May: Hey Guys Have You Seen Fiona?

If you leave your Christmas lights up year round, it’s all “oh they’re so festive” or “oh they’re just lazy”.

But I leave even one (1) skeleton in my front b yard longer than a day after Halloween and suddenly it’s all, “oh they’re crazy” and “where’d they even get that skeleton anyway why does it look so real?”

I lived vicariously through this show.

“We’re fixing up this spaceship that belongs to our new friend Meap.”

“Meap, he’s the most adorable thing in the world.”

“Really? Are you sure there’s nothing, or no one that’s more adorable?“

“No, not a chance.”

I don’t promote violence but I think if an art teacher writes or draws on your piece or tears it up you should be allowed to shoot them in cold blood.

My siblings and I shouldn’t watch movies...

Officer: *points at lineup* Who did it?

Me: It was the bear.

Officer: CUFF HIM!

Other Officer: *sobbing* The cuffs won’t fit!  They keep sliding off!

Finding a Conscience

So Volume 7 definitely introduced a whole lot of symbolic elements of Penny’s Pinocchio story.

We’ve gotten a Geppetto (Pietro),

a Blue Fairy (Fria),

a symbolic ‘become a real boy’ transformation, or in this case; an affirmation beyond all doubt that Penny was a real girl all along

And the end of the volume even introduced a Montro.

However, even with all this, I recently realized that there was still a major character from Pinocchio that we still seemed to be lacking.

Jiminy Cricket. Which the more I thought about it seemed pretty odd given that Penny doesn’t seem to NEED someone to be her conscience, after all, she seems to be by far the most moral and empathetic of all the Atlas characters.

But now I’m pretty sure that was exactly the point. Because Penny is the Jiminy Cricket of this story. Rather than having a different character act as her conscience, Penny herself acts as the conscience to others. Namely, Ironwood, Winter and the rest of Atlas.

All of Penny’s scenes with Winter from Episode 7 on can pretty much be summed up as Penny playing the role of Jiminy Cricket.

Finally, this adds another layer of symbolism to Winter, and by extension Ironwood, forcing Penny to flee Atlas.

Atlas has now effectively rejected their conscience.

The pun got me.

when she makes puns and indirectly flirts with your daughter in front of you

Not only are there stupid questions, but they will cost you.

May: Shotgun for eternity!

Fiona: You can’t call shotgun for eternity!

May: I just called it.

Joanna: You can’t just call things!

May: I call that I can call things!

Robyn: If you all don’t stop arguing we’re not going to the beach!

Psych is the perfect example of how the Homestuck relationship quadrants play out irl

Shawn and Gus are moirails. Like, perfect definition.

Shawn and Jules are matesprits. (Duh)

Shawn and Lassie are kismessitudes. With Gus, Jules, and even arguably Chief Vick stepping in as auspistices as needed.

I could write an essay on this, as both a Homestuck and Psych autistic. Argue with the wall, you know I’m right and y’all have just been too afraid to say it