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Giant Twilight #13
After eating the gas giant, Luna gives Twilight a delicious idea. And it just so happens, there’s a mouthful of a morsel nearby!
After eating the gas giant, Luna gives Twilight a delicious idea. And it just so happens, there’s a mouthful of a morsel nearby!
She teleported. We saw that back in the 10th image.
The plot must thicken!
Actually, planets are the Main course in this comic.
Sorry, just being a bit of a duck.
Actually, you make a good point. Don’t listen to the “it’s just a fetish thing, so you should not care” crowd. In my opinion, accurate representation of distances really improves pieces like this. Of course, using unrealistic (although I prefer ‘unexplained’) or “cartoon” physics is acceptable and necessary - but hey, this is size fetish. Scale is the main course here, so doing it right (keeping it realistic and consistent) adds a lot of value to the scene.
However, excluding the hair thing and maybe some other, more ‘obscure’ details, this comic actually does a decent job at it. The distinguishable celestial bodies are rarely within the same frame (except when she moves the Moon with her magic, maybe Triton is too close to Neptune, assuming she hadn’t moved it too). But the passage of time and her speed aren’t specified, and canonically, she’s a character who is capable of flight, levitation, teleportation and telekinesis. So, in my opinion, there is no discrepancy.
In my defense, I wasn’t trying to dogpile you; I had no idea these other folk were going to follow up.
@Phantom Rider
@TheAbridgenator
Like I said, it’s more the general trend than this thing in particular.
Really annoying to get 3 people on my case at once, though.
In general, whenever people portray space, it’s like a trip to another planet is just a long walk down the street to the Chemist’s. Points to anyone who gets the reference And this general trend really cuts short how amazing the universe and mankind’s accomplishments are.
But yeah, it’s not this in particular, it’s the general trend for stuff to vastly underappreciate these kinds of things I care so much about.
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Another one for the “don’t take this so seriously” camp. Nobody’s claiming it to be realistic. It’s not about the depiction of the universe, it’s a comic for giantess/vore fetishists. Don’t give yourself a coronary over the accuracy of things like this.
I mean, I feel you, but you can be a bit overzealous about it. When I tried to post an example of fiction doing a stupidly large object well, you proceeded to get into a debate with me.
@Darth Sonic
Eh, because “people don’t realize how big the universe is” is kind of a running thing.
I mean, yeah this particular thing is fantasy, but still, just in general even if not this particular thing. The bothersome thing is most people don’t realize that the distances part of it is so far off.
Imagine some alien being that doesn’t live on planets at all hears about humanity and beings that do live on planets, and tries to write a story for them. In the story it writes, people just casually stroll from one continent to another in a few minutes on a regular basis, and the tallest mountains on Earth are just molehills that are no biggie to them to walk over, and the deepest oceans are just 12” deep pools, and the thickest jungles are just patches of bushes.
That’s kinda how it is to me when I see this kinda thing.
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Or the fact that Twilight can even hear Luna… or talk in space at all.
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Well, as a writer who does try to respect scale (unless I’m writing Gods, at which point do whatever), it is possible to respect scale without constantly rubbing your face in it so that the dumb plebs are always aware of how bloody huge something is. What you were suggesting is bad writing, and quite pretentious.
Besides, my whole point is that The City is a great example of a solid object that is as large as these macro-fetish characters that actually respect scale, and seeing as macro-characters are also fictional constructs, The City is a bit more relevant as a good example than real astronomy.
Lolol. I think I’m being a bit too harsh, though. I’m just kinda annoyed that people don’t get it.
They’re also trying to tell a story as well though, which takes priority. As long as the don’t ignore the scale and create potholes because of it (as is often the case in Space Operas), they’re fine not rubbing it in your face like you apparently want them too.
Oh God damn it, we’re trying to defend our respective fields here…
It’s a bit insulting to the majesty of the universe that it’s so rare for people to really appreciate the mind-boggling vastness of space.
I mean, sure, maybe The City takes it a bit more seriously, I dunno, but they’d better spend a lot of freakin’ time in there just conveying how freakishly, unfathomably endless it all is.
Then you should realize that the City takes the scale of it’s setting very seriously. So the dismissive “oh, they say it’s the size of a star system? Nothing they say has any worth anymore” attitude a bit insulting.
Skimmed.
Saw the Bill Nye thing. I live this stuff, though.
@Background Pony #F1CE
Was I talking about the macro image or was I responding to Darth?
It’s still a pet peeve perpetuated by this kind of thing, though.
In a fetish comic about a unicorn the size of 100 planets eating other plants like sweets, its important to make sure you get the distances just right or it will be unrealistic
Did you read the thread?
Yeah, when people say “the whole solar system”, I just can’t really take it seriously. They’re just throwing big numbers out there as if they knew what they were saying, but the mere distance from Earth too the Moon is pretty much incomprehensible to the human mind, never mind from Earth to Mars, or our solar system, or interstellar distances.
Imagine you are literally nothing and you still probably won’t do it justice.
If you cruised around the solar system at the speed of a high-velocity rifle bullet, you’d take many years to get anywhere. Those deep space probes that take years to get around? They travel around 5-15x faster than a high-velocity rifle bullet. Just imagine how far a rifle bullet could go, holding muzzle velocity, in 10 seconds. 10 minutes. 100 minutes. 10 hours. 100 hours. 1,000 hours. 8,760 hours (1 year). Now several times longer. Then again.
Assuming you’re human, I probably lost you around 100 minutes or 10 hours in trying to imagine the sheer distances involved. Our own moon, at ~1 km/s (~3,200 feet per second, a very high speed rifle bullet muzzle velocity), would take 3.5 days to reach.
And don’t even try with interstellar distances - light-years. Just think of them as infinite and you’ll be closer than anything a human can imagine.
Now, if you enter geological or astronomical time-scales, then that’s beyond human comprehension as well, so on astronomical time-scales the distances are manageable. Our current tech is fine for sending a probe to Proxima Centauri if you’re fine waiting 70,000 years. Though that’s only 4.5 LY away, and the galaxy is 100,000 across, so…
In early astronomy, I can’t recall who, but someone suggested that distant stars actually had a finite distance. So they waited 6 months for the Earth to go around the sun to see if they could measure any parallax. They couldn’t.
Let that sink in for a minute. If you walk along, you can notice parallax on mountains a few miles away.
We orbitted the sun, travelling 200 million miles, a distance we can’t comprehend, and it still wasn’t enough to notice any parallax at all to distant* stars, using what were actually rather precise methods.
*And the stars visible in the night sky are typically within 10-100 LY, so we literally only see a thousandth of the span of our galaxy.
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Basically, the entire solar system has been replaced by a City. A solid City.
Here, watch me get schooled on just how ridiculously massive that is. It was eye-opening to me.
Or, you know, actual astronomy.
Dare I ask what “The City” is?
If you want to understand scale, study The City from a manga called Blame…