I love when an avian is on a page because then I get to design a new stupid little bird outfit.
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Idrisah: (ASL) Can you start packing your computer desk while I'm out?
Gillie frowns.
Gillie: (ASL) We don’t leave till next week!
Idrisah: (ASL) It’s only five days!
Gillie: (ASL) I refuse to live out of boxes until I have to.
Idrisah: (ASL) You’ll regret that this weekend.
Gillie: (ASL) I will pack more NON-ESSENTIALS.
In the Ixion admin wing, Idrisah packs up her cubicle space with help from Cheevwut. Talita leans on the edge of the cubicle wall, looking glum.
Talita: Need any help over here?
Idrisah: Thanks Talita, I think we’re good.
Talita: I’m gonna miss coming to admin to bug you.
42 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 242”
WayanayaW
We do love the stupid little bird outfits 🙂↕️
Talita’s so cutes… sorry you’re gonna miss your friends 🙁 at least for a while?
Bryn
Idrisah giving Gillie the stink eye about packing omfg xD
Solanuma
I forgot we’re on a countdown here. Five days left for making life altering choices
Lee
Idrisah and Gillie are so married I care them both so much. It’s just really heartwarming seeing them interact with each other and how real and human it feels. Like this is just a conversation my partner and I would have
JoB
Hmmmm now what could the “warning” label on the box with Idrisahs e-ink display(?) be warning of … ?
(And what’s that oddly-shaped McGuffin Cheevwut’s dropping into the crate? I’ve seen erasers looking like that, but that’d be a supersized one …)
cain
for the warning label, i’m guessing it’s related to a battery; for the thingamajig, maybe a phone or a mouse?
JoB
I’m no stranger to stealth-technology-shaped mice, but … :-3
But yeah, if current-day Li-ion battery fires are any indication, using them in the middle of the Dirtball admin building (with no ready way to “emergency-eject the warp core”) might be a concern.
Darian Ritten
I always love how this comic, in spite of being set in space with a large portion of the cast being non-human, they still manage to make the atmosphere of so many of the scenes feel like everyday places and situations you’d have in real life.
Corbin
JAY. I’ve decided to make centaur silk knot soup replica Jay. I’ve rolled spaghetti squash and powdered parmesan into balls and I’m going to bake them Jay. I’m going to bake it until the Parmesan browns from the heat so it’ll keep its shape in soup, Jay. I’m gonna put my spaghetti squash Parmesan balls in chicken soup as a way to replicate centaur silk cheese knot soup Jay
Light_In_The_Fog
PLEASE keep us updated on this! That sounds so cool and also so yummy
Corbin
SO I finished the replica silk cheese knot soup.
Pros:
Pretty tasty, the flavors of Parmesan, Spaghetti Squash, chicken soup and various spices go well together. The texture is also pretty good, but that depends how much you like spaghetti squash.
Cons:
Not an authentic silk cheese knot soup experience. The replica silk cheese knots immediately began falling apart once in the soup, and weren’t even that hardened out of the oven. I’d recommend trying this again but with flattening the knots into disc shapes so they’ll crisp more evenly in the oven.
1d4-nadg
I’m gonna pan fry them as soon as I can get my hands on a spaghetti squash
eden
maybe try rice noodles in knots next time? I don’t know if they’ll unravel or KnoT though
JoB
I have to ask: What prompted you to pick these particular ingredients for the attempt? Given how utterly incomparable food is between sophonts, according to the lore, “that’s the closest taste-wise” should be right out …
cain
hmm, i think spaghetti squash may have too much water unless you try really hard to squeeze out all the moisture. you can eat the immature silk of milkweed plants (Asclepias syriaca) and i’ve heard people describe it as having a cheesy texture when cooked! but really the truest dupe would probably be silkworm coccoons…
Rad Internet Stranger
I love when an Avian is on page because then I get to see a new stupid little bird outfit!!
