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ComradeCosmobot posted:I think you're remembering the line "It grew from the stone Bismuth." Often times, the pit at the center of a fruit is referred to as a stone. So, who knows?
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MoonwalkInvincible posted:"The Stone" eh?
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Sep 21, 2012 19:41
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Wa11y posted:Often times, the pit at the center of a fruit is referred to as a stone. It grew from the Fruit Bismuth. ...Or, perhaps, a Fruit Bismuth is the end result of the Court's growth? 
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Sep 21, 2012 19:46
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Thank you, avatar fairy, for giving me the best Mort-atar. 
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Sep 21, 2012 19:47
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OriginalPseudonym posted:Edit: Found it. And it is the seed Bismuth. Ugh, that one always pisses me off. Couldn'ta stuck around for ten more minutes explaining a few things, old guy? It felt like the most artificial information denial in this comic by far.
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Sep 21, 2012 19:52
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Waffnuffly posted:It grew from the Fruit Bismuth. But... what is the Court? The Court is a Fruit Bismuth. 
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Sep 21, 2012 19:59
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MikeJF posted:Ugh, that one always pisses me off. Couldn'ta stuck around for ten more minutes explaining a few things, old guy? It never felt all that artificial per se, at least to me. I just kind of felt like it was part of the same shtick as "She died and we did nothing." If anything I almost wonder why I would've expected any other type of answer from the golems, regardless of how old they were.
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Sep 21, 2012 20:21
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MikeJF posted:Ugh, that one always pisses me off. Couldn'ta stuck around for ten more minutes explaining a few things, old guy? I doubt the robot has anything more to explain. The Court is a lot older than that robot, so it probably doesn't have a better answer.
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Sep 21, 2012 21:07
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MikeJF posted:Ugh, that one always pisses me off. Couldn'ta stuck around for ten more minutes explaining a few things, old guy? The guy had a lot of being dead to get back to, sheesh.
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Sep 21, 2012 21:44
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I finally noticed the Avatar Fairy has forcibly drafted me into the Gunnerkrigg Legions. I can
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Knowing this thread it has probably been noticed or debunked before, but I always thought that given that we've seen so many mythical gods, creatures, and other being Jones is the Eye of Ra. Badass enough to challenge Coyote and Ysengrin at the same time, female, not a friend to chaos...
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Sep 21, 2012 22:18
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I hope Raven shows up at some point, and we get two trickster gods going head to head over whatever. A more serious Raven against Coyote's carefree attitude could be fun to see.
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Sep 21, 2012 22:26
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Battle Pigeon posted:I hope Raven shows up at some point, and we get two trickster gods going head to head over whatever. A more serious Raven against Coyote's carefree attitude could be fun to see. Siddel could rewrite the comic so that it was just Coyote, Raven, Loki and Anansi all dicking each other over and I'd gobble it up.
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Sep 21, 2012 23:09
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Phy posted:But... what is the Court? You're a fruit bismuth.
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Sep 21, 2012 23:09
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Battle Pigeon posted:I hope Raven shows up at some point, and we get two trickster gods going head to head over whatever. A more serious Raven against Coyote's carefree attitude could be fun to see. Raven is awesome, but he'd be just as mischievous as Coyote. I'd love to see him in there as well. What's the status of deities (the ones we haven't seen yet)? Do they all exist in the GC world if someone believes in them?
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Battle Pigeon posted:I hope Raven shows up at some point, and we get two trickster gods going head to head over whatever. A more serious Raven against Coyote's carefree attitude could be fun to see. Do raven and coyote ever exist simultaneously as tricksters in the same traditions? I had thought they were basically the same archetype but typified in different animals by different tribes/nations. I mean, I guess that doesn't stop them existing together, any trickster god is really a reflection of the same aspects of human experience, but it would seem odd to use two native North American animal tricksters as adverseries when there's a whole world of mythology to explore. By the way, anyone keen on comics with trickster gods, there's some great dialogue in volume 9 of Neil Gaimans Sandman between Loki and the Puck (ala midsummer nights dream). Interestingly, Loki, a god, does not come off as being as powerful and clever as puck. Loki is malicious and makes long plans which always go awry at some point and come back to bite him in the arse, puck is more chaotic, prone to acting on whims and slippery as a fish, and always gets away scot free. I'm wondering if this duality between the two modes of the trickster will come up in Gunnerkrigg
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Fatkraken posted:Do raven and coyote ever exist simultaneously as tricksters in the same traditions? I had thought they were basically the same archetype but typified in different animals by different tribes/nations. I mean, I guess that doesn't stop them existing together, any trickster god is really a reflection of the same aspects of human experience, but it would seem odd to use two native North American animal tricksters as adverseries when there's a whole world of mythology to explore. I have no idea, but there's a page somewhere that I can't find at the moment that has a montage of a bunch of different characters, with the back of a raven head in the middle. That, and things like this: http://askgunnerkrigg.tumblr.com/post/29119914852/i-have-indeed-visited-with-them-and-they-have maybe hints Raven will show up at one point, and the comment about not getting along makes it seem like they'll be rivals at least. E: Thank you, mystery avatar gifter!  E2: Found it, it was this page. http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=774 Looking at it again, it's a little different from what I remembered, and might just be random symbolism. I didn't realise the tumblr was fan run, my bad! Battle Pigeon fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Sep 22, 2012 |
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That is a fan-run Tumblr, and also I am sad that you were not given an avatar of City Face with rifle turrets and laser scopes attached to his body
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DarkCrawler posted:Knowing this thread it has probably been noticed or debunked before, but I always thought that given that we've seen so many mythical gods, creatures, and other being Jones is the Eye of Ra. Badass enough to challenge Coyote and Ysengrin at the same time, female, not a friend to chaos... I think that theory has been brought up before. I hope the readers get some insight on what Jones is soon!
