#this is nonsense i just like that catboy

[nicovania]

i need to join a weird little group for g'raha tia enjoyers thats just exclusively wol shipping. g'raha's polycule. we all love him so much. your bunnygirl and him are married? thats so cute my catboy and him are too, so nice to meet you. a group of people who are all insane about one specific catboy loser.

[storfulsten]

my silly viera wol alt bc reasons uwu

[tipsywench]

I started watching Bela Lugosi's "Return of Chandu" - which I didn't realize wasn't actually a movie but a 12 part serial that takes like 3 hours to complete

but from the first 4 chapters I've seen I really wish Bela had been allowed to play more sort of action heroes instead of being stuck in horror films. He seemed like he was having a good time.

It's kinda like Dr Strange but with 1930s silliness, so Bela plays someone who was raised in India (or a mythical Eastern country? I didn't quite catch it) and has magic powers that he learned from a yogi.

also the bad guys belong to a cat cult trying to resurrect a goddess but their bad guy outfits are FUCKING ADORABLE THEY ARE WEARING KITTY CAT COMFY ROBES LOOK AT THESE GUYS THEY LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE CAT EARS:

so anyway I'm gonna refer to this series as Yoga Boy vs. the Cat Boys

and I think it should end with Bela Lugosi wearing tight yoga pants and doing some thirsty yoga poses like those online models do and thats how he defeats the cat boys

bonus, Bela Lugosi dressed as a catboy when he went undercover in a scene:

[docheros]

also let’s remember. all of this fucked up shit only started bc anti killed c!jack and now he’s in coma. does c!jack being in coma is still relevant to the plot?

[elmushterri]

Omg I just read the ao3 of gunntech I love it sm🤍 and I'm so glad the speedy twins are in the au. But now I'm curious about it, is taking care of and repairing the vehicles their only job or do they also do other things? And since their also teens did they grow up at gunntech like the others? Or are they just, like, illegal aliens gunntech kidnapped somehow😭😅 and, if u can, I really wanna know what they look like here (I wanna make fanart of them)

The speedy twins are a bit hard to decide about, buuut, I’m thinking they’re normal human kids who were mutated without the use of a chest implant, rather a different trial (happening at the same time as the main heroes and villains, if a little later/so they’re a bit younger?) that involved just changing the genes by themselves without an activation switch needed. The way I pseudo-sciency nonsense it is:

In biology, (A-Level Qualifications) when you’re editing genes, to see if the ones you wanted are activated, scientists attach a marker. Commonly, this marker is a glow-in-the-dark gene they got from a sea creature. So, once, they were modifying rats with something and to see if it worked, they attached the glow in the dark gene TO it. If the gene they wanted got activated, the rats would glow AS WELL. Just visual confirmation basically.

So, to see if adding ‘speed’ to these children would work, they used the marker of the colour blue. Bright blue is GunnTech’s “speed” colour, as can be seen with Catboy (though that’s just his suit, it’s an aesthetic thing)

And that’s why they’re blue! To show “The ‘Speed genes’ worked.”

The red is just face paint and the black and pink hair is dye.

And as for their jobs, I think they’re mainly in the driving field. The main 3 can each drive their own vehicles, as you see in the fanfic, Owlette is adept at Air Traffic Control Communication, but Carly and Cartoka are probably somehow neurologically enhanced to take to vehicles like nobody in the world. Fast learners, no pun intended!

[snorlaxlovesme]

alright everybody, it's time we talked about Hostage. (buckle up because this is going to be long, but it'll be worth it)

season 2 episode 8 of Link Click was one of the most confounding episodes in the entire season while airing. starting with Lu Guang's insane boat crash/martial arts smackdown rescue of Cheng Xiaoshi and ending with Cheng Xiaoshi diving into a photo to possess Lu Guang to get answers for his actions, from start to finish it was a wild ass ride where we, the fandom, AND the characters spent the whole time questioning Lu Guang and his motives

and...puzzlingly... didn't really get an answers by the end of the season

Lu Guang wasn't granted any post-climax time to explain what happened that day from his perspective, and while Cheng Xiaoshi was possessing him he didn't get any answers because he literally WAS Lu Guang, just doing whatever the hell he thought he needed to do.

the thing about Hostage that has always felt extremely off to me, is that we DO get explanations for Lu Guang's actions during the episode, but they're from people wholly unqualified to be giving them.

