It wasn’t just time, it was finding out that she’s a sphinx, making peace with her conscience, having to kill people (admittedly herself) to make sure time kept on track, etc.
Time is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long jaunt down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to time itself. (With apologies to Douglas Adams)
Shelly appears to be worrying that there was something there to be learned she didn’t learn. Then to top that the fact she might have missed something evokes no feelings at all. Now she suspects that she had this life altering experience and she kinda feels so what about it. She just can’t accept it for what it is and wants there to be more to it. Then blames herself, or her denseness, for not finding more. Basically she still has not really accepted or understood what has happened to her and how it changes her nor the consequences of it. Give it time Shelly, it will come to you.
Just the fact that she realizes she should have learned is something in and of itself. However, I suspect that she’s learned quite a bit, and just isn’t aware of it yet. You are rarely aware of what you’ve learned until you encounter someone who doesn’t know it.
I think another factor is that while the experience took 80,000+ years, that experience only ‘happened’ yesterday. Insight will take a little more time.
on a forum i used to mod i was in charge of the smilies.
(well i put myself in charge of them)
and someone once requested to have a smilie with someone being hit with a fish. was very easy to find
Similie of being hit with a fish: Having to answer a question on theorhetical physics in front of the whole class when accidentally entering the wrong classroom is as disturbing as being hit with a fish.
Hmm..mostly hitting with fishes ends with a whole village rolling over oneanother, hitting ,biting and kicking everything that’s in reach, with one big smithey randomly hitting people with a huge mallet, while strangling the voice out of the one artist the village has…
Sooo..one has to be very careful about that ‘hitting with fish’, before You know it, You’ve instigated a tradition.
I stopped reading it, then went back and didn’t recognize the characters. A new artist is drawing it now. (We’re talking about Mysteries of the Arcana.)
Original artist Keith is still listed as artist on the page – either they’re lazy or he’s coming back. I have the impression we were told he hoped to come back when the art changed the first time.
OOps. Nope.
The news on Monday’s (redrawn) page admits that the author is hard to work for and three artists in a row have quit on him, but he found an artist desperate enough to work for him.
Eeeew. I thought it was a gag page.
I think i may be dropping it … i’ll give it a week or so.
Maybe is is some sort of gag. But April 1 was two-and-a-half months ago.
Ummm. Lengthy comment to his post, from the artist two back – the one who who replaced the original artist, saying that he’s being excessively hard on himself, pointing out that everybody knew she couldn’t work on it past May when she began…
I haven’t changed the taglines due to technical issues with my copy of Adobe’s suite. As for the ‘new artist’? Well… everyone expects practical jokes in April, don’t they?
Especially the asleep part, as we still aren’t certain if this is a dream yet. Minneapolis is looking awfully Sacred Foresty in the background.
But as for Shelly, Paul had mentioned in a comment to the June 3 strip, “Shelly is trying to keep Monica from worrying. Doesn’t she seem just a bit too sparkly to you?”
I think the same principle may apply here. The Shelly doth protest too much, methinks, and her expressions betray some very large emotions indeed.
Shelly says that she thinks she missed something. The point of it is that, probably, she didn’t miss it exactly – she just hasn’t realised that she learnt it.
But is that them, or is that yourself projecting something upon them?
Or, perhaps they belong to the ‘believe they know but know not’ category?
A quote from the Buddha: “It is not the job of a student to find a perfect teacher. It is the job of a student to make the most of an imperfect teacher.”
That quote reminds me of the fellow who spent years going across the world looking for the perfect monastery. Finally he found it–but left a few weeks later.
AS Terry Pratchett says in one of the Discworld books:
wizardnounfrom the Old Tongue (wizearse</i): One who knows.
(I fear we’ll be losing PTerry soon – he’s signed up with an assisted suicide organisation in Switzerland so he can pull the plug when his Alzheimer’s gets far enough advanced that he doesn’t want to face it getting even worse…)
Personally, I don’t know what all I know, but know what I don’t know, and only a real fool is one who stops learning altogether. Also, your individual milage may vary, tires and tax not included, picture enlarged to show texture, special light used, participation may vary, if rash develops discontinue use.
