Some people like following a map to their destination, others like making their own journey.
Slipped off a little bit on the sleep-schedule-fixing tonight but at least it's not 4am again! zzzz...
Some people like following a map to their destination, others like making their own journey.
So the Tel’Dora are the Hufflepuffs, is what you’re saying?
Tel’dora are scientists and scholars so that would be ravenclaw. Hufflepuff would probably align to mor’kama, and sar’teri should have been hufflepuf but think they are griffindors. Jin’sorai are obviously slitzerin – Selkie would approve of that I think.
I would love it if the cast page showed the three (FOUR) different clans and a representative pic of their characteristics. But Dave is overworked, under paid, and “Damnit, Bob, I’m a bricklayer– not a country doctor!” So i cannot put him back together if he breaks himself.
Ha ha, more or less. I’m more agreeing with Mikhael’s assessment that Tel’Dora are Ravenclaw, and Mor’Kama are probably Hufflepuff more by default than anything else (Mor’Kama are traditionally the spiritualists, and there isn’t really a “spiritual” House).
If you define Gryffindor as Stalwart and Slytherin as Ambitious though then yeeaaaaaaaaah, Jin’Sorai are Slytherin minus the elitism.
I was always annoyed by the way that Harry Potter shot its own message in the foot with its treatment of the Slytherin.
Dumbledore AND the Sorting Hat both said that cooperation among the four houses was essential in order to win. My recollection of the treatment of Slytherin through the series was “mostly evil, and if not evil then jerks,” which, granted, Gryffindor were also jerks and the series is from Harry’s POV so that might not be the most fair assessment.
But then you get to the final installment, and… y’know, I didn’t really connect with the characters who weren’t like the main six or so, and some of the adults, so maybe I missed out, but it seems like there was a sum total of one semi-positive Slytherin student (Draco), in that he was given an excuse for his behavior (“they’ll kill me and/or my family if I don’t comply”), and then the three houses so much couldn’t trust the entire group of Slytherin that they locked them up for the entire final battle (um, weren’t you supposed to learn that lesson with Kreacher? that the ones you assume villainous or useless aren’t?).
So what we got from Slythern was (a) Snape (and he could’ve held that entire category by himself — but seriously), and (b) Slughorn. Snape was great, I’ve loved him since early on and was thrilled to see his character revealed over time even if it didn’t justify him being an utter arsehole at times. But Slughorn was an elitist, bigoted prick and a coward. That’s the most we get from Slytherin?
The people who understood the houses to be Brave, Smart, Hard-Working, and Evil… I’d always expected that Rowling would bring it around somehow, explain how we were mistaken, as we were with every other form of bigotry we (as readers) came up with in the series — any group membership (and even some level of actions, which turned out to be more understandable in retrospect). But Rowling just played them out evil to the end, with only token counter-examples. Major disappointment.
Which is, I suppose, one of the reasons I so much love this series right here. To date, the only villain you haven’t seriously humanized has been that troll of a principal, and I’m still wondering if you might bring him back at some point or if he’s simply served his cardboard purpose and fled (barely humanized by having a kid). You don’t make villain-villains; nobody’s in it For The Evulz.
Yeah, would have been nice to see more of the “they’re just caught up in a bad situation” with the Slytherin kids. The ADULTS being “lul evil” makes sens,e but the kids just got swept up in the bullshit.
Slytherin also kind of suffers character wise from being the “snotty rich prep kids” of the Wizarding school.
Proud Slytherin here, we’re not as evil as everyone says we are. We just know what we want and how to get it. I could be a lot more evil if I wanted to be.
The elder (can’t remember his name) definitely wasn’t nice!
He was nice to SELKIE.
Selkie wasn’t privy to him screaming at her pediatrician to FIXITFIXITFIXITFIXIT and threatening the man who is probably her father with revealing her parentage, and thus putting Selkie on the $#ιθlist of both sides of the Civil War.
So Selkie is unfortunately meeting expectations. Hence why the one lad is being so snark about it…
I wonder if he realizes how little she knows about her own heritage? I wonder if he cares? I dunno, kinda hard to read him just yet…
Wonder if Selkie fitting the mold is just chance, or due to stuff she picked up at an early age – it’s likely children of their clans are encouraged or even taught to live up to these stereotypical roles – though earlier talks with Pohl also showed some divergence is accepted (like Selkie’s mom being a cop).