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Didn't he explicitly say that Jones is not any existing mythology?
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Well yeah, but I'm sure he was inspired by something for Jones
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Does the Terminator count as an existing mythology? e: I like my Tenma avatar, please don't change it. Level Slide fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Sep 22, 2012 |
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Sep 22, 2012 01:38
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Thanks avatar fairy!
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Level Slide posted:Does the Terminator count as an existing mythology? Jones is not a robot.
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Tardigrade posted:What's the status of deities (the ones we haven't seen yet)? Do they all exist in the GC world if someone believes in them? The psychopomp spirit guides aren't explicitly deities, but seem to correspond to various belief systems. e: As Kat becomes more and more of a robot goddess, I wonder what effect their beliefes will have on her.
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Sep 22, 2012 06:56
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What happened here? 
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Julio Cesar Fatass posted:e: As Kat becomes more and more of a robot goddess, I wonder what effect their beliefes will have on her. You just made me realise, if Coyote was the normal coyote living in the desert that became a god as man projected his ideas on him, maybe the same is happening with Kat and the robots who view her as a robot angel? Though I guess that might have been sort of your point in the first place. Don't change my Dave please, avatar fairy.
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Thanks Avatar Fairy!YF-23 posted:You just made me realise, if Coyote was the normal coyote living in the desert that became a god as man projected his ideas on him, maybe the same is happening with Kat and the robots who view her as a robot angel? :stare Ether powers magic and comes from the souls of the dead right? That could mean coyote only got his powers once the man died and his soul dissipated.
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Julio Cesar Fatass posted:e: As Kat becomes more and more of a robot goddess, I wonder what effect their beliefes will have on her. "Did you know that the Angel Kat, She Who Walks Between Digital and Analog, Arbiter of Life and Death, is able to produce freshly baked cookies at will?"
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A student posted:Thanks Avatar Fairy! Plus, it seems that Robots perhaps don't have an etherical presence. Which is interesting. Normally in a fictional world where things like The Ether exist, it's necessary for - even the origin of - consciousness. Not here, unless there's going to be a sad twist where it turns out that Robot isn't a real consciousness after all.
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MikeJF posted:Plus, it seems that Robots perhaps don't have an etherical presence. Perhaps the part on Robot's CPU that Kat didn't know what it was contained an etheric consciousness.
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Tardigrade posted:Raven is awesome, but he'd be just as mischievous as Coyote. I'd love to see him in there as well. Other deities do seem to exist in some fashion, Brinnie is apparently Byrnhilda and was sent to earth by Odin. I doubt we'll see them though, I imagine most gods just hang around at home or their local Gillie Wood equivalent. Coyote's probably a bit of an anomaly.
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Prison Warden posted:Other deities do seem to exist in some fashion, Brinnie is apparently Byrnhilda and was sent to earth by Odin. I doubt we'll see them though, I imagine most gods just hang around at home or their local Gillie Wood equivalent. Coyote's probably a bit of an anomaly. Chang'e has at the very least been to the court
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Zerilan posted:Perhaps the part on Robot's CPU that Kat didn't know what it was contained an etheric consciousness. Maybe, but it seems that Robots have no guide, and doesn't Annie not see anything when she looks at them etherically?
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MikeJF posted:Maybe, but it seems that Robots have no guide, and doesn't Annie not see anything when she looks at them etherically? Maybe what people believe about the ether isn't all true, or maybe the Robots have some ether-imitating spark in them. Edit: I wonder how what the other gods think of the court, or if they notice it at all. We don't really understand the court's presence in the outside world, do we?
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Sep 23, 2012 07:05
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Wikipedia:quote:Bismuth, a pentavalent poor metal, chemically resembles arsenic and antimony.
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Sep 23, 2012 09:23
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SirSamVimes posted:What happened here? MORT happened. Mort with it.
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Sep 23, 2012 15:44
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Everybody likes Mort. Everybody.
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Doctor Reynolds posted:Everybody likes Mort. Everybody. I don't  (also I thought current theory what with Coyote has said this chapter is that Mort wasn't an alive person once but an etheric creature that happens to resemble a cartoony ghost)
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Calaveron posted:(also I thought current theory what with Coyote has said this chapter is that Mort wasn't an alive person once but an etheric creature that happens to resemble a cartoony ghost) I'd believe it considering how goofy looking Mort is by comparison to, say, Jeanne. Maybe Mort is an etheric manifestation created by everyone who believes that goofy looking "white sheet" ghosts are a real thing. Or maybe he just looked that way in his mortal life. v  v
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