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sorcyressHere are some things for today, in no particular order:
*Went through some papers, which has resulted in a dragon's horde of recycling tossed on my floor. It's extremely dramatic, and going to be a pain in the ass to actually clean up into a paper bag and bring to the recycling bin.
*Also progress is ever-so-slowly being made on the whole papers project thing. Sigh.
*I had lunch outside, and there was delicious rolling thunder as I watched the marbles (I've been rewatching the old marblelympics while watching the current season, I've just about finished the 2018 winter games, which were stunning). I was largely done with lunch when the sky-water started to appear, so I finished my yogurt from the relative safety from the porch and then when that started to get too damp, went inside.
*My hair is in a bunch of skinny braids to make it all wavy later, am happy about this, but man is it actually kinda annoying. I managed to somehow half-pin it (read: pinned it up with the hairstick but then it half-unraveled) which was quite charming and gave me the effect of the long braids without the annoyance of going over my ears and getting in my face.
*Was morose at Ezri. Also cried for a bit this evening. Neither of these things have made me feel long-term better, since the underlying causes tend to boil down to "it's a pandemic, things are fucking terrible".
*I am incredibly fond of the Trogdorization of the Seattle Kraken logo. Also, how fucking badass is "the Kraken" as a sportsteam? Dang! I like hockey, in a vague "not actually following but damn it's pretty to watch" sort of way, and now I can have a favourite hockey team that doesn't make people hate me because Boston.
*I've been reading Shlock Mercenary. One of the incredibly rich things about the internet is that there are webcomics out there with literal decades, plural, of comics at this point. I've been enjoying, over the last couple years, going through and embracing some of these!
(I started with Freefall, which I read mostly at school, mmm...this past calendar year I think? Tailsteak mentioned it offhand in a tweet, and my brain went "oh yeah, I never did get into that back when during the first era of webcomics, might as well try" and got absolutely hooked. It is a marvelous comic and kinda extra fascinating for how little the art has changed since its conception in 1998. Really enjoyable, well recommended!
Next was a complete reread of Order of the Stick and it was the worst thing ever, as I somehow mistakenly thought the current comic was up to around 1400 or so, and was *very* rudely cut off when I caught up with the actual comic which was in the mid-1100s. The comic is probably approaching a conclusion of the giant arc, and absolutely continues to deserve to be in my Top Five1.
During the pandemic, someone retweeted Mae Dean announcing her coming out storyline on Real Life Comics and I was all "huh, never did get around to reading that one really, might as well support a trans girl and check it out. And damn, it was pretty compelling! Like, a lot of the video game jokes are a little dated, but I'm a sucker for a benevolent megalomaniac dictator, and reading it all at once decades later means I didn't notice the couple-years hiatus in there.
And so now I'm about a year in to Shlock Mercenary, which my dad's been a big fan of for a while --I'm pretty sure he actually made a kickstarter account to back some of the books! I was explicitly warned on twitter by Howard Taylor that I should start with "book 12" but damnit, I'm a completionist! I do understand and sympathise his whole "yeah, the data shows people who start at the beginning only read like three weeks worth" but a) I'm stubborn, b) I started reading webcomics in early 2003, and I have read _everything_2, I promise I've seen worse art, stupider jokes, and less interesting plots3, and c) about ten months in, the strip offers up a weird little foreshadowing with a delicious fourth wall break and look, you saw in the footnotes how I mentioned loving 1/0? The fourth wall's been my personal enemy for_ever_!
I'm enjoying it, in other words. Not sure what I'll read next, but I'm thinking Kevin and Kell might be good --I did read it for ages, but lost it somewhere along the way, and if I want to go with sheer volume of strips, I'm not gonna beat the daily strip that's been running since 1995.)
*I am playing a shark clicker game and it's very cute and I'm resolutely not looking anything up about it which means I'm probably doing terribly. I spent way too much time on it yesterday, but today was an alright balance (since good clicker games work best as played in 5 minute increments once an hour or so).
*I should go to bed, which means I should clean my room. Ugh. Maybe I put everything on the floor and clean it tomorrow. Goodnight?
~Sor
MOOP!
1: The offhand "top five" I tend to name are (in no order): xkcd, Narbonic, Order of the Stick, 1/0 -slash- Leftover Soup, and an ambiguous fifth slot that I fill with various whatever-jumps-to-mind. Really, my all time favourite webcomic *ever* remains Narbonic, which I love enough that when Shaenon kickstarted a reprint drive of the two volume full-story set, I went ahead and purchased a second complete copy, even though it's basically identical. Currently they're lent to Austin and Bee, but seriously, if you wanna read this mad science comic and you need paper, let me know.
2: I thought the other day about maybe trying to make a list of every webcomic that I was caught up with and reading regularly at one point or another, and then decided that that's the crazy talking, and I'm not quite there. I wonder how many comics would be on my list that no one else would remember or know about. Ohmygod, Irritability still exists and is even being updated? As is 21st Century Fox? And Antihero For Hire??? I thought it was exciting when I refound SGVY4, dang, everything is still going! (I wonder if Ghastley is still online...uh...don't search for that one.)
3: Oh! Somewhere between Freefall and OotS, I started re-reading College Roomies From Hell, which was one of my first favourites alongside Sluggy. I read a ton of stuff I remembered, and then a much more ambiguous batch of stuff I sorta remembered and then stuff I mostly didn't remember and then it got Really Dark And Sad and I stopped caring entirely. Which is fascinating, because (see above) I can generally do dark and also crappy.
4: ...which apparently has had a huge site redesign as of June29th and the comic itself is not up again yet. Whoops?
