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Post by Mezzaphor on Nov 2, 2007 5:16:45 GMT
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Post by popo on Nov 2, 2007 6:01:16 GMT
I bet Winsbury was a fish. All swimmin around, pushing around the smaller fish.
And I guess this would explain how she's already formed her opinions on the school.
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Post by Ferin on Nov 2, 2007 7:31:52 GMT
I was wondering why she said that she had to listen to "some crumbum" who "don't know diddly", when school hadn't started yet.
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Post by Yin on Nov 2, 2007 7:49:32 GMT
Poor, poor things. i wonder what they'll do next time the school year ends.
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Post by Boksha on Nov 2, 2007 9:23:12 GMT
Poor, poor things. i wonder what they'll do next time the school year ends. Follow classes?
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Post by todd on Nov 2, 2007 10:41:52 GMT
This page certainly answers a lot of questions. Why Red and Blue were wearing school uniforms when Annie, Kat, and their classmates weren't. How Red knew so much about classes already. What part of the school the girls who used to be fairies go to. (I wonder whether she was joking about one of the boys once being a fish.)
I'd be tempted to speculate that part of the reason for Red's grumpiness is the lack of summer holidays, except that since she wasn't aware of them, she couldn't have missed them.
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Post by popo on Nov 2, 2007 13:01:12 GMT
Does this mean that there are no male fairies, or that they just wind up someplace different?
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Post by aijuan on Nov 2, 2007 20:12:47 GMT
Well, she said there's only female phayrighies, but as far as we know she could be lying or WRONG. Utterly WRONG.
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Post by yin on Nov 2, 2007 20:23:36 GMT
Who's to say that Red and Blue were BORN fairies? Maybe it was the result of yet another "test." Which could mean, then, that there are male counterparts to... whatever they are... but they simply didn't end up as fairies upon completion of that test.
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Post by popo on Nov 2, 2007 20:44:01 GMT
She didn't explicitly say that there were no male fairies. just that none ended up in the Court.
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Post by La Goon on Nov 2, 2007 21:40:48 GMT
Maybe the male fairies go to Gillitie Wood when they finish their test.
If there are any male fairies, that is...
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Post by dragonmage06 on Nov 2, 2007 22:01:03 GMT
Hmmm maybe the fairies are on some sort of accelerated track or something so they go to school over the summer, too.
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Post by venndiagram on Nov 2, 2007 22:13:35 GMT
If there were classes over the summer, presumably they were only for fairies. So perhaps they were bringing them up to date on the schooling before year 8 which the fairies would never have taken. That might explain the maglev train knowledge - Red had a class that mentioned maglev technology, and as an aside the teacher probably said something like, "You know, all the trains in the Court are maglevs". On the other hand, she never had a class to make up for the vocabulary and life skills people learn outside of class, so she doesn't know what a chair is and she doesn't have any self-restraint. That makes me wonder why Blue seems so composed by comparison. Of course, we don't know much about Blue, and it's possible she has just as little grasp of the details of human living as Red does, but isn't as short-fused as Red so it doesn't show as much. But if she is calmer/less confused, maybe it's because she has had some prior experience as a human. Someone mentioned somewhere that the fairies may not have begun life as fairies, and I bet Blue didn't, but Red did.
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Post by todd on Nov 3, 2007 0:43:42 GMT
So far, we've only seen female fairies. However, the fairies depicted in "Gunnerkrigg Court" are clearly based on the "small fairies with wings" archetype (as found in such cases as Tinker Bell, the infamous Cottingley Fairies, etc.), which are generally portrayed as exclusively female, so that may not be so surprising. (Also, the description of them in the bonus page on Chapter Eight suggests that they originate via spontaneous generation rather than by conventional biological reproduction, which would mean that there would be no need for males to help perpetuate the species.)
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Post by brassydel on Nov 3, 2007 3:29:44 GMT
(Also, the description of them in the bonus page on Chapter Eight suggests that they originate via spontaneous generation rather than by conventional biological reproduction, which would mean that there would be no need for males to help perpetuate the species.) That's how I read it the first time, but it seemed odd, so it occurred to me that all it actually says is where they are born. It doesn't tell you how it was they came to be born there - either from spontaneous generation or something else... I certainly can't think of alternate suggestion though, so if anyone has one feel free to share.
