Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Oct. 18th, 2006 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackHey, when you first saw "Wolves of Willoughby Chase", did you realise it was alternate history? I didn't really think about it then, and then never thought about it again until I looked up the book now.
I guess I was fairly young, used to children's books that play with reality fairly freely, and wouldn't actually have noticed if any country was explicitly mentioned in the dialogue or known if there were any places that populated with that many wolves and those fashions.
I also noticed:
Bonnie looks and acts incredibly like Ron Weasly in the films.
If you google for something and are filtering for any likely hits, do not follow anything to myspace. "Pictures of naked elves" don't kill eyes, "pictures of naked elves on black background as non-scrolling background to a page with dark text, too-wide-fixed-width, content and status information put into random boxes, many unconnected pictures, video, ungrammatical text, banner ads, ascii art in a proportional font[1], and automatic music" kill eyes. OTOH, before I sound too negative, some of the image manipulations were nice, the conversation was as nice and as coherent as most people I know[2], and:
It did link me to another stick-figure webcomic, Cyanide and Happiness, which is a little basic, but seems to have a spark. A man and a woman are sitting on a bench. W:Sometimes I just feel like you never notice me. / W:Charles... I think we should break up. / M:WHAT THE HELL? / M:...Benches aren't supposed to talk?!
Also, I hadn't seen before on Amazon.com entries, Statistically Improbable Phrases are the most distinctive phrases in the text of books. Cool.
[1] That shouldn't be. Though come to think of it, ascii art designed for a (specific) proportional font could be kind of cool.
I guess I was fairly young, used to children's books that play with reality fairly freely, and wouldn't actually have noticed if any country was explicitly mentioned in the dialogue or known if there were any places that populated with that many wolves and those fashions.
I also noticed:
Bonnie looks and acts incredibly like Ron Weasly in the films.
If you google for something and are filtering for any likely hits, do not follow anything to myspace. "Pictures of naked elves" don't kill eyes, "pictures of naked elves on black background as non-scrolling background to a page with dark text, too-wide-fixed-width, content and status information put into random boxes, many unconnected pictures, video, ungrammatical text, banner ads, ascii art in a proportional font[1], and automatic music" kill eyes. OTOH, before I sound too negative, some of the image manipulations were nice, the conversation was as nice and as coherent as most people I know[2], and:
It did link me to another stick-figure webcomic, Cyanide and Happiness, which is a little basic, but seems to have a spark. A man and a woman are sitting on a bench. W:Sometimes I just feel like you never notice me. / W:Charles... I think we should break up. / M:WHAT THE HELL? / M:...Benches aren't supposed to talk?!
Also, I hadn't seen before on Amazon.com entries, Statistically Improbable Phrases are the most distinctive phrases in the text of books. Cool.
[1] That shouldn't be. Though come to think of it, ascii art designed for a (specific) proportional font could be kind of cool.
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Date: 2006-11-03 05:54 pm (UTC)Sphyg routinely leaves notifications and then works reads (or at least replies) to them when she has slack time, meaning a burst of responses to old posts appear at once months later, and I get to be reminded if what I said then was really worth saying :)
I started reading from the beginning. It's cute. I like the linguist :) The set up is good, and funny, and the little business is cool. Nell (and Helen) is exceedingly cute -- I'm not surprised you like it, I'm sorry :) But how long before I get to the gerbils?
I know some ongoing webcomics (eg. sluggy freelance, schlock mercenary) have plot planned out years in advance, but don't intend to reach a natural ending. 1/0 was self-contained from the beginning, and the characters dwelled on it. It's quite cool to see *anything* let alone a webcomic expanding out and then encompassing an overall plot, rather than the typical TV/book/comic series of "Ok, we beat baddy #1. Now lets do it again against lizard enemies, then ethereal ones." :)