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I would be very surprised if Tessa doesn’t come out of this story alright in the long term. Her long descent ending badly in a final sense is too macabre for Cagle imo. Doesn’t seem like her style.
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Also wouldn't fit the tone of the comic, but I've seen too many stories bungle the denouement of suicidal teens to not be a bit weary.
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# ? Feb 21, 2022 15:30 |
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Finally caught back up.
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# ? Feb 21, 2022 19:02 |
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Skippy McPants posted:Hello, I wound up here as a result of the disillusionment in the Gunnerkrigg thread. Same, except I wound up in the Gunnerkrigg thread because of the K6BD thread and never wound up reading it. More worried about the infohazard dream lady than Tessa, this development is real bad news for her.
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# ? Feb 21, 2022 19:39 |
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Hello new readers! Who is your favourite character, and what about Zoe makes her your favourite?
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# ? Feb 21, 2022 20:14 |
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Tenebrais posted:Hello new readers! Who is your favourite character, and what about Zoe makes her your favourite? Zoe is adorbs. HP is my favorite though because I can just hear Ashly Burch's voice reading all her lines.
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# ? Feb 21, 2022 21:39 |
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girl dick energy posted:Zoe's theme is a 'magical pop remix' of Metal Mario, according to alt text, and I think I found something sorta fitting.
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# ? Feb 21, 2022 21:41 |
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Tenebrais posted:Hello new readers! Who is your favourite character, and what about Zoe makes her your favourite? Zoe is a solid 2nd place favourite right after Anemone.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 00:04 |
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Can't believe this thread would engage in such egregious Rue erasure.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 00:43 |
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Bud will remember this
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 00:48 |
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Tiny Myers posted:Can't believe this thread would engage in such egregious Rue erasure.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 01:58 |
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Tenebrais posted:Hello new readers! Who is your favourite character, and what about Zoe makes her your favourite? Kicks. Tessa is also very good, but less as a charter and more as a demonstration of craft. She is one of the better-realized examples of depression and unresolved trauma that I've encountered in fiction, and it's expressed in only a couple dozen pages. It's so well done that I honestly think the cracking panels bit was gouache and unnecessary. Cagle should have more faith in her ability to convey emotion and tone cause she's dang good at it. Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Feb 22, 2022 |
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Skippy McPants posted:Also wouldn't fit the tone of the comic, but I've seen too many stories bungle the denouement of suicidal teens to not be a bit weary. Pet peeve: weary is tired. Wary is cautious. Please continue with your regular scheduled awesome comic thread.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 03:35 |
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...sorry to immediately follow that up with another one, but 'gouache' is a kind of pigment, while 'gauche' is awkward, unsubtle, or unsophisticated.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 04:16 |
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Tiny Myers posted:Can't believe this thread would engage in such egregious Rue erasure. can confirm, Rue is rad as hell e: seriously she's a witch that throws grenades, what isn't there to like
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 05:00 |
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I like all of em tbh, playing favorites is a sucker's game. I actually didn't like Undine for a while because I went into the whole thing completely blind and I almost refused to believe for a couple pages that they'd kill off all the more interesting and colorful personalities to focus on The Mom Friend but that's the whole magic of the comic.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 08:26 |
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Bonster posted:Pet peeve: weary is tired. Wary is cautious. Joe Slowboat posted:...sorry to immediately follow that up with another one, but 'gouache' is a kind of pigment, while 'gauche' is awkward, unsubtle, or unsophisticated. Other people may scoff at your pedantry but I for one am happy to reinforce my vocabulary
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 09:04 |
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Wait, but weary is fine in that context! "I've seen too many stories bungle the denouement of suicidal teens to not be a bit tired [by the propensity of stories to bungle this; and implicitly: my tiredness with the commonality of the trope is what makes me unwilling to assume that even an otherwise very good story will necessarily avoid this pitfall]."
