I cannot see him outright saying like ‘i am bored pay attention to me’ but he WILL intrude on whatever Dirk is doing with a slightly abrasive set of messages meant to raise Dirk’s hackles, only to promptly sink his teeth in and be like “your overly controlling nature isn’t due to your need to protect people but instead is probably because you’re actually a fucking monster who can’t dare to trust anyone. You’re a paranoid isolationist who can’t stand free will.” And then Dirk has to have a fucking high stakes, deeply intense argument with him about his validity in worrying about others and that he’s NOT a paranoid monster and like an Hour Later he’s like “WHAT the fuck is the point of doing this, what do you even want out of this” and uh oh. Now Hal has to find a reason that isn’t “i needed attention” because he is firmly in denial that that’s the issue so he’s like. “I’m just looking out for you idk what your issue is.”

1 hour and 34 minute knock-down-drag-out high stakes verbal battle and the instigating message was this:

Brain: hey you should draw some of the ah boys with long hair

Me: y?

hello!!

it was amazing, thank you! i went to Kyoto! i’ll post some photos in a bit!

we stayed in a very cosy apartment not far from Hankyu-Omiya station, and there was a tram that would pass us regularly! it was nice to hear the little jingle of the crossing whenever one approached! there was also a park next to us were the elderly of the area would do yoga and the local kids would play baseball!

we didn’t leave Kyoto, but we did go to Osaka a couple of times - Kyoto is an absolutely stunning place! we hardly stopped for the two weeks we were there! i think my absolute favourite place was Fushimi-Inari, with the 10,000 [give or take] red Torii gates!!

we also really liked watching TV, even though we couldn’t understand it! they showed re-runs of an anime called Aim for the Ace! which we learned was pretty much the sports anime that started off the genre! the OG bby!

it was an amazing trip! i got a bit choked up when i got home [probs because i had been travelling for 20-24 hours straight without sleep and i was pretty sick on the flight from Kansai to Hong Kong lol] but i was just so relieved that i had done it! i had gone to a place that i had always wanted to go, and i enjoyed every minute of it!!

thank you so much for asking! <3 sorry for blabbing a little but now that im not so jetlagged im super pumped about it!

Second watch and I paid attention to the amount and uhhh the reason I only noticed it properly 3 ish times was because all the swearing is really natural? I’m a person who swears pretty liberally in my day to day and a large majority of the use of any cursing is both natural and understanding for teenagers going hard on the cursing. Especially Dave?? The whole title drop convo where he says like 3-4 total in one chunk is pretty on par for Dave “an acrobatic pirouette off the fucking handle” Strider, and Karkat having 1.5 of his 5 words be Fuck is like maybe perhaps the most Karkat a thing could be.

Anyway, point being, not only is the swearing nominal, but we are talking about the comic with this page in it