Motivation
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Comic for August 28, 2006!
In the seventh panel, the book cover says "haiku" in tiny possibly-illegible hirigana, and the poem in the air next to it is Basho's famous haiku about the frog jumping into the pond.
[Edit 2017-04-03: Updated link.]
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Date: 2006-08-29 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-08-29 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-10 06:24 pm (UTC)Maybe it's some kind of fox magick. :) But hey, if I'm helping people and not actively trying, then I'm doing what I can, and that's probably a mission, right? But having a mission 'feels' too stressful, as if we have to adhere to it.
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Date: 2010-01-10 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-29 03:20 am (UTC)As a bonus, since it's Unicode symbols, you can actually increase the text size and see the characters more clearly. I googled "Basho kana" and poked around some. I'm not terribly surprised the site isn't in English, but it does seem to be a good reference for that sort of thing. :) And it proves that my knowledge of Japanese is pretty terrible, which I suspected.
On the comic more generally - hee. I have to go along with the pair in the last panel, though hang gliding and skydiving have always drawn me. Actually, I've done a lot of the things mentioned, because they seemed interesting at the time - not specifically because I was drawn to them as a dragon. (Though the local cave has a really cool rock and gem shop... shiny! Yes, going back to the "dragons hoard shinies" stereotype.) I suspect a bit of history behind my love of seafood, though, since no one else in my family has quite the same taste for it.
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Date: 2006-08-31 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 01:24 pm (UTC)Flying ...
Date: 2006-09-13 06:36 pm (UTC)I will say this: I took to it like a natural. I was the only beginner that the instructor actually let go of to float up (we had one experienced person who was practicing stunts.)
Other than that, what keeps me from being more of a flyer/hang glider? Money. Well, that, and that I have no idea where to even begin to go to learn the flying suits that stuntmen use.
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Date: 2006-08-29 03:26 am (UTC)I always look forward for Theri There updates. *grin*
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Date: 2006-08-29 03:44 am (UTC)Cute comic, yet again <3
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Date: 2006-08-29 04:10 am (UTC)Recently my inner wolf has been prodding me to begin running. He's been wanting me to stretch OUR legs, maybe shed a few pounds in the process...
I think I need to print this out...if that's alright.
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Date: 2006-08-29 04:16 am (UTC)Go ahead. :)
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Date: 2006-08-29 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-29 05:45 am (UTC)Thank you for all the hard work you put into this, by the way. I love the comic. :)
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Date: 2006-08-31 12:41 pm (UTC)Which otherkin forum is it, by the way? I'd like to watch the thread there.
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Date: 2006-09-06 07:06 am (UTC)I am one of the admins from Draconomicon, www.draconomicon.com , and the thread can be found here: http://www.draconomicon.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=33814#33814
I just posted the thread, so there aren't any responses as of this moment. I'd be honoured if you'd like to come visit us and follow the thread. :)
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Date: 2006-08-29 06:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-08-29 06:37 pm (UTC)In regards to the comic in general- yeah- It applies. I have certainly considered learning to hang-glide, and have taken up ballroom dancing to "remember" my grace...
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Date: 2006-08-29 07:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-29 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-30 08:35 am (UTC)Here, though, there's just contentment and happybounces at the same time. *nod*
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Date: 2006-08-30 04:02 pm (UTC)I'm not sure if the wonderful things some do in their life can always be related to an otherkin side, but I can imagine that there is a good chance that a past life can have a huge impact on every being alive, aware or not.
The idea that "otherkin", especially starseed is incarnated on earth in a helping mission is very strong in the esoteric area (I know about it some from my mom) and my senses tell me that there is something like that happening.
I'd like to know if there can be drawn a line between starseed and other otherkin at all. I mean, for example, a gyphon species from another planet: would they be starseed? *ponders*
Also, I think that many many otherkin have to go through a tough time, having to find a way handling the fact that they have something non-human within them they can't just silence. It takes time to grow and learn handing the emotions and problems resulting from this, and even more to find ways to adapt back to mankind again, so you're actually able to help at all.
Personally, I think that the really wonderful is in the detail, like how we act in our daily lives. Being alive without complaining all the time, without violence and without hate. Being successful with that, even without doing something great, maybe is already enough to fulfill some kind of mission here on this world and in this life.
I dunno, just a though ^v^
Oh, and because I didn't say as the comic was actual: I love the one with the mirror and the gryphon.
Keep up sharing your thoughts!
