As a Canadian, I promise you we hate it as much as you do. Suddenly we all have to wake up an hour earlier for nearly 8 months, then only go back to the right time a month before Yule/Christmas/Hogswatch. It’s dumb. If we really needed to faff about with time to “Save Daylight” you would think we would do it in the winter when the daylight is scarce.
Want to work 8-4? Work 8-4. Want that to be country wide and have the authority to do so? I’ll cope. Just don’t insist that it’s still 9-5 and that the rest of us are the ones being unreasonable.
Brit here and I’m in full agreement, daylight saving time needs to die, it’s utterly pointless in this day and age.
I’d heard once that when explaining the custom to an elderly native American he said “Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of the blanket, sew it onto the bottom of the blanket, and you’d be left with a longer blanket.”
Agreed, Daylight savings time has GOT to go. Even jet lag isn’t as bad! This comes from an annoyed American student who’s almost late to school because of it!
I always heard that it was started because of farmers. We “spring forward” and gain an extra hour of daylight during the planting season and through the harvest seasons. This was well before artificial light or electric lights so it is a bit out-dated, but it served a purpose once…
@Blarmy
Winter is unaffected by Daylight Savings. When we ‘fall back’ we return to the normal ‘solar time’, before DST was invented. It’s when we Spring forward that the clocks are wrong for nearly 8 months
@Random Reader
When you work on a farm you start when there is light and you stop when there is none. DST favours retail and sports, but farmers and late-night businesses traditionally oppose it. The idea that it was good for farmers was just something people told each other to make themselves feel good.
People also claim that summer/winter break in schools was to allow children to help on the farm, in spite of the fact that Summer and winter vacation are the times when there is the least work to do in the field. Summer and Christmas were when rich children were pulled from school so their parents could go on vacation, and it was easier to structure the school year around the wealthier families’ schedules.
Sorry for the rant; it’s just that I grew up in rural areas and I hate when people claim “it’s good for the farmers” about things that only make agriculture harder.
It’s my understanding–I’m doing this from memory, didn’t Google it or anything–that daylight savings time started during WWII as a way to save energy. The idea is that if it’s light longer in the evenings, people won’t need artificial lights as much, and so use less electricity. Said electricity is then available for other things, like manufacturing. It persisted . . . I’m not exactly sure why.
And the reason to switch back in the fall is for school children. So it’s not pitch black when they’re standing on the street corner waiting for the bus, and to some extent so there’s sunlight on the roads to help clear any overnight snow/ice. Why they don’t just start school later in the day . . . again, no idea.
Until recently, DST six months out the year. It was extended a few years back, I think maybe under the Bush administration (okay, so that would maybe be 15ish years ago)? And Canada followed suit because, well, I guess it would be confusing for the time to be different there for like a month or so in the spring and the fall. Europe has NOT made that change, so their “summer time” hasn’t started yet.
However, any supposed benefits are outweighed by the drawbacks. There have been studies showing that there are more heart attacks and car accidents in the week following the time change than at any other time of year.
(Some states–Arizona, most of Indiana, maybe one or two others–do not observe daylight savings time. In Canada, the Yukon territory has recently gone to permanent daylight savings time; they did not “fall back” in November.)
Now all I’m wondering is how the storm reacts to people who aren’t afraid, if Tynan ever encountered them. It’s probably nitpicking, but can it live off the fear felt by those around the fearless?
Maybe it’s a nothing to fear but fear itself kind of thing, of course in this case fear will also destroy your home, rip things up from the ground and throw them around and flood the place, so maybe it makes more sense for them to fear him
But he’s not a fear god. He’s a Storm god. But the damage his storm did to mortal settlements was something to be afraid of, and as the people feared him more and more, he became stronger and stronger because god’s power and nature is tied intimately to how people view them. If they view him as powerful, he becomes powerful. If they view him as cruel, he becomes cruel.
Concerning the multi-authored story from the previous panel: are we keeping that going somehow? We could copy our progress so far over in one comment and then continue it.
