Comic for Monday, July 19th, 2021
Vium’s usage of the first person pronouns in panel three is… challenging.
Vium is definitely more talkative than F8 (the Mium we’ve seen the most often). Or at least the most likely to say things unprompted – all Miums are somewhat long winded if you ask them a question.
Ila’s view that Arkady would be able to decode the scarf-condrum is not entirely unfounded – he is the one that helped her with shopping before, and he’s certainly the one of Naomi’s friends from that trip shows knows the best. She might have grasped some of the finer points, but she’s also not entirely wrong, though she might not be right for the reason she thinks she is.
I did consider spending more time on Arkady’s thoughts here – I think we’ve sort of seen that he’s struggling a bit with how he fits into things right now. He feels like as somewhat powerful mage and important member of the Families, he should be doing things, but no one really involves him things, and the one time he got involved in things, it went pretty bad and he almost died and had to be bailed out by Ila. We’ve also seen that he doesn’t really like big Family meetings and the inherent conflict of them.
I did also consider showing a few more of the fights with the Rogue families, but each fight we see takes like… a minimum of two to four weeks. Not saying we won’t see more, but I did want to stick to ones that were sort of more important. That said, we will eventually see what Tyler is up to again; we did miss Tyler fighting a minor family mage, but we’ll catch up on what’s happening at some point – I just felt I couldn’t really justify spending two weeks on a somewhat one sided fight where we wouldn’t have learned anything about the magic system or situation besides that Tyler is a match for a non-Family head mage… something that’s probably not really a surprise to the point I don’t view that as a spoiler to write here…
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Comic will be late; probably end of day monday at this point.
so what else is new?
I just got a fresh shipment of new pitchforks.
I’ve got a cold beer ready.
Unfortunately it’ll be later. Not going to postpone for the week (…yet), but it’ll be another day. Better get some torches to go with the pitchforks.
I think I will not be joining in on the tar and featherings just yet.
Myself, for one, am glad you are doing well (enough) and happy that you are still investing large amounts of time into this insane and convoluted group of obfuscated and confuddled individuals.
Thank you
-meoi lass
I just need your address and I’ll ship you your very own pitchfork and torch.
#spreadthehate
I’m kidding…
Have a beer. New comic. Pitchforks and torches. Either way, it’ll be a show.
Do people even still use pitchforks anymore? All the farms around where I live are have enough machinery to make them obsolete. So really, you don’t have to worry about that.
A wood chipper or grain thresher, however…
Lol. So we’ll all be driving combine harvesters then?
Oh wait, I don’t live on a farm… so I’ll be reaching for the pole saw: it’s basically a chainsaw attached to a pole – perfect for hard to reach branches AND mob rule!
Now just to make some hand-sanitizer based torches…
Pitchforks are still used for moving hay or manure and many other things. Though hopefully you wash it after the manure because you don’t want the animals you are feeding hay to, to get sick.
Hay forks and manure forks are typically different. Hay forks are wider and thinner pronged. There isn’t much density, so you want a big fork full. Manure is denser, to save the back, we take smaller bites, and the tines need to be more robust. Manure forks often have more tines, spaced closer.
I own a hay fork, and a garden fork. The garden fork would be mistaken by the uninitiated as a pitch fork. It is heavier duty and shorter tined than even a manure fork.
That someone can suggest they are archaic and no longer used reveals something about the person’s location or history. No offense Ender. I’m just saying we’ve got different life experiences.
My neighbors would all think I’m poorly equipped. But I do IT, I’m not a farmer. Two forks are sufficient for my needs. Most days.
As someone who lives on a farm, and grew up on one, I’ve owned and used hay, gardening, and manure forks. I honestly had a hard time not laughing, as I sadly realized…some people might not know there even was such a difference.
Glider’s comment brings me to my second question: when we talk about touches on here, what sort of torch would it be?
Surely most are thinking of a 4′ stick with a rag soaked in pitch and lit on fire, and not an ‘electric’ torch, lol.
As I missed it earlier, in response to stacts, I don’t think you could cover shipping costs. Central doesn’t seem to like private portals, and nor does kors world. For that matter, my town doesn’t exactly have a landing platform for that sort of thing, if you know what I mean.
-meoi lass
Yeah, I don’t live or work on a farm, I just see them as I drive by. I talk with other people who do work on farms sometimes but most of them are either not animal farms or have a lot of the feeding and such industrialized (and they don’t talk about the manure part of it) so I honestly had no idea that a fork was used for that, I just assumed they used a shovel.
@past thanks for the update. Sometimes stressing about a thing makes it harder to accomplish the thing. Especially because it leaves you less prepared to counteract the next thing that blocks the thing you are trying to complete.
If you’re not introducing both of the characters, one sided fights can be just two panels, a before and after, because they’re over that fast.
I mean, the only reasons to draw it out is to either show that the victor gave the other side a lot of opportunity to surrender (SuperCell 0401-0406), or that the victor drew out the loser’s humiliation (SuperCell 0003-0006). Ok, the latter reason could be claimed it’s to show everything the victor can do, but that’s really not necessary. If Wolverine’s in a fight, he doesn’t *have* to let the other guy cut him up badly just to show he can heal *every time*. Sure, Marvel more or less does that, but it’s gratuitous.
Woohoo! Tyler is on the MOVE!
True. But why do I get the feeling that Ila is the one doing the gifting?
Also: two?!?
The first one makes sense: ice cream catch-up with Vium is surely a go. But who is the other one for?
We now have three incarnated Miums, and we therefore need more than one scarf to disambiguate them.
I think Ila’s gift is for *me*, so I can tell Mium-F5 apart fro Mium-VI, even after Mium-VI develops to the point where dialog doesn’t make it instantly clear. Also for the rest of us.
If it turns out I’m right, I’d want to give her some tasty food as a return gift, but I’m not sure how to send food to Malsa.
“but I’m not sure how to send food to Malsa.”
I think you’re already a Patreon subscriber. The logical thing to do is to send the money to Past, who clearly is occasionally posting from Malsa, given his notion of “time”.
Past can buy her something tasty the next time he is there.
I thought it was understood Scarfs had to be gifted, not simply bought?
Or perhaps it is enough to get another to choose for you?
Perhaps part of the issue is that Ila also does not yet know all the rules?
I look forward to watching her learn all the rules of Scarf Bequethment.
Similar thoughts here. This may be the point where a spin-off comic called “ILA Learns Shopping” is created. LOL! Who will be getting the scarves? Candidates could be Naomi, Mium, Arkady, Kally or Arkady’s brother but I’ve probably forgotten someone more deserving of the honor.
Of course, I could be misreading the situation. Ila may be buying scarfs to give, not to keep….
Now that you’ve pointed that out, it makes perfect sense.