TGW-1130
Chapter: Beginnings
Characters: Alpha elwood, Capt Chardis, capt harris, capt ket'rrt, Flame, her own, kima, marise, sgt squirrel, Smoke, Taritha, Teresa
Location: conference library, Teresa's office
Beginnings
41 comics.
The Gentle Wolf
A modern adventure webcomic
I forget the exact saying.
“What people are given for free,
They will come to expect as their due…
Then demand as their right.”
As we are seeing today with things like health care
and welfare programs. I have no problem with
helping someone who needs it, but a safety net
should not become a hammock.
I have to agree PC, I hate that I am forced to accept my disability
income, I know I earned it over the years, but I still feel I’m
taking away from those who need it more than I.
Scarsdale, If you earned it you should not think of it any differently
than a paycheck. I just started receiving my SS retirement benefits,
although I still work more than full time. It’s my damn money,
confiscated from me over the last 40 years. I adhere to the Ragnar
Danneskjöld philosophy of confiscatory taxation.
Where I grew up I seen so many simple people begging in the streets,
digging in the garbage for something to eat. So when I started
making $50k a year I was giving to shelters and food pantries, it
wasn’t much, but it helped me to at least try to help.
Then in 2011, my wife and I became homeless, and I felt like I was
taking it all back, it’s silly I know, but it was that damned nagging
feeling that never goes away.
It should be a hand up, not a hand out.
That’s the way Taritha sees it, as Teresa saw the problem with Clan Romani.
“Let’s take care of the immediate problem, then we’ll discuss the future.”
That is disputed everywhere. The hammock in my country is more comfortable than the one in USA. By ILO standard we have 3.2% unemployment, what is about full employment. Still we have about 0.9% long time unemployed people, that means longer than a year without job. The amount of permanent umemployed people is much lower. Most are 50+. We do have a kind of welfare system that pays for pensioners that are below that level, also disabled and otherwise unfit to work. All the same sum. permanent without further questions. When people get unemployed they get about 60% of their last salary for max 12 months depending on how long they payed in, after they payed in for at least 2 years. Longer time unemployed people get the same money as the ones in the first group but have to follow some programs that suggests jobs and courses for better qualification. And its a constant discussion about how much is enough to survive. We have a tax system that lets married wifes with lower income stay at home by taking less tax from the husband and higher tax for her so it discouraging the women from working. Would give a boost on the job market if they changed that law but the conservatives and the liberal/libertarian party does not agree.
Not to be too quibblous but the room where Taritha
and company are meeting Prime Coney looks more
like a library than a dining room to me.
I like it, makes it more relaxed and easier for a family book club
setting. As I’ve said before, my mother was a librarian for many
years, about 30 give or take, the smell of books and reading
them were a big part of my life.
There was many times that my father had to work late, so my
baby sister and I would sit there up until 9 pm when the library
closed. it let me enjoy so many books over the years, taught me
so much more than any school could!
But it is a library!
I was just going off of the location tag.
Maybe they’re *devouring* books in there?
quibble fixed.
It only makes sense that a healer can also end life if needed. it
doesn’t take much to block an artery or stop a heart if you know
the organ well. I hope it doesn’t come to that, with the right
training and protection he could be a great asset in the coming war!
I knew the Empire could help them with the clean up, no strings
attached. New members are great, new friends at first will help both
sides to under-stand each other better. When both understanding
and trust is built, joining will be easier for both. Plus, for a
short time at least, the Laporidae won’t have to keep looking up,
in case the core ships to return.
Previous page, fourth panel.
He may never want to use his gift/curse again.
It will be his choice alone.
I have to agree there, although a devoted doctor will still want to,
even after being rescued from a labor camp etc. It’s your call, I
just know that being a good healer also means a compelling desire
to help.
The Cat sayeth nothing.
eww.
“Redo of Healer” vibes.!
I’m no healer, but I find myself trying to diagnose
a car in the lane next to me that has a tick, or why
the backhoe hydraulic pump gets louder when the bucket
pans right, and so on. Once a mech, always I guess.
redo of healer is a anime.. the MC is a healer,
who was abused because he was a healer.!
(he didn’t have the fancy “destructive or
powerful fighter’ magic.)
same,, mech going on 50+ years,. mom said
i was working on stuff before i could walk…
Ah ok, my son’s into anime, I never got the taste for it myself.
I like seeing pretty girls, but I feel icky if they are stated to be
14 and look like they are 25! Or that one of the MC’s mother
is 40 and looks 12! I get why, but in all my days in high school,
none of the girls were long legged, top heavy, and secretly
horny for sempei 24/7. That’s why I waited to start dating my
wife, when I met her I was 22 and she was only 17, but
looked 20.
This, from way back in 2015 (Urg, I’ve been doing this for a loooong time!
https://www.deviantart.com/cat-man-dancing/art/The-Wolf-Speaks-Up-578173464
Yeah I read that over a year ago. I feel the same.
