for any interest that i currently have so i dont have to queue 100 posts per day //main is @verycrowindeed // minor ! -- he/her pfp art is not mine !!!
happy pipe up tomorrow tuesday. somehow i had no idea niko was a stoat??? having now looked up what stoats look like, they really do look like a stoat, but somehow as i was reading i never really thought about what they actually were and just kind of considered them as "yup. thats an animal 👍" without questioning it
XD Lol they do say they're a stoat in the first q&a!
Some things I was thinking about cause of the character cards;
I like to imagine that when the Warren were still figuring things out, they thought they had a lot more members than they actually did, but it turned out Harper was just genderfluid and what they thought were different alters were actually all just Harper in different genders
I'm agender so I think it's really cool that Niko is too :>
Also I really appreciate the representation of non-fronting sys members with Gawain; most of our members front rarely if at all and at least one of them has no interest in ever doing so. And I like seeing something like that in this comic, it's very relatable to us!!
Yeah, I def wanted to have a non-fronting alter in this comic! For the representation, y'know? ^^
silly ask about a silly detail in the last page: since Mario kart is canon, are Mario, Luigi, Waluigi and the like actually animals too or are they this alien, fantasy species that's weird and bipedal and goofy and defensless (humans) ?
Unsure of this has been asked before, but have you ever considered making physical copies of Pipe Up! when it's finished or is it gonna stay just a webcomic? /genq
Yep, we will sell physical copies once the comic is finished!
I think it'd be interesting if Kai forced Percy to go along with his plan of getting out of town which lands them in trouble, and THAT'S when Percy tells Kai's parents that they're dating. I wonder if Kai being outed as gay is going to be due partly out of his own hubris? And not just Percy doing it on accident out of stress. (I wanna say it's an accident since I doubt he'd do it on purpose, though he could of been so mad at Kai that he did it on a whim without thinking of the consequences.)
OwO Maybe we'll find out what that whole fight was about at some point soon.
mirrortwins countdown: día 0 — FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!!!!!!!
feliz cumpleaños a los protas!!!
como el año pasado, el evento estuvo bien divertido!! gracias @loopscereal por organizarlo! al principio estaba triste de que tendría que hacer todo en tradicional por la falta de tiempo, pero creo que logré agarrarle la mano y hacer dibujos que me enorgullecen. me ayudó a agarrarle el gusto al tradicional de nuevo, no solo para bocetos sino para dibujos completos!! yay!!
The SSRIs have led to blood flowing through him in ways that it hasn't in a century. His cheeks are rosy.
Ally named that he has existed in the past century being manipulative and essentially following the Camarilla's rulebook for domination and control. This is how he got Rediron Towers. This is how he got those mortals that were so devoted to him. Koschei said he used to be a serious vampire.
But when HJ gets to Purpee, he experiences the outcome of that manipulation, exploitation, and control as someone who is not highly benefitting from how sucked Purpee has been from those colonial and capitalistic mechanisms. The first conversation he has that night that he and LaVonte goes out on their scooters, is with Willie Coop, a man struggling to park his car because of Metr, owned by someone HJ has literally shook hands with. HJ gets in community with people who have had needs taken from them for the benefit of folks like him. He really wanted to go to the co-op to learn why and how that place has not been made as dead as others.
LaVonte hasn't forgotten what it means to be human but HJ is remembering what that means.
What it means to struggle, what it means to be vulnerable, what it means for cash-in-hand to not get you what you want. He is putting himself in situations to remember that, consciously or not. He forgot Bat Child's birthday and went to the police station to get her something and settled for a gun when he couldn't get into the evidence room. He could have used Dominate, he could have played the business owner, but he went there as a white man on a scooter to get something, failed, ended up at the bottom of the creek, got a large rock, placed a mirror on it, wrote a poem, and gave it to Bat Child as her present. And she genuinely likes it.
