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Skippy McPants posted:I mean, murdering children is a pretty good way to get most anyone to go off, let alone Duane. Agreed, and maybe I am reading it wrong, but I thought that the "heart" or "pearl" of a waterwoman let them regrow their bodies, so Lori keeping the body around hoping for it to be reborn is just her misunderstanding of how waterwomen work? As far as I can tell she is just keeping a dead husk in a fish tank and not really "getting it". I think there is something more sinister behind that anti-pymary wall in the vault, and the Crescian military dissidents have more to do with it then the shrine and Lori. I am guessing Duane is just making a snap judgement and taking quick action. He may be right, but I doubt it, no character in the story seems to have the full picture, and us readers are likely just as or more in the dark. It's how Ashley writes, for better or worse.
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Twenty Four posted:Oh there's a full on magical storm going on outside that has no sign of stopping and the country that I hate is sending an army this way? Lets just go ahead and assault the person in charge of the shrine that is giving me and my group sanctuary. *sarcasm* Good call Duane! He's off his rocker more then usual. The magical storm isn't stopping because of the water women kidnapping the person he's assaulting is involved in. "Solve" that and the magical storm is no longer keeping them in the shrine. Twenty Four posted:Agreed, and maybe I am reading it wrong, but I thought that the "heart" or "pearl" of a waterwoman let them regrow their bodies, so Lori keeping the body around hoping for it to be reborn is just her misunderstanding of how waterwomen work? She's keeping the dead husk in the hope that when the crescian military is "done with the pearl/heart" she can put it back in the body and everything will be good again. There's 0 chance she'd ever be getting it back if it's even left intact by whatever mad science they're doing, but it's like her one way to hope that she's not a total monster.
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So uh, jolly good time are we having, no?
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Been a while since people last linked to the comic. We've had a Coronavirus awareness page. A great plan is hatched, it's definitely not going to end in a clusterfuck. Duane being sneaky and subtle. Lori's not too bad, just delusional. Then Duane starts going all fanatical murder zombie, but Sette saves the day.
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Jul 8, 2020 10:46
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Jul 8, 2020 12:29
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Unsounded Abridged proves its accuracy further with every page, it's really something.
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Agaragon posted:Unsounded Abridged I am intrigued, but also deeply wary.
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LunarCress posted:I am intrigued, but also deeply wary. It's a big ol' gif that was entered in the fanart contest, illustrating each chapter so far with a single scene. This was just before the current chapter, and it ended with "up next: Duane is an rear end in a top hat" as proposed title for, well, the current chapter. http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch15/ch15_71.html And now everything's gonna work out just fine, guaranteed! Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Jul 11, 2020 |
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Judging by the last few panels the comic's about to switch from its favourite mode (Duane fucks everything up) to its other favourite mode (Sette fucks everything up).
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Jul 12, 2020 18:20
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Ash posted:I admit I have something of an agenda with Vienne (and with some other characters, particularly Queen Sonorie). Everything you said is true, about her being an example of the battle many women have to wage between what they want to do and what society imposes on them. But with Vienne I also try to show the strength of the feminine, and how a lot of our problems as humans could be solved if we would stop trying to dominate and destroy everything around us. Vienne created Uaid not to destroy, but to protect. He’s not a weapon, he’s a shield.
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quote:I see the feminine so readily cast off in fiction in favour of “strong female characters” who are defined solely as chicks who can wield a gun and throw a punch just as well as the dudes. I do not find these characters satisfying. I think feminine strength - emotional strength, forbearance, diplomacy, empathy, nurturing, communication - aren’t given due respect. But maybe if you packaged all them up into a giant green ogre mecha they would be?
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A good sentiment broadly speaking but could do without the gender essentializing.
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I took that more as her criticizing the essentialism that already exists in fiction, and its tendency to run screaming from anything traditionally coded as feminine. That too many stories don't know how to make a woman—or a man for that matter—display strength without grabbing them in toxic masculinity.
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I think it's pretty clear that she is using "masculine" and "feminine" to describe already popularly gendered traits, rather than saying that they are inherently gendered. Matty is unequivocally male but also "feminine."
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Straight White Shark posted:I think it's pretty clear that she is using "masculine" and "feminine" to describe already popularly gendered traits, rather than saying that they are inherently gendered. Matty is unequivocally male but also "feminine." That's how I read it. That you can have strong, well rounded characters with what have been gendered with "feminine" qualities, and that it's really not cool if we stop at "anyone can be a strong character so long as they display traits that are traditionally considered masculine." Also, can never discuss this topic without thinking of Kate Beaton: 
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That was such a good comic. I really miss Hark, a Vagrant.
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Captain Oblivious posted:A good sentiment broadly speaking but could do without the gender essentializing. "I agree with the sentiments but I'd really prefer you didn't use the tools at your disposal to express them." Grow up tone cop or gently caress off back to twitter.
