Anonymous >> #48070
Posted on 2015-03-20 11:16:27 Score: 3 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
"Hey Jane, what's with the tumor?"

"It's naht a tumah!"


....I'm sorry, it's all I could think of looking at those lumps.

epoxy >> #48071
Posted on 2015-03-20 18:26:20 Score: 2 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
Jane is the Maid of Life, a role associated with food, fertility and procreation, so wouldn't her power core be in her bosom and/or womb?

eternalDelight >> #48073
Posted on 2015-03-20 19:44:12 Score: 3 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
See, I think that placement would work better on her than the other pic with Jake and his emerald intestines. =p

Anonymous >> #48074
Posted on 2015-03-20 23:44:58 Score: 2 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
I'd say space is way more associated with fertility and procreation than life. Life I see as more of a healing hands/doctor sort of thing. (including the sociopathic god complex who uses their powers for evil type ala condescension)

Anonymous >> #48075
Posted on 2015-03-21 03:35:52 Score: 1 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)


...how?

I've heard space being related to: emptiness, positioning, overwhelming power....but never fertility/procreation. Sometimes the idea of destruction can be associated with them, like death and rebirth, but "space"? Never have I ever seen/read something like that. It obviously houses things that incorporate the ideas, but itself? That's pretty sketchy to me.

epoxy >> #48076
Posted on 2015-03-21 05:22:10 Score: 4 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
That's true, the Space players are strongly associated with reproduction and progeny. Jade has a lot of "cloning duties" and the Maryams have a definite mother-archetype thing going on: they assure their race's survival through the Matriorb. Space players have a role in producing the next generation.

However, this reproduction is amphibian-style, not human-style. Through artificial or external means they are "frogspawning" instead of doing it like they do on the discovery channel. And like amphibians, they don't necessarily form an intimate bond with individual offspring.

Meanwhile, Jane and Feferi seem more closely bound to the concept of parenthood. They protect and nurture (and feed) those weak or in need, whether that's baby!Dad or Gl'bgolyb. An as for the means of producing children, Jane is interested in having (a zillion) babies with Jake "the old-fashioned way" (impleying that sexxx happens).

So you can expect the Space women to reproduce in vast crops (all of them are gardeners incidentally). But if a Life woman (especially the Maid) has a child, it would be the old-fashioned way, nourishing it directly from her body (gestating it in the uterus and later feeding it with breast milk) and guiding it as a mother.

...That's metaphorical by the way... I hope Jane doesn't actually get knocked-up in-comic. Homestuck is already weird, I'm not sure I can watch the Big Man appear to warn us about the dangers of teen pregnancy.

eternalDelight >> #48089
Posted on 2015-03-21 07:16:57 Score: 2 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
>>So you can expect the Space women to reproduce in vast crops

Bringing this back to Steven Universe,
OH MY GOD, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE GEMS DO THOUGH.

Anonymous >> #48336
Posted on 2015-04-03 16:41:18 Score: 1 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
All I'm concerned about is if Roxy is going to peel that starfish off her eyeball anytime soon

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