Nah. The Yamato definitely does not have hull-mounted casemates. This is a fantastical anime-stylized battleship built on the back of a dead god. It’s not at all a replica of any real ship.
I wonder if she’s doing that just For The Drama. That even as she IS being influenced, a part of her is going “oh yeah, I should simulate a nosebleed to show how she’s fucking with me!”. It would be 100% in-character.
The flying spaghetti monster is pretending to be woman dressed in a jester’s outfit. Possibly lots of them.
Gog A-Gog doesn’t mess around when she is trying though!
For the sight of the eye in the urd is a vision of the past, and all the worlds yet tested, and the lesson in those waters is a ward against cowardice.
And lo, the woman stood before the thing that occupied all that was and what could be, that which has been there, done that, and in her infinitesimal space in the universe, with her seething, aching desire, told it to hell.
And so it did, pushed by something that was more vast than all of space, and longer than all of time.
More and more I think the word LOVE or PASSION is Allison’s. For either worlds will burn, people will sacrifice themselves, but also create new and wonderful/terrible things.
There’s a lot of scenes that have genuinely moved me or brought me to tears, and this is absolutely one of them. It feels like horrible stuff is always going down in the world and no matter how hard we try to make it better it feels so often like fighting a losing battle. But coming here, seeing Allison go through the absolute worst time, seeing her face the wreck of the world and still choose to keep moving forward, because no matter what anyone says its not wrong to fight for something better, idk, it makes me want to keep moving forward too. Thank you Abbadon, I’m glad I got to live in a world where I could read KSBD.
Agreed, this is just such a great moment. Similarly to White Chain not letting Solomon give up on living, here Allison shows Gog that there’s a reason to not give up on CARING.
Massive agree! Allison is an incredible protagonist and really earns her title as the Wheel Smashing King. In a world where even the mightiest of gods will eventually break, a simple barista from earth is strong enough to bear the weight of infinite cycles on her shoulders and choose the path untread. It is inspiring.
Apathy is worse than death. Death is final, an end to the story. Apathy is the living corpse of a story, unable to move forward on its own so it needs to be dragged along. Apathy is the true loss of hope, because hope is fueled by passion while apathy can be sustained by less than contentment.
Apathy is the true bane of Royalty, for to become the Wheel Smashing King, one must be so full of passion, so driven to move forward that new worlds WANT to come into being in Royalty’s wake. New songs WILL be sung because it is the only conclusion upon seeing such passions on display. The apathetic only assist the Terrible Wheel by sitting in blissful meh as it continues rolling forward unto eternity.
The lettering changes in the speech bubbles on this page are *fascinating*.
Gog being genuinely — and literally, from the looks of the motion lines around her face — shook by Alison’s question reminded me of 3-101/3-102. Of all the people and all the events Gog’s been through in this story, and maybe any cycle remotely close to the current one, Alison is the only one to make them *think*. And they *hate it*.
Mutilation breaks cycles in K6BD, but the most powerful doesn’t come from physical violence. Maya was immovably in a cycle until Meti’s question. And Gog was immovably in a cycle until Alison’s. A powerful enough question mutilates any wheel.
Allison’s threat to the status quo has always been her unyielding ability to *choose*. Her Royalty imposes — enforces — that on others. Her missing eye mirrors the Gog-No-Longers in 4-120. Gog is repulsed by this mutilation, the rejection of the hive mind. I am likely not the first to notice this, but this repulsion towards those missing an eye could be founded in horror from being removed from the comfort of their hive, to when they were in their “first body” (3-98/99) when they had no agency against the world. They’ve fooled themselves into believing that as hive!Gog they have agency and they’re making a choice to remain in the cycle. By imposing the *reality* of choice on Gog, Aliison forces them to realize that they’ve not been choosing at all. They’ve stayed in the “body” that allows them to not choose, to reject change, but when Allison imposes the curse of choice on them, they hate it, but they choose to change. It’s multiple themes of this comic all coming together. Questions. Choice. False unthinking “identity” versus true identity. Wheels breaking.
