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fritz posted:Offering Whenever we'd burn hell money offerings I'd always be seriously concerned about inflation in the afterlife.
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Owl at Home posted:Timelets, but just a recolor of an old strip today You should have posted a series of WIPs of the colouring process.
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Emzedoh posted:Maybe the medieval monks bringing this down to us felt like Jesusing up Baldur the same way they Sataned the hell (heh) out of (into) Loki? You know, the whole he died for your sins angle? I think Baldr getting Jesused up is a definitely possibility, but I don't really see the Loki-as-Satan angle. Even the Gesta Danorum, which has a wildly different versions of Baldr's death, still references the binding of Loki, which I think is the strongest indicator that the gods getting sick of his poo poo and locking him away is a myth that predates both accounts. Valhalla skipping all that and making Baldr's death a happy ending is a fun twist, though, can't say I've come across that reading before.
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the holy poopacy posted:Lavender Jack Good poo poo
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the holy poopacy posted:Lavender Jack I was wondering when she was going to hear him talking in character as Jack, after that conversation with him about dialect and accents a few updates back 
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ClownCorps update: creator says updates Monday and Wednesday. Gonna wait til Wednesday and post a few at a time rather than just posting one every couple days i think.
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The Bikini Bottom HorrorKennyMan666 posted:Chapter 9, Escape! Chapter 10, The Tortured One.  Sandy flees, Squidward and Larry race to her rescue, but the Tortured one has other plans.  The Tortured one is risen. 
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Tree Bucket posted:I used to skip VfF, but it's a definite favorite now. It's so *british* somehow. It would make an excellent sitcom.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:the creator of pizzacakecomic should be tried at the Hague not even a palette swap, how incredibly lazy
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Qwertycoatl posted:Ah neat. Somehow I'd never heard of the Gesta Danorum You may have heard of the Gesta Danorum as the source for the story of the Danish prince Amleth. Of course, the story of Amleth is best known nowadays as the inspiration for The Northman (2022).
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SimonChris posted:Of course, the story of Amleth is best known nowadays as the inspiration for The Northman (2022).  , of course, is that he's deliberately skipping the much better known adaptation The Lion King.
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GREAT by Ryan Armand Hempuli posted:103  105  106  107 
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:You should have posted a series of WIPs of the colouring process. Ha, that's an idea for a future Timelet! Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur (Jan 17-22, 1943)    
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School of World        Ugly Dumpling         She's got a couple other short comics but I was intending to stop here.
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TEN EARTH SHATTERING BLOWS        ...And now we're caught up to where the holy poopacy left off!
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Emzedoh posted:Where now the forum and the poster? Where is the keyboard that was tapping? Haunting Okay, to avoid a low-content post: Tolkien's elves are all about art. "Their 'magic' is Art," wrote Tolkien in a letter to a friend, "delivered from many of its human limitations: more quick, more complete (product, and vision in unflawed correspondence)." This I take to mean: do you know that feeling when you're drawing or writing or singing or whatever, and you just- get in the zone, and time (as it is described in the elven realm of Lothlorien) seems to go very fast and very slow simultaneously? Elves are permanently "In The Zone." They're not just a prettier, more agile human; they are a fundamentally different kind of being. To balance this- to, perhaps, explain why such a state is unavailable to humans- Tolkien's elves are immortal. Their lives are woven into the fabric of the world. Unlike humans, who can change and reshape the world as we see fit, the permanently en-Zoned elves simply fade as the third age of the world falls into decline. If they ever hear the sound of the sea, it's all over for them: they suffer from a case of terminal wanderlust and Go Into The West and never come back. The Ring, meanwhile, is something very different: it is the very essence of the Machine. (Remember Sauron, originally, was a Maiar of Aule- an angel of the god of smithing and crafting, you might say. So Sauron likes to make things.) Now, consider a gun. No matter who pulls the trigger, the amount of energy released is going to be the same, right? The boom isn't bigger if a stronger guy pulls the trigger. But. The result of that Bang varies hugely depending on if the trigger is pulled by a soldier, a murderer, a hunter, an assassin, a drunk guy, whatever. Once the gun has been built, the output of the machine we call a gun depends entirely upon the motives, skills and intentions of the person pulling the trigger: their Will, as Tolkien might put it. That is how the Ring works: the very purest essence of will-amplification. A sneaky hobbit can use the Ring to sneak better; a king can use it to become an emperor; an angel can use it to become something like a god. This also fits with Tolkien's faith; the Ring, fascinatingly, represents a mathematically perfect temptation. We're used to thinking of resisting temptation as something that is achieved through willpower. But the Ring, by definition, becomes stronger depending on the will of the person holding it. The better you are at shaping your mind into a hammer and blasting through adverse mental states, the harder you'll have to fight to resist the ring. Galadriel nearly rips her mind in half rejecting the Ring; Sam the stupid fat hobbit can pick up and put down the thing with zero ill effects because he's fundamentally a decent guy who is content with beer and gardens and, if he's real lucky, a curvy hobbit bride down the track. So for Tolkien: art, magic and the machine are all means of dealing with the statement the world is not as it should be; what should we do about it? There's something poignant about a person orphaned at age 12 and sent to fight in WW1 as a teenager wrestling with this stuff. I'm glad he did, though. Tree Bucket has a new favorite as of 03:09 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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Tunicate posted:MS Paint Masterpieces #280: Mad Doctorate - Juzdie Mega Man! Juzdie!  #282: Mad Doctorate - Exclamation Point  #283: Mad Doctorate - An Old Fashioned Joedown 
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Tree Bucket posted:Haunting Thanks for this post especially the part about the ring itself. I've never read the books and always thought 'it just makes you invisible ' was a pretty underwhelming ability for a supposed all powerful ring that gods and demons fight wars over would have. I guess I'd be sam in this description haha
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Witnessed, Luthar. Last time, on Vigils for Friends: Today: How GRRM will probably kick the bucket   
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Last time on Joey's Special Experience by Hirohiko Archie: Jos3ph whoops and swings his warhammer around! Wumuu decides to take as his weapon the pillar itself! Read right to left:        So Jos3ph, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Chariot Race! But then you take my 5% chance of being right, if we was to go one on one, and then add 5% being wrong, I got 90% chance of success at vampire house! See Jo3, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Chariot Race!
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The invisibility is specifically an effect it has when worn by mortals, in part because that's what it did in The Hobbit, which was written before the Lord of the Rings. There's a flashback in the movies of Sauron's defeat (maybe only in the extended editions?) where he wears the ring and is not invisible. It also extends the life of the bearer, such as Bilbo and Sméagol. One power that I think only comes up in the books is mind control. When Sam wears the ring in Mordor he does not feel invisible at all because he knows he's drawing the attention of the Eye of Sauron, but when he takes it off and is spotted by an orc, the orc flees in terror when Sam says to leave them alone. Frodo also says "if you ever fuckin touch me again, you will be thrown into the fires of Mount Doom," to Gollum the last time they part ways, and the next time they meet, that is exactly what happens. The hobbits only inadvertently use that power because the Ring grows stronger the closer it gets to Sauron, anyone with the ambition to use it to dominate others, for good or ill, will discover that they can as soon as they touch it; they don't even need to wear it. That is what happened to Isildur, and is why it is important for Gandalf, Galadriel and even Aragorn to reject it without ever touching it. Zulily Zoetrope has a new favorite as of 05:54 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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