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Post by arf on Sept 28, 2017 13:37:06 GMT
Now that I think of it, I recall reading about insects that do something like this. ... Oh yummy! The human botfly of Central America lays its eggs on an intermediate host (eg mosquito) which hatch when the mosquito lands on an animal. The supposed reason for this is that botflies have built up a reputation over an evolutionary timescale, and are given short shrift if they attempt to lay eggs directly. Better drop that clipboard, Surma! |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Sept 28, 2017 15:52:57 GMT
I think we should not be TOO sure that genes work the same way for human-elemental hybrids. ... and we should not be TOO sure that Annie has Tony's genes! I will crawl back into my hole now. |
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Post by todd on Sept 29, 2017 0:15:37 GMT
I recently read that in English folklore, red hair was often viewed as a sign of illegitimacy.
But I'd say that Antony is Annie's father and that Tom never meant there to be any mystery about that. It's most likely just a case of so many mysteries in the comic that the readers wind up doubting everything.
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Post by warrl on Sept 29, 2017 2:49:47 GMT
The "based on a true story" part would most likely rule out the shrinking theory. Not necessarily. In one of my stories, a village in north-central Minnesota elected a weredog - a Great Pyrenees specifically - as mayor. It's based on a true story: the only part of that particular bit of the story that isn't true is "were". |
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Post by pyradonis on Sept 29, 2017 12:13:21 GMT
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Post by westwindreborn on Sept 29, 2017 12:30:18 GMT
It strange, i feel like ive seen a scattering like that from an insect before. But i dont know why or where.
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Post by todd on Sept 29, 2017 12:36:47 GMT
As I mentioned above, I suspect that the reason why readers are having a hard time accepting it is that "Gunnerkrigg Court" has contained so many twists, turns, and surprises that those readers have concluded they can't take anything at face value. |
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Post by torontoregonian on Sept 29, 2017 12:55:28 GMT
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Post by ctso74 on Sept 29, 2017 14:06:41 GMT
At first I thought it was shrinking as well, but then using the grid as a reference it doesn't seem so on second glance. Now I'm thinking that it's the beetle's babies scattering all over the page... shudder Beetle's don't carry babies like that, their larvae are grubs. Maybe you're thinking of wolf spiders? Off topic but. Wolf Spiders are great spiders, good pest controllers, and have very pretty eyes. I've never seen any carry their young, but it must happen. Maybe, the mothers keep out of sight. |
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Post by Storel on Oct 8, 2017 4:55:16 GMT
If curly hair is a dominant trait though, Surma might only have one curly hair allele and one non-curly hair allele, so maybe Antimony got the non-curly one from her. Same with the eye color. Like how literally no one on my dad's side of the family has blond hair, my dad himself has dark brown hair, my mom has light brown hair (I don't think she has any blondes in her family either), but my brother and I both have blond hair. Clearly our families have just been carrying around recessive genes for blond hair and my brother and I happened to get them from both parents. Brown hair is just dark blonde. Many people have blonde hair when they're young that darkens to brown as they get older. I have pictures of me when I was about four years old that show me as a towhead blond, but by second grade it was medium brown. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 8, 2017 5:09:02 GMT
If curly hair is a dominant trait though, Surma might only have one curly hair allele and one non-curly hair allele, so maybe Antimony got the non-curly one from her. Same with the eye color. Like how literally no one on my dad's side of the family has blond hair, my dad himself has dark brown hair, my mom has light brown hair (I don't think she has any blondes in her family either), but my brother and I both have blond hair. Clearly our families have just been carrying around recessive genes for blond hair and my brother and I happened to get them from both parents. Brown hair is just dark blonde. Many people have blonde hair when they're young that darkens to brown as they get older. I have pictures of me when I was about four years old that show me as a towhead blond, but by second grade it was medium brown. About a third of the kids in my family were born blond, myself included, though as our bloodline thins it seems to be getting rarer. It nearly always turns brown a year or two before puberty. It goes gray early too; I had some gray in the 'stache before I was 18 (which helped with buying things enormously) and I was full-on gray at the temples and 'chops by mid-20s. |
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Post by Storel on Oct 8, 2017 5:17:30 GMT
Brown hair is just dark blonde. Many people have blonde hair when they're young that darkens to brown as they get older. I have pictures of me when I was about four years old that show me as a towhead blond, but by second grade it was medium brown. About a third of the kids in my family were born blond, myself included, though as our bloodline thins it seems to be getting rarer. It nearly always turns brown a year or two before puberty. It goes gray early too; I had some gray in the 'stache before I was 18 (which helped with buying things enormously) and I was full-on gray at the temples and 'chops by mid-20s. Interesting. Neither my father (who also had brown hair) nor I started showing any visible gray until our forties, and then for my father it was just at the temples. I started showing it in my beard then, but he was clean-shaven all his life. His hair was still about 60% brown, 40% gray when he passed away at the age of 72, so I have high hopes for the same. |
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Post by Runningflame on Oct 8, 2017 6:50:29 GMT
Yeah, hair color is... interesting. I had very dark brown hair as a baby; as a toddler, it was somewhere between light brown and dark blond; as an older child, it reverted to dark brown; and now it's so dark people will tell me it's black. (Which it's not. My dad has black hair; I can tell the difference.) And my beard is even darker.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 8, 2017 9:31:10 GMT
It nearly always turns brown a year or two before puberty. I should have said that it always finishes turning blond a couple years before puberty but it starts getting darker around five-ish, sometimes earlier but rarely later. Neither my father (who also had brown hair) nor I started showing any visible gray until our forties, and then for my father it was just at the temples. I started showing it in my beard then, but he was clean-shaven all his life. His hair was still about 60% brown, 40% gray when he passed away at the age of 72, so I have high hopes for the same. Also we don't go bald. We thin kinda early (as early as late 50s or so, both sexes) and some of my male relatives just shave their heads because of that, but no male pattern baldness for us. |
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