[1375] ssh, no words; only cute shy fairies

[Intelligence]

Those are ugly wings.

[GK Sierra]

Jul 4, 2014 19:29:03 GMT TBeholder said:

Jul 4, 2014 7:11:30 GMT GK Sierra said:

*panel 2 background dialogue*

"Damn Smitty, Parley's already hammered"

"Yeah, we've got to catch up- here, down the rest of this. I'm gonna go find more."

- What a smell. Is this stuff flammable?
- Haha, let me check.

I bet it is. Achewater is no ordinary moonshine-

"A banned halucinogenic beverage made from oil extracted from achewood or wormwood and originates in the southern areas of the United States. Drinking achewater causes euphoria, but is often followed by persistent, long lasting depression or melancholy. Achewood oil is considered a powerful depressant and is capable of causing permanent brain damage." -Urban Dictionary

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Achewater has a long-standing literary tradition, in fact. Here, I dug up the first draft of Hemingway's fragmentary Modernist epic, The Face Smash:

Achewater is the cruellest drink, mixing
Dull wood with spring rain, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead brain and shit ---
...
...
(hurry up it's time and shit)
...
...
...
(good grief)

Edit: To make this post actually contain valuable insight, at this point I'm pretty sure that achewater was invented by Chris Onstad and he's just toying with our expectations of what sounds "natural" (see also: half of the slang used in Achewood).

[smurfton]

Jul 4, 2014 8:42:20 GMT keef said:

That's what butterfly wings actually look like at the end of there life. This family probably, although there is no pink one in Britain afaik

So... Green took them from a butterfly that died of old age, then. Neat detail there.
Looking it up, there are pink butterflies in gb, but I can't seem to find any with tails like that. The green hairstreak would be almost perfect if the colors were swapped.
Actually, no it wouldn't. That's orange, not pink on the edge.

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Chioides albofasciatus has similar ribbon-like tails attached to its hindwings. However, no family of butterflies has so few veins on its wings, and butterfly wings lose their colours very quickly when the animal dies. This is probably some other material cut into the shape of a butterfly's wings.

Edit: On a different note, one of the veins seems to have vanished in the last panel. Or is that just me?

[Daedalus]

Jul 4, 2014 21:22:10 GMT GK Sierra said:

Jul 4, 2014 19:29:03 GMT TBeholder said:

- What a smell. Is this stuff flammable?
- Haha, let me check.

I bet it is. Achewater is no ordinary moonshine-

"A banned halucinogenic beverage made from oil extracted from achewood or wormwood and originates in the southern areas of the United States. Drinking achewater causes euphoria, but is often followed by persistent, long lasting depression or melancholy. Achewood oil is considered a powerful depressant and is capable of causing permanent brain damage." -Urban Dictionary

Presumably the Forest, with its magic botany abilities, has made a stronger version, with or without the crash at the end.

[ctso74]

Due to a little too much Achewater, and Annie cheating her way through Interpretive Dance(she copied Kat's Robot), a terrible misunderstanding ensues.  It's the beginning of a strange and wild night. Parley, Andrew and Annie end up with really cool Jackalope tattoos.

Jul 4, 2014 21:22:10 GMT GK Sierra said:

...extracted from achewood or wormwood...

Weird! Wormwood-derived Absinthe is called by some as the Green Fairy.  Drinking it has poetically been called "Dancing with the Green Fairy".  It seems oddly relevant to today's comic, especially when compared to "Avenging with the Anise Hulk."

[warrl]

My interpretation of the next-to-last panel is that the green fairy has trouble flying while wearing its wings.

And on that basis I propose we name it Mildred Hubble.

[arf]

Jul 5, 2014 3:32:45 GMT warrl said:

My interpretation of the next-to-last panel is that the green fairy has trouble flying while wearing its wings.

And on that basis I propose we name it Mildred Hubble.

...or just 'Abbie'.

Of course, one does not just 'name' fairies.

To change the topic, where's Jones gone? Off playing poker with Ys, Coyote and the Anwyn matriarch?