I’ve learned I can’t predict Abbadon, but I have a theory. Gog will stand at Mimir’s well sometime very soon, and *she* will pluck out an eye and be Gog, actually Gog and not Gog-as-hive.
I think in this case gogs sudden change in speech was shock she was being forced to act.
Gogs problem is apathy. She doesn’t actually care about anything. She fails to understand that Allison’s willpower is infinitely stronger than hers, and the moment Allison became part of Gog she had greater agency between them.
Gog is stuck: don’t care, and Allison will make her do something. The only way out is to care, but if she actually did care, then she would be doing what Allison is directing her to do pf her own volition.
Gog has chosen the easy path, where she does not need to make a choice. Allison chose the path of suffering. There isn’t a contest.
Yeah I think we’ve got the same view of this, only from different angles.
There’s also that Allison *is* Gog now. She’s in the hive. And there’s the hive-will that’s Gog’s, and the hive-will that’s Allison’s. Allison-Gog saying “let’s try anyway” could be referring to the whole Allison Gang, or the “us” in “let’s” could be the hive. Probably both.
In any case the Allison-color Gog-font of “do your job” feels like Allison making the choice for the hive. Original Gog is part along for the ride and part realizing that apathy is no longer an option, and the shock is because *this has never happened before*.
Gog’s seen a lot. She’s seen these huge fights, seen countless powerful figures fall, anything you can imagine has likely happened in the cycles she’s been through. That’s gotta force apathy, you know? And there’s nothing to shake you out of apathy when you’ve seen a billion things tried a billion times over with the same result. Suddenly, something novel, and Gog doesn’t know how to handle it because they only know apathy.
I feel like Allison being Wheel Breaking Lord doesn’t just refer to THE WHEEL. It refers to the countless wheels that all of these characters have been on. White Chain probably has never transitioned before. Cio probably has never been Nukoku before. Solomon was never granted agency without great power. Jadis has never been surprised (this one’s pending!) And the one at the core of it all is that Royalty has always existed.
My headcanon ending is a bit Xenoblade Chronicles, but it’s Allison in full control of her Royalty declaring “No Royalty” at a point where the world is irrevocably broken. The cycle resets, but there’s no Royalty, kings are ephemeral, gods and mortals don’t mix. Nothing is perfect, the world has filth and war and want, but the world has compassion and kindness and hope and CHOICE. And in the chaos of the world, Solomon becomes a great and revered king and is remembered for time immemorial after he passes as all kings do. Jadis somehow views the structure of the universe and sees the infinite paths along the shattered wheel, declares it beautiful, and becomes a spiritual leader. And Allison and Cio get their damn happy ending. Or else.
I think the true ending will be the splitting of the keys while also entangling all of the fragments such that those that connect with them also connnect to everyone else that bears one. Within the meta-structure of the setting, splitting power has always been the outcome that helped the world. From one deity to many to the creation of the various life flames and the passing of the deities as they ceded control and ultimately the words/keys of power to the next generation. But at the same time that wasn’t a good thing, as it created a hundred thousand disconnected and warring mini-gods. The mistake of Jaggy and whats-his-face is that they think unification of power is the answer, either under a new leader or for the purpose of attempting to fundamentally remake the world, when all that would do is return the system to an earlier state, one that is already known to be imperfect and which will fail as assuredly as it did before. In this Allison represents acceptance of the world as it exists, as the material that must be worked with, and recognition of what needs to be done to start addressing the failures of the system.
To draw from her own story and the lessons she has witnessed, she both knows that putting power into a single point creates a single point of failure (the story of every demiurge) and yet when separate strengths were wielded in true unity (giant woman) three comparative “lessers” (an untrained human, a non-metatron angel, and a caring demon) stood shoulder to shoulder with the strongest beings in reality.
