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today in wilde life, there are many puns at hand and i refuse to use any of them e: goddammit Tollymain fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Jul 15, 2017 |
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Jul 15, 2017 06:43
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Tollymain posted:today in wilde life, there are many puns at hand and i refuse to use any of them These randomizer romhacks suck, how are you supposed to beat the intro fight of persona 3 without an evoker
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Jul 15, 2017 06:47
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New Poppy's up. Friedrich gets deader with each new update. He'll probably get curbstomped hard in the next page or two. showed photograph of his wife/girlfriend started main character on their training, (but they will be unprepared for the calling). big talk of how strong he is (so the villain looks stronger when they kill him) just revealed his ultimate form Focacciasaurus_Rex fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Jul 15, 2017 |
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Jul 15, 2017 08:07
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New(ish) 17776 is the best and so is Jon Bois, who has always been great.
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Jul 15, 2017 12:50
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Twenty Four posted:New(ish) 17776 is the best and so is Jon Bois, who has always been great. 
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Jul 15, 2017 22:49
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PMush Perfect posted:That's it, isn't it? It's over already. That was really really good
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Jul 16, 2017 01:35
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Goodnight 9, 10, Joose
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Jul 16, 2017 07:22
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Synthbuttrange posted:Goodnight 9, 10, Joose
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Jul 16, 2017 08:37
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I'm glad it ended, and so well. I wish there was more, obviously, because this was loving incredible, but we're constantly bitching about how much webfiction utterly fails to set realistic goals for scope and how nothing serial ever wraps up in a sensibly short amount of time, so it's really refreshing to see something meet that ideal for once.
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Jul 16, 2017 09:41
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Synthbuttrange posted:Goodnight 9, 10, Joose
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Jul 16, 2017 17:35
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Somehow without me noticing, Boulet has started to post videos of him drawing again: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEUh5yfCuJJSVA8VVHXdFaA He's still amazing. I'm especially impressed by this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3PwNYLhsX0 as he plays watercolors vs ink-drawing to create some creepy depth-of-field effect on the monster in the background.
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Jul 19, 2017 20:35
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Man, I don't know what it is exactly, but I've really been loving Scary Go Round lately. Just something about it has really been hitting the right spot over and over again. Also I'm super glad Scout and Shelley are secret friends for reasons I can't quite explain.
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Jul 20, 2017 17:24
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GlyphGryph posted:Man, I don't know what it is exactly, but I've really been loving Scary Go Round lately. Just something about it has really been hitting the right spot over and over again. Maybe because part of it has been making GBS threads upon Tim gloriously. I wonder how Scout is going to take having a baby half-sister?
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Jul 20, 2017 23:44
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GlyphGryph posted:Man, I don't know what it is exactly, but I've really been loving Scary Go Round lately. Just something about it has really been hitting the right spot over and over again. I'm sad that John has announced he's winding down Tacklefordverse but I think this arc makes for a pretty good capstone. Ryan coming to realize he's outgrown Tim is a great summary of the series' evolution.
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Jul 21, 2017 00:47
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It's having the opposite effect on me. Shining a light on how unpleasant Tim and Shelly are, and how they keep falling upward, really makes me not want to read more about them.
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Jul 21, 2017 03:28
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I assumed Shelly drains success and fortune out of environment around her, which is why she is the nexus of major apocalyptic disasters on a regular basis. She also radiates a manic aura that naturally dulls the minds of everyone nearby.
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Jul 21, 2017 03:47
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Galvanik posted:It's having the opposite effect on me. Shining a light on how unpleasant Tim and Shelly are, and how they keep falling upward, really makes me not want to read more about them. I don't know that Shelley has done anything wrong here aside from "taking a man away from the woman who already threw him out," which I guess depends on how willing you are to buy into the idea that Riley is a really abusive person that Tim is better off without.
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Jul 21, 2017 05:20
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Well if you don't know that the house exploding wasn't his fault, he's a dangerous inventor who needs some kind of moderating force. Hell, a couple people even died right before Shelley took him in when he was trying to frack hell for free energy.
