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Beautiful treatise. I like the little signs of minor characters. Mort's helmet, Hettie's doll, and the shy little fairy hiding in the bush. I'm kind of surprised that fairy merited an appearance on a treatise. Maybe she'll come back?
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I have a feeling we'll meet her rabbit friend again when s/he comes to the Court.
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Dec 31, 2014 15:37
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That circled dot plus the symbol of the creator above Kat totally looks like an eye, nose, and mouth in some kind of comic style. Now that I've seen that I can't unsee it.
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Where 'I' appeared in the original Greek, 'J' usually appears in English now. Jenny or Jack? I was thinking Jenny when I began this post but actually Jack has a pretty deep involvement in that particular mess.
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ArcMage posted:Where 'I' appeared in the original Greek, 'J' usually appears in English now. Jenny or Jack? I was thinking Jenny when I began this post but actually Jack has a pretty deep involvement in that particular mess. Well Gamma is where C is now, so that probably lines up. Might also mean that Zimmy's real name is something that starts with 'F' and probably something she hates more than a nickname based off a code-name.
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Dec 31, 2014 16:29
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Gamma, Zeta and Iota? Hrrrmmmmm...
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The Red Queen posted:The grass is dead under Annie's feet, or actually maybe is just dirt. Wonder what that's conveying. I think its meant to ground her directly on the element earth. The robot's eyes are lit, they are following Kat, its not a graveyard by my reading. Just noticed how similar Kat's symbol is to the alchemical symbol for lead too--metal for robots?
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It looks like Reynard's front leg is bandaged up. So I'm taking some foreshadowing on that, but he should just transform into doll form, and get stitched up. (Or maybe that's what happened...)
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Dec 31, 2014 17:21
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I'm particularly interested in Reynard appearing on Kat's side.
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Dec 31, 2014 17:27
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Kyte posted:I'm particularly interested in Reynard appearing on Kat's side. He's the nature/dog spirit that lives in the court e. and the bottom of the image strikes me as the most important. Both Kat and Annie are planted on their either sides (Annie etheric, Kat the science of the court) but their histories and abilities bleed over onto the other side. Annie was raised in a hospital and is from the court and had her etheric spirit bound somehow; sciency Kat works most effectively when the ether is present (recall her at RotD. Now note below Kat and Annie. Human progress plows into the natural world, whereas nature always reaches out and breaks down human constructs, given enough time. I read this as Kat and Annie are destined to break down the barrier between Court and woods because of their mixed backgrounds, breaking down the long standing stalemate between the two. Bilirubin fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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Kyte posted:I'm particularly interested in Reynard appearing on Kat's side. He's been on her side before, in Treatise 4. For reference: Treatise 1 Treatise 2 Treatise 3 Treatise 4 Treatise 5 Treatise 6 There's more than a few recurring themes, like the triangles, but triangles are loving everywhere all the time in everything anyway.
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Dec 31, 2014 17:46
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What does the circle with the horns at the very top in the middle represent?
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:What does the circle with the horns at the very top in the middle represent? That's the symbol for bismuth.
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Dec 31, 2014 18:00
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And the decorations at the upper corners represent, uh, let's say Baphomet.
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I thought Zeta was Zimmy's actual name, same for Gamma? EDIT - Yep http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=73 Super Waffle fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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Super Waffle posted:I thought Zeta was Zimmy's actual name, same for Gamma? That really doesn't confirm anything, people use nicknames all the time, plus what I posted earlier ( http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=191) has some court guy calling Gamma Miss Czarnecki.
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Brightman posted:That really doesn't confirm anything, people use nicknames all the time, plus what I posted earlier ( http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=191) has some court guy calling Gamma Miss Czarnecki. "Zimmy's real name is Zeta, but she doesn't like it. Gamma is the tall girl." Note that this doesn't say that the tall girl's real name is Gamma. Also there's the whole first name/family name thing, so she could perfectly well be named Gamma Czarnecki.
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Brightman posted:Well Gamma is where C is now, so that probably lines up.
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Splicer posted:Could you rephrase this in some way because I have no idea what this sentence means and it's bothering me. A, B, C,... alpha, beta, gamma,...
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Bilirubin posted:A, B, C,...
