candroid:

fuckyeahoochomestuckcharacters:

“in the troll world, becoming sober is kind of like being drunk in the human world”

no.

also, if i’m not mistaken, even when gamzee calms down after the shoosh-pap, he’s still sober. so doesn’t he continue to type with lines alternating between caps? (unless he started eating sopor again…? i haven’t been keeping up with hs, so i dunno.)

If I remember correctly, AND I’M PROLLY REMEMBERING WRONG AND GONNA MAKE AN ASS OF MYSELF AGAIN, I don’t think Gamzee has spoken since Karkat shoosh pap’d him. But yes he would still be sober. and he ran out of the slime.

Gamzee has actually spoken since going sober. but very sparingly. During [s] Cascade, he talks to Doc Scratch using Vriska’s husktop. He uses caps alternately on his lines in that short convo. It has to have been after he was shoosh-papped, seeing as he wouldn’t have had access to Vriska’s husktop on the roof with the other trolls present before that moment.

Also, when he is Jane’s guide, he speaks in alternating lines

TAVRISPRITE: D::::{
JANE: AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!
GAMZEE: honk.

[…]

TAVRISPRITE: hOW, fUUUUUUUUCKING MUCH,
TAVRISPRITE: iIIIIIII,
TAVRISPRITE: H88888888te myself right now, !!!!!!!!
GAMZEE: HONK.
JANE: Quiet, you!

No worries about not remembering. It is kind of a detail thing.

He also talks briefly in the first act six intermission, again with alternating lines.

GAMZEE: honk.
KARKAT: WHAT.
GAMZEE: HONK.
KARKAT: WHAT DOES HONK MEAN THIS TIME YOU WHIMSICAL PIECE OF SHIT?????
KARKAT: DON’T YOU START WITH ME
KARKAT: DO. NOT. START WITH ME.
KARKAT: I WILL GET YOU IN A HEADLOCK SO TIGHT IT WILL BE A MIRACLE IF PEOPLE DON’T MISTAKE OUR TUSSLE FOR AN ILL CONCEIVED VENTRILOQUIST ACT.
KARKAT: I WILL SHOOSH YOU AGAIN, SO HELP ME GOD. I WILL SHOOSH YOUR CLOWN ASS TO SHANGRI-BULLSHIT-LA AND BACK, AND FILL YOUR EAR WITH MY WHITE HOT PALEBRO SPITTLE.
KARKAT: I AM FULL AND FUCKING WELL PREPARED TO GET CONCILIATORY WITH YOU AGAIN IF YOU SO MUCH AS PASS GAS MURDEROUSLY, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
KARKAT: IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT??? DO I NEED TO CALM YOUR FAYGO-STICKY TENTSQUATTING SHIT DOWN AGAIN????
GAMZEE: naw brother, i was just about to all say for you to try and get your settle down on, maybe.
GAMZEE: :o(

Because it’s a lot.

Like a whole lot. Many lots have been rented and leased out for the shipping of Rose/Dave. In my brain. Yeah okay that metaphor doesn’t work but just roll with it okay.

HEADCANON, Dave has like two chest hairs and he’s really proud of them, but also kind of insecure about being proud of them because caring about masculinity is so mainstream and not ironic and you should just BE COOL enough that no one even questions the massive girth of your ego-balls.

But he has these two little blonde chest hairs and he’s super proud of them, and look if he tilts the right way into the light you can see them, see? He’s totes a man now and everything.

Wait…Rose are those tweezers? NO GET AWAY AAAAH HIS BABIES. ;A; Why Rose why?

Why?

Wow that wasn’t even a headcanon that was just me word vomiting with my fingers about chest hair. Whoops. I hope you guys enjoy it.

Okay so earlier I made THIS POST talking about how I just want Amon to be Amon. Episode eight has come and gone and now everyone and their grand uncle thinks that Tarrlok is Amon/working for him. I’m not saying that I don’t see why people might think that, but here’s some things to consider.

Let me direct your attention to these two pictures.