IF heather goes for it and kisses, it would be funny to see a sphinx’s tail juuuust inside the frame ,going up like the demon-girls tail in the link.. -temporary loss of control- :LOL:
If Heather proceeds to kissing her, the deciding factor about Shelly’s learning will be: Will Shelly just go ‘aw, that’s sweet, but I am sorry’, orr ‘achh!! Yuckie..EEEUWW…, orr fully embrace Heather and gets “her move-on”, and the frame unfocuses into a steamy window..
There’s a sequence in the Tiny Toons Adventures segment featuring the voices of Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche as the singing Roach sisters (which features an absolutely lovely in-joke for Roches fans), in which Terre is having wonderful fantasy visions of the future; Maggie says something that pops her vision like a bubble – and it splatters on the camera lens. Suzzy pulls out a hankie and wipes it off…
I noticed that too.. but I gotta write it off as concerned-close-friend-showing-some-affection rather than a ‘move’ of any kind.
I think Heather and Shelly function much better as friends than they ever would as a couple, personally. They seem to have an understanding of sorts.
It’s okay Shelly, the Game Master is hust waiting to see how you want to spend 80 kiloanums of Experince Points. A hint: don’t put it all in Gaming: Riddles.
..and chin, and shoulders, and back etc. etc.. All hairy ,except for that shiner on top..Now tell me again the Creator has no sense of humour.. (as if a platypus wasn’t enough proof..)
Right. Foolproof is impossible as fools can be so inventive. There are so many of them too. That’s why I think the world will never really get better as a whole. You just can’t outbreed the stupid.
And now we know why: it’s hard to compete with 81ka of contemplation and its resulting wisdom when you only have a few decades of figuring out the world.
Shelly is certainly not acting as if she has 80,000 years of wisdom. It may be that most of that experience was compressed or erased when she returned. Or maybe she hibernated for millennia at a time.
That was actually my read on it.
As a guardian a sphinx’s time is mostly empty space and in order to be alert to even the slightest change in the environment at any given time the mind cannot be allowed to wander.
That tells me that for almost all Shelly’s time as a sphinx her mind was simply not working; she was running on autopilot, literally without a thought in her head, but keyed onto anything new that might need attention.
She probably knew exactly when each leaf in the forest fell but was simply not anticipating the next.
Heather: You have changed. The Shelly I knew before thought she knew all she needed to know. I don’t know what this “life changing” event was but you did learn something — you don’t know what you need to know. For you that IS a big change.
Funny that Shelly doesn’t realize that, by thinking about “learning experiences” she actually has learned a lot..
Oh, and Heather holding Shelly’s hand? I guess it is all about reassuring Shelly. Heather has a wise soul, and knows something fundamental is bugging our thick-skulled comanche.. It’s a very human gesture.
80,000 years in solitary will do that to a person. I think a session with officer nightstick will go a long way toward helping her to remember there are things in life worth hollering about.
That and maybe if everyone had a night out at Club Cerebus to unwind, too. Too much contemplation and philosophizing can wear a girl down. And, even tho’ she was a help and companion, the company of a perpetual 5(?) year old with a sassy ‘tude would more than set MY teeth on edge.
Fourteenm should be – she’s from Shelly’s vision quest, which (if Shelly is the same age as Monica) would be when she was fourteen.
Regardless, it was some years after her mother’s death, and that was when she was ten.
And, on the gripping hand, CG only looks young. She is the sum total of Shelly’s demons, and they, unlike Tina 2.0′s demons, would recall all the past cycles.
“Dissociation can be a response to trauma or drugs and perhaps allows the mind to distance itself from experiences that are too much for the psyche to process at that time.”
Pretty normal when you haven’t processed all that you went through.
.To me, it just says that you are a normal person; well, as normal as one can get. You are not the only person to have one of these “I know this was suppose to teach me something, but I have no clue what that something is” moments. I have had a couple in my life as well.
