#INCREDIBLY suspicious

[geddy-leesbian]

worrying Chris is seeming like too much of an asshole in any killer he has some redeeming moments in the next chapter I swear I'm not trying to slander him ok

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

lovers

[aardvaark]

the leverage team would have had a games night… once. everyone cheated so much and in such increasingly extreme ways that all mentions of monopoly are banned in their headquarters (this makes talking about marks who monopolize the market very confusing)

[somegrumpynerd]

A few more Freaky Friday au doodles, Dream is trying to keep up the act and Nightmare has been worn down

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 152

A child has interrupted a Gala in Gotham, which wouldn’t be too much of a note except the fact that they’re obviously not human and they have an armful of scrolls. And look incredibly frazzled and exhausted. 

Which, who wouldn’t be confused and curious about such a situation? Except asking the child what they’re doing here only causes more questions. 

“So some dimensions’ governments are deeming undead and ecto-contaminated living as non-sentient, so uhm, we’re getting sent to send out these warnings to people in places that are in danger of that. As like a warning in case their government does the same? I-I don’t know I’m just the messenger :(“ 

[skelecentral]

Wasn’t gonna post this because it’s only semi-UT related, but. I really wanted to lmaooo— here’s my faeu self insert (post-turned-fae!)

Faeu is by @/antlered-prince

[nefertiti-fooling-fellow]

What if Aziraphale knew what kind of effect it would have when he offered to restore Crowley to full angelic status. What if Crowley walking away was what he wanted? What he needed to keep him safe? Aziraphale just never expected the kiss.

What if “Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death,” wasn’t just the name of a coffee shop, but also a threat? What if all of the lies we saw him told (Job’s children…The Miracle…), the performances we saw him put on (The Jane Austen ball…the Magician act) was all a lead up to his biggest lie yet? “You’re demons, you’re evil.”

What if that was what Aziraphale thought he needed to do to keep Crowley from putting himself in danger to “rescue” him one last time?

What if Aziraphale didn’t want to reform Heaven so much as he wanted to rip it up by the roots and tear it apart, so it can never hurt Crowley again?

What if he knew.

[mushroominaforest]

Silly little doodle of Monk doing some detective work and stressing Saint out

[raapija]

enemies to lovers fr

[thefirstknife]

i unironically hope Eris stays in her Hive form at least physically bc im already loving how both her & Immaru are pointing out Ikora's (and humanity's) inherent dehumanization of the Hive.

Eris being all "If this form does not leave will you still view me as a friend?"

Immaru when asked where the Experiment Subjects come from and responding with "Don't act like you care."

Honestly, it's so good. I really love the Eris stuff and some of these questions being posed. A lot of people react negatively to Eris doing this, forgetting that Eris has already been part-Hive for a long time. She was just hiding it behind the eye cover.

Technically, nothing inherently changed about Eris; she just embraced that part of her. And that's super important for her arc I think because she's been on a journey of accepting her trauma and her losses for a very long time. We helped her face her fears and traumas in Shadowkeep and she came out of it victorious. And the story never treated it as her traumas being gone; she still has them, but she has the means to tackle them and handle them and live with them. Since we helped her, she became more open and more involved with what we do to save our home, even if it meant tackling dangerous things.

And the thing is, now that her traumas cannot be exploited by Darkness anymore, she's capable of involving herself in these things, knowing that she has friends to fall back to and a support system and better mental fortitude. We've seen it through her endurance beneath the Pyramid on Io, and her grasp of stasis, and her dealing with the Crown of Sorrow and egregore and the Lunar Pyramid nightmares. And now with her embracing her Hive self. It doesn't change anything about her, but people prefer when she hides it so they don't have to see it. And she knows it (Sororicide lore book, page 1):

It's a perfect example of how we inherently view the Hive as untrustworthy. Obviously, there are good reasons for it! The Hive have caused immense pain and trauma to pretty much everyone in the universe, Eris included. It must take an incredible strength of character to embrace the fact that you're physically half-Hive, creatures that traumatised you in the first place. No one else has dealt with anything similar so naturally they're afraid for Eris. But I believe in her strength. And so does Drifter and Drifter is never wrong:

He'd read the reports. He saw the theories on VanNet. He didn't trust them. He trusted her.

There's a cutscene that people skip and can cause people not to see it, I recommend replaying the thing on a different character or seeing it online, but it shows Eris taking off her bandage in front of us:

It's such a powerful image to me. A symbol of her taking off her mask. Not pretending to be the same as us anymore. Because she isn't! The Hive are a part of her and have been for centuries. And she's always been in control. Our mistrust has always hurt her, but before this, we could act with pity towards her. Now that she's fully in Hive form, people's perception of her changed, for really no good reason other than prejudice. She is still Eris.

