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Zefiel posted:At first a little apartment of your own with no rent or mortage to worry about for eternity, with your own soda gun for mixing rude drinks and everything, and the whole collection of -Insert your favorite childhood author, no matter how obscure or rare to find their books are- sounds pretty cool, but then when compared to the limitless experience you'd expect from actual heaven it seems limiting and almost mediocre. Which somehow fits Beef's self-view to a T. Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
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Chocolate love all
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I feel like a lot of Onstad's approach to writing women can be summed up by the fact that he introduced Molly's family via elaborate shenanigans, and then instead of giving Molly any substantial interactions with them, uses them mostly to interact with a third-string male character. At that point, dude isn't even trying to pretend Molly isn't a prop for his increasingly negative feelings about relationships.
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Tbh I don’t know how you properly flesh out the internal life of a seventeenth century Welshwoman who’s been living in an afterlife that appears to culturally keep pace with the living world for four hundred years and now lives with Beef and Ray. Like I sure as poo poo don’t fault Onstad for basically dropping any and all references to that and basically just writing her as a well-adjusted contemporary woman 99% of the time until the wedding arc
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does he, though? she never, like, goes to anyone's house, or does anything, except in the context of Roast Beef. the camera does not follow her, it follows him. imagine for a moment, a strip where Molly is out buying groceries, and something happens, and she responds somehow, and it has nothing to do with Roast Beef before during or after, the same way RB and Ray can encounter the Little Corn Salesman without Molly being involved. Onstad absolutely does not do this, ever - she exists only as Roast Beef perceives her, to a point that would be artistic if he did it intentionally
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Nov 12, 2020 05:54
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LordSaturn posted:does he, though? she never, like, goes to anyone's house, or does anything, except in the context of Roast Beef. the camera does not follow her, it follows him. imagine for a moment, a strip where Molly is out buying groceries, and something happens, and she responds somehow, and it has nothing to do with Roast Beef before during or after, the same way RB and Ray can encounter the Little Corn Salesman without Molly being involved. Onstad absolutely does not do this, ever - she exists only as Roast Beef perceives her, to a point that would be artistic if he did it intentionally there’s that time that she looks at a thing Roast Beef did and she smiles because of her love for Roast Beef. Wait, poo poo. I mean, she’s well adjusted by the standards of Achewood. She goes to the gym in one strip which is literally more than you can say for any of the other main characters in terms of healthy living, except for maybe Pat, Pat’s dad, and Phillipe.
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Molly had a bit more of a life on the blogs, but even while her blog entries were about events that happened outside the strip, mostly customers at her job IIRC, there were constant refs to Roast Beef and how he's doing, and how she wonders how he's doing, and stuff he did, and what she thinks about the stuff he did, and the stuff he did with his friends, and the stuff she was doing for him, and the stuff she wanted to do for him, and the stuff she was doing because of him, and goddammit Onstad what was so wrong with giving her a little agency
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Nov 12, 2020 07:04
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I thought Teodore goes running a lot?
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Nov 12, 2020 07:04
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Stringent posted:I thought Teodore goes running a lot? Not until later.
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Stringent posted:I thought Teodore goes running a lot? in the future before he dies, yeah and he, like, can’t make rent and poo poo and lives in relative squalor, so he’s still not doing super great even though he’s a smart gourmand and he’s arguably the most responsible for Phillipe. Onstad always said that T was the character that he felt most reflected his view of his own life, cursed by poor luck and frustration even tho Beef’s the one we see always experiencing pathos
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Nov 12, 2020 07:14
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  These are just off the top of my head, I think there's more?
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teodor is the one that introduces parkour to the situation with lil nephew at the lake
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bony tony posted:Onstad makes a lot of weird little references like that, that seem real without being real. it is a celebration
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Hiram the Blacksmith is a joy I hadn’t remembered
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I'm guessing that Teodor runs regularly for 2-3 weeks at a time followed by stretches of 3-4 months where he does no exercise at all, every time telling himself "this time it'll stick".
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Stringent posted:
Teodor is absolutely the guy who starts jogging/parkouring whatever for 2 weeks and then starts putting it off indefinitely until 18 months later when he starts a new health activity and the cycle begins anew.
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Nov 12, 2020 11:58
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I really hate these phases of the thread where it descends into goons writing weird fanfic based on themselves.
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Stringent posted:I really hate these phases of the thread where it descends into goons writing weird fanfic based on themselves. I'm sorry we're dishonoring Teodor's character with these perfectly reasonable assumptions based on his personality and past behavior.
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Nov 12, 2020 13:47
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Stringent posted:
I like to think that grocer's apostrophe made Cornelius angrier than when a man was going to bugger Phillipe through the internet, or when he woke up with "Star Wars" temporarily tattooed to his chest.
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I'd like to thank No Context Achewood for reminding me that Cornelius briefly thought he had a tattoo. ... Cornelius briefly thought he had a terrible tattoo. Pershing fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Nov 13, 2020 |
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I like how Achewood has done some back-and-forth on whether the cats are cats, like with owners and so on, or if they're cat people living in a cat world.bony tony posted:Onstad makes a lot of weird little references like that, that seem real without being real.
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Ray is apparently worth fifty dollars and the sign from the time he is “lost” (at Tina’s) says he is neutered, although he claims it was only a vasectomy
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Nov 12, 2020 19:16
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Don't forget the "living in secret underground society" thing which stuck around for a while.
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Nov 12, 2020 21:20
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Yahoo! has a regrettable logo, but Google, your mom made your logo.
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Nov 12, 2020 21:43
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Guys! Come quick! I found the son of a bitch who invented Comic Sans!
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Ray's way of resolving the Nolan From The Internet problem is a classic Also both Today's Main Perverts and Death Relationship would make excellent band names
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drrockso20 posted:Ray's way of resolving the Nolan From The Internet problem is a classic I always just assumed he asked Nice Pete to do it
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Pershing posted:I'd like to thank No Context Achewood for reminding me that Cornelius briefly thought he had a tattoo. That scene where he's beating his chest with the loafer is one of the funniest things I've ever read in my life.
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Zefiel posted:I wish Ray had gone to heaven briefly too. I bet his room would've had mad sluts in it. And a tub of sour cream. a muzak rendition of "Heaven is a Place on Earth" plays tinnily from unseen speakers as a disembodied pair of asscheeks silently glides atop an enormous sheet cake
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Pastry of the Year posted:I always just assumed he asked Nice Pete to do it
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I feel like Ray has a guy that he would usually go to who is not Nice Pete. Nice Pete's more of a bespoke death artiste. Sold Nolan out to Ottawa Modified Death
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Ray has the juice to borrow a prison inmate in a dog crate to judge the badass games. I'm sure he can just rent that guy again, nothing like a day outside in exchange for some stabbin'
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I always assumed Ray just intimidated Nolan. Just cold murdering a guy (albeit indirectly) doesn't seem like something he'd do.
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He took care of it.
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Oh like you’re gonna go all pro ice
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thrilla in vanilla posted:He took care of it. Insert here that League of Extraordinary Gentlemen + Achewood mashup with Mr Hyde. e: found it 
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Saoshyant posted:Insert here that League of Extraordinary Gentlemen + Achewood mashup with Mr Hyde. lmao that owns
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Saoshyant posted:Insert here that League of Extraordinary Gentlemen + Achewood mashup with Mr Hyde. insanely good
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And it was made by forums raconteur and delight Gavok!
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