The difference between “cattle” and “companion” is fascinating to me.
And for those of you in America, happy Memorial Day. I have a cousin in the Army myself; my best goes out to ya Max.
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I love Fan Art, and love floods of Fan Art more. 😀 I got three more pieces to share over the weekend!
First is a pencil drawing of a teenaged Selkie from Alex:
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Sabrina sent a Prom Queen Selkie as imagined in IMVU:
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And Marcela has created Todd and Selkie within The Sims 3:
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-EDIT- Marcela, I am so so sorry, I forgot to post the links you gave me to the Sim character pages. Here they are, for anyone that wants their own Sim Selkie and Sim Todd:
http://fr.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=4143098
http://fr.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=4143100
Thank you all!
I’m curious. When are these side stories taking place? Over the weekend?
Approximately, yes.
Oh i loved the fact he got her other fish to eat, he understands her ^^
Anyone want to bet that Selkie feels “Finding Nemo” is just an advertisement for a buffet? 😉
Todd is going to have to take Selkie to Fisheaters´ Anonymous, I guess… “Fish are friends, not food!”
Growing up on a farm, I found the difference between “cattle” and “companion” was simply whether it has a name on not. With the exception of Nan’s favourite milker Houdini, she tossed me through a fence once, so i would have gladly eaten her…
Interestingly, over here all milkers are given a number AND a name, if they’re in the register (as in, if their milk gets sold outside the farm). I don’t know why, but I’ve always thought it a fun fact. I don’t know if the cattle grown for meat is given names, though.
It’s actually a weird bit of trivia (Which i only know from Reader’s Digest) but named milkers produce roughly 10% more milk than unnamed milkers. Why? I have no idea.
How very odd!
Speaking of “Finding Nemo”… there are clownfishes in the bag.
Hey Dave, let her watch “Finding Nemo”. I think she will drool all over the couch.
(P.S. Sorry for my bad english. I’m german and not used to it.)
Hmm.. They do sorta look like clownfish don’t they? The problem is.. that salt water fish are VERY expensive and I can’t see Todd being rich enough to buy her a bag full of clown fish just so she can eat them. lol
I doubt they’re clown fish… more like gold fish, which actually are pretty edible. But then again, so are dormouses, to the right eater. 😛
Dude, your grammar was perfect, and that’s coming from the resident Grammar Fascist. Nice job!
Agreed. Your grammar is fantastic. Dont sweat it ^^
About the only way someone would be able to tell that you’re not a native anglophone is that you didn’t make enough mistakes in your post.
True, most people with English as a first language suck with the grammar. And sucked at spelling words right. Thank (insert divine or non divine being here) for spellcheck.
Great fan art:) And the strip is great! I love the dialogue in the last panel and how smooth both seem to take off naturally over what for some might be an odd topic twist!
I love this… Also, yeah, from what I know when I was all around it in south texas, the differences between food and friend is whether it’s named or number’d.
Also, I love the fourth panel… it looks great~
I agree on the 4th panel. Excellent perspective there, and extremely well drawn!
Your art just keeps getting better and better. The facial expressions in this one are great.
Fishus delishus.
Awwwwe… Feeder goldfish. I remember those when I worked at a petstore back in the day. Now if only the pet store guy was smart enough to tell Selkie and Dave to put Mr. Betta in a larger tank (5-10 gallons) with a filter she wouldn’t have to do a a water change so much and the betta would be happier. Not as pretty as some of the bowls, but they actually live twice as long (and are probably happier). …Yeah…I’m kind of a super nerd when it comes to pet care.
I have pet goldfish myself, but considered a betta because the staff of my local pet store told me they are partial air-breathers that live best in shallow water and produce less waste in the water than goldfish (and thus need less filtration overall), and that even with tank filters a 1/4 to 1/3 water change once a week is recommended to replenish nutrients.
