I just fricking figured out the mayor is saying that the male dancers of the port have massive wieners.
It almost takes away from Elka's banter that her dick-jokes aren't just soldier talk but perfectly acceptable innuendo that could be used in front of the head of state. Almost. It's still ridiculously forward of her to whip her breasts around everywhere and talk about peckers even in sexually decadent Cresce.
>in the last year we've doubled our capacity
There is no way
I mean absolutely no way, that this isn't foreshadowing a zombie apocalypse in Morstorben once those silver ghosts start fricking everything up
>I mean absolutely no way, that this isn't foreshadowing a zombie apocalypse in Morstorben once those silver ghosts start fricking everything up
Frickers should've listened to Ssael.
those zombies in the pink masks are 100% showing up later when the shit hits the fan. i think i've developed a sixth sense for ashley's background foreshadowing that i don't know how to put into words.
Agreed. Mainly because Ashley likes her Chekhov's Arsenal, and so she really only goes out of her way to say "look at all these guns I have mounted on the wall" when she's planning to take them all down and blow everything away.
We go from Aldish scheming how best to take advantage of an atrocity to Crescians blithely talking about recycling massacre victims into undead labor. This world is horrifying.
Part of it for me is Cresce reminds me of the worst parts of the Emirates. They have valuable resources, and use them in excess in a tasteless waste and display of wealth. If you aren't rich, you don't have much value and can be moved around if the local council decides that you aren't a good fit for the community
They've all got something to hate, if you don't dislike Alderode at this point you haven't been paying attention and it's just gonna get worse when 2 Unsounded 2 Furious goes there.
Not quite right. We've seen Coppers wearing wright gloves.
It's not that they have no pymary whatsoever, but it's that they have no *range*. So they're useless at dueling, but they can absolutely make pymaric constructs.
Copper culture is apparently some typical political family shit on steroids though. Your parents are always hanging around, lording over you and never giving you any chance to do what you want. And you have to deal with all sorts of maintaining a conspiracy and backroom in fighting nonsense.
You could probably be happy as a Copper in a very specific, stable situation centuries before or after this particular spat of civil war in the country, in some out of the way area that still needs a copper but won't have a lot of others around. But that could be true of any of the castes in Alderode or any of the countries. Cresce has a number of problems, but as Cope said, it's really the only one an average modern American could be dumped into and probably settle in alright. Everywhere is so batshit you'd have a rough time.
>Everywhere is so batshit you'd have a rough time.
It amazes me how people underestimate Sharteshane's level of batshittery.
It's basically what a grimy Medieval-Roman-Victorian fantasy town looks like, complete with extreme poverty, gutter rats, depressed prostitutes on every corner, people literally shitting in the street. You always have to watch out for pockpockets with one eye, and street thugs/backstabbers with the other. There's no sleeping without one eye open. People literally send their daughters, granddaughters, and nieces to be street-prostitutes for a living.
It's basically something straight out of Oliver Twist, but twisted as only Cope does.
the average ancap sees sharteshane and thinks he'd be a jab beadman and not a malnourished rando with four or five teeth who owes protection money to a small time mob boss
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The average ancap thinks that no one will frick with them because they'll have nukes in their garage to enforce the NAP, which they bought online because for some reason the people who have nukes would SELL THEM to randos instead of just using the nukes they make to force everyone else to bend the knee and immediately dissolving the ancap fantasyland.
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The average ancap thinks that no one will frick with them because they'll have nukes in their garage to enforce the NAP, which they bought online because for some reason the people who have nukes would SELL THEM to randos instead of just using the nukes they make to force everyone else to bend the knee and immediately dissolving the ancap fantasyland.
So you both assert that the average ancap has looked at Sharteshane and decided that Sharteshane is a perfectly acceptable place to live, so long as they get to be on top?
I'm not disagreeing with this assertion, by the way. I just thought that maybe they just weren't paying attention to all the bad stuff in Sharteshane because they weren't looking closely enough. It's mind-boggling to me that anyone would want to live in a comfortable home, but have such a view of wretchedness and suffering right outside their window.
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If they cared about others, they wouldn't be ancaps. Helping other people is illegal in ancapland, because anything that would result in groups of people working together for a common benefit leads to communities capable of exerting their combined influence on singular individuals, which means you are just forming tribes and nations again and the anarchist part of anarchocapitalism has been defeated. After that you just have normal ass capitalism within a couple generations.
