lilib
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Post by lilib on Mar 10, 2009 22:05:17 GMT
First of all, I have to admit that Tom did a great job in leading us to this. I remember wondering who came for Surma, just a few days before this page came up!
Also, the whole "people who befriend psychopomps, can't be escorted by them" theory made me wonder: Who would come if Annie died? Hummm...
Maybe knowing that none of them would come for her, bugs her as well...
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Post by warrl on Mar 10, 2009 22:55:49 GMT
And then, what we see is how Annie remembers the scene – she might have felt smaller than she actually was at the time. My father (sole-custody parent) died after a long illness when I was 17 and living across town in a college dorm and... yes. Quite emphatically yes.
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Post by cespinarve on Mar 10, 2009 23:13:07 GMT
Oh. Wow. Damn......
Yeah, I recall seeing my grandfather dead in his bed... it's very dissasosiative.
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Post by warrl on Mar 10, 2009 23:25:02 GMT
Also, the whole "people who befriend psychopomps, can't be escorted by them" theory made me wonder: Who would come if Annie died? Hummm... Well, if she's hit by a bus tonight, it looks like it'd probably be Muut. A few decades down the road... different matter.
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Post by menschenjaeger on Mar 11, 2009 14:31:22 GMT
Just a comment. I'm very surprised that what happened really bothers Annie. I mean, someone who was raised as she was, who experienced the things she did...I'm surprised she doesn't have the outlook that "death is part of life," and if she knows the psychopomps couldn't carry across her mother, that she would be the next logical choice*. Sure, that's a bit of a childhood trauma, but honestly, I'm surprised she took it so hard.
*perhaps the ONLY choice, if there is a rule for that...
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Post by rholliday on Mar 23, 2009 22:08:59 GMT
Wow, the comic has already gotten over 250 comments! It's well on its way to breaking the record set by this comic. Man, this has been one eventful chapter, hasn't it? This may not be the best place to ask, but before I get too much further into the comic I'd like to know if it's at all possible to read the comments on comics other than the most current. That section doesn't seem to be available on the archives page, and no amount of URL trickery I attempted caused it to appear. They also don't seem to derive from discussion pages in this forum. I'm sure I'm simply just missing something incredibly obvious, but any assistance would be much appreciated.
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Post by Tom Siddell on Mar 23, 2009 22:17:09 GMT
Comments only exist for the current page. There should be a discussion thread for each page for the past couple of years, but older ones drop down the forum list.
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Post by rholliday on Mar 24, 2009 14:30:47 GMT
Comments only exist for the current page. Aw man. Seems like a lot of potentially good content might fall by the wayside that way. Not to mention that I (like I'm sure some other non-foruming latecomers) might want to comment on some of the older work. Are they completely expunged, or still stored somewhere that they could maybe creep back onto the page in a redesign?
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mjh
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Post by mjh on Mar 24, 2009 15:17:00 GMT
Aw man. Seems like a lot of potentially good content might fall by the wayside that way. You could post all your comments meant for posterity here on the forum, and all the throw-away remarks on the website.
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Dentrala
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Post by Dentrala on Mar 24, 2009 15:27:26 GMT
Aw man. Seems like a lot of potentially good content might fall by the wayside that way. You could post all your comments meant for posterity here on the forum, and all the throw-away remarks on the website. "Throw away remarks? But it's the internet! Everything that I say on the internet is valid and precious!" I tend to consider the forums to be discussion and speculation, whereas the comments are... comments. Did that make sense to anyone else?
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Post by nikita on Mar 24, 2009 23:35:23 GMT
It does make a lot of sense.
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Post by Refugee on Mar 25, 2009 4:46:25 GMT
I believe the psychopomps let Annie escort her own mother because it was training, or even a test, that she had to pass to become herself.
The fact that it upset the girl, that it broke her trust in them to some degree, was a small matter.
Surma did not pass neglected -- Annie was there for her; Annie was not subjected to casual cruelty -- she had to do it for reasons that have not yet been revealed.
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