I’m curious what your pet care experiences are about that. Because I tried putting a betta in with two goldfish once because they had a similar mix in the store I shopped at (on the basis that the goldfish didn’t trigger the betta’s territorial instincts). While that may be true, MY goldfish were larger and faster than the betta and kind of jerks. They started ramming into it almost immediately. I had to take the poor thing back.
A good place to get betta info is bettafish.com. Gotta watch it with advice from pet store folks. Even the ones at good pet stores usually don’t know everything they think they do (though I did meet a small handful of intelligent people in the 5 years I worked for one ;)). Did exotic pet and dog rescue and worked at the Baltimore Zoo for a few years, and found some of the best places to get pet care info these days is on good enthusiast forums. They are free and the seasoned folks on them point you to good resources (books, best pet supplies, new information on the animal’s needs, etc…).
I’ll second the “grain of salt” advice. my wife has a Chinchilla and we’re actually better educated on the care and feeding thereof than the pet stores that actually sell them. TONS of research and a small fortune in hard to find books.
I’ve owned a few beta in my time and yeah, I have to agree. Just because something can survive on minimal life support doesn’t mean they like to. My beta always seemed much happier when I transfered them out of the little containers that they were sold in and put them in a 20 gal tank with a filter.
Lived for quite a while too. Also, it’s usually only the males that are territorial and that is if they are separated from their school nearly as soon as they are distinguishable from the females. If you leave them together from birth most of them seem pretty social unless you introduce new fish into the tank.
Some male bettas can do okay together if you keep them in a large enough tank, but it’s chancy…totally depends on the bettas and the setup (the larger the better). One of my friends had a pair of males in her 55 who never batted an eye at each other. After they passed away, she tried it again with two new young males and they killed each other.
Female bettas can be territorial, but they aren’t as bad as the males. They usually do best as only bettas or with three or more females as they have pecking orders and having a group reduces the chance the dominant female beats up on the less dominant one. We have a BEAUTIFUL healthy red female that my daughter found at Walmart of all places which is hilarious as all the bettas in the petstores (even a local specialty aquarium store) looked sickly. “Scarlet” has as much personality as any of the males we’ve had…maybe even more. She hides in her 12 gallon but when my kid comes down and calls for her, she swims out to visit. Our angel fish (in a different tank) does the same thing. Maybe it’s because my daughter is a Pisces. XD
I keep an eye out at pet stores for wild bettas. They are rarely sold, but are so neat. They are usually larger and more social compared to their domestic “cousins” (but more natural looking colors and fins), and can be kept as pairs or groups regardless of sex. Our local fish store used to have them, but they’ve cut a lot of their “stock” since going under new owners and the economy. I guess I could always mail order a couple. 🙂
The fourth panel really shows off how much your art style has developed over the course of the strip. I like it.
. . . and now I have to pull up Sims3 and do that myself. I might be a little late to my other planned acitivities.
I’m loving these vignettes.
Ah, pet fish. The enlightened parents’ way to teach children about mortality. Of course this particular pet has one more hazard than normal…
Two more hazards. Don’t forget Crook. 😛
It’s a good day to be a betta fish, and a bad day to be a goldfish.
I play on the Sims 3 a lot myself. I wonder if they have any appropriate traits for her.
Marcela sent me a download page for the sim versions she created that I forgot to post links to, including traits. If you wish, they are posted under her picture now.
I’m LOVING the little side stories!
Cute story. XD I wonder how Selkie will manage to not eat her fish.
That is some excellent fanart. (I love the teenage picture.)
Fanart come true!
Today’s strip is really cool. 🙂
Another great one, again, it shows how much you’ve improved!
Have you ever thought of doing the DA show case meme? Where you show each year from a certain date to your curent style to show off your improvement?
thank you for showing my sims!
Lets just hope Todd doesn’t laugh at selkie ever again.
https://selkiecomic.com/?p=169
Thanks for the reminder on this Duban! I’d forgotten that Selkie had said she wanted fishies! Apparently Todd remembered though! LOL
Oh. My. God.
