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Theri There page number 4, originally posted on September 19, 2005.
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Image description:
A person is working at a desktop computer. Narration: "Sometimes when you're typing..."
Narration: "...With phantom claws..." The person is now shown as a gryphon, with their claws punched through the keyboard.
In exasperation, the gryphon struggles to get their claws out of the keyboard.
End description.
I'm not satisfied with this one, since therianthropes' phantom sensations don't work like this! A therianthrope can feel like their claws were passing through a keyboard, but it wouldn't make anything happen like this. I was trying to work with old (1997-ish) slang from the dragon community on alt.fan.dragons. They had a running joke that they'd hired a typist due to their claws, blaming them for typing mistakes. Then they called their human, physical body their "typist."
[Edit October 21, 2023: Added local images, links, and transcript.]
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Date: 2005-09-19 06:19 pm (UTC)I really do like these strips. Thank you.
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Date: 2005-09-21 03:05 am (UTC)Gryphons are good! *fills ballot box with gryphon votes*
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Date: 2005-09-21 03:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 04:44 am (UTC)Hope to see some faeries up in here ;)
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Date: 2005-09-24 11:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-30 04:41 pm (UTC)*goes back to being the quiet lurker*
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Date: 2005-10-04 11:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-04 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 01:36 pm (UTC)The flailing around with a keyboard stuck to one's hand makes me think of what I do when I have a bit of tape or paper or something stuck to the bottom of my shoe... my initial response is never to just bend down (or bend my knee and lift my foot) to peel the tape off; instead I'll flick my foot, then flail my leg, with increasing urgency, until I remember "Oh, right... I have opposeable thumbs!" :D
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Date: 2005-09-21 02:23 pm (UTC)I can draw indignant birds because I have chickens! :D And because I sketched a gazillion different faces until I thought I had the expression right. I've been doing that with all the comics so far, since they rely a lot on facial expression. Even for the comic in the simplified style, I spent an hour on sketching different faces until it was just right. (:P
The original picture of the gryphon's face is completely different. Its tongue is lolling out on one side, its pupils are dilated, and its eyes are rolled downward. I changed it in Photoshop because it looked either completely insane or dead. o_o;;
Or both! Watch out, the insane zombiegryphon is flailing around with a keyboard!
You're the first person who said something about the androgyny... so far in all the comics, pretty much all the people have been androgynous. :D I won't keep that up, since I want the characters to look really diverse, but it was an experiment in making the characters appear unalike one another while yet still being easily identified with. Or something.
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Date: 2005-09-21 08:43 pm (UTC)do you have any icons of the comic or can i make one with your permission?? :D
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Date: 2005-09-22 01:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-25 03:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 01:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 07:10 pm (UTC)Especially so if someone's pupils repeatedly get larger and smaller really fast. I've never seen human eyes do that, but cats and birds do that when they see something really interesting.
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Date: 2005-10-02 10:27 pm (UTC)I think that, in humans, dilated pupils = excitement/interest/pleasure; contracted pupils = pain/surprise/fear. I have no idea if this is actually true (though Larry Niven did a book which dwelled on that idea quite a bit, called A Gift From Earth); further research would be required, and I think I might have to do it now, just to be sure, because... because. ;)
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Date: 2005-10-02 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 11:16 pm (UTC)Having one pupil larger than the other, that's a sure sign of a severe concussion. They always check for that when someone has a head injury. Hm... but there are exceptions to that, too: a similar effect is seen if someone's face is strongly side-lit... I've only seen that as being visible on cats, though, since slit pupils show changes in dilation more clearly than round pupils. You could tell the difference between those because a concussed person's eyes would stay mismatched even when the light was moved, though.
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Date: 2005-09-23 03:01 am (UTC)~DL
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Date: 2005-09-23 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-24 03:29 am (UTC)My favorite one would have to be the girl pointing with her wing, sometimes you forget certain body parts arent visible lol
I hope to see some Wolfkin ones sometime soon ^-^ Keep up the good work!
