#huge bitch bluh bluh

[spoopyandtired]

p e r c e i v e

[tiskycat]

Me: I fucking hate Beth Yellowstone

Me: *remembers that post about how “y’all want fucked up women in fiction but can’t even handle the ones that are slightly mean”*

Me, through gritted teeth: I respect Beth Yellowstone for being Problematic Woman representation in a piece of modern media

[eebie]

[diddlybob900]

The photo speaks for itself I'd say.

[dappersfm]

too much eridan and meme tracing

hi im vince and this is slap my nuts

[teals33r]

The fact that she wanted it to be tavros' decision makes me think it might be possible that she's being genuine about the whole "I am treating him this way because I think it will help him" thing

[renearatman]

These are the same character

[glitterdustcyclops]

anyway If you'll excuse me im going to step the fuck away from the internet and try to distract myself, take care of yourselves dumplings

[jade-harley-yuri]

wjats your favorite runninf gag in hoemstuck

either the no/yes conversations (specifically nepeta + equius) or the huge bitch gag. bluh bluh huge anonask

[mmmmalo]

Listened to a reading of Openbound during work today. Takeaways:

Aformentioned veiled misogyny with Meenah's dismissal of "Light Players" for their chattiness. The eternal BLUH BLUH HUGE BITCH establishes the sexist trope "women talk too much" as a motif, and marking Bitch as a mode of speech renders Huge Bitch synonymous with Lord English and Imperial Drone. Jack Noir sighing that Hell Hath No Fury (Like A Women Scorned) and thereby dismissing PM's revenge quest as hysterical is not as structurally interesting, but demonstrates some continuity of the themeing outside of gameplay sections.

Kankri's opening content warning for "pail filling slurries" struck me as a miscegenation joke, with pail > pale > white and slurries > [censored] > black. Slurries fill the pale. The link between Imperial Drones and Huge Bitches affirms for me an ongoing suspicion that the Imperial Drone taking two genetic payloads was a DP joke.

Never noticed Latula saying Girlz In Da Hive before, but the play on Boyz In Da Hood affirms my sense that Porrim is targeting Latula's black-coded speech affectations for the feminist critique.

On a similar note, this set of tags from Kankri made it clear that Latula's disability is another media for insinuating her blackness: #Nasal privilege #H9riz9ns #6r9adness #H9riz9ntal width l9ngenning Kankri implicitly frames the width of a black nose as a disability, and apologizes for his white nose privilege like a true ally.

Meenah renarking that she gives Kurloz "wide berth" struck my interest. In the context of the child symbolism floating around Openbound and the infantilization of masculinity (Boys Drool!) that renders the codpiece into a daiper, I found myself wondering if Kurloz, with his briefs and skull costuming, represented a dead baby. Not entirely new, since possible connections to Mom's stillborn child defined my old takes on Openbound, but in the context of Slurquest I suppose I'm interested in how a superabundance of abortion imagery might feed into the atmosphere of reactionary scaremongering. For example, the way that the narrative cultivates our disgust towards Cronus as he verbally abused the babbling Mituna, says he should be culled, tells him to shut up (in a context where silence is linked to cherubs in heaven) -- I suddenly suspect I've been sucked into a morality play on abortion. It adds another dimension to Kankri wondering aloud if Mituna ought to exist at all. All of this would imply the skull-monster cherubim are dead babies par excellence, naturally

[mutelunacy]

I still don't know where the whole "Brittany is a huge bitch bluh bluh" thing came from because the worst she does is complain in her diary. Can a woman not have a few teenage antics once in a while regardless of age.

[piratecaptaincaroline]

would you all still loved me if i starting using vriskas typing quirk. and dressing like her. and talking like her. and being a bluh bluh huge bitch like her. and changing my middle name to vriska. haha just kidding. but fr let me know tho

[birchbow]

Did these start as pinups?? yes, so they do get the mature tag, lol. But also I got really excited while I was drawing them about the concept of "ratemyprofessor" for clown aliens, so here's a bunch of various chests of various genders lol

Karkat has the highest positive rating in the fleet. is it partially because he's new and has less ratings?? yes. Is he also going to stay very highly rated, to everybody's annoyance??? yes obviously lol.

Transcripts of my chickenscratch below the cut

UDERAK, IANCHE - "INQUIRER", 55% positive, 45% negative

"Kind of a creep, but he does know what he's talking about." "Don't get on his bad side. Motherfucker holds a grudge." "Great ass and he knows it. 9/10 because you can't honk it." "Finding his schoolfeed is the hardest part of taking it." "Fucking douche just likes to piss people off." "Don't even joke about girls being better laughsassins/ contorturenists, he'll chew your fucking face off."

KRELLE, VENENO - "UNTOXXIC, 73% positive, 27% negative

"Hard to tell what they're saying." "They won't go easy on you, but they have their shit on fucking lock." "If this was smash or pass, I'd smash." "I heard anyone they kiss dies." "Thinkpan like a steel fucking trap, just let them talk their own pace or they'll kick you out of class."

STELOS, ARELUX - "SUNGAZER", 82% positive, 18% negative

"Great feeder! Bring sponge-clot protectors." "Best schoolfeeding you'll ever have screamed at you." "She'll tell your fortune if you ask her! Know your patron saint first, she'll ask." "Do NOT try anything. Her matesprit's fucking cracked." "Don't try it. She's just as cracked as her matesprit."