I always figured that if one could download lots of data into a persons head, it would take the brain time to figure out how to assimilate it. If Shelly just got over 80k years downloaded, it would not be unreasonable if it took a century to assimilate it.
But she didn’t get it all at once – she got it over a period of 80,000+ years. Remember, this is the same Shelly who actually lived all those years. All of it came to her at a one-to-one ratio and, presumably, was processed normally; there was no massive expository dump of the whole thing.
Monica and the Scoobies got handed the whole thing as a fait accompli all at once, but they have less to process, too.
Shelly is being too hard on herself. She has gone in one day from being a 80,000 year old sphinx trapped in a wooded realm to resuming her life as Shelly. What she regards as ‘feeling nothing’ is more probably shock. As time goes on and she starts noticing the differences between how she used to be and how she is now, she’ll undoubtedly come to realize how much she HAS changed…
i wonder if she will though
i mean
80k years
the changes would have come on gradually
like when you grow taller. you don’t notice it til you measure yourself.
You could always treat her like a Barbie and make the dress as a separate thing. Use cloth at first to make a dress, trying different kinds, then, eventually make it in clay sections so as to be able to place it over the figure. Or just stick with cloth. At least that way you always have the option.
Hmmm.. Fabric always looks iffy when used on statuettes. Maybe I’ll go with Your suggestion of making an “attacheable” dress out of apoxie. The stuff is darn strong, so I can make it pretty thin.
I did put a lot of work in Nudge’s definition. She’s a 9-foot tall deity, so must be pretty strong not to topple in our gravity with those humongous horns (Which, by the way, are a joy to make. Organic shapes always are..) Makes one shudder to think how Strong Phix, or Shellinx may be
Thanks I only hope I’ll do Your brainchild right by my dabbling.
Am I correct to assume that Nudge’s body has the light-sand/light tan color fur that a coyote seems to have?
I am in the process of mixing a batch of acrylics for the prime layer, so I would be really thankfull If You could give an approximation(RAL would be perfect, or Adobe RGB )
Oh,Yeah, very important Freckles, or demon warts ??(on her face ,I mean)
Sorry to keep hassling You, but ‘I seek perfection’ in the vision of the creator heh..
One small quibble, with a lever arm like that Nudge’s calf muscles would be much larger than what you’ve sculpted if she’s bipedal. Those calves are more suited to a quadrupedal stance. OK, shutting up now.
True, true, but that looked SOOO wrong. It looked like bad BAD cosplay, too ‘human on stilts’, so I scrapped it. I just figured everything runs via sinews and carpal tunnels(?) to her upper legs. (Don’t even start on the neck-muscles needed to support those room-sized horns..Her neck would be thicker than her head..ieeeeww..)
Part of the fun with Nudge is, that she’s a completely impossible creature with a weird amalagamate of features. Part dog, part faun, part goat… as a sculptor it’s tons of fun to sort of sticking ones tongue out at ‘reasonable’ anatomy and make something utterly wrong, look real.
We could always assume the horns are hollow and made of some strong but lightweight bio-material. More for show than functional for ramming anything. Thereby supportable by a thinner neck.
Lady of The Lunkheads!
Mistress of All Moronic!
Head of the Halfwits!
Ruler of Re-I’ll bite my tongue
Empress of the Empty-headed, though not in a Doctor Who “Headless Monk” sort of way.
Dutchess of Dunces!
Princess of the Phlegmatic(Yay thesaurus)
Thane of the Thick! (Yay Shakespeare, poor Shelly!)
you people take alliteration to new heights.
*salutes*
Baroness of Blockheads!
Countess of Cretins!
Wow, this has gotten a little out of hand
Ya think????? ;-P
Sovereign of the Senseless!!
Matriarch of the Mundane.
And, um, even the frontrunner of the foolish is thought wise if she keeps her mouth shut…
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
Abraham Lincoln
It’s on my to-do list.
And here I thought that line was by Lisa Simpson
Hell, I’ve been ascribing it to Benjamin Franklin. I looked up the quote to check the wording, and lo and behold — !
