#rattles you and rattles this comic

[improvapocalyps]

You have 90 minutes to complete. (original poem: r.a.)

In participation of the MCYT Recursive Exchange 2024 hosted by @mcytrecursive!

Inspired by know that all my love will be your breath (i will save you when your lights go out)

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1. Have you ever been in love? (Please circle your answer.) a. It's me and him b. Our hearts beat in sync c. Our lives intertwined

2. Do you understand what you’ve done? (Please circle your answer.) a. I couldn't do anything b. I lost my balance c. I doomed us both

3. It's been god knows how long since you felt phantom hands on your neck and there is no one in sight. If you were soul-bound to him and both of you died at the same time then why are you still waiting in the void? Please answer clearly, in full sentences. (Not a correct answer：I just wanted to see him one more time).

4. Define two (2)： Fate | The feeling of his forehead against yours Curse | The moment you realise he isn't linked to you anymore

5. True or False： i. It was your fault. ii. You wish you had met him under different circumstances. iii. You can’t regret a single moment that you had him. iv. You would do it all over again if you could. v. It ended long before either of you said anything.

thumbnails:

sketch cover thing for imgur link:

[gloombeaches]

also idk if anyone else on here has seen some of the new scaremester covers sooo comp post of all the covers shown off so far!

[alatariel-galadriel]

Okay I’m a Romy girl through and through but sometimes I have to gnaw on Belladonna and Remy just for the tragedy of it all

Like. You’re six years old and desperate. You meet a girl, a rich girl, and suddenly she’s your best friend. She’s clever and smart and dangerous, and you understand for the first time what the fox means in The Little Prince, when he talks of being tamed.

And you’re 10 and adopted, and her family is The Enemy. It’s bigger than you, older by orders of magnitude. But you’re still best friends, just in secret, now. As you get older and fumble through your first crush, your first kiss, you say joke that it’s like Romeo & Juliet, and you’re too young and high off the thrill  of it to realize that tragedies can happen to you, too.

You’re 14-15-16, and your family finds out, or your family knew all along, and they aren’t upset. They want this. It’s important. They talk of ties and unification and plans that were centuries in the making, and you love your friend with all your heart, but it’s different now. There’s so many eyes on you, and so much pressure, and there is no room for mistakes. You didn’t know you could make mistakes, in love. You’re still a teenager.

You’re eighteen and about to get married. You’ve forgotten the jokes about Romeo & Juliet, but the tragedy hasn’t forgotten you. You kill her brother in self-defense. She’ll never look at you the same. She never gets the chance to look at you differently.  Her family’s out for your blood, and your family can’t risk fighting a war. You’re on your own. You can never go home.

she never tries to find you.

[ceaselessly-mad]

Based on this first comic:

So I had some people feeling sorry for Eddie in my previous comic (about a silly scenario where he had to deliver all those Wally Makeship plushies), so I figured I'd fix it here for the Barnaby ones!

...this is what y'all wanted, right?

Also a bonus, because I think Howdy would absolutely make his nephews deliver them

I mean, he made them work during Homewarming for crying out loud!

[naffeclipse]

I am screaming!!! Oh my gosh, this comic is punching me in the heart!!! I scream even more under the read more about it!!!

I love the rain and how moody the hooded Y/N looks, and the flowers... that is such a beautiful setup for what's about to be so tragic!! I have so many questions about what's going on, how Vanessa was injured, how she got here of all places—perhaps eerily fitting, considering the circumstances!!

Canon DCA! Canon DCA!!! I love that you captured how Moon looms in their animatronic vessel! The little hand squeeze before they let Y/N go, and the kiss, made me so emotional over the little gestures. The visual storytelling and atmosphere is phenomenal! (I'm sure Eclipse can hear Vanessa's heartbeat and sense what Y/N will encounter...)

Oh my gosh, Y/N's horrified and panicked expression upon finding Vanessa in such a terrible state, and the phone drop allowing the viewer to understand how Y/N found her—gah, I am rattling this comic so hard right now! Sidenote: I love that the comic background darkens then, like, yes, this is the urgent dark night and we are in it!!!

*sobs over "Nessie"*

VANESSA BLEEDING AND SAYING "YOU CAME" AHHHHHHH

Y/N cares so much. Like the threat or possibility of an ambush would stop them, but oh, when they kneel down, and almost reach out to Vanessa, I'm sure it's partly due to how well they know Vanessa hates what they are now, and perhaps a bit of the blood, too.

Vanessa's weak little smile....... my heart.... She looks so contrite.

Y/N calling out to Moon for help, and demanding reasons for this madness because the last thing you should ever do is call a vampire when you're bleeding out!!! But Vanessa did!!!

Oh, that's so sad, telling Y/N they can't save her—knowing how much Y/N , when they were alive, absolutely tried to save everyone from monsters, and now here they both are. I bet, for a split second, Y/N might have let it cross their mind that with Vanessa being so injured, she would let Y/N turn her to 'save' her, but of course, that couldn't be right. Not with the friend she knows.

