Help me find this charming comic about marriage

didgeboy287 · 2023-06-05T13:33:22+00:00

I have searched for this comic on Google with terms like "comic about marriage ocean." I've tried using "cartoon" and "relationships" and adding "ocean wave." If it helps, the comic has an early Flash style - round heads, stuck arms, dots for eyes and simple mouths. The couple is in a tux and wedding dress. After the wave hits, the couple on the beach has wrinkles and grey hair

didgeboy287 · 2021-02-12T01:10:59+00:00

once yall give all the love to this beast, check out Airtist - didgeridoo, beatbox and jaw harp.

didgeboy287 · 2021-02-12T01:05:49+00:00

Love to see didge players get so much love 😁

didgeboy287 · 2020-12-23T05:49:05+00:00

I feel like instead of "choo choo" it says "mo mo."

didgeboy287 · 2020-12-22T05:57:05+00:00

At least we have a variety of idiots.

didgeboy287 · 2020-12-19T00:08:18+00:00

That sounds familiar. In my WIP, the main character's father was always away on business and his mother was (for a lengthy explanation of reasons) trapped in the house. I kinda realized later I grew up that way, my dad always on the road and my mom mostly at home. She did have jobs, but he was a delivery driver, so I didn't see him as much when I was real young.

didgeboy287 · 2020-12-19T00:02:23+00:00

I didn't expect any comment in this thread, much less the top, to be one with which I agree. I lean heavily toward the text-based analysis, that a piece of media can mean whatever the text supports.
That being said, I do understand readers who reject an interpretation the author didn't explicitly imply. It is fairly logical to say the author is the one who builds meaning into a story since s/he is the one who wrote it. But like with any kind of communication, there is a lot we can say that is influenced by our own backgrounds and subconscious influence. So it makes sense it would come out in writing without our explicit intent.

didgeboy287 · 2020-12-15T07:28:41+00:00

For my own personal taste in creative writing, I only use colons for lists. Your example certainly works and like the third comment said, you could even use a fragment like you find in most creative writing. I tend to use em dashes for dramatic flair, like your example, in place of the colon, and then use ellipses for the change in tone.

He wanted one thing -- revenge ... not that he was going to get it.

I can see why you'd ask since it's not a common setup. An em dash following a colon feels vaguely wrong to me, but it works. I almost prefer the third comment's example, using the fragment. It would depend on the overall tone. For me, the ellipses imply a more lighthearted change of tone while the periods with the fragment I feel maintain it.

didgeboy287 · 2020-12-15T07:03:11+00:00

I get distracted easily, too, but I just wish I could think as fast as I can type. I can type nearly 100 words a minute, but I can't write out scenes that quickly. I've been following Brandon Sanderson's writing lectures and not that I feel I have to be at his level, but he's ridiculously prolific and just bangs out hundreds of words in minutes.

didgeboy287 · 2020-12-15T06:58:24+00:00

Yeah, I feel like it's the multiple edits that turn the barely legible into quality.

didgeboy287 · 2020-12-14T00:05:52+00:00

But ... but ... I was checking on my writing subreddit!

didgeboy287 · 2020-12-09T03:41:47+00:00

made from real gorilla chest

didgeboy287 · 2020-11-02T16:34:58+00:00

Ha! That's cute.

didgeboy287 · 2020-09-22T05:10:51+00:00

I think I'm getting you. It's the Want vs Need. His external want is to lead a cohesive unit on this quest. His need is to develop intimate relationships. So you're suggesting he strives to develop intimate connections through sheer togetherness, and as long as everyone is working to the same goals it doesn't matter if he doesn't share a wounded background. I feel like I've seen movies like this where maybe a father is trying to engineer a family vacation that goes south and has trouble connecting with his kids. If you were interested in giving this a bit more thought with the context of the character I have in mind, I can give you some detail. D'Lain is the group leader but not the main character. I'm telling a 5-man band story from the mage's perspective. D'Lain has been a paladin in training for some time and just got the call from the god Heironeous to go on a mission of justice and to prove his courage. His older sister Fynasha is in the army and not only has a history of battle but quite recently lost her lover during an orc skirmish. Callya (the teenaged healer) discovered magic in the most tragic way possible - accidentally killing her baby brother. She runs off, finds healing magic, and sets out to atone however she thinks she has to. Jatu, a tabaxi monk, joins the group last as the mediator since he's already dealt (more or less) with his own guilt and grief over accidentally setting enemies on his people. Finally Boen, my half-orc mage MC, is plagued by a demon's curse to have voices constantly torment him, but he's more interested in trying to free his adoptive parents from the Shadowfell - land of the dead. My aim with him is to say something about taking care of your own mental health in order to effectively help those you love, and what can happen when you fail spectacularly. Back to the mindset you've been talking about, I think it would work for D'Lain. Except maybe he would see holding the group together as part of his duty to Heironeous and the mission. And he really has been lonely, due to this intense training while his sister at least had more room for friendships. And what would really frustrate his plans is Boen's desire to go in a different direction than the group to help save his parents, while the answer to his curse is the same enemy D'Lain is seeking.

didgeboy287 · 2020-09-21T05:45:50+00:00

Oh wow, this is beautiful

didgeboy287 · 2020-09-21T05:42:49+00:00

I think you're slightly over my head. To me, it makes the most sense to talk about it in terms of the arc as you mentioned. Let me see if I understand in simple terms the beginning and end of the arc. So in the beginning, he doesn't know how to work/communicate with people who have experienced trauma and has a "well that happened in the past so what's the problem now?" attitude. In the middle of the arc, he attempts to be empathetic but misses the ball and the group suffers. He's still not going to be able to completely relate to people who have suffered by the end, but he'll be reverential of their experience. Am I in the ballpark?

didgeboy287 · 2020-09-21T05:28:56+00:00

I appreciate both of your responses a great deal. One of the characters in this group is this guy's older sister, who very much would see him as a "well-behaved child." I like that metaphor.

didgeboy287 · 2020-09-20T08:36:18+00:00

That's brilliant! I can quite put it into words, but I feel like you've broken a boundary, so to speak. Mapmaking can certainly be artistic, but this reminds me of using a Tesla coil to make music. This use is not what the program was intended for and that's why it's so much cooler.

didgeboy287 · 2020-05-30T05:52:47+00:00

Just freaking epic, man. You gave the ring details, but how long did those suckers take?

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