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Post by Snes on Jul 19, 2010 7:01:08 GMT
[749]Small birds are most uncooperative.
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Post by edzepp on Jul 19, 2010 7:14:10 GMT
And physically unappealing.
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Post by bonestheheretic on Jul 19, 2010 7:15:00 GMT
What?! Still no replies? You guys are slowing down!
Unless, of course, I am ninja'd while writing this.
EDIT: I should have known better...
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Post by Snes on Jul 19, 2010 7:18:38 GMT
What?! Still no replies? You guys are slowing down! Unless, of course, I am ninja'd while writing this. EDIT: I should have known better... Yeah, that's life.  |
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Post by bonestheheretic on Jul 19, 2010 7:21:40 GMT
What?! Still no replies? You guys are slowing down! Unless, of course, I am ninja'd while writing this. EDIT: I should have known better... Yeah, that's life. I knew it was going to happen too, but I just couldn't stop myself... |
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Post by jon77 on Jul 19, 2010 7:21:46 GMT
Clearly, this little bird is the offspring of Kat's ex-boyfriend from a million chapters ago.
(Please note: I'm using a very speculative meaning of the word 'clearly'.)
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Post by judgedeadd on Jul 19, 2010 7:25:30 GMT
This bird was sent down to Kat as a test of whether she'd be able to take care of a baby bird, and when she passes with flying colours, she shall be taken to the forest to become BRIDE OF ALISTAIR! Just like when Aly himself had to build a house of sticks! Clearly it is so!
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Post by hal9000 on Jul 19, 2010 7:35:37 GMT
This bird was sent down to Kat as a test of whether she'd be able to take care of a baby bird, and when she passes with flying colours, she shall be taken to the forest to become BRIDE OF ALISTAIR! Just like when Aly himself had to build a house of sticks! Clearly it is so! That would be terrible. |
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Post by eightyfour on Jul 19, 2010 7:36:49 GMT
Nothing like a little ugly duckling to mellow down a grouchy Kat!  |
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Post by legion on Jul 19, 2010 8:27:22 GMT
Cue hearthwarming feeding-the-bird montage with piano and violin music, and then it dies and Kat has to deal with it and wins an Academy Award for her interpretation.
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jul 19, 2010 8:36:08 GMT
Cue hearthwarming feeding-the-bird montage with piano and violin music, and then it dies and Kat has to deal with it and wins an Academy Award for her interpretation. Sad, but true. 9 out of 10 "kid tries to rescue baby bird/ baby squirrel/ baby animal" scenarios end with the critter dying. Partly because caring for a dying animal helps character growth and partly because this happens a LOT in real life. Saving the bird would be an interesting problem, storyboard-wise. That bird, IF it recovers, isn't going to recover overnight, so either the main story gets put on hold for at least a month (of "in-story" time, not reader time), or stay-at-home-bird-mama Kat stays out of whatever adventures Annie might have in the interval. |
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Post by todd on Jul 19, 2010 10:41:35 GMT
Sad, but true. 9 out of 10 "kid tries to rescue baby bird/ baby squirrel/ baby animal" scenarios end with the critter dying. Partly because caring for a dying animal helps character growth and partly because this happens a LOT in real life. The title page of this chapter doesn't bode well for the baby bird, either. The chapter could take a montage approach over several days (a bit like Chapter Thirteen). And this could be taking place during whatever punishment Jones levied upon Annie (which could explain why Kat's by herself in the workshop). |
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Post by Madeleine on Jul 19, 2010 15:25:52 GMT
At first I thought the baby bird looked like a Tic-Toc, but after looking back at images of the Tic-Tocs I realized there is little resemblance.
One has to wonder where the bird came from, however. There was no nest in the area, and the only other birds around looked nothing like the baby and stared at it as if it were something strange. Is it from the court or the forest? How did it get to the court?
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Post by basser on Jul 19, 2010 16:37:00 GMT
Kat should have left it there. The parent birds would have fed it on the ground until it got more feathers and could fly back up.  Way to kill a baby, Kat. |
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Post by Ulysses on Jul 19, 2010 17:04:10 GMT
One has to wonder where the bird came from, however. There was no nest in the area, and the only other birds around looked nothing like the baby and stared at it as if it were something strange. Is it from the court or the forest? How did it get to the court? The nest was probably further back on the ledge, out of sight. See the previous 'page' thread for proof that pigeon chicks look nothing like adult pigeons, but quite a lot like the chick Tom has drawn. And pigeons look at everything as if it's strange. Confusion is their natural state of being. |
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Post by amanmademonster on Jul 19, 2010 17:32:28 GMT
At least it's not as ugly as a baby parrot.