The reason that its called an ancap fantasyland is because it can only persist so long as every person that exists in the world prioritizes the persistence of the ancap rules above their own personal wellbeing.
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Anonymous
>It's mind-boggling to me that anyone would want to live in a comfortable home, but have such a view of wretchedness and suffering right outside their window.
It's the contrast that enhances the experience. It's like snuggling under a blanket with a cup of cocoa and a roaring fire on a cold winter evening, looking out to watch the snow settle on the corpse of the matchstick girl.
It's Gangs of New York complete with the Tammany Hall political corruption. Fricking every time I think about that movie I cannot believe how much fricking amazing talent they had to portray how fricked up that world was.
Most people here haven't seen real poverty like you said with human shit in the streets - places like India or Pakistan. Places where if you're female, a foreigner, and alone you have a high enough risk of getting raped and murdered that anybody would consider it fricking stupid to visit those places. My friend did charity work as a doctor in Africa and basically the entire time was spent in a Catholic compound with barbed wire on top of walls, an electric gate and fricking guards around the clock.
I'll say this, never go to India. Deciding to go to India as a tourist is as fricking moronic as saying you'd choose to live in Sharteshane over any other nation we've seen in the story.
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I've never heard of that, so thanks for giving me a new film to check out.
Yeah. I knew someone who was doing anthropology research work in another country, and she and her cohort literally had to hide down in the jungle because they had poachers looking for them-- to kill them. It's always the same story: the safe places are surrounded by concrete and barbed wire, they have guards, and you quickly learn to keep an eye on your things and how to pay appropriate bribes. And in some places, if you're a woman (or a child), you'll have people randomly come up and try to buy you-- from your coworkers, from your friends, from your parents, whatever. They think you're for sale.
Sharteshane personifies this kind of insecurity-- insecurity in just basic physical safety whilst existing.
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I had a friend who went to Egypt and there were two things about the trip that stood out to me.
One, there were designated viewing areas for the Sphinx and Pyramids and the warning was that you should not leave those areas because if you do you will be robbed and/or kidnapped. It was incredibly common for thieves and murderers to lure tourists to see "the other side the the pyramids for a better view" where they could be fricked over behind a hill out of eyesight.
Two, my friend's tour group had full-time security follow them everywhere when they were together. But on their free-roam time my friend paid the guards overtime to follow them through the markets, which was the only way they weren't going to get robbed and murdered.
I've decided based on the stories of the world and seeing the shittiest parts of the world first-hand that I'm never going to visit those hellscapes ever again. I don't want to visit a country where I have to buy a costume or pay for security to get around unmolested. I won't even fricking visit Turkey or Hungary because I don't trust the political stability. I'm going to see the reefs in Australia before the warming oceans kill the 5% that remain and then I'm just going to go to Japan every single time if I want to travel.
Gangs of New York is a good movie. It's worth watching just for Daniel Day Lewis's performance. It's exactly like Oliver Twist.
Jet is the best balance IMO; extra life without the baggage of being a Copper, and if you do want to be a wright you have at least a little bit of range for flexible casting even if it's worse than your average wright.
That's probably intentional considering the primary setting thus far has been Cresce and she probably had to put extra work in making it seem shitty since on paper it's the least egregious.
>Part of it for me is Cresce reminds me of the worst parts of the Emirates.
Good analogy.
And instead of philippino "servants" they have enslaved the dead, and just put a jaunty bow on them. In plain sight, if anyone bothers to see.
Honestly, out of all the bullshit Cresce is guilty of the plods actually seem like a good idea. A bit morbid maybe but if it means almost all menial jobs are filled by an automated workforce than it seems like a win/win to me. There's nothing left of the living person in there either unless you do some weird khert frickery to make something like Duane.
>child soldiers >caste system >theocracy >shitty traditional moars about every aspect of social life
Even if I'd love to see the queen getting guillotined for being a queen Alderode is still dogshit.
Don't forget the absolute control from the Dammakhert, too. The ability to Sting people through the Dammakhert and kill them from afar, combined with the fact that the castes can (excepting Soud) feel each others' emotions and thus tell when someone is lying (it's why Soud are seen as untrustworthy).
So it's a highly authoritarian and tightly controlled society, in which it's nearly impossible to really keep secrets from others and where you can be Stung from afar by Big Brother if they don't like the cut of your jib.
