Well, I sure do have answers for your seconds questions, but they aren't satisfying.
Originally, the train's lights WERE the eyes, but then I wanted to add a forehead sweatband to the train, and it wouldn't make sense to have the eyes ABOVE the sweatband. That's madness! So, I moved the eyes to the bottom of the carriage and it all made sense for a short moment... BUT THEN I didn't like the sweatband because it doesn't make sense for a train to have sweat glands, so I gave up on the sweatband... BUT it was too late to move the eyes because I had already added the tears and I have a rule that "once the tears are in, the eyes can't move". That rule hasn't steered me wrong - and it still hasn't, so be quiet.
Thank you for not ignoring my annoying questions. Also, they are satisfying, more or less.
As I fully understand and respect the "once the tears are in, the eyes can't move" rule, I still can't find and answer to why the "original" pair of eyes doesn't have any tears :-(
At the risk of very clearly showing you that I straight up lied about my "once the tears are in, the eyes can't move" rule - you can watch my eye placement turmoil here thanks to Procreate's timelapse feature. https://imgur.com/a/Zg5cFoZ
> At the risk of very clearly showing you that I straight up lied about my "once the tears are in, the eyes can't move" rule Doesn't matter, I keep believing you won't abandon me, again.
Also, is there any other way to say thank you other than Patreon / PayPal?
I mean to help to "keep octopus-based puns off our internet by encouraging the existential dread and procrastination that made me stop updating Octopuns in the first place".
Keep doing what you're doing! Your comments here are the best way to ensure I won't leave because I always take them as insults and try harder to make you proud of me. I made sure none of the above octopi have eight tentacles, but you didn't even mention that - you just insulted my tiny child-labor octopus instead. Brutal.
(Also, one day I might make stickers/prints - so if you like spending money on real physical things instead of an empty promise that I won't leave again - that could be an option for support in future)
I hope you know that I intent these comments to be funny (in a very malicious way). I don't want to insult your work in any way, as they remind me of my childhood while I was waiting for the Santa - the excitement for a new strip makes me very happy. You can't even imagine how excited I was once I saw some "movement" on the blog - even before the first "new" comic.
As for the 'eight tentacles' problem, I believe to give one something to work on, instead of just giving empty praises :-) So, if you slip again with the tentacles number, I for sure will remind you of how lazy you are and the Octopuns are not what they were used to be!
Well, I've asked about the payment alternatives as I don't really feel like giving my debit card data to any service (paranoid much?).
I thought someone might be watching the blog close enough to see my minor updates! Thanks for not saying anything. You might have scared me off from the pressure. ..and no payment alternatives at the moment, but I also don't need anything other than your presence on this blog. I like all your comments, and I definitely take them in jest.
Thank you so much, to everyone, for interacting in the comments.
Your dogged persistence in the almost literally laughable quest for meaning here has often provided some inklings of an eventual resolution for my frequent utter bafflement in two ways: first by corroborating - via either their so-called "creator" and/or through other equally lost souls - my desperate and confused hope of certain comics having been so badly drawn that the joke never actually made much sense, and second by nourishing my vain faith that I could someday provide a satisfactory answer to the question of what associations led to such bizarrely overwrought scenarios (a thought which has legitimately troubled my idle musings unbidden several times since I first read the words "a terrible fête" lo; these many years ago).
I note that these twin tensions, along with its erratic update patterns, an unpretentious aesthetic, and a blithe neglect for acknowledging the opacity of certain references, eventually became to me integral parts of the particular naïve style and - dare I say it - magic of this site.
When it comes to the reason for my ultimate compulsion to comment specifically here after discovering the return of Octopuns and reading through the new offerings, however, I can say that the light-hearted retroactive-continuity "answers" which hint at more mysteries than they resolve join the abovementioned quintet of qualities to form a sextet of supports through which I can enjoy lobbing into the dark the following query: why, on God's green Earth, would the arbitrary line be drawn at "it didn't make sense for a train to have sweat glands" when the problem at hand was already dependent on the existence of the selfsame train's TEARY EYES?!?
Perhaps tear glands and sweat glands are fundamentally sorted, by some commonsense rationale to which I am not privy, into discrete categories.
Having said my piece, I shall withdraw into my habitual state of privately fretful fascination.
I wish you all luck in uncovering a logic which I have not yet managed to discover,
And, if not, all the delights of an unapologetically erratic world.
Is a green octopus a minor? Do you support child labor?!
ReplyDeleteAlso, why does the train have two pairs of eyes, and why only one shed tears?
Well, I sure do have answers for your seconds questions, but they aren't satisfying.
