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The animatic is done!! 💕

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I love laminating tegu sheds! This one is a little visual aid for herp society stuff.

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I bandaged the problem chapter. How's the revamp of "The Ripple Effect"?

Have a Roll

Short version: yeah, I think we're solid. Thanks for the Roll.

Minor tweaks though: at the beginning, Sig is concerned by his reflection having one red eye. Sig is supposed to have one red eye. If that changes, something's up. Following conversation between Sig and Amitie needs no changes, the vibe is immaculate.

Ringo: possibly have the residual static on the papers also be on her hair, textually evoking her "comically shocked" portrait. It's ambiguous whether the comet is a mindless force or a(n at least animalistically) intelligent entity from her words; suggest leaning into that, have her mention both as possibilities... both terrifying, honestly.

Twilight Spiral would be a good name for an emo band.

Team Weird Celestial Shit all sound right, no tweaks needed.

And the ending. Could be cool to have the herald act like it might have been addressing one or two of Team Shrine specifically, or it could be speaking of the group as a whole. Not necessary for scene, but interesting.

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Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse. 

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couldn’t stop thinking about this post

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https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/theyre-not-human-how-19th-century-inuit-coped-with-a-real-life-invasion-of-the-walking-dead

Indigenous groups across the Americas had all encountered Europeans differently. But where other coastal groups such as the Haida or the Mi’kmaq had met white men who were well-fed and well-dressed, the Inuit frequently encountered their future colonizers as small parties on the edge of death.

“I’m sure it terrified people,” said Eber, 91, speaking to the National Post by phone from her Toronto home.

And it’s why, as many as six generations after the events of the Franklin Expedition, Eber was meeting Inuit still raised on stories of the two giant ships that came to the Arctic and discharged columns of death onto the ice.

Inuit nomads had come across streams of men that “didn’t seem to be right.” Maddened by scurvy, botulism or desperation, they were raving in a language the Inuit couldn’t understand. In one case, hunters came across two Franklin Expedition survivors who had been sleeping for days in the hollowed-out corpses of seals.

“They were unrecognizable they were so dirty,” Lena Kingmiatook, a resident of Taloyoak, told Eber.

Mark Tootiak, a stepson of Nicholas Qayutinuaq, related a story to Eber of a group of Inuit who had an early encounter with a small and “hairy” group of Franklin Expedition men evacuating south.

“Later … these Inuit heard that people had seen more white people, a lot more white people, dying,” he said. “They were seen carrying human meat.”

Even Eber’s translator, the late Tommy Anguttitauruq, recounted a goose hunting trip in which he had stumbled upon a Franklin Expedition skeleton still carrying a clay pipe.

By 1850, coves and beaches around King William Island were littered with the disturbing remnants of their advance: Scraps of clothing and camps still littered with their dead occupants. Decades later, researchers would confirm the Inuit accounts of cannibalism when they found bleached human bones with their flesh hacked clean.

“I’ve never in all my life seen any kind of spirit — I’ve heard the sounds they make, but I’ve never seen them with my own eyes,” said the old man who had gone out to investigate the Franklin survivors who had straggled into his camp that day on King William Island.

The figures’ skin was cold but it was not “cold as a fish,” concluded the man. Therefore, he reasoned, they were probably alive.

“They were beings but not Inuit,” he said, according to the account by shaman Nicholas Qayutinuaq.

The figures were too weak to be dangerous, so Inuit women tried to comfort the strangers by inviting them into their igloo.

But close contact only increased their alienness: The men were timid, untalkative and — despite their obvious starvation — they refused to eat.

The men spit out pieces of cooked seal offered to them. They rejected offers of soup. They grabbed jealous hold of their belongings when the Inuit offered to trade.

When the Inuit men returned to the camp from their hunt, they constructed an igloo for the strangers, built them a fire and even outfitted the shelter with three whole seals.

Then, after the white men had gone to sleep, the Inuit quickly packed up their belongings and fled by moonlight.

Whether the pale-skinned visitors were qallunaat or “Indians” — the group determined that staying too long around these “strange people” with iron knives could get them all killed.

“That night they got all their belongings together and took off towards the southwest,” Qayutinuaq told Dorothy Eber.

But the true horror of the encounter wouldn’t be revealed until several months later.

The Inuit had left in such a hurry that they had abandoned several belongings. When a small party went back to the camp to retrieve them, they found an igloo filled with corpses.

The seals were untouched. Instead, the men had eaten each other.

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“Oh No!” with every second beat removed

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I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

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fixed a problem at work that i vaguely saw a manager fix once and i did it faster which means that i get to take his skin i get to take his skin i get to take his skin i get to take his skin i get to take his skin i get to take his skin

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For anyone who's needed a laugh/smile as much as I have lately, I give you this sweet little guy.

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I wish we could teach each other how to love the way we can teach animals that aren’t supposed to be able to feel it.

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Added a second chapter to Puyo Puyo Magic! Episode 8! Any thoughts? How should we go from here?

How in the hell did Sig get to that idea? He's not the most "talk about my emotions" person out there, but not to the point of recklessly experimenting with power that isn't his and is likely to bake his brain. Not without someone to spot for him at least. Given that -Lemres is one of the focus characters so food motif is a given -Sig has a Will Save of good -but Sig is also hungry a lot of the time -last chapter closed on "corruption" it could be something he ate.

So half the Primp Squad is probably about to come check on him.

I get the impression that Sig passed out standing up at the end. Which, yeah, he does that, but also Shadow Mice first appeared in Puzzle Pop which is heavy on the Dream World, and the Shadow Mouse Raffina yote into the distance is occupying the Chekov's Gunman slot.

So... given my druthers, I'd rather not release Ch2 until How Sig Got There is hashed out, even if it's not revealed to the audience until Ch3.

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*goes to egg your house but I find out you're vegan so I ¼ cup of unsweetened applesauce your house instead*

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How to draw Rabbits, Bunny & Hares

Credit: Etherington Brothers