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Cat Mattress posted:"Zimmy's real name is Zeta, but she doesn't like it. Gamma is the tall girl." Czarnecki is a polish surname, while Gamma is a really really not-polish name  I guess she has another name, but it might be something that Zimmy doesn't like (or can't pronounce like "Żaneta"), so she just calls her Gamma. It's wierd that "Zeta" is a real name, it would fit if they had codes given to the by the court coming from the greek alphabet, and that's why Zimmy would call Ms Czarnecki by her codename: Gamma.Or I might be completely off, because I just checked an internet polish name database and apparently there's "Gemma" as a lady name, huh. But I've never ever seen or even heard of anyone here having such a name, so it's still a non-polish name to me.
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Kikas posted:Or I might be completely off, because I just checked an internet polish name database and apparently there's "Gemma" as a lady name, huh. But I've never ever seen or even heard of anyone here having such a name, so it's still a non-polish name to me. Living in Poland, I haven't heard of anybody with that name, either. Though I suppose it's not enough to rule out that Gamma might be her actual name, given that we already have a character who's actually named Antimony. It doesn't take much knowledge of Greek to know the word/letter gamma, even school math classes would be enough for that, but it would still be pretty weird as a name anywhere.
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Kikas posted:Or I might be completely off, because I just checked an internet polish name database and apparently there's "Gemma" as a lady name, huh. But I've never ever seen or even heard of anyone here having such a name, so it's still a non-polish name to me. I know a couple of Gemmas but they are Italian
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Jan 1, 2015 17:15
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Brightman posted:He's been on her side before, in Treatise 4. I still love the angel with the photodiodes for eyes in 5.
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The Red Queen posted:The grass is dead under Annie's feet, or actually maybe is just dirt. Wonder what that's conveying. It happens in some buddhist art where the saintly figure is depicted barefoot in the dirt. It's meant to convey a very deep connection to the earth, and being grounded and natural. Being on the grass is natural, but the dirt is even more so. Hand position is super important in buddhist iconography as well, and Kat's hands convey giving (left hand, above annie's ) and uncertainty (right hand, that hand is guarded and nervous). Annie's hands are receiving (right hand, below kat's, and outstretched and palm up) and confidence/security (left on hip)
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Splicer posted:Could you rephrase this in some way because I have no idea what this sentence means and it's bothering me. I shouldn't have capitalized gamma probably, my bad.
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Jan 2, 2015 07:57
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Tom, you check the boot of the car for loot, not the seats. Have you never played a video game?
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No reason not to check if the car is unlocked already so you can just pull the trunk open handle instead of brute forcing the trunk or door open. Also, I get the funny feeling that the mystery lady could be Annie's daughter in a post-apocalyptic future. I'm not sure why...
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That is a stunningly pretty page for a routine announcement. An announcement of a break in which the updates from the creator paradoxically increase. Truly Gunnerkrigg Court is a land of contrasts.
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Jan 2, 2015 09:17
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Is it time for.... City Face?!
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Tea & Tom seem to be growing up. Also they've travelled quite a long way since their last check-in.
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Looks like a pretty bleak setting. I wonder if these missives have a story connection with the Gunnerkrigg universeRandomPauI posted:Also, I get the funny feeling that the mystery lady could be Annie's daughter in a post-apocalyptic future. I'm not sure why... That's an interesting idea. And the whole comic is her(Tea) and Tom retelling the story of how the world ended.
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RandomPauI posted:No reason not to check if the car is unlocked already so you can just pull the trunk open handle instead of brute forcing the trunk or door open. Nah, that's Tea, Tom's avatar/expositionary character. She's appeared a few times. Daktar fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Jan 2, 2015 |
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Daktar posted:Nah, that's Tea, Tom's avatar/expositionary character. She's appeared a few times. There's another one where they're on a rowboat, but I'm lazy and am not going to look for it.
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i don't think there's any overarching thing behind the tea+tom splash pages (is splash page the right term? i'm not 100% on that) i think i found all of them while trying to figure that out though      it's a pretty great example of skill evolving over time
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Jan 2, 2015 10:44
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also dang wow tea's eyes are crazy luminous in #4
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Tollymain posted:also dang wow tea's eyes are crazy luminous in #4 
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yeah, it's a really nice picture and her hood looks so fluffy you can nearly feel it
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I hope this means we're getting a road trip sometime.
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These pages don't mean anything, folks. They just look neat.
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