Scotty

You must not forget the tenth anniversary sketchbook.

It's nice to see a moment like this bring fans out of the woodwork. I think this is another one of those full circle moments in that it might be a call back to when Elliot first saved Tedd from Tony and how Elliot initially thought Tedd was a girl, back then Tedd told Grace that he wore the glasses because he worried about how Elliot would react. I guess even after a year and all that's happened Tedd was still insecure about how Elliot would react to Tedd being a girl. What bothers me though...If Voltaire is watching (he seems to have a habit of doing so) he's not going to like it, if he wants Tedd to be traumatized, he's either going to have to risk the unending voices in his head for breaking his vow and get Elliot killed, or something else. The only thing I could think of for the something else, sadly involves manipulating Edward into being or appearing more transphobic, driving the wedge between them even deeper.

European Swallow or African Swallow? Actually, would the copy spell give Ellen an exact bird form? We saw her become a copy of Brownie, but Q&A#6 states that the TFG couldn't give a person hollow bones, would the copy spell be capable of doing that? Or just give a close enough bird form but she's still a mammal inside? I would imagine it might not matter because her flight could be powered by magic anyway if the spell allowed for it.

Canada's got Poutine, Ketchup chips and....::sighs:: we did give you Justin Bieber.

The fact that Ellen was suggesting to Elliot that leaving town for a few days would help stop the buildups makes me think that it's not so much an out of control generation, but an inability to regulate the absorption of energy from the environment, it's like all ports are* open and he is unable to stop. If he was to have left town and gotten out of the high energy area, it could have allowed his system to adjust to a more manageable rate. *Or maybe were if his buildups have stopped with his realization that he loves the girly forms.

There's a plane of existence where Immortals and certain types of aberrations reside in, why couldn't there be a plane of existence where other creatures live and could be summoned from by wizards to become their familiars and such. Constructs are basically disposable units, while something like a bloodgrem would require some sort of bond, either the summon spell automatically made the bloodgrem obey Abraham, or a wizard could form an attachment between the familiar and themself to the point where the familiar is loyal. I'd say that summoning is a broad category and below that you have separate subcategories for constructs, familiars, objects, etc.

Today's Questionable Content. mlooney might want to stay away though, or have the list ready.

Rhoda must be wearing something else under that shirt that's keeping Catalina from sinking into her cleavage, I don't think a bra would be enough.

Nanase's Guardian Form seemed to be fully kitted out from the get go so I'm not sure if it could get any upgrades. Then again, from Pandora's description, Nanase's Guardian Form does seem to be tailored to her personality so Guardian Forms could vary in appearance and abilities from person to person. I had likened how Uryuoms generate their power to how humans generate body heat, so it's likely part of the metabolic process for Uryuoms. Humans do have the capacity to do similar though as evidenced by Nanase being able to burn calories for extra magic, I don't know if that's possible for all humans or if it is an ability one could get as they learn magic, I think the fact the wizards and monsters being drawn to high areas of energy suggests that Nanase's ability isn't common. Does praying to God count as negotiating?

I would figure that if it knew that it was a clog preventing the energy from flowing, they'd have said so instead of describing it as a contagion. There's nothing preventing them from stating that energy flows and that a blockage can cause the buildup, aside from the point at which energy flows through being beyond their detection as well, they at least were aware that causing the buildup was the work of a being of great power, though they didn't know exactly who. It always referred to itself as "we" so either it's a collective intelligence among whales, or there was an agreement among them to have one of them make contact. Magic has a flair for the dramatic and may troll people as well, I wouldn't really call it kind, maybe capricious. The fire golems, fairies and Fox, are constructs, they are created by the cast and have limited ability and run of the caster's subconscious, summons like the bloodgrem can't be a construct because they have their own intelligence and own behaviour, the one Abraham summoned showed this by choosing to ignore Abraham's instruction to use no critical force if discovered. The spells people get are a reflection of their personality combined with how they use, two people that have the same interests might get the same initial spell, but if they use them differently, any new spells would be different. And then if spells can be upgraded like Nanase's fairy avatar, then the upgrades could be different between people as well. I still think the energy itself is a universal thing, like dark matter or something, the Will might just be associated with Earth species though, Uryuom's power is an internal energy and so their home planet wouldn't need a Will, other planets might have their own Wills governing a magic system for inhabitants there or maybe not. Whether or not a human can avoid losing their magic should the system change by leaving Earth is probably more complicated. It has a flow, yes. It flows from one half of the world to the other through nexus points. It'd be safe to assume that when the energy reaches the other side, it flows towards other points where it returns to the first half.