I didn’t realize the person was non-gendered until after I already posted my addition and accidentally made him a man…
I guess I have a subconscious mental association with old men drinking coffee thanks to my senior year civics teacher in high school. He always drank his coffee black.
waait so is Tynan a storm god or a fear god. Because gliencann’s appliance changed when his forest became more fearful so if Tynan was a god of fear with help from his storm or would it be that he is a scary storm but at the bae he is just a storm god.
They’re all gods, but they’re affected by how mortals view them and their domain. Gleicann’s forest became a scary place, so Gleicann himself became a scary guy. Tynan stumbled across a town, scared the residents accidentally and got scarier and more powerful in turn. But when the people evacuated and escaped him, they weren’t as afraid anymore, so he got less scary and less powerful.
Tynan basically learned to seek out and terrorise towns through god-level operant conditioning.
Tynan can wreak havoc across entire continents, strike terror into the hearts of people, yet still isn’t as big an asshole as Zeus.
I really like the simplistic style to these pages, fits nicely into the storybook vibe of a campfire tale.
Interesting to see how Tynan developed from simple beginnings, I wonder what could have happened if Tynan encountered different people who weren’t afraid of the storm. What if they were exited by the lightning show? What if they were joyous at the rain for their land?
It’s not so much that those people were just cowards, more that Tynan was detrimental to their society. He didn’t just frighten them, he drowned their crops and destroyed their homes. The resulting unrest would be universal.
Also, yes. Still better than Zeus. Honestly, he gives me more Ares or Typhon vibes.
It’s not so much that those people were just cowards, more that Tynan was detrimental to their society. He didn’t just frighten them, he drowned their crops and destroyed their homes. The resulting unrest would be universal.
Also, yes. Still better than Zeus. Honestly, he gives me more Ares or Typhon vibes.
I like storms! Hearing the rain outside my window is really reassuring to me. Once, I was at a cottage and myself and my family all woke up due to a massive thunder crash that shook the entire building! That was really cool. Though, if I had crops and stuff that got flooded away I’d be pretty bummed…
This is pretty off topic, and yes I know language evolves, but does anyone know why it’s suddenly seemingly appropriate to use “myself” in place of all other first-person singular pronouns? When I was in school, that would have been “my family and I”. I don’t think I’ve seen that usage for any of the other reflexive pronouns (eg., it’s not common to put “himself” or “herself” or “yourself” or “themself” there).
Don’t take my use of language as a standard. I just talk funny. Besides, I don’t see any real reason not to use “myself and __”, it’s just a fancier way of saying “me and __”. My generation uses much more informal language, I suppose.
OOOOOOAHHAHHAHHHAYYYYAYHHAHAHA
hello past me
hello you from various points in the past, please say hello to me in the future.
Timezones are so weird, I thought the comic would go up one our earlier than it did.
*hour
me too, I got so confused
It’s —king daylight saving time… in Europe we’ll now see the new page at 10:00 instead of 9:00 ?
As a Canadian, I promise you we hate it as much as you do. Suddenly we all have to wake up an hour earlier for nearly 8 months, then only go back to the right time a month before Yule/Christmas/Hogswatch. It’s dumb. If we really needed to faff about with time to “Save Daylight” you would think we would do it in the winter when the daylight is scarce.
Want to work 8-4? Work 8-4. Want that to be country wide and have the authority to do so? I’ll cope. Just don’t insist that it’s still 9-5 and that the rest of us are the ones being unreasonable.
Brit here and I’m in full agreement, daylight saving time needs to die, it’s utterly pointless in this day and age.
I’d heard once that when explaining the custom to an elderly native American he said “Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of the blanket, sew it onto the bottom of the blanket, and you’d be left with a longer blanket.”
@Evil Tree
Dude, This guy. I love him. (being a white American myself, I wholeheartedly agree)
Also a white American, also fail to see the point of daylight savings.
I think y’all are forgetting that if we didn’t have it during the winter the sun would rise at like 9:30
Agreed, Daylight savings time has GOT to go. Even jet lag isn’t as bad! This comes from an annoyed American student who’s almost late to school because of it!
