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Post by Max on Feb 10, 2012 8:01:02 GMT
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Post by SpitefulFox on Feb 10, 2012 8:03:23 GMT
It's easy to see why the court doesn't like them if this is normal behavior for forest dwellers.
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Post by legion on Feb 10, 2012 8:17:40 GMT
What a completely unexpected yet perfectly sensible development.
I like how the teacher cheers along.
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Post by fillerb on Feb 10, 2012 8:20:08 GMT
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
No seriously, if Red and Blue are considered GOOD friends of each other that what are fairy bullies like?
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Post by legion on Feb 10, 2012 8:22:46 GMT
With friends like these, who needs enemies? No seriously, if Red and Blue are considered GOOD friends of each other that what are fairy bullies like? Brownies, they're brownies! Or redcaps! |
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Post by eightyfour on Feb 10, 2012 8:39:14 GMT
Seriously, how can someone that annoying be so very adorable and hilarious at the same time!
And yeah, the teacher cheering along is just par for the course. That's what I meant when I wondered why Blue bothered to wake her before "summoning" the Shoggy a few pages ago. Guess she just wanted a larger audience.
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Post by madragoran on Feb 10, 2012 8:52:07 GMT
Poor Ysengrin ... if this is what he has to put up with no wonder he is such a sourpuss.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Feb 10, 2012 9:48:32 GMT
For some reason today's comic reminds me of some uncouth fanart I did a really long time ago. I wonder what happens with etheric bumps and bruises. I think it was established in Formspring that Jeanne would've killed Antimony if Jeanne ran Antimony's etheric form through, but the cut on her cheek doesn't appear to be slowing her down. Most people don't even bother to mention it when they see it. |
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Post by rama on Feb 10, 2012 10:59:59 GMT
Red's face in the second panel explains it so well to me; yes, she is indeed trying to get a rise out of blue. All I can think of is how much this is like animal cubs teasing each other relentlessly and fighting with each other over nothing in particular. Also, I really enjoy the fact that despite Red getting her name, ranking up the ladder and supposedly being the more grown up of the two now, she's still acting very immature and blue's much more even in her temper, fits of jealousy notwithstanding. With friends like these, who needs enemies? No seriously, if Red and Blue are considered GOOD friends of each other that what are fairy bullies like? Have you ever read old fairy -or folktales where someone pisses them off? I remember a story about a household that borrowed a large kettle from the fair folk when they were making sausages or some other deal, and gave it back filled with sample goods as repayment. This went well until they got a maid that drank herself senseless and ate all the nice food. The fairies didn't like this turn of events, so they woke her up in the middle of the night and danced with her until her legs were ground down to stumps. Happy times. I have no idea what level of benevolence Tom has in mind for the fairies of GC, but they don't seem to reason like humans do, and there seems to have been a good reason for the court to be wary of the forest. |
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Post by Alexandragon on Feb 10, 2012 12:00:40 GMT
It's easy to see why the court doesn't like them if this is normal behavior for forest dwellers. Me too now))) Love this page) It's sooooo funny) |
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Post by TBeholder on Feb 10, 2012 13:37:43 GMT
As always with ex-fairies - faces. Those faces. My first articulate (it's important) reaction was the opposite: "the mystery revealed!"  Red's face in the second panel explains it so well to me; yes, she is indeed trying to get a rise out of blue. Maybe not just out of the blue, though. ;D But yeah, it looks like using any pretext to the same end. I have no idea what level of benevolence Tom has in mind for the fairies of GC, but they don't seem to reason like humans do, and there seems to have been a good reason for the court to be wary of the forest. ? Fairly nice - well, mostly. |
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Post by eruedraith on Feb 10, 2012 14:00:16 GMT
With friends like these, who needs enemies? No seriously, if Red and Blue are considered GOOD friends of each other that what are fairy bullies like? They probably do awful things to their targets, like playing ball with them and helping them do their homework. |
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Post by basser on Feb 10, 2012 15:10:19 GMT
Looks like I was premature on the Fight Club reference I made a few pages back.