*Went through some papers, which has resulted in a dragon's horde of recycling tossed on my floor. It's extremely dramatic, and going to be a pain in the ass to actually clean up into a paper bag and bring to the recycling bin.
*Also progress is ever-so-slowly being made on the whole papers project thing. Sigh.
*I had lunch outside, and there was delicious rolling thunder as I watched the marbles (I've been rewatching the old marblelympics while watching the current season, I've just about finished the 2018 winter games, which were stunning). I was largely done with lunch when the sky-water started to appear, so I finished my yogurt from the relative safety from the porch and then when that started to get too damp, went inside.
*My hair is in a bunch of skinny braids to make it all wavy later, am happy about this, but man is it actually kinda annoying. I managed to somehow half-pin it (read: pinned it up with the hairstick but then it half-unraveled) which was quite charming and gave me the effect of the long braids without the annoyance of going over my ears and getting in my face.
*Was morose at Ezri. Also cried for a bit this evening. Neither of these things have made me feel long-term better, since the underlying causes tend to boil down to "it's a pandemic, things are fucking terrible".
*I am incredibly fond of the Trogdorization of the Seattle Kraken logo. Also, how fucking badass is "the Kraken" as a sportsteam? Dang! I like hockey, in a vague "not actually following but damn it's pretty to watch" sort of way, and now I can have a favourite hockey team that doesn't make people hate me because Boston.
*I've been reading Shlock Mercenary. One of the incredibly rich things about the internet is that there are webcomics out there with literal decades, plural, of comics at this point. I've been enjoying, over the last couple years, going through and embracing some of these!
(I started with Freefall, which I read mostly at school, mmm...this past calendar year I think? Tailsteak mentioned it offhand in a tweet, and my brain went "oh yeah, I never did get into that back when during the first era of webcomics, might as well try" and got absolutely hooked. It is a marvelous comic and kinda extra fascinating for how little the art has changed since its conception in 1998. Really enjoyable, well recommended!
Next was a complete reread of Order of the Stick and it was the worst thing ever, as I somehow mistakenly thought the current comic was up to around 1400 or so, and was *very* rudely cut off when I caught up with the actual comic which was in the mid-1100s. The comic is probably approaching a conclusion of the giant arc, and absolutely continues to deserve to be in my Top Five1.
During the pandemic, someone retweeted Mae Dean announcing her coming out storyline on Real Life Comics and I was all "huh, never did get around to reading that one really, might as well support a trans girl and check it out. And damn, it was pretty compelling! Like, a lot of the video game jokes are a little dated, but I'm a sucker for a benevolent megalomaniac dictator, and reading it all at once decades later means I didn't notice the couple-years hiatus in there.
And so now I'm about a year in to Shlock Mercenary, which my dad's been a big fan of for a while --I'm pretty sure he actually made a kickstarter account to back some of the books! I was explicitly warned on twitter by Howard Taylor that I should start with "book 12" but damnit, I'm a completionist! I do understand and sympathise his whole "yeah, the data shows people who start at the beginning only read like three weeks worth" but a) I'm stubborn, b) I started reading webcomics in early 2003, and I have read _everything_2, I promise I've seen worse art, stupider jokes, and less interesting plots3, and c) about ten months in, the strip offers up a weird little foreshadowing with a delicious fourth wall break and look, you saw in the footnotes how I mentioned loving 1/0? The fourth wall's been my personal enemy for_ever_!
I'm enjoying it, in other words. Not sure what I'll read next, but I'm thinking Kevin and Kell might be good --I did read it for ages, but lost it somewhere along the way, and if I want to go with sheer volume of strips, I'm not gonna beat the daily strip that's been running since 1995.)
*I am playing a shark clicker game and it's very cute and I'm resolutely not looking anything up about it which means I'm probably doing terribly. I spent way too much time on it yesterday, but today was an alright balance (since good clicker games work best as played in 5 minute increments once an hour or so).
*I should go to bed, which means I should clean my room. Ugh. Maybe I put everything on the floor and clean it tomorrow. Goodnight?
~Sor
MOOP!
1: The offhand "top five" I tend to name are (in no order): xkcd, Narbonic, Order of the Stick, 1/0 -slash- Leftover Soup, and an ambiguous fifth slot that I fill with various whatever-jumps-to-mind. Really, my all time favourite webcomic *ever* remains Narbonic, which I love enough that when Shaenon kickstarted a reprint drive of the two volume full-story set, I went ahead and purchased a second complete copy, even though it's basically identical. Currently they're lent to Austin and Bee, but seriously, if you wanna read this mad science comic and you need paper, let me know.
2: I thought the other day about maybe trying to make a list of every webcomic that I was caught up with and reading regularly at one point or another, and then decided that that's the crazy talking, and I'm not quite there. I wonder how many comics would be on my list that no one else would remember or know about. Ohmygod, Irritability still exists and is even being updated? As is 21st Century Fox? And Antihero For Hire??? I thought it was exciting when I refound SGVY4, dang, everything is still going! (I wonder if Ghastley is still online...uh...don't search for that one.)
3: Oh! Somewhere between Freefall and OotS, I started re-reading College Roomies From Hell, which was one of my first favourites alongside Sluggy. I read a ton of stuff I remembered, and then a much more ambiguous batch of stuff I sorta remembered and then stuff I mostly didn't remember and then it got Really Dark And Sad and I stopped caring entirely. Which is fascinating, because (see above) I can generally do dark and also crappy.
4: ...which apparently has had a huge site redesign as of June29th and the comic itself is not up again yet. Whoops?