TaB was first produced in 1963 and popularized as a diet soda by The Coca-Cola company. In Universe A (the Troll’s universe) the Condesce had sold billions of Trollian TaB and adopted TaB as her drink of choice upon arriving in the Alpha kid’s universe. Controversy about the drink arose in the late 1970’s and 1980’s about TaB’s main sweetening ingredient, sodium saccharin, the first known and oldest of artificial sweeteners, which was believed to be a carcinogen (A cancer causing chemical, which, oddly enough, can literally be found in Karkat’s trollian handle, carcinoGeneticist, who blames himself for causing The Tumor in the Kid’s session).
So why is it related to the Peixes as opposed to any other Vantas?
It isn’t exclusively because of Meenah’s role as the Thief of Life in the Beta Troll’s session.
While the cancer warning label from TaB was removed in 2000, the fact still remains that saccharin could cause cancer. And currently demanding a very suspicious alternate solution, but supposedly right (like a diet soda), is Meenah’s Alpha self (who used the Tumor in her session), The Condesce, the Trollian inventor of TaB.
While not being cancerous herself, her weapon of choice isn’t merely just her trident, her Maid, or her dog. By conquering Skia and making herself the Black Queen, and she had the machinery and manpower necessary to dig into Skia’s core and remove…
The Tumor.
Due to how Universe B was created, no matter how many times the universe is scratched, it will always inherent The Tumor. The Condesce, as either a threat to the Trolls and Kids to not disobey her, or as a way to scratch the session if she fails and start over in a universe where the Alpha Guardians are the Sburb players, aka, the Beta Session. This could possibly happen and explain why her presence in the Beta Universe B is less influential, but still plot essential, due to her resources completely being depleted and her needing to start from scratch in a less conquerable session. Also, her motivation to enter the beta session and her access to it, is only possible via this method.
TL;DR:
TaB signifies that The Condesce will use The Tumor in some way.
(Special thanks to Hank Green for inspiring me to make this post with this video)
the choice of soda used almost as a running gag is a hint to the facedown of one of the biggest antagonists in this nearly 8000 page webcomic I’m impressed and pissed off at the same time
Hussie has done this before and he will do it again.
Also, take a look at Condy’s glasses. Why are they white instead of fuschia, like Meenah’s or Fef’s?
Because The Tumor is black and white.
I don’t even understand what I just read and I’m impressed
I showed this post to my boyfriend and he tried to take his shirt off like a girl and
uh
yeah
Out of the 82k notes my post got this is by far the best comment holy shit thank u for being u
So i tried it both ways and uh
i mean how do you do the first one without pulling out all your hair?
this made me laugh really hard….
and it made me realize that girls and boys pull their shirt off differently. /amazed
but seriously I think girls just do the cross arm thing because of HAIR like demonstrated
So one year, one URL change, and a hair cut later, I decide to try again… FOR SCIENCE!
Its not science unless you write it down so
First method:
Well done, i guess…
Second:
I fucked up
Girls… how?
I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN HAVE SUCH DIFFERENT WAYS OF TAKING OFF SHIRTS AND SO MUCH DIFFICULTY DOING IT THE OTHER WAY
I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!!
It’s all in the way that girl/boys shirts are made.
Girls shirts have less armpit room then boy’s do and are generally shorter so pulling it off over your head is more practical because by lifting your arms all the way up you make enough room for the sleeves to just slip off.
Boys shirts have more room and are generally longer so it is easy to slip them off over your head.
but if you take a girls shirt off like a boys shirt you will get your arms caught because there isn’t much armpit space.
and if you take a boys shirt off like a girls shit you will still have your head in it when you’ve lifted your arms all the way up because of the shirt’s length.
It has nothing to do with us. It is entirely to do with how our shirts are made. I figured it out for you. YOU’RE WELCOME!
if you put trans women in danger because you can’t help running your fucking mouth, you are the ENEMY and will be ERADICATED
if you are a cis person who scrolled past this without reblogging because you don’t feel like it’s a necessary message for your other cis friends to see, i want you to know you’ve made it that much harder to trust you
i’m so sorry tho, i wanted to reblog the original post and add these sketches to it but it didn’t work, bc my internet connection is really crappy so i hope this’ll work.. also i’m scannerless again hence the crappy repros.
girls aren’t “easy”, girls don’t have difficulty levels. some girls like sex and some girls don’t. you aren’t winning anything by getting either of them to sleep with you.
Some girls only want sex after emotional closeness develops, but to call this “difficulty” says some really disturbing shit about what you think emotional closeness is for.
Just last week, a 7th grader with a curvy build came home upset about this. She had worn an outfit with a skirt and leggings, and in the morning, a teacher had said to her, “Cute outfit.” But then her homeroom teacher pulled her aside at the end of the day and said, “You know, another girl could get away with that outfit, but you should not be wearing that. I’m going to dress code you.” Juliet Bond and the child’s mom were discussing the incident, not certain if the message to the child was ‘you’re too sexy’ or ‘you’re too fat.’
The kids also report that the teachers have been discussing ‘appropriate body types for leggings and yoga pants and inappropriate body types for yoga pants and leggings.’
Bond says, “This is concerning because it is both slut shaming and fat shaming. If a girl is heavy or developed, the message is that she cannot wear certain clothes.” Neither is acceptable. We should not be sexualizing kids, nor should we be making them feel that they can wear leggings as long as they remain stick thin. Bond asks, “Why are the girls being pulled out of class to have assemblies on whether they are wearing the right clothes, while the boys remain in class, learning and studying?”
I don’t have a problem with a school having a dress code; in fact, I attended a school that didn’t allow jeans or shorts or shirts without collars, but I do have a problem when the dress code is discriminately based on gender and body type. There is a big difference between telling all students to dress respectfully and telling curvy girls to dress in a way that doesn’t distract boys.
So…here is my original art next to the STAG Clothing logo, along with an overlay of the two, to prove that their logo isindeed a direct trace of my art, the only changes being: one antler copied and flipped around, to make both antlers fully symmetrical, the line of the lip removed, and the fur line between the eyes removed. Every other outline, antler shading detail, and fur markings, down to the individual hairs, is identical, as you can see.
He also claims that: “We as a company have always paid for designers, and would never copyright someone else’s images and pass them off as our own.” Well, I for sure haven’t gotten one cent of payment from this!
And this bit was copied from their FB about page: “As well as hard work, our design process has set us apart from many, a huge amount of our designs and collections are created in house, however we have also had the pleasure of working closely with some amazing and creative designers which has enabled them to put their spin on the brand and its products.” So I guess “working closely with creative designers” and “creating designs in house” actually means stealing from various artists whatever images they happen to come across on Google and then editing them to suit their own purposes? :P
~Xenia/SD
Unbelievable.
Spread this as far as you can! - companies who steal work gotta be boycotted.
