What wholesome magic sweethearts
So it's the ancient Roman blacksmith's version of Benchy. Got it
I would gladly watch/read a full series of this!
Well Kikimora, at least you deserve something for your efforts:
The TLD TL;DR is basically that domains don't come out of nowhere. Just like how you need a lemmy.zip domain to be able to have the subdomains next.lemmy.zip or old.lemmy.zip, in order to have the domain lemmy.zip you must first have someone to run the .zip top-level domain (in this case, Google)
Like Forester mentioned in the other comment, you can have any combination of letters you want as a TLD, you just have to set up and manage all the infra for it (or find somebody else to do it for you)
Discussion
It's interesting how it's so similar yet so different to the final product. A lot more interesting and engaging, too, this would've hooked me in a lot earlier than the actual show did
- BI as a travel hub? What are all those other dimensions about?
- I wonder if that first demon Luz meets was an inspiration for Kikimora. Obviously it became the fairy and guard in ep 1, but idk, still getting some slight Kiki vibes from it too
- Imo much more convincing reason for Luz to want to stay in the Isles
- Hints of Lumity from episode 1? I wonder how the people would've reacted to Luz's "questing in all the right ways" comment from 1x02 Witches Before Wizards if that happened after this (obviously by "the people" I mean "Twitter" and by "I wonder" I mean "accusations of queerbaiting thrown left and right, bisexuality be damned)
- I wonder if Amity was already planned to be Lilith's protégé? That would've been an interesting conflict as they warmed up to each other
- But Eda secretly working for the Emperor‽‽‽ Certainly doesn't seem like she was very happy about the arrangement. Really curious about how that was going to play out, especially w.r.t. her relation to Lilith
(edit: broke paragraph into bullet points)
"Healing spell can neutralize it, but barely"
"So it can be killed"
"Yeah but no way I can deal with all of them"
*sniffs* Yup, that smells like foreshadowing
Wow, this is honestly probably one of Mark's most adult comics. At the very least it exceeds the show's age rating, because flipping the bird is still technically an explitive, so I think that would make it TV-PG. But TOH is just TV-Y7-FV.
(Yes, I did look up the Wikipedia page for the TV Parental Guidelines just to write this comment. Why do you ask?)
My thoughts (potential spoilers for ep 2, mentioning details in teaser shared last week)
This gives me some pretty ethereal vibes, dare I say perhaps even void-y. But I think this will actually play around the time we see Pomni getting thrown into abstraction basement (0:30 in the teaser).
This preview was actually shared a few days before the teaser came out. When the teaser dropped, Evan's tweeted (nitter) was "I can't believe someone hypnotized Pomni and then stole her body" with a screenshot of that clip, which I feel reinforces my theory (also get out reference). Those were Evan's only recent tweets, nothing else in the middle or since.
So what will be going on here? I think this is Pomni's psychotic break before she starts abstracting (note her right arm is already gone as she's being lowered in). Those staticy interruptions towards the end of the song clip will probably be flashbacks to things she saw/experienced while getting Space Odyssey'ed in the pilot.
Then, she starts abstracting and Caine gives her the WR for Any%'ing the Digital Circus.
Then, she wakes up.
This is starting to be more thoughts on the teaser as a whole rather than just the song, but I think the abstraction is just a nightmare at the start of the episode (possibly even a cold open?), then she's startled out of bed and clips into the block and the real fun begins.
Who knows? Maybe the characters here will be totally disposable. But I think it'll be a lot harder to make any sort of proper story progression like that, and given the significance of Pomni herself (see my thoughts in the Pilot discussion), I highly doubt she's going to be the next one out already.
But hey, that's just a theory. What do the rest of you think?
Thanks for being the first poster here other than me!
Just one minor ask: could you please add the artist mention to the title too? It doesn't have to be exactly the same formatting I use, just mention canisbeans somehow. Thanks!
Honestly not reading a lot off of the community posts, a few small hints yeah, but nothing really significant to look forward to. I'm much more interested in the teaser and music preview (linked above). Going into the episode, I still stand by my thoughts I shared on the music preview post