page 1246 – thawing your ingredients
So, I was in the process of posting this page, and my comments were mostly going to consist of me rambling about how I’d been torn over whether to write “rhinoctopuses” or “rhinoctopi,” but just wound up going with a collective singular in order to show off how funny the word “rhinoctopus” is… and then I realized I was in the process of posting a comic where the word was in fact misspelled as “rhinocopus.” I really need teach my spell check to look for more words. I don’t even think it knows how to spell catastroflan!
Anyway, the usual extra updates/news apply here: There’s a new TWC Voting Incentive going up Thursday, there’s a few more old pages of The Killer Station of Deadly Doom up in The Gallery (and at least a few more will probably go up at some point, start here if you haven’t checked since last week), there more free Halloween stuff up on Patreon, and more NORMAL Patreon stuff will be going up later this week too. Ya know, all the standard stuff.
Slight edit: Regarding the gradual drip of Killer Station of Deadly Doom pages to the gallery, make sure to at least go read page 135, because BOY some work went into being able to present that one again…
EDIT: …and speaking of Incentives, the new TWC incentive is up!
Ah, of course, Ichabod has trouble not getting into trouble when he’s doing something he’s comfortable with. So when he’s keeping an eye on the cooking, which he isn’t comfortable with, there’s always going to be some level of disaster. Got it.
Rhinoctopedes would be the correct plural. At least, it would be if we assume it uses the same pluralization as the Greek roots, which of course isn’t a guarantee when hauled into English.
And it can easily drift even further when hauled into whatever near-English Space-Language that’s actually spoken in Far Out There.
Ever since the Spellcheck Rebellion at the start of the Phonetic Wars, there are certain etymologies that have simply become lost to mankind forever
This sort of situation is why the Order of Word Knights needs more support from viewers like you! With your help, we can recreate language before the kibathian word worms finally destroy it once and for all, like they did the language of [error sound] and [error sound]!
It is a little unfortunate that the Order of Word Knights tends to get into fights with the Nitpickers, due to the former being against language shift and the latter only wanting it documented so that it could be understood at a later date. Oh, and both sides actively try to poach promising rookies from each other, you can’t forget that major reason why they hate each other.
Note to self: Totally start slipping in references to The Order of Word Knights as an in-joke only people who read the comments will get (seriously, this is gold, right here)
EDIT: Can anybody think of any more things in the comments I’ve said I was totally gonna use, then forgot about? I’m sure there’s been a bunch over the years, lost to time since the old comment section went down.
Hum…It wasn’t in comments but something about portals having side effects?
Eh.
The most clever thing about that old fanfic was the name, in hindsight…
I vaguely remember a few things I made up in the old comments, like all the bull I made about the green tube Avatar was crawling through in page 680 (in the 2014 archive, boy I’ve been reading this for a while) being about the smell of Pulse Waves. I mean, when you went back and commented on the comments, you thought it was intelligent and reasonable, but I just went “They stink? Avatar, you’re suffering because you’re in a tube of something that can kill people, and a warning of the thing that can kill people is leaking is important to the people who use the thing that can kill you responsibly”.
I’ve probably made a half-dozen recommendations that you commented that you’ll want to get back to, but boy howdy I can’t remember any of them for the life of me.
With the exception of the one time that I called Trigger a Cinnamon Bun. Speaking of Trigger, you should show his ability to make machines break simply because he wants them to again. Possibly by knowing just where to hit them, you’ve only done it twice without him being in danger.
Oh, I made that comment when you were reposting! Look at the current comments on page 677 and you’ll see me calling Trigger an adorable little cinnamon bun!
Yeah, it occurred to me the other day that I should really have a list of all these little neat ideas for future reference… except now I can’t remember most of them well enough to put them on the list where I won’t forget them 🙁
I actually just read the hover text of this page for the first time. There is a reason why Ichabod & Mariska are friends. Ichabod is a Trouble Magnet, possibly the strongest relatively long-lived Trouble Magnet in the Far Out Universe, and Mariska is a Minor Living Cloud of Trouble. This also explains his friendship with Stillez, who’s an Extreme Living Cyclone of Devastating Trouble.