Yeah, ol’ Ben gets credit for the one about giving up liberty for security, too.
He didn’t say it.
He printed it, but it was a report to the Royal Governor from a committee, and i don’t think he was even on the committee.
I could’ve sworn Mark Twain said it.
Worst of the Wise!
Sophisticated Moron!
Wait. “Queen of the Dim-Wits” isn’t alliterative.
What are we doing?
Diva of the Dim Wits?
Alliteration is awesome. We don’t really need a reason.
“stupid is, is stupid does…”
hm, dont berate stupidity.. they get things done, without all that thinking and paranoia stuff…
.. and dont try to join them, they will beat you with experience!!!
Queen of the Bowling Balls?
aww Shelly don’t be like that. There’s more to experiences than time.
It wasn’t just time, it was finding out that she’s a sphinx, making peace with her conscience, having to kill people (admittedly herself) to make sure time kept on track, etc.
…not to mention lots and lots and lots of soul searching. Lots of it. Tons. Just centuries of sitting around thinking about it…
Time is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long jaunt down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to time itself. (With apologies to Douglas Adams)
I think the great Douglas would forgive you; But Zaphod won’t.
That’s ok, Maark. I’ll just get him to argue with himself and slip away.
Mind you, the good Time Lord had something quite similar to say on the subject.
Shelly appears to be worrying that there was something there to be learned she didn’t learn. Then to top that the fact she might have missed something evokes no feelings at all. Now she suspects that she had this life altering experience and she kinda feels so what about it. She just can’t accept it for what it is and wants there to be more to it. Then blames herself, or her denseness, for not finding more. Basically she still has not really accepted or understood what has happened to her and how it changes her nor the consequences of it. Give it time Shelly, it will come to you.
no she is afraid she missed something she wasn’t supposed to, which is why she called Heather. she feels nothing about her life changing experience.
Aww, poor Shelly…
Just the fact that she realizes she should have learned is something in and of itself. However, I suspect that she’s learned quite a bit, and just isn’t aware of it yet. You are rarely aware of what you’ve learned until you encounter someone who doesn’t know it.
The fact that she is asking shows that she HAS learned. She sees the world in a new way. She is no longer the muscle headed dingleberry.
I think another factor is that while the experience took 80,000+ years, that experience only ‘happened’ yesterday. Insight will take a little more time.
Heart didn’t learn anything, how about the head?
Quick, Heather!
Hit her with a fish!
I think your confusing your sayings a little (or Monty Python sketches, one of the two).
No, long before the “Fish-Slapping Dance”, there were cartoons and jokes about Zen masters means of driving home the point of koans.
on a forum i used to mod i was in charge of the smilies.
(well i put myself in charge of them)
and someone once requested to have a smilie with someone being hit with a fish. was very easy to find
Similie of being hit with a fish: Having to answer a question on theorhetical physics in front of the whole class when accidentally entering the wrong classroom is as disturbing as being hit with a fish.
Is there a fish-slap smiley face?
Sorry, Paula–I misread your comment and then ran off on a tangent…
“…got hold of the wrong end of the stick and proceeded to beat around the bush with it.”
Hmm..mostly hitting with fishes ends with a whole village rolling over oneanother, hitting ,biting and kicking everything that’s in reach, with one big smithey randomly hitting people with a huge mallet, while strangling the voice out of the one artist the village has…
Sooo..one has to be very careful about that ‘hitting with fish’, before You know it, You’ve instigated a tradition.
asterix rocks
Ooo…I like the new avatars.
It’s been a while since I’ve looked at that comic…I should go back to it and get caught up…
I stopped reading it, then went back and didn’t recognize the characters. A new artist is drawing it now. (We’re talking about Mysteries of the Arcana.)
Original artist Keith is still listed as artist on the page – either they’re lazy or he’s coming back. I have the impression we were told he hoped to come back when the art changed the first time.
OOps. Nope.
