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Post by gunnerwf on Jul 17, 2015 7:03:03 GMT
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Post by arf on Jul 17, 2015 7:03:49 GMT
Psycho-Annie!
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jul 17, 2015 7:04:15 GMT
Useful little tool, that.
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Post by Fishy on Jul 17, 2015 7:04:34 GMT
Who needs Coyote's tooth when you've got parental issues and a sharp object?
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Post by chrisjenl on Jul 17, 2015 7:06:39 GMT
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Post by gunnerwf on Jul 17, 2015 7:09:00 GMT
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Post by setrain on Jul 17, 2015 7:10:49 GMT
Who needs Coyote's tooth when you've got parental issues and a sharp object? my mind went a place |
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Post by mangotango on Jul 17, 2015 7:15:26 GMT
Wait, what is she going to do with the blinker stone though? Is she going to put her elementality in the stone?
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Post by geoduck on Jul 17, 2015 7:17:19 GMT
Wait, what is she going to do with the blinker stone though? Is she going to put her elementality in the stone? Use the stone to super-charge the scissors and cut the connection between herself and her elemental half. |
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Post by madragoran on Jul 17, 2015 7:20:17 GMT
I am having bad flashbacks (can't be premonitions as this has already happened) of Annie amputating the elemental part. i.e. not cutting her hair but actually cutting the elemental itself. I kow symbolicaly they seem equivelant but symbols and actually seeing her taking scissors to the elemental aint really the same. Allow me to get a bucket and find a corner to whimper in.
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Post by csj on Jul 17, 2015 7:46:03 GMT
qu'est-ce que c'estShe certainly can't seem to face up to the facts, is tense and nervous and can't relax :3
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Post by gwydion on Jul 17, 2015 7:49:15 GMT
So instead of Antony immediately forcing control on the situation after the classroom it was annie using anger and some iffy advice by Ysengrim that lead to her emotional state and her fiery stand companion?
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Post by Trillium on Jul 17, 2015 8:00:20 GMT
So instead of Antony immediately forcing control on the situation after the classroom it was annie using anger and some iffy advice by Ysengrim that lead to her emotional state and her fiery stand companion? Could be. We'll have to wait till Monday to see what else happened. Annie has done a lot of stuff on instinct and it turned out ok. If this is all it took and she had no other help I going to be surprised. |
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Post by rafk on Jul 17, 2015 8:26:23 GMT
The fact that the loonie theory regarding separating her fire elemental side out simply by giving herself a mundane haircut might be true doesn't make it any less loonie. I'm just saying.
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Post by arf on Jul 17, 2015 8:50:46 GMT
The fact that the loonie theory regarding separating her fire elemental side out simply by giving herself a mundane haircut might be true doesn't make it any less loonie. I'm just saying. Works for me. Heheh. When this business first arose, I thought Tom's choice of chapter title ('The Tree') might have come from Blake's classic poem: A Poison Tree
By William Blake
I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I waterd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night.
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.
And into my garden stole,
When the night had veild the pole;
In the morning glad I see;
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
It didn't seem to suit what was being depicted at the time, so I (reluctantly) went along with other people's thoughts about apples not falling far from the tree. Now, I'm beginning to swing back to my original thought. This doesn't look like it will end well. |
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Post by Bontage on Jul 17, 2015 9:13:00 GMT
The fact that the loonie theory regarding separating her fire elemental side out simply by giving herself a mundane haircut might be true doesn't make it any less loonie. I'm just saying. Works for me. Heheh. Aaah, yes, the most rational member of the cast. ... ...actually, now that I think about it... |
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Post by fish on Jul 17, 2015 9:25:24 GMT
Wait, what is she going to do with the blinker stone though? Is she going to put her elementality in the stone? She's going into ether mode where she is connected to the blinker stone by her hair. And she is going to cut that fiery connection. There is of course still the question of "Why are mundane scissors enough, why doesn't she use the tooth. Well, we've seen Annie manipulate the real world through the ether. Guess we'll now see her manipulate the ether with a real world tool. |
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Post by Rasselas on Jul 17, 2015 9:42:54 GMT
Ahahaha. I was listening to Unchain my Heart when I remembered to check the update today. How oddly fitting! arf That's amazing, what a find! I would say it is very fitting. I'm as surprised as everyone else that it's not Coyote's Tooth, but just a normal pair of scissors. |
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Post by calpal on Jul 17, 2015 10:13:46 GMT
"Cut it out" - Ungh, that pun Tom...
So it seems like the blinker stone is going to become more than just a stone... maybe it becomes Annie's equivalent of a Horcrux, to store a part of her soul - the fire elemental - while she deals with her issues?
