theyd all be fuckin stupid so uhh i dunno

Most parents are unaware of their emotional teen's drama. The whole locked in room "leave me alone MOM" mentality is pretty common among the dumb teens that are just embarrassed and "too cool" for parents.

Isn't to say she hasn't noticed her moodiness, but she's the moodier child in a group of moody children. Also the pets distract her a ton.

Smiling at this because "whut bout parents" stuff has been asked before regarding lucy and I don't find it unusual

This is something that's in the extras page in great detail, alongside a more expansive talk about the other question.

http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/extras.html

Smiling to stop redundancy.

When I was little I watched a lot of cartoons and was into things like Looney Tunes and Mafalda and Garfield and such, and when I went to school I would have little things happen that would make me draw it out in a "different scenario" with other characters. Like if I saw a person being a jerk in school I would draw them being a jerk and then draw Lucy kicking them or something. I've always been into "slice of life" though I would make it more absurd back in the day.

It was honestly just the dumb little thoughts of a 7yo. And once I hit 12 I became more romance-involved (Didn't help that I watched a bit less slapstick and more slice of life shows - and some uguu kawaii animays :() and drew it more serious but it stopped by that time and I only revisited the characters when I was 18.

I have a bottle that says "Reeves Water Colour" and "Essentials Watercolor" from Royal & Langnickel. They're just a bunch of bottles I've gotten as various gifts over the years, and I have so many of them I just mix them together into various colours.

I've been asked this before and it's kind of annoying to have to dig them up and decipher what they are so I will smile at this haha

Critique is often used to distinguish useful commentary from frivolous commentary. I think a complaint would be something fairly personal and useless ("I don't like how this character is acting") but a critique would be designed to improve the comment ("This character is acting bizarrely, did you know that most people confronted with this would realistically act another way?")

omg i can't wait to do this

this is gonna be so awesome and everyone's gonna like me for doing it

ok everyone here goes

U MAD, BRO???????

Haaaaaaa.

I sought counseling around 2008 because I was at my worst. She was just a random therapist I saw advertised nearby, and I had to pay out of pocket for services, that admittedly filled me with much paranoia and the tragedy was that I thought I could get the money back when doing taxes but that didn't work out, and I was going to like two sessions a week. I eventually left. I don't think anything really happened, except she was someone I talked to and I feel guilty because she was really concerned about me, especially in 2009 when I was going absolutely batshit.

I went to a psychologist in 2009 and it didn't last too long, where I was prescribed medication and that didn't do anything and I always felt a bit weirded out and nothing happened. So I gave up.

Until 2011 when I started seeing a GP and another psychologist again. It's really recent so I can't really tell you if that's helped, but I guess I'm the type that just runs away and hides and "gives up" for a period of time if I don't think it's doing anything, I actually did that with these guys for a few months. But I've been getting so bad that I thought I should suck it up and try. I guess see what happens?

Homestuck feels like a degree you have to take in college, it seems so involving that I'm absolutely and utterly intimidated over the concept of reading it.. because I really really don't have that much free time, and I am a horrible completist.

But I feel I'm doing myself an absolute disservice :( Because it sounds amazing and people are like really insane about it, and I feel like man it has to be good.

.. and also I feel it's something I will always be asked about, and I wish I could have a real opinion of the comic. It's just so SCARY. And I do feel guilty enough dicking around on the internet, this seems like an incredible investment of time. I wish there was a way to download the entire series on a CD and take it around with me so I read it on the train or when travelling or maybe on a plane trip to America, I would seriously pay for a Homestuck CD, the entire absolute archives, gaahhhhh

I don't know, honestly. Teenagers and up? High Schoolers and up? It doesn't seem to differ significantly, though I do feel awkward when I hear eleven year olds read it, for example.. since there's stuff in the comic that's not too appropriate for them :-[

I'm not saying it's FOR High Schoolers, though, I always think of "minimum" age when I'm asked about target audiences, because there's really nothing wrong with older people reading comics, nor did I ever sit down and go "Right, this is intended for x age group and y age group".. I just.. drew a comic :U;

Oh boy I sure can't pronounce "SuitCase" correctly so I settle on Souppy, that is entirely the reason that I call him Souppy. Boy I sure am dumb ha ha