Captain Xiao finds Lu Guang's phone, hidden in a folded towel, and concludes that Lu Guang had left them clues. Qiao Ling, after seeing that Lu Guang had taken a photo that night, came to the conclusion that Cheng Xiaoshi must have been the one possessing Lu Guang during his deranged rescue plan at the pier, seeing as Lu Guang wasn't an adept fighter at the dojo and he was acting extremely impulsive. She even goes so far to say, later in the episode, that Cheng Xiaoshi HAS to dive into the photo, because it's already happened, and needs to follow Lu Guang's words to not change the timeline.

all of these assumptions, to me, are horseshit

I refuse to listen to ANYTHING Captain Xiao says. one, because he simply does not know these kids and should not be making assumptions about them, and two he is in fact the worst cop in the world. and Qiao Ling, bless her heart, has only found out how their powers work mere DAYS ago and doesn't understand the nuances of them at all

so I'm gonna debunk all that nonsense and explain to you what Lu Guang's REAL actions were that night, and what was up with that cryptic photo he took

now you might be thinking, Kelly, you're not even starting in the right place, because those weren't Lu Guang's actions, they were always Cheng Xiaoshi's, just in Lu Guang's body!

FALSE. on two counts! we have evidence of Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi performing the act of escaping the hospital differently. Lu Guang does not use the kettle to break the window to distract the cops. we're not sure what he uses, but that kettle is still there.

Lu Guang also places his phone face down in the towel

while Cheng Xiaoshi places it faceup

so by the end of the episode we have literal, physical evidence that these two performed this timeline differently, and therefore it was not "Cheng Xiaoshi the whole time" like Qiao Ling tried to misinform us to believe. i also have another Big Brain post [x] that explains why Lu Guang being an impulsive, supposedly "good" fighter during that pier rescue scene are both in-character for him.

(and if we wanna get really nitpicky about how an injured Lu Guang could have raced across town in his condition, i simply believe that Lu Guang was smarter about it that Cheng Xiaoshi, and probably took a bus or cab. Cheng Xiaoshi, pure of heart and dumb of ass, ran because HE physically could while inhabiting Lu Guang's body. our injured catboy did not sprint across town while holding his organs in place)

so if we already have all this cold, hard evidence stating that Lu Guang really is THAT bitch and did all that shit on his own, what the hell is my problem? why can I not let this episode go?

BECAUSE I WANNA KNOW WHY LU GUANG TOOK THAT PHOTO

Captain Useless seems to think that Lu Guang took that photo as some sort of helpful clue left behind for the gang

but what, pray tell, was this photo supposed to tell us without someone with Lu Guang's powers there to interpret it? without Lu Guang to tell him what to do, Cheng Xiaoshi left to his own devices knows just as much as himself as he does possessing Lu Guang

and, the bigger question, is if this was supposed to be some sort of almighty clue for the gang, why did he not text this photo to either Qiao Ling or Cheng Xiaoshi before escaping the hospital? he took the time to text Qiao Ling the location of the boat, did he not? why not the photo too? seems like a crappy way to clue someone in, to take a photo and save it on your password protected phone that you just went out of your way to hide from plain sight

because that's the thing! after the season finale we discover that Lu Guang's password is literally a reminder of his dive, or even more specifically, a reminder of his trauma. we KNOW that he didn't share his password with Cheng Xiaoshi, he just just happened to figure it out on his own

