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Post by TBeholder on May 14, 2012 21:13:40 GMT
If I interpriet this comic correctly then it means that Annie prefers hair that goes down to hair that goes up. Ah, that's what it was about. "Mystery solved"! I'm not seeing any rounded corners on any of the panels, so I'm voting illusion at the very most, not dream or flashback. Dreams and other not-quite-real visions that aren't flashbacks didn't have flashback corners either. Zimmingham, for one. If it's Kat's own subconscious, why does the entire forest exchange and the hospital room pigeon-hat appear to be beyond her perception? I won't demand from any concept incorporating "subconscious" to actually make sense, given that the whole idea boils down to "you see it, but you don't see it". I notice that Annie doesn't have the wristlet anymore in that second-to-last panel. More symbolism? ... after Jones embraced her. This one seems to be pretty straightforward. Kat's only thought is that Zimmy must be reading the name out of Annie's thoughts. Well, she knows that Zimmy interacts with Annie somehow...
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Post by atteSmythe on May 14, 2012 21:18:35 GMT
I think the binding isn't gone, we've just lost the ether-view of it. Annie has it covered under a wrap on this page - the wrap wasn't present earlier.
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Post by GK Sierra on May 14, 2012 22:09:31 GMT
I have no odds ud thisted gas beskæftigelse mentioned het, bit km Annie's vakt seende to ve a hold drak longer in thisted vision Ryan in reality. (Not Them Annie lyinh in rye hospital, showet vakt se Han't der tyr length og, bug rye Annie from chapter 30/31) I think somebody vandalized your words. No, its just Danish.
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Post by GK Sierra on May 14, 2012 22:15:05 GMT
Today's comic seriously derails my Jones/Boxbot otp though. Really, Antimony, naked Jones? What next? Muscle Reynardine? She's Jonesing for it.
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Post by warrl on May 14, 2012 22:19:04 GMT
I have no odds ud thisted gas beskæftigelse mentioned het, bit km Annie's vakt seende to ve a hold drak longer in thisted vision Ryan in reality. (Not Them Annie lyinh in rye hospital, showet vakt se Han't der tyr length og, bug rye Annie from chapter 30/31) I think somebody vandalized your words. Either that or it's in Danish. Danish is pretty closely related to English*, but with much less French influence. In fact a few years ago I taught my daughter to decipher some Old Danish birth/death/marriage records by just pretending they were in badly-spelled English and reading them out loud. * The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes that took over southern Britain from the Romanized Celts, and caused that part of Britain to be named Angle-Land and then England, came from an area that is now the southern part of Denmark and the adjacent northern part of Germany. Later the Saxons who didn't go to Britain migrated elsewhere in Germany, but Jutland remains in the name of two administrative regions of Denmark. (Historically it also includes a third region of Denmark plus one adjacent state in Germany.)
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Post by legion on May 14, 2012 22:23:28 GMT
English is more closely related to Dutch and German than to Dannish, but has been influenced by Old Norse (of which Dannish descends), so there are acquired similarities.
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Post by Necropaxx on May 14, 2012 23:22:39 GMT
"Giggling like a dope" pretty much described me as well when I read this page.
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Post by nero on May 14, 2012 23:26:26 GMT
All of it is symbolism. All of it.
Annie was told a bit of an explanation about Jones. She's in the bushes slightly bare because even with the explanation Annie doesn't completely understand what Jones is.
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Post by goldenknots on May 15, 2012 0:40:49 GMT
I think the binding isn't gone, we've just lost the ether-view of it. Annie has it covered under a wrap on this page - the wrap wasn't present earlier. The wrap (and binding) appears and disappears at seeming random. I note, also, that Kamlen is wearing a similar wrap in the first panel.
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Post by paxjax123 on May 15, 2012 1:57:18 GMT
I think somebody vandalized your words. Either that or it's in Danish. Danish is pretty closely related to English*, but with much less French influence. In fact a few years ago I taught my daughter to decipher some Old Danish birth/death/marriage records by just pretending they were in badly-spelled English and reading them out loud. * The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes that took over southern Britain from the Romanized Celts, and caused that part of Britain to be named Angle-Land and then England, came from an area that is now the southern part of Denmark and the adjacent northern part of Germany. Later the Saxons who didn't go to Britain migrated elsewhere in Germany, but Jutland remains in the name of two administrative regions of Denmark. (Historically it also includes a third region of Denmark plus one adjacent state in Germany.) Oh. Well now I feel like an ass.