TRAVYE, HALORE - "STÆDFAST", 43% positive, 57% negative

"Hardass motherfucker!" "You'll sure the fuck learn the scriptures, if you survive." "Best rumblespheres and worst bitchface on the Dark Carnival." "I have never once seen this motherfucker smile." "Bluh bluh, huge bitch." "Best scripture feeder in the fleet, you guys are just mean. And weak. Get good."

VANTAS, KARKAT - (UNTITLED), 98% positive, 2% negative

"This motherfucker can TALK, holy shit." "Prepare to get hot for feeder. He'll say some steamy-ass shit straight up and you'll get stupid." "Heretic overstepping piece of shit doesn't belong here." "^^^ Eat my nook, feeder Vantas knows what's up." "Watch as many old romcoms as you can now, or he'll make you do it later." "I wanna put my face in his rumblespheres." "Seconded but stay the fuck on topic."

[lordsinblackfollowersdeathmatch]

the funny thing about homestuck is that the main villain is VERY similar to wiggly. lord english is

green

corrupts ppl with a fuckass doll puppet

has a (BLUH BLUH) HUGE BITCH who follows him whos also REALLY rich (linda, )(IC)

has a "stupid bitch" as a sister (webby, calliope)

representative of a problem in society (capitalism, misogyny)

a eldritch force (well more a demon but fuck it we ball)

but i cant put him in the poll cause he'd be a lord in black, NOT a wiggly follower

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[gnomeskillet]

Tav

SORCerer.

Very tired.

No thoughts, head empty.

Has no idea why he's been put in charge of this party.

Gentle Giant who is fully willing to be an asshole when people test his patience.

8 Strength loser who is only scary because he's an orc.

Weird, vaguely homoerotic rivalry with Gale.

Dave

Necromancer.

He's Dad.

Took one look at the party and decided they were all his children now.

Buys everyone "treats" (magical items) using their own money.

Likes 'em big, stupid, and easily manipulated; Halsin is in danger.

Seducing Gale because it's funny to watch the wizards having a staff measuring contest.

Little King Trashmouth (Druregard Murlistrasza)

Idiot Bard.

Coward.

They're going to kiss Raphael's ass so hard.

Refuses to do anything without being paid in advance.

Would try to seduce/cower behind Lae'zel if she wasn't so terrifying.

Just wants to go home and pretend this isn't happening.

Skillet

Pint-sized Powerhouse.

Bluh bluh huge bitch.

She's so full of rage but her legs are so tiny, fights are almost always over before she gets there.

Married to a Githyanki Wizard.

"Stop hitting my WIFE!!!"

Armageddon

Dark Urge.

Managed to break their Paladin Oath within fifteen minutes of escaping the Nautaloid.

Told Gale they're a kitten who thinks of nothing but murder all day long, and he said "I once wished a most impure demise on a colleague of mine who bought the last remaining copy of Etheril's Enchiridion of Enchanting Easements."

Gale, that's adorable but it's not the same thing at all.

Has outsourced their moral compass to Lae'zel. It's going about as well as you'd think.

Caythaes

War Domain Cleric of Lathander.

The Elf. The Myth. My Original Tav.

Has put the WORST things in their mouth, including an Ilithid Tadpole.

Tried to seduce the entire party but failed because Gale kept looking at them sadly when they tried to slut it up.

Cried when Astarion rejected them.

Shadowheart is their little sister now.

Torn between letting Gale do what he wants and trying to keep him from turning into Karsus 2.0.

Sassed Vlaakith because they got pissed at the Githyanki for desecrating a temple to Lathander and all they got was a total party kill.

[redjennies]

all i knew before playing kotor 2 was that people loved kreia so i was surprised i didn't much care for her except for a couple memorable scenes. meanwhile atris had me on a chokehold the whole time. the scene where you assemble your Backstory on the fly while having a bitter argument with her is still one of my favorite bits from any game.

it's SUCH a good scene! I love how you can start out that conversation so penitent, so much older and wiser since you were first exiled, but the more you argue with her the more the dialogue gets drawn into that argument. by the time you're interrupting her, you've entirely relapsed into that same person you were when you stood before her and the Council. you stop being the sorry Exile and start being that person "who was so right," again, and it perfectly mirrors Atris' own deeply held convictions. at that moment, neither one of you can really let it go.

it lays out the relationship so well in a way that makes it easy to imagine why she and the Exile were so close in the first place. you can easily imagine this tendency to debate was always part of their friendship. they both have this same stubborn, overdeveloped sense of what is right, and that strong sense of morality ends up being both of their undoing. the Exile, defined by their empathy and emotional impulsivity, simply fell first and therefore, has had time to grow from it. for better or worse, they are different now, even if progress isn't linear when you're in a bitter argument with your ex.

Atris, on the other hand, is intentionally cautious just as she has been taught to be. if the Exile is the prodigal son, Atris is the good son. she has always held fast to her teachings and done what was expected of her. unlike the Exile, she did not go to war. unlike the Exile, she does not let her feelings get the better of her. unlike the Exile, she can stand next to the Sith and not feel their influence, right? surely, of all people, she has the willpower to resist, right? after all, she's doing all of this to eradicate the SIth and save the galaxy from their destruction. (but when you think about it, is Kreia not trying to do the very same thing?)

and so Atris falls, not in spite of her piety, but because of it. and it's so good! it's so compelling! not because "bluh bluh, huge bitch. she's self-righteous and she got what was coming to her," like the fanboys of yore would tell you, but because Atris is a historian. she carries your old lightsaber as a reminder to never be like you. she is nothing like you, and she is exactly like you. she is a part of your backstory, and she is your backstory, repeating. and she's a fucking fantastic character. 10/10.