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This story is really the best. This is the court. It probably is, to some degree. VVVV VanSandman fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Sep 28, 2011 |
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I like to think this is all true.
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Sep 28, 2011 22:08
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Ka0 posted:Chincredible I think. Jawesome.
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Sep 28, 2011 23:26
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That was even better than I had hoped, and I had some really high hopes for how their story would go. Tom, you rule.
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Sep 28, 2011 23:32
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I love the horse's sunglasses flying off as its head hangs out of the car. Wow, the fact that we even have a horse wearing sunglasses in a rice rocket is pretty hilarious on its own, drat. I also have been going back the whole story for the past couple days - my first time rereading it all. I'm noticing a lot of interesting details this time around, and it's really increased my appreciation for how well-planned so much of the plot is. Buff Skeleton fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Sep 28, 2011 |
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Sep 28, 2011 23:36
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Sep 30, 2011 03:30
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How the other kids are bored of this riveting tale is lost on me. Also, according to Tom's Tumblr, Parely and Smit are coming back in the next chapter. Yaaaaaaaay!
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Sep 30, 2011 10:56
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Paz has older sisters? I hope they are luckier.
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Sep 30, 2011 15:46
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Today's comic is  on so many levels.
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Sep 30, 2011 23:50
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Roger Explosion posted:How the other kids are bored of this riveting tale is lost on me. Seriously, those guys are rude as hell. I mean, everyone paid attention through that boring-rear end mandolin ghost story and the pointless rabbit girl thing. Why isn't anyone interested in a guaranteed top-grossing Hollywood blockbuster?
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Oct 1, 2011 05:45
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Nipponophile posted:Seriously, those guys are rude as hell. I mean, everyone paid attention through that boring-rear end mandolin ghost story and the pointless rabbit girl thing. Why isn't anyone interested in a guaranteed top-grossing Hollywood blockbuster? Look these kids broke out of their dorms to sit around and talk about their feelings. There is simply no time for life and death horse car races.
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Oct 1, 2011 06:25
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:There is simply no time for life and death horse car races.
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Oct 1, 2011 15:25
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They're not interested because they already know all about it; that was Dr. Disaster's scenario last week.
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Oct 2, 2011 04:33
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Ysengrin: A paragon of maturity and emotional stability.
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Oct 3, 2011 08:38
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This means that Annie has a thing for him right? Tom is so progressive about interspecies relationships.
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Oct 3, 2011 13:57
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Hey, it's that guy (Ysenglamore).
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Oct 3, 2011 14:08
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Darn it, Annie, quit befriending crazy forest people.
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Oct 3, 2011 17:23
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The best way to deal with emotions is to bottle them up tight, said the forest creature wearing wooden power armor to the part-human part-fire-elemental
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Oct 3, 2011 18:36
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What are you talking about guys, Ysengrin is happy as a clam. All going around catching fish with his psychic tree armor and trying to start wars between the Forest and Court and stuff.
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Oct 3, 2011 19:54
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1stGear posted:What are you talking about guys, Ysengrin is happy as a clam. All going around catching fish with his psychic tree armor and trying to start wars between the Forest and Court and stuff. And occasionally dropping from the armour that has become his life support so that he can drag his emaciated body over to the lake to drink. But only when he thinks nobody is looking. ...Now I feel sorry for the old bastard 
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Oct 4, 2011 00:32
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As a Swedish man I was unaware that it was possible to deal with emotions in any other way. That Jack character sounds like some kind of hippe. Hopefully Annie is wise enough to realise that the proper time to display emotions is in relation to a sporting event or when she is hideously drunk. In both cases anger is the prefered emotion.
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Oct 4, 2011 08:07
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1stGear posted:What are you talking about guys, Ysengrin is happy as a clam. All going around catching fish with his psychic tree armor and trying to start wars between the Forest and Court and stuff. Hammer Backspace posted:And occasionally dropping from the armour that has become his life support so that he can drag his emaciated body over to the lake to drink. But only when he thinks nobody is looking. Exactly. I don't see the problem. 
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Oct 4, 2011 12:15
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Do you think Coyote gave Ysengrin his madness perhaps?
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Oct 4, 2011 17:39
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VanSandman posted:Do you think Coyote gave Ysengrin his madness perhaps? vv: Yeah, I feel like while Coyote isn't intentionally doing anything, he isn't a very good influence. Elysiume fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Oct 4, 2011 |
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Oct 4, 2011 17:42
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I dunno, Coyote talks about how he's tried to give Ysengrin more of his power and that Ysengrin refuses it or whatever, didn't he? Seems to me that Ysengrin just is very stuck in his ways.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:45
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Zorak posted:I dunno, Coyote talks about how he's tried to give Ysengrin more of his power and that Ysengrin refuses it or whatever, didn't he? Seems to me that Ysengrin just is very stuck in his ways. No that was Reynardine Ysengrin is the middle brother who tries really hard to impress but nobody gives a poo poo about
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Oct 4, 2011 18:00
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Elysiume posted:Madness? I don't think so. I do think Coyote encouraged and fostered Ysengrin's inherent rage and isolated feeling, though. Zorak posted:I dunno, Coyote talks about how he's tried to give Ysengrin more of his power and that Ysengrin refuses it or whatever, didn't he? Seems to me that Ysengrin just is very stuck in his ways. No, I think pretty much everything that goes on in the forest is Coyote's conscious planning, Ysengrin included. He's a trickster god, that's what trickster gods do; offering Ysengrin power (knowing he'd refuse it) is just another manipulative technique.