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Post by joephlommin on May 15, 2012 2:27:15 GMT
Ignoring all your theory's here is what I have gathered, This is all real. Zimmy can read minds. (Duh) And she is seeing Annie's memory in a cryptic sort of way trying to figure out why she has fallen ill. I thought I had more to write apparently I didn't. Oh well. Beep boop bop.
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Post by arf on May 15, 2012 3:30:49 GMT
'...giggling like a dope' reminds me of Aerial, and a rather crazed and mirthful Kate Bush singing 'All of the birds are laughing'
From what we've seen so far, Treatise #5 is going to be a doozy!
Still going with Kat's dream interpretation. Zimmy's getting sub-vocal cues from Kat's bird. The rest is Kat's subconscious interpretation of events that have impacted on her relationship with Annie.
That re-working of Coyote's binding suggests a binding between Kat and Kamlen. No real idea what to make of nekkid Jones and the mask (other than mask=medium duties, that cut the Kamlen bond)
Kat must be *loving* this! I suspect that, if she ever 'spikes, it'll be just like Annie; but with *LASERS*!
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Post by Rafael on May 15, 2012 5:17:18 GMT
This is the best chapter ever. Yes. Kat has a pigeon on her head. Everything's confusing... usually I just let it ake me wherever it's going, but this time I have the beginning of a hypothesis. I'm betting the mask will be broken/discarded by Annie at some point.
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Post by fridolina on May 15, 2012 6:19:42 GMT
I'm starting to wonder if Zimmy always sees the pigeon when looking at Kat. (And therefore always could read her mind... )
And then you start wondering if she sees other animals or things around other people that tell Zimmy their thoughts...
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Post by Morpheus on May 15, 2012 6:23:07 GMT
I think somebody vandalized your words. No, its just Danish. Almost true. I think this is what comes from me trying to write in English, while having my phone set to Danish autocorrect. LAUGHING ON LINE. Anyway, what I was trying to say was something along the lines of "Annie's hair is longer here than it was both before and after the forest incident. Way longer. We don't know how long it is now, though." Hooray for autocorrect! Edit: And you shouldn't feel like an ass, paxjax, my writing was indeed very badly mutilated by my phone. This resembles proper Danish as much as it resembles Welsh. Or swahili.
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Post by Morpheus on May 15, 2012 6:32:19 GMT
I think somebody vandalized your words. Either that or it's in Danish. Danish is pretty closely related to English*, but with much less French influence. In fact a few years ago I taught my daughter to decipher some Old Danish birth/death/marriage records by just pretending they were in badly-spelled English and reading them out loud. * The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes that took over southern Britain from the Romanized Celts, and caused that part of Britain to be named Angle-Land and then England, came from an area that is now the southern part of Denmark and the adjacent northern part of Germany. Later the Saxons who didn't go to Britain migrated elsewhere in Germany, but Jutland remains in the name of two administrative regions of Denmark. (Historically it also includes a third region of Denmark plus one adjacent state in Germany.) Actual Danish would look like this: "Jeg er ikke sikker på om nogen andre har bemærket det, men Annies hår er meget længere her på billedet, end det var både før og efter episoden i skoven." Also, while Danish has a lot of words in common with English - directly or through French/Latin - I'm fairly sure it resembles German much more. Danish is also very closely related to Norwegian and Swedish, much closer than any other languages. I'm not quite an expert on linguistics though, so don't go believing anything I say on this subject just because I'm Danish.
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Post by Lightice on May 15, 2012 8:10:35 GMT
English and German are more closely related than Danish and German. English is a Germanic language, while Danish belongs to the Scandinavian language family. Those are relatively closely related too, though.
I don't know any Danish per se, though I do know a little Swedish, but that original message really doesn't even look like a Scandinavian language. If I had to guess, it looks to me a bit like a jumbled mess of English and Dutch, but don't take that as an expert opinion.
