Short and sweet upd8 today! We were introduced to MEEMAW, and I love her already. And it's really funny to me because coincidentally, I also have an OC on my Toyhouse account called Meemaw, and she's a troll who's also old as dirt and lived in her current retirement home for at least 100 years already (Yes I know it's highly improbable for trolls to have senior living care if you're using Alternian standards. but my trolls are canon non-compliant ok they get to run around fields happy and smiling like lalala (btw for meemaw i demand ROYALTIES joke I'm joking))
The realistic hand popping up to diffuse the bomb was so funny to me. ALSO, I missed this detail the first time we got to see her sylladex, but Ly'lac has the Demon Core! (Someone tell her to deploy it immediately I already said a prompt. A reasonable one, to pick up the rod at her feet.)
Some other things I see in her sylladex are, her keyboard, and incomprehensible gas-looking-thing, and an elephant watering can (how cute!). Also don't think I didn't notice 4:13 on Ly'lac's sylladex card bomb timers. Heheh.
That means all her cards are going to explode soon, right? Uh oh.
Oh yeah, prompts! I never experienced official forum prompts before. I was too young for the internet when the original comic launched lol.
Anyways yeah. Not much to say but that's okay. I love the Caretaker, and I love Meemaw (HSBC version). They are so silly. I love them. I love them so much. I need to see more silliness.
What do y'all think?
— matpat
I also forgot to mention we got more nymph culture lore. They eat the deceased :|
Nymph culture is so morbid it leaves me with asking even more questions. I have to learn more.
— matpat
oooh I was so happy about the forum participation that I kind of glossed over the other aspects of the update jhcjks but yesss I love meemaw too, especially since I also adore manatees
i haven't even written a prompt yet...just scrolled and read through all the answers and then forgot to write something myself. oops
the forum integration is really so cool...i hope there'll be more participants on here now!!!
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I haven't read through all the responses, but I have seen like two or three demand Ly'lac to become bald help. I'm sure there are a bunch more too.
I also hope that forum participation is increased too! It has been slow for the past few days for me. Not much active threads for me to lurk and read rip.
— matpat
Also, yeah you're right Meemaw does look like a manatee! Thats cute. Meemaw also reminds me of front-facing seals, where they look like orbs haha
— matpat
Nymph society SMACKS of rose it makes me laugh, It does make me wonder tho, did the contest between dirk and rose's species already happen? Did Nymphs come out on top for that? or is there a whole other new species from Dirk we've yet to see - its been a bit since I've read all of HSBC and I cant remember if thats been resolved yet or not
SHURB is the contest iirc. Though if you look at the beginning of Act 2, you can see a mural of a war, where the other side has been blocked out by the marks of an explosion (caused by Ly'lac no doubt). The other side has the be the satyrs (we know they are called satyrs because Dirk sent Terezi a file labelled "satyr"). That, and Ly'lac saying she has a fondness for "ANCIENT SATYRICAL WEAPONRY" proooobably means satyr society lost the war rip. But satyrs are still around, either by time travel shenanigans or their society is post-collapse rip. I can say satyrs are still around because of these usernames: tinnitusChakra [TC], championsTirade [CT], and agamemnonsTheory [AT]. Seems like very Dirk-like names, yknow?
— matpat
ah, I feel you on having a lack of threads to lurk on (and read) ;; I only made this account recently so I could start participating (instead of only reading...which I still mainly do oops)
anyway, your thoughts on the chapter made me go reread all of act 2, checking what else I might have glossed over :,)
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@ matthew ohhh, gotcha! This is all stuff I either had forgotten or missed entirely, thank you so much! Given those dirk-ass names i"m sure we'll see the satrys soon enough...
Does make me realize, that we could have a sburb session with 4(!!!!) distinct species at play... The Satyrs, the Nymphs, The troll + human kids that fled the candy timeline...