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"By the way, it's Steve. Steve Bismuth." Alternate joke: Ask your doctor if Lunesta is right for you!
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Mirage posted:"By the way, it's Steve. Steve Bismuth." Alternative alternate joke: Gunnerkrigg getting down to Bismuth
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Sep 10, 2013 05:13
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To learn more 'bout Jon Joe posted:Alternative alternate joke: Gunnerkrigg getting down to Bismuth Joke evolution: Lets get down to bismuth, Ysengrin's real fun, Beating up those strange men, Won't stop til they're done!
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Sep 10, 2013 06:40
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I like the Pitcher Plant idea.
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Sep 10, 2013 10:35
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Woke up to find-whoever bought me the new avatar (and title!), thank you so much, it's amazing 
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Sep 10, 2013 10:54
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Yasser Arafatwa posted:Just makes it look as though it's pulsating, like a beating heart, which seems even more appropriate to me. 
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Sep 10, 2013 11:11
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Battle Pigeon posted:Woke up to find-whoever bought me the new avatar (and title!), thank you so much, it's amazing I like that the avatar fairy is now putting links to gunnerkrigg in titles. The fairy is evolving. Looks like this chapter is going to be... *sunglasses* ... seriouth bithmuth.
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Sep 10, 2013 15:30
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It probably saves people some trouble since they're all the time posting Some Goon posted:I reverse-image-searched an avatar and then I read the entire archive of Gunnerkrigg and now I'm here because there won't be another page until [Monday/Wednesday/Friday] here's a page I like this is such a great comic Some Other Goon posted:I clicked your link and wow I never realized before how much Tom's art style has evolved and then I ended up reading the entire comic again. Thanks.
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Sep 10, 2013 17:35
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Heavy Zed posted:It probably saves people some trouble since they're all the time posting Literally every PM I've ever gotten has been people asking about Gunnerkrigg.
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Sep 10, 2013 17:56
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The red gives it a very ominous feeling.
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Sep 10, 2013 20:02
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Tom, if this is the Seed Bismuth, I want this guy on a shirt.
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Sep 11, 2013 01:59
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Heavy Zed posted:It probably saves people some trouble since they're all the time posting The avatar fairy is the Seed Bismuth. From it, the thread grows 
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Sep 11, 2013 04:18
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Is the website down? I started reading this morning, pounded through the archives all day, and I just came back from the grocery store to the horror of the site not loading. If it is down, is there a mirror site? I'm not sure I'm capable of doing anything else besides pressing f5 until the website comes back up for me. I really don't want to stumble on any spoilers, so I haven't read any recent posts. Could someone respond with a PM? Thanks! edit: answered. Thanks! Zypher fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Sep 11, 2013 |
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Sep 11, 2013 04:27
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We already did that image search, Tom! We're your biggest fansaaaghgh
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Sep 11, 2013 08:01
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This comic has all just been a really long PSA about how awesome bismuth looks.
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Sep 11, 2013 08:07
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That must have been a real pain to draw.
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Sep 11, 2013 08:15
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Well,  .Honestly we're full of evidence that the old humans are kind of dickish at this point. I'm more curious as to the inner workings of the modern court, which we've only gotten glimpses of.
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Sep 11, 2013 08:27
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HOW is his art so pretty?? This moth produces flashbacks which are visual for the reader. You can't do that if you lie. Therefore this is without a doubt the real seed. So, originally the court was supposed to be a sanctuary for all creatures. But humans where racist jerks, so they chased everyone else away and tried to use the court as a base to conquer the rest of the forrest. Yeah. That seems like something humans would do. Gunnerkrigg court is (amongst other things) an allegory of the destruction of tribal races. It just happened in an alternate universe, where a divine coyote suddenly produced an impassable ravine, stopping the settlers. If you think about it, it kind of makes sense, that the seed is on that side of the ravine. The court probably only grew around it, but the humans pushed it to expand. Therefore they kept locating it to the borders, where it was cut off from the rest. This theory only makes sense, if the court stopped growing afterwards. Was that ever established? I really wonder if Ys knew anything about this. The chapter might end with him telling Annie, that she missed all his important lectures about gaining respect and that this means that the trip was a waste of time. I am really jealous of all these posters with their avatars. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Sep 11, 2013 |
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Sep 11, 2013 08:28
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Humans are jerks! 
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Sep 11, 2013 08:30
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At this point, I'm especially curious about the link between Kat and the Seed. And Antimony's name. I wonder if their mothers met the Seed as well and set something in motion? Or maybe it was Coyote (it is always Coyote). The Court must have been beautiful when it was part of the Forest.
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Sep 11, 2013 08:32
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I've been wrong before, I'll be wrong again. Also, ooooooooooooooooh, pretty.