Plus, there are some countries that are fine without it. Also, my plants couldn’t care less whether it’s noon or 1 PM.
I always heard that it was started because of farmers. We “spring forward” and gain an extra hour of daylight during the planting season and through the harvest seasons. This was well before artificial light or electric lights so it is a bit out-dated, but it served a purpose once…
@Blarmy
Winter is unaffected by Daylight Savings. When we ‘fall back’ we return to the normal ‘solar time’, before DST was invented. It’s when we Spring forward that the clocks are wrong for nearly 8 months
@Random Reader
When you work on a farm you start when there is light and you stop when there is none. DST favours retail and sports, but farmers and late-night businesses traditionally oppose it. The idea that it was good for farmers was just something people told each other to make themselves feel good.
People also claim that summer/winter break in schools was to allow children to help on the farm, in spite of the fact that Summer and winter vacation are the times when there is the least work to do in the field. Summer and Christmas were when rich children were pulled from school so their parents could go on vacation, and it was easier to structure the school year around the wealthier families’ schedules.
Sorry for the rant; it’s just that I grew up in rural areas and I hate when people claim “it’s good for the farmers” about things that only make agriculture harder.
It’s my understanding–I’m doing this from memory, didn’t Google it or anything–that daylight savings time started during WWII as a way to save energy. The idea is that if it’s light longer in the evenings, people won’t need artificial lights as much, and so use less electricity. Said electricity is then available for other things, like manufacturing. It persisted . . . I’m not exactly sure why.
And the reason to switch back in the fall is for school children. So it’s not pitch black when they’re standing on the street corner waiting for the bus, and to some extent so there’s sunlight on the roads to help clear any overnight snow/ice. Why they don’t just start school later in the day . . . again, no idea.
Until recently, DST six months out the year. It was extended a few years back, I think maybe under the Bush administration (okay, so that would maybe be 15ish years ago)? And Canada followed suit because, well, I guess it would be confusing for the time to be different there for like a month or so in the spring and the fall. Europe has NOT made that change, so their “summer time” hasn’t started yet.
However, any supposed benefits are outweighed by the drawbacks. There have been studies showing that there are more heart attacks and car accidents in the week following the time change than at any other time of year.
(Some states–Arizona, most of Indiana, maybe one or two others–do not observe daylight savings time. In Canada, the Yukon territory has recently gone to permanent daylight savings time; they did not “fall back” in November.)
Tynan, you eejit, absolute piece of tofu
That’s an insult to tofu
Yes when prepared properly tofu is good, if not then it is an absolute Tynan in my opinion
Alright, what would be the appropriate insult for Tynan, the weirder the better
Head-in-the-clouds.
And that just goes to show how annoying cumulonimbus can be sometimes
I hope Tynan knows a good repairgod for those clouds.
Jesus Christ, this guy’s got worse temper than Mr Spider from the Magnus archives, learn some humility m8!
Now all I’m wondering is how the storm reacts to people who aren’t afraid, if Tynan ever encountered them. It’s probably nitpicking, but can it live off the fear felt by those around the fearless?
Depends; the people around the Fearless, are they afraid of the Fearless or the Storm? Only in the latter case could Tynan consume the fear, I think.
Maybe it’s a nothing to fear but fear itself kind of thing, of course in this case fear will also destroy your home, rip things up from the ground and throw them around and flood the place, so maybe it makes more sense for them to fear him
But he’s not a fear god. He’s a Storm god. But the damage his storm did to mortal settlements was something to be afraid of, and as the people feared him more and more, he became stronger and stronger because god’s power and nature is tied intimately to how people view them. If they view him as powerful, he becomes powerful. If they view him as cruel, he becomes cruel.
No wonder Vash kicked him off the land. This guy’s an asshole
TL;DR: The storm discovered it could eat fear. How convenient, people exist AND are scaredy- cats.
We can teach Tynan the power of friendship
Nah, nah. He prefers the power of fiendship.