The news on Monday’s (redrawn) page admits that the author is hard to work for and three artists in a row have quit on him, but he found an artist desperate enough to work for him.
Eeeew. I thought it was a gag page.
I think i may be dropping it … i’ll give it a week or so.
Maybe is is some sort of gag. But April 1 was two-and-a-half months ago.
Ummm. Lengthy comment to his post, from the artist two back – the one who who replaced the original artist, saying that he’s being excessively hard on himself, pointing out that everybody knew she couldn’t work on it past May when she began…
I haven’t changed the taglines due to technical issues with my copy of Adobe’s suite. As for the ‘new artist’? Well… everyone expects practical jokes in April, don’t they?
I think that quote is the quintessential comment for this page…
it is good
even if it tried its best to break my brain
A Zen brain twister…
Especially the asleep part, as we still aren’t certain if this is a dream yet. Minneapolis is looking awfully Sacred Foresty in the background.
But as for Shelly, Paul had mentioned in a comment to the June 3 strip, “Shelly is trying to keep Monica from worrying. Doesn’t she seem just a bit too sparkly to you?”
I think the same principle may apply here. The Shelly doth protest too much, methinks, and her expressions betray some very large emotions indeed.
@Danzier: Why do you say that? I don’t see how it fits today’s strip. What is it that Shelly knows, but doesn’t know that she knows?
Well if I knew that, I’d be… Paul.
OK, then i must have taken your comment too seriously or am missing the point of Fairportfan’s comment or yours.
Shelly says that she thinks she missed something. The point of it is that, probably, she didn’t miss it exactly – she just hasn’t realised that she learnt it.
hmm
he who knows and knows he knows is wise. follow him.
from my experience.
he who knows and knows he knows can come across as arrogant gits
But is that them, or is that yourself projecting something upon them?
Or, perhaps they belong to the ‘believe they know but know not’ category?
A quote from the Buddha: “It is not the job of a student to find a perfect teacher. It is the job of a student to make the most of an imperfect teacher.”
ooh good point
and good quote.
will try to remember that.
That quote reminds me of the fellow who spent years going across the world looking for the perfect monastery. Finally he found it–but left a few weeks later.
Seems they were looking for perfect monks.
(Applies to perfect husbands/wives too.)
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Yup.
AS Terry Pratchett says in one of the Discworld books:
(I fear we’ll be losing PTerry soon – he’s signed up with an assisted suicide organisation in Switzerland so he can pull the plug when his Alzheimer’s gets far enough advanced that he doesn’t want to face it getting even worse…)
He who thinks he knows what you know but doesn’t is desperate. Correct him.
He who knows and knows you don’t know what he does is an arrogant annoyance. Make faces at him.
He who knows and thinks you don’t know even when you do and won’t listen long enough to find out… is a fool. Shun him.
I usually go with a dope slap in that third case, but I guess it’s a matter of personal preference.
Depends on if they hit back, and how hard, and how fast you duck. I duck slow.
You and danzier sound like “Click & Clack” from ‘CAR TALK’.
Especially w/ the dope slap.
Now if only I knew something about cars…
It beats following someone who has the battle cry of, “Follow me if you’re flame retardant!”
Personally, I don’t know what all I know, but know what I don’t know, and only a real fool is one who stops learning altogether. Also, your individual milage may vary, tires and tax not included, picture enlarged to show texture, special light used, participation may vary, if rash develops discontinue use.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
‘Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball’
+20
I always say that ignorant means you don’t know. Stupid means you don’t try to learn/find out.
Of course, this brings me to my favourite quote form one of Mike Kurland’s books:
I have a cartoon taped to my fridge that reads, “Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice… and it grabs better ratings.”
And then Heather, misunderstanding what Shelly is going on about, thinks she means her and either tells her she missed out or kisses her.
Final panel(s)…
in all fairness in that link they were talking about kissing already
Well, yes – it was Diva’s reaction i was thinking about. Love her tail…
IF heather goes for it and kisses, it would be funny to see a sphinx’s tail juuuust inside the frame ,going up like the demon-girls tail in the link.. -temporary loss of control- :LOL:
Ehn! I approve of the connection. Heh. Still that unexpected kiss thing.