Ohhh... Vanessa finally asked for confirmation. Is it them? This whole time she was so sure they were dead, but now, that it's come to shove, she's questioning it, or maybe, she just really misses Y/N.

HER TEARS AND SECOND GUESSING HERSELF AHHH I WANNA HOLD HER SO BAD AND AND AND "WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST TIME" AHHHHHHHHHHHH

Freaking Y/N's face... they look so shocked but hopeful, all at once!

I adore the details of Y/N holding Vanessa's hand between both of their own—the detail, the POV from Y/N, how important it makes the mere contact!!! I am feral!!!

Augh, the bloody and radiating effect shows how much Y/N is still struggling with their bloodlust, but they're barely holding back

The tenderness of holding your friend's hand to your face before embracing them while they're dying how am I supposed to be normal about this? I will not, thanks

This is so beautiful and well done, I'm crazy about it and I'm already dying for the second part! This first installment is wonderfully heart-wrenching, ahhhh!

Thank you so much for sharing! ♥

TW (IMPLIED) CHARACTER DEATH

TW BLOOD

(not graphic blood but I'll still tag it just in case)

@naffeclipse

Might want to turn up your brightness for this one fellas

This is Part 1 | Part Two will be linked here when I finish it

(might end up being three parts actually lol)

(my script is like 3-4 pages long so....)

Long post under the cut

I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you.

Take me back to the night we met.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Haunted by the ghost of you Oh, take me back to the night we met

- The night we met by Lord Hurdon

This comic stems from my need for them to have a satisfying conclusion OKAY

I mean it's bittersweet but at least they make up (to a degree)

Explanation below (kind of spoiling next part) (kindof almost not really idk):

After being dangerously injured by a cryptid, Vanessa managed to contact the one person she wished she could have said goodbye to the most.

I'll explain more about why Vanessa is the way she is in the next part but without spoiling, Vanessa has grown a little since the last time she saw y/n. That, in combination with the fact she's bleeding out and taking on the mentality "fuck it why not", has led her to this decision.

This comic kinda goes off of the idea she gets an inkling of doubt in her mind about whether y/n is still "alive".

The next part will go into it more but that doubt mixed with her resolve leads her to at least try.

She tries to call y/n. They don't answer. She sends a text and no longer has the strength to hold on.

I don't think she'll be completely resolved to Vampires having actual consciousness but in her last moments she's also just wishing for her friend back. Her human friend. The one who has been dead all this time. Vanessa has a history with seeing ghosts so

It's worth a try

I'll let you decide which phone of y/n's she tried to contact. Assuming y/n unblocked her on their previous phone at some point

So yeah, Vanessa in this comic is going back and forth on whether this is y/n or not. She's bleeding out, so does it really matter?

It's almost selfish how much she wishes to be free of the ache in her chest. The fact in the end, she couldn't free her friend.

You'll see more of this in the next part. I don't want to spoil it too much.

She doesn't wish to carry this burden of failing her friend. She reaches for a conclusion. She wants this to end well. She wants her friend to be okay. She wants to believe everything has worked out. She wants everyone she cares about to be okay without her.

She'll throw out her wish to the world. And hopefully, it'll come true.

She'll throw out her wish to you.

It is you.

Right?

I may have spoiled the next part a little bit oopsies

I just want to explain why Vanessa's different y'know

And y/n has their own conflicting emotions.

Even when things are a semblance of normal, it can't be. They are a vampire now. It tears them up inside.

But. Vanessa lets them touch her.

They've been afraid to do that. For the entirety of this reunion cut short.

She lets them touch her.

And again, Vanessa wouldn't be this way if... it weren't for a few somebodies.

But that's enough spoiling the next part.

[humanmorph]

(transcript by @violentandmagnificent)

It’s quiet here, living in your head. It’s quiet here, and when I talk, you listen, at least when you can hear me, which isn’t always. It isn’t always, but it’s better than never. It’s quiet here, living on this ship. It’s quiet here, and I remember when it was loud, I remember different voices bouncing in these halls, I remember old arguments, I remember myself. I wonder how much I can tell you; because  I can tell you; I have much to say. But you never saw me astride the Prophet’s Path, beside the Resin Heart, imparting wrath and play. So who am I? You only know what they’ve told you. So who am I? You only know what’s written down. So who am I? You only know what’s on recordings, and according to the world, I’m a hypocrite, or drowned. I doubt you can hear me, but I know that she can. So pardon my frustration, I’m just tired of her plan. I lost my life long before I understood, before metaphor became real, before I felt the wheel’s wood. I wonder what she’ll tell you. I wonder what she’ll share.  I wonder what she’ll ask of you, what task of sweat and prayer.  I long to sweat and pray, a body in the day. The color of the sun. The touch, the ocean's spray.  The last thing that I felt in life. (The first thing that I felt in life.) The touch, the ocean's spray.  I hope she tells the truth to you. (I hope she tells the worst to you.) The touch, the ocean's spray.  I loved her like she told me to. (I left her like she told me to.) The touch, the ocean's spray.  We’re running out of time, you know? (She’s running out of time, you know?) The touch, the ocean's spray.  I fear we might be mirrored, two echoes of a call shouted between two queens, two queens who want it all. I fear we might be symmetry, I fear we might be one. Make her tell the truth to you before we come undone.