Looks like an unfortunate angle where the invisible parts just show the not invisible parts behind it. I bet she spent a while trying to move things around to avoid it but couldn't make it work, artists are always doing stuff like that
I'm the anon who b***hed about their aesthetics last thread. And the queen's outfit fricking rocks. It's still gaudy as frick, but it's got a much slicker style too it. I think it's the shape. The houses we saw in the previous page were all bulgy and ridiculous. Magically making part of you invisible is also a great flip of going ham with the colors and magic shapes. It's still magical and fantastical, but by its nature it looks very simple and understated despite being crazy.
Also, pretty sure Her Majesty's b***hing invisible shoulder is her version of the "one tit hanging out" look we've seen before, and not just last page. Perhaps shamefully having your titty flopping all about is too unspeakable for a monarch, or this Queen just rolls like that.
Height I can take or leave, it sounds pretty cool tbh, but mutating into a crippled abomination later in life doesn't sound fun, and worse than that I kind of get the vibe that the 'red cost' Roger alluded to is going to be worse still.
honestly, I love the pymaric invisible shoulder. It's a cool touch
Also, her hair looks like a pair of hams.
Steamed hams?
Queenie's got drip
>getting relocated from the nuked town to the town that's getting nuked in five minutes
feels bad
Reminds me of that one guy who was at Hiroshima when it got nuked and then ended up in Nagasaki just in time for the second bomb to drop.
She's the target anon. I don't think she'll die so easily or soon though.
Target for the Alds maybe, but Prakhuta might very well be going for the plods. I shudder to think of what those smoke eels could do with them.
I just fricking figured out the mayor is saying that the male dancers of the port have massive wieners.
It almost takes away from Elka's banter that her dick-jokes aren't just soldier talk but perfectly acceptable innuendo that could be used in front of the head of state. Almost. It's still ridiculously forward of her to whip her breasts around everywhere and talk about peckers even in sexually decadent Cresce.
>I just fricking figured out the mayor is saying that the male dancers of the port have massive wieners.
City life's made you a bit slow, anon.
>in the last year we've doubled our capacity
There is no way
I mean absolutely no way, that this isn't foreshadowing a zombie apocalypse in Morstorben once those silver ghosts start fricking everything up
>I mean absolutely no way, that this isn't foreshadowing a zombie apocalypse in Morstorben once those silver ghosts start fricking everything up
Frickers should've listened to Ssael.
Heathens get what they fricking deserve.
those zombies in the pink masks are 100% showing up later when the shit hits the fan. i think i've developed a sixth sense for ashley's background foreshadowing that i don't know how to put into words.
It's a safe guess that pretty much everything in the comic is going to go to shit at some point
Maybe not Minnow
Agreed. Mainly because Ashley likes her Chekhov's Arsenal, and so she really only goes out of her way to say "look at all these guns I have mounted on the wall" when she's planning to take them all down and blow everything away.
>We cancelled the naked dancers
This is an outrage!
Ten bucks says he saves the queen and she joins the party.
This is what happens when you put Liberals in power. They take away the naked dancers and replace them with gay zombies.
We go from Aldish scheming how best to take advantage of an atrocity to Crescians blithely talking about recycling massacre victims into undead labor. This world is horrifying.
It's only a reflection of our own
I think they're talking about living workers
Who's the blue donkey?
that's clearly a mouse
Who's the blue mouse?
Maha's assistant
It's a deer. It's Yerta's sacred deer, Niper.
Knowing Ashley doesn't have to censor dicks somehow makes the finger funnier.
I always knew the b***h queen was heartless
Worse, she's hollow
Cresce is fun and I love it. There will be no dick jokes in Alderode 🙁
There will be, but only derogatory ones.
>holds out pinky finger
Ashley has yet to make me dislike Alderode or Sharteshane yet I truly hate Cresce.
Part of it for me is Cresce reminds me of the worst parts of the Emirates. They have valuable resources, and use them in excess in a tasteless waste and display of wealth. If you aren't rich, you don't have much value and can be moved around if the local council decides that you aren't a good fit for the community
>Part of it for me is Cresce reminds me of the worst parts of the Emirates.
Good analogy.
And instead of philippino "servants" they have enslaved the dead, and just put a jaunty bow on them. In plain sight, if anyone bothers to see.
There is something oddly endearing about the Sharties.
They've all got something to hate, if you don't dislike Alderode at this point you haven't been paying attention and it's just gonna get worse when 2 Unsounded 2 Furious goes there.
