I’ve been meaning for ages to read up more on CSS so I could do more with the website, and yesterday gave me a good project to work on with it. The Kind-Of-Secret Commentary has been moved to a new, and hopefully permanent, position as I transition to using the Transcript feature for it’s intended purpose more consistently. It could still use some polish tweaks, but overall I’m happy with how it came out.
Of course, the real test will be seeing how it works in non-Dave environments. Curse you, Dark Reader…
↓ Transcript
Carrie: B-Benny, please! Be p-polite.
Gien: I would heed your mother, boy.
Selkie: What do you want to talk me about?
Gien: Simply your training, and your duties as an Echo.
Selkie: OH, that! Yeah, I’m doing real good at that! I can turn it on AND off now!
Gien: I... well. How wonderful.
Gien: I would heed your mother, boy.
Selkie: What do you want to talk me about?
Gien: Simply your training, and your duties as an Echo.
Selkie: OH, that! Yeah, I’m doing real good at that! I can turn it on AND off now!
Gien: I... well. How wonderful.
As some readers have noted, even among Sarnothi it's off the norm to be pushing obligation and duty to younglings like Selkie. Standard Echo training for sarnothi who exhibit the ablity at a young age usually involves focusing on control and discipline, until they reach post-puberty and can begin journeyman-level work under guidance of a mentor.
How polite, to groan about teenagers and then refuse to even bother saying their name. Carrie is too passive. Glad Selkie is deflecting that conversation to avoid bad things.
Regarding the Kind-Of-Secret Commentary, that is working on both Samsung phone and Chrome at work (shoosh), glad to know we’re right and that Gien is working way too fast.
…where is the KOS Commentary? *sweatdrop*
Oh, there it is. Purple circle…
Carrie, Instead of worrying about propriety maybe you should listen to what your son is saying.
Eh, standard adult, in my experience. Valid concerns always got pushed aside so the adults could pull rank and Never Be Wrong (TM). Probably why I have little trust in or love for authority as an adult and make it a point to listen to what the kid is saying as well as how.
Oh, and Gien? Nobody talks to MY kid like that except ME.
I bet Gien has lots and lots of not at all nice and encouraging things to say to Selkie once he finds out how she’s doing. Also, I’m very glad he’s not trying to recruit Pohl’s kids, too, on the off-chance that they’re Echos as well.
The new Secret Commentary works great for me, I like it!
Maybe they’ll be Echoes, maybe not. The only thing that Gien cares about (I think) is getting another powerful Jin’Sorai Echo. Selkie’s the only one of those. Echo, at least. Power TBD.
For the idiots in the room- where’s the new secret commentary? The blurb underneath the comic?
Small circle ⭕️
Yeah; I had a headslap moment a moment ago and got it.
Gien is slowly beginning to realize that this was never going to work the way he wanted it.
Response to Commentary:
Now I can’t help but imagining how it would work for an older Selkie to work as a Journeyman under Pohl (who seems like the best option). I have this image of it being disguised as volunteer work at the hospital…..
Could this somehow lead her into a career in medicine…..
Selkie probably didn’t expect to be Terrorhammer MD, but I think she’d take it.
I doubt Pohl uses his echo powers at work, so I don’t see her working at the hospital. Now coming up to the Sarnothi village with Pohl to help with bricks/whatever else is needed to build houses, that seems more likely.
He seems to be forgetting she literally cannot do anything with those echo powers right now. reality check time.
he just a a reminder…
And it was phrased in the EXACT right way that says letting me near powertools or the equivelent might be bad.
And she won’t be able to do much … right up until the Plot Twist.
All good stories need a plot twist.
Curses! Foiled by my unreasonable expectations having already been met!
It was Fred Rogers who taught me how to talk to and with (rather than *at*) people younger than adults. That’s the secret: to and with.
My dad always spoke to my brother and I in the same way he’d expect anyone to speak to him. That’s why he could always deal with us so well. Mutual respect and understanding. Now I have to look up Fred Rogers. Sounds like a smart guy.
So I see the thing and can click the thing, and read the “hidden” text. Is that the intent?
Yep!
Works like a champion.
Way to deflate Gien, Selkie!
He’s obviously convinced himself that she’s a fully-trained Echo and just shirking her duties to her Clan.
Gien is a manipulative jerk, but he doesn’t realize it. He just wants to get back what he lost when he got kicked out of Sarnoth.
…And if I’d figured out where the semi-secret commentary was and read it, I would not have bothered with the above remarks.
AMEN!
Two small complaints about ‘hidden’ commentary mechanism.
1. It requires enabling scripts on the site. (At least it doesn’t require any third-party scripts, so this is relatively benign.)
2. The “└” in the tags line now looks misaligned by a few pixels.
Seems that Gien just had her sails deflate, under the reality that Selkie’s Echo powers won’t be of any help for many years to come.
HE PROTECC
HE ATACC
HE GOT SELKIE”S BACC.
I think Gien is finally about to get on the “Actually, maybe she really is too young to do anything useful.” train.