Unlike prior steps where power was split, but with total independence between shards, I believe the true answer will be to create a “Gog” of shards, likely with Gog’s help, where all wielders of a piece of divinity are both themselves *and* part of the whole, capable of taking individual action but tempered in their actions by their inherent understanding and connection to a million other lives/stories.
So stand tall against the howling void of entropy, and impose you will upon this uncaring existence.
Inflict the poisonous concepts of Love, Justice, Hope, Hate, and everything in-between into the very fabric of reality, make it bend to your will for one brief fragment of its unending cycles.
Drink deep of the void until it recognises your truth, “I am”.
Because if nothing matters then you are truly free of the illusion named failure.
And just between you and me, I feel like wasting my meaningless time doing something fun.
cyclops arc
She is killing the Polyphemus look his name means many voiced in Greek hmmmm
Fun fact, the largest moth in North America is named Polyphemus for the eye spots on its wings.
Blessed, Cursed, Now
Hey, isn’t that the Yamato?
Nah. The Yamato definitely does not have hull-mounted casemates. This is a fantastical anime-stylized battleship built on the back of a dead god. It’s not at all a replica of any real ship.
It’s also missing wings. Too bad, because the Yamato built into the back of a dead god would be METAL AF.
Starblazers!
stop staring at me with them big ol’ eyes
*Big ol’ Eye, singular
She has spiritual limbs in place of her amputated ones. I don’t see a reason for her not having a spiritual eye, too.
HATERS FOREVER DENIED, IT WILL ALWAYS BE WORTH IT
So said Robot.
Princess Kat is an Angel.
There’s something about a giant amalgamation of worms pulling off a nosebleed
I wonder if she’s doing that just For The Drama. That even as she IS being influenced, a part of her is going “oh yeah, I should simulate a nosebleed to show how she’s fucking with me!”. It would be 100% in-character.
All she can think about is how a worm would fit inside that eye-hole…
Your name is very appropriate.
It is finally… Spaghetti time.
The flying spaghetti monster will arrive soon
The flying spaghetti monster is pretending to be woman dressed in a jester’s outfit. Possibly lots of them.
Gog A-Gog doesn’t mess around when she is trying though!
And thus The Worm has been made to kneel.
Nay, nay. For once, The Worm has been made to stand.
That’s clever.
Just put the worms in the bag, Gog
That may be among the most poetic things I’ve ever read…
For the sight of the eye in the urd is a vision of the past, and all the worlds yet tested, and the lesson in those waters is a ward against cowardice.
As terrible as an angel, be afraid. That wing to see the truth and that eye to lay it bare.
mom said it was my turn on the gogbox
And lo, the woman stood before the thing that occupied all that was and what could be, that which has been there, done that, and in her infinitesimal space in the universe, with her seething, aching desire, told it to hell.
And so it did, pushed by something that was more vast than all of space, and longer than all of time.
Wheel Smashing King
More and more I think the word LOVE or PASSION is Allison’s. For either worlds will burn, people will sacrifice themselves, but also create new and wonderful/terrible things.
“None of you seem to understand! You’re not the Gog-Agog inside me! I’M THE GOG-AGOG INSIDE YOU!”
“I’m not getting wormed. You’re getting Weatherwaxed!”
And that’s how you use Headology!
Fellow Granny Weatherwax fans, here?? Oh, frabjous day!
There’s a lot of scenes that have genuinely moved me or brought me to tears, and this is absolutely one of them. It feels like horrible stuff is always going down in the world and no matter how hard we try to make it better it feels so often like fighting a losing battle. But coming here, seeing Allison go through the absolute worst time, seeing her face the wreck of the world and still choose to keep moving forward, because no matter what anyone says its not wrong to fight for something better, idk, it makes me want to keep moving forward too. Thank you Abbadon, I’m glad I got to live in a world where I could read KSBD.