DeleteOriginally, the train's lights WERE the eyes, but then I wanted to add a forehead sweatband to the train, and it wouldn't make sense to have the eyes ABOVE the sweatband. That's madness! So, I moved the eyes to the bottom of the carriage and it all made sense for a short moment... BUT THEN I didn't like the sweatband because it doesn't make sense for a train to have sweat glands, so I gave up on the sweatband... BUT it was too late to move the eyes because I had already added the tears and I have a rule that "once the tears are in, the eyes can't move". That rule hasn't steered me wrong - and it still hasn't, so be quiet.
Thank you for not ignoring my annoying questions.
DeleteAlso, they are satisfying, more or less.
As I fully understand and respect the "once the tears are in, the eyes can't move" rule, I still can't find and answer to why the "original" pair of eyes doesn't have any tears :-(
Those eyes got demoted to non-eyes. No-eyes get no tears. That's also one of my rules.
DeleteAt the risk of very clearly showing you that I straight up lied about my "once the tears are in, the eyes can't move" rule - you can watch my eye placement turmoil here thanks to Procreate's timelapse feature. https://imgur.com/a/Zg5cFoZ
Delete> At the risk of very clearly showing you that I straight up lied about my "once the tears are in, the eyes can't move" rule
DeleteDoesn't matter, I keep believing you won't abandon me, again.
Also, is there any other way to say thank you other than Patreon / PayPal?
I mean to help to "keep octopus-based puns off our internet by encouraging the existential dread and procrastination that made me stop updating Octopuns in the first place".
DeleteKeep doing what you're doing! Your comments here are the best way to ensure I won't leave because I always take them as insults and try harder to make you proud of me. I made sure none of the above octopi have eight tentacles, but you didn't even mention that - you just insulted my tiny child-labor octopus instead. Brutal.
Delete(Also, one day I might make stickers/prints - so if you like spending money on real physical things instead of an empty promise that I won't leave again - that could be an option for support in future)
I hope you know that I intent these comments to be funny (in a very malicious way). I don't want to insult your work in any way, as they remind me of my childhood while I was waiting for the Santa - the excitement for a new strip makes me very happy.
DeleteYou can't even imagine how excited I was once I saw some "movement" on the blog - even before the first "new" comic.
As for the 'eight tentacles' problem, I believe to give one something to work on, instead of just giving empty praises :-)
So, if you slip again with the tentacles number, I for sure will remind you of how lazy you are and the Octopuns are not what they were used to be!
Well, I've asked about the payment alternatives as I don't really feel like giving my debit card data to any service (paranoid much?).
PS. Sorry for the "weird" hours, but I live in Europe :-)
DeleteI thought someone might be watching the blog close enough to see my minor updates! Thanks for not saying anything. You might have scared me off from the pressure.
Delete..and no payment alternatives at the moment, but I also don't need anything other than your presence on this blog. I like all your comments, and I definitely take them in jest.
The other comment was supposed to be a reply to this - I've clicked the wrong button.
DeleteAs long as the domain was up, there was a hope.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, to everyone, for interacting in the comments.
ReplyDeleteYour dogged persistence in the almost literally laughable quest for meaning here has often provided some inklings of an eventual resolution for my frequent utter bafflement in two ways: first by corroborating - via either their so-called "creator" and/or through other equally lost souls - my desperate and confused hope of certain comics having been so badly drawn that the joke never actually made much sense, and second by nourishing my vain faith that I could someday provide a satisfactory answer to the question of what associations led to such bizarrely overwrought scenarios (a thought which has legitimately troubled my idle musings unbidden several times since I first read the words "a terrible fête" lo; these many years ago).
I note that these twin tensions, along with its erratic update patterns, an unpretentious aesthetic, and a blithe neglect for acknowledging the opacity of certain references, eventually became to me integral parts of the particular naïve style and - dare I say it - magic of this site.
When it comes to the reason for my ultimate compulsion to comment specifically here after discovering the return of Octopuns and reading through the new offerings, however, I can say that the light-hearted retroactive-continuity "answers" which hint at more mysteries than they resolve join the abovementioned quintet of qualities to form a sextet of supports through which I can enjoy lobbing into the dark the following query: why, on God's green Earth, would the arbitrary line be drawn at "it didn't make sense for a train to have sweat glands" when the problem at hand was already dependent on the existence of the selfsame train's TEARY EYES?!?
Perhaps tear glands and sweat glands are fundamentally sorted, by some commonsense rationale to which I am not privy, into discrete categories.
Having said my piece, I shall withdraw into my habitual state of privately fretful fascination.
I wish you all luck in uncovering a logic which I have not yet managed to discover,
And, if not, all the delights of an unapologetically erratic world.
-Stéphane Gérard
Well, you clearly put more effort into this comment than I've put into the entirety of Octopuns run.
DeleteI have no answers for you because I have no answers for myself.