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Hang on when did she appear... did he literally come up with her and this because of the BLM protests of 2020?
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Mar 30, 2021 15:08
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egg tats posted:I'm sorry is mookie about to turn this story into one about motherfucking orc supremacy???? You have to hand it to Mookie, he knows how to pull a good April Fool's prank.
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Mar 30, 2021 15:42
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I don't even know what the gently caress this comic is about at this point
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Mar 30, 2021 16:04
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The afro and earring on the human guest give me very bad vibes.
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Mar 30, 2021 16:44
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The fact that he makes his green panthers/Nation of Chandack characters also cannibals on the sentient plant people is just *chef's kiss*. Also 
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Mar 30, 2021 16:56
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Kavak posted:The afro and earring on the human guest give me very bad vibes. Don't worry it's a preweekend comic. These characters will be forgotten about come monday
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Mar 30, 2021 17:15
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Beelzebufo posted:The fact that he makes his green panthers/Nation of Chandack characters also cannibals on the sentient plant people is just *chef's kiss*. He also immediately follows that with showing a human and a Bulu visitor to Arudak's tower, because he's afraid of maintaining any tension about that seemingly noteworthy social movement having had any residual influence and Maltak being anything other than an enlightened liberal utopia.
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Mar 30, 2021 17:49
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Beelzebufo posted:I promise I won't spill the beans like that every week, but Mookie stumbling into once again having part of an oppressed minority group in his setting be "the bad ones" who won't instantly forgive the pseudo-european colonizers is perfect. And even beyond that, it's not like this is just a plot-point for maybe exploring how forgiveness could happen; instead it's framed (maybe unintentionally?) like a polemic. It's not just that Sekuat Mut differ from other orcs, it's that the narrative instantly lets you know that they are the backward and wrong ones. I’m reminded of a tangent near the end of Displacement where the author actually discusses this phenomenon with how Japanese-Americans who went through the incarceration camps and became conventionally successful after WW2 were held up as “model minorities” to contrast against blacks during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Mar 30, 2021 17:52
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There's a lot to unpack with these pages but for no reason at all I'm gonna focus in on how Mookie's spent pages upon pages doing literally nothing with his setting, but now that he finally feels like introducing some lore and a new species we get a text paragraph saying what they are and where they came from just one panel before Snout literally runs right into one.
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Mar 30, 2021 21:56
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Wow, I wouldn't have guessed that. Somehow, Mookie has held himself back from rattling off a handful of slurs for the plant people, but that probably just means he's saving them for next week.
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Mar 30, 2021 22:13
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I'm sure Mookie will handle these new characters with all the racial sensitivity he's learned in the years since Deegan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQiSgWGAc24
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Mar 30, 2021 22:24
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Regalingualius posted:I’m reminded of a tangent near the end of Displacement where the author actually discusses this phenomenon with how Japanese-Americans who went through the incarceration camps and became conventionally successful after WW2 were held up as “model minorities” to contrast against blacks during the Civil Rights Movement. At this point I'm expecting an orc from the meanie tribe to walk in calling himself Maltak X.
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Mar 30, 2021 22:24
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Invisible Clergy posted:Wow, I wouldn't have guessed that. Somehow, Mookie has held himself back from rattling off a handful of slurs for the plant people, but that probably just means he's saving them for next week. Can't spell out all the slurs if the main character can't hear them! Although that does make me excited to see someone use ink magic to make a slur float in midair.
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Mar 30, 2021 22:27
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Samovar posted:What are those abo- Well, in the case of this week's questionable content, it is just... kinda boring? It is more or less a 90s era joke dressed up in modern trappings. A character's mom turns out to be a popular vtuber and her avatar is a cow lady.
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Mar 30, 2021 22:40
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evilmiera posted:Well, in the case of this week's questionable content, it is just... kinda boring? It is more or less a 90s era joke dressed up in modern trappings. A character's mom turns out to be a popular vtuber and her avatar is a cow lady. And she's roped him into doing it with her and even had a dumb nickname already picked out for him. The implications of that are what make it skeevy.