His behaviors aren't making sense to those around him but damn, what happens when you forget what it means to be human for 100 years and then begin to feel human again, feel the blood rushing through you, and remember?
never gonna complain about my job again because at least I don't have to try to come up with a better news story than "vampires are real and they killed a famous tech ceo billionaire during a fake banksy live-streamed performance" and I especially don't have to do this without selling out bigfoot, the inventor of kumite
going insane about bat child. what do you mean she’s trying to ignore all the very obvious signs that she’s been a vampire for the last 25ish years. what do you mean she got turned into a vampire before she could finish her degree, before she really got to live life as an adult. what do you mean she wandered around purpee’s college campus dreaming of the life she could’ve lead. aaaaaaa this whole seasons so funny and all the characters are played so comedic, but they also make me very sad :,)
Another week, another jam-packed episode. I may give myself carpal tunnel at this rate, but man.
-We have a new date in-game. It is January 12. That is the official date as we rejoin Zaeth receiving the fatal phone call from Koschei, informing him of his impending visit with Ermine Damanescu tomorrow night, the 13th. Deeply amusing to hear a) that Zaeth takes a knee while on this phone call, and b) Brennan saying “Click” in Koschei’s voice.
-I also liked that when Zaeth insisted everyone sit down before he told them about this call back at #9 Shady Street, Bat Child decided to lie down on the floor.
-Poor Bat Child, still going through it. Unable to properly consult her Gumberoo book because she’s preoccupied with not apparently having a heart. Confronted with yet another trick mirror, like every mirror she’s seen since 2003. No special abilities with animals in general, let alone bats specifically (witness the absolutely tragic tale of her attempt to live in Bracken Cave). And besides the group problem of fielding two separate meetings the following night, it’s her birthday tomorrow.
-LaVonte is convinced of Cody’s being on the level specifically because Cody refused to believe Darkness… Man was a pervert following Madelaine. Utter gold.
-Of HJ’s attempt to get Bat Child a “hot gun” for a birthday present from the police precinct, much has rightfully been said. Ally’s physical acting is incredible- shoutout to their portrayal of HJ riding the scooter while being shot so so much. I also like the detail that he’s either lost or simply destroyed his phone by virtue of having to crawl along the bottom of the stream to escape the cops. Yes, he’ll probably replace it offscreen without a word of discussion, but still.
-In Brennan’s description of the mill as the coterie entered it, he noted offices on the upper level. Perhaps those could be cleaned out in future? It’d make more sense than hastily building a wall to divide the whole space.
-Commitment is indeed a superpower, hence Darkness… Man’s initial move against the Gumberoo being to tackle it because “I don’t know if it’s a good guy or a bad guy!” He’s got his code, and all. XDDD
-$500 Italian silk shirt aside, those claw wounds have to be horrific. LaVonte really took one for the team here.
-Zaeth (attempting to soothe Gumberoo): “You don’t have to do this. I was like you once. Blowin’ up at any… chance I got. And like you, I was always burnin’ myself.”
Brilliant speech, and it did stop the creature attacking most of our coterie. Too bad it decided to run off down the street a second later.
-Why am I so damn spooked by the effects of saying the name ‘Jack of the Pines’? The wind kicking up with the pine scent, and the military drumming, and the distant green light… I don’t know why that’s creepier than the actual Gumberoo (which oh god, that portrait, help), and yet it is.
-Turns out Madelaine can actually work, it’s just that she refuses to use that word. And she can only do it when it’s aesthetic-related, i.e. decorating the lumber mill so it looks the part of an Elysium.
-She also assumed that the Gumby (as I took to calling it) was a bear in the sense of the slang term for a fat/hairy gay man. “Don’t kink shame! Some people like that! Maybe Darkness Man found his person.” #MadelaineIsAnAlly
-Ohhh lord the bit where Bat Child tried to seal the Gumby’s mouth via Touch of Oblivion and only pulled off some of the loose skin in that area. Bleagh.
-Darkness Man’s cape is excellent quality if it’s so fire-resistant as all that. Ditto Bat Child’s jacket.
-The dice were extremely good to Zac this episode. Zaeth got to jump off Ghorse’s back, through a car windshield, to hotwire and drive said car into the Gumby as an attack! What a move.
-New favorite phrase in a French accent, courtesy of Madelaine fresh off that alarming vision of Boyd Douglas: “A pervert for real!!”