The whale that contacted Tedd said that they maintain the health of the world by feeding on excess energy, so they seem to exist as a counter to whatever produces it. The thing is though, it talks about the buildup as if something is producing magic at a rate that the whales can't keep up with, which suggests that the whales aren't aware of the other half of the world and that the reason for the buildup isn't because of increased production, but of a blockage of flow. But the whale did know that there was something special about Tedd and referred to her as a "Dangerous Rarity" so I'm guessing the whales are possibly aware of the Will of Magic and system changes. Maybe the whales are older than Pandora's current incarnation and witnessed the last system change?

That doesn't make much sense considering there are "whales" that consume excess energy on the main half. It does make you wonder how the energy is produced to begin with, is it a byproduct of another process? Is it the same as how humans and other animals breath oxygen and give off carbon dioxide, and then plants take in the carbon dioxide and give off oxygen? If the "whales" eat magic, what do they give off as waste and then what takes the waste and turns it back into magic?

Well, guess the chances of seeing Kitty again before the end of the arc has increased. Of course it shouldn't be as bad as some people think since Rhoda and Catalina aren't in the forms Kitty saw them in so Kitty shouldn't recognize them. Although, if Rhoda was to go up to Kitty and be like "Hi, um, you don't know us, but you were chasing us when we looked different, I happened to do something to slow you down, did it have any side effects?" Also, January?

That's why I figure that either each half of the world has their own Will of magic, or there's just the one Will but it can manipulate how magic works in each half independently, with the magic energy flowing between being the only constant.

Just as long as they don't catch you holding a banana, you'll be fine.

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=579 Even Catalina thought that was a lot for a note, hehe. Also way to innuendo Pandora. LOL

I think much of it has to do with how they talk, the times that I've heard Obama talk about issues, he's been calm, to the point, polite, even when being criticized. Trump on the other hand has been quite the opposite, the tweets, the interviews, when he gets criticized, he doubles down with criticisms back, and he just comes off as unprofessional. His overall attitude just doesn't make me want to take him seriously and I've thought to myself a number of times that if he just toned it back a few notches then maybe people wouldn't go after him so much.

I have never had trouble peeling bananas from the stem end, just break the skin at the base of the stem with your thumbnail and pull the stem back.

Before Justin's date with him?! NOOOOOOOO!

Also, this was over 2 months ago, she's very recently bit slapped by a couple reality checks, the possible system change and her talk with Adrian and I'm pretty certain the latter hit the hardest.

There's also George Foreman and his five sons, all named George. From the great Wiki:

There was speculation as to whether DGB (at least in terms of the inner circle of DGB) knows about the Will and that it could change the system, but why wouldn't Edward know about it? Unless Arthur didn't learn about it until after he passed leadership of the paranormal division to Edward and whatever new position Arthur took was even more in the know. The only other explanation is Arthur's reasoning for keeping the knowledge of how to get magic a secret was the same as Edward's in that they don't want everyone being able to get magic because the chaos it would cause would overwhelm them. Disco Wizard said that Magic can handle a greater awareness for a while if people can't figure out how to use it, that statement would fit both theories though as people can still believe that superheroes exist and such as long that they also believe that it's a rare occurrence. The only thing is, DGB has probably been lucky that none of the rogue wizards that have cropped up figured it out and took the info to the internet. And we all know that once something gets posted on the internet, it's dang near impossible to get it removed as a number of people would either have screenshot the page or downloaded it and posted it to other sites. I'm guessing that rogue wizards and mages probably never question how they got their magic, like how Not_Tengu believed he was given a gift to enslave people, and that it was some divine power that lead him to Moperville, and those rogues probably rarely were given spell books as well and any that were found with spell books were either books that they wrote themselves by trial and error and not nearly as verbose, or they gained the spell that let them create proper spell books. It's probably rare that an Immortal would give a rogue wizard/mage a spell book, Rhoda might be considered a rogue in terms of not yet being known by DGB.

It's hard to tell because of the freckles, but Catalina is blushing as well.

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=578 That's a lot of text on that note. I'm surprised Pandora said all that. I expected just stating what the book was for, not a practical introduction and admitting to being responsible for Rhoda having magic. Also not sure if we should trust her statement of the reason for giving Rhoda the mark was to save her from the boar, though I guess Pandora wouldn't turn down any opportunity to mark someone, like "Hey, that girl I scared on the news is about to be gored by a boar, I could scare it off for her, but she seem to have a yearning that allows for me to give her size changing magic, so let's go with that and see what happens."

The Pharaoh wasn't the highest power among mortal Egyptians, the Pharaoh's cat was.