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Mar 30, 2021 22:51
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Beelzebufo posted:Also My first thought on seeing them was a hosed up scarecrow from wizard of oz
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Mar 30, 2021 23:50
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Beelzebufo posted:The fact that he makes his green panthers/Nation of Chandack characters also cannibals on the sentient plant people is just *chef's kiss*. El Seed is better wordplay than anything Mookie has ever tried across all his comics. Billy Gnosis fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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Mar 31, 2021 00:02
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The Tick is incredible in basically all its forms and if Mookie was even a fraction as good then this thread would not exist.
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Mar 31, 2021 00:07
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All the orcs in the time of Dominic already considered sentient vegetables nothing more than food to be harvested so why the hell is it a big deal now?
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Mar 31, 2021 00:42
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Twelve by Pies posted:All the orcs in the time of Dominic already considered sentient vegetables nothing more than food to be harvested so why the hell is it a big deal now? Someone pointed out to Mookie how hosed up that was
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Mar 31, 2021 00:43
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Twelve by Pies posted:All the orcs in the time of Dominic already considered sentient vegetables nothing more than food to be harvested so why the hell is it a big deal now? Were there ones that could talk? I thought they were just animals but  vegetables
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Mar 31, 2021 00:53
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Zereth posted:Were there ones that could talk? I thought they were just animals but No. Your recollection is correct.
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Mar 31, 2021 02:06
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Now all I can imagine would be an actually pretty good joke where Dominic, talking about how all the orcs are ACTUALLY vegetarians, and their tusks and teeth and claws and stuff are only there because Orc Plants are dangerous and violence and alive, but TECHNICALLY not meat, runs into a group of orcs at a feast or something. Who are all eating the gently caress out of some meat. Dominic has a fit, because HOW DARE THEY, they're supposed to be VEGANS, they can't eat meat! With the response being something like "dude, do you have any idea how hard farming is in Maltuk? I had to fight off ten Dandelions to feed my starving children last week! We came here for a visit, and I found out here, they just farm animals! You ever had fist fight a chicken to feed a kid? Here, they're totally docile! It's great! I'm gonna have some steak next!" then of course, Dominic would shout back "Don't have a cow, man!" and then the next beat panel would be him looking at the audience This was funnier in my head
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Mar 31, 2021 04:15
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The problem with Deegan orcs is they're biologically incapable of eating meat.
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Twelve by Pies posted:All the orcs in the time of Dominic already considered sentient vegetables nothing more than food to be harvested so why the hell is it a big deal now? Well, these are people. But also huge hilarity at 'actually the orcs are now orc supremacists, because not only did they suddenly become in charge so they must do an oppression like the humans did, but also completely coincidentally plant-people are introduced and the orcs went yeah we'll eat food that presumably talks.' Which is especially hilarious because it implies the only thing preventing orc culture from embracing cannibalism or eating humans is biological incapacity.
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Also I just find it funny that after spending 99% of the original series showing us how so many Callanians were bloodthirsty, racist monsters now the story is “ooh why’s this orc want retribution for centuries old crimes?” As if this isn’t the same Callan that made pacts with Satan(s) to genocide the orcs a little over 200 years ago.
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TheHan posted:Also I just find it funny that after spending 99% of the original series showing us how so many Callanians were bloodthirsty, racist monsters now the story is “ooh why’s this orc want retribution for centuries old crimes?” As if this isn’t the same Callan that made pacts with Satan(s) to genocide the orcs a little over 200 years ago. It's just like the space elves. Mookie just continuously sets up this scenario where an oppresed or colonized people have to be 100% forgiving and peaceful, or be branded as "just as bad" or "the real racists", which seems to be the idea he's dancing around here. There's never any lingering mistrust or resentment, there's just total peaceful happy orc or angry genocidal supremacists. Apparently you aren't allowed to be an orc and not gung ho on whatever a "botanical base" is being on territory Callan literally poisoned so that nothing would grow on it.