-Peak DarkBat/AxMurph moment: Darkness… Man leaping to shield Bat Child from the exploding Gumberoo and taking 4 Aggravated damage in the process. Asking her if she’s okay in that Voice. Now that’s hero material. (Even though she still sustained 3 Aggravated damage of her own.)
-Good news, the Green Aisle (weed shop, Douglas-owned) was successfully destroyed. Bad news, we also nearly got Mike’s toasted. I like that Bat Child had her own fire extinguisher handy along with the one that was already inside the bar.
-The entire sequence with the cops was certified platinum. LaVonte brilliantly putting on the shaken demeanor of an Innocent Business Owner™ talking about how he was just viciously attacked by some kids who lit a bear on fire and sicced it on him. The cops hearing the magic words ‘my bar’ and falling all over themselves to help him out. They erased the surrounding businesses’ camera footage on their own initiative!! However I do fear that some entirely innocent college students are going to be arrested on suspicion of being the “kids” in question…
-Oh, Zaeth distracts the cops to let DM and BC sneak off after Todd Farner… by talking about how he was “so scared”? Hi again, Pappy.
-Does anyone know if Siobhan is right about the destruction of LaVonte’s beautiful $500 shirt counting as grand theft in Oregon? I tried to look it up, but I’m having difficulty parsing the statutes.
-Uuugh, Todd Farner. Never been happier to see an NPC so briefly appear and be summarily dispatched. Really loved Darkness… Man’s cry of “Lights out!” as he leapt from the shadows to drink this guy.
-Part 2: the Meeting with Koschei and Ermine on the following night, January 13. A++ work to everyone in this tag who put together the coterie’s playlist as described. No word in-episode on whether LaVonte himself chose any songs for the list though. Huh.
-Darkness… Man got Bat Child signed up for a digital night-school class on zoology T_T-Ahh, the potpourri of candle scents Tyler found: cinnamon, nutmeg, coconut, and pineapple. Perhaps a field trip to Bath and Body Works or something might be necessary. I wanna know how those scents would actually combine in a single space.
-I say again, poor Tyler. Doing all that setup alone. Power-washing the entire interior of the mill, covering the windows with paper, hanging the silk, arranging and lighting hundreds of candles…
-Damn near everyone was wilding out to some degree in this meeting. Madelaine’s first remark being “So- you’re gonna stay or… just leave? We’re doing well, so… you don’t need to stay.” As if that’s not immediately going to sound suspicious af. And then, when Ermine asks what the coterie has done so far, M jumps straight to “First of all, we think Nancy Danderhoof is a shoo-in for the Pulitzer.”
-Ermine doesn’t believe leprechauns are real, which rather puts a damper on what Kelly was saying two episodes ago about the eternal war between leprechauns and vampires. How much of a war can it be if the opposition thinks you don’t exist?
-LaVonte’s crashout: another fantastic and fully justified character moment from Lou Wilson. Amen. He could have gone into a full-on frenzy and we would have been entirely on his side. The fact that he didn’t just shows how much self-control he has (and how much the dice, too, respect him).
-Incredible that the subject of mortal mages was introduced with Darkness… Man talking about multiple mages, only for Ermine to somehow translate that as a singular mage a few minutes later, and then Madelaine and HJ to assume she’s referring to two completely different people (Boyd Douglas and Cody, respectively). All three are wrong. The only actual mage I think is in this town is Amelia Brown, and that’s if we ever get to meet her. Where is she?? @fillingthescrapbook is right. It’s getting weirder and weirder that we still haven’t seen Amelia.
-I’d say I can’t believe HJ and Zaeth really thought offering Koschei the position of Prince of Purpee was going to work, but well. I can. I definitely can believe it. Also, Bat Child volunteering Darkness… Man for the job and then urging him to “Come on, trash prince. Come on, my trash prince.” was the sweetest and most hilarious thing XDDDD
-Madelaine (poking head in): “I’d be the Prince.” (beat) “I’m kidding, I want to leave.”
-LaVonte rant part two, glorious day. The intensity with which he declares Purpee will become San Francisco, then New York, then Rome: delicious.