so tell me how Lu Guang expected this trauma-password protected phone, with it's one singular picture, to get in the hands of Cheng Xiaoshi, hmm? riddle me THAT

so we've established by now that 1. Lu Guang's actions in the beginning of episode 8 were indeed his own and 2. that photo was never meant to be seen by Cheng Xiaoshi, who shouldn't have known Lu Guang's passcode

given the trauma-passcode, we have to believe that the only person ever meant to see this photo was Lu Guang. i've made ANOTHER post previously [x] stating that Lu Guang might have used his powers in a way we haven't known possible, by taking a photo and using his Blue Eyes White Dragon powers to see 12 hours into the immediate future

plausible, but not what i'm about to propose now.

because I think Lu Guang took that photo as a contingency plan

listen, the only person who had ANY credentials to theorize what Lu Guang was up to that night was his trusted partner. while Qiao Ling and Captain Xiao spouted their nonsense theories, Cheng Xiaoshi said the only smart thing that entire brainstorming session

and I think Cheng Xiaoshi was right. he wasn't wrong in assuming this photo was a Save Point of sorts, the only thing he was wrong about was who would be using it

the only other person in this show capable of diving into a photo, we find out during the finale, is Lu Guang

we also find out in the finale that powers are transferrable, and it looks like they transfer when the owner of that power dies in someone else's arms

Lu Guang took that photo that night NOT for Cheng Xiaoshi to find and use, but for LU GUANG himself to use. i believe Lu Guang firmly believed that Cheng Xiaoshi was to die that night, and he would do everything in his power to make sure he had a chance to change it again if he needed to.

that meant:

1.taking a photo on his phone as a Save Point.

2. hiding his phone in the hospital bathroom so it could not be taken from him or busted later in the night. and

3. racing to where he knew Cheng Xiaoshi would be, so he could either

4. a.) rescue him, or b.) ensure that during CXS's death, the diving power was transferred back to him so he could do the night over again.

Lu Guang took that photo as contingency plan to save Cheng Xiaoshi's life should he get killed that night.

but that plan was botched when Cheng Xiaoshi used it instead to possess Lu Guang, because each photo can only be used once.

which might also explain why Lu Guang was SO DISTRAUGHT when Cheng Xiaoshi was shot

they had deleted all their photos earlier that week to prevent the twins from possessing them remotely

that was the last photo Lu Guang had taken. the ONLY photo on his phone. if Cheng Xiaoshi died that night, there would have been no Save Point to return to

[poppy-metal]

and what if i compared catboy art to catnoir??? with his blond angel curls and in a black latex suit??? and what if i punished art by letting mutt pat fck him but he doesn’t get to cum- and afterwards only give pat attention and give art the silent treatment.. he’d be so pouty and bratty cus he can be silent all he wants to you and but u can’t do the same??? - 🌷

need to brat tame kitty art </3 letting mutt!patrick fuck you from behind, mounting you like the big mean dog he is - art is so upset - you're his, you're his owner, you shouldn't be letting a dirty fucking mutt like patrick fuck you like that - you like it gentle, you like when art gives you soft kisses and makes love to you, and wraps his soft tail around you and grinds his cock into you - you dont like being fucked like an animal like this - like a bitch in heat.

except you do like it. because you're arching your back into it. a kind of slutty expression on your face art doesn't think he's ever seen before. mouth dropped open and drool spilling from your lips as you're jerked back and forth like a ragdoll on patricks cock. and arts felt patricks cock - has felt it pound into his little hole - has liked it - but you were never supposed to know, because you're like a goddess, the evangelical being, his owner, you don't deserve to be degraded -

hes in tears, you have him tied down with a ball gag in his mouth and a cockring strangling his pink leaking dick and he's so so so mad, his claws are out. he wants to roll around and scream and scratch patricks eyes out and he wants to scratch you, too - fucking slut - if you wanted to be fucked like a cheap slut you could have told him instead of forcing him to watch this. he hates being left out. sharing. your attention and even patricks.

