however, we will finish answering everything in our drafts soon, before we probably go silent (or at least very inactive) until v5. the ask box will stay open, we just won't be checking it as frequently.

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idk bro i liked volume 1 n 2 abt the same but defo id change how the cast reacts to barry always annoyed me personally just how hes a dick and feels like he doesnt get as much pushback unless its from a character that should have their actions treated as evil tho i do not condone unis treatement of barry as it is unprompted - uni

i think v1 is the best! v2 is good too, and v3 has potential, but v1 has the barry surgery scene so it's automatically my favorite. i would like the murder to be put back in the murder hospital, please. -mod polly 🧊

MY PERSONAL FAVORITE IS V1!! I THINK THE SURGERY SCENE REALLY TRULY SHOWS HOW TERRIBLE THE HOSPITAL IS WHICH OTHER VOLUMES FAIL TO DO IMO. FOR CHANGES I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT IF V1 ACTUALLY FOCUSED ON GETTING US MORE INTRODUCED TO THE HOSPITAL AND HOW WEIRD IT IS BEFORE IMMEDIATELY JUMPING TO A ESCAPE ATTEMPT. -🐁🩸

sure, the new features SOUND cool, but... how do they work? how do they look? thats what i want to know!! plus, she'll probably get better feedback and suggestions if kit actually shows us what she's doing!!

and if kits worried about leaking v5. kit doesnt have to. like.. im pretty sure ALL of the new stuff could be demonstrated on some random page from v1,,

also.. if kits doing this on PURPOSE to. like. raise suspense or some shit. thats just fuckin stupid

from what i know, anon, pictures of the new website are exclusively on the patreon, with the text of how it all works being public (and in the "site revamp devlog" tag)! also from what i know, kittycorn isn't just making the website and then releasing it without any feedback - kit's been actively taking suggestions from asks on the tumblr, and i'm sure patreon users are able to suggest changes, too! it would be weird if they couldn't, considering they're getting the actual pictures. i know it's disappointing for the website look to be locked behind a paywall, but kittycorn has also said that there's going to be a questions/suggestions feature on the site once it's live, too!

"New page reserved for bug reports: I've created a page where people can comment problems or bugs they have with the new site or general site feedback/suggestions. This comment section will also be pre-moderated like the other special pages, but you'll receive an email once a moderator replies to your report. Common/important issue reports/suggestions/feedback with their responses will be pinned for easy access."

so it's not all bad, don't worry. it's just going to take time. would it be more efficient for kittycorn to show us the website now? yeah, probably. but at least suggestions are being taken into account at all.

you guys are 2-2 on helping me with these pun names!! thank you so much mod polly, and i can't wait to see your list!!

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you're very welcome, snail anon!!! ^o^ the pun list should be posted in maybe a week or so - we try and get through asks first, and then our own posts second!

in v2, carrie said she used to be in a foster home with her sibling. on the sparklecare tumblr blog, kittycorn has mentioned multiple times that anthries only get kids if the parents all want a kid, and the egg won't hatch until they've proven themself as worthy and good parents. emem also won't send eggs into dangerous places (like the hospital, for example. kids aren't allowed in there anyway, but you get my point).

so the only way for children in this universe to have truly "bad" (by kittycorn standards) parents and get physically abused is if… the parents both die? and the children get sent to foster care? it's not that children can't be traumatized at all - mood and doom are said to have been bullied for their extra limbs, and most of the cometkids have some sort of trauma, too. eve, sly, marco, and wendy, just to name a few. the fact that birth parents can only be good (at the very least, not abusive) and foster parents can not only be good is… kind of a bad message to send!

it's not like it's entirely eliminating child abuse, either - again, children on spinch can be traumatized. kittycorn has just cherry picked the kind of trauma kit thinks is okay for kits characters to have. it's a trauma comic, it's about dysfunctional families, yet… some events are too bad to bring up, so they're magic-ed away? some trauma is okay to bring up and talk about, yet other kinds aren't? why is children being physically abused too bad to talk about, yet the entire cast of sparklecare is covered in scars? sure, they're adults, but that type of thing can happen to children too. how come the cometkids' trauma is a main point to their identities (eve and sly and wendy, specifically), but anything past emotional abuse is too far?

it sends the message that some types of trauma are more worthy to be talked about than other types. it's supposed to be a comic about representation, yet anything kittycorn doesn't like is thrown to the side and pretended like it doesn't exist.

i don't care that pregnancy doesn't exist, that's not the problem. the problem is that the faux pregnancy (eggs) come with rules. what clarifies a "good" parent from a "bad" parent? kids can not like their parents yet they can still be "good" - as seen in cometcare.

i understand there has to be some sort of solution to a kid that doesn't have any parents to take care of them, but this doesn't feel right.

that is true, anon! i don't know how it slipped my mind that pages... aren't drawn when they drop. that would be not a good way to make a comic.

however, i still think some of my point still stands. since around v3 (2022), barry has been drawn skinny consistently, and it wasn't until 2024 that that was fixed. that's two years of fans being told a character is supposed to be fat, but the creator kitself not even putting in the time or effort to draw it. of course a lot of the fandom draws barry skinny! he was skinny for a while! to the point where there was even a popular fan theory that the hospital was starving him, and that's why he lost weight! but no, he was always supposed to be fat. personally, i would've ran with the theory, because the fact that you just... stopped drawing your character accurately? is really embarrassing. i'm not an artist, but kittycorn has shown in the past kit can draw fat people, and kit can now suddenly draw fat people again. it's strange that there was a break like that.