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Reclaimer posted:I like all of em tbh, playing favorites is a sucker's game. I actually didn't like Undine for a while because I went into the whole thing completely blind and I almost refused to believe for a couple pages that they'd kill off all the more interesting and colorful personalities to focus on The Mom Friend but that's the whole magic of the comic. Try that in the throws of an anxiety based mental episode. I'm sure some here could attest that I was a right rat bastard for a while. The medicine helped. ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Feb 22, 2022 |
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a computing pun posted:Wait, but weary is fine in that context! "I've seen too many stories bungle the denouement of suicidal teens to not be a bit tired [by the propensity of stories to bungle this; and implicitly: my tiredness with the commonality of the trope is what makes me unwilling to assume that even an otherwise very good story will necessarily avoid this pitfall]."
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 22:34 |
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The favorite/best character in Sleepless Domain is your Mahou shoujo OC, duh.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 23:02 |
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ConanThe3rd posted:Try that in the throws of an anxiety based mental episode. In the spirit of this page, throes
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 23:55 |
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Undine is the best character, hands down.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 00:17 |
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Cup Runneth Over posted:In the spirit of this page, throes Was just gonna say that. lol. While we're at it and just for reference, it's "linchpin" and not "lynchpin" - and it's "free rein" (as in horse reins) and not "free reign."
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 00:31 |
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ConanThe3rd posted:Try that in the throws of an anxiety based mental episode. Yeah, it was pretty brutal but set the tone right. Wittgen posted:Undine is the best character, hands down. I'm with HP on it being a tie.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 00:55 |
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Look, just because her role has been cut doesn't mean you can replace Cassidy as the best character in the comic.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 01:08 |
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The shitposter in me loves this derail. The descriptivist in me is pouring over the conversation, but irregardless, for all intensive purposes, it passes the mustard.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 01:37 |
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I feel like these phrases are a diamond dozen, but I'm champing at the bit to get more Sleepless Domain.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 01:40 |
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Potsticker posted:I feel like these phrases are a diamond dozen girl dick energy posted:The shitposter in me loves this derail. The descriptivist in me is pouring over the conversation, but irregardless, for all intensive purposes, it passes the mustard. You sick fucks. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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well, you can lead a dead horse to water but you can't beat it
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 02:18 |
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This thread is turning into a real doggy dog world.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 02:50 |
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Would such a world have a couple canine crepuscular periods?
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 04:24 |
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Potsticker posted:I'm champing at the bit to get more Sleepless Domain. But this one is correct
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 06:02 |
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Joe Slowboat posted:But this one is correct Yeah, I thought it'd be amusing to mix a very wrong one with a correct one :>
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 12:20 |
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a computing pun posted:Wait, but weary is fine in that context! "I've seen too many stories bungle the denouement of suicidal teens to not be a bit tired [by the propensity of stories to bungle this; and implicitly: my tiredness with the commonality of the trope is what makes me unwilling to assume that even an otherwise very good story will necessarily avoid this pitfall]." Y'know what? That's a good point.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 14:21 |
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habeasdorkus posted:Was just gonna say that. lol. I always thought free reign was far more evocative and I don't care if it was derived from horse reins, its awkwardly phrased that way and I like it better as a metaphor if its the freedom equal to being a sovereign ruler.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 16:10 |
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Free reign and chomping at the bit both make some sense and if they become the entirely dominant usage you can understand why. The one that really gets me is lynchpin. There's no such thing as a lynchpin! There's very much a thing called a linchpin!
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 16:22 |
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But thats just a spelling thing rather than an actual different word replacement, right? Most people aren't familiar with the spelling "linch" so of course they'd spell it the way they know that sound combination is usually spelled. Linch isn't even considered a real word anymore after all, and I'm not sure how the name for a hill became a type of pin anyway. Whats real weird is that lynch is spelled with a y to begin with. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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habeasdorkus posted:Free reign and chomping at the bit both make some sense and if they become the entirely dominant usage you can understand why. The one that really gets me is lynchpin. There's no such thing as a lynchpin! There's very much a thing called a linchpin! Now there's both
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New page!
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