PALISADE 37: Reach In / Reach Out Pt. 1

[stars-and-branches]

Reading Gotham War is pissing me off so much that I'm taking a break to read a fanfiction where Batman goes to therapy

[littleaipom]

"I should have eaten you"

[birchbow]

I feel like Karkat Vs. The Evil Gods is a spiritual successor to Saviors of the Universe even tho it was never fully complete. I have been a fan of your world building since then and I am SOOOO here for it!! I love that we really do seem to have everyone and I can't wait to finish it and then read it all again!

Oh my god same brain cell, I genuinely was just in the car yesterday listening to a song I used to imagine a SoTW music video to, musing like "man I wonder how much of my old plot could be reused" haha. "Spiritual successor" is so true actually. Saviors was SO the project of a teenager/college student. The Saviors team were being brought into the larger world by their ancestors directly, learning to use their powers, leaving their overbearing parental figures and finding new mentors, discovering themselves. VERY college. Whereas KVvTEG takes a lot of the same ideas and vibe--superhero universe, interpersonal drama underlying grander plot, some of the humanstuck designs being similar--but their age and history together is a huge part of the premise itself! Written by a grown-up with a job, lmao.

...I am very entertained by the thought of the crossover tho. Reparenting your much more explicitly superpowered younger self... Just don't let the Gamzees meet. 😬😬 Eesh.

[patg-comic]

It's the first anniversary of Presto & the Gang!

In a year's time, the comic has published over 130 pages! (that you should totally read if you haven't already!)

... And we're still on chapter one! I know it's a long one, but we are nearing the end of the first chapter, which is so incredibly exciting!

Thank you to everyone reading along, I appreciate you more than words can say. Please keep your eyes on the gang, because we're still only getting started!

[sforzesco]

So do you think Cassius' early experience with having to save who he could and survive Carrhea, hardened him in the same way that young Crassus was ? Is there some sort of constant cycle there ?

absolutely, it’s a whole trial by fire kind of deal, and everything in rome exists in repeating cycles. It’s all a circle, except for when it’s a mouth. and there’s actually a third one I would include in this set! in theory. to complete the narrative tragedy.

Crassus is in his thirties (like, late 20s when the ball gets rolling, but basically he’s in his 30s when things actually get going) when he rises to the occasion, cutting through bodies and paving the way for Sulla’s victories. This sets the stage for the next generation’s politics, the generation Cassius is a part of. It’s Sulla. Sulla haunts everything.

Cassius is most likely in his thirties, or enters into his thirties during Crassus’ Parthian invasion, and much like Crassus had to rise to the occasion against some pretty gnarly odds (in places), Cassius also had to rise to the occasion with even worse odds than Crassus ever had (talk about a narrative inheiritance! the book closes on Crassus and immediately looks to you to fill the space his body left), and pulled off several strategic miracles. Congrats on surviving the trial!

So

Carrhae is a traumatic disaster for Rome that haunts the subtext in a specific thread of expansionist Roman policy making, but more immediately, it fucks up the balance of power in Rome: Pompey and Caesar spin out into Civil War, Caesar stands triumphant. The dominoes continue to fall, Caesar is assassinated. Lucan’s focus on Crassus in his Pharsalia sort of nails Carrhae down as an event that has a definable Before/After in collective memory. etc.

This Sets The Stage For The Next Generation Of Roman Politics

Now, here’s the secret third one: Octavian is in his thirties when the culmination of his dynast war with Antony finally hits the climax at Actium, and this will set the stage for—

[lukasadss]

The way I could have the perfect opportunity to binge Dead Boy Detectives the day it comes out because it's a holiday here BUT I have to work holidays cuz they're the busiest days at my job is a crime honestly

[willosword]

late comic spoilers

there is a sort of cosmic tragedy to the fact that mark learned his “sometimes jumping the gun and risking your life and safety on a ‘maybe’ will cause irreparable harm to you and your family” lesson RIGHT before everything that happens with robot and anissa.

[cr0wc0rpse]

There needs to be a way to ask and beg and bribe friends to get into a media you really like that feels less torturous to do and more chill and casual than begging

[piningpercussionist]

uuugHHH I hate tagging stuff

I've dragged some stuff out of the drafts and into the queue! Sorry for the content drought, I'm adjusting to new medications ^^"

Anyhow- posting this primarily to promo a fic someone wrote! Because everyone knows I'm constantly chomping at the bit for new Kim content, and I imagine several of you are too,,,

You can read it here, over on ao3!! It gets a little heavy for some people probably, but it's really quite nice, so I hope you'll consider giving it a chance! (It's seriously really good, please consider reading it.)

[bee-ships]

Believe it or not this was initially based on an incorrect quote lol