finally getting into the stolen century arc. these two are the loves of my life
[image description: side by side drawings, one of Lup and one of Taako. They are slender elven twins with light brown skin and thick, wavy light pink hair. Lup’s hair falls to her waist, and Taako’s hair is chin-length. They’re wearing similar outfits of red IPRE jackets, red robes, dark shorts, and thigh-high boots, with slight differences between them. Lup’s jacket is cropped, her robe is tied around her hips and her boots are heeled. She’s posing and smiling over her shoulder with one hand on her hip. Taako’s jacket is long and he’s wearing it underneath his robe. He’s smiling in Lup’s direction with his hand on his hip. The background in both drawings is light gray.]
So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we’ll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she’ll be back in a couple of minutes
Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl’s balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it’s quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us
After a long moment, she says, confused, “You didn’t pop the balloons.”
To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, “We’re allowed to pop them?” and immediately turns around and stabs his friend’s balloon with the pencil
There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates’ balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. “I can’t believe you didn’t pop your balloons.”
Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever
any english teacher should have known that lord of the flies is what happens when privileged entitled rich kids who are used to getting away with everything get stranded, not normal kids. Normal kids actually have to face consequences and wouldnt immediately devolve into anarchy
this is by far the LARGEST update in homestuck history, i went through both epilogues, copy/pasted all of it into word documents and found out that candy route is 94883 words long, meat route is 87232 words long, for a total of 182,115 words according to readmspa the second highest day had 18,903 words this update is 163212 words longer than the second place for largest update additionally, this update puts homestuck at a total of 1,007,370 words with meat being 8.66% of homestuck, candy being 9.42% of homestuck and this update as a whole being 18.08% of homestuck
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
