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big fan of how Knock and Sette both insist their illiteracy is a lifestyle choice
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Oxxidation posted:big fan of how Knock and Sette both insist their illiteracy is a lifestyle choice God drat it I was about to post that. 
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Mar 18, 2022 02:38
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"So, he lose weight?" is a very good punchline.
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Mar 21, 2022 05:25
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Sette is looking sad. 
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Mar 21, 2022 15:10
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nary should really compile and publish all his aphorisms. The Bastard’s Almanac. it’d make a mint
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Mar 21, 2022 15:28
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And unlike many aphorisms it's actually true!
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Mar 21, 2022 22:20
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I am here for Toma/Elka. Given how bad things happen pretty consistently in this comic, I'm guessing one of them is dead by the end of the chapter... but I'm still here for it.
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Mar 23, 2022 14:57
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I need Toma and Elka to have a happy ending. Please, Ashley. I'm begging you.
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Mar 23, 2022 17:05
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Toma is objectively right about her old look being stronger.
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Mar 23, 2022 19:10
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My first CO used to say... the real evil of Alderode is all the inhuman things they make us gleefully imagine doing in order to stop them. But her majesty doesn't get to only imagine them. Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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Mar 28, 2022 05:59
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If he can see just by holding up a pair of eyes not even his own to the relative spot his head should be, I wonder how long before he just stops pretending to be human and embraces his weird post life existence instead of pretending to be the corpse of the man he was.
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Mar 29, 2022 13:45
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Likely never. Duane is very aware his parts are removable and even interchangeable, and while he exploits this (and not too rarely) by necessity, he does not like dwelling on the Ship of Theseus-style implications of it. I believe he'd be more at peace if he came to terms with being an essentially disembodied human soul preserved from the merciless workings of the Khert through being anchored to whatever pymaric artifice lies implanted in his spine, but that wouldn't be the Duane we know and love, now would it? Grotesque and painful as it is, he'd much rather cling to the idea that he's Duane Adelier's corpse out of nostalgic familiarity while pretending it's not a matter even up for debate.
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Mar 29, 2022 20:22
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Knock's a treasure
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Mar 29, 2022 22:32
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I'm glad Knock has lived. I'll feel bad if/when she gets crashed by the Anadyne/Silver.
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Mar 30, 2022 03:26
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knock’s power grows with every page, if she gets a full chapter then she’ll become unkillable Sette seems have shed a lot of illusions since we last saw her
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Mar 30, 2022 21:05
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GreyjoyBastard posted:My first CO used to say... the real evil of Alderode is all the inhuman things they make us gleefully imagine doing in order to stop them. Imperialist dictatorship carrying out an ethnic cleansing, tears running down its face, “look what alderode made me dooooo!”
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Mar 31, 2022 21:58
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Well, that's one way to deal with trauma, Sette.
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Apr 1, 2022 12:46
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i don't think it's going to last, because that last bit with sara and siya is dangerously deluded even for her
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Apr 1, 2022 12:59
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Yeah, I think she's just smiling through the tears on this one. And we've seen her know the truth despite her self-mythologizing in the past.
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Apr 1, 2022 13:06
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She's literally crying on the page. Living your best lie can only go so far.
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Apr 1, 2022 13:12
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Lots of people deserve hugs in Unsounded.
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Apr 1, 2022 14:47
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I think they're both acknowledging the reality, they're just psyching eachother up. It's kinda cool actually. Love the detail of her just essentially ripping the bad vibes out and crushing it in her hand. It's kinda shonen in tone almost.
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Apr 1, 2022 18:02
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Honestly, it's a very good thing Duane can't talk right now.
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Apr 1, 2022 19:21
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Which brings up the closely-related philosophical question: how many people's lives would be improved if Duane never talked at all?
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Apr 1, 2022 22:59
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Agaragon posted:Honestly, it's a very good thing Duane can't talk right now. boo is stitching his head back on so my prediction is that he's going to drag sette back down to earth very quickly i don't agree that this is a positive moment. spend too long living in your best world and the real one will come up behind you and slit your throat - or chop off your head, as it were
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Apr 1, 2022 23:01
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Drakyn posted:Which brings up the closely-related philosophical question: how many people's lives would be improved if Duane never talked at all?  Duane's got problems (check the pages preceding this one; heck, check this one), but the surrogate father-daughter relationship he's formed with Sette has (slowly) contributed to their mutual benefit.  As for Knock (bless her), I think she means well enough, but the best she can do is encourage the same cycle of coping mechanisms she herself employs. You can tell she's trying to hype Sette up, but she also has no idea what all Sette's been through. She's not over her cousin's betrayal, her father's detached manipulations. Starfish is dead but his memory lingers in her mind - literally, on the latest page - with the fear old man Nary might've set them up if it put even two copper coins in his pocket. I can't even imagine the fear and disgust that kind of thought breeds in a child, and what's worse for Sette: it's not just a thought. While she hopes its not true, she can't deny the possibility. Starfish could've been lying, but maybe he wasn't. She cannot know for certain her father wouldn't throw her to the sharks. That's how the Frummagems do it. Duane's hardly Father-of-the-Year himself, but compared to all the other adults in Sette's life, he just might be her best shot at a workable, healing parental relationship, which is something she desperately needs.