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Post by sherni on Jul 17, 2015 10:46:11 GMT
Chop chop, huh? So Anthony didn't even need scalpels. He could have just done whatever he was trying to do to Annie's fire in Divine with a pair of scissors and a Blinker stone.
What exactly does Annie see in the mirror, I wonder. And exactly which side of Annie is speaking here?
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Post by TBeholder on Jul 17, 2015 11:22:42 GMT
When this business first arose, I thought Tom's choice of chapter title ('The Tree') might have come from Blake's classic poem: A Poison Tree Maybe. On the one eyestalk, placing one's issues into jar isn't conducive to getting them fixed. On the other eyestalk, we have seen that the corporeal Annie contacts the elemental Annie often, so she may get used to handling it, little by little. |
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Post by ninjaraven on Jul 17, 2015 11:34:51 GMT
Chop chop, huh? So Anthony didn't even need scalpels. He could have just done whatever he was trying to do to Annie's fire in Divine with a pair of scissors and a Blinker stone. What exactly does Annie see in the mirror, I wonder. And exactly which side of Annie is speaking here? I don't think so - I think the elemental is still connected to Annie in some fashion (it retains her memories, and obeys her command to stay within Annie's current lodgings), so the original problem (dying/being passed on when Annie has a kid) still remains. What side of Annie is speaking? The side influenced by her father, of course. She is seeking control over her wild emotions. Incidentally, I think this is why she admires Jones: she admires Jones' seeming absolute control over her emotions (though we now know that this is because Jones may not even feel emotions). Evidently E!Annie is recollecting how she got into this mess - we shall see what she does with her energies based on these memories. |
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Post by hnau on Jul 17, 2015 11:41:26 GMT
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Post by lordboxbot on Jul 17, 2015 12:11:05 GMT
Oh, SHE MAD.
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Post by arf on Jul 17, 2015 12:16:17 GMT
Be my guest, and thank you for reading yet another chapter about girls getting haircuts. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 12:17:34 GMT
arf, have you found other links between Blake's poetry and the comic? Given that Tom has read Milton, I consider it likely that he's familiar with Blake as well. I have no proof for any explicit connection, but Blake gives this explanation of why love can make you act in strange ways: It holds true for Diego, who crafted many of his machines with the goal of seeing Jeanne's reaction. When he witnessed quite the opposite of any suggestions of gratified desire, he could no longer spare any love for her. I wonder how this poem will compare to Anthony's and Surma's mutual love: what did they require in each other? There is of course still the question of "Why are mundane scissors enough, why doesn't she use the tooth. Imagine if you missed. Besides, Annie probably maintains more control over the process by using more harmless tools (i.e. hopefully not alloyed with the laughter of any gods) that she's familiar with. Perhaps mundanity, which I think can be translated as the lack of Etheric representation, is only a property of an object as long as one cannot think of anything interesting to do with it. Particularly, if Coyote's explanation of his own birth is true, the thought already suffices -- nobody else has to know about it for the Ether to exert its magic. On a related note, I recall that passage in Chapter Five of The Man in the High Castle, in which a businessman makes fun of the notion of "historicity", specifically by producing the Zippo lighter that F. D. Roosevelt had kept in his pocket at the time of his assassination, or so he claims, and then "an ordinary lighter" that cannot be distinguished from the first in any way. If these two objects existed within this comic, would they present different Etheric footprints? I assume so, even if neither lives up to the grandiose claim, as long as someone imagines the story of Roosevelt's assassination to involve that specific lighter. -- Now if multiple collectors each believe that their Zippo has "historical value", would all those objects refer to the same object in the Ether? Again, I assume so, because personal inventions about this or that mythic creature will all find representation in the same Etheric creature. I'm amused that Annie is performing surgery on herself to deal with her resurgent father.
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Post by sapientcoffee on Jul 17, 2015 12:21:22 GMT
See, the first, well, second thing that popped into my head was LET'S GET  My first thought was, "Uhoh". |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 12:30:45 GMT
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Post by todd on Jul 17, 2015 12:36:12 GMT
I'm as surprised as everyone else that it's not Coyote's Tooth, but just a normal pair of scissors. I think that people were assuming it would be Coyote's Tooth largely from the "Chekhov's Gun" approach - that the tooth would have to play some important role in the story, or why would it be included at all? (It's changed things for Shadow2, certainly, but that might not seem large enough.) |
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Post by Sky Schemer on Jul 17, 2015 12:39:44 GMT
Annie has solutions.
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