Apocalypse now!

I suspect you'll be happy to know that I'm planning on sticking with the triple-update schedule.

From now on, there'll be comics Monday, Wednesday and Friday, until such a time school has chewed me up and spit me out throughly enough that I can no longer keep it up. Let's pray that never happens, but they do say 2nd year in the Danish high-schools is the toughest year. Lots of homework, apparently. Joy.

Ah, well. At least I don't have math anymore, and I'll be finishing physics and natural geography come christmas. And then I'll be starting philosophy :3

... The subject, not the character. Though I suspect Phil will be glad of this new subject, too :)

I have also updated the CG-Wiki as best I can. Feel free to add whatever you feel is missing :)

Muse over Music in Rage

Three new cast-pages have been added. One for Music and one for Rage (who starred in the most recent Story), and one for a character that has not yet been introduced, but is about to be. Relatively soon. Soon-ish. Eventually.

Anyway, it doesn't matter when she's introduced, 'cause she's always been around. It's my very own Muse.

Now, I should warn you. What is written in those pages is true. Mind you that.
In other words, you'll learn things there you don't neccesarily want to know about me, and I can't guarantee you won't be mentally scarred for life in horrible fashions.

Of course, I can't promise it, either >8]

I still need to work on the text-layout on those pages, and I haven't got profile-pictures for Muse, Music and Rage yet. I'll have to work on it in time, though, because I have other projects also just waiting to be worked on :)

Relative to nothing...

July 26th marks my birthday. Yaay.

18 years old, huh. That makes me of legal age. Yaay.

Responsibilities, voting, taxes. Yaay.

Anyway, I've completely forgotten to tell you all that there is a new TWC incentive. It's been up for a while so some of you may or may not already have seen it. Silly me.

I should get cracking on some more of those, really...

*POOF!* I'm back.

Back from sunny, gruesomely baking hot France with a slew of comics fer ya.
And hooray. The story updated on schedule. My lack of math-skills ensured I have, in fact, missed an update while I was away, and my forgetfulness ensured the story that updated was missing the pretty pictures I drew up for it.

Yay, me.

Well, it's fixed now. And a new comic is on it's way. Front-page first, though :)

Anyway, I've got enough comics drawn to keep an update-rate of three updates per week for now. If I find I can't keep up with it, I'll switch back to the old two per week-schedule.
There will be an update today, and from now on monday, wednesday and friday, until such a time I can't keep that up any longer, cool?

Knew it would be.

Back to the drawing-board with me ^_^

Force fed with prejudice (in a non-Jedi way)

So yeah, a little bit of acid today.
I have a family with a mild history of homosexuality... My father's brother was gay and so was my grandfather. I grew up in relative ignorance of these facts. I simply didn't realise they were gay.

You know why?

Because homosexuality is not unnatural.
It's very interesting, really, to consider the fact that I grew up my entire childhood not knowing that my grandfather and my uncle were both gay. I met their boyfriends on several occasions, and I never realised.
And I went to school. There I learned what it is like to indoctrinated. Force fed with prejudice, basically.
There I learned that being gay is very very disgusting and people who do it are disgusting and yucky and in general not very cool at all.
But hey, wait a minute, that doesn't seem right... My grandfather and uncle weren't yucky. They weren't disgusting. They were really cool, actually. They gave me cool presents, they were fun at parties. You should have seen my mother's brother who has (or had) a slight case of homophobia that he was determined to overcome. That was one funny christmas. Especially considering my uncle's boyfriend's capability for overblown gayness *grins at the thought*. I don't remember so much of it, but I have an entire family of mine who will give eyewitness account that my uncle and my grandfather were actually really cool people. They just fell in love with men instead of women.

And you know what? I have this crazy idea - I mean, totally nuts - and it's just silly, but bear with me.
I have this idea that love is blind, see? Much like justice, love does not discriminate.
Love doesn't give two shits about if you're black, white, polkadotted or from Sweden. It just happens to you.
And I have this crazy idea that that's really all right. I have this ridiculous notion that it is okay to fall in love.

I mean, call me a freak, but how, exactly, is it horribly wrong to love people? Seriously.
Christ, gay men are just men who happen to fall in love with men. It's not. that. complicated.
It's not some sort of mental disorder that means that they simply can't love women. I think you'll find that many gay men have loved women in their lives, they just found somebody they loved more and it happened to be a guy.

Yes, some homosexuals only like their own gender. Fine. Some straight men only like blondes. It's the same thing.

Let's look at indicia, shall we?
The place is ancient Greece. Here's what Wikipedia has to say on the subject:

"Same-sex love in ancient Greece was an integral part of civic life for a thousand years, from the seventh century until the Roman era. Three general categories of such relationships can be drawn. Love between women can be traced back as far as the time of Sappho. Love between adult men was known, and though it was discouraged and ridiculed there are records of many such couples. The third, and best known category was love between adult men and adolescent boys, known as pederasty."

Did you catch that part with "integral part of civic life for a thousand years"?
Well, would you look at that. An ancient realm whose thoughts and arts are widely admired even today survived for a thousand years despite the fact that they did not kill homosexuals on sight.

I mean, WOW.
And the pederasty. D'you know what this was? This was a common way of life.
It works basically like this: a young boy is put under the tutelage of an older man. The older man is to love, care for, feed, teach and protect his young charge. Oftentimes these relationship became sexual and romantic.
This was how many young men were educated in ancient Greece. And they didn't go on to become nervous wrecks. They became regular, healthy men who had wives and maybe male lovers and maybe one day took a young charge of their own.
And what's more, the sexual aspect was in no way required in the pederastic systems. No no. It just happened a lot. I'd argue that's because for the love of GOD falling in love is not a sin. No matter who it is with.

What's more is that even before ancient Greece there was homosexuality. I'll bet there has been homosexuality as long as the human species has existed. It has always been there. And in ancient days, yeah, it was probably a good idea to kill homosexuals.
Not for their homosexuality, but because their total lack of child-production could prove a weakness to the tribe/group/whatever. Back then, in the light of survival, it might have been a proper course of action.

But news-flash! It's 10.000 years later. We can stop killing gay people now. We ain't tribal any more, and the whole "survival of the fittest"-thing has long since been disproven by George W. Bush.

My basic idea is that love is okay. It doesn't matter who it's with. And so long as they return it, what the hell is wrong with creating a relationship?

Nothing, that's what.

... *sigh*
Seriously, sometimes I think straight men are just jealous. Like a strange sort of reverse penis-envy or something.

...

Well, I'm off to sunny France (it had better be) for two weeks. Enjoy a written story that updates monday, wednesday and friday in the mean-time.

Updates will fall on: monday the 10th, wednesday the 12th and friday the 14th.

Then I'll have a bit of a break until the 22nd, at which point updates will return.
Now, if I am very productive (it could happen!) we might have a few more weeks with the thrice-per-week update-schedule.

Mind you, I said might.
Have cool summer. Or hot. Whichever you prefer :)