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I would have preferred it if that world map thing had never been drawn. Knowing that there are only 8 nations in the entire world just makes thins more boring.
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Rather than nations, the way the surrounding places are named made me think of "Factions" instead.
I'm not seeing an Orwellian Retcon. Just your basic "Now that we're in charge, the dark days are over and we are leading the world to greatness."
If nothing else, the flashbacks have shown that the first Academists truly believed their Orphic rulers were insane tyrants. Tammy's story makes it clear that if nothing else, her family were not saints.
So it's a case of Written by the Winners. Alright.
Anyway, a different day of future past.
sidhewithblueeyes
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Why do fairy tales have such massive hateboners for stepmothers anyway?
edited 27th Mar '16 11:58:53 AM by Druplesnubb
Might be because they were seen as gold diggers? Or maybe it's because it lets the story have both a dead mother and an evil mother at the same time. "See kids? Appreciate your mothers!"
sidhewithblueeyes
Well, usually stepmothers and stepfathers came to house with kids of their own, so stepmother's priority was to eliminate kid from first marriage of their partner so their children could get inheritance.
Another way to look at it is that fairy tales were mostly inspired by things from real life ( that and folklore). Cinderella stories deal with abusive parents, and stepmothers were usually seen as less harsh option than abusive biological mothers.
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What is her dad doing during all of this? He just disappeared two and a half pages ago. Shouldn't he be doing something about this?
sidhewithblueeyes
Well, in tale father is traveling around world...
Spoilers but yeah it's magic.
Mega-post Time!
Okay, something DEFINITELY wicked DEFINITELY this way comes.
Beware the she-beast who calls herself Baba Yaga.
In other news, Blindsprings returns April 25th!
Blindsprings is running a Kickstarter! There's 12 days to go! We've blown past all the main funding goals, so if you haven't picked up a book yet, now is a great time to do so!
What have you been posting Kadi???
The past 6 pages have been from my comic contribution to Valor! It's 15 pages long!
Why are you posting this? Where's Blindsprings???
I have to go through 250 pages of content and fix some dumb errors, resize and send to Meg to put the book together. It's a lot of work and I changed my mind a lot about fonts and page sizes so it's a bit of a mess. In order to have content while I'm working on fixing stuff, I'm posting Vasilisa!
Why aren't you just doing more annotations?
I've run into a problem where all the stuff I want to do for annotations are spoilers for book 2— it's hard to do annotations between books since a lot of what I started working on were better placed as actual content in the book. Also, it does take away a bunch of time— although annotations are easier in the drawing department in THEORY I keep trying to one up myself and keep making really complicated annotations. Oops.
I also have more time to devote to getting ready for book two. I was really afraid that with all the stuff I had to do this break I'd get to the end of annotations and have the book done but then have to take ANOTHER hiatus to work on book two. Because of Vasilisa I don't have to do that!!! I'm already halfway through my thumbnails for the prologue chapter of book 2!
Why April 25th???? That's so far away!!!
It is! But it's when I run out of pages for Vasilisa— it would be weird to stop midway! This also gives me time to actually get a buffer started so I start book 2 as strong as I started book 1 (I had 12 pages of buffer!!!) which will help in the long run.
I hope this is a satisfactory update, I'm sorry if this was confusing! I thought I had mentioned this before but probably just in the comments and thought that was good enough (no Kadi that is not good enough oops)
I forgot I could do blog posts! I should have made one for the Kickstarter!!!!
WHAT A MORON.
That was from April 2nd. The 25th doesn't seem far away, now does it?
Jaded Techie Fox
Plus, Vasilisa is doing a very good job of tiding us over in the meantime.
Trust you? The only person I can trust is myself.
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(I know my old fairy tales.)
edited 21st Apr '16 5:49:09 AM by TotemicHero
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
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I didn't know Russian fairy tales involved explosions.
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Hence the more or less.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Ooh, world map.
With what appears to be an Orwellian Retcon history?