-Emptying HJ’s pockets would be a fascinating what’s-in-my-bag segment on Very Important People. I never know what he’s going to pull out of there next. Certainly I just had to look up what a Snus packet is. Apparently it’s a pouch of tobacco that is consumed by being just… placed under one’s upper lip. So a little like a teabag, and a little like a lozenge. If anyone ate a lozenge by holding it between their upper lip and their gums.
-Of course Ermine is yet another of Madelaine’s erstwhile lovers. Completely tracks.
-I’d say six months of being emergency council member is probably enough time for this Beholdr data center land deal to go through before Florian gets hard canceled by Nancy’s planned exposé. But I also don’t want the deal to go through.
-Madelaine (as Ermine walks away): “Your ass looks good.”
Ermine (audibly rolling eyes): “I know.”
-Koschei refers to Darkness…Man/Bat Child exclusively as “the comic-book ones”. Brilliant xDDD
-He really does love his Childe. ^_^ Complimenting Zaeth’s newfound self-control, the fact that he’s thriving in the mess that is Purpee. Easily catching Z’s foot when he belatedly tries to roundhouse-kick him.
-Adore Zaeth’s refrain of “figuring it out” and “working on it” throughout this conversation. That’s all any of us are ever doing in this life, or unlife, is it not?
-Koschei: “Why do you not want to be Prince?”
Zaeth: “I just- it feels like a lot of responsibility in a way that- I’m just starting to learn how to be responsible, in a way. I have like a to-do list. Right now it just says ‘Tina Bunders,’ but…” (sighs) “I can- I can wrap my head around it.”
-He even prompts Koschei to give Bat Child something for her birthday. He’s growing :’)
-Madelaine: “It’s a Black Forest gateau idea.”
-Madelaine: “They love obedience, but they love blood and money more. And we can give them that.”
Zaeth: “Time to pop some wheelies.”
-Part 3: we get to meet up with Maya and Cody after all! At good ol’ Mama Angie’s.
-Maya (re DM/BC’s burns): “Jesus Christ, are you guys okay?”
BC: “Yeah, we were doing that thing where you spray, um- perfume at a candle, and it got really out of hand.”
Madelaine: “That’s why we smell of tropical Christmas.”
-Maya also listens to the police scanner, huh. Jotting that down.
-Oh, okay, party time in the defunct basement facility.
-Madelaine has met Richard Nixon. Details. I demand them.
-I assume that Madelaine is wearing one of her new ‘witchy’ tops or something else other than the lace dress with glove-sleeves in her character art, if she’s joining in with the impromptu wave of disrobing set off by Cody ditching his windbreaker/t-shirt.
-Well, no more plausible deniability; we have now officially seen Cody’s werewolf form with our own eyes. Also, Brennan described said form as being 8.5 feet tall, which makes wolf!Cody the same height as Bigfoot.
-BAT CHILD ADMITTED SHE’S A VAMPIRE :O :O :O Only in her own head, but still!!-The revelation that werewolf blood grants visions to vampires: I don’t know what I thought would happen, but it wasn’t that, and I love it.
-Oh, now the drumming and the green light are accompanied by a chant of JotP’s name. Spooky just jumped up another notch.
-NO the pine giant’s actual voice is worse. I don’t even care about the tree-rection; erections seem to be a running theme in this episode. JotP’s voice is the scariest part.
-DM’s turn to have a trip on werewolf blood and oop. I appear to be crying over the image of all those werewolf cubs finding their way here to Cody and the hostel and the Caroline Vine Trail. Safely changing for the first time… being found by other, older werewolves, joining their community and their people… and now they can’t even get to Purpee so easily, because of the bus lines being cut. T_T
-Yesss, we now have Maya and Cody officially on side to help us improve Purpee!
-Shit, we almost got Cody impaled by a vine for speaking the name of JotP. D:
-Maya can magically teleport people?!?! There are two mortal mages in town!! Now we just have to meet Amelia…
-And LaVonte’s been invited to become Seneschal in Austin, TX. :o
Four episodes left in which to find this middle ground between eschewing the assigned task list and carrying it out in our own way. Cannot wait to see how this goes.
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