OH MY FREAKEN GOD

SHE CALLS HIM MAISHUL

BECAUSE THAT IS HER PET NAME FOR HIM

HER FREAKEN PET NAME

SHE MISPRONOUNCED IT ONCE

AND MIKE THOUGHT IT WAS ADORABLE

SO SHE CONTINUED

SANDY IS NOT FUCKING STUPID

SHE KNOWS HOW TO PRONOUNCE SHIT

SHE MIGHT BE ACADEMICALLY CHALLENGED

BUT WHY DON'T PEOPLE FREAKEN GET THE POINT

THAT MAISHUL IS A PET NAME

HOLY FREAKEN MOTHER OF GOD

YOU PEOPLE

I JUST

Haaaa

Basically I am a horrific jealous type. The advantage to being a jealous type on the internet, however, is that you can hide it very easily. So when Souppy and I got together when I was 15, he knew me as this really sweet non-jealous girl, to the point he used to purposely say things to rile me up. And my god was he successful, but he would never know about it until years later! Like, I would go "oh okay =D" but IRL I would be crying very heavily or feeling really down and upset.

That kind of came back and slapped me in the face, because I could have avoided a lot of drama if I just slapped Souppy and went "NO, this is NOT OKAY", namely the drama with Goldie where he had a flirty relationship with her six months into our relationship. I was basically aware of it, but I didn't know the severity of the issue until years later, I knew they were fooling around, I just didn't know how. I was very self-loathing then as I was now, and I always felt guilty about taking Souppy from Goldie, and it was always implied that Goldie was heaps jealous, so I used to publicly avoid fangirling about Souppy in fear that Goldie would notice, have a tantrum on AIM with him, and he would rescue her.

Basically I didn't want to be her. So I tried not to be jealous so that I wouldn't give Souppy a hard time and show him that I trusted him, and I also avoided being publicly clingy so that she wouldn't get upset. I had everyone in front of me when it came to making feel better.

So for a few months, Souppy thought I didn't love him enough. Which was incredibly hurtful for me, I loved him dearly, but I was honestly clashing with a lot of personalities that I built up, basically being easygoing, not a pain in the ass, and not jealous. I had a huge hatred for jealousy then and I still do now, back then I thought jealousy meant you didn't trust you partner. You were protective, it was proof that you didn't love them enough because if you did love them, wouldn't it be logical for you to trust them and they could go do what they want with the knowledge they won't screw up? That's how my belief system was, but I was crying in real life. I was hurting, if Souppy talked to me through the phone or knew me in real life, he would have known right away how upset it made me. I was always very deeply jealous.

Anyway, fast forward to 2010. There was maybe about two girls since then who I was jealous of? It wasn't ultimately a big deal, and Souppy never did anything with them. But it was obvious I couldn't hide it anymore, especially since we were living together by 2007. My jealousy lies on if Souppy becomes really close with a girl, like if he finds them really likable and hilarious and great and protects them, that freaks me out. It reminds me of Goldie, and it drives me insane. I guess the event in the pass really fucked me up good, because I get really paranoid and scared, the fact of the matter is Souppy didn't think he was doing anything wrong with Goldie. So I guess my fear still lies on that - if he does bad things without realising they are bad.

Susan joined the bcb chat and initially I disliked her. Like the other people, I used to find her really irritating and obnoxious and angry all the time, Souppy found that adorable and charming and he told me that. The words "Adorable" and "Charming" and such other adjectives made me feel deja vu, and I linked Susan to Goldie. He used synonyms he used for her, and more and more I became paranoid and worried and freaking out. Like to the point if he was sleeping I would obsessively skim through whatever conversations they woulda been having in private, they talked like all the time at the time and i just so badly didn't wanna get hurt like i did in 2002 again. I overread things, things were made up in my head. It got to the point where I began to think he could fall for her, that sorta thing.

Man those were miserable times, I was so horrifically upset. Mainly because I didn't want to be the type to forbid him from talking to girls, I didn't wanna give that impression, so I basically found myself crying and wailing and freaking out, but if Souppy asked about what he could do to make me happy, I'd be like "Oh, nothing!!!", I didn't want him to change! He's changed too much for me! He deals with me too much! I'm a nuisance, I'm irritating! If I irritate him more, he'll realise how bad I am and leave me!!

So like I suffered and suffered and grew paranoid and suffered when I finally got all "okay you have to stop talking to her because i am insane" and he was like "nope" and I continued to suffer, to the point where I actually wanted to break up.

YES WE ALMOST BROKE UP BECAUSE OF THIS

i couldn't stand being in the house anymore, I felt misery, I felt ill, I felt so sick, it was all the bad feelings in 2002 and I wanted to break up because I felt I needed to be free from it, it wasn't because I didn't love him. I loved him immensely, but I thought I was holding him back. I wanted him to make all these cool friends, I wanted him to be happy, I was just being a huge whiny crazy bitch.