I definitely think that eventually we will have to reconcile with the idea of the Hive not being inherently evil in totality as a whole group of people. Obviously this is going to be difficult, especially when their leaders act the way they do, but eventually I do believe we will have to accept some of them, even if it's only Eris for a start.

[homestuckreplay]

Webcomic 'Homestuck' Canceled For Promoting Bad Password Security

(page 456-459)

8/10/2009 Wheel Spin: Parent Bad :( Verdict: INCORRECT

8/11/2009 Wheel Spin: being silly :3c Verdict: CORRECT, but behind at least 10 layers of irony

In the far future, somebody might call this update a time capsule of the 2000s. If computers change significantly, or something. page 456 comments on Dave's bro's computer being password protected, suggesting that this isn't a cultural norm - the newly-released Windows 7 still doesn't require user accounts to have a password. In Homestuck, the password is used to protect 'incredible top secret shit,' so password protecting a personal home computer might be associated with shadier online behavior.

Bro's password is six characters, and is 'the most awesome thing it can be' according to Dave and his bro, so it's probably lilcal. (It could also be puppet, but personally my passwords are always specific characters, song titles etc, not general concepts. I don't know if other people are different. for what it's worth lilcal is also a slightly more secure password than puppet which is A SINGULAR DICTIONARY WORD). Bro also trusts Dave with his password - either because he doesn't think Dave will do anything to mess up his computer, or because he's daring Dave to use it, similar to leaving the Xbox switched on mid-game.

On page 457 we see Bro's desktop, which we can compare to Dave's desktop on page 323. They both have wallpapers from And It Don't Stop, showing us a chain of game recommendations from Bro -> Dave -> John. Dave, like Rose and John, has some character in the names of his desktop folders, while his bro has seven identically named New Folders scattered around the screen. This adds to the sense that Bro is paranoid about people looking at his computer - he's purposefully making it impossible to navigate. The hidden-identity hat and dark glasses iconography on the password entry screen has the same effect.

Bro also has a program called Delirious Biznasty, which has a rad skater dude for its icon. This could be a web browser, but I think it's more likely some kind of torrenting application, I think that'd fit his vibe. The web browsers we know are Typheus, Cetus and Hephaestus, which are all Greek mythological references with cartoon-styled icons, and Delirious Biznasty doesn't fit the pattern. Based on Dave's relationship to his bro, Bro probably uses Hephaestus too and just doesn't have a desktop shortcut.

Dave and his bro both use the Complete Bullshit content aggregator, which we are forced to witness on pages 458 and 459. Content aggregators are pretty common customizable feeds that people use to keep up with a lot of websites at once, when checking 20+ separate sites a day gets too time consuming. RSS readers are a common form of this that can host a lot of different types of content, but there are also aggregators specifically for webcomics. These are controversial - they're generally well intentioned projects made for free by webcomic fans who want to check for updates easily and keep up with a lot of stories, and want to help other fans do the same. However, they can redirect traffic away from actual sites that host webcomics, meaning that independent webcomic artists might miss out on ad revenue or merch sales, or are less likely to sell ads because their sites don't look as well-trafficked as they are. I don't know if Andrew Hussie has a strong opinion on comics aggregators, but it's possible this terrible to use, unstable and unreadable version is a criticism of the concept.

Complete Bullshit also feels like Dave's bro's equivalent of Serious Business, as they're both digital programs with adjective-noun titles. I wonder if Rose's mom will get her own software.

It's sweet that Bro keeps up with Dave's projects, including Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff and his GameBro review blog. It shows that their relationship isn't 100% one sided, Bro cares for Dave and/or thinks he's cool at least a little bit. It's also fun that Dave is checking to see if his own webcomic has updated, which could be bad memory due to having a lot of projects on the go, or could be Dave checking to make sure his update has gone through and posted successfully. Very reasonable, as it must be a challenge to upload such high quality images.

I will probably make a post digging into Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff at some point, but I'm still peeling the onion of its irony right now so I'll just say: when exactly did Dave find the time to make these comics?

[princeofcyberpunk]

guys guys conspiracy time

so both Haru and Harper are gender-neutral but more feminine names right

what if the grand reveal is that Haru was actually Endou's DAUGHTER the whole time

[viric-dreams]

🍣🍥 Silvia's Zushi Dinner, A Summary🍥🍣

Silvia invites her two not-dads, Shaw and Jones, to meet her new girlfriend, Caoimhe, over dinner 

A few minutes in, Caoimhe and Shaw switch to Irish to be able to hold a conversation with minimal Silvia input

Jones arrives late, as he’d told Silvia, only to discover to his horror that they'd all waited for him for hours to eat (despite him explicitly asking them not to)

It's zushi dinner (and Jones doesn’t eat fish)