If Heather proceeds to kissing her, the deciding factor about Shelly’s learning will be: Will Shelly just go ‘aw, that’s sweet, but I am sorry’, orr ‘achh!! Yuckie..EEEUWW…, orr fully embrace Heather and gets “her move-on”, and the frame unfocuses into a steamy window..
Then the real question is…where did they get the steamy window from?
its a another function of the 4th wall in toon physics… :p
Ahhhh! But of course!
Yup! That^^
http://www.selkiecomic.com/?p=457
Panel 4.
There’s a sequence in the Tiny Toons Adventures segment featuring the voices of Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche as the singing Roach sisters (which features an absolutely lovely in-joke for Roches fans), in which Terre is having wonderful fantasy visions of the future; Maggie says something that pops her vision like a bubble – and it splatters on the camera lens. Suzzy pulls out a hankie and wipes it off…
Or four panels of hands…
I see they briefly engaged in hand to hand contact.
I noticed that too.. but I gotta write it off as concerned-close-friend-showing-some-affection rather than a ‘move’ of any kind.
I think Heather and Shelly function much better as friends than they ever would as a couple, personally. They seem to have an understanding of sorts.
Takes a while for new Gravatars to propagate.
Where are your newest ones from?
Heh.
Mysteries of the Arcana.
Well, uh… I ran across this from the plot generator (definition of plot notwithstanding) on the NaNoWriMo website. It seems to fit…
“While experimenting with plutonium a merry band of woodland ninjas must stop the space-time continuum”
hahaha
i like
well..nudge has horns and shellinx has wings and the golems have teeth
like woodland critters already
Continuum
Continuumnumnumnum
ContinuumnumnomNOMNOMNOM!
Like.
[Three links to Wapsi comics... I hope this works.]
Or, like this:
While experimenting with plutonium
A merry band of woodland ninjas
Must stop the space-time continuum
It’s okay Shelly, the Game Master is hust waiting to see how you want to spend 80 kiloanums of Experince Points. A hint: don’t put it all in Gaming: Riddles.
“…just waiting…” Oy.
I wonder why she feels this way…does having dormant sphinx genes expressed in a time-altered inter-dimensional realm not grok?
I you are queen of the idiots Shelly then i am quite happy to be your flunky.
sometimes stuff happens. not everything needs to be a life lesson. *shrugs*
IIf….
If Shelly is Queen of Idiots, odds are she has yet to meet a true idiot.
I, on the other hand, have to wake up every morning with one in the bathroom mirror…
I only meet an ageing guy in that mirror… And every morning, that what has left the top of my head, seems to have nestled on the lower parts..odd..
A sign of growing old – when the hair on the top of your head migrates southward to your butt …
..and chin, and shoulders, and back etc. etc.. All hairy ,except for that shiner on top..Now tell me again the Creator has no sense of humour..
(as if a platypus wasn’t enough proof..)
“… the hair on my shoulders and the age in my eyes…” Amanda by Waylon Jennings
“Nothing can be made idiot-proof: someone always comes up with a better quality of idiot.”
But Shelly seems to be going the other way: at least now she recognizes how foolish she used to be
Right. Foolproof is impossible as fools can be so inventive. There are so many of them too. That’s why I think the world will never really get better as a whole. You just can’t outbreed the stupid.
“The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”
Lord help us if the two ever mix in great quantities.
Just for the record, Paul, I really like the way you draw everyone’s hands.
I note with amusement that Shelly is a true sphinx. She is speaking in riddles, and Heather hasn’t a clue.
Well noted.
I didn’t even think of that.
And now we know why: it’s hard to compete with 81ka of contemplation and its resulting wisdom when you only have a few decades of figuring out the world.
Shelly is certainly not acting as if she has 80,000 years of wisdom. It may be that most of that experience was compressed or erased when she returned. Or maybe she hibernated for millennia at a time.
That was actually my read on it.
