These boxes of books sure are heavy...

[frameacloud]

Theri There from 2005-11-21

Notes: A learning experience with mental shifting. (Readers have pointed out a flaw in this exercise in weird physics: the person should have fallen forward instead. But then we wouldn’t have seen xir sorry face at the end.)

Transcript:
A person struggles to carry cardboard boxes from a moving van, thinking, “These boxes of books sure are heavy. I’ll visualize my dragon form, and focus on its qualities of strength and balance!” The shining silhouette of a dragon astral form appears around xir.
The dragon picks up a box with xir forelimbs, extending xir wings and tail. Caption: “When a quadrupedal dragon rears up bipedally to carry a heavy object, xe instinctively counterbalances the burden by unfurling xir wings behind xir.” This is illustrated with a old-fashioned balancing scales, sitting level.
Caption: “Phantom wings (weighing nothing) are an ineffective counterweight to lean against.” The weight vanishes from one side of the scales, and they collapse to the other. The dragon otherkin falls over, spilling the box.
Under a pile of textbooks such as “Physics 101” and “Qi Gong,” the dragon kin says, “I shouldn’t try a mental shift like that if I’m ever on a tightrope,” and then mutters, “Balance indeed!”

[Edit 2017-04-03: Updated link.]

Comments

[zeeth_kyrah]

Just as a suggestion, you might want to find out what to name the 404.html file for your comic site. That way, if something's missing, you can have the server show a page saying "The comic goes up on Monday, and if you're looking for something else, it's not here."

[frameacloud]

I don't think Comicgenesis lets us modify that object.

[zeeth_kyrah]

That's terribly unfortunate. I've always thought that the 404 page on a good website should be more useful than 'file not found' (though on some websites, one short line of text would be a damn sight better than what they put in).

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

I think you can, actually. I was poking around in the files for my webcomic and found some 'page error/missing' ones listed. I'd imagine all you'd have to do is make your own and replace the ones already there >>. I haven't tried it though so I'm not sure if that works or not.