Blood of Dragons
Nov13
Cherek outlines his political platform.
UPDATE:
Hey, everybody. I’m feeling kinda burned out and discouraged about art at the moment. Sorry I haven’t been very responsive lately. I’m thinking of taking a week off here, and I hope y’all will understand.
Gonna be interesting to see which way this goes. I know who/what Iām rooting for.
There only one way that this would go..
He summons his father due he knows he lost everything with this outburst.
The dragon needed the orcs to be fodder in his plans.
So either dad takes over every orc’s minds in this encampment to make it easier to control… Or chereck gets killed
“Or”?
Well the “or” is subjective but most likely the outcome but the dragon might come and save his crippled son I. E remember he got “baned” and orcs I think would kill a weak work so would a dragon
Let’s take a moment to point out Sark NOT dishonouring his white mask.
Someone said (years ago, during his figt with Bree) that, after stating he was a fan of EL Santo, he now HAD to be one of “Team Good Guys”. And here you have him. He’s PROTECTING the shaman, no less. Hero move, right here.
Fascism. Big surprise.
— You have dishonored your clan!
— Orcs have the blood of pink dragons. There’s nothing wrong about dragons…
— Nothing wrong about dragons? OK, but piiiiiiink?!
Real men wear pink. Real orcs… realy shouldn’t. We’ve got to agree with Morticia Adamns here. The evilnes we can respect, but that green/pink colour scheme?
Fuchsia is OK, but piiiiink? It’s uglier than yellow (orangeish yellow is OK but yellow-yellow is a pain in the eye).
Anyway, it was a joke about manly orcs being utterly frustrated at his choice of color. But TBH I’m prejudiced against some colors bc they’re ugly to me, I dislike pink and yellow in women too. I also dislike high heels.
Sorry for second reply, but my spouse just saw the comic, and, oh does she have words for the pink wings…
[One Winged Angel intensifies]
“Estuans interius
Ira vehementi
Estuans interius
Ira vehementi
Maricon
Maricon”
Given your nationality (unless I’m mistaken), I guess you’ll get a chuckle
Farting nerve gas… I’ve read that book.
He’s going to die wailing against his fate and chewing the dirt, isn’t he?
And complaining of th erules. If you spot the “that other DnD-based webcomic” reference.
You have dragon blood in your veins because the dragons fucked the corpses of your ancestors to create you as meat puppets!!
Let me make a wild guess as to where you got your history lesson: a certain scaly bastard?
Well the story of the origin of the Orcs does seem to be common knowledge amongst dragons
https://thisis.delvecomic.com/NewWP/comic/backstoried/
He’s got a point as hius honor being less important to him than the fact his kin were all murdered
Still, he’s missing the bit in his speech at the end where he should say “and as the slaves of dragons we will have nothing to be proud of either!”
You see back in Victorian Britain, pink was the colour for boys and blue was the colour for girls. Something to do with British soldiers wore red uniforms. Only sometime in the early 20th century the colours got swapped round. Old dragon-god still thinks pink is the cool colour for green Orcs. Oh, well. Where’s the archer?
Those Victorian Brits, always believing to be the inventors of everything, wheel and fire included… tsk, tsk.
Nope, pink (a shade of red, most virile of all colors) being an aceptable color for children doesn’t have its origin in Victorian England – it comes all the way from the middle ages, in all of Europe (far before the XIX century). And blue was always (or at least since the end of the Roman Empire) the Virgin Mary’s own color, and thus the one most proper for girls.
The change didn’t happen “early in the XX century”, but already starting its second third: Nazi Germany. Who used (alongside the well-known yellow star for Jews) the marking of a PINK TRIANGLE for people accussed of homosexuality. Which had the effect of 1930’s Germany (which, remember, had been being the cultural motor of Europe for the last 30 years or so) rejecting the use of pink for boys, literally in fear of being mistaken for homosexuals. Which was promptly imitated in Britain, because they had been following whatever cultural trends the Germans did since Queen Victoria – even after being at war with them. (No, really. Google it. Mostly to distantiate themselves from the French).
So yeah. The trend of “pink = effeminate” is LITERALLY the British playing alongside Hitler.
The kind of stuff you literally CAN’T MAKE UP.
I forgot to make something clear: the color for boys was RED (including, yes, pink, which is basically a faded shade of red). The “boys did wear pink” thing is a meme. They didn’t – unless their clothes were hand-me-downs. (Which, of course, would be exceedingly common – but that’s another tale).
On the other hand, Cherek PLoD *chooses* to have pale pink wings. Weak. Faded. Like a kid’s hand-me-downs. Exactly kike his… strength.
Thank you for that, erana, yes the ‘politics of colours’ I suppose you could call it, varied and is interesting over the ages. You nicely explain how the pink/blue gender dynamics changed, when and why, that I just hadn’t thought about, but makes perfect sense. One reason, I read, for red army uniforms was said to be it didn’t show up blood as obviously. I never really found that a very satisfying explanation. Your comments? Why did us Brits like red jackets which rather made you a tempting target. I’m thinking, for instance, America 1770s, red against green woods – BANG! No wonder we lost. You are quite right with the British/German thing, and if the French do it, we do something else. Sadly, our politicians still do that.
For much of history, uniforms were made to BE SEEN. It helped a LOT with military tactics and movements. Red jackets made a lot of sense, right until well into gunpowder age (where “sharpshooters” were few, battles were betwen lines of musketry, and clouds of blackpowder smoke meant yiu couldn’t see shit). Plus, the importance of small ambushes against redcoats during the US indeoendence war has been overstated quite a lot – skirmishes make it need more forces to control an area, don’t force you to retreat from it – that’s what battles are for. And for these battles, the red STILL worked better than the blue (the whole “visibility” thing).
It wasn’t until the Boer war, well into the age of smokeless powder and accurate, long-ranged rifles, when NOT being seen became an advantage. THAT’S when the British decided it was a good idea to start using a kaki uniform instead š
Technically, they never said the Victorian’s invented red (and pink) for boys, just that that was the case as recently as that
1930’s is “early in the XX century”
Along the Yellow and Pink Stars, was the Purple Stars for Jehovah’s Witnesses (who suffered more than even the Jews)
Take all the time you need, we’ll be here. With the holidays, you could take two weeks and be fine IMHO
Thank you!
Thanks so much for the comics, I have greatly enjoyed reading them!
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Take the time you need. Soon it will be a new year.
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Take all the time you need. Everyone needs a break now and then
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Just doodle things to keep your skills up to par so when you come back you won’t forget how to draw the boobs, otherwise, take December off and relax till the new year to start back up.
Heh heh, that would be tragic! 8)
A two week vacation at least three times a year is what you should be the minimum you take. Burn out is a problem for a lot of people. Your talent is amazing. Self care is necessary! Enjoy your break!
Thank you! A week’s break is about as much as I can handle before I start becoming insufferable around the house.