Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?
Then about a week into their journey like
Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying
Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst
Legolas:
Animated Alinua based on chap 5 of Aurora, and I'm pretty happy with how it came out :D Did I mention I love this webcomic? Because I do
Hour 6 of consecutive physics lectures:
there are so few of us now, night has fallen and all the world is numbers…
they have taken the coffee and the second floor…
footsteps sound in the corridor, they are coming…
we have completed the differentiation but cannot rest for long…
a professor moves in the dark…
we cannot get out… we cannot get out…
a short project I'll be working on some time soon
Not my white ass locked in the duke’s dungeon again because I fucked his favorite jester 😩
I didn’t know he was so territorial over the silly little guy 🙄
do you ever think about how chemos got blown up. fulgrim's home planet got blown up. the planet he grew up on, that he loved, that he brought back from the brink of collapse, that he had such high hopes for. his adoptive parents, who probably died before he ever saw the fruits of his labour, were buried there. every spouse and friend he'd ever had was buried there. the oceans couldn't support life. he wanted to fix that.
it doesn't exist anymore. it got blown up.
More favourite mad science tropes:
Flashy explosions as a result of errors in procedures that have no conceivable reason to involve any explosive substance
Lab coats in non-laboratory settings
All mad scientists being versed in mad psychology regardless of their ostensible mad field of study
“It comes to life and starts eating people” being a potential failure mode of literally every experiment
WIldly unethical ways of accomplishing goal that could have been achieved more easily without the crimes against humanity
[noun] reaction/inversion/overload, where [noun] is something that one would not customarily regard as being capable of reacting/inverting/overloading
The way that you can pinpoint the popular anxieties of the era of the story’s publication by looking at the form factor of the thing that turns people into face-eating monsters (e.g., weird potion versus nuclear radiation versus psychiatric fuckery, etc.)
QuAnTum
World-ending superweapons that are also people even though being a person has no bearing on the world-ending part
“What in God’s name?” “God had nothing to do with it!”
just woke up
voidy is from @comicaurora
I've been seeing a lot of knight posts recently. pretty great
just finished HarrowMaster,I love Solomon🥰🥰
Why is “pretty boy” considered an insult like call me a pretty boy Call me a pretty boy right now I want to be the prettiest boy you’ve ever seen
I wish I was creative enough for this site. Want a fun fact?
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