#page response

[ilovereading5252]

Someone please write a fic about a enterprising young writer in the girl genius world, maybe 10 years after the story ends, not wanting to write another heterodyne girl novel so instead they write the first book of „the heterodynes consorts“ a series that will become famous in all the known world!!!!!

Gil and Tavek won’t even be able to bring themselves to retaliate because Agatha is going to be pretty much the number one fan!

this is literally the cover of a bodice ripper wtf.

[leletha-jann]

Snickering about this all day. A+ dialogue. Reminds me of the sort of absolute candor you get out of Tarvek if you stomp on his toes hard enough.

(This is one of my favorite pages. Complete filter fail. Only facts. Love it.)

...so, uh, yeah, I have a favorite Dreen now, something I was not expecting.

[artsymeeshee]

Needed one more silly banter :p (One page left :’))

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[leletha-jann]

It was an unplanned bonus page AND IT WAS FUNNY.

(And the page before that was the biggest plot-forwarding action of the entire story arc.)

I jumped off like 8 years ago, Is Girl Genius' plot moving yet?

Yesterday's page consisted entirely of an extended reaction shot from an unnamed supporting character whose sole prior appearance was in a single panel eight months previously.

[leletha-jann]

Welcome back, Moloch von Zinzer!

We have missed you...

...but the universe has better aim (nyuk nyuk nyuk.) >:D

[post-it-notes7]

it's been an entire month since I posted them this cannot stand

[pokeberry5]

tim "faking" a bicycle accident to get his neighbor to come help him, based on @upswings's post, which gripped me by the throat the moment i read it

extras:

[leletha-jann]

Moloch does not remember signing up for this! (Tough.)

Unfortunately my circus unfortunately my monkeys.

[cosmicredcadet]

I wholeheartedly believe that the last thing that should be said in response to aspecs hating their identity is "don't worry! Aspecs can still do X, Y, and Z" and I'm so fucking serious about this.

The least helpful thing you can do to someone who have not accepted their aspec identity yet is give them ways to compensate for it. If an aspec person is upset over not being able to enter a romantic relationship, the last thing that should be done is to tell them they can still enter one or instead enter a QPR - not because that's not true but because that is quite literally going to stunt their ability to accept their aspec identity. Telling them they can instead enter a QPR when they're upset over the lack of romantic relationships is at MOST a bandaid for the main issue. Instead of them coming to accept their identity and accept who they are you have instead handed them an amatonormative alternative on a silver platter that allows them to pretend they still fit into amatonormativity without every deconstructing it. This is how we get QPRs getting shoved into an amatonormative framework - these people NEVER got over the "I'm sad that I'm aspec" phase because they were handed alternatives instead of given actual support in deconstructing their internalized aphobia, self hatred, and amatonormative biases.

[leletha-jann]

I really like the first panel of today's page. It's very nicely framed and balanced, almost mirrored. Tarvek and Agatha almost at the same (mirrored) angle, a Jägergeneral behind each of them, and Gil and Cap'n Dal in the center. Very good composition. Pleasing to the eye. Well done, Professor.

[floralstorms]

“WELL WELL WELL BEING”

huh

[leletha-jann]

I love this panel. Tarvek looks so frazzled and he's gotten through an entire glass of wine in between the previous panel and this one. Not even a pause.

Gil: "Yeah, OK, I feel that. You get another drink."

Tarvek, who comes from a family that poisons everything, seems to be expecting Gil to have his back here and trusts Gil implicitly not to poison this drink either (the previous one was Gil's glass of wine, Gil just handed it to him).

Y'all are cute, boys.

Image description: A panel from the webcomic Girl Genius. In it, Gil pours Tarvek a drink, looking concerned. Tarvek, sitting in an armchair, looks shocked.

Gil: What? How?

Tarvek: How does he do anything?! (bolded and italicized)

Gil: I've always assumed that he's so annoying, reality tries to avoid him.

Tarvek: I can believe that! (Bolded and italicized)

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This isn't my new favorite panel but it's definitely going up there with "HATE! Hate and drugs! Lovely, lovely drugs!"

[zebracorn-chan]

"sped up" "slowed down", IT'S NIGHTCORE AND DAYCORE.

[francesderwent]

thinking about snarky cultural/theological commentary and. the thing about snark is this: it’s easy, and it’s instant gratification. it’s easy because you’re playing to a likeminded audience. you get the way they think, you know the sort of things they find ridiculous, and so you know what’s going to play well with them. it’s not that hard to come up with a zinger that’s going to earn you applause from your own side. it’s also pretty easy to make another human being who’s not on your side look stupid, because we’re stupid creatures and we all have plenty of exploitable weak spots. it’s preaching to the choir, and it’s preaching meanly to the choir. and then, your snark bears all its fruit right away. you get the glowing feeling of having scored points against the enemy while being patted on the back by your friends for being so brave. if you succeeded in being snarky, you get the rewards of snark that very instant.

on the other hand, seeking to share the truth you possess in a mode in which it could actually be received—that is, says St Thomas, according to the mode of the recipient—that’s hard, and it’s so far from being instantly gratifying that you may never see the fruits of it in this life. not only are you not thinking about your likeminded audience, you’re not even going to trot out the truth simply in the way you understand it and call it your best effort. rather, you have to try to get inside your interlocutor’s frame of mind and understand how the truth you know is going to fulfill their own priorities and longings. you have to understand them so well that you see the truth of their position, even if that truth is buried very very deep, and then see how that truth connects them to the truth you see. you have to be insightful, and compassionate, and so, so patient. you don’t get to score any points, with anybody. your interlocutor might still get annoyed with you and turn around and make you look stupid. but you can’t just say “I’m going to speak the truth and I don’t care who hears and how they take it”—you have to care how they take it, because the truth is relational, it’s given and received, not just spouted into a void. and frankly you have to care how they take it because you have to care about their salvation.

don’t get me wrong, there are times in every person’s life when they will be called to stand up and be counted, to put fumbling words to what they hold most dear even if they can’t make everyone understand. but I don’t know that it’s a virtue to be always focused on being seen saying the truth, with no consideration given to who hears you and what they’ll hear in it—and it’s certainly not a virtue to be always focused on being seen saying the truth in a mean and funny way. “instruct the ignorant” is a spiritual work of mercy. but instruct the ignorant does not mean “instruct the ignorant while making the knowledgeable laugh and/or high five.”

[faithinlouisfuture]

FORMULA 1 : 2025 SEASON

[leletha-jann]

KRAZSMOKKIN

This is going STRAIGHT into the "favorite panels" collection. Feeling very vindicated about my "Jägers and Lakya hate each other because they're so similar" post.