BingsF
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Post by BingsF on Jan 17, 2012 4:35:18 GMT
Anyone understand to what Tom is referring with "Numbnuts"? I'm usually good at figuring out his little notes, but I'm drawing a blank here. "Numbnuts" is a synonym for "dumbasses". Uhhhh I knew that. I meant who is he talking about? I wonder if the fairies will have some advice on how to get rid of Annie's scar. It always upsets me slightly to see that it's still there after all this time, i.e. time not having an affect on its healing process. Do you think she'd want to get rid of it? I'd think she'd at least keep it as a reminder, until she deals with Jeanne. ...or perhaps dealing with Jeanne will cause it to disappear? Maybe its presence somehow ties Annie etherically to Jeanne?
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Post by chmeee on Jan 17, 2012 7:07:49 GMT
"Numbnuts" is a synonym for "dumbasses". Uhhhh I knew that. I meant who is he talking about? The fairies, who are acting like they haven't taken their ritalin lately.
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Post by csj on Jan 17, 2012 9:30:48 GMT
It exploits a flaw created by switching between realms. Assuming that all else is equal and the full conservation of one's mind in the process, it could be possible to exist in perpetuity by entering the forest in old age, then returning to the Court in a new, youthful body, returning again once that body begins to die, etc. Suddenly, immortality. how do we know that you're not just age converted? As in old Badger becomes old Man. Then there wouldn't be immortality from it. We don't. However, the process for leaving the forest ('dying', then entering a 'new' body) suggests that their corporeal form is distinct and possibly of a different age (it's unclear if creatures in the forest age, apart from a certain wolf affected by a 'gift' from Coyote and that may not be age-related at all). After all, it would be awkward for an adult to be taking lessons at the court. Speculative, but it's the mechanism I'm favouring at the moment. That doesn't mean that exploiting this loophole (if it exists) is permitted and it'd probably be taboo.
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 17, 2012 12:36:47 GMT
Everything is adorable these last few pages. It's making me uneasy Waiting where it twists? I wonder if the Court believes that they're indoctrinating the faeries into the Court's scientific principles, completely unaware that the faeries are actually continuing their forest personalities in a way that the Court cannot see. I don't think they care. Or that people busy with borderline mad science are easily distracted by such trifles in general. With obvious exceptions. Hmm, I wonder what Annie will come up with when they ask her to make something. At least, by this time she's not awkward enough to repeat her science fair entry. Late-mark Spitfire, it looks like, except for the lack of cannon in the wings. I never thought I'd see one in Gunnerkrigg Court, though... If it's made by a Court student... maybe there were working guns, but were removed by the staff before the toy ended up in ex-badger's hands. ;D I wonder if the fairies will have some advice on how to get rid of Annie's scar. It always upsets me slightly to see that it's still there after all this time, i.e. time not having an affect on its healing process. Coyote noticed it as by "something very powerful". Now the cut is just a line, it was bleeding when still fresh, though Tom knows whether it's from licking, time, or more power...
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Post by Serenissima on Jan 17, 2012 18:03:20 GMT
I was actually making an even geekier point, TBeholder... that the cockpit design looks like one of the later bubble canopies, and is placed quite far back along the fuselage to accomodate the larger Griffon engine, but the wings don't contain the large 20mm cannon that the later marks also had, and the engine exhausts appear to be of the Merlin rather than Griffon type... but this is, obviously, plane-pedantry of the highest order when applied to a fictional comic by a non-specialist artist. I expect it was either done from memory or any appealing photograph of a Spitfire was found and drawn as a generalised impression. (Mark I) (Mark XIII)
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 17, 2012 18:42:13 GMT
Also, now Annie gone a bit cross-eyed. I'm curious, what are the glowing marks on some of the fairies? I wonder whether they mistake Annie's mark for one of these. After all, Red was less than precise so far... are the markings tattoo versions of blinker stones? What a strange thing to say. But maybe they replace region dots with some new classification? the cockpit design looks like one of the later bubble canopies, and is placed quite far back along the fuselage to accomodate the larger Griffon engine, but the wings don't contain the large 20mm cannon that the later marks also had, and the engine exhausts appear to be of the Merlin rather than Griffon type... but this is, obviously, plane-pedantry of the highest order when applied to a fictional comic by a non-specialist artist. I expect it was either done from memory or any appealing photograph of a Spitfire was found and drawn as a generalised impression. (Mark I) (Mark XIII) Dunno, but it got bubble canopy, exhaust does end noticeably forward of the wing - taking into account the projection looking somewhat wobbly - and consists of more than 3 pipes, and... wait... is it a gun on its left wing? All fits.
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Post by Tierra Y Libertad on Jan 18, 2012 7:03:24 GMT
TBeholder about #191 -- I think Antimony's cut was only bleeding because Zimmy had brought it into the real world, cutting her face again with a fresh wound, and then healed it again in the next few panels.
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 18, 2012 8:02:03 GMT
TBeholder about #191 -- I think Antimony's cut was only bleeding because Zimmy had brought it into the real world, cutting her face again with a fresh wound, and then healed it again in the next few panels. That falls more under "seeing things that ain't supposed to be" - Annie didn't feel anything wrong. And it still looked rather fresh during her Blinker stone lesson with Anja and when Coyote licked it.
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