[ID: “Girls when they’re in love” meme with various depictions of stick figure violence. The text is edited to say, “Girls when I could be anything I want. Anyhow, anywhere, any place, anyone that I want. We're just… You could be me and I could be you. Always the same and never the same. Day by day, life after life. Without my legs or my hair. Without my genes or my blood. With no name and with no type of story, Where do I live? Tell me, where do I exist?” The background is a faded rendering of the background of the cover for Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-insides. /end ID]
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Welcome to the Forest!
They’re here! SpiderForest is extremely excited to announce our newest webcomic additions! Please check out all the fabulous comics joining us over here, and look for a new spotlight each week!
Webcomic Spotlight: Unlikely Partnerships
Clover and Cutlass - The villain's daughter falls for the heroine.
Maggie is the beloved daughter of Shulza One-Eye, the terror of the realm, and next in line to lead her clan of ruthless warriors. Maggie, however, mostly wants to knit socks. When her mother orders her to kill a pesky group of adventurers and bring back their heads, Maggie royally screws up by developing a crush on Jolene, one of her targets. Clover & Cutlass is a LGBTQ romantic comedy in a D&D-inspired fantasy setting.
Read it here > https://cloverandcutlass.com/
Immaterial - Ever wondered where all your lost socks go?
After a childhood spent constantly moving from place to place, Alex Velasco wants nothing more than to settle into her new apartment, make some new friends, and most importantly, keep her job. But her life is turned upside down and back to front when she's accidentally pulled into an surreal escher-esque reality where things that are lost and forgotten find a home.
Read it here > https://www.seraph-inn.com/iview.php
Fluffy Gang - Friends trying to find some cool treasure, with varying levels of success.
At Sierra Plateada, a mountainous region shrouded by a mysterious fog, lives Nate, a boy eager for adventure. Alongside his newly met friends, Marissa, Nita and Vincent, they'll learn about the secrets hidden at the very core of the mountains while they try getting along at the same time as they work for the Pathfinders' Guild.
Read it here > https://fluffygangcomic.com/
Witch of Dezina - The government sends a bureaucrat to find a missing goddess. Things get messy when a witch gets involved.
An empire slips into panic when their goddess vanishes into the night. In a whirl of confusion, one government bureaucrat decides to gather a team to investigate her disappearance. But his job gets messy when a witch appears for the first time in a decade.
Read it here > https://witchofdezina.com/
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I have been meaning to ask..
Why are the marks on toliki on the places they are?
Like, why cogs in the neck, hands, feet and eyes?
Is there any particular reason?
This is very long and full of spoilers, so get settled in and please keep your arms, legs and feelings inside the vehicle at all times!!!
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A long time ago, a fight ensued between Traebit and Deity (a man who was involved with the creation of arfri, Toliki's species)
As expected of Traebit, he was using mainly psychological means to torment his opponent, and began to step closer.
Deity's lover Scally (also involved in the creation of arfri) has had enough and runs over there to at least get in between the two.
But Traebit, excited on how much his words are affecting Deity, decides to strike.
Deity pushes Scally away.
Blood goes everywhere and Scally out of instinct covers his face, and so when the blood lands on him it lands kind of like this.
The chaos of bleeding and also seeing his lover covered in blood but calm enough to comfort him … how do I describe it? It became a core memory for Deity, and influenced the creation of Arfri, which he and Scally were working on together.
And so the body parts of Scally that had blood on them later became an important part of the shifter uniform:
In combination with colour rules, where black means responsibility/devotion and white means a new start/open to new possibilities …
The uniform is black meaning you should be a responsible shifter when you wear it … but sometimes, as shown by the white accents, it is necessary to break the small rules to keep the peace or serve the greater good
The fact that these same areas are where Toliki has his markings ...
...means that he has basically been told by the universe that no matter what new information or new opportunity comes his way, he is still a corrupted member of his species.
By the way, it would probably repulse other arfri to even see purple, let alone have purple in the areas of the body usually reserved for "open to new possibilities"
The reason there are cog shapes is because the category of creature he is is called a Cog. It's like having a tattoo of a rose if your name is Rose: A really obvious, non-metaphotical, slap-in-the-face reminder that he is Different and no matter what clothes he wears to hide it, his body will still display that he is CORRUPTED and should REMEMBER that he is a Cog even if he cannot BE a good cog.
