he's blue for an amazing reason

caimon always has such a happy dopey smile in all of her appearances, i love her

it is legitimately amazing you have the confidence to ask things like this. i get insecure writing positive comments on ao3 and here you are asking things any sane person would call a hitman on you for

i blew that out of proportion mostly, i promise. Iirc it was like two people who sent me direct DMs, and I was mostly bummed by the people talking about me without me knowing in your replies. That stuff's always gonna happen anyway, nature of the internet.

people have bitched and will bitch until the end of time. Thanks for the response, and again sorry for the all caps reply. Take care man.

dont worry about it. I just don't want you feeling like you need to respond to complaints every time, since it keeps making you unhappy. I think it was a really cool move when you decided to stop writing your comics to try and please everyone, and its made some of my favorite stuff youve produced.

also sorry, I deleted the first thread bc it came off as really aggressive and mean, and I apologize. Again, i'm not angry at you, I just got a bit upset to see you talking about me on socials without my knowledge again. this is how I find out this dumb site wont let you edit posts

to engage with the text less when earnest thoughts get responded to like hate mail. I know this is more about the comments but most of them have never even read the comic. I love your work and you're still awesome but please man I've already gone through this once

interpretation of it. The last time I got tons of people blowing up my DMs with nasty words about it, and I let it slide because you didn't mean to bring any hate to me. I know you still don't, but dude. It's not healthy or productive to respond to critical reading like this. It makes me want

AGAIN???????? DUDE WHAT. this is a direct response to a writeup i did on Tumblr about how much I love Housepets. This is the second time in a few months where i've written my thoughts and you've written a whole thread on this site about the worst possible (cont)

here, but its worth a shot. thank you for your time.

before it arrives here. I'm told it will be returned to sender, and since that, I imagine, might be your realm, I figured I would ask if it's at all possible for me to come into possession of the book in question. I'm willing to talk in a more private forum if you wish; I suspect you cannot aid me-

@rickgriffin.bsky.social deeply sorry to message you in such an undignified way, and I sincerely doubt you can help, but I figured it was worth a shot. I pre-ordered Vol 3 of the Housepets omnibus, expecting it would arrive earlier, and now find due to personal circumstances I will be moving house-

no stray, thats me. sowwy

you've been nothing but fair. Reading the replies peeves me a bit but that's an eternal and everpresent law of the internet, and not one I blame you for.

out of all the people mad at me this one hit hardest bc i literally do

If you'd like to tell me about anything else you disagree with or just don't enjoy seeing connected to your comic (most of its probly me) feel free to message me on Tvtropes or wherever you prefer. I feel like a real ass for painting the fandom as a bunch of dorks in your eyes because of my editing.

i'm the jackass here, and if you want me to take it down (as a lot of people here are responding negatively to this wick, which isnt helped by the unfortunate name of the trope, i will)

I sincerely, truly did not mean to bother you; when i enjoy something, i speculate, and i havent enjoyed anything as much as Housepets for a long time. I apologize, and on behalf of all of the fandom, i want to say please put your mental health before us. We only want the best for you.

and ill never consider it to be something that happened, but its interesting to think about'. ill admit my fangirling sometimes leaks over into my editing and seeps headcanons without my intent (ESPECIALLY on the tarot character page i created, whoof), but i swear i do it out of love. (cont)

i love this comic is because i love to speculate on the rules of the world it offers, and what might be happening offscreen. When I wrote this, I wasn't thinking 'this is so dumb, obviously if this comic was REALISTIC this would have happened'. i was thinking 'this didnt happen, (cont)

Yeah, uh, that was me, Str8aura. Whoops. I did a bunch of the editing on the Housepets page for tvtropes (which might get me in trouble for saying because the mods there are pretty draconian but ill say it anyway). I swear to you I didn't mean this as a criticism of your work; part of why (cont)

any idea when the signed preorders you offered on patreon will be arriving btw?

are the preorder email responses going to be sent out to those who pledged purchase?

@rickgriffin.bsky.social do you know yet what the price range is gonna be on the Omnibus when it drops

god its so painful reading how shitty people were throughout the entire run of this comic. everything new was considered the worst thing ever and it sucks that all of my favorite parts were either painful for the author or bitched about by the reader

holy shit thats badass

Feel so awful for the stuff you had to put up with. I love Housepets for every part, but especially the plot heavy sections; they're some of the best parts of the comic for me. It's good you can talk freely about this now.

we bout to have housepets coloring purists in the fandom

"So basically, after the human gets turned into a dog and finds out human history was a giant chessgame run by immortal deities, he now has to tackle his wedding planning, and the gag here references an earlier bit about butt sniffing where-"