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I feel for Dwayne too. Poor dudes the only one whose seen the mask of humanity come right off Cresce when it stabbed his daughter and killed him. Tends to radicalize a zombie. Its impossible to tell Sette that her friends about to get her head cut off and put on a shelf thanks to that fat slug for religious purposes.
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Motherfucker posted:I feel for Dwayne too. Poor dudes the only one whose seen the mask of humanity come right off Cresce when it stabbed his daughter and killed him. Tends to radicalize a zombie. Its impossible to tell Sette that her friends about to get her head cut off and put on a shelf thanks to that fat slug for religious purposes. amusingly he's not wrong about Cresce, for the most part... but that wasn't Cresce 
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Straight White Shark posted:amusingly he's not wrong about Cresce, for the most part... but that wasn't Cresce I mean WE know that... especially me, who has been closely following all the politics and twists and whatnot super close... *cough*
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Motherfucker posted:I mean WE know that... especially me, who has been closely following all the politics and twists and whatnot super close... *cough* duane also knows that as of his last trip through dreamland, his latest bout of anti-cresce mania is partly because he's trying really, really hard to keep denying it to himself
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Motherfucker posted:"I agree with the sentiments but I'd really prefer you didn't use the tools at your disposal to express them." Nah this isn’t about tone this is about sentiments too. She’s not saying “characteristics associated with the feminine” she’s saying “feminine”. It’s entirely possible she MEANS the former but it’s not really present in the text.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Nah this isn’t about tone this is about sentiments too. Feminine already means "characteristics associated with the female." Feminine is not specifically a gender.
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In the latest update (four pages after the last one linked in the thread; click here if you haven't read anything since then), we have: Dancing! Also, Quigley is incredibly drunk. These things may be related.
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Jul 20, 2020 21:17
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Quigs thats a weird thing to say!!
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From Ashley's Tumblr, a week and a half ago:quote:Anonymous asked: quote:Sloshed enough to finally be fun. This is apparently what that meant. I wonder how Quigs will react when reminded of this behavior when he's not so drunk. Edit: quote:Anonymous asked: quote:In another environment, Duane would be down there dancing with the kids and laughing - encouragingly! delightedly! - at Quigley playing along. He’d bow to each of his little partners in turn, show them how such dancing is done in Alderode, respectfully watch their own moves, and compliment Jivi on his pipe playing. Roland Jones fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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Jul 21, 2020 20:45
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Quigs knows whats up. Moderation is for people who won't die in thirty years.
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This is almost responsible fatherly behaviour from Quigs. Or as close as we're going to get.
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Motherfucker posted:Quigs knows whats up. Moderation is for people who won't die in thirty years. Seriously, if I knew I was doomed to >30 years I'd be drunk or high drat near all the time.
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Skippy McPants posted:Seriously, if I knew I was doomed to >30 years I'd be drunk or high drat near all the time. I guess that's one way to admit that you have a substance dependancy problem.
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A.o.D. posted:I guess that's one way to admit that you have a substance dependancy problem. Yeah you should be a sober ascetic monk and never gently caress or do rock and rolls and die with a dry, flacid penis. Its the only way to impress this cool guy on the internet.
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Livers gonna break down from Being A Plat sooner than it breaks down from All The Alcoholism, yeah.
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A.o.D. posted:I guess that's one way to admit that you have a substance dependancy problem. If I was stuck with a few decades while some of my contemporaries were settling into their second century? Hell yeah, I'd have a substance problem. A whole bunch of 'um. It's a little shocking that most of the Plats we've seen are studious and temperate. I'd expect a lot more ennui or outrage, though I guess their county's indoctrination probably has a lot to do with that. Me? I'd be drunk as a sunk and getting in bullshit mage-duels all over the place like an anime viking-wizard. If the price for having innate access to the universe's cheat-codes is not getting enough time to enjoy it, then I would want to cram as much hedonism as I could into that tiny window.
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You put the > the wrong way  You said doomed to more than 30 years, not less than. Remember the little alligator always eats the bigger number!
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Skippy McPants posted:If I was stuck with a few decades while some of my contemporaries were settling into their second century? Hell yeah, I'd have a substance problem. A whole bunch of 'um. It's a little shocking that most of the Plats we've seen are studious and temperate. I'd expect a lot more ennui or outrage, though I guess their county's indoctrination probably has a lot to do with that.
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PetraCore posted:I believe it's been mentioned by Ashley that lots of plats are pampered hedonists with a side of sex work and I suppose it's not really a surprise, all things considered. Even less so if a bunch of them also have war trauma from their stints as child soldiers. I’m pretty sure the sex workers and child soldiers are different groups. The soldiers are wrights and for all it’s pretensions of democracy Aldarode is neither going to give a valuable military/industrial/scientific asset the chance to opt out or likely to have male sex workers in its patriarchal society.
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