Wow, another update! I need to come back and start checking more often--and I'm glad you finally got a knotty script worked out, because I'm definitely liking this comic.
I like the fact that this comic portrays people applying their therian nature to their actions and beliefs in the rest of their life. When it's a spirituality (or-what-have-you) that's so personal and open to intepretation, I would think that choosing to, well, 'act it out' is what makes it more real and concrete. Being mindful of one's other side during ones daily life makes the connection stronger.
I like the short criticism that the deer-therian gives to the cougar therian. Sometimes the actions that people take in connection with their therian-ness or otherkin-ness can seem silly, petty, or arbitrary. That's not quite why the deer brings it up, I think but it is sort of part of that trend.
Like the way, oh, I remember back on the draconic.com boards there might be a discussion about sleeping positions, and a consensus might be "I don't like to sleep on my back. Maybe it's because I think I'm supposed to have wings there." And then, later, it occured to me that...most people I know, for that matter, prefer to sleep on their stomach and side, [i]anyways[/i]. So is it a moot point? Perhaps not, if one has a raging case of Phantom Wing Syndrome.
I like that you included another viewpoint with the dragon as well. Therianthropy extends to all sorts of people, even those of us with, say, diabetes, or a severe allergy to wheat products, for example. Deer looks so sheepish that she's been flaunting the ability to choose when confronted with someone that can't.
And Bear got what was coming to him, Mr. Nondescriminatorly Omnivorous. Great use of facial expression in the second to last panel to show the sudden change of mood. A sudden alliance of stag and cougar. I am amused, yes.
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Date: 2006-02-16 07:29 pm (UTC)I like the fact that this comic portrays people applying their therian nature to their actions and beliefs in the rest of their life. When it's a spirituality (or-what-have-you) that's so personal and open to intepretation, I would think that choosing to, well, 'act it out' is what makes it more real and concrete. Being mindful of one's other side during ones daily life makes the connection stronger.
I like the short criticism that the deer-therian gives to the cougar therian. Sometimes the actions that people take in connection with their therian-ness or otherkin-ness can seem silly, petty, or arbitrary. That's not quite why the deer brings it up, I think but it is sort of part of that trend.
Like the way, oh, I remember back on the draconic.com boards there might be a discussion about sleeping positions, and a consensus might be "I don't like to sleep on my back. Maybe it's because I think I'm supposed to have wings there." And then, later, it occured to me that...most people I know, for that matter, prefer to sleep on their stomach and side, [i]anyways[/i]. So is it a moot point? Perhaps not, if one has a raging case of Phantom Wing Syndrome.
I like that you included another viewpoint with the dragon as well. Therianthropy extends to all sorts of people, even those of us with, say, diabetes, or a severe allergy to wheat products, for example. Deer looks so sheepish that she's been flaunting the ability to choose when confronted with someone that can't.
And Bear got what was coming to him, Mr. Nondescriminatorly Omnivorous. Great use of facial expression in the second to last panel to show the sudden change of mood. A sudden alliance of stag and cougar. I am amused, yes.