Aspen's Magic Story Tags

[Aspen d'Grey]

By general consent, this is overkill. Page numebrs can be found in the archives by looking at the address (at the end, comicID=192), or by looking at the dropdown list. Thanks for translations, though.

Tags that I've found useful on other story/discussion forums (In particular, ones that most readily apply to Gunnerkrigg):

[spec] - Speculation, What's Going to Happen, or How does this work, without a lot of evidence to support it.
[fact] - Factoid, I generally assume that most things are [fact] or [ana] unless otherwise stated.
[ana] - Analysis; What's the Big Picture?, this is close to 'spec' in my mind, but more of a bringing things facts togethor to make a speculation. Often used at the end of a disseration, er, long post.
[trans], or, <Text>; Translation, please site sources or declare expertise!
[alt] - Alternative, or Alternate Universe. We used this on a forum to describe what could have happened.
[rant], [vent], [flame]; Usually reserved for yelling at the author, artist, or someone who insists on NetSpeak.
[sarcasm]; Think about it.
[###] - Reference Number, in this case the comic number

In general, I'll either put these in the topic if I feel that the whole topic will lean one way, or I put them in as needed within a topic. Feel free to use these or not, in general, you'll probably only find me using [spec] and [trans] here, and [###] in the titles for my discussion topics. These come originally from a Role Playing Forum where the moderators were pretty rigid on these and others being used.

Speaking of [trans] tags, could anyone go back and retranslate the comics in Polish and post the translation? Much appreciated!

You know, in all honesty? Better this way, as I remember -why- that board failed to be successful. My apologies, I was getting overzealous. x.x

[Uglyhead]

There's not much to translate.

The chapter title means "Goodnight, Gamma"
The exhange at page 3 is simple and runs "How are you feeling?" "Much better, thank you." or something like that.

The first time Z&G appeared in the comic, Gamma called Zimmy something like "Idiot" then Antimony said "That's not very nice", so Gamma became embarassed at being caught insulting her friend.

[xux]

They actually required those? They look really annoying. :/ I believe I shall stick to all text (except for emoticons, of course ).

[mrw]

With greatest respect: I'm afraid I find the tags unhelpful. To me labeling our comments like that is akin to taking a red square and labeling it "red". It's obvious. In pretty much every post I've seen relating to GC, the poster is using phrases like "I think that...", "In my opinion...", "Seems like...", "Perhaps..." and "Maybe...". All those clearly indicate speculation. And after all, as another GC fan noted, it's all speculation (or observations subject to misinterpretation) unless it comes from Tom.

I guess I really don't understand why the fuss about speculation, either. Aren't we intelligent enough to reasonably interpret each others comments, and mature enough to not get upset when we don't agree?

[carey]

I have to agree with xux and mrw. Do your best to demonstrate that you’re a literate, thinking being by writing intelligibly, and give everyone else the benefit of the doubt whatever they post.

And for those of us that haven’t got a clue what the comic number was, can we include a line of dialogue or something in subject lines for specific comics?

[Tom Siddell]

Yeah, come on guys, you don't need to quantify speculation or analysis or stuff like that. Just talk about the comic.

[zimmyhoo]

This is overkill, obviously, but do you think that something along these lines should be used infomally, at least for speculation/theorizing? 'Cause it's kinda annoying to drop into a post I think is some awesome speculation, only to find that it's just a question. I personally try to put a little [Theory] near my spec posts.

^{(I JUST DID THIS SO I COULD POST BELOW TOM EEEEEEEE)}