humans, sometimes

i don’t know if it was intentional, but one of Expedition 33’s endings gave me vibes of that story

i recently read through the series and now i only have the last short story left– and i don’t want to finish it becuase then it’ll be over :(

so few authors manage to make me sad this way

i don’t think a wheel with 20 forks in it would work very well

yes my nerd anger is also directed at them, and all the other language schools that are named after the tower of babel

i needed to get the whole internal monologue out first

yes but we could have both! logic and creative license. take the same two panels, but instead the first one has the tower being built, and the second one shows Duo as the leading architect smiling mischievously

but the tower’s destruction doesn’t bring him any closer to that goal, it’s an entirely unnecessary step. the tower only needed to be built to split languages.

besides the tower looks finished (iirc it was never finished, becuase of the whole langauge thing), and the people are upset that i’s being destroyed which- none of it makes sense.

why would they be upset that the tower that made god mad at them and split their speech so they couldn’t communicate is being destroyed?

why would duo be behind it? he profits from teaching languages, his work depends on there being more than one of them

if duo is destroying the tower then the comic does not make sense within the lore of the bible. it’s as if the author of the comic only half remembered that there was some tower that has something to do with languages

sorry for the long comment, i get unreasonably involved in logical inconsistencies in media

huh? not to be all well actually on an internet meme but the building of the tower of Babel is biblically what caused the languages to split. the hubris of people who thought they could reach god made him decide to punish humanity by confusing their speech. duo profits from people learning languages, so he’d need to be some sort of agent of evil that inspired that hubris in people

why would he blow it up? unless the author of the comic implies that duo just doesn’t like working and now this green owl has been chosen by god to mend humanity’s speech and he’s angry enough about it to destroy the tower that caused the split? am i reading too much into those two panels? yes

to be fair, we don’t know why anything is, but that’s something for philosophy so ponder, not science where you seek answers

he won’t stand trial, there’s so much wildely known and yet he still holds the title of one of the most powerful positions on this planet. there won’t be a trial, and there won’t be justice, history will remember him as a monster but he most likely won’t experience any consequences

goopy fella

there are three moods:

• can’t stop reading

• can’t stop writing

• if i think about the written word i’ll cry

how do you pronounce that without ending up beatboxing

hasn’t this been a theory for a while now? The event horizon of a black hole keeps information minus one dimension. and the theory goes that our entire universe is just at the edge or a black hole in a 4D universe

Terry does include breaks and beats in the stories that many other authors would adorn as a new chapter, but he never does. honestly imo that makes things almost filmic - for example where a switch in perspective usually prompts a new chapter and pushes an author to make it longer, Terry can just write a single page or even a few paragraphs to tease you a bit of what’s going on elsewhere in the story, and then go back to the usual perspective but now with the added context & tension

i thought “chapter book” meant a loooong novel being released in book sized chapters one by one like TV show episodes

i think gasses can be licked, for example - if i put menthol shards into hot cup of water, i can definitely feel it on my tongue if i lick the air above the cup. therefore, lickable

fool, it’s mine now

story of many trans people

once you feel good in your body, you want to feel good in your body