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2016-12-21

by shaenon on December 21, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Purple Waves
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  1. casimir
    December 21, 2016, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Stopping by Annex One on a Snowy Evening
    By Robert F. Rost

    Whose tracks these are I think I know;
    The Skin Horse folk who come and go
    By dint of effort I’ll make clear
    These mixed impressions in the snow.

    Sweetheart’s pawprints do appear
    In triplicate she holds so dear.
    U.N.I.T.Y.’s step is hard to fake;
    A bound, a skid, a spin, a smear.

    Tip’s Manolo Blahniks make
    Well-spaced triangles on the flakes.
    The only other track’s the deep
    Depression of Moustachio’s wake.

    These tracks of Skin Horse folk won’t keep.
    But I have no cause to weep.
    I’ll read Skin Horse 6 before I sleep,
    I’ll read Skin Horse 6 before I sleep.

    Happy Solstice everyone!

    • Robert Nowall
      December 21, 2016, 6:35 am | # | Reply

      Nice.

    • James Shepherd
      December 21, 2016, 11:11 am | # | Reply

      Very nice.

    • OneUniverse
      December 21, 2016, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

      Frost reading the original was just on my news feed, so I read this version in his voice: Very cool.

  2. Towering Barbarian
    December 21, 2016, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    So I wonder which one of the Sparks will respond by telling her, “OK, you’re a cab!”? o_O

    • Robert Nowall
      December 21, 2016, 6:36 am | # | Reply

      Me—missing this skimming down completely the first time ’round.

  3. evilmidnightlurker
    December 21, 2016, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    …her timeline is now slightly more confusing than I thought it was. Only slightly mind you.

    • Zero
      October 25, 2020, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

      Now we know why she was told to look for Temporal Anomalies.

  4. Manifesta
    December 21, 2016, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    My avatar is disappointing me. Why does she need a cab when she has wings?

    • Archeo Lumiere
      December 21, 2016, 7:01 am | # | Reply

      She doesn’t know how to consciously use them, and she just crushed her own car, closing a temporal loop.

    • chrisn
      December 21, 2016, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

      The innocent bystander might have a fair amount reality blindness. She’s never been that impressed with the inherent weirdness of any of the situations she’s blundered into. She probably just hasn’t noticed that she’s a dragon. Will she ever?

    • Knuckles
      February 2, 2022, 11:42 am | # | Reply

      Give her some slack, new bodies take a few days getting used to.

      Plus she did come all this way to get her insurance to cover the car damages. There are principles!

      And those principles are very high so hopefully the insurance will still cover it

  5. codebracker
    December 21, 2016, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    I hope she decides to join skin horse, she’s got a similar skill set as Nick

  6. Forzin
    December 21, 2016, 2:58 am | # | Reply

    Well that answers that question.

    She can talk!

  7. Daibhid C
    December 21, 2016, 4:59 am | # | Reply

    I like that everyone there simply accepts that the dragon is the innocent bystander, even though none of them were there when it happened. (Walske, I’m sure, is bitterly disappointed that nobody’s going to say that’s impossible.)

  8. Robert Nowall
    December 21, 2016, 5:59 am | # | Reply

    “Will someone call me a cab?” Okay, you’re a cab.

  9. SVGeezer
    December 21, 2016, 8:27 am | # | Reply

    The Dragon is cute.

    How can something as large as a Dragon be cute?

    • casimir
      December 21, 2016, 9:44 am | # | Reply

      Drawing cute is definitely a part of this comic artist’s skillset.

    • dzamie
      December 21, 2016, 1:10 pm | # | Reply

      How can a dragon *not* be cute? Dragons are always cute!

      • Sir William
        December 21, 2016, 11:58 pm | # | Reply

        Agreed

  10. TheTownsend
    December 21, 2016, 10:12 am | # | Reply

    I think, whatever contest you’re in, whoever ends up with the reward of being a goddamn Dragon aught to be considered the winner no matter what.

    “But, but I demonstrably shot more baskets?”
    “Yes, but I have wings and a tail and inspire childhood wonderment now.”
    “Well damn, you’re right.”

    • K. Iceclaw
      December 21, 2016, 1:41 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah I kinda want a minute with that irradiation machine. And a shrink ray for convenience’s sake, ‘course.

      • BRGR
        December 22, 2016, 11:48 am | # | Reply

        The irradiation machine is a device of the RNG gods: It’s results are unpredictable. It might turn you into a silverfish.

        • K. Iceclaw
          December 27, 2016, 4:20 pm | # | Reply

          I’mo need a an enlarger ray, a probability distortion device, and maybe a time machine too, then.

  11. Pygar
    December 21, 2016, 10:51 am | # | Reply

    Did the doomsday device move them back in time? The empty cooler, the crushed car…

    • Pygar
      December 21, 2016, 4:03 pm | # | Reply

      Or not that device… who do we know with access to time travel, and a black bird?

  12. woozy
    December 21, 2016, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

    Wait. So they’ve *all* travelled back in time? Is that how the Dane escaped? He didn’t but they all were sent before he was trapped?

    • woozy
      December 21, 2016, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

      Any earlier reference to the black feather?

  13. Treesong
    December 21, 2016, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

    to us

  14. Trivena
    December 21, 2016, 4:35 pm | # | Reply

    Why is she heading out to her car, when it was crushed a week ago?

    • Robert Nowall
      December 21, 2016, 6:42 pm | # | Reply

      It’s a rental.

      • Trivena
        December 22, 2016, 5:08 am | # | Reply

        Oh, right. Duh.

    • Shadowmehr
      December 21, 2016, 8:14 pm | # | Reply

      Causal loop. Now why her past self appeared to find the crushed car and start the whole “search for temporal anomalies department” loop in the first place.

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