See the skin tone difference in the hands? They’re from THIS and THIS screenshot respectively. Sure the lighting is different in those two shots, but I really doubt it could make quite that much difference.

Secondly, if you make the two opposing sides of the political strife one incredibly manipulative person, or even if you make then two allied people with the same empty power grabbing motive, it takes a lot of the punch out of including a political message at all. I mean why bother setting up a complex climate of political tension with sane arguments but bad reactions on both sides only to have it collapse into Bad Guys want to Rule the city. That would be incredibly disappointing.

Thirdly, Tarrlok’s flinch when Korra says he’s just like Amon. Sure that can be interpreted as an “Oh shit she knows!” moment, but that isn’t what Korra was saying, and from what we know of Tarrlok he can keep up one damn good pokerface. The way I saw it that flinch was a gut reaction to being compared tothe enemy. He views himself as the protector and the steadfast loyal patriotic citizen of Republic City, defending it against the monstrous terrorist threat. I mean he’s probably not that delusional about how clean his motives are, but I think he’s probably just a means justify the end kind of guy who legitimately fears for all benders. When Korra compares him to the terrorist scum, he snaps. 

So yes, Tarrlok is escalating just like Amon predicted, and the police brutality and mass imprisonments are playing right into his hands, but I really hope they aren’t actually in cahoots. There’s a lot of stuff pointing in that direction, but I would be sad if it ended up that way.

EDIT: Edited to add that all the OMG TARRLOK IS BLOODBENDING THE COUNCIL TO VOTE HOW HE WANTS posts are all very silly. We KNOW people can talk while they’re being bloodbent. If you were a council person and something just went up for a vote and suddenly your arm moved of its own accord don’t you think you’d do something other than sit there looking cooperative? I mean clearly  Tarrlok’s got the council wrapped around his finger, but I highly doubt he’s using the brute force method of bloodbending to get his legislation passed. He’s a crafty dude, so my money’s on extortion and/or blackmail. Probably also backing from the triads, since this is emulating the political problems of the 20’s.

09. What is something positive about being trans? 

Okay so there are two answers to this, a normal reasonable answer, and a tmi kind of answer, so I’ll put the second one under a readmore.

The normal answer though is that I really like thinking about issues of gender and sexuality. Had I been born a boy, or had I been okay with being a girl, I would have never gotten the kind of perspective and insight that I currently have about the differences between men and women and also how that relates to sexuality and all kinds of interesting topics.

Oh it also serves as a source of great amusement all the time. Like, being called sexist, or a faggot, or literally any insult with any relation to gender or sexuality is much funnier than it would be. And when you laugh at people’s insults, or thank them for them you basically automatically win any argument because nine times out of ten the person will just not know how to respond. It’s great.

On that note, I guess I can thank being transgender for making me a significantly better speaker/persuader. I spent over two years of my life learning how to react calmly to prying and offensive questions. The way I saw it was like this, if they’re generally being insulting, a straight amiable answer will throw them off guard, and if they’re just misinformed or uneducated then I will be doing a good thing by rationally explaining things to them. Obviously this is hard to keep up indefinitely, and being in that kind of a role constantly is very draining, but I think it did me a lot of good.

Okay, that’s enough of me being cultured intelligent and well mannered. TMI answer behind the cut.

Read More

trollingbatterwitch:

Why, in fanfiction that takes place pre-Suffering, The Dolorosa is called The Dolorosa? I mean, it means ‘grieving mother’, and she didn’t become a grieving mother until after The Sufferer’s death. Wouldn’t she have gone by a different name prior to that like The Sufferer and Psiioniic did? If so, I wonder what it would have been…

Well before she found the Signless she cared for the mother grub(s?). So even before finding him she had a connection to maternity. Maybe she was just kind of a gloomy person, or she was really beaten up anytime eggs didn’t hatch or wigglers didn’t make it through the trials or something.

AAAH I MISSED THE FIRST HALF OF THE EPISODE BECAUSE I WAS TAKING A SPANISH EXAM.