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Oct 4, 2011 18:04
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DontMockMySmock posted:No, I think pretty much everything that goes on in the forest is Coyote's conscious planning, Ysengrin included. He's a trickster god, that's what trickster gods do; offering Ysengrin power (knowing he'd refuse it) is just another manipulative technique. I think you're right about Coyote being very manipulative and controlling, but I don't think Ysengrin has refused any of Coyote's powers. Renard did refuse to take any of Coyote's gifts, besides body-stealing, but Ysengrin seems pretty devoted to Coyote and would probably take whatever he could get.
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Oct 4, 2011 19:01
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DontMockMySmock posted:No, I think pretty much everything that goes on in the forest is Coyote's conscious planning, Ysengrin included. He's a trickster god, that's what trickster gods do; offering Ysengrin power (knowing he'd refuse it) is just another manipulative technique.  Actually, pretty much the opposite of what most trickster gods do. I mean, there are isolated incidents of them carrying plans to fruition - usually as part of a larger scheme masterminded by a wiser figure - but for the most part their role in folklore is to throw a bunch of bullshit at everybody around them and see what sticks. They're typically more improvisational than calculating in behaviour, because much of their purpose is to symbolise flux, chaos and boundary breaking in opposition to stable and predictable standards of culture. This is why a disproportionate number of stories about them are comedic in some way, either because their half-baked plans go awry and bring them a come-uppance for their lack of common sense, or because their unpredictable nature undermines status-holding figures and makes them look ridiculous. In Ysengrin's case I suspect we're seeing a slow-burn version of the latter. I doubt Coyote has any kind of master plan or overt desire to manipulate him, but such a serious, stern dignified personality must be like catnip to a being that exists to question and poke fun at those attributes. I think Coyote is amused by him, and gives him just enough rope to keep hanging himself. If a stern half-wolf-half-tree toady happens to turn out to be useful to some later scheme, that's just a bonus.
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Oct 4, 2011 19:03
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Coyote is the kind of guy who will throw a hundred balls in the air in a crowded room just so he can see who catches them. Some of the balls are grenades.
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Oct 4, 2011 19:05
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Kismet posted:They're typically more improvisational than calculating in behaviour I didn't really mean that he has grand schemes or anything; "planning" was a poor choice of words. I just meant that he knows the consequences of everything he does, and if he does things like that to Ysengrin, it's to manipulate him in some way.
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Oct 4, 2011 19:43
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I'm 90% sure that Jack has the blinker stone in his pocket at the moment.
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Oct 5, 2011 15:01
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Benagain posted:Coyote is the kind of guy who will throw a hundred balls in the air in a crowded room just so he can see who catches them. This is the best and most hilarious way I've seen Coyote described yet. And this is why Coyote is the best character.
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Oct 5, 2011 15:47
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Fangz posted:I'm 90% sure that Jack has the blinker stone in his pocket at the moment. Why would you spoiler that? Why would it matter? Annie could retrieve that poo poo fast, and Jack knows it.
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Oct 5, 2011 16:52
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Calaveron posted:Why would you spoiler that? I was thinking people might want to figure that out for themselves. Anyway. Annie can't retrieve the stone if she's asleep. Look how not tired Jack is compared to everyone else - he's spent the day sleeping before hand, because he knows the time window between Annie going to sleep now, and presumeably waking up much later, is the only chance he's got to do whatever he needs to do with the stone. Fangz fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Oct 5, 2011 |
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Oct 5, 2011 18:14
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Fangz posted:Not if she's asleep. Look how not tired Jack is compared to everyone else - he's spent the day sleeping before hand, because he knows the time window between Annie going to sleep now, and presumeably waking up much later, is the only chance he's got to do whatever he needs to do with the stone. Did I miss something? I don't recall there being any indication that Jack is looking to do sneaky things with the blinker stone.
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Oct 5, 2011 18:20
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Oneiros posted:Did I miss something? I don't recall there being any indication that Jack is looking to do sneaky things with the blinker stone. Er, there's nothing overt, it's just my speculation since the start of this chapter, and I think a lot what happened in this chapter hints at it. (In particular, if you look through and focus on Jack's behaviour and stuff he says, it seems a lot like this is what it's leading up to.) I look forward to being totally embarrassed if I'm completely wrong though.
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Oct 5, 2011 18:24
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Oct 5, 2011 23:52
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If anything Annie will use the stone to spy on what he's up to.
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No Jack dont hide that stone in your butt.
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