Agreed, this is just such a great moment. Similarly to White Chain not letting Solomon give up on living, here Allison shows Gog that there’s a reason to not give up on CARING.
Massive agree! Allison is an incredible protagonist and really earns her title as the Wheel Smashing King. In a world where even the mightiest of gods will eventually break, a simple barista from earth is strong enough to bear the weight of infinite cycles on her shoulders and choose the path untread. It is inspiring.
Choice is the most powerful thing we have, I think
Apathy is death.
So say the ghosts in the secret tomb (of Ludo Kressh)
Apathy is worse than death. Death is final, an end to the story. Apathy is the living corpse of a story, unable to move forward on its own so it needs to be dragged along. Apathy is the true loss of hope, because hope is fueled by passion while apathy can be sustained by less than contentment.
Apathy is the true bane of Royalty, for to become the Wheel Smashing King, one must be so full of passion, so driven to move forward that new worlds WANT to come into being in Royalty’s wake. New songs WILL be sung because it is the only conclusion upon seeing such passions on display. The apathetic only assist the Terrible Wheel by sitting in blissful meh as it continues rolling forward unto eternity.
Amazing stuff.
How to convince a god-worm mass-jester to do a little killing for you.
What is the purpose of power?
” What is the Purpose of Power you ask? The same as it’s always been, and always will be. ”
” To Be Used. “
“What is steel, compared to the hand that wields it?”
You are always choose.
The lettering changes in the speech bubbles on this page are *fascinating*.
Gog being genuinely — and literally, from the looks of the motion lines around her face — shook by Alison’s question reminded me of 3-101/3-102. Of all the people and all the events Gog’s been through in this story, and maybe any cycle remotely close to the current one, Alison is the only one to make them *think*. And they *hate it*.
Mutilation breaks cycles in K6BD, but the most powerful doesn’t come from physical violence. Maya was immovably in a cycle until Meti’s question. And Gog was immovably in a cycle until Alison’s. A powerful enough question mutilates any wheel.
Allison’s threat to the status quo has always been her unyielding ability to *choose*. Her Royalty imposes — enforces — that on others. Her missing eye mirrors the Gog-No-Longers in 4-120. Gog is repulsed by this mutilation, the rejection of the hive mind. I am likely not the first to notice this, but this repulsion towards those missing an eye could be founded in horror from being removed from the comfort of their hive, to when they were in their “first body” (3-98/99) when they had no agency against the world. They’ve fooled themselves into believing that as hive!Gog they have agency and they’re making a choice to remain in the cycle. By imposing the *reality* of choice on Gog, Aliison forces them to realize that they’ve not been choosing at all. They’ve stayed in the “body” that allows them to not choose, to reject change, but when Allison imposes the curse of choice on them, they hate it, but they choose to change. It’s multiple themes of this comic all coming together. Questions. Choice. False unthinking “identity” versus true identity. Wheels breaking.
I’ve learned I can’t predict Abbadon, but I have a theory. Gog will stand at Mimir’s well sometime very soon, and *she* will pluck out an eye and be Gog, actually Gog and not Gog-as-hive.
I think in this case gogs sudden change in speech was shock she was being forced to act.
Gogs problem is apathy. She doesn’t actually care about anything. She fails to understand that Allison’s willpower is infinitely stronger than hers, and the moment Allison became part of Gog she had greater agency between them.
Gog is stuck: don’t care, and Allison will make her do something. The only way out is to care, but if she actually did care, then she would be doing what Allison is directing her to do pf her own volition.
Gog has chosen the easy path, where she does not need to make a choice. Allison chose the path of suffering. There isn’t a contest.
Yeah I think we’ve got the same view of this, only from different angles.
There’s also that Allison *is* Gog now. She’s in the hive. And there’s the hive-will that’s Gog’s, and the hive-will that’s Allison’s. Allison-Gog saying “let’s try anyway” could be referring to the whole Allison Gang, or the “us” in “let’s” could be the hive. Probably both.