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Apr 2, 2022 02:35
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From today's title text:quote:Quigley’s looking a lot better too. Let’s wait and see in what exciting way he Ruins Everything. Yep.
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Apr 4, 2022 18:58
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This Quigley guy seems like a real turd.
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Apr 6, 2022 12:45
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he’s deliberately painting himself in the worst possible light out of some masochistic impulse but that doesn’t make it any better “I suppose I’ve put off the villain’s screed long enough” jfc aldishmen are such giant fruity babies
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Apr 6, 2022 12:49
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I brought this up a while back, but Quigley really is an awful shithead.
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Apr 6, 2022 14:45
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Quigley really is determined to suicide by proxy, isn't he?
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Apr 8, 2022 15:46
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he’s deluding himself the same as Sette is right now, just by living in his worst world instead of his best ought to lock them both in a big crate for a day and see what happens
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Apr 8, 2022 16:17
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Ashley Cope posted:Elka on this page is standing in for all the people on tumblr the last few days desperate to find some justification or excuse for Quigley. Quigley is a piece of poo poo who set up the murder of his wife for not obeying him, and then freaked out afterwards because it didn't also kill the son he hated. You don't need to make excuses for him.
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Apr 8, 2022 16:28
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habeasdorkus posted:Quigley is a piece of poo poo who set up the murder of his wife for not obeying him, and then freaked out afterwards because it didn't also kill the son he hated. You don't need to make excuses for him. cope is being glib and her actual take is in her tumblr as usual. what’s actually happening isn’t hard to figure out. we’ve already seen how quigley behaved in those moments and it doesn’t jibe with how he’s describing them now
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Apr 8, 2022 16:47
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Yeah it's really obvious that he's a child raised by other children in these moments.
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Apr 8, 2022 16:53
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like the irony in quigley's whole spiel here is obvious - he's not debunking the play elka's referencing, just rewriting his role. if he really felt this way then he wouldn't have fallen to his knees and begged matty not to go when he thought the kid was going to die, nor would he have been weeping with relief when his countrymen gave him their assurances after ratting vienne out the play made him out to be some noble antihero, he wants everyone on this train to believe he's a sneering stage villain, and he'd prefer either of them to the truth - that he's a weak man and a disgrace of a father, so painfully ordinary
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Apr 8, 2022 17:01
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All of that can be true, and who knows what we'd be like if we'd had his childhood in Alderode, but explaining isn't excusing. It strikes me as special pleading on behalf of a main character.Oxxidation posted:the play made him out to be some noble antihero, he wants everyone on this train to believe he's a sneering stage villain, and he'd prefer either of them to the truth - that he's a weak man and a disgrace of a father, so painfully ordinary I agree he's ordinary. He's an extremely lovely person, and there are a lot of extremely lovely people in both the world of the comic and real life. He's no tragic figure, he's just an abhorrent rear end in a top hat.
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Apr 8, 2022 17:09
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you want to believe the version of events that he's presenting right now. his version of events is a self-serving lie, so you're wrong. it isn't any more complicated than that
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Apr 8, 2022 17:15
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Quigley turned in his wife. He did it out of fear at what would happen to him if he didn't and anger at her for not doing what he wanted (both with Uaid AND having a child he didn't want). He did it knowing what would happen to her. And when he gets back to see what had been wrought, he's stuck with the consequences of his action AND the loving kid he never wanted in the first place. His assault on the authorities appears to have been an attempt at suicide by cop, which he took Matty along for. It didn't take. That he's full up on self-loathing and actively trying to make everyone hate him doesn't change that he should be hated for his actions. It's not just his actions in Alderode, it's what he did after. He couldn't deal with Cresce making him out to be a hero, so he fled with Matty and Uaid. He could have done any number of different things after that, but decided working with loving Starfish and stuffing children full of silver was the best way for him to provide for this kid he couldn't stand to deal with but couldn't bear to abandon because Matty's the last thing he has of his beloved wife (who he turned in). I mean, c'mon. We have vastly more evidence for Quigley being involved in Vienne's death and not wanting Matty than we have for Lemuel having anything much to do with Duane's murder, and yet one is taken as self-evident while the other is outright denied because poor sad Quigley. It's not his fault he had the woman he loved tortured to death. Look at what she made him do.
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Tbf Lemuel is an ultra nationalist who craves a war of genocide as an excuse to vent his bloodlust.
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