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Date: 2005-09-24 11:09 pm (UTC)No worries there, I was already planning to have a wolf in the next strip.
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Date: 2005-09-24 06:03 pm (UTC)Drawing a more unusual nose type was deliberate, wasn't it?
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Date: 2005-09-24 11:07 pm (UTC)Some cultures (ancient Egyptian, mostly, and Chinese) believed that personality and life were things of the nose, as the nose is a defining part of the face (personality, character) and is used for breathing (life). As such, a big nose is a good thing. Personally, I think any naturally-occurring nose shape is pretty.
Deliberate, yes, and a bit of an attempt to make the gryphon keep looking like xirself in either form. It's deliberate also in that one of my goals with the artwork in Theri There is to portray people with a variety of facial features (and hairstyles, body shapes, ethnicities, genders, etc) instead of having all the characters be clones of one another.
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Date: 2005-09-26 06:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-28 03:06 am (UTC)Another idea belched out of my brain at 5:45 AM
Date: 2005-09-25 10:56 am (UTC)Something that's been happening to me continuously for the last two years of college class: abrupt xenoawareness in Psychology class. (I'm laying claim to the word "xenoawareness" right now.) That's when something abruptly brings one's differences into the forefront of one's mind; you can see how a Psych class would inspire that. My most general moments of that are describing emotional systems. Did you know that apparently, human emotions are assigned with a subconscious system that makes a guess as to what the cause of physiological arousal is? That's completely different from me- I'm aware of the emotion long before I'm experiencing any physical signs of it, rapid heart rate or otherwise. (That and there's only one emotional "arousal" system- same physical response for grief, anger, sexuality, etc. That also varies from me.) However, that's not terribly interesting to illustrate, although the phenomenon is; how about to something a little more visual, like an in-class experiment? That's happened for me as well. Ignoring the fact that I presently hold the record for training a virtual rat to press a lever to get food (both records- speed record to 15 bar presses at 14 minutes, hit record to 50 bar presses under the time limit of 20 minutes, from an untrained virtual rat), it's more something like Dr. Lambert describing a puzzle in class, waiting for people to solve it, and then stepping through "the exact process you used to solve it", expressing this with great certainty and then observing that personal variation in that simply didn't happen. 197 people in the 198-person class were amazed; there was much discussion afterwards of how it perfectly matched. The thought process described was completely alien to me. I could dig out my notes, but I'm not sure you need that...
I've got an idea how it would be fun to illustrate, but stop reading this comment if you've already thought of something and are interested in this because your idea is probably better than mine. Generic lecture hall full of students, with Dr. Whoever describing this puzzle-experiment in the front. (No therianthropic illustration.) Next panel: Lecture hall full of thought bubbles, most of which are nearly identical except for one throughly different one. Third panel: Dr. Whoever's speech bubble, with a short explanation of problem-solving processes and then the exact content of the mass thought bubbles. (Preferably text giving way to pseudo-abstract visuals.) Final panel: Everything simplified and abstract, except for one ornately-illustrated therianthrope in the middle, suddenly feeling distinctly inhuman and very aware of (and possibly uncomfortable with) this...
I go sleep now. *thud*
Re: Another idea belched out of my brain at 5:45 AM
Date: 2005-09-26 01:28 pm (UTC)Sorry, I'm rather interested in psychology myself.
Re: Another idea belched out of my brain at 5:45 AM
Date: 2005-09-26 03:10 pm (UTC)I'm minoring in Psychology, a bit of a strange combination to my major in Computer Science. It sort of makes sense. I understand computers inside-out; their cold, logical determinism makes perfect sense to me. It's something that's fun for me to learn that I can easily build a career off of- for some vague definition of "easy" that's currently playing hell with my sleep schedule and homework load. People, conversely, make no sense to me and I could use a class or six about them...
Re: Another idea belched out of my brain at 5:45 AM
Date: 2005-09-26 09:58 pm (UTC)