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Thread: Girl Genius: XXXenophile Edition
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2021-11-25, 01:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2021-11-25, 03:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-11-26, 05:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Today's page refers to Araucaria araucana acrostica, which appears to be a crossword puzzle tree. In the real world, Araucaria araucana, of South America, has the common name "monkey puzzle tree".
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2021-11-26, 06:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Have we noticed before that Lady Steelgarter has four eyebrows as well as four arms? Or is it only visible in today's non-coloured page?
I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2021-11-26, 10:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think it's an art error, or something that was going to be coloured over (they look to be behind the hair). That, or Lady Steelgarter wears glasses.
Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-11-26, 01:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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(Well, there is the matter of Chump - I bet they didn't see him coming)
Considering what he singlehandedly did to Europe.thnx to Starwoof for the fine avatar
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2021-11-26, 01:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-26, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Too be fair, if she does it right, she wouldnt be wrong. If you go to a nation that prides itself on its culture and say, "Hey, you know that large chunk of culture you lost awhile back? I have records on how everything was done and am a descendant of said group" She could probably parley that into legit high priestess type power if she plays her cards right. Maybe not ruler of a nation power, but certainly a powerful and important position.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2021-11-26, 06:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Phil regularly draws eyebrows overlapping the hair (see Colette in the last panel of the previous page). Phil's characters have very expressive eyebrows, and I don't think he would have picked two separate positions for the same set of eyebrows, nor accidentally inked them both. I wouldn't be surprised if he draws the face and eyebrows before adding the hair, and deliberately puts the hair behind the eyebrows. I don't think the picture shows glasses either.
I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2021-11-26, 07:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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I made a webcomic, featuring absurdity, terrible art, and alleged morals.
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2021-11-26, 11:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2021-11-27, 04:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-11-27, 05:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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The problem I have with Skifander being on Mars or the Moon, as some have speculated, is that the explorer Steelgarter hired reached it. And he came back via a way that the pirates caught them. If he had plans or believed he had a way to Mars or wherever, I'm sure Steelgarter would have mentioned it when she first met Zeetha.
I'm currently headcannoning that it is in the artic or antarctic, in a hidden/protected jungle biome :)
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2021-11-27, 05:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-27, 05:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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There's likely much more to it than that. If she wanted to get to skifander she could have simply cooperated with Zeetha, but she very specifically decided to go behind her back by trying to steal one of her belongings. She wanted to find a way to skifander but she didn't want zeetha to be part of it
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2021-11-27, 07:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-28, 01:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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The biggest reason I suspect an "off-Earth" location for Skifander (Mars makes the most sense, but Venus could work just as easily - either would fit the sometimes pulp sensibility of GG) is Lucrezia's utter shock that Klaus both returned and did so in only a few years.
There's no reason to think Lucrezia was under any misunderstanding of Klaus' abilities, so she really did send him somewhere she expected him to be unable to return from, and certainly did not expect him back after less than a decade. I cannot believe that she would confidently expect anywhere on Earth (or beneath it) to delay him for more than a year or two at most. So we're left with Skifander being Mars or its equivalent.
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2021-11-28, 05:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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The trouble is that the arguement reduces to "Lucrezia took (or sent) Klaus to location X because it was far enough delay him for Y years", and ignores that no matter where X is, Lucrezia (or her agent) also has to go to X and back.
(Yes, in the case of an agent it is possible for the agent to have "destroy ship and stay" orders, but word still has to get back somehow or she is trusting to luck that they made it there, and with Klaus involved I don't think Lucrezia would be that stupid)
You can make a better arguement for sending him through time, since Klaus doesn't have the technology; but we don't know if Lucrezia had that technology at that point.Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-11-28, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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I've never considered the possibility that Lucrezia used a person to wrangle Klaus to his destination. My original thought on reading the strip I linked was that she'd stuffed him in some sort of combination pod/prison/airship/rocket, probably while comatose. (A minon can't be trusted to effectively handle Klaus effectively, and a Spark simply can't be trusted.) Once we found out about the portals, I assumed she used a portal to dump him on Skifander (with Lu confident he couldn't use the portal for a return trip for reasons we don't quite understand yet - obviously she was wrong).
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2021-11-29, 12:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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I cannot fault Lucrezia's assessment of Albia. Albia is complacent in her power. Also, I suspect the age of queens was barely a hundred years long: barely a blip when history is concerned.
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2021-11-29, 01:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-29, 02:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wild Theory: The Age of Queens corresponds to the Bronze Age - since the pre-Queen Albia appears wearing extensive bronze ornamentation. The destruction of the Queens would therefore correspond to the Bronze Age Collapse. This follows the 'before Rome' line, since Rome was founded sometime in the 8th Century BCE.
Also, since Albia's memories are stored in the 'Queen's Henge' which is probably a facsimile for Stonehenge, constructed some time between 3000-2000 BCE (with main construction of the big stones around 2500 BCE), this would also match up with the Bronze Age period for the Age of Queens, assuming Albia did not take power until at least several centuries had already passed.
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2021-11-29, 07:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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There is a (probably wrong) theory that all Bronze Age civilizations where matriarchies, which might be where the Foglios got the idea for the Age of Queens. So it would fit that this is the Spark version of the Bronze Age.
I'm surprised that Lucrezia thinks that Albia has never really tried to understand the gates - trying to understand and improve any shiny thing that crosses their path is pretty much part of the definition of being a spark. Either Lucrezia is just trying to insult Albia or she severely underestimating her (in my opinion). Considering how surprised and insulted she is every time someone manages to defeat her, she's probably underestimating everyone.
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2021-11-29, 07:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-29, 08:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think Lucrezia expected Klaus to die in the place she sent him, but by someone else's hand, allowing her to pretend to be "good". Remember she saw being good as a technique toward winning and gaining power, not worthwhile in its own right. "Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue".
I do believe we saw Queen-killer Lucrezia use them, so yes, a hard shut down would be appropriate.This ... is my signature finishing move!
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2021-11-29, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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We know the Queen slaughter happened "nearly five thousand years ago" and Albia ascended "before the channel", so around 8000 years before the current events. And the Queens predate that of course...
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2021-11-29, 09:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-29, 10:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think Lucrezia expected Klaus to die in the place she sent him, but by someone else's hand, allowing her to pretend to be "good". Remember she saw being good as a technique toward winning and gaining power, not worthwhile in its own right. "Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue".
And if you want to get rid of Klaus, sending him to a place regular humans survive and thrive is about as likely to work as sending him a stack of waffles then hope he would choke on them.
On the other hand, if you just want him our of your hair, skipping off to a wild land where he can have strange exotic adventures, explore, fight and so on.
Well then you can clearly do a lot worse than Skiffander. Honestly the plan was close to perfect.
Lucrezia -would- have gotten rid of Klaus. He would by all account have stayed at Skiff, had it not been for the extremely unlikely case of Klaus's wife giving birth to a boy/girl pair of twins.thnx to Starwoof for the fine avatar
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2021-11-29, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-29, 11:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.