SOMEONE PLEASE BE KIND TO ME I NEED TO SEE THE FULL EPISODEEEEEEEE.

08. In the beginning of your transition, how did you deal with being misgendered?

I’m not entirely clear on what misgendered means, but since there’s a question later about dysphoria I’ll assume that this means otherpeople messing up pronouns/seeing me as female rather than the internal feeling of beingthe wrong sex.

At the beginning of my transition I did nothing. If a teacher, or a fellow student, a parent, or anyone really got my pronouns wrong, I didn’t bother to correct them. If they were someone who did actually know I was transitioning I might sort of look at them in a mild attempt at guilt tripping, and that often worked, but for strangers or people who only tangentially knew me looking sad didn’t do a thing.

The reason I didn’t correct them was because I had this nagging feeling that I was being ridiculously selfish. The way I saw it was that I was forcing everyone around me to cater to my whims and my inability to accept myself for who I was. I felt that if they hadn’t read me as male then it was my fault and I had to bind better, or get a new haircut or try to make my voice lower or a thousand other little tells that I had. That’s kind of a messed up way to see it all, but that’s what it felt like.

Eventually I did start getting seen as male more often, and I got more confident. I started correcting people, at first only my family and friends but eventually acquaintances too. I still don’t correct people like waiters and cashiers if they get it wrong though. Being mistaken for female happens to me so rarely now that it’s not a big deal at all, and I don’t feel the need to call out some overworked person for making a perfectly reasonable casual judgement.

07. Who do you look up to?

For tans issues and stuff? A couple of people. After I came out to my parents but was still figuring everything out I joined an LGBT youth group nearby. Every other Thursday they had a special meeting to discuss issues surrounding Gender Identity. It was led by a mtf woman who had transitioned in the seventies. Everyone called her Aunt Melony She was incredibly helpful, very intelligent, and a wonderful source of advice and reassurance. She helped not just me, but countless other questioning teens through really tough spots in their life.

The second person I met through this group was Shawn. He was female to male, just like I was, but further ahead in his transition. When he came out to his parents they disowned him, and he had been forced to fend for himself since the age of 16. In the time that I knew him he managed to test for his high school diploma, enroll in college, and save up enough money to start testosterone. He was a massive inspiration for me and I’ve seriously never met a stronger person in my life.

The third was my self-defense instructor, (also part of the LGBT group). He was a cop and a very friendly guy who taught me a lot about openly opposing people without inviting aggression. This guy was fearless and funny and overall just a great person. I hope to one day be as likeable as he is.

As far as people I look up to in a more general sense I have to say my mother for being so good at justgetting things done. And always handling things calmly and intelligently. I look up to my sister because she’s incredibly smart and caring and I have no idea what I would do if I didn’t have her around to talk to.

Finally the last person I look up to is Steve Irwin. I’ve idolized him since I was tiny, and I don’t think I’ll ever stop striving to be that witty, brave, caring individual that did more for conservationism than probably any individual since Jane Goodall.

06. Who was the first person you told about being trans?

One of my highschool friends. I don’t remember exactly which one, since I told two of them at roughly the same time. It was very anticlimactic really. I just sort of blurted it out as a hypothetical question over AIM, and they were like.

Yeah I can see that. :|

And then we started working on names. Wow this answer was a ton shorter than all the other ones.

So I am in college. I am taking an intro level music class called Symphonies: Mozart to Mahler. It’s a cool, pretty chill class and I like it a lot. However I’ve never been the kind of person to take notes, and I am only human. Sometimes I get bored. I often doodle. Yesterday I did something a little different.

I don’t remember why, I was zoning out a bit, but for some reason I started writing the word “butts” over and over again in different fonts.

Butts

Butts

~Butts~

BUTTS

buttssssss

/B/U/T/T/S/

And then I looked down and realized that I had filled half of a page with ornately and fancily written butts. I stopped to consider my life and my choices. And then someone sitting next to me glanced over and saw a page filled with tenderly crafted “butts”. She wouldn’t make eye contact with me.

Guys I’m an adult. I can vote. I’m mature.