Well, “ping the teacher hole” would work with one T less, but it sounds a little too NSFW for this community =P

Ohhhh that community fits perfectly! I wasn’t aware it existed ;)

Not the OP, but I was looking for this exact question ;) thank you so much, it worked like a charm ♥

If you haven’t seen the show yet:

• Witches in that world have staffs with a living wooden creature on top, called “Palisman”. It’s basically a mix of an familliar and a tool / staff decoration. Most Palismen are shaped like regular animals like cats and birds and spend most of their time as inanimate objects sitting atop their respective staff, but there’s no actual restriction for how they have to look and whether or not they have to be attached to their staff all the time.

• The “giant head” creature is called The Bat Queen, and in the show it is eventually revealed that she was once a Palisman herself, albeit on a giant staff, so her owner must have been a giant too. But that was thousands of years ago and she has forgotten whom she belonged to. The human sitting on top is the main protagonist of the show and offered the Bat Queen to help her search for the truth if she ever wanted to find out who her former owner was. (It never happened because the show was brutally axed before that subplot had a chance to develop)

• Titans are… well… titanic in size once they’re fully grown, but that’s TOO big to wield something of the size of the Bat Queen as a staff topper.

Conclusion: she was the Titan’s toothpick, not a staff. And it’s probably for the best that she forgot.

I’ve seen this comic a couple of times elsewhere already but this is the first time I noticed the corks in Flapjack’s ears lol. Poor little guy XD

“Word of God” says it’s canon, but it can’t be in the same timeline as BotW because the story of AoC actively prevents BotW from ever happening. Then again, TotK retcons a bunch of stuff from BotW as well (like pretending the Guardians and Divine Beasts never existed or somehow “just disappeared” which still cotradicts the after-credits end scene from BotW) so personally I think that’s just an alternate timeline, too.

Or maybe the devs just didn’t put much thought into continuity.

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Ohhh dang, why didn’t I see that?! Thanks for pointing that out :D

I never understood that either. Patching unfair advantages in online multiplayer games, that’s fine and understandable, but who cares whether or not it is possible to “cheat” in singleplayer games?

Plus, any time they patch it, someone discovers a new way anyway. It’s a couple hundred Nintendo employees VS. literally millions of players of which thousands hack for fun and see it as a challenge to break the game in the most creative ways. They can not win this.

also don’t forget that placebo work even when you know it’s placebo

This right here. I’ve had problems with pain relief medicine simply not working since I was a child. A couple years back I started drinking caraway seed tea whenever a headache was JUST going away, and even tho I know dang well that caraway seeds do jack sh*t against pain, my body now somehow associates the taste with “ok, headache time is over” and I can drink that stuff to MAKE headaches go away.

100% placebo, 100% aware about it - still works.

PS: why caraway seeds? Because it is the least likely “tea” you can be offered in everyday context. If I had used something as common as charmomile or green tea, I think the effect wouldn’t have had a lasting effect.

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Ohhh nice! Thank you for the link ^^

That’s an interesting zero-effort way to farm clicks… I guess coming up with some actual clickbait to boost engagement was too much work?

Not related to the comic but I just wanted to say that I really REALLY appreciate you uploading these comics all the time ;) tumblr and instagram are a pain to use for me, and I don’t want to give reddit any traffic, so visiting this community every now and then to catch up without a hassle has been a godsend.

eyes narrow … normally I find these little extra descriptions redundant in comics with already easy-to-recognize facial expressions, but it is SO needed in this context, lol.

You know a dad joke is a good dad joke when you angrily groan while being compelled to still upvote it.

My personal pet peeve is pre-installed, un-removable software and apps. My current mobile phone for example has apps that link to twitter, facebook, amazon etc. none of which I will ever use, but you can somehow not delete them. Why do I need to have that virtual junk in my phone?

f I created a community, would I become it’s (lone) moderator automatically?

Yes. But you can also immediatly appoint new mods and/or un-mod yourself if there are other mods present, so it is easy to give a community away when there are other interested users. It’s not a permanent thing.

What consequences, requirements and things would I need to keep in mind as a moderator?

Your community needs to be compatible wih the Fediverse Code of Conduct … but that boils down to “don’t be a dick and don’t post illegal stuff” which is pretty much just common sense. It’s not exactly hard to follow those rules ;)

Apart from that, you can set whatever rules you want. But keep in mind that the Fediverse is still a lot smaller than reddit, so if you are TOO niche / narrow / strict with the rules, you’ll have a hard time finding people who want to engage with your community. General, broad-themed communities with easy-to-follow rules have a bigger chance to thrive.

… and a personal little tip: don’t slam down the ban hammer at every opportunity. As a mod you are able to ban, silence, remove or otherwise “punish” people for bad behaviour, but that doesn’t mean that you have to do that. It’s a lot better to give users the benefit of the doubt, explain instead of punish (as they might not be aware that they did something bad in the first place), and give them a reasonable chance to fix their mistakes on their own before taking action. Post removal, bans and the like should be reserved solely for when the user in question is unwilling to cooperate OR did something obviously super shitty (like threatening other users, using slurs, posting illegal stuff etc.)

Is it advisable to copy-paste content from Reddit to kickstart new communities (given that the link source to the original content was added as well when making new posts)?

Well … as a last resort, yes. Original content or stuff from non-reddit sources is always preferable as it gives users of the Fediverse an incentive to visit communities here instead of going to reddit, but copypasted content is still better than no content at all, so if you can’t find interesting / worthwile stuff elsewhere, then copypasting from reddit is okay-ish too.

OC is still way better tho.

Every time I find a new piece of information about TOH, I get progressively more angry at Disney for dropping the show but hogging the rights, effectively preventing Dana Terrace from creating more content. Even “filler episodes” massively help with worldbuilding and character development, as you’ve just demonstrated. It’s such a shame that the series was not allowed to live up to its full potential.