But then the storm grew sentient, and it developed a taste…
A taste FOR BLOOD
Blood for the storm god
If Gods can be created from mass fear, could you imagine a god of spiders? a god of public speaking?
Oh yes. I worship thee in fear, god of public speaking!
Please have mercy on my collage grades!
Listen to the Magnus Archives
Maybe Tynan just has body dysmorphia. Maybe this is really just a ‘lion with the thorn in it’s paw’ scenario?
Tynan, if you ever want to talk about it, we, the Aurora fandom are here
Of course we might send you back into exile too
I vote exile!
Concerning the multi-authored story from the previous panel: are we keeping that going somehow? We could copy our progress so far over in one comment and then continue it.
Man drinks coffee. Coffee is stolen by magical frog. Frog vanishes and man follows, but he loses track of it.
the frog or the coffee
I didn’t realize the person was non-gendered until after I already posted my addition and accidentally made him a man…
I guess I have a subconscious mental association with old men drinking coffee thanks to my senior year civics teacher in high school. He always drank his coffee black.
It’s fine. Old men are allowed to exist.
I did it non-gendered so other people could decide to make it a man, woman, or something else.
Oh, I just made an addition to it a little bit ago.
I’d just leave it on that page. The old coffee man and the fae frog live on chapter 12, page 1.
Oh, no…that’s a nasty way to take advantage of faith.
waait so is Tynan a storm god or a fear god. Because gliencann’s appliance changed when his forest became more fearful so if Tynan was a god of fear with help from his storm or would it be that he is a scary storm but at the bae he is just a storm god.
Storm god who considers fear a kind of worship
They’re all gods, but they’re affected by how mortals view them and their domain. Gleicann’s forest became a scary place, so Gleicann himself became a scary guy. Tynan stumbled across a town, scared the residents accidentally and got scarier and more powerful in turn. But when the people evacuated and escaped him, they weren’t as afraid anymore, so he got less scary and less powerful.
Tynan basically learned to seek out and terrorise towns through god-level operant conditioning.
Thanks
Tynan can wreak havoc across entire continents, strike terror into the hearts of people, yet still isn’t as big an asshole as Zeus.
I really like the simplistic style to these pages, fits nicely into the storybook vibe of a campfire tale.
Interesting to see how Tynan developed from simple beginnings, I wonder what could have happened if Tynan encountered different people who weren’t afraid of the storm. What if they were exited by the lightning show? What if they were joyous at the rain for their land?
Even though Tynan electrocutes people and causes flash floods, even he has the decency to not rape everything that makes him hard.
It’s not so much that those people were just cowards, more that Tynan was detrimental to their society. He didn’t just frighten them, he drowned their crops and destroyed their homes. The resulting unrest would be universal.
Also, yes. Still better than Zeus. Honestly, he gives me more Ares or Typhon vibes.
It’s not so much that those people were just cowards, more that Tynan was detrimental to their society. He didn’t just frighten them, he drowned their crops and destroyed their homes. The resulting unrest would be universal.
Also, yes. Still better than Zeus. Honestly, he gives me more Ares or Typhon vibes.
This should be a reply to Evil Tree. Damn.
I like storms! Hearing the rain outside my window is really reassuring to me. Once, I was at a cottage and myself and my family all woke up due to a massive thunder crash that shook the entire building! That was really cool. Though, if I had crops and stuff that got flooded away I’d be pretty bummed…
This is pretty off topic, and yes I know language evolves, but does anyone know why it’s suddenly seemingly appropriate to use “myself” in place of all other first-person singular pronouns? When I was in school, that would have been “my family and I”. I don’t think I’ve seen that usage for any of the other reflexive pronouns (eg., it’s not common to put “himself” or “herself” or “yourself” or “themself” there).
Don’t take my use of language as a standard. I just talk funny. Besides, I don’t see any real reason not to use “myself and __”, it’s just a fancier way of saying “me and __”. My generation uses much more informal language, I suppose.
interesting how the only warm colours on the page are the text boxes, looks really cool
Stonks
Alt text: oh good! it’s broken! we can all go home now
Image source: broke