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Post by starburst98 on Nov 3, 2007 5:41:10 GMT
wait...are you suggesting hot hot fairy action happening in someones discarded shoe?
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Post by brassydel on Nov 3, 2007 15:02:34 GMT
wait...are you suggesting hot hot fairy action happening in someones discarded shoe? Well... I dunno. Besides, maybe there's a gestational period for faeries! So they have hot hot faerie action somewhere, shoe or otherwise, and then momma faeries go find small little places like shoes and crisps packets to give birth to babeh faeries? The spontaneous generation of faeries does make a little more sense though considering where they are "born".
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Post by popo on Nov 3, 2007 16:19:05 GMT
I hope that you guys realize that you are speculating on 3 inch high eleven year olds having sex in garbage.
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Post by Boksha on Nov 3, 2007 17:03:11 GMT
Fairy age may have nothing to do human age. Nobody thinks 2 months old mice reproducing is odd. The fairy explanation page even mentioned the fairies are considered to be adults once they make their own clothes. Then again, the spontaneous generation thing makes as much sense to me. Reminds me of the Mechanical Fairies from Zettai Shounen.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Nov 3, 2007 21:51:50 GMT
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Post by todd on Nov 3, 2007 22:16:52 GMT
I wonder if part of the reason why the former fairies were having classes through the summer holidays was to teach them proper English (if the fairies in Gillitie Wood all speak in the "dis/dat" style that Red and Blue did).
Of course, if Red had to attend classes on that subject, she clearly must have ignored them (which fits how she's been behaving throughout this chapter).
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Post by Yin on Nov 4, 2007 4:19:56 GMT
Egg reproduction.
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Post by aijuan on Nov 4, 2007 7:26:20 GMT
They should at least get some classes on "sitty-downy things" et cetera.
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Post by venndiagram on Nov 5, 2007 3:02:15 GMT
Well, aijuan, like I said, the school might treat the fairies (and I guess the guys in Foley House) like humans who missed normal school. Presumably there are other methods for teaching them chairs and civility which Red missed, since I doubt those would be easy to learn in a class, or maybe they just assume that they've lived as humans before coming to the school and already know these things. Maybe this has something to do with Red and Blue being the last in their class to finish the test. Their fellow students could have been living as humans in the Court for a while before actually entering the school, and since Red and Blue got there late they missed that adjustment period. Blue might just be a calmer personality than Red, and in fact might be just as confused about chairs as Red.
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Post by gdwarf on Nov 5, 2007 3:24:25 GMT
Well, she said there's only female phayrighies, but as far as we know she could be lying or WRONG. Utterly WRONG. Down that road lies madness. Trust me, stories told by unreliable narrators are a royal pain to do anything with, as soon as you doubt one part, you've got to doubt other parts, and you end up not being sure if they've got their name right. We have enough wheels-within-wheels without bending the axls. That said, I think that red is probably about as unreliable a narrator as we're likely to find, save Coyote or Rey.
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Post by divergence on Nov 5, 2007 7:12:52 GMT
Trust me, stories told by unreliable narrators are a royal pain to do anything with. I don't believe you.
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Post by gdwarf on Nov 5, 2007 12:54:21 GMT
...Well played.
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Post by aijuan on Nov 5, 2007 13:41:43 GMT
Neither do I. House of Leaves was a great book.
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Post by hazyrainbow on Nov 6, 2007 22:38:09 GMT
Does anyone else find it odd that when they were fairies (or faeries), they looked so much older than eleven year olds? But nevertheless. This does make me wonder what the rest of the houses mean for the students in them. And good point: if all the fairies are female, then...? But I try not to think about that too much...
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Post by venndiagram on Nov 7, 2007 0:59:49 GMT
I didn't think the fairies looked much older than 11 in their previous bodies. I suspect that fairy faces always look pretty young to humans, so it's easy to misjudge.
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