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jul 19, 2010 18:45:45 GMT
The chapter could take a montage approach over several days (a bit like Chapter Thirteen). And this could be taking place during whatever punishment Jones levied upon Annie (which could explain why Kat's by herself in the workshop). I was actually thinking montage. Feed the bird.... fix the robot.... (next day) feed the bird... fiddle w/ the robot... Doesn't really change the basic problem, which is that a baby bird would essentially be the most important thing which happens for the length of the montage. (You could still do the montage if the bird dies, of course, but it wouldn't eat up as much time.) I do like the idea that Annie's getting punished/ trained by Jones during all of this. Maybe we can get a "Meanwhile..." somewhere in there. If this were a self-aware, fourth-wall breaking Web comic, Annie would be reading scripts — "nope, not in this one either" ;D |
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Post by amanmademonster on Jul 19, 2010 21:11:12 GMT
I was actually thinking montage. Feed the bird.... fix the robot.... (next day) feed the bird... fiddle w/ the robot... fixed. |
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Post by Ruushi on Jul 19, 2010 21:18:24 GMT
Something like this happened to me today.
I heard a kitten crying it was on my trampoline.
When I got over there it just ran up to me.
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Post by whosit on Jul 19, 2010 21:24:25 GMT
Then she ate it. Omnomnom.
Seriously, though; how is the kitten?
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Post by Ruushi on Jul 19, 2010 21:31:05 GMT
There was a massive heatwave on my vacation
When I got back only one or two kittens survived
Now this one's been found
One of the mother cats has got to be happy because of the excess milk that they need to get rid of
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Post by todd on Jul 19, 2010 22:13:22 GMT
Come to think of it, except for Chapter Thirteen (which covered five days), I think almost all the chapters generally covered a relatively short period of time - usually no more than a couple of days and sometimes only a few hours. (Flashbacks - such as the ones in Chapter Eighteen - don't count, especially since Kat finding the baby pigeon took place in present-day time.)
While I agree with most of the other posters that what Kat found is a baby pigeon, I do wonder why the parents aren't doing anything for it.
To Ruushi: I'm sorry to hear about so many of those kittens dying from the heat - but at least a couple of them survived.
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Post by judgedeadd on Jul 19, 2010 22:23:37 GMT
Prediction: Paz and her talent will somehow get involved.
She can talk to animals after all. (I'm not sure what's so extraordinary about that. When you think about it, everyone can talk to animals.
Understanding them is a different matter.)
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Post by Ruushi on Jul 19, 2010 22:39:08 GMT
I can understand a few words in cat meows.
Stuff like yes,no,in,out,food and ham
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Post by Ruushi on Jul 19, 2010 22:45:59 GMT
Baby Pigeons  |
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Post by rebecca on Jul 19, 2010 23:50:59 GMT
One has to wonder where the bird came from, however. There was no nest in the area, and the only other birds around looked nothing like the baby and stared at it as if it were something strange. Is it from the court or the forest? How did it get to the court? The nest was probably further back on the ledge, out of sight. See the previous 'page' thread for proof that pigeon chicks look nothing like adult pigeons, but quite a lot like the chick Tom has drawn. And pigeons look at everything as if it's strange. Confusion is their natural state of being. The nest is in the picture. Pigeon nests are extremely flimsy looking - they're basically a thin, barely balanced platform of sticks that look like they would fall apart in a slight breeze. The little twigs the parent birds are sitting on would be a typical pigeon nest. |
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Post by tyler on Jul 20, 2010 0:29:00 GMT
Pigeons also like to roost in attics. Also, pigeon cooing sounds really disturbing if you don't know what it is.
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Post by the bandit on Jul 20, 2010 20:24:46 GMT
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Post by tyler on Jul 20, 2010 22:43:28 GMT
Teenage pigeons standing on street corners smoking cigarettes and giving people the evil eye.
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