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Hey. If any of you will be at Origins in Columbus, OH later this month, come visit me at the Yeld booth (booth 734)! I’ll be selling Yeld stuff and doing book sketches.
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Hey. If any of you will be at Origins in Columbus, OH later this month, come visit me at the Yeld booth (booth 734)! I’ll be selling Yeld stuff and doing book sketches.
Noble, but also kinda stupid… Do we have any viable plan Bs?!
Well, praying is always an option.
They might not be smart enough nor strong enough, might not be equipped enough, might not have enough time to brainstorm and conveniently come up with one out of the few resources and recourses they have before the deadly difficult-to-thwart threats breaking down their barrier are upon them – they may have to make haste and settle on plan A, however unfavorable.
Uh huh. Readers have a tendency to forget that characters are in extremely stressful or terrifying situations and don’t have time to come up with clever but impractical or improbable solutions. Whenever someone says “why didn’t they do this??!!” I always have to keep myself from responding “because they’re pants shittingly terrified and exhausted and they’re not sitting at home on their computer with all the time in the world to come up with a solution that ignores their motivations, emotions and previous actions.”
It may be a side effect of the time gap between strips, but a lot of readers expect the characters to game out an exactly perfect course of action in every situation regardless of context. And that’s just not how anything works.
And to be clear, I don’t mean Modest Medusa readers exclusively. You see this with movies, comics, novels, tv shows… everything. Everyone does this all the time with everything.
Its the classic “Don’t go in the basement, girl! You’re in a HORROR movie!” But she doesn’t KNOW she’s in a horror movie. And those sounds in the basement ARE scary, but they HAVE to be something normal. They CAN’T be a monster, because monsters aren’t real. And she can’t just ignore them, because clearly something is wrong and if she doesn’t check it out she’ll be freaked out all night. Better to go down into the scary basement with a kitchen knife and see that the noise is just some pipes, or a big rat, or some poor guy who broke in and is looking for someplace to sleep. Its scary, but she’s not in any real danger because killer monsters aren’t real, and at worse its just going to be another person.
And its fun to say “Well, she should get a gun” or “she should call the army” or “she should burn the house down and move to Arizona and bathe in garlic and holy water every night for the rest of her life.” But that’s not how people think in the moment (or at all). People make reasonable choices that are only really mistakes in hindsight or if they have the same context as the audience. Which they usually don’t.
I wonder if the vampires have already noticed Probably-Matt’s ears. If they haven’t, there’s a chance they just leave him after they kill him, right? Right?..
They know who he is. They almost certainly know that he’s also from their world. They’re also probably supposed to bring him back to the Prince, whether they kill him or not.
Aw 🙁 there goes the last hope…
Wait if they’re from the otherworlders, aren’t they also immortal? like they cant die in yeld?
Better plan: get the kid on your back and run, you’re a bloody horse.
I’ll second that.
Overlooking the Entire Script of the Murder Horse Page Scrapping That Plan:
https://modestmedusa.com/comic/murder-horse-2/
“Okay . . . if they break through the forcefield, you gotta chainsaw them. Alright?”
“No. I can’t.”
“I know you’re trying to be a better person or whatever, but I need you to be the murder horse.”
“I can’t! You don’t understand! The weapon isn’t just a curse and a way to track me.
The prince can use it to control me. As soon as I draw the weapon I lose control of myself! I become a puppet for the Prince’s will. I don’t know if he directly takes control, or if some kind of spell dictates my actions. . . But my actions are no longer my own! I can’t stop it! I can’t do anything!
If I use the weapon the first thing that will happen is I’ll kill you. And then I’ll most likely stand perfectly still as the vampires kill or capture me.”
Knight of Chains :[