#page response

[leletha-jann]

I did not have "feral Lackya" on my bingo card, but then I didn't have "resident airship pigeons" either, and the pigeons are a delightful detail.

Apparently delicious, too, but that's someone else's problem.

oooo, so we're following the engineering group first??

all the better to dramatically cut back to the bridge group to see Klaus being trouble or in trouble (not remotely mutually exclusive)

there might have been lackaya in the big scenes prepping for Sturmhalten where there's just a lot of background characters

but the last time I'm sure we saw one was when they came to get Gil on Klaus orders and had never seen him so angry ('especially with you!')

[leletha-jann]

Ohhhhhhhh, wait. This isn't "Bohrlaika is still coming out of the timestop and woke up fighting".

This is SHE BROKE THE TUNNEL WALLS with that big sword.

The thing everyone was repeatedly told NOT TO DO.

...this whole tunnel structure is coming down with them inside it, cosmic forces are collapsing on top of them, and Gil is desperately yelling at the people he loves to run, run, because last time this happened he was on the outside alone for years and he can't bear to lose them to the timestop again.

Oh, guys, I'm having some feelings about this.

...also, as ever, well done our professors for setting this up back in 2014. Showin' us how it's done, as always.

[stil-lindigo]

PALESTINIAN FAMILY FORCED TO RESTART FUNDRAISING - PLEASE DONATE!

PROGRESS: £520 / £35,000

a little while ago, I was contacted by Amal Abushaban, a Palestinian mother of 5, for help regarding her Gofundme campaign.

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I tried kicking up a major fuss about it online, as well as trying to pester Gofundme Support on my own account, but all it did was send me in circles as I desperately pleaded for the Gofundme Support person I was assigned to at least re-instate the damn fund. Even worse, Amal got her first email today about refunds going through.

Regrettably, Amal is being forced to start over completely in her fundraising efforts. Her beneficiary has started this Paypal fund for her. Please donate and share!

PROGRESS: £520 / £35,000

[post-it-notes7]

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

[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)

End transcript.

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

[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:

[redysetdare]

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]

OK, Eekineezer the chestnut cart merchant rat is funny, but what's really hitting my heart about this week's pages is Gil.

Gil is having so much fun.

Gil has spent years working nonstop, to exhaustion and beyond, to achieve a very specific goal: the timestop brought down, and Agatha restored to Mechanicsburg as the Heterodyne. And now those things are happening, and he's got Tarvek with him as well, and he's so happy.

Admittedly, I remember my original response to Gil (the first time I read the comic) being "oh boy, we're gonna have to kick this guy down the stairs a few times", and between the evolving artwork and the character development in progress, Gil doesn't even fully read as Gil to me until book 7, here:

(It's the coat. Dang, that is a good coat.)

...but I got over that pretty quickly as I got to know him, and by all counts sufficient stair-kicking has happened, OK, we can stop kicking Gil down the stairs any time now.

...and now we are again seeing the big ol' doofus who, to prance for basically the first female of his species he'd ever met, dropped both of them out of an airship in a prototype airplane that did not work...

...and it turns out I missed that guy.

I'm happy to see Gil this happy. That is all, thank you.

[leletha-jann]

Regarding this page? Gonna have to go with this one:

"pointing at a thing we can all see, screaming about it"

Tag urself I'm the "stranded in a mosh pit he does not want to be in" Klaus

[zebracorn-chan]

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

[starflungwaddledee]

from: @starflungwaddledee to: @post-it-notes7

message from santa: "happy holidays post-it-notes! 🎄🥳 i know you very politely only wished for a few modest things- characters high fiving, or struggling in christmas attire- but i hope you'll still enjoy this given that i kinda went the opposite direction entirely! i'm an enormous fan of your work and most times you post anything i wind up browsing your art tag from tip-to-tail in enraptured delight. as such, i thought it was only fair i give back something a little more significant in gratitude for all the joy your work has given me. i knew i wanted to do a comic, so i was thrilled you already had a whole storyverse for me to work from!! this scene seemed the most obvious choice (chapter 8 of "wishful thinking" on ao3) given that i enjoy a dramatic fight scene 😂 i tried to stick as beat-by-beat to the writing as i could and worked in as many details as possible; i hope it'll be fun to see it envisioned this way! merry christmas! ~starflung 🎀🔔 "

[floralstorms]

“WELL WELL WELL BEING”

huh

[leletha-jann]

On the upside, we're all having the same reaction, and it is this.

i know things and i have to wait too many days for other people's reactions

[cowboyshit]

2019 -> 2023

[inkskinned]

it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.

[rjl11898]

Nothing gets me crying in the club faster than these two specific lesbians 🥹🥹🥹 their fate is INTERTWINED and they are eachother’s HOME UGH!!