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Post by keef on May 15, 2012 8:27:20 GMT
I just had an idea: It's not an actual mask that Jones gave to Annie, but her makeup! This makes perfect sense (at least to me, haha). Surma probably taught Annie how to use (specific?) makeup to protect herself from whatever danger there might be in the woods or in the ether. And I think Tom mentioned on his formspring that Jones brought makeup to the forest when Annie was staying there. Edit: Well, maybe not in the ether, she doesn't have any makeup on when she's in the ether... Edit2: Though I have no idea why Jones had to deliver it naked Thanks, I always wondered about the makeup, this makes sense.
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Post by g1andyp on May 15, 2012 8:38:09 GMT
What on earth is going on and why is Jones nekked?
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Post by Lightice on May 15, 2012 8:48:32 GMT
What on earth is going on and why is Jones nekked? Because Annie keeps wondering what she looks like under her her clothes? Actually, though I joke, that might seriously be the reason. Apparently she was told in the Forest what Jones really is. Perhaps her nudity somehow reflects her true nature. She might come out of those bushes in the next page, and look distinctly nonhuman.
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Post by legion on May 15, 2012 13:36:17 GMT
Danish/Norwegian/Swedish/Icelandic are Germanic languages too. But they are north Germanic languages, whereas English/Dutch/German are west Germanic languages.
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Post by aaroncampbell on May 15, 2012 13:56:55 GMT
I just had an idea: It's not an actual mask that Jones gave to Annie, but her makeup! This makes perfect sense (at least to me, haha). Surma probably taught Annie how to use (specific?) makeup to protect herself from whatever danger there might be in the woods or in the ether. And I think Tom mentioned on his formspring that Jones brought makeup to the forest when Annie was staying there. Edit: Well, maybe not in the ether, she doesn't have any makeup on when she's in the ether... Edit2: Though I have no idea why Jones had to deliver it naked Great information, and AWESOME theory.
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Post by kralex on May 15, 2012 15:08:22 GMT
An elf and a naked robot? I've seen similar scenes in hentai movies. Brace for tentacle rape, Annie...
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Post by fish on May 15, 2012 16:53:24 GMT
I think Tom also confirmed that Kat's head-pigeon is City Face: his formspring
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Post by TBeholder on May 15, 2012 17:54:08 GMT
I just had an idea: It's not an actual mask that Jones gave to Annie, Well, obviously... but her makeup! This makes perfect sense (at least to me, haha). Surma probably taught Annie how to use (specific?) makeup to protect herself from whatever danger there might be in the woods or in the ether. And I think Tom mentioned on his formspring that Jones brought makeup to the forest when Annie was staying there. Ha, good one. This could explain what puzzled me here: it resembles the mask in which her fiery ancestor was painted. And as to the reason why they do it... hm, maybe, the makeup doesn't protect them from anything outside, but inhibites their own traits? Especially those that can be bad for life expectancy. Their own and/or that of anyone around. '...giggling like a dope' reminds me of Aerial, and a rather crazed and mirthful Kate Bush singing 'All of the birds are laughing' From what we've seen so far, Treatise #5 is going to be a doozy! Heh. That, too.
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Post by kazuki on May 15, 2012 20:11:20 GMT
..I think its odd that Jones is naked there. Its just....odd.
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Post by Morpheus on May 15, 2012 20:21:15 GMT
English and German are more closely related than Danish and German. English is a Germanic language, while Danish belongs to the Scandinavian language family. Those are relatively closely related too, though. I don't know any Danish per se, though I do know a little Swedish, but that original message really doesn't even look like a Scandinavian language. If I had to guess, it looks to me a bit like a jumbled mess of English and Dutch, but don't take that as an expert opinion. The original message was fucked up by my phone. Its just a bunch of random word because of autocorrect being set to Danish while trying to write in English.
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Post by wombat on May 16, 2012 4:50:00 GMT
Oh, that Randy and his simulations.
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Post by descoladavirus on May 16, 2012 5:33:24 GMT
It's ok Zimmy, I'm giggling with you.
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Post by warrl on May 16, 2012 8:04:45 GMT
Annie was told a bit of an explanation about Jones. Annie specifically says that Ysengrim tried to explain what Jones is. Which means she either doesn't believe he knows the truth, or doesn't think he did a very good job of explaining it.
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