As a guardian a sphinx’s time is mostly empty space and in order to be alert to even the slightest change in the environment at any given time the mind cannot be allowed to wander.
That tells me that for almost all Shelly’s time as a sphinx her mind was simply not working; she was running on autopilot, literally without a thought in her head, but keyed onto anything new that might need attention.
She probably knew exactly when each leaf in the forest fell but was simply not anticipating the next.
Like a cat at a mouse hole?
Like the cat who ate the stinky cheese and then sat at the mousehole with baited breath?
“Baited Breath’?!?
Is the pun jar still on that guy’s foot?
Danzier- no it bounced off. I think it rolled under the table where the Danish were.
Prediction for tomorrow:
Heather: You have changed. The Shelly I knew before thought she knew all she needed to know. I don’t know what this “life changing” event was but you did learn something — you don’t know what you need to know. For you that IS a big change.
Shelly: But what do I do with that?
Heather: “You’ll know what to do with it when the time is right for you to know.”
::likes this::
Funny that Shelly doesn’t realize that, by thinking about “learning experiences” she actually has learned a lot..
Oh, and Heather holding Shelly’s hand? I guess it is all about reassuring Shelly. Heather has a wise soul, and knows something fundamental is bugging our thick-skulled comanche.. It’s a very human gesture.
I hope she figures herself out soon. She seems to have lost so much of her joie de vivre.
80,000 years in solitary will do that to a person. I think a session with officer nightstick will go a long way toward helping her to remember there are things in life worth hollering about.
That and maybe if everyone had a night out at Club Cerebus to unwind, too. Too much contemplation and philosophizing can wear a girl down. And, even tho’ she was a help and companion, the company of a perpetual 5(?) year old with a sassy ‘tude would more than set MY teeth on edge.
Fourteenm should be – she’s from Shelly’s vision quest, which (if Shelly is the same age as Monica) would be when she was fourteen.
Regardless, it was some years after her mother’s death, and that was when she was ten.
And, on the gripping hand, CG only looks young. She is the sum total of Shelly’s demons, and they, unlike Tina 2.0′s demons, would recall all the past cycles.
Arrggghhh.
that was supposed to say “Fourteen, ” – not “Fourteenm “
“Dissociation can be a response to trauma or drugs and perhaps allows the mind to distance itself from experiences that are too much for the psyche to process at that time.”
Pretty normal when you haven’t processed all that you went through.
.To me, it just says that you are a normal person; well, as normal as one can get. You are not the only person to have one of these “I know this was suppose to teach me something, but I have no clue what that something is” moments. I have had a couple in my life as well.
I always figured that if one could download lots of data into a persons head, it would take the brain time to figure out how to assimilate it. If Shelly just got over 80k years downloaded, it would not be unreasonable if it took a century to assimilate it.
Problem is she no longer has anywhere near a century.
There are enough wild cards in this game that I wouldn’t rule out some measure of immortality for any of them.
But she didn’t get it all at once – she got it over a period of 80,000+ years. Remember, this is the same Shelly who actually lived all those years. All of it came to her at a one-to-one ratio and, presumably, was processed normally; there was no massive expository dump of the whole thing.
Monica and the Scoobies got handed the whole thing as a fait accompli all at once, but they have less to process, too.
Shelly is being too hard on herself. She has gone in one day from being a 80,000 year old sphinx trapped in a wooded realm to resuming her life as Shelly. What she regards as ‘feeling nothing’ is more probably shock. As time goes on and she starts noticing the differences between how she used to be and how she is now, she’ll undoubtedly come to realize how much she HAS changed…
i wonder if she will though
i mean
80k years
the changes would have come on gradually
like when you grow taller. you don’t notice it til you measure yourself.
i hope shelly kept a diary
She sure did.
Unfortunately, it’s back in the Time Forest.
All 75,000 volumes of it.
Then it’s also at the library, in the Annex of the Sphinx!
who may be the queen of the dim wits buts knows not to press enter too early…
Maybe not. The Library has everything ever written in the Universe – but the Wood Between the Worlds is apparently outside the Consensus Universe.
