how fucking arrogant can you be to think any eugenics program could ever weed out “fascist genetics”. even if the “dark triad” was a reliable precursor to fascist ideology and even if “dark triad traits” could be reliably linked to genotype (they aren’t and they can’t be), how fucking far to jupiter are you if you think you can remove it from a population of seven billion, let alone in some “anarchist” manner? how do you programmatically sterilize anyone in an “anarchist” manner?

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

at the end of the day it’s not that you hate your job - actually, you like working, you like routine, you like feeling like an adult - it’s that any time you fuck anything up, you feel like you’re fucking dying.

because you could be actually fucking dying. because if one day you wake up and you misunderstood something - you could lose your job, and nobody is hiring, and nobody is paying, and nobody takes people like you, and that job you want hasn’t gotten back to you. and what exactly are you going to do without insurance? good luck with those meds. you should have thought of that before being a person.

so it’s not just that you forgot to CC someone on an email, it’s that if you don’t have this job, you can’t afford rent. it’s not that you misread a comment, it’s that if you get fired, you will be in massive amounts of unpayable debt. it’s not that you are bad at your job, but here are the stakes as they have been decided for you: be perfect or fucking die. like, literally, die. that is how much safety net you have: none.

it’s not burnout, technically. but you literally just had two typos in your work, and you’re already picturing the ending. you want to throw up & curl up & make it all go away. it is two typos. if he decides he is mad at you, you lose literally everything.

your mom says that you seem stressed. the thing is that you have never known a job that isn’t stressful. welcome to capitalism. there is no other road, only this one. what the fuck is a career. you come here, and we hold your life against the barrel of a gun, and somewhere someone is spinning the chamber and pulling. eventually the bullet will come.

you live in a mugging. your boss owns three cars and has four kids. you worry about having enough to feed your dog. good luck. beg for forgiveness. CC the right people next time and be grateful, kid. somebody has it worse than you. someone, probably, has it worse than you. so what if you can’t sleep or eat or focus. your work chat sound literally makes you panic. you had to change the sounds of computer notifications so you’d stop having such an upset stomach.

welcome to the real world! the rat race! the dog eat dog circus!

your doctor studies the results and frowns at you. “it’s bad for your heart,” she says. “try to reduce your levels of stress.”

you go into this persons house to ask for the recipe & the next thing your skeleton is being hurled back out the front door picked clean

finally finished all of vol 12 today and i loved every last bit of it ^u^ i cant help but notice the intense foreshadowing of events to come, the place that exists since before TIME, the youngest daughter of Gl'bgolyb, if breaking the circle or keep it going. noticed at least 2 or 3 things like that alluding to 2 very specific trolls and im absolutely looking forward to it ^u^ this has become officially one of my favorite games ever ^u^ (also it was such a lovely surprise to come across Aradia and getting to talk to her ^u^) (also she looks positively huggable) (also also does Aradia knows cat Aradia exists? does she have any thoughts about that)?) also Reader FINALLY remembering Remele after her being "present" since vol 1 also i have been meaning to ask, is Karako mute or is she partially mute?

Glad you're enjoying it! And yeah, there's some intense foreshadowing going on for the next couple volumes. Also, huge props to the Barzum/Baizli voice actor for nailing the possessed version of the voices.

Aradia is not only aware of Aradia (cat), she named Aradia (cat). That joke actually goes back to the original source for those sprites, which was a game that's no longer being produced by our studio (its in new hands, but the old assets are being scrapped in favor of a different direction). She had four cats, all of whom she named after other trolls she knows. So we kept the cat names the same.

Karako is mute with the ability to verbalize the honks, which is the same as in canon. We briefly toyed with the idea of making a sound for the honks but tbh there wasn't really a way to make it sound natural and not cartoonish, which wasn't really the idea. When she's speaking with italics, that's just indicating that she's using a combination of pointing at words and signs that MSPAR can understand.

We also had plans for a slightly more involved use of ASL where MSPAR would be able to learn phrases and start to directly understand Karako better, but that got scrapped just in terms of how easy it was to write for and implement.

HAPPY HOMESTUCK DAY :::; ) no secrets for my fandom lore here

highblood grub trolls!

lowblood trolls here

should have been ::::) cuz they're a spider lol

Gonna start using this day to day to lightly imply I may actually be a spider ::::)

forgot to post about this when it happened but here’s what my cousin (who is cisgender & in her 40s) got me for christmas. like imagine my face opening this

i know she just clicked two things on my wishlist but it’s seriously the funniest gift combination i’ve ever received in my life.

Hi. I'm Nesha: Black, queer, female, mentally ill, physically unwell, financially vulnerable, socially disengaged, and geographically on my own.

I'm cat mom to an elderly blind long hair domestic and live in an area with a high cost of living and constantly increasing unhoused population.

Creating this because the last one has fizzled out.

As of April 2024:

What comes every month and hasn't been paid is rent & water, electricity, gas, car insurance, rental insurance, and medicine.

What is currently past due and has to be settled for legal purposes is the IRS robbing me and fees for the apartment owners filing eviction papers for late rent.

What I'm begging for: Anything you have. I currently can not meet a single bill. Thank you.

I have PayPal

I have CashApp

I have Venmo

i can do you one better. my ex partner broke up with me for reading homestuck because it was too problematic. we were together for 4+ whole years

WHAT?

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