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All of their problems are the ones they shrugged off back at Aroa as being small beans compared to what the Dream Realm would throw at them. But Mookie never came up with anything further, so here we are.
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Mookie had Snout's friends be magically incapacitated while Snout faces Redactor and Skullet alone, and also have Snout's friends by overwhelmed by their unresolved Challenges while Snout tries to help them. These are, in typical Mookie fashion, completely unrelated events.
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Jul 19, 2023 21:45
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I thought it was permanently dealt with when Sunflower guy did that thing and Snout did the thing with the pressed flower, but I guess that did nothing because the same vague vine thing just keeps happening with her The mean scholar pointed out at the time that Kaianda would continue to be a potential threat to Maltak so I think it was implied that the flower thing just suppressed it for a time.
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Jul 19, 2023 22:31
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I thought it was permanently dealt with when Sunflower guy did that thing and Snout did the thing with the pressed flower, but I guess that did nothing because the same vague vine thing just keeps happening with her
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Jul 19, 2023 22:34
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Oh no. If only some stakes had been established, or any consistent concept of what the vines can do and what does and doesn't work against them. Or any concrete concept of what Snout can and can't do. Or any previous conflict that wasn't defused instantly. There might be some tension, given even one of those things.
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Jul 20, 2023 02:24
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If he's lucid dreaming there's literally no stakes because he can do whatever the gently caress he imagines. Oh, nevermind, he's hosed, Snout has no imagination or interiority at all. The only facets to him are "I turn into a satyr when I gently caress, which is CONSTANTLY"; "I've never interacted with another person before and spent my whole life reading books, in which I learned [Snout has Book on his character sheet, making him a Nerd class]"; and "I'm sad it's not about me"
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Jul 20, 2023 04:12
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Jul 20, 2023 04:51
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and pubes
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Jul 20, 2023 07:40
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SubG posted:Legacy repeats itself a lot for a comic where virtually nothing ever happens. It's like we're watching the creation of anterograde storytelling in action. Seriously, how the gently caress does Mookie not keep notes of what he's written? 
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Jul 20, 2023 08:04
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You got PUBES in my CUBES! You got CUBES in my PUBES! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O7oD_oX-Gio
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Jul 20, 2023 08:50
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i like how the last panel zooms in on snout and gives an unobstructed view of his torso, so naturally terraciano neglects to write DEAF on his patch
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Jul 20, 2023 11:12
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Today's blog post is about stage fright over being the host for an event at an upcoming convention - I wouldn't post it, but the last part (emphasis mine)...quote:Stage Fright How does this not translate to the comics he makes? This is a man that has successfully turned his hobby into a job without it feeling any less like a hobby. This is like a mode of being that doesn't feel possible. I can't say I'm not envious about it but mostly I am just confused.
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Jul 20, 2023 11:31
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Well, when he's making comics, he doesn't worry that he's going to suck.
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Jul 20, 2023 13:47
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It's something he hasn't been disinvited from yet.
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Jul 20, 2023 16:00
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a cartoon duck posted:i like how the last panel zooms in on snout and gives an unobstructed view of his torso, so naturally terraciano neglects to write DEAF on his patch loving hell...
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Jul 20, 2023 18:11
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a cartoon duck posted:i like how the last panel zooms in on snout and gives an unobstructed view of his torso, so naturally terraciano neglects to write DEAF on his patch I can hear!? I CAN HEAR!!! 
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Jul 20, 2023 18:25
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Wait, Snout is deaf?? How could I ever tell? He should wear a sign.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Wait, Snout is deaf?? How could I ever tell? He should wear a sign. Don't worry, it's on his library card. You know, it has all the important information on it: species, name, a list of disabilities. The important stuff that's on every library card. Do you think Dominic's library card from 200 years ago said "Missing leg" on it.
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FlocksOfMice posted:Don't worry, it's on his library card. You know, it has all the important information on it: species, name, a list of disabilities. The important stuff that's on every library card. It said "Leg of Love", actually.
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DicktheCat posted:It said "Leg of Love", actually. please don't remind me of that page, it haunts my nightmares still
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Jul 21, 2023 03:37
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i hate this loving diary
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Jul 21, 2023 06:04
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the not drawing faces thing is really starting to get to me, on a visceral primal level
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Look at Idiota's right arm. There is no physical way it could look like that. He's been drawing for 20 years and can't do this basic poo poo. Seriously, it's like an Escher arm. An optical illusion.
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Jul 21, 2023 06:12
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He also didn't draw fingers.