 Both Jones and Shaw come to the same (incorrect) realisation upon seeing the other: their counterpart had been sent by the Game to spy on them. Their presence at this dinner sends a clear signal--I can get to the people you care about

Dinner is a disaster 

Jones doesn’t touch the zushi, claiming he’s already eaten, and goes straight for the wine, thus insulting Silvia’s Rubbery Chef who spits slime into said wine

Shaw is drinking a Very Normal Amount, and Silvia is tipsy after one and a half glasses) 

Silvia keeps telling everyone incorrect information about each other

After Silvia obliquely references being “blackmailed by the Regent” Shaw realizes that she is the reason he got sent to the Red Court

Caoimhe decides to break the increasingly thick ice with a four hand reel 

One dancing pair is clearly experiencing a romantic comedy whilst the other is going through a psychological horror thriller. This becomes apparently in the rapid shift in room temperature each time their partners change

The wine hit Jones pretty hard and refuses to share a cab with Shaw, insisting on walking home alone, not trusting Shaw with knowledge of his address

Shaw assumes he has some sort of a nefarious plan and follows. When Jones ducks into a side street, he expects the worst… only to witness a drunk man puking in an alleyway. Shaw decides to call it a night, not before Jones realises he was being followed.

Meanwhile, Shaw has put the goon squad to watch Silvia’s house, in case Jones tries to pull something. Against all odds, she notices and tells Caoimhe someone’s staking them out

Caoimhe confronts the goons and they tell her they’re there for Silvia’s protection, but don’t say they’re with Shaw

So, you know, a great evening.

[stranger-theory]

are we gonna talk about how Lucas was the only main girlie in s1 to be played as overly aggressive, distrustful, and generally rude. like. i'm just saying.

[fle4floves]

Sometimes u just gotta draw some dang birds can I get an amen 🔥🔥🔥

[immediatebreakfast]

Second chapter of the jojolands, and we are already entering silly territory. This is pretty standard for a jjba part.

Jodio and Paco trying to "expand" their market at request of Meryl May is really funny. Hell most of the time in these drug schemes the teens at the bottom are the ones who suffer, but I can't stop myself from laughing for seeing both of them use the same strategy that they used at school. It's a "if it's not broken don't fix it" type of thing.

One thing that I am always glab to see is how Araki has been consistent in his "fuck cops" sentiment since part 2. No one should trust cops, and if you run into them you will have to go all the way or else they will commit more harm. These grown ass cops not only "needed" a fucking squad to arrest two teenagers, but also they are acting like they broke out a global trade when in reality all of them are two movements away from beating up two teens for a tiny bag of cocaína. Of course Jodio wouldn't recognize a cop because he has only been selling inside his school so he is quite naive in that part, BUT he has every right to get violent with these trigger happy pigs. On top of that, the slap of reality of how that gross pig from chapter 1 could actually (but will never happen) rape Dragona, and not face any consequences in the eyes of the corrupt law is chilling. Araki knows what is up.

Congratulations to Jodio for being the first joestar with a canonical mental illness! It is quite the delicate subject to introduce, but I hope to see how it gets developed. And I can't talk about it since I'm not familiar with it, so maybe other people who know will explain most of the details of antisocial personality disorder. But I can say that Jodio's feelings of "don't I deserve to be happy?" are very real, sometimes that is the thing one chases, a happiness that includes your diagnosis even if other people see it as something wrong.

The Hotdog guy has finally a name, welcome to the part Usagi! We are only two chapters in, and all of the characters already show so much personality. Usagi seems to be a pretty relaxed guy with an affinity for food, and he also has a speech pattern in which he stretches some wooooooords. This type of speech conveys that he doesn't take himself very seriously since it comes across as something very silly. Paco attributed this to his drug use, but I think it's just part of his personality to be all "no bad vibes just chilling", and it's also very refreshing to finally see some flirting that doesn't come across as creepy.

It seems that Dragona so far is the "leader" of the group, in the sense that they are the one who keeps the dynamics balanced between the other three. From scolding Usagi from being late, telling Jodio to say his information, to Paco waiting for them to stop speaking to deliver more information. I hope that Dragona is on the path to become one of the best jobros we will see.

Matte Kudasai is just a little creacher, and it's so cute. This part seems to be more focused on utility stands rather than punch rushdown stands. It's very cool to see the extend of what stands can do.

And at the end... ROHAN?!? FUCKING ROHAN????? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE YOU COCKROACH. THIS IS NOT YOUR PART GET THE FUCK OUT, THIS IS NOT EVEN YOUR UNIVERSE. But, the introduction of Rohan is the best chance at comedy. He got beat up by teenagers in part 4, he will get beat up again by teenagers in part 9 too. I am waiting for this so bad.