>They've all got something to hate
Country roads, take me home
to the place, where I belong
West Manilda, mountain mama
take me home, country roads...
I just gotta get lucky enough to be born a Copper and I'll be content in Alderode. Frick being a plat or silver, though.
Being a silver would be great. Coppers have no khert abilities. Silvers get 50 years and better than most khert powers.
>giving up years for magical power
Foolish.
Not quite right. We've seen Coppers wearing wright gloves.
It's not that they have no pymary whatsoever, but it's that they have no *range*. So they're useless at dueling, but they can absolutely make pymaric constructs.
>being born a freak that will eventually mutate into a psychotic swollen abomination
>lucky
Copper culture is apparently some typical political family shit on steroids though. Your parents are always hanging around, lording over you and never giving you any chance to do what you want. And you have to deal with all sorts of maintaining a conspiracy and backroom in fighting nonsense.
You could probably be happy as a Copper in a very specific, stable situation centuries before or after this particular spat of civil war in the country, in some out of the way area that still needs a copper but won't have a lot of others around. But that could be true of any of the castes in Alderode or any of the countries. Cresce has a number of problems, but as Cope said, it's really the only one an average modern American could be dumped into and probably settle in alright. Everywhere is so batshit you'd have a rough time.
>Everywhere is so batshit you'd have a rough time.
It amazes me how people underestimate Sharteshane's level of batshittery.
It's basically what a grimy Medieval-Roman-Victorian fantasy town looks like, complete with extreme poverty, gutter rats, depressed prostitutes on every corner, people literally shitting in the street. You always have to watch out for pockpockets with one eye, and street thugs/backstabbers with the other. There's no sleeping without one eye open. People literally send their daughters, granddaughters, and nieces to be street-prostitutes for a living.
It's basically something straight out of Oliver Twist, but twisted as only Cope does.
the average ancap sees sharteshane and thinks he'd be a jab beadman and not a malnourished rando with four or five teeth who owes protection money to a small time mob boss
The average ancap thinks that no one will frick with them because they'll have nukes in their garage to enforce the NAP, which they bought online because for some reason the people who have nukes would SELL THEM to randos instead of just using the nukes they make to force everyone else to bend the knee and immediately dissolving the ancap fantasyland.
So you both assert that the average ancap has looked at Sharteshane and decided that Sharteshane is a perfectly acceptable place to live, so long as they get to be on top?
I'm not disagreeing with this assertion, by the way. I just thought that maybe they just weren't paying attention to all the bad stuff in Sharteshane because they weren't looking closely enough. It's mind-boggling to me that anyone would want to live in a comfortable home, but have such a view of wretchedness and suffering right outside their window.
If they cared about others, they wouldn't be ancaps. Helping other people is illegal in ancapland, because anything that would result in groups of people working together for a common benefit leads to communities capable of exerting their combined influence on singular individuals, which means you are just forming tribes and nations again and the anarchist part of anarchocapitalism has been defeated. After that you just have normal ass capitalism within a couple generations.
The reason that its called an ancap fantasyland is because it can only persist so long as every person that exists in the world prioritizes the persistence of the ancap rules above their own personal wellbeing.
>It's mind-boggling to me that anyone would want to live in a comfortable home, but have such a view of wretchedness and suffering right outside their window.
It's the contrast that enhances the experience. It's like snuggling under a blanket with a cup of cocoa and a roaring fire on a cold winter evening, looking out to watch the snow settle on the corpse of the matchstick girl.
It's Gangs of New York complete with the Tammany Hall political corruption. Fricking every time I think about that movie I cannot believe how much fricking amazing talent they had to portray how fricked up that world was.
Most people here haven't seen real poverty like you said with human shit in the streets - places like India or Pakistan. Places where if you're female, a foreigner, and alone you have a high enough risk of getting raped and murdered that anybody would consider it fricking stupid to visit those places. My friend did charity work as a doctor in Africa and basically the entire time was spent in a Catholic compound with barbed wire on top of walls, an electric gate and fricking guards around the clock.
I'll say this, never go to India. Deciding to go to India as a tourist is as fricking moronic as saying you'd choose to live in Sharteshane over any other nation we've seen in the story.
I've never heard of that, so thanks for giving me a new film to check out.
