I found this on the internet claiming to be manly, Cancer-themed neck jewelry
and
okay
I bet on Alternia, awkward symbol combinations are the equivalent of horrible relationship namesmooshes and/or doodling “MR [YOUR NAME] [YOUR CRUSH’S SURNAME]” in your schoolfeeding binders surrounded by little hearts (or clubs or whatever. trolls).
and one time everyone is bored and that is when Dave walks in on Karkat grimacing in concentration and gouging a fist-enclosed pencil across a book like Karkat still thinks paper is stone-tablet and chisel type technology, gotta carve your grocery list down before the barbarians attack and pillage your alphabet
Karkat has been trying to combine
and
and coming up with variations on the above squiggles, which is absolutely the best thing that has happened to Dave all afternoon.
holy shit dude, Dave says as he yoinks the book away.