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Jul 21, 2023 06:15
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lol that he drew Corpsemomdaughterwife just A-posing there. It's not like the getting ensnared by the pubic vines and dragged into the black void is a cause to struggle away or anything.
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Jul 21, 2023 06:27
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Grabbin that diary like a pie on a windowsill
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Jul 21, 2023 06:39
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Codependent Poster posted:Look at Idiota's right arm. There is no physical way it could look like that. He's been drawing for 20 years and can't do this basic poo poo. I can pose my right arm like that, the only issue is that it feels like being put into an armbar or hammerlock or something, i.e. it's a position with absolutely zero leverage and if she was pulling hard at the vines like that she'd give herself some pretty horrendous tissue damage.
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Jul 21, 2023 06:52
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how many times is that stupid diary going to get swapped back and forth why does it even loving matter
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Jul 21, 2023 06:53
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Boba Pearl posted:the not drawing faces thing is really starting to get to me, on a visceral primal level It makes sense when the characters are far away but not when the characters are drawn this close to the reader's perspective
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Jul 21, 2023 07:00
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Happy Landfill posted:i hate this loving diary I know book burnings have a negative connotation but that's one book I wouldn't shed a tear over if it went in a bonfire.
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Jul 21, 2023 07:03
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I still don't understand if they're literally passing back and forth the actual, physical book or not. Doesn't Bad Idiota still really have it? Is this just the memory of reading his diary, and if so, wouldn't they both have it? Is it just because it's an important object to him?
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I imagine Mookie thought Snout throwing away the book to rush to his mommy's aid is supposed to make him look heroic, all while making you go "oh no, snout, why did you throw away the important book?" Except... the diary isn't important! There's no esoteric, forbidden knowledge in it, no actual clues, no information that couldn't be found in other sources just lying around, absolutely nothing that can help anyone get to Asinotaph. Except loving Bog Hags, that is. It's just important because Mookie says it is, that's it! And it's not like the book is even physically there since this is just a dream. The way he's trying to pretend the diary is like the sum knowledge of Snout's character arc and becoming his source of power is just insulting.
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The signifier is the signified. The book is important because it's an Important Book.
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Mookie is such a fascinatingly lazy and incurious man. The surface symbology of things matters to him more than anything else. He wants to be seen as a creator but doesn't give a gently caress about doing anything creators do. He likes the symbol of what being a creator represents and nothing else. He likes books but doesn't care about the contents of them. He likes the things they stand in as symbols for (knowledge and wisdom) but has no interest in actually reading them or showing people reading them and learning from them in a story where they are said to be important. We've all seen the insipid bullshit written in Snout's diary but the diary is super powerful because it is a capital-b Book and as such contains Knowledge and Wisdom that can be used to solve Challenges. Everything in this comic is like that. Some kind of symbol with none of the work put in. He has villains who are mirrors of two of the companions because he likes the symbolism of that but forgot to have them do anything at all that makes sense to the story. The dream symbols are also completely substanceless - the challenge symbol showing up is the challenge in and of itself. Mookie's version of symbolism distilled to its most base form. I know I'm not saying anything that hasn't already been said but I see this guy who has fans and book sales and con appearances because of this poo poo and I feel like I'm going crazy
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I will never not laugh at the fact that the book we are supposed to see as one of, if not the most important thing in this conflict contains the phrase "Seriously. Orc women are incomparable. Atta boy." It's so obvious that Mookie decided early on that the Diary was supposed to represent Snouts journey and the story as a whole, this powerful symbol of all he learned, and how he's grown. But because Mookie put no thought into that beyond it's existence all the characters just use it as an etch-a-sketch to pass notes back and forth which absolutely ruins it.
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Boba Pearl posted:the not drawing faces thing is really starting to get to me, on a visceral primal level It’s like on old cartoons from the 80s, where the animation was super cheap. Whoops! We forgot the cel with the character’s face on it!
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Cemetry Gator posted:It’s like on old cartoons from the 80s, where the animation was super cheap. Whoops! We forgot the cel with the character’s face on it! 
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Pulsarcat posted:It's so obvious that Mookie decided early on that the Diary was supposed to represent Snouts journey and the story as a whole, this powerful symbol of all he learned, and how he's grown. And then he couldn't come up with any of those things, so here we are.
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I do wonder if the reason he's not drawing faces is that he doesn't think to zoom in on the page while he's working on it. Like, maybe he works at 40% zoom, thinks the finished page looks fine, then doesn't bother zooming up to 100% to see how it'd look like on the website.
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