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Jul 21, 2017 05:48
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While Tim is having unprotected sex with Shelly, the implication I got from this strip was that she was misleading him about being on birth control. Tim is choosing to have sex with her, so he shouldn't be surprised that she got pregnant, but it's a pretty lovely thing to do. Riley and Tim were, or are, still married so it's an affair even if Tim got kicked out of their house. He needed a place to stay the night he got kicked out, so Tim went to stay at his supermodel millionaire friend's place. Not a move calculated to sooth his angry wife. Still, at that point as far as Shelly knew it might have just been a temporary argument and Tim and Riley could have reconciled. But her immediate choice was toss all her pills down the toilet and leap right into bed with a married man. And I really don't like how Scout is apparently secret super besties with Shelly. It's going to come out eventually and Shelly herself believes it will really hurt Riley. So instead of being distant to the kid, she's going to make her stay wonderful and fun filled, so that Riley gets to find out that even daughter prefers being around Shelly. And what does Shelly even get out of it? The friendship of a 10 year old? I thought it was odd when all those late 20-somethings were hanging out with Esther, Eustace and the rest of the giant days cast, and they were in the last year of highschool. Other historical instances of badness off the top of my head -Shelly and Amy stealing a time machine from Tim and nearly causing an apocalypse in the 19th century -Tim blinding a teacher in one eye, then letting Ryan be expelled for it -Shelly at one point became a minion for a Bond style mad scientist. She was kidnapped, but took to it pretty quickly -Shelly abandoning that Atlantian guy to be killed by a vengeful mob -Shelly fomented a a revolution in Atlantis, eventually causing it to be destroyed killing tens of thousands or more. I'm sure there's others but this comic has been going on for a decade and a half so it's been a while since I've read most of it. Comparing that to Riley who's worst acts seem to be deciding Tim's friends are a bad influence on him, which they are; and he shouldn't be an inventor anymore, which is true he's incredibly dangerous to himself and others. I really don't get why this thread shits on her so much.
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Jul 21, 2017 06:57
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Galvanik posted:-Tim blinding a teacher in one eye, then letting Ryan be expelled for it I basically completely agree with you but for this specifically he went to go come clean and it turned out Ryan hadn't been expelled at all he took it as an excuse to drop out.
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Jul 21, 2017 07:14
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Huh, what I remember was Ryan took responsibility since everyone already thought he was on the wrong path, and he felt Tim had a better future to worry about while Ryan didn't expect he'd ever have more than toil, misery, and drudgery. Tim made a half hearted effort to confess but Ryan said things to the effect of "No don't I'm worthless anyway, so what does it matter", then Tim agreed and they never spoke of it again. Guess I forgot the way it really went down. edit: Hm I'm completely wrong about the timeline of Tim and Shelly hooking up too. He went to Ryan first, then Eustace, then finally Shelly. Galvanik fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Jul 21, 2017 |
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Jul 21, 2017 07:28
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He also spent some significant time alone in that cabin in the woods.
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Jul 21, 2017 08:05
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Ava's Demon confirmed for lesbians Although dating your maid is a little bit scummy.
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Jul 21, 2017 11:47
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Tenebrais posted:Ava's Demon confirmed for lesbians Confirmed? We have known about that little prepubescent girl having a lesbian date and mocking her adult brother for being a virgin for a couple years. I don't know why webcomics like this one or Cucumber Quest really want to hit us over the head again and again about preteen girls being lesbians. Couldn't they do that with characters old enough to not make it completely skeevy?
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Jul 21, 2017 12:30
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Do you have a problem with relationships between children in general or is it only when they are lesbians?
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Jul 21, 2017 12:35
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Lesbians bore me.
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Jul 21, 2017 12:41
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Cat Mattress posted:I don't know why webcomics like this one or Cucumber Quest really want to hit us over the head again and again about preteen girls being lesbians. Couldn't they do that with characters old enough to not make it completely skeevy?
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Jul 21, 2017 12:49
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If your first reaction to Almond + Peridot is "what the gently caress is this weird fetish poo poo", the author's not the one with the problem.
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Jul 21, 2017 12:53
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Mr Phillby posted:Do you have a problem with relationships between children in general or is it only when they are lesbians? In general. I guess when an author writes about a little boy and a little girl they don't feel the need to go out of their way to point out IT'S NOT JUST FRIENDSHIP IT'S ALSO SEXUAL ATTRACTION.
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Jul 21, 2017 13:28
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PMush Perfect posted:If your first reaction to Almond + Peridot is "what the gently caress is this weird fetish poo poo", the author's not the one with the problem. maybe he has read about webcomic authors
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Jul 21, 2017 13:34
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Cat Mattress posted:In general. I guess when an author writes about a little boy and a little girl they don't feel the need to go out of their way to point out IT'S NOT JUST FRIENDSHIP IT'S ALSO SEXUAL ATTRACTION. It's a crush, kids have crushes.
