a troll - but that's for the speculative biologists to ponder.

EB: anyway, i kind of got the impression that you and terezi were a thing. [...] CG: WHO HAVE YOU BEEN TALKING TO, WHAT HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THAT. [...] CG: OK FIRST OF ALL, IF THERE WERE A "THING" WITH HER, AND THAT'S A HUGE IF CG: IT WOULD BE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT QUADRANT THAN WHAT WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT.

There's something so funny about this exchange. Imagine you were the first person to make contact with a hitherto undiscovered species, who shouldn't even know you exist.

You open a communication channel to make first contact - and not only are they inexplicably aware of your love life, you're actually compelled to defend yourself from this random alien's personal accusations.

CG: LET'S JUST AGREE TO NEVER BRING IT UP AGAIN. CG: THE STUFF I WAS BABBLING ABOUT EARLIER. [...] CG: BUT IF I TALK TO YOU AGAIN CG: IN YOUR FUTURE, LIMITED THOUGH IT IS CG: YOU'LL REMEMBER MY EMBARRASSING SHIT CG: SO I GUESS CG: I'LL HAVE TO TROLL YOU BACKWARDS?

This is why you were trolling him backwards? Because you were embarrassed about hitting on him?

That's incredible. Apparently Karkat was so flustered, he didn't realize he could just have jumped back once, to the start of John's session, and continued linearly from there. This guy is such a mess, it's great.

CG: I THINK WE NEED TO GET BACK ON POINT HERE. CG: WHICH IS ADDRESSING THE MATTER OF WHAT INCOMPREHENSIBLY PUTRID GARBAGE YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE AND HOW MUCH I HATE YOU. EB: you mean platonic hate?

It's too bad John's not into it, because he'd actually be a pretty good kismesis. He's running rings around Karkat here, and I'm pretty sure this sarcasm is deliberate.

CG: I WILL BID YOU ONE FIRST AND FINAL FUCK YOU. CG: FUCK YOU, JOHN EGBERT. CG: FUCK YOU AND FUCK THE JOKE BOOK YOU RODE IN ON. CG: FUCK. CG: FUCKING. CG: YOU. EB: :D EB: see you soon! CG: WAIT

And here's the stinger. We're probably not going to learn what the Scratch is for a while, but we are learning about one of its most important consequences.

Finally, after five Acts, the humans and trolls are teaming up.

[gmmfashion]

Rhett's shirt from the most recent do these food taste different in other countries. This shirt is pretty expensive.

Thanks @becausethathappens

[dolphelecat]

Duster prank x

[dogstomp]

Dogstomp #2628 - March 15th

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[simcardiac-arrested]

me after 17 benadryl