Light_In_The_Fog
I ADORE the stupid little bird outfits. I’m curious about the bird outfits that other avian species have. In the avian culture worldbuilding page you specifically said that skimmers dress conservatively, which makes me wonder how much cultural clothing practices from groups of other species of avian differ from skimmers’, and how much they’ve persisted in those communities despite (presumably heavy) Tiiliitian or Wiariian influence?
blythe
Ive read that pygmies are usually nude. But also its hot as balls where they live so dressing like a skimmer would probably be a fast track to heat stroke
MyUniverseinaBox
I love the stupid little bird outfits.
Also Gillie looks SOOO cute here man. Idk how to describe it. She’s just pretty!
halley
<333
Amanda/OwlBear
Talita in that last panel is ever so cute
felixscout
Awww. Poor Talita.
Also, please do not wrap electrical/data cables around your hand or elbow or a block of wood etc. Becuase this bends the braided wires inside and will break them which may mean thw cable doesn’t work or you could get a short and then a fire with an electrical cable.
HAL9000
hang on but they come packaged like that anyway. how else are you meant to put them away
Vinemaple
It’s just best to avoid doing it more than necessary, if you’re taking out and stowing, say, a headset cord, or microphone or guitar power cables, every single day, it’s better for the cord (though less practical) to help it coil itself in a wide loop, then put a twist tie or a velcro strip around it.
It’s the bending that happens, when you wrap the cord around something too small, that causes the soft copper or aluminum wires inside to fatigue and fail. Wire rope, and other bundles of wires, like to lie in annoyingly big circles.
the Inmara
Use both hands to coil them carefully and then bind the coil with a zip-tie or velcro strap.
Like, pretend you’re holding a steering wheel with both hands. Grip with one hand while you move the other, and use that grip to keep the coils of cord together and you slowly spin it while the loose end feeds into the circle.
Vinemaple
Exactly. It’s gonna be a wider circle than you want, but at least it will be flat.
JoB
Even better, do Over-Under a.k.a. Roadie Wrap so that, from one loop to the next, the torsions cancel each other out.
B
thanks for the tip JoB i will attempt to wrap and save my poor distressed cords this way! 👍
Vinemaple
@JoB: This, yes, this exactly. For hoses, too. I only didn’t bring it up because I was afraid people would find it too intimidating and hard to learn!
Boxthing
Oh dear, I can already foresee the disagreements over what constitutes “non-essentials”…
Lilac
Gillie is kinda real A fellow “put-things-off-until-the-last-second”-er
edenmachine5457
“I’m gonna miss coming to admin to bug you.”
.little does she know
NotOkapi
I mean, no matter what happens as long as Idrisah leaves Dirtball Talita won’t be bugging her in admin anymore.
bug
I’m surprised to see that those vertical blinds still exist in the future!
1d4-nadg
If it makes you feel better, they are probably made out of mushroom polymer instead of plastic
Chrysalis
“We don’t leave till next week!” “It’s only five days!” The two approaches to packing, perfectly encapsulated in two sentences.
(I’m on Gillie’s side. If you can’t toss it in a box the night before you leave, did you really need it anyway?)
Also, the little bird outfits continue to be some of my favorite parts of the series. Looking great as always, Cheevwut!
Vinemaple
Yeah, I wish we could see the bird outfits in color. And Idrisah’s, there’s gotta be some chic color coordination going on there.
And it infuriates me when I pack something, then find I need it later that night.
Teod
Chevvut is a dun, so those bird clothes are 85% brown and gray.
Vinemaple
But that other 15% makes up for it! No, I’m serious!
Enai
Yeah, the Avians sorta look like they try to dress themselves as very ruchy curtains, especially the brights. Gives mid-to-late 19th century vibes, or maybe Rococo. Only with wayyyy flimsier fabrics, for weight reasons. I’m just waiting for someone to show up with an honest-to-goodness bustle.
Vinemaple
I think there’s similarities to a few different periods of European fashion… Paging Ms. Banner, Ms, Bernadette Banner?
Minaerva
gosh I love every chance we get to see more of Talita. She’s our primary protagonist and I still can’t get enough of her <3
also is there a particular inspiration being drawn from for avian attire?