In any case the Allison-color Gog-font of “do your job” feels like Allison making the choice for the hive. Original Gog is part along for the ride and part realizing that apathy is no longer an option, and the shock is because *this has never happened before*.
Gog’s seen a lot. She’s seen these huge fights, seen countless powerful figures fall, anything you can imagine has likely happened in the cycles she’s been through. That’s gotta force apathy, you know? And there’s nothing to shake you out of apathy when you’ve seen a billion things tried a billion times over with the same result. Suddenly, something novel, and Gog doesn’t know how to handle it because they only know apathy.
I feel like Allison being Wheel Breaking Lord doesn’t just refer to THE WHEEL. It refers to the countless wheels that all of these characters have been on. White Chain probably has never transitioned before. Cio probably has never been Nukoku before. Solomon was never granted agency without great power. Jadis has never been surprised (this one’s pending!) And the one at the core of it all is that Royalty has always existed.
My headcanon ending is a bit Xenoblade Chronicles, but it’s Allison in full control of her Royalty declaring “No Royalty” at a point where the world is irrevocably broken. The cycle resets, but there’s no Royalty, kings are ephemeral, gods and mortals don’t mix. Nothing is perfect, the world has filth and war and want, but the world has compassion and kindness and hope and CHOICE. And in the chaos of the world, Solomon becomes a great and revered king and is remembered for time immemorial after he passes as all kings do. Jadis somehow views the structure of the universe and sees the infinite paths along the shattered wheel, declares it beautiful, and becomes a spiritual leader. And Allison and Cio get their damn happy ending. Or else.
Worth the wait. Thank you!
I think the true ending will be the splitting of the keys while also entangling all of the fragments such that those that connect with them also connnect to everyone else that bears one. Within the meta-structure of the setting, splitting power has always been the outcome that helped the world. From one deity to many to the creation of the various life flames and the passing of the deities as they ceded control and ultimately the words/keys of power to the next generation. But at the same time that wasn’t a good thing, as it created a hundred thousand disconnected and warring mini-gods. The mistake of Jaggy and whats-his-face is that they think unification of power is the answer, either under a new leader or for the purpose of attempting to fundamentally remake the world, when all that would do is return the system to an earlier state, one that is already known to be imperfect and which will fail as assuredly as it did before. In this Allison represents acceptance of the world as it exists, as the material that must be worked with, and recognition of what needs to be done to start addressing the failures of the system.
To draw from her own story and the lessons she has witnessed, she both knows that putting power into a single point creates a single point of failure (the story of every demiurge) and yet when separate strengths were wielded in true unity (giant woman) three comparative “lessers” (an untrained human, a non-metatron angel, and a caring demon) stood shoulder to shoulder with the strongest beings in reality.
Unlike prior steps where power was split, but with total independence between shards, I believe the true answer will be to create a “Gog” of shards, likely with Gog’s help, where all wielders of a piece of divinity are both themselves *and* part of the whole, capable of taking individual action but tempered in their actions by their inherent understanding and connection to a million other lives/stories.
Sorry, ment to reply to Tofino. Must have misclicked.
The joys of Hopefully Nihilism.
Nothing matters.
Everything ends.
So stand tall against the howling void of entropy, and impose you will upon this uncaring existence.
Inflict the poisonous concepts of Love, Justice, Hope, Hate, and everything in-between into the very fabric of reality, make it bend to your will for one brief fragment of its unending cycles.
Drink deep of the void until it recognises your truth, “I am”.
Because if nothing matters then you are truly free of the illusion named failure.
And just between you and me, I feel like wasting my meaningless time doing something fun.
I am a liar and so is YISUN
Ironically, apathy is pointless in a time loop.
Good Gog, what a sovereign. All hail the [w h e e L S M A S h i n g] lord.
she’s got her eyes agog
Willmogging Gog-agog is no easy feat.