Yeah. I knew someone who was doing anthropology research work in another country, and she and her cohort literally had to hide down in the jungle because they had poachers looking for them-- to kill them. It's always the same story: the safe places are surrounded by concrete and barbed wire, they have guards, and you quickly learn to keep an eye on your things and how to pay appropriate bribes. And in some places, if you're a woman (or a child), you'll have people randomly come up and try to buy you-- from your coworkers, from your friends, from your parents, whatever. They think you're for sale.
Sharteshane personifies this kind of insecurity-- insecurity in just basic physical safety whilst existing.
I had a friend who went to Egypt and there were two things about the trip that stood out to me.
One, there were designated viewing areas for the Sphinx and Pyramids and the warning was that you should not leave those areas because if you do you will be robbed and/or kidnapped. It was incredibly common for thieves and murderers to lure tourists to see "the other side the the pyramids for a better view" where they could be fricked over behind a hill out of eyesight.
Two, my friend's tour group had full-time security follow them everywhere when they were together. But on their free-roam time my friend paid the guards overtime to follow them through the markets, which was the only way they weren't going to get robbed and murdered.
I've decided based on the stories of the world and seeing the shittiest parts of the world first-hand that I'm never going to visit those hellscapes ever again. I don't want to visit a country where I have to buy a costume or pay for security to get around unmolested. I won't even fricking visit Turkey or Hungary because I don't trust the political stability. I'm going to see the reefs in Australia before the warming oceans kill the 5% that remain and then I'm just going to go to Japan every single time if I want to travel.
Gangs of New York is a good movie. It's worth watching just for Daniel Day Lewis's performance. It's exactly like Oliver Twist.
Jet is the best balance IMO; extra life without the baggage of being a Copper, and if you do want to be a wright you have at least a little bit of range for flexible casting even if it's worse than your average wright.
>Jet is the best balance IMO; extra life without the baggage of being a Copper
You don't want to be 10 feet tall?
Feels good being a Sharte supremacist.
>Capitalism ho!
That's probably intentional considering the primary setting thus far has been Cresce and she probably had to put extra work in making it seem shitty since on paper it's the least egregious.
Honestly, out of all the bullshit Cresce is guilty of the plods actually seem like a good idea. A bit morbid maybe but if it means almost all menial jobs are filled by an automated workforce than it seems like a win/win to me. There's nothing left of the living person in there either unless you do some weird khert frickery to make something like Duane.
>child soldiers
>caste system
>theocracy
>shitty traditional moars about every aspect of social life
Even if I'd love to see the queen getting guillotined for being a queen Alderode is still dogshit.
Don't forget the absolute control from the Dammakhert, too. The ability to Sting people through the Dammakhert and kill them from afar, combined with the fact that the castes can (excepting Soud) feel each others' emotions and thus tell when someone is lying (it's why Soud are seen as untrustworthy).
So it's a highly authoritarian and tightly controlled society, in which it's nearly impossible to really keep secrets from others and where you can be Stung from afar by Big Brother if they don't like the cut of your jib.
>moars
Lol. don't try to use fancy words if you don't kow how to write them.
I'd have double checked if I knew the pedants were out today.
Someone please put duane in the chastity cage muzzle
I dig the half invisible dress, but did Ash forget it in the bottom right?
paint bucket tool accident I guess
Looks like an unfortunate angle where the invisible parts just show the not invisible parts behind it. I bet she spent a while trying to move things around to avoid it but couldn't make it work, artists are always doing stuff like that
Infected masks?
I assume he's talking about ghost infected plod masks.
why is her hair cartoon hams?
She's hamming it up.
I'm the anon who b***hed about their aesthetics last thread. And the queen's outfit fricking rocks. It's still gaudy as frick, but it's got a much slicker style too it. I think it's the shape. The houses we saw in the previous page were all bulgy and ridiculous. Magically making part of you invisible is also a great flip of going ham with the colors and magic shapes. It's still magical and fantastical, but by its nature it looks very simple and understated despite being crazy.
Also, pretty sure Her Majesty's b***hing invisible shoulder is her version of the "one tit hanging out" look we've seen before, and not just last page. Perhaps shamefully having your titty flopping all about is too unspeakable for a monarch, or this Queen just rolls like that.
Height I can take or leave, it sounds pretty cool tbh, but mutating into a crippled abomination later in life doesn't sound fun, and worse than that I kind of get the vibe that the 'red cost' Roger alluded to is going to be worse still.