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Tagging Post

Character will be tagged with their full names if known. If they have no last name, gg [name].

Original posts will be tagged "my text posts", "my edits", "my polls", and "my art" currently. Playlists get tagged "songs". A Softer World edits are tagged "a softer europa". Reblog art is tagged "other art". "gg reblog convo" is for a post where I'm commenting on someone else's post.

Compilation posts

General Girl Genius opinion polls

Specifically Kinsey Scale GG character polls

Contextless collection of A Softer Europa posts

Shipping tags Gilgamesh/Tarvek = gilvek Gilgamesh/Agatha = gilgatha Agatha/Tarvek = agavek Bill/Lucrezia = billcrezia Aaronev/Lucrezia = luhelm Agatha/Gilgamesh/Tarvek = gg ot3 Higgs/Zeetha = hieetha Martellus/Agatha = margatha Seffie/Gilgamesh = sefgil

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Lucrezia Mongfish Appreciation Post!

REBLOG if you support women's wrongs! LIKE if you think Lucrezia is hot! IGNORE if you don't want Lucrezia Mongfish on your blog!

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The first image in this set comes from the color version of "The Beetlesburg Clank", the first volume of Girl Genius. They sell them as pdfs as well as physical books, and they will have some extra art at the beginning or end usually. This one is above an opening blurb about what Sparks are and how the last members of the Heterodyne family were great heroes who mysteriously disappeared.

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Thinking about secrecy

Could Agatha have hidden her Spark without the locket

Absolutely

If Beetle disappeared a few people, sure

There's a possibility she could do it

If they'd let her breakthrough at 14 or something

Not a chance in hell

Voting ended onNov 1, 2025

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Snaug is back!!!! 💖💞💓💖💝

So ready for her to spend more time with Moloch, he'd be a great chew toy.

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Tarvek would never let a silly thing like "not being the driver of the vehicle" stop him from pressing buttons.

Bonus:

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Tarvek giving romantic advice is now canon, so

How good is Tarvek at romance advice?

Amazing! He should be a matchmaker by profession

Pretty good, the friend group should keep asking him

He has some helpful advice for the common sense deprived

He's really only competent in the very specific dynamic he's found himself in

Questionable because he's prone to projecting his tastes on other people

Questionable, you really need to use your judgment on what's good and what's bad

His advice could easily kick off a Shakespearean romance play (negative)

Bad advisor! Horrible! Who let this man tell anyone how they should smooch

Tarvek refuses to give out romantic advice. It's for him and no one else.

Voting ended onOct 15, 2025

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I have a theory that green hair is a gendered genetic trait for Skifander, so

Would alternate universe girl Gil have green hair?

No??? His hair is just brown

Yes, due to authorial redesign

Yes, because green hair is a gendered trait

No, but boy Zeetha would have brown hair

Girl Gil's hair would be some other color

Voting ended onOct 12, 2025

Whether Klaus would want Gil to dye his hair optional.

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Klaus' romantic advice special

Did Gil take "never shake a girl's hand without meeting her parents" to heart?

Obviously not, because that's insane

Obviously not, because Klaus doesn't run (all) his life

He didn't agree at first but changed his mind later on

He believed it at first but he changed his mind later on

Gil and Klaus had an immediate debate about it

Gil already had friends whose parents he never met, Klaus was late on this

Obviously, because Klaus is always right

Klaus is too lackadaisical. Gil should never shake a man's hand either.

Voting ended onSep 28, 2025

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In honor of Orotine's exasperation

What's Andronicus' pre-breakdown morality level?

A long-suffering saint who only killed in defense of others

Generally goodhearted man who does what needs to be done, violent or not

Guy who tries to be a good person but isn't immune to pressure or temptation

Doesn't care about morality, but is aware that treating others well is useful

A utilitarianist, trying to make the best possible world for all by any means

Relatively well adjusted but quick to resort to questionable means in struggles

The ends justify his means but he does care about his close friends

Pursuing his own goals without any care what happens to other people as a result

Literally just Lucrezia from 200 years ago

Voting ended onSep 27, 2025

Andy. Andy! What was up with you. Comment with the character you see as closest to him if you dare.

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Pondering Mister Obsidian today...

Why did Obsidian, after kidnapping Tarvek for Grandmama, cooperate with Seffie in sending him to England?

Grandmama thinks this is a good idea and told him to play along

He actually works primarily for Seffie

Seffie blackmailed or bribed him with something to cooperate

Obsidian personally thinks it's a good idea strategically

Obsidian ships Tarvek/Agatha

Obsidian is uneasy and suspicious about Grandmama's cooperation with Zola

Obsidian is secretly working for a third party that is neither Grandma nor Seffi

Obsidian has some sort of personal grudge that influenced him

Grandmama stabbing him (unsuccesssfully) was a bridge too far

He's impressed with Tarvek now that he's observed him for a while

Sheer, unadulterated boredom

He's being mind controlled

Voting ended onSep 21, 2025

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Would Tarvek still be into Agatha and Gil if they were not hero types?

He would be even more into them!

He would still like them if they were otherwise the same

He would like them less, but still like them

He wouldn't be into them at all anymore

He would like Agatha more but Gil less

He would like Gil more but Agatha less

He would be just as into Gil but like Agatha less

He would be just as into Agatha but like Gil less

He would be just as into Gil but like Agatha more

He would be just as into Agatha but like Gil more

He wouldn't like Gil anymore

He wouldn't like Agatha anymore

Voting ended onSep 16, 2025

"Hero types" defined here as willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good, like Agatha turning herself in to Klaus to thwart Lucrezia and Gil leaving his soulmate(s) to go preserve the Empire when his dad died.

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I'm contemplating Gil's relationship with Bang and Tarvek, so

How would Gil react if Tarvek stabbed Bang to "thank" her?

"Tarvek! Must you embarrass me in front of my friends?"

Gil immediately starts fighting Tarvek physically

Gil immediately starts fighting Tarvek verbally

Gil immediately intervenes to stop Bang from killing Tarvek

Gil is really impressed that Tarvek manged to stab Bang of all people

Gil assumes Tarvek is having a mental breakdown or mind controlled

Gil assumes Tarvek has been replaced by a doppelganger

Gil thinks it'll probably build character for Bang

Trusted advisorship ended with Tarvek 😔

Gil is so shocked he doesn't do anything

Voting ended onSep 15, 2025

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Gil really has a way of fighting that people think is a compliment, apparently.

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I feel like "same hat"-ing Gil and Colette today. There are some crossed wires about how the redhead romancing is going, but at least they both agree that Agatha Heterodyne has it going on.

I do find it interesting that they're interested in the redheaded social climber who isn't into them for that reason, either due to assumed straightness, false identity, or both.

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Agatha 🤝 Tarvek

"I will not lie down and die just because I have the worst family ever"

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Girl Genius Kinsey Scale Poll #8

What is Colette Voltaire's sexuality on the Kinsey scale?

0 - Exclusively Heterosexual

1 - Mostly het, a little gay

2 - More het than gay

3 - Equally distributed bisexuality

4 - More gay than het

5 - Mostly gay, a little het

6 - Exclusively Homosexual

X - Asexual

Voting ended onSep 12, 2025

The real life study was about people's self-reported desire and actions rather than their potential, but you can rate however you want.

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Accept my hastily constructed meme. I knew the second I saw Tarvek make that look it would be all anyone talked about, but also, Agatha sshing Gil to clear this up is cute.