even so, he's hard. he hates it but hes so turned on. he wants to cum. he wants to lick your cunt where patrick is forcing you open, he wants to lick your tears away, lick into your open drooling mouth he wants to be inside you at the same time - and the more and more you deny him the more and more his brain melts and all he can think about it how much he needs to cum. he's sorry. he's sorry for being a bad kitty. he's sorry for being a selfish brat, he'll do better. he'll learnt to share and stop hissing and he'll be the best kitty in the world - he'll be so well behaved just let him touch you again. please please please.

thing is - you're not as in control as you'd like to be. think you probably bit off more than you can chew because it's true you've never been fucked like this. you're used to arts sweet and tender strokes - patricks hips smack against your ass with every thrust and you feel like nothing but a hole to rut into. his heavy balls slap wetly into your pussy and he hunches over you with a big hand shoving your head down into the carpet so you can't squirm away from the pounding he's giving you. he's so fucking big and muscled and hairy behind you, completely covering you with his body - you lose your mind a little. alot. can't think clearly at all. can do nothing but babble about how big he is and other nonsense that doesn't make sense - probably begging for mercy, begging for it harder, both, you don't know.

patrick is nearly feral with lust. big thoughts are not present and haven't been since he first slid his hard cock inside the swollen walls of your tender cunt. he's been wanting you for so long, he loves art, loves being allowed to fuck him, but he wants you too - lusting after you - thinking about you, he thinks if you hadn't caved today and let him have you he would've been driven to have you by force. he's not proud of that, he just needs your pussy so fucking bad.

he's gonna cum in you. he's gonna fill you with a fat fucking load. and when you remember art exists you'll let him lick you clean.

[catboymoments]

sorry I just got that "nonsense from an alleged catboy furry catholic" in my recommended posts & crying at whatever tf is going on there.... every time you post something I'll be like fuck yeah we got that 'nonsense from the alleged catboy furry catholic' tonight

WE POST NOTHING BUT NONSENSE FROM THE ALLEGED CATBOY FURRY CATHOLIC HERE

[velvetvexations]

all the replies to the catboy post being like: ermm forced masc doesn’t make sense because being a man isn’t degrading. as if preserving gender roles of power is necessary for a kink to make sense and not just the participants enjoyment. weird logic there. calling someone’s kink silly and nonsensical is just as terrible as calling it depraved like if you don’t like it then leave it alone it doesn’t affect you..? also, transphobes do use “autoandrophilia” to demonize trans men, people just don’t pay attention to it.

tirfs are so attached to the notion that trans men gain privilege while trans women lose privilege, not understanding that trans men also lose privilege. we are men who society wants to be women. to say that we’re appropriating forced fem when we have literally been forcibly feminized as men our whole lives, except our opinions are considered less trans because we are stupid girls evil men, right? simultaneously being treated with misogyny while gatekept from talking about it because of perceived privilege is something almost every trans women goes through so subjecting trans men to the same thing doesn’t make sense. but being a trans radfem of any gender requires a degree of internalized self loathing.

Honestly anon I'm still sitting here in stunned silence that "catboy is appropriative of catgirl" is a take that actually exists in the real world and I have to live on the same planet as the person who said that with zero irony. It's really hard for me to move past.

But! This is all really good analysis. I've never thought of it like that but you're totally right that gatekeeping acknowledgement of oppression and powerjacketing is just exactly what TERFs do to trans women, and no one self-loathes harder than TERFs. Wild.

[ack-cough]

[Meow!sabaeu ask!]

Hello Yellow! Just here to ask for more of what happened when this suddenly just happened to Isabeau, please...

[If I'm being honest I'd guess the Change God felt like messing with Siffrin by doing this to them but it accidentally happened to Isabeau, and the Change God was like "Oh woops!" and then preceded to not do anything to correct their mistake.]

