page 1222 – Just Now, Two Weeks Ago
AAAAAaaaaaaand we’re slightly late! I know, by Far Out There standards, this is nothing. It;s just that this page was already half finished Sunday morning, and totally SHOULD have been ready to post right at midnight. Alas, I started feeling pretty crappy right the heck out of nowhere and wound up needing to hit the sack pretty early. All seems good now, though.
Also, you can tell how much Layla’s been hanging around Tabitha by the fact that, apparently, she’s learned to hear Alphonse nodding without actually looking at him.
Okay, so as I mentioned before, the previous TWC Voting Incentive series has officially wrapped up, and a new one will be starting up this Thursday. I’m NOT gonna tell you what the theme is yet, though. Ya’ll will just have to come back later and find out for yourselves. All I’ll say for now is it’s definitely one of those “just for me” creative exercises. That, and anybody familiar with what I get up to on Patreon will have at least a hint of what it is. *tease tease*
EDIT: OKAY! The new TWC Voting Incentive series is officially underway, and I can finally say what the new gimmick is! Anyone who paid attention to that hint about Patreon will already know that it somehow involves my music collection. Basically, I’m setting iTunes on shuffle until a random song gives me SOME kind of inspiration for a random Far Out There drawing, whatever it may be. There was an art meme making the rounds a few years ago about this kind of thing that I did once, and it was pretty fun. The rules on that one were that you had to stop doodling as song as the song was over, though, and I’m not holding myself to THAT. Also, I’m obviously including the song in question because of COURSE I’m gonna take any opportunity to force my musical tastes onto others… though in this case, the random factor of the song selection means I could very easily end up with a strong of song I didn’t even remember I had. Cos make no mistake, I’ve got a LOT of music lurking on my hard drive. But yeah, that’s the new TWC theme, let’s see how long it runs before I get bored!
So I take it that the flash had enough different variations that it was completely indecipherable to everyone who isn’t:
A) A Mad Scientist expecting the experiment and actively observing for the results,
B) Avatar, with her indestructibility & purposefully developed photographic memory, or
C) Tax, because Tax.
My thought was that Tabitha specifically calibrated it to only have an effect on anybody in that room, so as not to annoy everyone else on the ship. But of course, since it’s Tabitha, her definition of “not annoying everyone” can still be picked up by spaceships who-even-knows-how-many miles away.
In Tabitha’s defense, that really is how much of science/physics/reality works – there’s a LOT of the Universe that can be detected by scientific instruments an incomprehensible distance away but is imperceptible to humans standing right next to it. Most of the universe will pass right the heck through you without you even knowing it happened. Magic! Um…I mean, Science!