[eyemyself]

Jul 5, 2014 7:13:35 GMT arf said:

Jul 5, 2014 3:32:45 GMT warrl said:

My interpretation of the next-to-last panel is that the green fairy has trouble flying while wearing its wings.

And on that basis I propose we name it Mildred Hubble.

...or just 'Abbie'.

Of course, one does not just 'name' fairies.

To change the topic, where's Jones gone? Off playing poker with Ys, Coyote and the Anwyn matriarch?

Absolutely! She and Khepi go way back of course and Jones is the only being Coyote knows with a better poker face than Muut. Ys finds cards strangely soothing.

I like the idea that Greenie's wings have her a little off balance due to their size. We know from Smitty's last trip to the forest that some fairies make their own wings so the idea of having different sets for different occasions seems reasonable and this pair sure is fancy! (Love the colors.) I'm kind of imagining the giant wings on green being the fairy equivalent of my six inch heels: they only come out of the closet for very special occasions and I always wobble a bit when I first put them on because I never wear them often enough to be used to walking in them.

[SilverbackRon]

Jul 4, 2014 19:06:23 GMT Covalent said:

I didn't know fairies had butterfly wings. I imagined them to have somewhat more boring, dull wings..

They can have pretty much any kind of wings they want, since they make them.  I suppose some could have more boring wings because they don't really need them, they are just decoration.

[fwip]

Jul 5, 2014 7:13:35 GMT arf said:

Jul 5, 2014 3:32:45 GMT warrl said:

My interpretation of the next-to-last panel is that the green fairy has trouble flying while wearing its wings.

And on that basis I propose we name it Mildred Hubble.

...or just 'Abbie'.

Of course, one does not just 'name' fairies.

To change the topic, where's Jones gone? Off playing poker with Ys, Coyote and the Anwyn matriarch?

I don't think that Khepi can be the only Anwyn mother, or even the only one in that village.

[Rasselas]

I think the matriarch is the head of the family, in this instance. Other women of the Anwyn might be mothers, but not the matriarch, that's Khepi. I'd say she's not just the mother of everyone (although that also might be!) but the central elder figure that people respect and who dictates how things are done.

[SilverbackRon]

That has puzzled me too.  Annie in the Forest Part one, page 6 shows her saying that She and her Bo are the head of them, and the rest of the Anwyn are her "babs".

Of course, we can't know exactly how Anwyn biology works, but it does sound like Kelpie is literally the mother of them all.

[The Anarch]

"Khepi was basically the head of the whole family. She had many sons and daughters."

[Gotolei]

Something probably worth noting is that a few of them have some sort of tag with shapes on it. Perhaps the tags are some manner of family crest?
And they're all women..?

I'm guessing there are a number of literal families (with "family" and similar terms being used metaphorically to mean the whole tribe) and Khepi+husband are the most influential / the chosen leaders of them.
..or she's just the loud one that don't take sh- from nobody.

[Deleted]

"The Anwyn" is the name of the clan, not of all the green elves. This page pretty much supports that claim, because Khepi calls her children "the rest of the Anwyn", but there are obviously more people (with different crests) living in the village.

In addition, Irial calls her boyfriend "Kamlen Anwyn" during the party.

[keef]

Jul 6, 2014 10:25:52 GMT @korba said:

"The Anwyn" is the name of the clan, not of all the green elves.

You're right, I - and I think most of us - called the whole tribe by the name of one family because we don't know their real name, something that happens a lot with "primitive" people. They probably call themselves "The Tribe" or "The people". Annie only tells Kat they don't call themselves tree elves.

[Vael]

Jul 6, 2014 6:49:18 GMT Gotolei said:

Something probably worth noting is that a few of them have some sort of tag with shapes on it. Perhaps the tags are some manner of family crest?
And they're all women..?

I'm guessing there are a number of literal families (with "family" and similar terms being used metaphorically to mean the whole tribe) and Khepi+husband are the most influential / the chosen leaders of them.
..or she's just the loud one that don't take sh- from nobody.