HI

You're a genius and I might actually use the Change God as a reason cause that makes so much sense thank you!!!!

HUHUHUHUHU making up reason on the spot-

The Universe and Change God team up! They loved the first play so much why not make another?

A silly little spin off made with more terrible puns and party antics, yes it may not be as good as the original and our beloved Siffrin may not be the star of the show- But what's better than another reason for these two cosmic beings to bump their favorite characters together like lps!

So let's be silly and stupid, Phff- it's a spin off nobody will care if its complete nonsense ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Let's put Isabeau through some silly catboy antics with his pals!~~

[also the request will hopefully be done later!!]

[voidsentprinces]

Join FFXIV we got:

Fuckable Monster Gods, Yandere General, SUCH DEVASTATION, Malevolent Breadloaf, Hate Fuck Philosophy between Church's Money Illiterate Doomslayer and the Heretical Dragon fuckers, Bestest Boy, Butch Scholar with an axe, France with hot single elves, Lesbian Gunslingers, Manwhore of Astrology, his love rival and the asexual woman who has no clue, Inner Feral State, his legal partner and their adopted daughter, Murder Bimbo, his angry red head and their sadistic feral viceroy with her himbo henchman, Hopeless Romantic who gets bullied, his very heterosexual tribe of male only warriors, the apeshit warlock stealing his women while being transpiritual and a shepherd wife, frat boy emperor, Iroh Samurai and the sickest ninja woman ever, Your Own Personal Catboy, his eligible straightforward daughter who is also captain the guard, THE HIMBO FAMILY complete with bomb throwing cat girl, adoptive mechanical nonbinary child, and psychotic hard line temper mother, entire village of rabbit woman, the most love struck catboy outside the Crystarium and his religious group, an entire kingdom of nonbinary fae folk and their they/them King, the Ghosts of Christmas Past as well the Ghost of Christmas Present with his talking dog, THE TRUEST BESTEST BOY and his robot companion, the Dragon Father and his brood of angsty teenagers, Genocidal Tsundere Emperor, his grandson no-nonsense Emperor and the pretty boy handsome girl of ancient times, the hero worshiping companion of eld who doesn't remember you BUT YOU CAN FIX HIM!, a entire continent of nerds ripe for the punching, an entire continent of geeks ripe for picking on you and your companions including their leader SCIENCE WIFE, SUCH DEVASTATON's extended family who will remain perfect if you don't touch that fucking side quest, an entire moon of bunny people not to be confused with the village of rabbit women but while we're talking about rabbit people have this stoic and handy rabbit man and his VERY ENTHUSIASTIC TRANS LION FRIEND! Did we mention you get a punchy very enthusiastic woman clad in red? Drop by Ala Mhigo she is always happy to help you punch things! Also while you're there meet the main soldier you're deprogramming from the Garlean Cult he likes giving buuz to people and has this...Great Dane vibe, I don't know how else to describe it. Got a moment? Meet your adoptive family, a knife daughter and her hammer girlfriend, a sword daughter and her scholarly brother, an entire orphanage out of both Ul'dah AND Idyllshire, and a berb daughter who almost ended the entire universe because she COUDLNT STOP FEELING!!!!!!!!!! Also meet more monsters for you to fuck Flayed Demon, MUSCLE GODDESS, Cowabunga, grumpy fire man, and Knight in Shining Identity Theft, and their friend nonbinary lass who can kill AND EAT! There is, of course, also...adoptive fathers in partnership with you and knife daughter, wine aunt of a thousand Fire IVs, a cantankerous short lad, scholar woman who is getting into art, Tataru the Most Powerful and Important Character in the game and therefore the only one I shall refer to by name here, THE HORNIEST WOMAN IN ALL OF FICTION, two Roegadyn brothers, a fabulous elezen healer and her exasperated sister, the adoptive mother and legendary dancer AND bartender, an equally exasperated woman who just convinced her patriarch to retire from adventuring, a short Sultana, an oblivious Seedseer, and the greatest admiral to grace this franchise, General Father and his son from the Shire, the inventor with a heart of gold, his companions, their stern manager, and the gremlin man who is here to make the inventor eat his shirt while laughing. AND THATS JUST THE PEOPLE IN THE MAIN STORYLINE.

