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  1. Posted

    7 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Pandora watches television.

     

    (Well, either she watches TV, or she keeps up with some other media that discusses TV, closely enough to be very familiar with House, M.D. and his foibles.)

     

    I also noticed that in the linked conversation, Pandora never takes on the little girl form, meaning it's *possible* that Adrian doesn't know that's her.....

    Also worth noting is that, if I were alive for hundreds of years, I'd be interested in the new ways in which people communicate and amuse themselves as well. Isn't a good plot-twist in fiction the definition of something unexpected, and isn't that Pandora has been craving? I assume she's watched all seasons of Game of Thrones at this point ^_^

    Actually, now we're talking about it, it surprises me that Pandora hasn't become a giant weeb or something. Surely, what she's longing for could only be provided by fiction, right?

  2. Posted

    Either way, seeing as he's been working on this Q&A for a long while now, you would be too late to send anything in for this one. I can imagine him remembering questions for later, though, or perhaps answering them directly (if appropriate)

  3. Posted

    Honestly, I would imagine a lot of magic people would be attracted to the magic clog in Moperville one way or another, be it to kill the excessive amount of vampires there, try to figure out what's going on, or some other reason. If we have griffins from another dimension* coming to Moperville for this reason, it's only a matter of time before the human family of our very magical cast would do the same.

    *not actually another dimension

  5. Posted

    13 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    I disagree.  I want to see how much drama can be sandwiched between Grace's dream early Friday morning and the Lunchtime Roundtable discussions on Monday.

    This lunchtime roundtable discussion could be one of the greatest recaps in webcomic history.

  6. Posted

    21 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Having a new major story arc named Sister III would make sense because not only would it likely involve sisters being reunited, but the events of "So a Date" suggests that another attempt to get Ellen to zap Elliot may be made in the near future (comic time). So I can imagine we'll have separate substories of talking to Edward about vampires and such, Susan and Diane meeting, Ellen maybe zapping Elliot.

    I had not even considered Susan and Diane. Damn, that's brilliant. That combined with Ellen zapping Elliot can definitely result in a good "Sister" arc. I'm getting hype :3

    Let's hope this new arc will take place at least a few days after the dozen arcs we have been experiencing the past two years or so.

  7. Posted

    A "Sister III" would be awesome. Some short storylines that could include the number 3 are those mentioned above, and "Shade" and "Relations". I kinda doubt Dan is going back to his very first storyarc, though. I have to re-read "End of an Era", but that and "Sister" seem the most likely. The title may also be in l33t-speak.

  9. Posted

    14 hours ago, RainbowWizard said:

    Although, saying that, do the characters in-continuity know the "It's More Fun That Way" rule we know from outside continuity periods?

    It technically hasn't been ever brought up, though the characters do know about magic's flair for the dramatic. Knowing Moperville North (the school), characters might already not take the world "entirely serious", so I think most characters automatically don't really worry about it like we would in real life? It's like they know they are in a cartoon. Knowing the fourth-wall breaking aspects of the very early days, this may even technically be true.

    I don't think discussing whether the characters know that they are "perfectly safe" from the "dangers" of magic is a valuable discussion, other than philosophical "meta" discussions :P

    Characters would be more worried about being "stuck" in a form than about magic changing their brain or resulting in physical damage.

    I just realized Vladia falls completely out of this idea. I blame "the early days of the comic" again.

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  10. Posted

    6 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    I may have been ninja'd on this, but I think it's entirely possible that the new spell Elliot received is a male secret identity. He may find this out in the next strip.

    As for the rest of the thread, I was told there would be no math. :icon_confused:

    I think this is might be the most likely theory brought up thus far. I would find it rather boring, but I can easily imagine Elliot trying to go "back to male" resulting in him taking on a male identity instead.

    3 hours ago, Haylo said:

    Is anyone else wondering if, now that Elliot has fully accepted his Cheerleadra form, his "normal me" form might now be Cheerleadra?

    This is also something I'm considering, and though Ijuin is right that this would be a needless complication, I would definitely find this more fun and interesting than another male form.

  13. Posted

    5 hours ago, Matoyak said:
    6 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Hmm, compared to his more recent "gender-meh" attitude, it was interesting to see Elliot state outright he's mentally male even when transformed, in the immediate aftermath of his first outing as Cheerleadra.

    This is one reason I pushed against the "Elliot is genderfluid" idea that was going around on the forums before the "gender-neutral / gender-meh" shift in the story. He identified as male regardless of his outer form, so that's what I felt he should be known/referred to as. This has clearly changed by now though, or has at least become much less the case.