i don't know if i should edit my other post's text, since it's already been reblogged, but i'll probably put a link to this ask in it for clarification about the dates! thank you!

here's a list of not great things in no particular order. not adding pictures because this post is already long enough as is, but go and reread the volume and you'll see what i mean.

v4 ended on march 30 2024, and the new v5 sparklecare ref sheets started to drop march 12 2024. kittycorn is suddenly able to draw barry fat again out of nowhere after not doing so since around the start of v3. it would've been nice if squeak drew him fat in the actual volume that was releasing at the time. here's a link to an ask i got that clarifies the dates/posting schedule of the comic.

uni being annoyed by barry and making fun of him, but only three pages later she gets frustrated at cyn for making fun of barry. sure, there's a timeskip, but... consistency, much?

the scene after cuddles berating uni could have been impactful if we weren't told constantly by kittycorn that this volume doesn't have any gore or violence in it (and if you didn't hear about it from squeak, the volume's cover says it as well). i understand needing warnings for things, but it's a warning for something that... doesn't happen? all of the tension from that scene - the question of whether uni did something or not, considering the large amount blood on the floor - is made completely pointless. the comic wants to act like there's an important moment happening, but at the same time, the comic itself made the moment boring because it told you there was nothing to worry about beforehand.

on the same note of cuddles berating uni - it's not executed well. his point about it not being the same type of puppet is... correct. sure, he's being a dick to uni and uni only, but his design mirrors uni. there's clearly something going on there. it's so obviously being written as a mouthpiece for kittycorn to state squeaks feelings. which is fine, it's squeaks comic, but it isn't written well. "people don't like my art, why are they attacking me :(" because people are allowed to have opinions about the main writer and artist of the comic they like, maybe? having the comic people are reading change all of a sudden to only comfort versus the commentary on the medical system and trauma that it was originally stated to be is going to make some people upset!

carrie is a dick to mood for basically no reason. uni locks herself in her room, carrie and barry can't get it open, so mood uses her keys to open it. cool! and then mood offers to clean kneevil instead of just throwing him away (as we're shown they have to do to comfort objects in v2). so then why does carrie make a slight at mood about her job to her? mood is a nurse, isn't she? so she's not even harming the patients! even if it's carrie taking out her anger about doom to his sister instead, it's still a weird moment to do it -- right after mood did nothing but help them.

"Why don't you go back and do something with your magic, dude? That's a talent you have, you're good at it."

"...I don't wanna freak out Barry any more though, bro... my magic stresses him out..."

"...you can do something with your magic, even if it confuses me, I'll be fine. If it would make you happy, do anything you want."

barry shouldn't have to sacrifice his own comfort and put aside his own feelings in order to make uni happy. also, when being yelled at by carrie, barry just says and accepts he's a jerk instead of defending himself? because the only reason he's being a dick to uni in the first place is because uni was a dick to him first (making fun of barry after he tried apologizing for something, which has been stated in the past to be hard for him). he was made fun of after being vulnerable, of course he's going to be a jerk to uni! but no, now he's completely in the wrong and uni is perfect and good in every way and did nothing wrong just because she's sad? that's not how that works! if uni (and carrie to a lesser extent) keep riling barry up, of course he's going to snap and act like a dick! why are they surprised that annoying somebody makes them act shitty to you due to them finding you annoying? you can't be intentionally annoying someone and expect there to be no consequences, or be mad/weirded out when there are consequences!

mood is scared by kneevil with the giant butterfly despite kittycorn stating that bugs are the only thing that mood and doom eat, and that them only eating bugs is supposed to be an attempt at writing an eating disorder. it's brushed off later with mood saying "nah. it didn't scare me that bad.", despite her being visibly uncomfortable a few pages earlier.

uni using her stupid perfect vision goggles to sew the puppets in this volume instead of kittycorn having to write squeaks blind character as actually blind. uni isn't supposed to have scissors or needles in the first place due to her being a self harm risk, so sure, the staff probably wouldn't help her with making puppets. but she could ask barry or carrie! maybe even jay! or any other friends she might have, considering she's spent nine years at the hospital!

barry should not be cool with barrific existing. it's been made a point throughout the comic that he hates and is distressed by magic due to it triggering his schizophrenia -- why would he be cool with seeing a puppet based on himself that's made alive due to magic? yes, i get that it's the famous barry puppet comic joke, but barry should be upset about this, not just shocked for a single panel and then completely fine with seeing magical sentient/sapient puppets the rest of the volume. barry should be panicking and hiding from all these shenanigans, or be mad, or something other than completely fine with it.

kneevil is able to trap barrific and barry in a cage... so why hasn't uni used her magic to stop cuddles in literally any way? i talk about this in more detail here.

the entire ending. or, more specifically, right before the ending, with kneevil crying and barrific apologizing. uni/kneevil is able to treat her/his friends like shit and don't get any sort of consequences for it. i go into more depth here about it (because trust me, it is written bad).

why are the sex jokes so constant? everyone has already said there's too many sex jokes already but sometimes less really is more. there should've been less.