So join FFXIV today.

[elizabethrobertajones]

"Ha ha ha, I'm a Knight of House Fortemps!"

"By the Fury, not if you hold a sword like that! Besides... I find you far more interesting as an adventurer... Free from all the duties you'd be burdened with if you had to fight for Ishgard."

"Aw, come on, it can't be that bad, can it?"

"Trust me, I don't want you to find out."

Day 4: Outfit Swaps | Role Changes

It took Frog until post-EW to learn the biggest secret she'd uncover in Ishgard: the brief but passionate and intense throuple between Aymeric, Estinien and Haurchefant in the time between Calamity and the final weeks of the Dragonsong War. (Aymeric and Estinien having been together much longer previously.)

For once she was hardly responsible for any of the drama whatsoever: Haurchefant stationed out in Dragonhead was free to hook up with whosoever he pleased (mostly passing adventurers who could talk their way to his bed with stories of fantastical deeds such as being a giant lightly-dressed Bard who claimed to have defeated Ifrit); Estinien was off doing extremely angsty brooding and blowing through their lives in a cloud every few months before he stole the Eye and disappeared; and Aymeric was perched up in the city Doing His Best and pining for any of the brief moments of escape he was allowed and feeling extremely guilty for wanting a night off once in a blue moon.

In Frog Canon the whole arrangement fell apart when Haurchefant died and Estinien and Aymeric didn't get back together until long after Aymeric had fallen in love with Frog, had his heart shattered by her, pined for a couple of years, been yelled at by a catboy to ask her out, and started dating her at long last - the healing process for everyone involved really centred around how they all felt about Haurchefant and him being the glue that had held them together, and Aymeric and Frog both had to take on the duty of keeping something this fragile stable, and that was a very long learning process.

In any case, all that said I think this moment when Frog walks out dressed as a House Fortemps Knight carrying Haurche's sword and shield was a critical moment for her and Aymeric before they'd said a thing to each other about their feelings, but I think in this particular case it communicated a lot, especially the deep shared love they'd had for Haurchefant really shaping how they both felt about Frog doing this. All other grief and love related things aside, I think it changed how Aymeric saw her commitment to, if not Ishgard, then the people she loved there, and that she would tolerate this sort of PR nonsense in style and with grace, which, if Aymeric was to pick up where Haurchefant left off and court her, she'd be subjected to even more.

(Estinien's healing journey is a whole other thing largely unrelated and he's not Frog's lover remotely in any universe so I'm just like. Ignoring him and feeling guilty for doing so because his whole character arc is one of my favourite things in the whole story and Estimeric is one of my favourite things but this isn't about him today :P)

[fuzzbraiin]

a nonsensical analysis of the OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON TWO TEASER (can’t believe i get to say that)

TEASER TRAILER SPOILERS AHEAD!

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE IS ALL I CAN DO STANDING HERE HOPING IT GETS TO YOU! it has been said that a message in a bottle rarely arrives at the person it is intended for… BUT WHO CARES! Throw that all out the window this is our flag means death a "goofy fucking pirate show" - david jenkins, and i want it to reach Ed! or....stede throws it in the sea and it hits the rocks and breaks immediately lol

some people are saying this are separate scenes, some are saying its the same scene and they're across from each other if that's the case i HOPE- its height of the battle- meet in the middle- THEN KISS! a la POTC kiss

LOVE THIS EDITING, truly emphasizes how this show is a romantic comedy!!

And … Ed is like the "crazy ex-girlfriend" trope, giving "would a depressed person make this?" yeah he would.

