MEENAH: why you gotta play me like that blue boy
JOHN: like what?
JOHN: like not letting you stab me for no reason?
MEENAH: YEA)( exactly!
MEENAH: you got no clue how bad im needing to spear something
MEENAH: could at least lemme fork you a lil
ROSE: Yes, John. You are being terribly inconsiderate of Meenah's needs right now.
MEENAH: sea roseweed gets it
MEENAH: hang still a mo imma line this up
MEENAH: you dont need all those legs right
JOHN: if you throw your trident at me again, i will stick it some place you will not be able to retrive it so easily.
ROSE: (Hot.)
JOHN: (oh, don't you start.)
ROSE: (But you've set me up so well!)
ROSE: (I gotta.)
ROSE: You know, I have wondered on occasion, what IS it about John that inspires such enmity from so many individuals of the troll race.
JOHN: (rolling my damn eyes)
MEENAH: wat
MEENAH: nah
MEENAH: i dont )(ATE hate him or nofin its just
MEENAH: LOOK at his dumb dork face okay
MEENAH: face like thats just crying for some bad sea bitch to grab her fork and jam it through his squishy blue torso.
MEENAH: just get it reel deep in there
MEENAH: squelch it around all stabwise
JOHN: meenah, what did i say about aiming your trident at me?
MEENAH: ...s'chool so long i dont actunally jab ya?
JOHN: no.
MEENAH: dang
MEENAH: you being a real buzzbait blue kid
JOHN: i am ok with that.
ROSE: Interesting.
ROSE: And your most overwhelmingly murderous longings are restricted to John and, from what I have gleaned previously, Feferi?
MEENAH: cutie peixes?
MEENAH: naw thats a different thing
ROSE: Is it truly?
MEENAH: yeah
MEENAH: shes my descendant or whatever
MEENAH: my royal blood instincts think she finna take me out and steelhead my throne
MEENAH: not that i even ever wanted a throne
MEENAH: or got a life any moray to take
MEENAH: stupid forkin instincts
MEENAH: but this blue pj dweeb is just some rando whose organs got a bad case of insuFIS)(ent ventilation
ROSE: And you're certain about that.
MEENAH: i was
MEENAH: but smiling like that makes me think you winding up to a big chunk of words so...
MEENAH: prob not then?
MEENAH: fin lets have it already
ROSE: Fin.
ROSE: You are familiar with your Alternian self, who grew up to become Empress of that world?
MEENAH: yeah!
ROSE: And that she outlived the death of her universe, and later became the ruler of Earth as well? Not the particular version of Earth we hail from, mind you, but an Earth nonetheless?
MEENAH: 38)
ROSE: In that timeline, your counterpart adopted its variant of John. Took him under her fin.
MEENAH: adopted
ROSE: Yes. Embarked on a long term human style familiar relationship, not entirely dissimilar to that of a lusus naturae and its charge.
MEENAH: like
MEENAH: she culled him???
MEENAH: man aint she too chill for that fishshit
ROSE: I... wouldn't say.
JOHN: (hah.)
ROSE: But for humans, we'd have seen her as positioning him to be her descendant.
ROSE: Her heir.
ROSE: So on the level of your collective individual unconscious, you might indeed percieve of John as a relation.
ROSE: Specifically, as your son. In which case, it must be a case of sublimation.
ROSE: And it is a reverse oedipal impulse driving your allconsuming urge to thrust your unsheathed spear into the most inviting portions of John's torso and, as you say, squelch it around in there.
ROSE: Until you have reached full personal satisfaction.
MEENAH: hmm...
MEENAH: shore?
MEENAH: like i aint understood all them fancy human words but
MEENAH: checks out i guess
ROSE: ...
MEENAH: what
ROSE: (I have lived in close quarters with trolls for three years.)
ROSE: (You'd think I would eventually learn.)
JOHN: (if it cheers you up at all, *i* am feeling incredibly uncomfortable right now!)
ROSE: (Honestly? A little.)
In case you did not decode the last news update's SECRET CLUE.... WhatPumpkin will be at Emerald City Comic Con once again this year!
So if you are in Seattle this April 7-10, you should stop by and say hi, and also purchase many of our fine t-shirts.
And if you aren't a kickstarter backer, this is your chance to play the Hiveswap sneak preview yourself, instead of being stuck watching strangers make silly choices on youtube. And maybe... your chance to play a DIFFERENT sneak preview????
I know what you're wondering, because I've gotten approximately a zillion inquiries about this: will I personally be in Seattle to meet fans this April 7-10, or will I be too busy doing cries into my keyboard?
(That's a trick question btw. Those things are not mutually exclusive.)
Hiveswap update!!!!! Read it here. It is pretty exciting news, I think, and I am unsurprised to discover that you agree with me completely.
Kickstarter backers will have noticed that they've been sent a playable sneak preview, but if that's not you, there MAY still be an opportunity to get your greedy peepers on it? (And by "may" I of course mean "will definitely".)
It's going to be a surprise, but just between me and you and the millions of other people reading this website, I'll let you have a teensy hint. See if you can decipher the SECRET CLUE:
Homestuck will be on pause until next Monday, but seriously who cares about that when you could be finding out about some awesome new MSPA merchandise!
Hey! You! Did you hear that there's awesome new MSPA merchandise?
Maybe you have been dreaming of a shirt that screams into the world's eyeballs that you are one groovy dude who loves Homestuck? (These things are synonyms.)
Wow!!!! Looks like your dreams just got turned into true reality!
But wait! There is something even more guaranteed to blow your mind with it's unbelievable astoundingness. Homestuck panel prints are a thing now!
For many years it's seemed like an impossible idea, since animation effects don't work on paper, and also every Homestuck panel is online anyway?
But our greatest MSPA scientists have been working on the problem non-stop for years, abacuses and slide rules snapping, test-tubalizers being carefully examined under microscopificators, and at last they have sent word over the mail-electronifier that there's been a breakthrough! Homestuck: solved forever!!!!
These are lenticular prints, which you may have seen on movie posters or really neat backpacks? The secret is that, when you move the image, it appears to flip between frames... kind of exactly like an animated gif that just got turned into true reality! What's left that HASN'T been turned into true reality anymore?
Here are some examples you can click on to see how they work, and you can peruse all 12 at the Homestuck store.
I was so blown away by this technological advancement, I immediately set to work making the next Homestuck book entirely out of lenticular images. Finally, it will offer a full and accurate MsPaintAdventures.com experience.
In unrelated news, the next Homestuck book will be 5 feet wide and $10,000 a copy.
Awwwwwwwwww. (Everyone: Awwwwwwwwwwww.) That was adorable!
Make sure and check the credits page to meet all the contributors who just injected a live kitten directly into your heart. (Awwwwwwww!)
I bet this update sure has you feeling smug that you ordered a pack of MSPA Quadrant Day cards in time for YOUR Quadrant Day celebrations!
What's that? You DIDN'T? (Readers who have their life priorities in order, this paragraph isn't meant for you. You may resume feeling smug.) Well, who said that Quadrant Day is February 14th, anyway. Other than me, I guess??? And now I'm saying that the holiday officially occurs 6 to 8 weeks from the moment you chose to gently caress this news post with your wibbling peep orbs.
Whew! Cutting it close, aren't you? Better hurry and order a set RIGHT NOW.