The order of creature categories goes like this:
Unlimited - Gods, etc. Residents of the third circle e.g. Traebit, Pelor, Creator, other creator gods etc. Nothing stops them from doing what they want forever.
Wish Makers - ~Humans~ and similar creatures. They are only one level below gods themselves. They are not "unlimited" just because they HAVE LIMITS. Even if all diseases and ailments are cured, a body can only do so much. You only have so much time. You have to take breaks to eat and poop. Sometimes wish makers ask gods for special powers, but it's rare that this is actually given.
Immaterial - OH, IF ONLY I HAD A BODY!!! This category is for those who maybe have wishes, but cannot even begin to work on their goals because they don't have physical bodies to experience the world with. Sometimes they possess a physical creature, but it doesn't last for long. They prefer humans because of our sophisticated language abilities and the fact that we pride ourselves in making artworks. Some examples of immaterial are ghosts, and also ideas waiting to be born.
The Devoted - No wishing. No desire to change. Humans might make dolls and pretend to be gods. Immaterials might possess someone and pretend to own a body. But the devoted is a category that has no intention of becoming something different. It's worth noting that they are not BENEATH wish makers/immaterial, just seperate from them. (Imagine a 40 year old learning to drive for the first time and the instructor is 20. Maybe in life the older one knows more and could guide the younger one but in the case of driving, the younger one knows more.) Plants are in this category. All they do is grow and grow without any regard for whose perfect lawn they are interrupting. the Guardians are in this category too (remind me to make a post about the guardians lmao)
Cogs - Truly the only ones who ever get anything done. But it's such a shame that they have no free will.
Arfri, for example, were created to serve shifters and protect them from evil. Humanise them all you want, but cogs are literally living tools. When was the last time a letter (in a word (in a sentence (in a book))) said to you "hold on i need to rest" ??? When a pen no longer produces ink, do you not throw it away? (unless it's a hello kitty pen, and then it still has a function; to be pretty, even if it doesn't write.)
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Grisaille on paper. by Russell Moreton
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russellmoreton.blogspot.com/ Indexical Patterning/Painting : Affective Relational Intensities (Micropolitics of slowness and repetition) Layered Drawings : Architectural Screens/Modulations of Translucency Space Between People How the virtual changes physical architecture Stephan Doesinger This book shows how the virtual has completely changed the physical world around us. If architecture is the construction of space between people, what happens when that space exists in a virtual world? That question is the starting point for this collection of revolutionary projects by a new generation of designers. The book begins by examining the important issues that have emerged as technology reshapes our idea of place and proceeds to present the four winning projects from the first architecture competition held within the explosively popular Internet community known as Second Life. Chosen for their inventiveness and aesthetic excellence, these structures - a cloud that can be inhabited; a meta-museum; an interactive sound scape; and a snow palace of discarded objects - illustrate the mindbending possibilities of digital design. In the books final section, media artists share their real-time experiences conceptualizing and creating projects for the virtual world. Non Spaces/Digital Still Image : Fire escape Winchester School of Art Meshworks/Norwich, moving analogue source : Midway/Dante Beginning as one always does in the middle, in mediis rebus, one experiences a sense of disorientation, a sort of cartographic anxiety or spatial perplexity that appears to be part of our fundamental being-in-the-world. It is an experience not unlike that of Dante, in the opening lines of his Commedia: Midway along the journey of our life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. ( Dante 1984 : 67) Introduction : Spatiality . Robert T. Tally Jr. the New Critical Idiom, Routledge 2013 Art as Spatial Practice. Space folds : Containing "Spatialities around historicality and sociality" "All that is solid melts into air" Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, (Poetic observation concerning the constant revolutionizing of social conditions) Perceptions now gathering at the end of the millennium. Spatiality, Robert T. Tally Jr. 2013 Sensuality, Drawing and Astronomical Space. Architectural Translucency (Tracing Layers) DSC_8860 Pavilion : Borderlands Andreas Horlitz : Simulacrum. 2006 Brian Clarke : Lamina. 2005
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