We had a big cry session at one point when I was like "yeah we need to split" and I was convinced out of it, but it was then that Souppy was like "okay i won't talk to her again i'm so sorry holy shit don't leave me cryyyyy"

but then three days later they were chatting again

and i

went

NUTS

i basically asked Maverik if he was still at uni, he said no, I begged to go stay with him, I looked up airfares, I just needed a break. I needed to be out of the house, I was going insane. Souppy was upset by finding out about it, and I kept lashing out, and finally he booked the tickets. I left and stayed with Maverik for a week to cool down and bounced between thinking "YES IT'S OVER BUT FUCK I'M SO FUCKED I'M IN AUSTRALIA WITH NOBODY WHAT AM I GOING TO DO" and "WOW LIL YOU'RE KIND OF FUCKING CRAZY THERE YOU REALISE IT'S A 16YO GIRL AND NOTHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN AND HE'S JUST HELPING HER AND YOU'RE BEING A HORRIBLE SELFISH SLUT TO PREVENT THEM FROM BEING BROS"

so yeah, really bad time. I ended up flying back, he apparently was ready to try and convince me to stay with him, which I hate. I hate that I put him through that, that sucked so much. And it wasn't because I didn't love him. That upsets me the most. I just didn't wanna be in his way.

But yeah it took a while to get over it and lose the Goldie association and it's gone now, after a year. I really like Susan now, I find her entertaining, and I feel really sad that Souppy doesn't really talk to her as much anymore. All of that paranoia is completely and utterly gone. I feel weird I had it, but I did, and it sucked, and I hope it doesn't happen again.

tl;dr: i am crazy

When I first met him, I was mad at him because he wasn't too sympathetic about 9/11 and seemed really hateful of Shadow when I liked him (granted, this was before I realised Shadow would be revived and I thought he was dead for good, also I wasn't a fangirl for him but I appreciated him). It's those things that made me scared to talk to him, since he didn't seem easy to please. But I did admire the fact he was so open and honest, and kind of found his attitude refreshing amongst all the fangirls. I just veered away because he seemed scary.

Then we were put in a secret forum with other people and he made a thread where music was recommended. And he said that he expected me to have good taste because there was a Grandia II song he found absolutely gorgeous that I pointed out at the time. I was blown away. This really intimidating, outspoken guy... respected me??

I really paid attention to him then, and kept wanting to impress him. We began toying around with eachother and one day we spoke on AIM. I found his random eBay convos pretty confusing and boring, but he felt like a celebrity to me. I was overjoyed to talk to him. The convos weren't much before I was forced to leave the Internet for a few months.

During the time off, I had no contact. One day I went to a party that had Internet so I went on it, and he was the only person I spoke to that day. He also has a deadjournal at the time, and I read an entry about a girl that was asking him to the movies. My mood changed noticeably, I was very jealous. I felt sad, my stomach turned, I kind of figured I might have a dumb crush or maybe it was just me being a stupid attention whore that would rather him pay attention to me even though we didn't often talk. But I liked him, and found it cool he was being a jerk in forums but really nice to me.

Anyway I returned, and things were different. The friends I talked to before I left didn't talk to me anymore, they found new friends and paled with them. I felt very down and lonely, but who was the only person who cared to talk to me?

Yeah, Souppy. I felt it was temporary because at the time he was being encouraged to date another girl, and I felt that would mean he'd stop talking to me too, but he always spoke to me. And sometimes I would hint at my loneliness, and he wouldn't leave. Every day, at 3 PM, we would chat. We barely ever missed that chance. I grew such a crush, I was so in love with someone I felt I couldn't be with. He was nice, funny, eager to know about me, and seemed to love everything about me.

I trusted him enough he was the first person online who I related my pretty shitty past to, and I felt then that I really was in love. I knew friends way before him who didn't know, he really wanted to know I was fine, and yeah he eventually realised I was mad into him!

I answer this question too many times. For the sake of the smiled list, here's the stuff I would change:

1. I would pick a consistent drawing style and go with it, I would not do it in the box-grid-lined style and would do it in proper panels from the beginning.
2. The story would be concise, it would be planned from the start, but I would still have it be open enough for fun chapters.
3. The characters would be human.
4. No fancharacters.
5. Tess would be completely rewritten into a new character with a different history, she's too pivotal to just scrap, there's a need for her to exist
6. I would either completely rewrite or completely scrap Confrontation. Most-likely the latter.
7. I would spend time researching the environment and building a map of the "world."

