#tkp asks

[thankskenpenders]

Would you play a Sonic game or read a Sonic comic made by an Ai?

[fiddles-ifs]

is this still being worked on

yup! I'm still trying to get things together for my physical book, but Greenwarden is still very much a project that I hold dear to my heart and want to finish.

[ponett]

Hello. I have a question to ask about your Sonic Prime review on your other blog, regarding about Man of Action Entertainment screwing up good ideas or something. Besides the flaws of Sonic Prime, what are the things that you don't like about the studio? To me, it feels like you are ignoring the merits of their shows.

the thing i don't like about the studio is that they're a hired gun writing team that writes a few good and many mediocre toy commercial cartoons for 8-year-olds, and those aren't going to particularly impress me as a 30-year-old

[laplacesdevil]

imagine being hungover n walking into your fucked up pizzeria and there's this fucking strip club you have no memory of buying and there's this weird fucko in the foxy suit. casual monday

[writing-forever]

How would your OCs reacted to the boops?

Oh! Thanks for the ask my fren!

Hmm I don’t have many OCs but…

Star Light: Would be very confused and kinda grossed out if it was a stranger. But from friends they’d giggle and boop back!

Leia: Would be annoyed and think you were patronizing her. Would probably bite you.

Beth: Would be surprised. And then she’d boop back. (You guys don’t know who this is yet:3 she’s Leia’s human)

Purity: Would giggle a whole lot. She’d probably fall down laughing and when she got her bearings she’d boop you back.

Alex: Would smile and lean into it. And then try to get more boops by being adorable.

Candy: Would be very suspicious. Did you put something on her nose? What was that for? It better not be a trick.

[sonic-adventure-3]

can't wait to hear your thoughts on [redacted] and tangle's miniseries lol!!!

oh for sure! if i keep on at the pace i’ve been going i should be reading it tmrw :]

[kaleschmidt]

tbh thinking abt it I don't think I could ever come up with a static group of favorite ocs.. like. At least not in a ranking. They're all my faves on different days and I love to rotate them all the time. Albeit some more than others

[sapphia]

death of nz neoliberalism 2026 lets gooooo

[thankssteveditko]

Now is probably a good time to talk about my reading order and what I plan on looking at for this blog, because, secretly... I've already skipped a couple things!

It's unfortunately very hard to find good release order reading lists for long-running Marvel series, but I'm currently mainly going off of the Complete Marvel Reading Order list for all of Earth-616 Spider-Man's appearances. This seems to be based primarily off of release dates, but with things slightly shuffled around so that multi-part stories don't get interrupted as much. Which is exactly what I want! But this list also contains 4273 comic appearances and counting as of September 2023, and, quite frankly? I ain't reading all that

So, what's my current strategy?

I'm going to TRY and read everything focused on the main universe Spider-Man. This, of course, means Amazing Spider-Man and future side-series such as Spectacular Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, etc. Key word here is "try."

I am NOT covering every single cameo Peter has ever made in other heroes' series. I'm peeking at these to see how interesting these guest appearances seem and using my own discretion on what to cover. I've already skipped two guest spots where it seemed like they were just trying to plug Spider-Man on other books. Other things, like Peter meeting popular heroes for the first time, may seem more worthwhile.

I'm going to look at Marvel Team-Up because that's basically a Spider-Man series in all but name, but I can't promise I'll cover all 150 issues of it. We'll see. I may do some skipping with that

I am NOT planning on covering every spinoff starring characters such as Venom, Spider-Woman, Miles, etc. I may make some exceptions for stuff that's particularly good, but there are a LOT of spinoffs. It adds up

And honestly I don't really know what I'm gonna do when Peter starts joining teams like the Avengers and the Fantastic Four but that's a decision for future Bobby to make

And big crossover events...? I don't know. Those hurt my brain. Ask me how I'm gonna cover those when I get to Secret Wars in the '80s

Again, as I said up front with this blog, I'm running things differently than how TKP operates. I can read every single thing in the Archie Sonic universe and go into greater detail because that's only like 500-something issues total for a universe that's now over forever. Peter Parker continues to appear in multiple new comic issues every week. I'll be missing out if I only cover Amazing Spider-Man and none of the side material, but I have to be able to skim or outright skip stuff if I'm to retain my sanity.

[leftistfeminista]

How Marxist-Feminist prisoners resisted prison uniforms

Yes, tension had diminished for a while, but now it came roaring back. The enemy didn’t implement all our demands. He withdrew many of the rights we’d fought for or never put them into practice at all. He censored the newspapers—he cut out the most important articles before we got them. Books we ordered arrived after months of waiting because they were supposedly being “examined.” He rejected requests made by the prisoners’ representatives. He wanted to keep us from knowing that our resistance could ever succeed, and to keep us in constant fear.

