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[[caption-width-right:291:So many awkward silences...]]
->'''Boole.exe:''' The way we think stems ultimately from either the first Nought or One. Please select "Continue Lesson".\\
'''Dromie:''' Uh...\\
'''Boole.exe:''' Q: What principle best describes what you have just heard?\\
'''Dromie:''' Uh...\\
'''Boole.exe:''' You have three seconds.\\
'''Dromie:''' UH!!
-->-- [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/22/ Chapter 1: We’re So Connected It Kills Me]]
''[[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/ Vulgar Vulgar]]'' is a weekly science-fiction webcomic by Irish non-binary artist Coireall Carroll Kent. It began on 10th June 2020, and so far follows the life of Dromie Lorenz from birth to adolescence, as one of a civilization of pyramid-headed bionic human beings. The comic’s backdrop is a low-key technological dystopia with evidence of a [[TheThemeParkVersion totalitarian ultra-capitalist regime.]]
Vulgar Vulgar is prime [[SpeculativeFiction Speculative Fiction]] and [[ScienceFantasy Science Fantasy]], even though it heavily relies on the concept of humanity’s submission to invasive, corporation-built technology (with tech-jargon to boot).
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!!''Vulgar Vulgar'' provides examples of:
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Gendered-language is used [[WriteWhatYouKnow pretty sparingly]] around the main characters.
*BioAugmentation: [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/29/ Sex-Ed]] reveals the weird puberty that everyone has to go through. Most likely a side-effect of tampering with the human body to assimilate with technology, but who knows.
*BodyHorror: Everyone’s head has been replaced with a square-based pyramid (and judging from [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/6/ Dromie’s birth]] by C-section, they’re born like that now). Also, depending on a person’s sex, they’re covered either with Charles Burns-style mouths or tentacles on their abdomens.
*BrainComputerInterface: Students at [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/20/ St.Isidore’s]] plug themselves into a mother-computer to access their classes.
*CoolButInefficient: The cybernetic head invention was invented in the name of progress, but seems to be [[NeglectfulPrecursors more of a hindrance]] than anything. They seem to work like desktop computers with VR elements, yet they were installed at the cost of anybody having a face (supposedly undesirable).
*EatingOptional: Or else, not possible. Sustenance is gained [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/13/ by charging]].
**Dromie receives a birthday cake, but only as a token gesture to blow out the candles with a handheld fan. Looks like the symbolism of the birthday cake remains, [[FutureImperfect but they don’t eat it.]]
*ExtraordinaryWorldOrdinaryProblems: Reckoning with a [[Squick monstrous version]] of puberty and the general [[ExistentialHorror existential horror]] of never having your own face are prominent issues. But just as much are Dromie’s bad grades and [[KidsAreCruel violent tendencies]], as well as Touman’s struggle with demotion.
*FetishFuelFuture: Potentially. Sorry.
*FutureImperfect: An alternate, [[ScamReligion made-up history]] based on [[ParodyReligion Christian]] motifs and ideas [[ArtisticLicenseEducation is taught in Dromie’s class.]]
**The mathematician George Boole is both a teaching software and a [[GodGuise God Guise]].
**TheSingularity: A teacher at St.Isidore’s claims that The Singularity “happened in the distant past”, using a pseudo-Christian theory resembling Adam and Eve, suggesting that this version of humanity evolved from pure numbers.
*FutureSlang: Tavine gives Dromie the derogatory nickname “Dromie Decimal”. [[FormulaicMagic The purity of the “fundamental” numbers, 0 and 1,]] is a nod to binary code. So calling Dromie a decimal number is math-based slang intended to be insulting.
*GoneHorriblyWrong: Again, the inventions of Verticality had weird side-effects and implications: loss of head and face, and the growth of mouths or tentacles.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every page is named from a quote from said page, resulting in some unfortunate examples such as [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/36 (Pop, pop, whoom, whoom, whum).]]
*IgnoredExpert: Touman.
*LGBTAwakening: The author has mentioned in a comment-section discussion that the binary code analogy is directly related to the gender binary in this coming-of-age.
*ParentsAsPeople: Touman and Marinee have (or, at least, had) lives outside of their parenting.
*SpeculativeFictionLGBT: Particularly referencing a world where the gender binary is imposed on individuals when they begin puberty rather than from birth.
*SuitWithVestedInterests: Verticality demotes Touman after he pitches his solution to a problem with their invention, claiming that taking his ideas on board would end their chain of production.
*Technobabble: Occurs in dialogue and in strings of jargon-laden processes that can cover entire pages.
* TheBully: Tavine is [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/35 very openly a jerk.]]
*TheMetaverse: The students at St.Isidore’s are educated by accessing a Metaverse-like space where they’re taught by the program Boole.exe.
*TheTalk: [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/32/ Awkward moments ensue at question time.]]
*Transhuman: Everybody depicted in Vulgar Vulgar has the same pyramid-head augmentation.
*TransNature: Dromie is distressed by the grotesque visual in Sex-Ed class, adding that the strange mutations that everybody must undergo“[are] some kind of joke”.
*UnusualUserInterface: Yes, the citizens in Vulgar Vulgar do browse the internet and software by plugging themselves in.
*WhereDidWeGoWrong: Touman and Marinee have a conversation after finding out that Dromie punched the school’s learning software in the face.
*WetwareBody: But also kind of Wetware CPU. It’s difficult to tell.
*WetwareCPU: But also kind of Wetware Body. It’s difficult to tell.