I'm very inclined to agree with you that these are (biological) family crests, especially when taken with this context:



Annie was staying with the Anwyn family specifically, so it's natural to assume she would be borrowing their clothing which would bear the same insignia. 

Then consider the insignia worn by Irial and the unnamed forest-lady that you can see in my avatar are each distinct, and it may well be that whichever woman is in a leadership role of a particular family bears said family's crest on said tag/badge.


EDIT: Back during From the Forest She Came Reynard even recognized the family Annie stayed with purely by looking at the symbol on her clothing.

[SilverbackRon]

Jul 6, 2014 10:25:52 GMT @korba said:

"The Anwyn" is the name of the clan, not of all the green elves. This page pretty much supports that claim, because Khepi calls her children "the rest of the Anwyn", but there are obviously more people (with different crests) living in the village.

In addition, Irial calls her boyfriend "Kamlen Anwyn" during the party.

Yes, this makes the most sense.  "I went on vacation and stayed with the Johnsons".  That is just the family name, not the name of the entire race, nor does it imply that the entire race is descendants of the Johnson family.

Substitute the name Anwyn and realize there are probably some cultural naming differences...

[warrl]

For comparison with the Annwyn, consider the names of Native American tribes. Most of the tribe names came from Native Americans - but not necessarily the ones that now bear the name.

As a result, the most common literal translation of these names into English is "people" (carrying an implication that members of other tribes aren't really people). But other names translate as "enemy", various sorts of vermin, scatological references, and other such uncomplimentary things.

[arf]

Jul 6, 2014 17:12:04 GMT Vael said:

Jul 6, 2014 6:49:18 GMT Gotolei said:

Something probably worth noting is that a few of them have some sort of tag with shapes on it. Perhaps the tags are some manner of family crest?
And they're all women..?

I'm guessing there are a number of literal families (with "family" and similar terms being used metaphorically to mean the whole tribe) and Khepi+husband are the most influential / the chosen leaders of them.
..or she's just the loud one that don't take sh- from nobody.

I'm very inclined to agree with you that these are (biological) family crests, especially when taken with this context:



Annie was staying with the Anwyn family specifically, so it's natural to assume she would be borrowing their clothing which would bear the same insignia. 

Then consider the insignia worn by Irial and the unnamed forest-lady that you can see in my avatar are each distinct, and it may well be that whichever woman is in a leadership role of a particular family bears said family's crest on said tag/badge.


EDIT: Back during From the Forest She Came Reynard even recognized the family Annie stayed with purely by looking at the symbol on her clothing.

Looking at the LH image reminds me *why* the 'handsome Anwyn prince' asked for her hand!
(his intentions were pure, even if the circumstances weren't)

[warrl]

Jul 7, 2014 1:04:17 GMT arf said:

Looking at the LH image reminds me *why* the 'handsome Anwyn prince' asked for her hand!

Because he only has one?

Or because her hair goes up? (and down, and sideways, and keeps on going)

[sapientcoffee]

Jul 7, 2014 1:43:22 GMT warrl said:

Jul 7, 2014 1:04:17 GMT arf said:

Looking at the LH image reminds me *why* the 'handsome Anwyn prince' asked for her hand!

Because he only has one?

Or because her hair goes up? (and down, and sideways, and keeps on going)

I didn't get it until just now, but I think it's this scene from Annie in the Forest Pt 1:
www.gunnerkrigg.com/extracomics/comic.php?c=Annie%20in%20the%20Forest%20Part%201&p=13

[keef]

Should have thought of this earlier.

Tom calls the Anwyn a family, and this:


"if an Anwyn were to become human, would he or she be male, female, or something else?

It is handled on a case by case basis, for creatures who are not becoming students in the Court. not everything that changes has to go to the forest or the school."
So that would also apply to Jackalopes?

[Rasselas]

I guess no, because we already know what happens with animals. Although it does mean that everything isn't so clear-cut, so maybe Smitty and Annie have leeway in how they wish to handle things.

[The Anarch]