just wanted to begin by saying i adore your art and comics! they're all so delightfully whimsical and it always makes my day better to see one.
i wanted to ask where the idea of people not knowing what a basement is in the twst world came from? was it a bit you came up with to have no one question the basement man purely because they don't know what the former thing is? is the pomefiore basement rebranded the dungeon of doom in your ramshacklies au? are basements a relic of the past existing only in ramshackle? will we ever get to see ramshackles basement?
apologies for reading way too into a silly bit, i just started seeing connection and now i have strings and a dream
thank you! :> I am afraid I must admit it's basically just a reference to the Mister Basement sketch by Neil Cicierega -- Swing living down there and being called Mister Basement wasn't actually an (intentional) reference by itself, but once I started calling him that, I couldn't not throw in a "what's a basement?" every chance I got. (sidenote: if you ever need reference for Skully, watch the Mister Basement sketch, it is basically just 'what if Skully was an obsessive cryptid about basements instead of a holiday'...which makes it all the more ironic that Swing is the one who ended up in the Ramshackle undercarriage 😔)
(the Pomefiore one is technically a dungeon/secret lab so uhhh it doesn't count) (actually I've decided that all Twstland basements are called dungeons, this is in honor of the traditions of the Beautiful Queen or...something. that's -- that's my excuse okay) (now brb I gotta go grab a bag of chips out of the dungeon)