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Post by crater on Feb 10, 2012 16:08:46 GMT
It's not like they are doing any real harm to each other as this is all happening in their minds or something.
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Post by Necropaxx on Feb 10, 2012 17:12:17 GMT
For some reason today's comic reminds me of some uncouth fanart I did a really long time ago. ;D |
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Post by mudmaniac on Feb 10, 2012 17:52:46 GMT
I bet no one fights with Fish Boy.
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Post by TBeholder on Feb 10, 2012 18:27:43 GMT
No seriously, if Red and Blue are considered GOOD friends of each other that what are fairy bullies like? They probably do awful things to their targets, like playing ball with them and helping them do their homework. You know the anecdote? Masochist: Punch me! Punch me!  Sadist: In your dreams! In your dreams!  It's not like they are doing any real harm to each other as this is all happening in their minds or something. And if they blew strawberries and started catfights for real?.. ;D |
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Post by Ashley Y on Feb 10, 2012 19:53:22 GMT
So... anyone else think Fairy Teacher is a total hottie?
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Post by joephlommin on Feb 10, 2012 20:58:19 GMT
Remember they aren't all faeries. Just sayin.
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Post by csj on Feb 11, 2012 0:01:23 GMT
OH DEAR.
Now all the Homestuck fans will be blackrom shipping the hell out of everything in Gunnerkrigg.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Feb 11, 2012 0:19:00 GMT
It's not like they are doing any real harm to each other as this is all happening in their minds or something. And if they blew strawberries and started catfights for real?.. ;D Begs the question, what happens to all the etheric spittle that Red is spraying around? But about potential harm... I am unsure about a line of reasoning that goes, "Because it is all in your mind then it can't have any negative effects." I think that this etheric projection thing is probably more than a metaphor or vivid imagining in this GC universe but even if it were not, wouldn't being forced to imagine yourself being vividly beaten have some negative psychological effects? So... anyone else think Fairy Teacher is a total hottie? I made the following double entendre about her with math but the forum ignored it. If I were a nerdboy in this class not only would I be paying close attention to the lecture but I'd be thinking about brushing up on cone segments after school. [edit] Get it? Because they're studying orbits? Come on, I thought that one deserved an appreciative groan or snort. [/edit] [edit2] Okay what if I said the word, "boobies?" [/edit2] |
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Post by TBeholder on Feb 11, 2012 5:47:38 GMT
Remember they aren't all faeries. Just sayin. They are ex-fairies and critters from Gillitie. But these seem to understand too.  And if they blew strawberries and started catfights for real?.. ;D Begs the question, what happens to all the etheric spittle that Red is spraying around? It's a component of a truly nasty raspbery, but i doubt it's maintained after that. That is - out of mind, out of flight, probably. I think that this etheric projection thing is probably more than a metaphor or vivid imagining in this GC universe but even if it were not, wouldn't being forced to imagine yourself being vividly beaten have some negative psychological effects? Luckily, fairies don't know what dat junk is. ;D |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Feb 11, 2012 6:42:20 GMT
It's a component of a truly nasty raspbery, but i doubt it's maintained after that. That is - out of mind, out of flight, probably. But even if that's the case there's more than one mind at work here (so to speak). When Red blows a raspberry at Blue and soaks her in saliva, the flying spittle might have come from Red's mind but then it hits Blue's etheric form. Blue knows it's there, the rest of the class knows it's there. Or as someone in LOTR put it: "I know what is in your mind, for it is in my mind as well." ;D [edit] For my little sister, who is a big pokemon fan for some reason:  "Red used BUBBLE. Its SUPER EFFECTIVE." [/edit] |
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Post by Serenissima on Feb 11, 2012 18:16:49 GMT
It's been so long since I've seen anyone use the word 'ninnyhammer', and I missed it. Thanks, Tom!
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