Medieval Fantasy
The thing about Agnes is that you never know when she’ll go on one of her flights of fantasy. Perhaps this is the way she sees the world all the time. Would it be comforting to live in this world all the time? …or exciting? …..or scary? It might be a way to hide from the stress, worry and weight of everyday life. It could explain the passionate and intense interest in shows like Game of Thrones and videogames like Skyrim and World of Warcraft. More and more people look for escape within fantasy worlds such as those and whether they are of their own or others invention their popularity is undeniable. The attendance at Comic conventions such as Toronto’s FanExpo has grown exponentially within the last few years and the Cosplaying community has grown right along with it. So is it any wonder that Agnes chooses to live her life as the savage warrior Sonya Crimson and that she finds her sense of adventure oddly aroused? And is there really anything wrong with that? Not in my book!
That was unexpected. 🙂
Unexpected in the best sense of the word I hope, khelatar.
I’m not going to criticise anything that gets Agnes and Trudy back into their bikinis! :devil:
I’m with you on that score, paws4thot!
Hey man! I just wandered over here from your Facebook page, and I’m duly impressed! First off, thanks for the share. Second off, HOLY F#@&! You mean to tell me there’s another real, honest-to-goodness webcomicker in Hamilton? I’m floored. In a good way.
Hi Gecko, Thank you so much for dropping by! I’ve been a reader of your comic for awhile now and when I found out that you’re from Hamilton too, I was floored as well. Hamilton has a very active artistic community (ie James St. Art Crawl) and I’m proud to have this city as my homebase.
Anyone out there who is not aware, ElectricGecko is the creator of the fantastic webcomic, Puck, which can be found at http://www.puckcomics.com/. It’s well written, funny and drawn pretty good too 😉 So it’s worth your while to go check it out and say hi to Gecko and Puck from the Oddly Aroused crew!
Hmm. I would peg that castle as late 15th century to mid 16th. Note the tiled roofs, and lack of crenalations and firing loops, as well as a lack of a curtain wall, as well as the late tudor style wattle and daub used on the small tower. This is not a defensive construction. It could be an 18th century throwback ala king Ludwig, but I doubt it. Not enough windows.
I’ll take your word for all that, balthazar and your word is always golden here at Oddly Aroused central. In all reality, I just googled to get a decent castle photo that I could swipe from. I wanted medieval Flannery’s castle to look imposing, stately and cool all at the same time. A place that people would want to visit and explore.
Well, you did a good job. I wouldn’t mind spending a week there seeing what kinds of mischief I could get into. Old castles are cool, but the newer ones have way more secrets, and better engineering around them.
Isn’t it everyone’s dream to own an old castle? I want to own an old castle like Sean Connery had in the movie Entrapment where I can keep all my stuff and just hang out and wear a kilt and drink scotch all day.
Well, it’s a lot smaller, but it generally reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colditz_Castle . Yes that is mostly Renaissance architecture (but on a much older core), and the lack of a curtain wall is easily accounted for, as in the case of much of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbarton_Castle (I’m from there), by being built on a volcanic plug.
The original castle is German, I believe, if that helps and what I drew was only a small part of a much larger and imposing structure. You guys certainly sound like you’d know much more about the origin and construction of it than I would. I’ll try to post the link to the pic later on.