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2020-12-10

by shaenon on December 10, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Robert Nowall
    December 10, 2020, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Must be the work of the same artist that did the Victory Cruller…

  2. Alphaghoul
    December 10, 2020, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Did they even make a fake name? And why does it say fellow disgusting rodent?

    • awgiedawgie
      December 10, 2020, 12:46 am | # | Reply

      Did you miss a few strips along the way?

    • Joshua Kronengold
      December 10, 2020, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      This is how the drone introduced themselves. “I am Ratty Mcratterson, a fellow disgusting rodent.”

      • Robert Nowall
        December 10, 2020, 7:42 am | # | Reply

        Of the Boston McRattersons, too. Dunno if they reside in St. Charlie or elsewhere in the city.

  3. Candace
    December 10, 2020, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    I’m surprised the Westie isn’t “lifting its leg” on the monument. It looks like the sort of thing a dog would like to mark.

    • thenardyr
      December 10, 2020, 1:33 am | # | Reply

      Maybe the dog is confused, struggling for reality blindness. For that matter its surprising the dog-walker sees it well enough to be confused.

      • VickiC
        December 10, 2020, 4:29 am | # | Reply

        I thought reality blindness only affected humans… For that matter, I wonder what the dog walker actually sees.

        • dragonbagon
          December 10, 2020, 4:43 am | # | Reply

          I really think he probably just sees it as is- reality blindness is for things that couldn’t exist without a mad touch, but on it’s own this is just a sculpture, there’s no need for madness in just a sort of weird piece of art. People are perfectly willing to accept ‘…Guess it’s a Banksy?’

        • awgiedawgie
          December 10, 2020, 7:59 am | # | Reply

          This story arc showed clearly that reality blindness affects non-humans as well. The rats saw the drone as a real rat, and saw Cinnamon as a human child. It took Artie several tries to finally get through to Valiant that his “fair flower” was really a robot.

          Reality blindness simply causes the mind to ignore whatever it can’t accept as “normal”. Everyone has a different degree of reality blindness, however. The rats – themselves being something unnatural – obviously aren’t totally reality blind. Dave’s brother Bill had a severe case. He couldn’t see Artie at all in his gerbil form.

          • Arkutt
            December 10, 2020, 8:51 am | #

            I thought it was just “rule of funny”, like Bugs Bunny’s disguises!

        • jdreyfuss
          December 10, 2020, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

          Reality blindness affects all sapients, though presumably that dog isn’t sapient.

  4. dragonbagon
    December 10, 2020, 3:39 am | # | Reply

    ‘Lee’ is an old english word for shelter or protect. The drone pilots protected the rat colony. Now they’re remembered in stone.

    There’s a chapter title, folks!

    • Ahno neemus.
      December 10, 2020, 6:34 am | # | Reply

      I was under the impression that the chapter title was a “Rats of NIMH” reference.

      • dragonbagon
        December 10, 2020, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, yeah, definitely. But the title also generally directly relates to the events of the chapter too :P.

  5. Sneaker_NH
    December 10, 2020, 5:09 am | # | Reply

    That isn’t a sculpture, that’s the drone.

    • Fishface McGee
      December 10, 2020, 11:14 am | # | Reply

      I doubt it – the drone was targeted by the bomb sent to destroy the colony. We saw Artie and Valiant mourning beside the burn mark that was all that was left.

  6. s854
    December 10, 2020, 5:38 am | # | Reply

    The authorities here are clearly more tolerant of unauthorised statues than Bristol City Council were with Jen Reid’s one.

  7. Sleepy John
    December 10, 2020, 7:16 am | # | Reply

    So remember Ratty McRatterson / Who Valiant thought was hot / And for his reward we stuck him up / In an In-N-Out parking lot. – after the Clancy Bros.

    • Robert Nowall
      December 10, 2020, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

      “Ah, Ratty, Ratty…you asked for love and they gave you a stone.”

  8. David B Huber
    December 10, 2020, 7:25 am | # | Reply

    Kudos to Shadowmehr for calling the team-up.

    • Shadowmehr
      December 10, 2020, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      Thank you.

  9. jdreyfuss
    December 10, 2020, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

    I like the little salute that it’s almost making, except its arm can’t articulate enough to do it.

  10. Shadowmehr
    December 10, 2020, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

    Echo Bravo and Alfa Alfa may not have set out to make their mark in history, but the will not be long forgotten.

    Okay, they themselves might be forgotten, but their alias will live on.

  11. davidbreslin101
    December 10, 2020, 3:59 pm | # | Reply

    “In the eons to come, if only one thing remains of our civilisation, let it be this.” (That’s pretty much how I feel about the grave of Emperor Norton, too.)

  12. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    December 13, 2020, 7:36 am | # | Reply

    Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, theirs was the most… disgusting.

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