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ohhh noooooo

Date of origin: April 13, 2012

the most fun way to do ancestors-and-parents in humanstuck au is to make the ancestor story happen at the same time as the descendant story but i feel like nobody else does this. like eridan's dad gets put in the electric chair the same day he has a big fight with feferi

this doesn't affect the outcome of eridan and feferi's fight in any way though it was always going to happen. he doesn't even find out his dad has been executed for being bad at jokes until the next day (in this universe the police force is still run by juggalos)

September 9, 2024

calliope's "unreliable narration" has kind of become a big conversation topic in the last couple years wrt classpects and gender biases etc but do you think we as a people are ready to have the talk about limebloods. because all that stuff she said about them having weird names and super powerful abilities and all being extinct was literally just her making some shit up so that her troll oc could be more special and unique than everybody else's and they only have to appear in hiveswap now because nobody got the joke back in 2013 and they took the whole thing deadly serious

when you think of trolls as having an insectoid social structure it can sometimes seem redundant that they essentially have two "queens" in the form of the mother grub and the condesce. and i've heard exactly this used as an argument, that "it doesn't make sense to interpret meenah as an insect queen because the mother grub is the insect queen". but trolls having what amounts to 12 genders means that, for trolls, what we think of as 2 gender roles are actually divided up between those 12 castes. so while two queens might seem redundant to a human because in our understanding "queen" or "mother" is just one gender, to a troll the role of "mother" has actually been divided into two different roles; the mother who gives birth and the mother who raises the child. which probably has a lot to do with why meenah finds sex and childbirth to be so disgusting!

looking at it like this could probably go some way to dispelling the confusion around alternia's "drones", too. the question (or assertion) i often hear is "how can drones be anything like ant or bee drones - the males of the colony - when it's trolls, not drones, who are providing the genetic material to the mother grub?" again, what we really see is that sex, reproduction and the social structure have been carefully partitioned from each other: the role of "providing genetic material" has been made totally separate from the role of actually "inseminating the queen", just as the drone's role as breeding male has almost nothing in common with the highblood's role as patriarchal male!

momfang cradling her own head in her arms because she was executed by guillotine... dude. everything

i totally think mindfang died by guillotine too btw. i know mindfang and spidermom being the same damn thing is the theme of today's chapter but i think the comic itself hints at this. vriska's guillotine attack is called "guillotine de la marquise" which leads hussie to ask in the printed commentary: "Since these dice belonged to Mindfang at one point [...] did she have to guillotine her own spider mom too?" - but we know that's not true because mindfang's lusus was swallowed whole by pyralspite. so the attack being called "marquise's guillotine" presumably alludes to something else, which i can only guess is mindfang's involvement in the revolution that ultimately ended in her own death... oh hey that's a parallel to vriska making tavros kill her too