I find some of the outfits RL amusing, sure, they
are fun to look at, it’s that’s why they wear it. But
I’d never touch or interact in any way! I’ve had
at least 2 young gals crush on me. I was 30 with
a new born. Sorry girls, to me, you look like you
need a baby bottle, NOT a smooch!
My wife’s baby sister was one, but I rarely seen
her, the other was a mature looking 14 y/o from
down the street from us, anytime I was outside
either doing yard work or working on my car, she’d
run up, wrap her arms around one of mine, and try
to kiss me on the cheek! We wound up talking to
her parents about it. Only way she’d let go is if my
wife showed up or I’d try to wipe my greasy/dirty
hand on her face.
crap messed up and the logarithm kicked
out my comment to you.
Fixed. It was the word “horny”. That word’s used in a lot of spam comments!
Yeah I realized it after the fact, what I get for posting at 3am
after a rushed wizz! hard to pee when your eyes are mad at
each other for waking them up heh. I’m glad the bathroom is
right across the hall…
‘Should you decide you want nothing to do with us, we will leave.’
Very Lir-ish!
Still on DA btw for anyone wondering.
Hate that I lost my original account but you know
Leftist-run organizations…
Glad you’re back.
A link to your new account would be nice.
https://www.deviantart.com/dunsscotus7
You may be pleased to know that I am actually writing again.
And Thank God.
we were a bit worried..
Good to see you back. I was concerned something had happened to you.
I was planning such a nice funeral for Gary, too.
Kajm would have been in attendance.
I had wondered too. I swear I didn’t go through any of your stuff here!
(cringing)
Good to see you again.
I don’t know what has happened but TGW has dropped out of the top
10 at TWC for the first time in ages! We all have to do our part
and vote every day. If we set up a login we can vote twice in a day,
once anonymously and once logged in. How are the readership stats,
PC? Are we down?
They’ve been holding steady until the 1st, but have been going down
for the last two days. Visitors have been staying around 500 a day,
but visits have dropped from around 5000 a day to only 2500 yesterday.
They might pick up today, they’re at 700 but it’s early.
Gửi người Việt Nam đã chạm vào bộ lọc thư rác của tôi, hỏi giá
của tôi… nếu bạn là độc giả thực sự:
Xin lỗi, tôi không phải để bán.
??????
Really? I swear some people out there PC…
Yes, I used goggle translate :p
Ash nazg durbatulûk,
ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk,
agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
My translation of the inscription:
One ring ruling
One ring finding
One ring calling in (summoning)
And in darkness binding
In Mordor of the shadows
Interesting take.
I’m not fluent enough in the Black Speech to decide
if this is closer to the original inscription, though 😉
Mine is more like a literal translation based solely upon word usage. “Ash” is
clearly “one”. ” Nazg” has to be “ring”, as in nazgul are ring wraiths (literally ”
of a ring” or “beringed”). (FWIW my language bump never fully shut down. When
I took the Wexler my shrink remarked that the verbal part did not test me at all. All
he could give me was the max but it was like “How fast are you going when the
speedometer needle is bouncing on the peg?”) At Lackland I came within 1 question
of acing the Armed Forces Language Aptitude Test. I also came within 1 question of
completing the test. Anyhow the other words are obvious from context and the poetic
translation. Also, I don’t see the Black Speech as having ANY niceties. It is a harsh,
brutal brutally efficient language. It would be hard to write poetry in Black Speech –
not that there are likely to be many orc poets.
Any songs wrote in it would either sound like an evil witch casting a spell
or some poor moose was being eaten alive by thousands of ants…
Actually, that’s really a thing. Mostly.
Well. It’s more like a moose slowly sucked to death by hundreds of
thousands of ticks …
>however you see fit. no limits
A very cold option could be no survivors, to keep Teresa’s secret. Doubt she would
approve of that, as unneeded deaths. And would limit future negotiations :{
Norms would have no idea how they found out, just as likely to
blame a “trader” that had a psychic connection/bond. All they would
know is the mean old Empire is taking away our healer!
Has anybody here ever seen the Babylon 5 episode
“By any mean necessary”?
I might have, the show was on when I was working and my wife
STILL thinks the TV has to be on the same channel that you were
recording from on the VCR… ” It has it’s own tuner hunny.” “But I
want to make sure!” sigh….
Budget cuts lead to accidents, lead to something that
could be called a dock worker riot.
Earth gov. isn’t really interested in a peaceful resolution
for several reason, not least of all that they want to shut
the whole thing down and go all “Earth first” anyway.
There’s a law that allows the station commander to use
quote “any means necessary” to maintain order since it’s
(at least in name) a military base.
Earth gov. invokes the law, clearly implying use of deadly
force but not officially ordering them to.
Well.
The station commander has other ideas.
His take on “all means” is to divert some of his military budget
into maintenance, in turn improving the working conditions for the
dork workers enabling them to actually do their properly (and thus
making the station a safer place for everyone).
Crisis averted
Ah ok, I remember that one I think. A simple answer for everyone,
and screw earth gov for being assholes. Little wonder BB5 broke
away from Earth gov. Granted the Shadows had Clark in their pocket,
but he was causing issues even before he took office. And I do mean
“took”
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