Happy July of the Fourth! (2017 edition)
*GASP* can it be? A PAGE ACTUALLY GOING LIVE AT MIDNIGHT? It’s an Independence Day MIRACLE! …too bad it’s for a page with no relation to plot, huh? Actually, I got this page done early so that I’d have more time to finish the ACTUAL Tuesday page… because our town’s local 4th of July celebration is actually on the 3RD of July to avoid clashing with the big national stuff, so I lost track of they days & didn’t realize this WAS the page for Tuesday. So, yeah, no actual advancing of the story, today, but look! COLOR!
Also, as an unforeseen side effect of actually getting a page done early for once, I actually don’t know if there’ll be a new Voting Incentive up when you read this. I mean, I’m gonna do one, but it’s not done as I write this, and since we’ve established that I suck at tracking the progression of linear time, I might not have it finished before the page actually goes life. So, if you don’t see a new Incentive yet, just check again later… preferably after the 24 cycle has reset, so the second vote also counts 😀
(Historical Notes: The also happened to be around the point where Photobucket stopped letting non-premium users display anything they hosted off-site. That’s yet another in the looooong line of things that REALLY should have been the sign for me to quit messing around and finally get my own hosting. I learn very slowly.)
@ Comic: But, even non-canonically, why do you know what an America is, Astrid?
With these REALLY non-canonical pages, the ones that break the bounds of meta-fiction, I tend to write the characters like they’re modern day “actors” who just play the role of future people “on screen.” It’d explain how all their character soundtracks are full of late 20th/early 21st century music!
Have you been borrowing ideas from SailorSun.org? 😀
Why wouldn’t she know about America? They guy sitting right in front of her is the guy from Conventional Wisdom, who is an American, lives in the 21st Century, attends 21st Century Anime conventions in America, and so forth. If she didn’t already know about it, he could easily have told her. Out of canon reality crossovers are like that.
(Not to mention the fact that the often-used trope in “extremely distant future sci-fi” that people of that time will have as little record of today as we have of 5000 years ago is nonsense anyway, since modern society produces many many MANY orders of magnitude more information and records than ancient society did. Ultra-futuristic humans will not be able to forget their embarrassing 21st century past history, even though they may very well want to. Unless you just mean that Astrid is probably not the type to have studied hard in ancient history class. In which case, yes, that’s probably true.)
Actually… the loss of records trope is far more believable than most would assume. Sure, we make a whole lot of records, but most of that is on paper, which decomposes, or is on computers, with the vast, VAST, majority being on computers. We ALREADY have a type of primitive computer/data source engine thingy that we don’t know how to read, and it entirely possible that we will advance beyond computers to the point where only some minor specialists will temporarily keep knowledge of how to connect to computers, until their methods are lost or some piece of equipment, be it some hard drive or computer screen, fails and nobody knows what the actual problem is, making attempting to use computers pointless. Repeat this advancement at least three or four times over the course of the next dozen centuries, and there will be a LOT of information lost in the transfers.