    Dan may or may not have changed the way in which he writes Elliot in these six years. After all, Dan has been learning about gender-related topics a lot since he started the comic. It may also be, in-universe, that Elliot simply didn't understand himself well enough and went for a "of course I'm male I've always been told I'm male"-perspective. Knowing Elliot, this is not out-of-character at all.

  14. Posted

    Say, I know I am about two weeks late, but if I may refocus the discussion on the page initially under discussion again: I hate that this page doesn't show the title of Elliot's book. Looks rather blank, based on panel 2. This may, of course, be a mistake by Dan, but it creates more doubt that the totally normal book really is Elliot's spellbook. (Maybe it really is a totally normal book?)

    And, to weigh in on the whole gender discussion; I feel like this page further confirms that Elliot could be agender or gender-neutral in some form, which I have been suggesting since back when this page came out. I am happy ^_^

    If Elliot got a new power, may it be "turning other people into men"? That would be amusing, knowing Ashley's comment on this page. It would be the cutest non-binary relationship :3

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  17. Posted

    Say, I don't know if this has been discussed before and I don't know how much sense this makes, but how big is the chance that Susan's father had a child with a blonde lover, then married Susan's mother, who adopted the father's daughter (Susan). Six years later, when the father still had an affair with the same woman, he got kicked out of the house, but for some reason, Susan stayed with her stepmother.

    This sequence of events could have happened as followed: Susan and Diane were split up at birth because the father didn't want both children (and for whatever reason, the biological mother couldn't take care of either of them). Susan may have stayed with her current mother for financial reasons and because she lost respect for her father.

    If all of that is the case... Oh boy, that soap opera comment above would be accurate. I'm looking forward to seeing Dan try to explain all that, though XP

    This is one theory, I suppose.

  18. Posted

    This should be pretty interesting. Another complication for Diane to make contact with Susan. I still think it is more likely Susan and don't really understand why they think she would be, but I can definitely understand how this would make Diane feel difficult about confronting her. I actually really like the idea of Nanase and Diane being in this boat together right now :P

  19. Posted

    I'm not big on censor slays, but this panel is kinda begging to be edited and I am too lazy to think up any new text or figure out what font to use.

    Nanase and Diane - censor.PNG

    So, anyone have any good ideas for alternative text for this panel? ;p

  20. Posted

    On 4/25/2016 at 6:10 PM, HarJIT said:

    https://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/08/parentheses/ -

    That is simply beautiful. I really should start reading everything Munroe has written in his blog. That and Thing Explainer are literally the only things I haven't read from him yet. (I'm pretty sure I've even read all major interviews including him by now)

    (We might be getting a bit off topic though, unless someone could somehow turn all this into a strip slay (that would be cool))

  21. Posted

    On 4/24/2016 at 9:47 PM, AFNB said:

    A little bit of both - the name "Phill" suggests that it's a gas station (Phil --> Phill ---> Fill), and from there I went by what was visible - so maybe, logical deduction.

    Wait, Dan turned the panel into a freakin' rebus??

    Huh.

  22. Posted

    8 hours ago, Scotty said:

    We've had this discussion about whether or not the TFG can be used to cure cancer or other genetic issues. The only evidence in favour of this goes back to when Elliot was trying to convince Justin that getting zapped was safe, saying that studies showed that it increased longevity (as well as doing wonders for the sinuses). One would assume that part of increasing longevity would involve repairing damaged or cancerous cells.

    Though I think it doing wonders for the sinuses may be very true, I doubt that Elliot knew what he was talking about while saying it increases longevity (in particular because I assume no such "studies" exist (or at least aren't easily available to the group) and Elliot doesn't seem like the kind of person who would read them (though I guess Tedd would know this kind of stuff)).

    I love nesting brackets, by the way.

  23. Posted

    Nothing warms the heart more than a webcartoonist encouraging fan speculation ^ _ ^ {Well I suppose plenty of stuff does like puppies and stuff but youknowwhatImean)

    I have to appreciate the fact that Dan avoids fanfiction because he's worried his story might take a similar direction. Like, El Goonish Shive is just one big original fanfic. I love that.

    But yeah, I'm still active on a forum where the moderators are trolls that hate half the other members (including me), so I know how shitty that is. Still wouldn't call the environment toxic, though, because many of the members are really kind. It's hard to create a perfect balance: since I've come to this place, I've found it a very kind environment, though somewhat strictly enforced compared to what I'm comfortable with. I also often feel like this place doesn't really encourage any kind of meaningful conversations, with everyone just kinda talking past eachother... But I guess I'm going way off-topic now ^_^; 

    Point is, El Goonish Shive has a good fandom and I'm happy with the way Dan handles it :3