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Post by Emily on Jan 26, 2011 23:58:43 GMT
So the story begins... and steve is being rebellious against authority again... he's always wearing orange outfirts in these situations... does orange make you not respect the status quo?
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Post by tangent on Jan 27, 2011 2:54:42 GMT
And here I thought orange made you look... orange. ^^;;
I love that he jumped out of the window to get away from Sparkle. You really have to wonder just what Sparkle did to cow him by the time Keti arrived.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Jan 27, 2011 5:12:09 GMT
I wouldn't say he's been cowed in any particular way. Sparkle fills a leadership role among the magical girls. If he wishes to remain a part of that group Steve has 2 options: Accept Sparkle's role and obey her, or usurp her as the leader. I think it's clear he doesn't exactly have much interest in being a leader in that group so he just tolerates Sparkle out of necessity. Being rebellious doesn't really get him anything so it wouldn't make sense for him to defy Sparkle openly. As a result, Keti would never know he was anything but a magical girl lackey.
At least that's my take on it.
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Post by Emily on Jan 27, 2011 8:20:25 GMT
little of column A little of column B? Actually I don't know, Ally is suffering a little bit of writers block with cherry and footloose at the mo, I've only got about 5 pages ahead of script with Cherry...
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Post by wanderer on Jan 27, 2011 15:24:27 GMT
I wouldn't say he's been cowed in any particular way. Sparkle fills a leadership role among the magical girls. If he wishes to remain a part of that group Steve has 2 options: Accept Sparkle's role and obey her, or usurp her as the leader. I think it's clear he doesn't exactly have much interest in being a leader in that group so he just tolerates Sparkle out of necessity. Being rebellious doesn't really get him anything so it wouldn't make sense for him to defy Sparkle openly. As a result, Keti would never know he was anything but a magical girl lackey. At least that's my take on it. Given that he was the one who drugged An's water (while trying for Dan's) under Sparkle's orders, he seemed pretty cowed to me.
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Post by Emily on Mar 3, 2011 9:42:41 GMT
And now we see Sparkle plotting one of her fabulous evil schemes for which she is so well known...
The thing I like about Sparkle is sometimes you pity her, and sometimes you hate her- you've got to wonder what sort of family brought her up to be so messed up.
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Post by tangent on Mar 3, 2011 12:59:37 GMT
The thing is, Steve could easily get around a lot of what Sparkle could do, just by saying "yeah. One of the guys got a hold of my laptop and thought he'd have "fun." You know how basic training is."
And sometimes, despite decent upbringing and nice parents, kids turn out rotten. Sometimes children with the absolute most horrid of parents and the worse of conditions grow up angels.
As for Sparkle? I'm willing to bet her father pushed her constantly to be the best, at any cost, and otherwise ignored her. Her mother was more sympathetic (which is why she's on Sparkle's phone) but never amounted to anything significant.
(Of course, her mother could have been a gold-digger and her dad constantly slept around, but who knows.)
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Post by NFFaerie on Mar 4, 2011 10:56:50 GMT
Ive had a good upbringing so far... i know right from wrong and in school im as quiet as a mouse... and probably the kindest as well...
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Post by NFFaerie on Mar 14, 2011 17:21:42 GMT
I honestly hope someone donates soon... I really want to see what sparkle does... What is £15 in Canadian money anyway/
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Post by Ally on Mar 14, 2011 17:25:01 GMT
The thing is, Steve could easily get around a lot of what Sparkle could do, just by saying "yeah. One of the guys got a hold of my laptop and thought he'd have "fun." You know how basic training is." Problem with that is, Steve's dad (and sister) already know about his crossdressing and give him hell because of it - they're unlikely to give him the benefit of the doubt. Probably wouldn't believe the magical side of things, but "learning to be a magical girl" would probably translate as "rehearsing for a drag act" in prejudiced family minds.
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Post by Emily on Mar 23, 2011 23:36:05 GMT
02_04... last panel awkwarrrrrrrrd XD. I think Steve is pretty socially maladjusted, he's used to being on the defensive around people- getting dragged around by an imp to a table where the beautiful girl who hates your guts is sitting doesn't help.
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Post by tangent on Mar 24, 2011 2:36:12 GMT
I love how Jin got upset at Claudia. You have to wonder if Jin forgets she is supposed to hate Steve until she sees him.
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Post by Emily on Mar 24, 2011 8:59:50 GMT
This scene is like footloose at the moment. There's a lot of people in the scene at any one time and because of the way they're sitting, they'll be in shot. I don't want to just draw people with blank looks on their faces, so i need to imagine what they're doing.
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Post by tangent on Mar 24, 2011 10:15:23 GMT
Yes. I call it "Living Background" (as I said recently about Footloose in fact). It's a sign of a good storyteller/artist. And there are plenty of print comics that would have blank faces. Literally. (And that's "professional." Pathetic. You can see why I prefer webcomics.)
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Post by Emily on Mar 24, 2011 16:37:17 GMT
another review... people are gonna think we pay you or something!
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Post by tangent on Mar 24, 2011 21:54:07 GMT
Are you kidding? I'm quite grateful you two put out stuff I can review regularly! I was running late and was able to put that review up in fairly short order, compared to how long it would have taken to review something new. ^^;; (That, and it was related to other stuff I'd talked about recently and thus was relevant.)
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Post by Emily on Mar 24, 2011 22:09:22 GMT
*thumbs up!* We like reviews, you like reviewing, s'all good.
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Post by NFFaerie on Mar 26, 2011 14:46:28 GMT
i read it and i expected more closer inspections of the strip. though it was funny in some sense and it also didnt drag you into that void where you dont care whats written or typed there at all... though personally i expected more... just saying.
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Post by Emily on Mar 27, 2011 13:04:12 GMT
Tnagent writes reviews of varying lengths- he's written about FL in more detail before now, sometimes he just writes little thought snippets about how he's feeling about a particular comic.
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Post by tangent on Mar 28, 2011 1:31:28 GMT
It's kind of funny, but after introducing the "Chords" (micro-reviews), I've found my productivity for all reviews has improved. I was having a devil of a time with writer's block and thinking of something to talk about for even three paragraphs. But one paragraph? That's not threatening. And often I'll find what I thought would take one paragraph to write needs more space and expands into a Secant (three paragraph review) or even a full length "Tangent" review.
I probably should use this theory with my fiction writing. Tell myself to write one paragraph. That's not threatening. And over time those paragraphs will build up.
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