I’m guessing this is how many days have passed since stede left … which is 85 days!

i'm guessing this is ed's hideaway, perhaps a getaway from being "blackbeard"

this is giving tangled (2010) hmmm... i mean a man on the run looking like a prince but he's trying to find his lover with luscious shimmering long hair... is that a stretch?

LEATHER BABYYY!!! frenchie is NEVER beating the catboy allegations and jim is fucking hot with their mullet! the costume budget is here, up and rising!!

one of the many faces of a homosexual man

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SCENE!!1 i keep saying "baby threw his first punch" because he did! he is becoming the man! competent!stede is truly in the works!!!

I THINK this may be the "revenge is going to blow up" allegations that were floating around, and i hope it's the finale...

torture? question mark? WEE JOHN IN DRAGGG HELLO!?! STEDE IN BLACK!! and i think he's wearing leather?

ANYWAYS! that's all i can fathom rn, will be back for clowning shenanigans in 2-3 weeks for the official trailer, because this is just the teaser! WE ARE SO BACK BABY

[crimeronan]

i'm flaring and you know what that means. Complete Nonsense Time

anyway i've got purring witches on the brain again. as usual the thoughts involve the princess AU kiddos, more specifically hunter and amity. bc like. i am who i am as a person

in the past mostly i've just thought about the turbo autism potential of a tiny luz knowing she can scritch a tiny hunter behind the ears and he'll purr about it like a kitty. something that entertains her for hours. this morning i'm thinking about how once they're older, hunter is high-strung enough that he likely almost never purrs anymore and luz might've forgotten he even Can. until some night when there's less to worry about than usual and he's unusually relaxed and sleepy and starts rrrrring about it & luz is like.

oh.

oh my god.

hang on i need to put my head on your chest right now.

mhm. yeah i'm For Sure gonna fall asleep within the next two minutes and have pretty pleasant dreams for once. good night perfect angel catboy i am already snoozing into incoherence mmmfnghlblargbn

and also. amity sometimes purrs in her sleep. and luz is like. She Can Never Know About This. bc if i tell her about it then she'll figure out some way to Stop. and i want her to keep having happy dreams :(

[dash-n-step]

my controversial hs take (yes this is another random rant about davepeta)

disclaimer: do not take any of this too seriously, I'm mostly talking to myself and not really stepping into some kind of "hs discourse analyst" ring for a character I'm clearly just overly attached to, whatever nonsense I spout is probably not going to change minds nor be able to have my mind changed about, nor do I stand by any strong claim to properly remember the story or things said by characters

readers' discretion is advised

some people act like davepeta has, like, no history in the comic and like sure as the singular entity of "davepetasprite" they appear for about 10 pages, a flash and a bit in the epilogues, but it feels like having to explain object permanence to a child because they aren't just a singular entity, they were and very much still are Davesprite and Nepeta.

"it sucks davesprite's character just ends there" well, they're davepeta now and a big part within those "measly 10 pages" that some people love to point out being so short was explicitly about having BEEN davesprite and where they go from there, and further interacting with Arquisprite partly based on that history with Bro

"it sucks that nepeta didn't get to do much, davepetasprite is just catboy dave" Davepeta is more than just "Dave but cat puns", Nepeta's vibes are still going strong, you are undermining just how much Nepeta molds them and overestimating the way Dave acts. The very Strider bias you're pointing out happening is influencing how you see them come across. A big part that made the Davepeta/Arquius Reunion so different from the Dave/Dirk reunion was their Nepeta part and her relationship with Arquius as Equius.

Yes, it sucks that Nepeta was without a doubt shafted by the comic, and multiple jokes were made to make light of that fact, but, again, Davepeta is STILL a continuation of the characters they're made up of. It's a continuous timeline of the characters, them actualizing and becoming their own person didn't erase the things that got them there, from the silly to the dramatic.

People act like just because they talk about being connected to different versions of Nepeta and Dave that they didn't actively live through, that means that they're "UTTERLY DISCONNECTED" from the specific versions of Dave and Nepeta they were made from.