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Jul 21, 2017 13:43
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Cat Mattress posted:In general. I guess when an author writes about a little boy and a little girl they don't feel the need to go out of their way to point out IT'S NOT JUST FRIENDSHIP IT'S ALSO SEXUAL ATTRACTION. Jesus H Christ there is literally nothing sexual about it. What is wrong with you?
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Jul 21, 2017 14:03
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Yeah I can't think of any comics with preteen/teenage gay relationships where the notion of sex or sexual attraction has come up at all. It's definitely been a factor in older, more homophobic generations to see homosexuality as purely an act of taboo carnality, and while I'm not going to accuse you of thinking that way, it might be worth looking at whether that's influenced the way you see this sort of plot point. When I talk about dating the maid being scummy, I mean in the sense of that story of Trump's children where they tried to set up a lemonade stand like kids do in the cartoons, but they lived in too rich a neighbourhood for there to be any passers-by so he got all his staff to buy lemonade from them instead.
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Jul 21, 2017 14:09
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Safari Disco Lion posted:Jesus H Christ there is literally nothing sexual about it. What is wrong with you? This. If one of them was a boy this would never have been brought up. A same sex crush is not inherently more sexual than an opposite sex one. Tenebrais phrased it nicely.
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Jul 21, 2017 15:12
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Cat Mattress posted:In general. I guess when an author writes about a little boy and a little girl they don't feel the need to go out of their way to point out IT'S NOT JUST FRIENDSHIP IT'S ALSO SEXUAL ATTRACTION. The problem is, especially in relationships between two women or girls, people will go out of their way to insist they're just friends/sisters/cousins unless you go "no seriously, they're gay for each other". I don't know what the line between "being explicit" and "hitting you over the head with it" is for you, but Cucumber Quest was always on the mild end for me. Almond and Peridot haven't admitted their feelings for each other or acknowledged that there might be ~something there~ besides a strong rivalry even if it's expected they will eventually.
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Jul 21, 2017 15:30
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Thankfully there are actual good queer webcomics like Jeb to read instead.
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Jul 21, 2017 16:11
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I did a quick search of BSS and couldn't find anything about this one: http://maliki.com/en/ It's been going since forever, but until a few years ago it was french-only so I had mostly given up on trying to read it. But at some point in time, translations to English started popping up on the site. * Vaguely pseudo-autobiographic comic. * Excellent art in large colorful pages. Funny & original characters. * Mostly standalone strips, no epic story arcs, at least not lately. * Occasionally devolves into "webcomics about making webcomics", but always with a punchline. Stays away from the tendency to post "here's a strip to announce that I'm signing at X-con next week" like you see all the time in some comics I used to follow. Don't ask me to summarize anything, though. I still didn't read the old stuff that was french-only, so I couldn't say why the cartoonist has a Chinese kid living with her, or why she has two superpowered alter egos that levitate, etc etc. Just run with it, it's funny and cute. Lots of cats: http://maliki.com/en/strips/does-feanor-dream-of-quantum-sheep/ http://maliki.com/en/strips/central-overheating/ http://maliki.com/en/strips/big-head/ Nostalgia: http://maliki.com/en/strips/fishing-for-memories/ http://maliki.com/en/strips/mud-bath-story/ Adventures in cheesemaking: http://maliki.com/en/strips/mold-is-life/ I have no idea: http://maliki.com/strips/lady-rescue-ranger/ http://maliki.com/strips/lady-rescue-ranger-2/ http://maliki.com/strips/lady-rescue-ranger-3/ Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Jul 21, 2017 |
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Jul 21, 2017 16:51
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SlothfulCobra posted:Well if you don't know that the house exploding wasn't his fault if you build a house-exploding machine and leave it around for a child to dick with and the child dicks with it, the results are your fault, not so much the child's; if it was a loaded gun or a running car or 50 gallons of homebrew nitroglycerin instead of a mad science machine I don't think anyone would even question this Tim was a creature of early Scary Go Round where Doc Brown made sense and could be a hero, and he didn't adapt well when it abruptly became a more grounded setting that sees more or less real-world consequences to letting that guy run around dumping time machines made of trash in kids' laps; Shelley was at best only barely connected to reality to begin with and so never even noticed a transition; while Ryan and Amy had to actually grow up and change who they were. it's an arc packaging up where the comic began and where it's ending. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jul 21, 2017 |
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Galvanik posted:It's having the opposite effect on me. Shining a light on how unpleasant Tim and Shelly are, and how they keep falling upward, really makes me not want to read more about them. I actually kind of agree, but I think that's part of why it works for me, since we've been told it's all coming to an end and soon we won't be reading any more about them. In a weird way it's comforting to be able to see why it's for the best.
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