Orion Sandstorrm ([info]waywind) wrote in [info]therithere,
@ 2005-09-04 08:29:00
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Entry tags:format: single panel, post: this is a comic, species: dragons, subject: phantom limbs, subject: phantom limbs: wings

First comic! Biking reminds me of flying...
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http://therithere.comicgenesis.com/d/20050904.html


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[info]elynne
2005-09-04 03:41 pm UTC (link)
First comment ever! :D :D

Wow... wow. Very... wow. I love the superimposed panels. And yes, I've had that feeling many times...

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[info]nyokirrr04
2005-09-21 08:39 am UTC (link)
Hi Elynne,
Yeah, this comic is very accurate, I used to exactly feel something like that while walking in the fens - except that was in a Gryphonic way.
Seems to me the comics is promising, I'm watching it.

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[info]makuus
2005-09-04 05:11 pm UTC (link)
Quite a nice strip. I haven't owned a bike in a long time. Perhaps /that/ is what I feel I've been missing... *grins*

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[info]unfurled
2005-09-04 06:44 pm UTC (link)
This is brilliant. I'm in love!

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[info]tyraelis
2005-09-04 07:10 pm UTC (link)
I like this: both the comic and bikeridng. And for the same reason! I love the feel of wind flying past me and running into me.

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[info]tyraelis
2005-09-04 08:40 pm UTC (link)
Whoops, noticed the spelling error.

Where should people make suggestions for the comic? 'Cause I was thinking of one comic idea... you know, a person in their room and comparing it (the computers, CDs, books, statuettes, etc.) to one's "hoard".

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[info]elynne
2005-09-04 09:10 pm UTC (link)
This is probably the best place to make suggestions - seeing as how [info]waywind posted this, and he's the one who draws the comic, so that's a pretty direct path. ;)

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[info]waywind
2005-09-04 09:47 pm UTC (link)
This is the place to make suggestions, as [info]elynne said.

I actually already had a few comics sketched out that involve something similar to that idea. :)

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[info]nyokirrr04
2005-09-21 08:41 am UTC (link)
A suggestion?
Why not the avian or Gryphon otherkin eating nuts - and feeling as it was with a beak.

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[info]kistaro
2005-09-05 02:32 am UTC (link)
++desktopWallpaper;

I would call this project off to an awesome start. *grin*

Of course, for ideas: something that's almost entirely unlike what happened to me yesterday, but based on it. What actually happened was the electronic door lock jammed one way: it wouldn't let people out, although it was fine at letting us in the building. Handle-twisting and shoving gave way to a body check strong enough to force the mechanism. (Bad security; I shouldn't have been able to do that so easily.) Insert, in the process, quite a bit of hissing, snarling, and a final aggressive roar as I pushed myself off the railing of the staircase behind me to increase the velocity as I hit the door shoulder-first, forcing it open.

Now let's change the situation slightly. Frustrated dragon, slipping further and further into hissing, snarling, growling, and other appropriately inhuman sounds (people are just used to my creating them by now), beating the shit out of a door that refuses to open. Two dorm-mates or apartment-mates or class-mates or otherwise locked-building-mates come by, scan an ID card through the completely ignored scan plate, and walk out the now-open door, a little weirded out by the creature in question (who doesn't really need to be a dragon, almost any sufficiently feral creature would do well in context) but otherwise calm, who is now very embarassed and feeling very small and stupid from completely overlooking the unlocking mechanism. What I figure would suit the situation well is the subsequent drawings revealing less and less human, with the third-to-last panel depicting only a furious beast clawing at the imprisoning door- the second to last panel (or set of small panels) depicting said door being properly unlocked, and the last one? Back to whatever rendering was used in the original panel, with appropriate levels of awkward embarassment.

It seems to be the appropriate level of exaggeration. Hey, I got strange looks from Ben and James (my ACM teammates) after snarling at the computer...

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[info]waywind
2005-09-05 05:17 am UTC (link)
I may not go quite that far with the hissing and violent clawing, since one of my primary goals with Theri There is to convince people that therianthropes are sane and functional. ;) But I may use some similar slapstick, yes.

A battering ram? Why, lift the porticullis, lads!

Hmm. Remind me to go back in the usenet archives of alt.lifestyle.furry, because there was a stunningly perfect slapstick-spirituality anecdote posted around May 2000. By a lynx, if I remember correctly. Something about accidentally hissing at a street preacher. I need to find out who it was who posted that, and if they're still around, get their permission to make a comic out of it. I'm not even sure where I should go to look back that far in the archives... anyone know?

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[info]zuki_san
2005-09-14 06:12 pm UTC (link)
Chalk me up onto the list of dragon-fanciers and maybe-theris that feel/imagine wings at their back while on a bike. It *is* kinda like flying, in that its face, windful motion, that doesn't really use arms or legs (well, in the way that we normally think of them doing so.)

I'm a long-time reader of your blog, Orion. As a community figure--no, more honestly: as a really cool dragon, and furthermore, a really cool person, I admire you.

So I'll be reading these comics, and eagerly awaiting the next one.

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[info]waywind
2005-09-14 07:53 pm UTC (link)
Wow... thanks! *blush*

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[info]fenrir316
2005-09-21 08:06 pm UTC (link)
Don't I know what you're talking about...I'm a dragon as well, and I've always loved biking and rollerblading for exactly the reasons you've described. Bravo on the webcomic!

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