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[[caption-width-right:291:So many awkward silences...]]
->'''Boole.exe:''' The way we think stems ultimately from either the first Nought or One. Please select "Continue Lesson".\\
'''Dromie:''' Uh...\\
'''Boole.exe:''' Q: What principle best describes what you have just heard?\\
'''Dromie:''' Uh...\\
'''Boole.exe:''' You have three seconds.\\
'''Dromie:''' UH!!
-->-- [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/22/ Chapter 1: We’re So Connected It Kills Me]]
''[[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/ Vulgar Vulgar]]'' is a weekly science-fiction webcomic by Irish non-binary artist Coireall Carroll Kent. It began on 10th June 2020, and so far follows the life of Dromie Lorenz from birth to adolescence, as one of a civilization of pyramid-headed bionic human beings. The comic’s backdrop is a low-key technological dystopia with evidence of a [[TheThemeParkVersion totalitarian ultra-capitalist regime.]]
Vulgar Vulgar is prime [[SpeculativeFiction Speculative Fiction]] and [[ScienceFantasy Science Fantasy]], even though it heavily relies on the concept of humanity’s submission to invasive, corporation-built technology (with tech-jargon to boot).
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!!''Vulgar Vulgar'' provides examples of:
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Gendered-language is used [[WriteWhatYouKnow pretty sparingly]] around the main characters.
*BioAugmentation: [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/29/ Sex-Ed]] reveals the weird puberty that everyone has to go through. Most likely a side-effect of tampering with the human body to assimilate with technology, but who knows.
*BodyHorror: Everyone’s head has been replaced with a square-based pyramid (and judging from [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/6/ Dromie’s birth]] by C-section, they’re born like that now). Also, depending on a person’s sex, they’re covered either with Charles Burns-style mouths or tentacles on their abdomens.
*BrainComputerInterface: Students at [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/20/ St.Isidore’s]] plug themselves into a mother-computer to access their classes.
*CoolButInefficient: The cybernetic head invention was invented in the name of progress, but seems to be [[NeglectfulPrecursors more of a hindrance]] than anything. They seem to work like desktop computers with VR elements, yet they were installed at the cost of anybody having a face (supposedly undesirable).
*EatingOptional: Or else, not possible. Sustenance is gained [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/13/ by charging]].
**Dromie receives a birthday cake, but only as a token gesture to blow out the candles with a handheld fan. Looks like the symbolism of the birthday cake remains, [[FutureImperfect but they don’t eat it.]]
*ExtraordinaryWorldOrdinaryProblems: Reckoning with a [[Squick monstrous version]] of puberty and the general [[ExistentialHorror existential horror]] of never having your own face are prominent issues. But just as much are Dromie’s bad grades and [[KidsAreCruel violent tendencies]], as well as Touman’s struggle with demotion.
*FetishFuelFuture: Potentially. Sorry.
*FutureImperfect: An alternate, [[ScamReligion made-up history]] based on [[ParodyReligion Christian]] motifs and ideas [[ArtisticLicenseEducation is taught in Dromie’s class.]]
**The mathematician George Boole is both a teaching software and a [[GodGuise God Guise]].
**TheSingularity: A teacher at St.Isidore’s claims that The Singularity “happened in the distant past”, using a pseudo-Christian theory resembling Adam and Eve, suggesting that this version of humanity evolved from pure numbers.
*FutureSlang: Tavine gives Dromie the derogatory nickname “Dromie Decimal”. [[FormulaicMagic The purity of the “fundamental” numbers, 0 and 1,]] is a nod to binary code. So calling Dromie a decimal number is math-based slang intended to be insulting.
*GoneHorriblyWrong: Again, the inventions of Verticality had weird side-effects and implications: loss of head and face, and the growth of mouths or tentacles.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every page is named from a quote from said page, resulting in some unfortunate examples such as [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/36 (Pop, pop, whoom, whoom, whum).]]
*IgnoredExpert: Touman.
*LGBTAwakening: The author has mentioned in a comment-section discussion that the binary code analogy is directly related to the gender binary in this coming-of-age.
*ParentsAsPeople: Touman and Marinee have (or, at least, had) lives outside of their parenting.
*SpeculativeFictionLGBT: Particularly referencing a world where the gender binary is imposed on individuals when they begin puberty rather than from birth.
*SuitWithVestedInterests: Verticality demotes Touman after he pitches his solution to a problem with their invention, claiming that taking his ideas on board would end their chain of production.
*Technobabble: Occurs in dialogue and in strings of jargon-laden processes that can cover entire pages.
* TheBully: Tavine is [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/35 very openly a jerk.]]
*TheMetaverse: The students at St.Isidore’s are educated by accessing a Metaverse-like space where they’re taught by the program Boole.exe.
*TheTalk: [[http://vulgarvulgar.the-comic.org/comics/32/ Awkward moments ensue at question time.]]
*Transhuman: Everybody depicted in Vulgar Vulgar has the same pyramid-head augmentation.
*TransNature: Dromie is distressed by the grotesque visual in Sex-Ed class, adding that the strange mutations that everybody must undergo“[are] some kind of joke”.
*UnusualUserInterface: Yes, the citizens in Vulgar Vulgar do browse the internet and software by plugging themselves in.
*WhereDidWeGoWrong: Touman and Marinee have a conversation after finding out that Dromie punched the school’s learning software in the face.
*WetwareBody: But also kind of Wetware CPU. It’s difficult to tell.
*WetwareCPU: But also kind of Wetware Body. It’s difficult to tell.
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