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sometimes I wonder who in jerejean will “fall first” and who will “fall harder” but it’s become pretty clear that they’re just two idiots in love who have managed to knot their shoelaces together and they keep tripping and falling and stumbling over the other with every step and they might complain a lil but won’t ever stop

I'm kind of obsessed with how Patrick Stewart is Not gay. He's literally straight he just acts like that. Ian McKellen is gay so it's easy to think logically that so is Patrick Stewart but he's not. Unparalleled. Don't call yourself an ally unless you kiss your gay friends on the mouth

And it'd be easy to think Well maybe he's just private about it because he's old, yknow. But literally at this point I think he'd be like "oh yeah I'm bi I just like marrying women" or whatever if he Was. If he was closeted he wouldn't be publically kissing Ian McKellen on the mouth. I think he just went to Shakespeare School with a bunch of queens and that's where he learned how to socialize

I mean his book does talk about exactly this.

“I was around a lot of gay people and imitated their flamboyant mannerisms. Anyway here’s a half dozen times I nearly ruined my life because I was hypnotized by a beautiful woman.”

LEGEND

Water is Thicker Than Blood Chapter 79

The soup plotline finally reveals itself!! Praise yourself if you got it right in the tags/comments below

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i was fighting my stylus the whole time while coloring this. About 2 weeks ago now i dropped it and broke it, but it seemed to fix itself enough for me to use it. However it's starting to decline again and im going to have to replace it soon i think.

if youre interested in helping me replace it please donate to my Ko-fi! i will also be putting up new products soon on my store so stay tuned for that!!

also theres gonna be a hiatus next week, for i will shrimply not have the time to make the next installment. i will be a Busy Bee.

Water Is Thicker Than Blood Comic 25

Its predictable at this point.

We’ve reached the chapter that i thought would be the end of the comic when i was starting out. Hahahahhahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahah ohhhhhhhh theres so much left to go :)

andrew in tgr is like: gaydar x1000, silently clocking jeremy and telling renee about it. witness in a murder trial. realizing his bf put a hit out on someone (again) ("typical"). cracking jokes with renee. nearly killing someone for hurting neil. having surgery to fix his broken clavicle. letting aaron drive the mas. quitting smoking so he can be fast enough to save neil next time someone comes for him. like you don't understand this man is barely in the book and he is slaying tremendously the whole entire time

a cosplay photo so old it was taken on actual film (which explains the streaks from my scanner) and the con we were at doesn’t even exist anymore. it was around 13 years ago actually now that I think about it.

i have been looking for this picture for YEARS and it’s finally back on my dash….wow

so true

please! Save me! 😃😃😃

the cage is locked! .... 😃 with a key!💃

..... the drægun keeps it around his neck!🥴

... to slayyy the drægun 😏😏 use the magic sword! 💁🗡️

I never saw all of the Dragon's Lair cutscenes until years later but I'd seen snippets as a kid and I was 100% positive she was supposed to be the dragon in disguise, just fucking with him. Like I thought that was a canon reveal somehow and it remained a false memory well into my adulthood. Would it not have made sense??? That or she's just completely on the dragon's side. This is not how you talk and act when you want to be "rescued" from the dragon. This is when you look forward to cooking knight burgers for your dragon husband.

The in-universe reason for her behavior is somehow way weirder than that, actually! This takes a bit of explaining, but I'll try my best to keep it concise.

So, originally, Princess Daphne was meant to be an homage/parody of traditional damsels in distress from classic sword and sorcery stories, in the same way the rest of the game is a parody of those elements (the lair is hyperlethal to a cartoonish degree, Dirk is a overconfident bumbling oaf that acts all stoic until he's actually in danger, most of the monster designs are meant to be evocative of classic Conan or Tarzan foes, etc.)

That's all pretty self evident, Daphne is a giggling ditz that doesn't do anything because the cultural idea of a sword and sorcery damsel in distress is that they're vapid arm candy that only exist to be trophies acquired at the end by dashing protagonists for doing something heroic.

However, when the time came to expand Dragon's Lair into a full franchise with its own TV show (done because the arcade industry was on the brink of collapse, and Don Bluth's video game division needed to scrounge up as much money from the IP as possible to keep itself going) they naturally realized that Daphne had to be an important character in it, and having her original characterization of "being the hot lady that Dirk saves at the end" from the games wouldn't really work for any form of extensive storytelling as a member of an action-comedy cartoon cast (even for a low budget tie-in one in the 80s.) So, they went for a different stock character archetype popular around that time: the put-upon clever female lead that has to wrangle in the stupid men in her life. Basically, the Dragon 's Lair cartoon is just the old Legend of Zelda cartoon, but with the serial numbers filed off and Ganon is a dragon instead of a pig.

Anyways, the show didn't do very well, only getting a single season of thirteen 30 minute episodes, but fans of the franchise DID like elements of it, and it's still treated as a canon prequel. Here's the problem, though: Daphne in the cartoon is a smart, no-nonsense adventurer who's often just as competent as Dirk. So... how does she go from that to the classic Princess Daphne characterization?

The answer is given to us by the Dragon's Lair comics that released to commemorate the series's 20th anniversary back in 2003, and it is...

The Author's Barely Disguised Fetish!

In the comic, Daphne starts out with her cartoon characterization as a spunky tomboy, even repelling an attack by Singe's minions by herself in a prologue story, but eventually does get captured. When she does, they finally explain what that weird-ass bubble prison actually is:

it fucking bimbofies you.

Literally, they describe it as it sapping your intelligence and making you more "frivolous", and make a point to state and show that Singe had used it on plenty of other princesses in the past, keeping them as his private slave harem in his treasure room.

Admittedly, it's a decently clever way to explain why a character would have two different characterizations between their major depictions, it does come off a little weird and tasteless? I'll leave that for the jury to decide, though.

I apologize for this not being as brief as I promised, but I think knowing why an initial characterization happened and then what the later justification for that characterization is was important to discussing it. But for anybody not wanting to sit through the whole blather...

Tl;Dr: Daphne is a weird ditz either because she's just another parody of sword and sorcery tropes OR she's basically a Mid-Bimbofication Princess Zelda, depending if you prefer your explanations Doyleist or Watsonian.

Use this knowledge as you wish, and thank you for reading!

It might be tasteless as a comic yeah but I have to say no dragon would realistically have to kidnap anyone for that. He could just advertise it on Tumblr and I'm pretty sure half my dashboard would be lining up to dive into the dragon's magic bimborb.

I didn't see a lock in that scene there so my interpretation is that Dirk is saving Daphne from her chastity cage

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