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Date: 2006-08-31 12:58 pm (UTC)There are a lot of things held in common between starseeds and otherkin, in my opinion, although they have a lot of differences as well. Starseeds developed as a seperate subculture, though, so the two communities haven't bumped into each other much, and are mostly mutually unaware of each other. Starseeds have written and have been written about in pamphlets and books since the sixties, but have only come on the Internet in the past couple years... wheras otherkin mostly only showed up on the radar when they were on the Internet and have only started showing up in books in the past couple years. Starseeds generally describe their extraterrestrial spiritual heritage as having something to do with particular kinds of aliens that New Age and UFOlogists tend to agree on as being real, such as Grey aliens or these celestial disembodied guys, which is pretty different from the sorts of phenotypes common among otherkin.
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Date: 2006-08-31 04:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 08:38 pm (UTC)Yay panel 9! *grin*
Indeed, yay! for the last pannel.
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I think I relate most to the last panel, even if only because I'm not far enough in my human life where I really can dedicate myself to what I wish I were doing. I hope to get there eventually, really. Just might take a bit of... motivation, perhaps?
That might have somethign to do with it too. I've thought about cave exploration to a degree, but I lack the funds, time, and equipment to go. Ditto hang gliding. Though in reference all the way back to the first strip, yes, riding on my bike does make me spread my wings and "fly" (almost, being in near complete lack of phantom limbs).
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Date: 2006-09-01 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 07:45 am (UTC)Thank you for saying this. This is one of those messages that bears repeating -- as often, loudly, and eloquently as our community can manage.
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Date: 2006-09-01 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 04:28 am (UTC)I've never met any other, well, otherkin or therianthropes in real life, though, only online, and not well because of how shy I am. This does make me wonder how often that happens, hobbies and professions and extracirriculars based around one's other identity.
Serious love for the last panel from me as well.
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Date: 2006-09-04 12:43 am (UTC)Anyway, kudos for the cool comic and hello.
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Date: 2006-09-15 03:57 pm (UTC)Someday, I want to try going up to high altitudes in a plane just to feel that zero-gravity effect....hehe
Just as a suggestion, put something about demonkin in. We tend to be rather.....misinterpreted moreso. In fact, your webcomic inspires me to make one for myself. ^.^
And where to begin
Date: 2006-09-23 11:10 pm (UTC)But the more I look at the world, the more I see it resembles a doily - there are so many holes, so many places where work needs to be done to make the world better and stronger, that to focus on one and to neglect the whole seems folly; yet it is difficult to see how to affect the whole, and whilst focussing on that, no individual hole gets my attention.
How do you change the way the world works, on a fundamental level? And do we, as individuals, have the right to try to dictate such changes? [I'd argue yes, but that's a different discussion.] So many questions, and answers are painfully scarce.
Sigh... anyone got any ideas?
Re: And where to begin
Date: 2006-09-24 01:11 am (UTC)Not that I have answers for the sorts of questions you're asking about the ethics involved, although activism guides like "The Better World Handbook" could supply more ideas about how to go about some kinds of the putting-the-world-right business.
Aside from that, congrats on the brand new Livejournal account. Neat to see that the very first comment you made with it was this one.
Re: And where to begin
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Date: 2006-09-24 05:53 am (UTC)Is the person in panel 5 starting a fire with a bow drill? I took a wilderness survival course this summer, and have a photo of what I was taught as being the proper posture: http://pics.livejournal.com/dragonzuela/pic/0006fx7p/g45
I was inspired by my spirituality to take the course, but kind of indirectly.
Panel 8: YES. I don't understand why more people don't feel that way. I don't know exactly what my purpose is, but I have a strong sense of being here to help in some way, or at least to learn about humanity so I can come back and help later. As for the time being, damage to the environment is what upsets me the most about what's wrong with the world, so I'm pointing my career in an environmental direction. (Conservation genetics, yay.)
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Date: 2006-09-24 02:27 pm (UTC)Yes, that's supposed to be a bow drill. I wasn't using a reference picture, I was just going by memory of what I was pretty sure bow drills looked like. I hope it's not too far off.
The primitive technology books that I checked out a while ago all talked about this deep-down sense you get when you're making a fire the old and difficult way-- like you've been brought into touch with something both primal and intensely human-- so that it's almost a spiritual experience, although one reached with blistered palms and possibly frustration. I haven't tried it for myself yet, but it sounds like something that shouldn't be missed.
As to selecting a career according to what you want to set right in the world-- very cool. :D
"Discuss this" for the most recent comic
Date: 2006-11-03 05:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-18 11:33 pm (UTC)I am most defiantly motivated to hiss, spat and growl. *chuckles* Thanks for brightening up my really crappy day.