L-space. It’s there. Shelly just might get very lost trying to find it.
Aaaand..lookee here, Who’s that, looking all smug
Spottiness is from primer. Head not fixed yet. I am still experimenting with how to pose her head.
To You all: Dress? Or no dress?
well in that scene she’s not dressed yet…but I would like to see the dress.
Hmmm. The closest i recalled to that pose is here, and she is.
Where’s the earlier?
no dress
purely because i want to see all the detail on the body
You could always treat her like a Barbie and make the dress as a separate thing. Use cloth at first to make a dress, trying different kinds, then, eventually make it in clay sections so as to be able to place it over the figure. Or just stick with cloth. At least that way you always have the option.
Hmmm.. Fabric always looks iffy when used on statuettes. Maybe I’ll go with Your suggestion of making an “attacheable” dress out of apoxie. The stuff is darn strong, so I can make it pretty thin.
I did put a lot of work in Nudge’s definition. She’s a 9-foot tall deity, so must be pretty strong not to topple in our gravity with those humongous horns (Which, by the way, are a joy to make. Organic shapes always are..) Makes one shudder to think how Strong Phix, or Shellinx may be
So very cool!
Thanks
I only hope I’ll do Your brainchild right by my dabbling.
Am I correct to assume that Nudge’s body has the light-sand/light tan color fur that a coyote seems to have?
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I am in the process of mixing a batch of acrylics for the prime layer, so I would be really thankfull If You could give an approximation(RAL would be perfect, or Adobe RGB
Oh,Yeah, very important Freckles, or demon warts ??(on her face ,I mean)
Sorry to keep hassling You, but ‘I seek perfection’ in the vision of the creator heh..
One small quibble, with a lever arm like that Nudge’s calf muscles would be much larger than what you’ve sculpted if she’s bipedal. Those calves are more suited to a quadrupedal stance. OK, shutting up now.
True, true, but that looked SOOO wrong. It looked like bad BAD cosplay, too ‘human on stilts’, so I scrapped it. I just figured everything runs via sinews and carpal tunnels(?) to her upper legs. (Don’t even start on the neck-muscles needed to support those room-sized horns..Her neck would be thicker than her head..ieeeeww..)
Part of the fun with Nudge is, that she’s a completely impossible creature with a weird amalagamate of features. Part dog, part faun, part goat… as a sculptor it’s tons of fun to sort of sticking ones tongue out at ‘reasonable’ anatomy and make something utterly wrong, look real.
We could always assume the horns are hollow and made of some strong but lightweight bio-material. More for show than functional for ramming anything. Thereby supportable by a thinner neck.
More like part horse – goats have cloven hooves – oh, wait – her tail?
I think the goat part is her Scape.
that sculpture is so awesome.. you are extremely talented. can’t wait to see the finished product
He is indeed. Not too bad at sketching either, I’ll wager. Perhaps he could do a webcomic?
nah..sorry to disappoint, but those sketches in the background are from an anatomy reference book.
I can draw reasonably well, but suck at inking.. i’ll always kill my work when inking.. So, a web-comic is out of the question.
Let alone coming up with something as engrossng as WS..
Well, I’m on to a couple of days of sanding and priming Nudge(bleh.. booring, but neccesary), so, no updates for some time.
Thanx for all encouragement. You WS-fans are the best!
oh, and I say no dress.. but a dress option would still be cool.
Spot on! The face looks really nice.
You just proved that you are the artist, not me. I have no idea how it could be improved, so I’d vote for leave it as is.
Perhaps the dress in a pile on the floor below her right hand?
Why do I get the distinct vibe that Shelly is going to be feeling SOMETHING in a big way by the end of the week?
by the looks of their hands she might be feeling -something- other than officer tightbuns, if you catch my drift
Because she hasn’t seen Justin yet?
Ba-dump-crsshh!
Thank you! Try the veal!
Quit allitering everywhere, and remember to never put Descartes before the horse.
heh
i like that 