The confusion readers have about this has always baffled me, because I don't think it's very bizarre that Mike is mean, he has gone a bit far, but I would presume that reading the comic would have raised awareness to his development..?

Nonetheless, I am not going to spoonfeed you because I'm sure it will be actually made more clear in the comic itself. So it's technically is a spoiler, even though I know plenty of readers who know without the need of me telling them.

Smiling at this because I used to get this question an absurd amount of times.

David was just a background character that appeared once in a while, he didn't even have a name until I slapped it on. He just kind of came to be after a while, like if I had a joke that required multiple characters, I would bring up David.

Daisy was created solely as a love interest for Mike, same as Sandy. Sandy had the whole childhood past story even in the old series, Daisy appeared because at the time of the old comic, Mike and Lucy broke up. I wanted Mike to move on, so he ended up meeting Daisy and falling really hard for her.

Paulo was a side-story exclusive character. He appears in a dream Lucy has where he bombs the school, but when Lucy wakes up and goes to school, he comes across him and promptly freaks out even though he wasn't evil at the time. Then a convoluted side story happened and Paulo basically was the love interest to Lucy/evil augustus of the old series.

Amaya was an adult nurse in the side story whose design was based on my cat Missy, she could talk and aided Lucy in her injuries. She had no name at the time, but I took her design and used her for a teenage girl in another side story, in which I had to pair Sue up with someone. It just so happened Amaya never spoke in that side story and hung around Sue all the time, so the connection was made, and Amaya's personality was developed there.

I just needed a preppie for Katie, who was the combination of a bunch of girls I found irritating in high school. Stacy was a lesser version of it.

Abbey, Jessica, and Rachel are exclusive to the new BCB, I needed girls to be angry at Tess and their personalities developed, and I needed Abbey for plot-related reasons. Same as Augustus.

smilin this because i hate questions where I have to talk a lot about the whole cast of characters and i don't want to do this again

The term is very subjective honestly. So it differs from who you ask. I made the comic without the intention of making a "furry comic", it's something I notice people do.

"I am trying to think of an idea for a furry webcomic to release"

And it's like why a furry comic? Why stress that out?

BCB is basically me reviving characters I did when I was seven. Had no clue about furries or the furry community or anything then. So it's kind of awkward it's like a stigma now.

But I'm digressing, I made the banner kind of a nonsequitor. I thought it sounded funny and absurd enough, literally the first thing I thought when
I thought of courage wolf bcb. I think I thought it up at the time my friend Mousey was making advice davids?

When we first met, I called him "Suitcase" even though it was SuitCase. That kind of ended up being my name for him even though other people would call him "Suity" as an affectionate term.

It was annoying because I wanted to give him and affectionate term myself, but I linked "Suity" to all the fangirls that adored him who I was jealous of :-[ I wanted to be "different" so I could be noticed when I had the mad crush on him, but I couldn't think of anything to call him. I admittedly wanted to call him Oliver when he told me his name after he found out I loved him.. but he didn't want his name to be public. So "Oliver" or "Ollie" was out of the question.

Anyway, I am a Cardcaptor Sakura fan, and saw a character named Spinel who was pretty deadpan a lot of the time but eloquent and read a lot of books. I linked that personality to Suitcase..

and basically Spinel had an affectionate nickname from one of the other characters which was basically "Suppi"

SuitCase --> Suity --> Suppi --> Souppy.

That is my pet name for him now, basically "darling"

Common translations for Suppi is Suppi, but the Cardcaptor Sakura book I own pronounces it "Souppy", that's where I have it from.

Smiling at this before it seems I never smiled at this question before though I recall getting this asked a lot. Made it detailed this time.

PS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFAU3NPH0yo&feature=channel_video_title

Play

Man I would sound too preachy if I answered this (plus I've answered it like three times before)

Universal health care, no second amendment, no death penalty, abortion and gay marriage are allllright, and carbon tax yes.

And other stuff like a free technika machine at my office.

Play that shit all day

Overrated. It's a decent kid's show elevated up to a ridiculous status because of people obsessed with the anesthetics of it. While personally, I have nothing against people watching it for the sheer beauty and/or design, I don't like when people begin to claim it's really for adults because of some mature innuendo, or that it has amazingly compelling characters with a magnificent storyline. If you want to think that, it is fine, just do it for the right reasons, and don't try to convince me of it unless you have something better then 'in comparison to other kid's show'.