May 18th, 2021
18 May 2021 · page 1060 of 1306
dad please stop trying to show people my naruto doujinshi i am begging you
Cast: Lei Feng, Pemberton Pryce, Thea Pryce, Tim Chiang
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Lei: "Look, I've done the whole 'live in the shadow of someone who uses your amazing creations in ways that make you uncomfortable and who doesn't respect your autonomy, leading you to concoct a secret and perhaps morally questionable scheme involving incautious use of large-scale magyks and maybe the end of the world' enough times to recognize the signs."
Sure, we've all been there.
Ah I knew it, Thea really is the secret brains of the operation, Pemberton is just the oblivious leader who gets overthrown in the third act by the hyper-intelligent lacky he always underestimates.
Yes, totally a slip of the tongue. I’m not baiting you nosy magicians at all, honest.
So I'm guessing the ship is very very heavily insured?
Boss, we wrote "Good Intentions" on the side and told everybody things would be fine. What's that? "Insured" not "Assured"? What's the difference?
Methinks Patience does not know about this.
Please don't do new unexpected magic to the boat for the first time when it's on the water and full of people. Test that shit first.
Oh, what's the worse that could happen?
I'm excited to find out :D
“Nonsense. Testing is for when you’re still guessing - and now I have no need to guess!” Agatha Heterodyne.
It was a lot easier to believe coming from her, because she was on fire and screaming. I don't trust this guy so much.
Fire + Screaming = Instant credibility
I get what you mean, but I gotta agree with Pearle...
I'm worried that there's a reason why they needed the boat to be full of people before they could start it. :\\
That is a terrifying thought
it's meant to make the boat fly, and falling on air doesn't hurt at all, so no worries.
That author text
wheeze
It sounds suspiciously specific... I wonder if this comes from some lived experience. :D
Not gonna lie, made me more curious...
i have seen exactly one naruto episode
More than some doujinshi. Something very close to this is what went through my head... or maybe something more slice of life.
Considering some of the Naruto doujinshi I've seen, it's a very good idea not to randomly share it with others who aren't prepared...
First time I saw that ship, I said it’s a good job it’s got proper masts and sails.
Nothing suspicious here!
Hah! Joke's on you, Pryce! Witches are shameless.
I wish to provide a counterexample.... but upon reflection I'm not sure there are any! Instead, let me offer this fine selection of shamelessness :)
Mal being shameless: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-14th-2012 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-14th-2012")
Nyree being shameless: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-22nd-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-22nd-2020")
Arpana Sherpa being... well, maybe not shameless but certainly a bit cheeky: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/may-23rd-2014 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/may-23rd-2014")
Circles so complicated they'd put a witch to shame? Well, I don't know what kind of circles Arpana or Nyree can draw, but Mal's circle-drawing ability ("It's round_ish_! There's... round bits on it. In places.") is a pretty low bar to get over...
Ah, but do witches need circles? Or even spells?
Valid point! Mal certainly didn't by the time he was done dealing with the Deadly Sins. We haven't seen the older witches do much serious magic, but they're bound to be even more skilled.
Right. Mal proved that you don't need a magical education, decent circle, written spell, or proper invocation to be a good witch. You just need really, really strong intent.
"Bugger off" can be a strong spell if you have the base ingredients and want it bad enough.
Did Mal do that? It sounds like something Mal did. If he didn't, it feels like something he will inevitably do.
He has indeed done exactly that: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-3rd-2018 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-3rd-2018")
But Pryce doesn't know that, of course. He's just going, "Wizards use spells. Witches are bigger than wizards. They must have bigger spells."
"Sharrup and stand in th' bloody egg."
The more I think of it, the more I worry that the aphorism brought to mind by the name of this ship is literal rather than metaphorical, and that when they turn that engine on, this story is going to turn into the 1834 version of 'Event Horizon'.
And there's no character here that represents "good intentions" more than Thea and her mysterious doodles....
something doesnt seem right
Alas, just ask the kind waiter what the doodles were. No one ever notices the staff!
I can definitely see how it'd exacerbate Patience's grumpiness if she, like Lei, is of the (probably justified) opinion that her designs don't need magic to be awesome.
A BARREL ROLL.
Thea is so cute, I just want to eat her up alive <3
an engine that can... teleport a ship ?
but why would you want to test that on a ship full of random people, in the middle of the ocean, rather than in a controlled location