Uncertainty was brewing. Communication between the wards remained difficult, but some messages from the men reached us, verbal and written, saying that the enemy now insisted on them singing the national anthem once a week, addressing the captain as “commander,” and counting off. What did we think about it? they asked. “If you don’t go along with it, then we won’t either,” the men wrote. But another message said they’d decided: “We decided to stick to the agreement for a while, to see what the administration would do.” That bothered me. So far, the enemy had failed to force us [women] to address him as “commander.”

For a time, our representative had said “commander” during roll call, when she called out her number, but we’d stopped that too. We’d sidestepped a lot of rules or just ignored them. For us to start following that rule now, when we hadn’t before, would be a big setback, and it would mean we were submitting to military discipline. I wrote back, “We won’t abide by your decision. It puts the whole resistance in a bad light.” The men criticized that but let us decide for ourselves. We communicated our decision to the representatives, to the other prisoners, and to the families, who made a joint petition to the military commander.

We informed the lawyers, but they were even more useless than our families—they did nothing. The prison authorities issued a new order: “Every prisoner is a soldier and is to be treated like a soldier.” It went on and on. And then finally a rumor started that we were to get prison uniforms. Uniforms! We couldn’t imagine it—we thought of the striped convict garb in American films. Were they going to make us wear standardized blouses and skirts or shorts? We laughed about it, but seriously, what did it signal about the prison? The men friends warned all wards: “The purpose of the uniforms is to create a unitary human type. They are an attack on the resistance. We will refuse to wear them.”

We took to wearing several layers of underwear under our normal clothes, in case the enemy tried to take them away. The idea of being stripped made us cringe. The soldiers would certainly attack if they set eyes on naked or half-naked women. It would be ugly. But we were determined to refuse the uniforms. Nor would we take a step backwards or give up improvements we’d gained in the death fast. Then we heard that some of the men had been isolated for defying or insulting the soldiers. When we saw them in the courtroom or the infirmary, they looked pale because they were being denied time in the exercise yard. Diseases were spreading. None of the TKP women prisoners were forced to comply with the new rules, due to their conciliatory attitude toward the enemy.

 On January 1, 1984, our uprising began. We built barricades, placing iron beds and tables at the doors. The steel lockers were as tall as the doors, and the inner and outer doors were separated by only a short distance. The soldiers were afraid to open the outer door. Looking in through the slot, they just saw a steel locker. [Unlike the 1983 death fast, leadership cadre did not organize this action. The morale, experience, and confidence gained by the September 1983 resistance enabled broad participation.] Knowing they’d throw smoke bombs in through the door slots, we taught all the prisoners how to cover their mouth and nose with a damp cloth. We banged plates against the iron window frames and against the doors, making a racket. We chanted slogans, and sang revolutionary songs, and recited poetry. That was how we protested torture—we didn’t have any other way. The barricades reminded me of what I’d read about the Paris Commune. The people and resistance units had built barricades on the streets and fought behind them. We knew about barricades from novels and movies.

Now we were constructing them ourselves, under very different conditions. Our only weapons were our beliefs, our will, and our naked bodies. At the moment, only our voices were fighting. The enemy could still break open the door, tear down walls, or come in through the windows—but we didn’t care. The important thing was to make it as hard as we could for him. Later we found out that barricades had been erected in many other wards as well. But prisoners were still dragged to the movie theater. Those who refused to wear uniforms were stripped naked and tortured. Those who capitulated and accepted the rules were housed in a ward together.

[tinykuroshitsujipics]

1,000 follower celebration event!

In honor of this blog getting to 1,000 followers (thanks!), voters agreed that we should have a little event! See poll: here

So for the rest of November, send in your requests and I'll draw you some tiny kuro pics!

Be sure to specify in the ask that it's for the event, otherwise I'd probably get confused just getting an ask that says like "sebastian" or something

All event pics will be tagged with "#tkp celebration", so if you'd like to just stick to the regular pictures, feel free to

Again, thank y'all all so much, and I look forward it!

[thankskenpenders]

What's your opinion on Lanolin?

Lanolin rules. One of the most interesting additions to the main cast in a while. I like that she's allowed to be kind of grumpy and antisocial and unlikable despite unquestionably being one of the good guys. She's just the one who treats the Restoration as an actual job. She's a normal person who just wanted to help at a time of crisis, and quickly ran into the limits of what she's capable of and became kind of jaded about it. That's way more interesting to me than if she was just the Cute Nice Sheep Girl who got along with everyone. She'd be so forgettable like that. Tangle already has enough besties! Instead Lanolin's the straight man. She's the tsukkomi. This gives her so much dramatic and comedic potential.