Panel 4.
Your artwork just keeps getting better and better. The nonstandard angle, the perfect perspective…
WOW.
Soon as I read this one I was humming: “I love goldfishes ’cause they’re sooo delicious!” >.<
First off, i loved that teenage selkie fanart.
Second I never really liked fish as pets, ive always been a reptile guy, bearded dragons, turtles, and ball pythons
and isnt selkie owning a fish like a wolf owning a deer?
Omg lol “those are eating Fish” I love it.
Oh. My God. I was awing the second I saw the Betta, having owned more than one as a child and recognizing them as a “friend-fish” immediately. This was immediately becoming a ‘nothing but cute’ comic to me, one of those feel-good things that exists to do nothing more than to give you the warm fuzzies… and then I got to that last panel, and now I can’t stop laughing. That is just so, so beautiful…
Hey, thanks for showing my picture and for answering my question :))
I like these little side episodes, mainly cuz I like seeing the father-daughter relationship they’ve developed. I also liked how Todd bought Selkie feeder goldfish so she doesn’t eat her pet XD That was cute
On another note, I’m wondering how Selkie will be consuming the feeder fish? Eating live fish may be a blast, but given her biology, can she get fish diseases—like ick, pop-eye, or fin rot?
Got a big laugh out of this … it reminded me of something: I used to have a pet snake that ate fish. I’d go to the pet store and get about 3 smallish goldfish for it about once a week. After about the 3rd time going to this one pet store, the owner asked me if I was having trouble keeping my fish alive. I said something like “a little, but I’m doing very good at keeping my snake alive.” He had a good laugh at that and I started getting a discount on my fish. (This was when I was in about 7th grade … longer ago than I care to admit.)
I did the opposite when I was a kid. We had a male and a female hamster that would breed like…. well, rodents. The babies that didn’t get cannibalized (hamsters are weird like that) we’d take to the pet store as snake feeders in exchange for store credit.
As I read through the other comments, I had another thought. Selkie’s “lunch box” for school should be quite interesting! I’m guessing that none of the other kids will want to trade lunches with her. (Hmmm … though I suppose that Todd might put his foot down about her taking live fish for her lunch …)
I’m loving that forth panel~ <3
I think it's the zoom in and angle, it looks great!
and Sims! I was so surprised, now I play with Sim Selkie.
Kind of late on this, but I just found your comic tonight…
Anyways, I used to have a few Beta Fish and they are actually not as low maintenance as everyone seems to think they are.
Beta Fish might be “labyrinth” fish, which means they breath air, but they most certainly produce quite a bit of waste. I kept a beta in a really large 10 gallon vase and if I didn’t change the water every two days or so, it’d get dirty, smelly filthy.
Not only that, I also discovered that betas are actually a warm water fish. I think maybe that’s why people have issues with keeping them alive sometimes, because if it gets too cold for them, they can die.
Also, beta fish need certain kinds of victims and minerals that you won’t find in tap water or distilled water. You can either pick up pre-distributed bottles of beta water or you can get a liquid supplement separately.
They also like to hide and rest on plants, so when I see a beta being kept in a tiny little bowl with no plants or hiding places, I get frustrated because for the fish, it’s like a prison.
That sounds like what I learned when I bought some goldfish last year. The store owner was insistent that the “fishbowl” is a myth, and filtration plus oxygenation is necessary to keep the water moving so it doesn’t stagnate.
I always feel sorry for Bettas in chain stores like Wal-Mart, which live in tiny little plastic bowls (stacked on TOP of each other even!)
… waiiiitta minute. Wasn’t a Selkie a species from Star Trek…? Awwwwww X3 That’s the cutest alien there is. And yet another real moving tale about family, you’re really doing a wonderful job at this!
I want to see Selkie visit an aquarium. 🙂
What could possibly go wrong?