But making fun of hipsters is so mainstream
on August 4, 2013 at 8:20 pmCourtney:
Speaking of transgressions, sorry for not having this up on Friday or over the weekend. Our dog has been sick.
The good news is, I got to hang out with one of our readers, the amazing Chynna Miller (responsible for so many of our fan arts and fan funs) in person! Wonderful friendship times were had!
The other good news is, thanks to working at a software company I was able to get a discount on a Windows Surface Pro. It’s a nice tablet computer with a digitizer pen. Will this make my drawing efforts faster and easier?! Well it really hasn’t so far, but hopefully it just has a learning curve…
I just realized that it looks like one of the muffins is admonishing Davis in the first panel. Maybe Ecta is a ventriloquist, or maybe that muffin is just really passionate about respecting one’s superiors.
Hehe, yeah, that text box placing is funny!
That’s the benefit of using different fonts for everyone. I highly doubt a muffin would speak in Ectas font.
Unless Ecta was possessing the muffin.
But she’s not.
HIIIPSTTERRRRRRRRRRRRR!!
I like all the textures you’ve got everywhere.
go floyd! hahaha yes
HECK YEAH GO FLOYD. ♥ And the hipsters, oh geez…why aren’t they taking pictures of their cups?
Glad things are (hopefully?) calming down!~
Idenaugram hasn’t been invented yet.
Do we have questions enough for Wednesday?
Yeah, but feel free to ask some more, always!
In that case…
What kind of muffins are those?
How much would a cup of coffee cost in this shop anyway?
What’s the equivalent value of an Ide relative to, say, the Euro?
So are hipsters the Flamboyant ones a la Floyd when it comes to clothes? If so, how did that subculture even come about in a land where almost everyone just wears the same outfit every day?
Where did the name of Idenau even come from?
Who started the kingdom?
Are there other kingdoms with their own currency?
Would Skærva be able to terrorize them in his plots, or would those countries have their own main villain?
HOW does Davis take his coffee?
(I’m hoping for the answer to the differences between Light and Dark magic though)
I think “Idenau” is a pun/homonym on “I dunno”.
Because:
“Where do you live?” “Idenau.”
I kind of meant ‘why did the founder of the kingdom decide on that name’.
I can read phonetically.
Blueburry (Jeez, I haven’t seen that since high school…)
The coffee would cost an exorbitant amount, but the minions just used the coins they stole from the fountain and from breaking pots in people’s homes.
Exchange rates? Oh, heck if I know. I’d say an Ide is less than an American dollar though, which means it’s less than a Euro. Judging exclusively by the cost of sandwiches at the Sammich stand.
Being a hipster is more of a state of mind. They probably do change their outfits more often than most Idenians, though.
Idenau is ancient Idenian. The language has changed so much over time and through interaction with Epherai (the flish language) that it’s barely recognizable what old words used to mean.
“id” = bounty, plenty
“nau” = land”
and the “e” came about as the result of the compound, because try saying “Idnau” and NOT putting something in between them…
So it means “land of plenty” essentially. A land where there is endless possibility and anything can happen, right? That’s the nice in-world explanation. On a meta level, yeah, it’s a joke
More in-depth Idenian history will come later!
There are certainly other kingdoms, but Idenau is a continent unto itself, so it’s more or less isolated, culture and language wise (and currency wise, of course). I mean Skarva COULD go antagonize other kingdoms, but Idenau’s the place where the temple/quest system is set up for heroes and villains. It’s the framework he knows how to use. Everything elsewhere would be foreign, he wouldn’t be able to communicate, he’d have to transport a large base of minions, and overall logistically it would be such a pain. And I just don’t think he WANTS to take control of anywhere but home sweet home, to prove himself against the Hero and the Gods. He simply won’t allow himself to give up on that!
Davis takes his coffee dark and black and extremely hot.
Is anyone else really worried about the minions? I’ve grown to love them over Blank’s creepy hermit-ness.
I would think that’s the case for most people. But don’t worry, they’ll be fine!
Poor Blank. All alone in his hut, curled up next to his sword and stroking the picture of the princess that he keeps on his mantle…
Speaking of Blank’s sword, It seems to get really curved. Is it called the Crescent Cutlass?
That’s neat! I don’t know its name. All good swords should have one, but perhaps only Blank knows it. Like only Veronika knows the name of her bird.
Ecta is WAY too seriously and has no idea what a joke is… unless he’s serious, cause I can’t tell.
Also… I JUST GOT MY BRACES OFF!!!!!!!!! so the first thing I eat is cookies and cream ice cream lol
YAY! That’s an awesome feeling for sure!
Ecta’s (almost) always serious, and Davis is (almost) always not.
I never noticed how fabulous Floyd’s hair is. I’m jealous.
yeay wow it does look good
I don’t always draw it this well. It came out nice. Really nice! I have to study what I did here…
It also helps that he has his hood off…
What does Skarva do during Shark Week?
He has a party! A pity party.
…So there is an evil muffin minion? If he responds you would never go hungry, just eat him and then let him respond!
Ha ha, just kidding, I saw your comment and had to make a joke about it.
So are the hipsters a couple? Or is the concept of couples to mainstream?
I dunno, maybe! Human-Lurkin relationships aren’t exactly mainstream, so it might be acceptable to their sensibilities.
I guess I shouldn’t force them into a relationship they may not have, they could just be friends.
Or being hipsters they only sit with people they don’t know cause friends are too mainstream.
You AREN’T going to force them into a relationship they may not have? Wow, that’s something I don’t see very often on the internet =P
Im trying to cut back on my fan shipping and just let the story go where the creator takes it…even if it is wrong WRONG I TELL YOU!!!!
I have a completely unrelated question…can humans and Lurkin breed?
I’m now really curious as to who you might possibly be shipping in this story
As for your question, well… what do you think? Would that explain some things? Or somebody?
GASP!!!!……Nope I got nothing…OOOOoooh!
For some reason my brain wants to ship Floyd and Ecta cause when I was typing the comment about how he should seduce the princess a wile back I thought that Ecta would get jealous.
I do feel bad for her, normally the bossy ones act better then their boss but the respect she has for ‘old shark face’ makes me like her.
So old shark face isn’t cursed he is just part Fish………..what?
Oh gosh I finally got all caught up -_-
I got so swamped with school that I almost forgot about this comic…
Hi! Nice to see you again! I understand the feeling and I hope you get to relax a bit more soon…
Yeah, I’m trying not to let things stress me out too much. It’s good to be back!