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Sep 11, 2013 08:49
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Hodgepodge posted:The Court must have been beautiful when it was part of the Forest. We've seen the court before they were separated by Coyote during the flashback of Jeanne in The Coward Heart. The art implies it was separated while she was alive and with the forest guy. Looked like a nice college campus  Also, serious Bismuth fairy. The tower and bismuth are left in because towers and bismuth are both awesome < > Bismuth is awesome...so awesome...  Have a chunk of it laying around in my house somewhere...
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Sep 11, 2013 08:51
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This feels too easy, as resolutions to plot questions go.
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Sep 11, 2013 08:56
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How does the element Bismuth react to the element Antimony?
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Sep 11, 2013 09:08
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I don't know about those elements in specific, but considering they're both semi-metals in the same column they're likely pretty similar to each other and won't react in any particularly interesting way.
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Sep 11, 2013 09:13
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RandomPauI posted:How does the element Bismuth react to the element Antimony? It recounts the history of the court! 
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Sep 11, 2013 09:13
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RandomPauI posted:How does the element Bismuth react to the element Antimony? A very, very cursory bit of googling reveals they're chemically quite similar (they are adjacent group 15 elements), although Bismuth tends to have lower toxicity. Both elements are produced when smelting lead. Not seeing much story applicability there myself, to be honest.
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Sep 11, 2013 09:25
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So it's like a splice between magic and technology, but does it exist in the Ether? How did humans will it to grow too fast, did they ask it or concentrate their minds on it like the WH40k Orkz? Did Coyote help in creating it? Is it Coyote? What happens when you lick it? I love when something rises more questions then it answers 
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Sep 11, 2013 10:42
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My guess is that the Court is trying to understand the Ether scientifically to replace their severed dependence on the Seed. Having lost their patron spirit, they choose to attempt to replace it with themselves. That would make Kat a sort of Seed Bismuth that has grown out of the latent untapped potential of using the Ether and Technology without expecting the former to the follow the same epistemological rules as the latter that have lingered behind in the wake of the Seed. Wyld Karde posted:A very, very cursory bit of googling reveals they're chemically quite similar (they are adjacent group 15 elements), although Bismuth tends to have lower toxicity. Both elements are produced when smelting lead. Given the alchemical themes of the strip, the relevant reactions would not be proper chemical reactions, but their reactions and properties in alchemy. Edit: I suspect that the Seed is/was a creature comparable to Coyote, or capable of growing The Court into one. I wonder if creatures like Coyote are currently free to manifest physically outside the Court/Forest and equivalent places? If not, Coyote may simply want this to happen so be will be free to directly interact with humanity at large again. Hodgepodge fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Sep 11, 2013 |
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Sep 11, 2013 10:59
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The Court/Forest divide happened back in the old, elaborate-architecture era, but the endless, sprawling court we see is mostly modern. I wonder what's happening. If perhaps the growth is still going on or somehow being stimulated, divided from the seed. Also I want some bismuth crystals now. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Sep 11, 2013 |
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Sep 11, 2013 11:56
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I suppose it's basically the same deal as the robot design. The first generation directly built by Diego was very ornate and elaborate, while the the current generation mostly has a streamlined, functional and boxy look. (With some exceptions like the mantis-shaped weather bot.) In fact it might even be the robots' doing.
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Sep 11, 2013 12:04
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Air is lava! posted:HOW is his art so pretty?? That also means that Janet and William's stories were 100% fact.
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Sep 11, 2013 13:51
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Also it means you've never seen like, a shitload of movies I can't name without spoiling their entire concept.
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Sep 11, 2013 13:54
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I'm still somewhat dubious, but you know, there is a little bit of a resemblance:
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Sep 11, 2013 13:55
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idonotlikepeas posted:I'm still somewhat dubious, but you know, there is a little bit of a resemblance: Oh, goddamnit brain, now I'm never not gonna be able to see that as a cyclops dude with horns and wings. He's even got little arms open wide and everything.
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Sep 11, 2013 14:00
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Speaking of movies we won't name how do we know that this isn't Marcellus Wallace's soul?
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Sep 11, 2013 14:01
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RandomPauI posted:Speaking of movies we won't name how do we know that this isn't Marcellus Wallace's soul? It's not in a suitcase?
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Wyld Karde posted:A very, very cursory bit of googling reveals they're chemically quite similar (they are adjacent group 15 elements), although Bismuth tends to have lower toxicity. Both elements are produced when smelting lead. So if you buried Annie in the ground she'd grow into a court of her own?
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Blackheart posted:That also means that Janet and William's stories were 100% fact. Well, of course. Are we even reading the same webcomic? 
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The art in the last few pages has been amazing. Getting a series of mysterious almost-answers that we won't fully understand until later has never looked so pretty. What I'm interested to know is that if these ruins are totally separate from the court, where they ever part of it? And if so, why do they look to be more stone than concrete and metal. We haven't really seen any other court ruins on the way in, so perhaps the Court itself is a separate thing. After all - the Bismuth isn't the spirit of the court, just these ruins.
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