I like that she was allowed to fuck up so stupendously by allowing Mimic onto the team, something that I just know she's going to have to answer for once shit hits the fan. And BOY is that going to be some juicy drama for her. (Her most vocal haters seem, like... strangely oblivious to the fact that she's obviously been set up to fail and have to learn from her mistakes with the Mimic situation? Oh no, a story has a conflict that wasn't immediately resolved! How scandalous!) She also works extremely well in the current arc as the stingy race official who becomes pitted against Sonic when he starts interfering with the race as the Phantom Rider. That's such a great use of her character. Like, yeah, she's gonna be the no-fun narc who tries to catch the Phantom Rider, but also, like... interfering with the race puts people in danger! Sometimes you NEED a no-fun narc around as a foil!

As others have already put it on Twitter: she's the Squidward. Sometimes your story just needs a Squidward.

(Maybe I'm a little biased. Anyone who's played my game knows I think it's very funny to take a lesbian couple where one of them is a troubled introvert and the other is an excitable extrovert and give them a third wheel girl who's like "oh my god can you two stop staring into each other's eyes long enough for us to do our fucking job." Why aren't more people playing up the comedy of this trio)

[fiddles-ifs]

What classical paintings would you assign the ROs?

PANDORAS BOX PANDORAS BOX PANDORAS BOX. Being really normal about this ask thank u

Bautista: Pietá by William-Adolphe Bougureau (1876)

Nazeri: The Leopard Hunt — Paul de Vos

Devin: Judith Slaying Holofernes — Artemesia Gentileschi (c. 1612-1613)

Trace: The Last Judgement (middle triptych) — Hieronemous Bosch

[ponett]

wait, you could have gotten a follow up with Ken himself? did that go very far or were you not interested? i getta imagine even if you dont like his work, asking the man himself about his days on the comic would be illuminating.

I could have. Part of me was definitely curious, since there's so much we don't know about what was going on behind the scenes at Archie and Ken's one of the few people still interested in talking about it. But it's also like... I dunno, I just like to keep some distance between me as a critic and him as a creator. I can talk about his work, I can talk about things he's said publicly about his work, but I don't need to drag him directly into it. It's the same reason why I've never interacted with him directly on Twitter, even though people loooooooove to get into arguments with him about Sonic shit. As critical as I've been of both him and his work, I have zero desire to grill him in person.

Were I to interview him, there are basically two paths I see here:

Option A: I do a totally cordial softball interview, magically putting aside my well-established opinions on the guy from my decade spent running TKP, and use it as an opportunity to get some more insight into the creation of the comics from him. And then what? I go right back to poking fun at him on my Tumblr blog that has his name in the URL? I'm pretty soft on the guy these days compared to all the Sonic fans out there who think he's The Literal Devil, but still, there's no way for this to not feel like entrapment to me. Like I'm just playing nice so he can give me ammo for when I turn around and continue poking fun at his work and his occasional legal threat. And even if I never use anything he says in that interview against him, since I finished covering his Archie Sonic run for the blog years ago rarely have any reason to even bring him up, my audience will sure as hell comb through every word he says to find more coal for the hate train.

Option B: I'm more critical of him to his face, in which case I'm basically just bullying a kinda pathetic old man, who's already alienated most of his peers and committed career suicide, for writing some children's comics I didn't like 20-30 years ago. There is not a single iota of me that wants to turn into Ken's equivalent of that asshole who paid to be a guest on the BumbleKast just to ask Ian Flynn a bunch of questions that boiled down to "hey so this story you wrote sucked, why'd you write it that way?"

It just doesn't feel right to me no matter how you slice it. Ken's not some monstrous public figure who needs to get held accountable for his actions in an interview or something. At the end of the day, it's just comics. It's not that serious. He can continue making his weird little Lara-Su Chronicles comics and putting his foot in his mouth of his own accord, and I can continue being like "lol remember when Knuckles got called a 'proud man-child' at his own funeral" as a side thing to my own creative career, and never the twain shall meet

[laplacesdevil]

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2 ALL WHO CELEBRATE... I did a redux of my previous attempt of this from 2021 now that i have a better understanding of dayshifting + stuffz, AND also had (most) of the original lines. yippee!

[aquillis-main]

Fukurou was trying to remain neutral as possible, she wasnt taking sides. She replied to an anon ask, and you replied bringing up drama she knew nothing about. It was basically forcing her to take a side, which she didnt want to do.

And it's not cool to make callout posts about her and to tell people not to follow her.

Again, show me where Fukurou was trying to 'remain neutral as possible' in any of the reblogs I was given. Because as far as I can tell, she wasn't. I didn't even ask her to take a side, I literally wanted her to be wary of TKP because of obvious evidence that TKP would throw fukurou under the bus first chance TKP got.

Also, hate to bring up other people's own experiences with her, but she has a rather awful habit of being rude to anyone who dares immediately respond to her posts, whether positively or negatively. Take a look at her response to Crusher here when he made a light-hearted joke. A joke that, really, wasn't even at her and rather for those who were into painting Eggman like he was some good guy. Notice how she was instantly rude and aggressive to him, even though all he did was say 'thanks!' for her post?