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For good people, justice and forgiveness are a process that both begin, but do not end, with the cessation of wrongdoing. For the liberal centrist, the cessation of wrongdoing is the sum-total of justice and all that is necessary for forgiveness. If Callan is not, at this moment, oppressing the Orcs then it is utterly unreasonable for the Orcs to hold them accountable for any and all prior crimes.
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Mar 31, 2021 05:38
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Have we stopped doing the re-read of the original DD, or has my brain just tried to protect me from remembering it being posted?
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No, blessedly it's still going on, but it takes TLD some time to put together those posts. Looking forward to the next one.
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Mar 31, 2021 09:33
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Mookie introduced sapient plants because he has transitioned to breathatarianism.
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Lmao I may be misremembering, but isn't "sentient plant people who suddenly appeared after a huge, magical reckoning" straight out of Guild Wars 2?
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Posting the bingo card again: We've got like, what, 3 bingos minimum? And to think it took Mookie two years to get anywhere with filling this up. TheHan posted:Also I just find it funny that after spending 99% of the original series showing us how so many Callanians were bloodthirsty, racist monsters now the story is “ooh why’s this orc want retribution for centuries old crimes?” As if this isn’t the same Callan that made pacts with Satan(s) to genocide the orcs a little over 200 years ago. 200 years isn't even ancient history! There's no way the orcs would forget that the Callanians were genocidal racists within that span of time, and it's absurd to paint them in the wrong for wanting Callan to pay for its crimes. Did Callan even do anything to make up for the crimes they did against the orcs in DD, or did they just do a perfunctory 'sorry, we did bad' about it? RoboChrist 9000 posted:For good people, justice and forgiveness are a process that both begin, but do not end, with the cessation of wrongdoing. For the liberal centrist, the cessation of wrongdoing is the sum-total of justice and all that is necessary for forgiveness. If Callan is not, at this moment, oppressing the Orcs then it is utterly unreasonable for the Orcs to hold them accountable for any and all prior crimes. It really is the ultimate white man's outlook on justice. lovely Person X already posted an apology for hurting others, so how could all these people still be so mean to him? 
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amigolupus posted:It really is the ultimate white man's outlook on justice. lovely Person X already posted an apology for hurting others, so how could all these people still be so mean to him? It reminds me less of white people or liberalism and more evangelical Christianity. Repentance is everything, there's no need to make amends because forgiveness is God's purview. Bob is repenting for his sin of molesting all those boys on the track team, they and their families should forgive them already.
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Mar 31, 2021 14:33
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"Character suddenly becomes a racist" should have a question mark and "obvious Mookie self-insert" should be circled.
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Mar 31, 2021 14:34
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I mean, if we're going there, we're up to here:
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Who is the nameless best character? Ship? The Blood Horror? The Skori Tree? Potion Vendor? Redactor?
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maltesh posted:Who is the nameless best character? Ship? The Blood Horror? The Skori Tree? Potion Vendor? Redactor? Anyone but Arudak, punchman, and Snout could qualify.
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amigolupus posted:200 years isn't even ancient history! There's no way the orcs would forget that the Callanians were genocidal racists within that span of time, and it's absurd to paint them in the wrong for wanting Callan to pay for its crimes. Did Callan even do anything to make up for the crimes they did against the orcs in DD, or did they just do a perfunctory 'sorry, we did bad' about it? If we're just going by what was shown in the original series, mere days after Maltak's rebirth Callan was prepping to get back in there and do some more genocide. The only thing stopping them was that every nation said not to. But shiiiit, I'm sure after Dominic & friends violently deposed the king before going home and doing nothing about the deep-seated issues in Callanian government and culture that power vacuum was filled by a super nice guy who used Callan's military for good.
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