Compliments for Dave, who is finally experimenting with different mouth shapes. This comic reads SO much better when everyone isn’t looking like this:
:U
:O
Please don’t tell the rest of the 8^u members, I’ll be excommunicated
If you haven’t yet gone over Tracy Butler’s tutorials on expressions and such, you honestly should put some time into it. Y’know, when you have some. After the holidays and such. Or maybe just read them for fun/inspiration now, and study them more seriously later.
https://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333
Oooh, sounds promising. Thanks for the link!
Over at “Dumming of Age” they have an expression, that’s; “Damn you Willis”.
Do I need to turn into “Bones”, from Star Trek?? Damnit, Dave, you’re a fragile human being not a machine. (I don’t even play a country doctor, so I can’t fix you if you break yourself).
They were nice to YOU Selkie, because they NEED you. Also ‘nice’ isn’t the word I would have used for ANY of them. Arrogant, rude and sarcastic, now those are better words. My comment on the last page still stands.
Yeah, not sure how giving her free clothes and eel stakes, educating her about eel mimicry and telling stories about her mother helping to save them really counts as rude and sarcastic. Unless we’re equating all four Jin’Sorai we met in the haven arc with Gein, who while abrasive with adults was kind to Selkie. Tehk and Te Fahn are likely regurgitating their parents’ beliefs but the readers have the benefit of an archive.
They weren’t rude to her, but they were rude to anyone who wasn’t their own. Condescending to Todd, aggressive to Kohl to the point of acting like he’s their servant and downright shitty to the ‘Old Farmer’ who had clearly changed his way of thinking after meeting Selkie’s mother.
Let’s not forget that Selkie is also thought of as a tool to be used.
Selkie doesn’t know that. Selkie only encountered them being nice. Hence Kater’s point about reader knowledge. Also who knows how much other positive interactions (in Dave’s head) they had which we didn’t see in the comic due to time constraints.
Nah, it’s okay Selkie. Any government agent who allows an eight year old to learn extremely dangerous highly classified information and then expects them to keep it a secret is an incompetent pile of stinking filth who should have, at the very least, been fired instead of being allowed to threaten the child into silence to cover up the agent’s incompetence.
Not that I’m bitterly speaking from personal experience or anything.
And even if she was suppose to keep it a secret, that went out the window once that energy beam lit up the sky and a want-a-be dictator went on TV.
It’s not clear that the village Selkie visited is being used to shelter the refugees. I kind of get the sense the government is relying on massive emergency shelters in above-water locations — warehouses and such. The existence and location of the village of exiles might still be something they’re trying to keep quiet.
I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about, though. Mina wouldn’t tell anybody what she just overheard, right?
Right?
“It’s not clear that the village Selkie visited is being used to shelter the refugees.”
I think the fact they were last seen building new shelters as fast as they could is indicative.
On the other hand, I just looked up the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, and it’s 1.5 million acres of non-contiguous northern woodland, scattered with countless rock-bottomed lakes. And she said “near,” not “in” the national park, so she hasn’t narrowed the location down by much.
The secret she was really supposed to keep was that the settlement existed at all. I suppose that’s why Agent Brown had such a hard time getting clearance for her to visit… she is eight, and MadTinkerer’s right, you can’t reasonably expect an eight year old not to let its existence slip.
If the government agency is competent, then they were aware of this and still granted the clearance, which means they were at least marginally okay with the potential for the info to leak out in a small way.
If there’s a story here, I hope it’s something you can convey through this chat section.
I know that sometimes the FBI storms in and asserts that you “can’t talk about this” while they run roughshod over our Constitutional rights. Which is pretty much why my general response to that attempt would be to whistleblow (in some semi-anonymous fashion) at the earliest possible moment. I can’t see letting them get away with “keep this secret so we can abuse you” or “keep this secret so people can’t tell whether or not illegal things are being done to you and/or the person we’ve told you about.” If they have that de facto power, they shouldn’t.
Don’t worry, that was before the tyrant revealed the Sarnothi’s existence to the world, so it should be fine now.
The question on my mind is, was the settlement secret from the humans or from the other Sarnothi? The reaction of the kids make it seem like it was other Sarnothi they were hiding from. But then again, what else did Sarnothi think happened to people who were exiled? Exile enough people and they make a new community…
The question on my mind is, was the settlement secret from the humans or from the other Sarnothi? The reaction of the kids make it seem like it was other Sarnothi they were hiding from. But then again, what else did Sarnothi think happened to people who were exiled? Exile enough people and they make a new community…
Sometimes, it feels like the Sarnothi are very new to the civilization thing. How old is their history?