But the very things that make you like Davesprite and that make you like Nepeta STILL EXIST, they still went through all of that: Davepeta was there when Pounce died, Davepeta was killed by Gamzee when Equius failed to stop him, they were alongside Bro when he fought Jack and they were there on the ship: messing with John and failing to be a good mate to Jade (even if the Jade they apologized to about it was a different one).

Them concluding that they're now "their own person" growing from that isn't them saying none of that applies to who they are, but that they have a new perspective of reconciling with that past.

What's probably ironic about it all is that in dismissing Davepeta as a continuation of Davesprite, people (outside of story) are just putting on Davesprite the very thing he was talking about when people (in-story) refused to acknowledge that he was the "real dave", only as Davepeta they know they don't have to care about that anymore.

Everything from Nepeta and Davesprite being thrown to the side by the comic, to them forming Davepeta and being able to meet up with Arquius and Jade, accumulate in a lot of the themes Homestuck runs with from extremely early on, but you get some people who really truly just don't get it, to the point where I feel like I'm saying "to be fair, you have to have a really high IQ to enjoy Davepeta as a character", which is a shame cause they're a really silly and fun character who extends from two characters who were in some dark places, rather than subtracting them out of the comic.

[critique-masochist]

MICHAEL! can i have catboy testosterone pleaseee :3 i rolled a 9

It snatches the dice right out of your hand and throws them over its shoulder before grabbing you by the shoulders and looking at you with a violent, manic energy that you weren’t quite ready for.

“Dice is for people who want random nonsense!” it says before whispering, “But catboy T? Catboy T is for e v e r y o n e.“

It spins you once before holding you still once more- facing a mirror. You seem to be in a cosy little changing room. The first thing you notice is the cat ears. They’re the same colour as your hair and as you stare at them, they twitch.

You can make them twitch.

Your hand shoots up to touch them, finding them soft and delicate and warm. Then, you notice that your body is a bit different as well. Your chest looks the same but your physique is changed. You look surprisingly androgynous. With the right outfit… yeah. Yeah, you’re- you’re a cat boy.

You turn to look at Michael, deflating slightly when you notice how it’s squirming, hands covering its face as it gushes over you. It mimes squeezing your cheeks before turning around and couching down, making gestures of agony.

“Adorable,” it whispers before taking a deep breath, getting back up and turning to speak with its eyes closed. “Two years on T. You can shift between boy and cat boy. I didn’t know if you wanted a beard or top surgery or bottom surgery but you are so utterly, inexcusably-“ and it fights itself to stay silent. You wonder if perhaps you aren’t the first cat boy it has met, given how much it’s restraining itself. Perhaps somebody scratched it up good for disregarding their boundaries.

Then, it shows you the options for a tail and your suspicions are confirmed.

The walls are covered completely in paws and claws and tails- from hairless sphinx to the ugliest neon scene fluffy monstrosity! There are so many colour options, fades and patterns. In fact, the room seems to go on forever. In the distance, you can see the headless bodies of muscular cat men posed like greek gods. Are those… are those real life fursuits?

“Admittedly, I’m not too familiar with this stuff,” Michael muses, gesturing at a wall full of cat ears that you didn’t even notice before! There’s even have a fucking Scottish fold! How in the fuck are you supposed to decide between so many options?!

“But it’s fun, isn’t it?” it continues, blind to your anguish. “I didn’t think I’d be having much fun with my clients. It’s a bit old-fashioned, I suppose, but back in the day, trans people just very desperately wanted to disappear into the crowd. It’s safer to pass and all that. But now… now the youth, they want to be happy as well. They don’t just want to survive. It’s kind of wonderful, in a mundane way, that I get to meet trans men who are comfortable being cute.”

It turns its attention back to you and looks almost startled by your indecision.

“Oh… Oh, you rolled a 9, didn’t you?”