OOPs #273
May17
Against a heaven enforced
Shading: Oniontrain
All right, looks like everything’s up and working! I’ve been sitting on this site redesign too long, and just needed a couple days to get everything remade. And in a strange bit of good (?) timing, my Wacom tablet died a few days ago, which I assumed was the universe’s way of telling me to get off my ass and update the site already. Thankfully Wacom made a speedy repair and delivery back, so I’ve already sketched up the first few panels of the next OOPs page.
And a special shoutout to Xandispin, who first suggested a site update several months ago, then set up this snazzy new WordPress layout for me to customize (which I then sat on until this past week). Thanks man; it took me long enough to get around to it, but without you the site would still be looking like something from the early 2000’s!
Seriously, I was manually creating pages and re-entering every altered link when there was a new page, using a long-defunct version of Dreamweaver 2001. That gets tiring real quick.
Anyway! There’s some new stuff in the Art & Extras section now as well, which you might not have seen if you don’t frequent Deviantart and such.
De concept of peace? Ohh zhat is why de humani have armies and such. Wat a self deluded wanker dat wazziz his name is zhat ANY of de species around Valsalia are truly peaceful in zheir hearts. De Baxxid are wierd in being bloodzhirsty to a extreme perhaps, but humani kill for money, and us Yinglets are de worst of ’em all zhanks to life being so, so short.
Good on Kalgkur for being honest, zhat he is someone who is in charge of his destiny. Zhough we missed de part of asking ole wazziz his name what it knows zhat it did once upon a time.
HWKWHD is based as hell, old mate preaching the good word of UNGA BUNGA.
Unsure if this counted as “opening his mind utterly and allowing his wisdom to seep into him”… Hoping there will be a further discussion/exploration on this from Kalkgur, because it seems the task is to get him to fully understand the nature this guy is speaking of.
I think the point here is that most of their culture works on these untested platitudes of talking about peace and talking about not living in the wild, and that confronting that is supposed to be a sort of Nietzschean “God is Dead” moment, where he has to find his own reasons to be a cooperating member of society. Then again, he seems like he already has that, like he doesn’t need the platitudes because he’s already perfectly content with the situation as is, and doesn’t like the idea of the situation without it…
De ole wazziz his name has the appeal of a homeless dude tied to a rock for years, and I can only imagine the smell as well. De idea of “I want to be like zhat” is considerably less when seeing exactly where acting like a feral idiot ends up at.
So one could say zhere are two lessons to learn, one in introspection, seeing zhat criminal in oneself, and thus being disgusted in it, and also seeing de cost in such actions for oneself if zhey continue to act unwisely.
I’m… sure someone washes him regularly…
Would dey not have to remove his chains to do so? Plus do you zhink dey allow humans in zhere? Last time I checked de baxxid are de worst folks imaginable to do manual labor. Not zhat I’d chuckle a bit as de ole wazziz name got turned into a pin cushion over and over as dey try and clean his crusty butt.
Hopefully he takes the true lesson to heart – be sure to have numbers on your side when you make your move! 🗡️
Better to love and lose than to have never loved at all. Romance and attaching inconsequential values to actions might be pointless in terms of survival, but it sure is better than living numb.