The Gift of Life
Transcript:
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1: Young witch Pepper, writing at her desk, with a feather pen and ink. She worries, clearly struggling to find inspiration with a white page, while her hand support her head. On the wall near to her a calendar with a big 'Deadline' in red written on it, circling a day. All the day before that one are striked with a cross except one. Whatever Pepper is supposed to write is up to the audience's imagination.
Panel 2. Suddenly, a powerful goddess emerges from a light before the writer, her aura like a flame of pure golden light. She stands divine, while Pepper is captivated in awe before the gorgeous goddess, radiating light and life.
Pepper: Who... Who are you?!
Panel 3. The Goddess of Life bends slightly toward Pepper while creating a spell with her hands in a intense light a rounded object. She speaks with an air of complicity.
Goddess of Life: I am the Goddess of Life, and I've come to give you a special gift.
Panel 4. The Goddess of Life's gift is a lemon fruit. She beams with pride and happiness. Pepper looks resigned with a mixture of disappointment and exasperation.
Pepper: Of course...
Goddess of Life: You're welcome.
This comic strip is a reference to the proverbial phrase: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade"
51 comments
TranshumanBlues@mstdn.social
When life gives you lemons, commit deicide.
★slatian@pleroma.envs.net
When life gives you lemons … use it for flavoring where appropriate, that’s way quicker than making lemonade :drgn_blep:
★tennoseremel@gts.skobk.in
A bug tracker account would have been more useful, though!
★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
awww!
Lemonade! Thank you, life!
(the hair is beautiful!)
★stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de
but... where ist my lemonade? ★
utf_7@mastodon.social
@stefan is lemonade always made of lemons and -- i dont know -- pineapple juice pineapplade?
★Ossi@mastodon.art
I prefer limes muahahaha!
★hcf@infosec.exchange
@Ossi but... Life is life! 🍋
(na na na, na-na-na)
★
Ray_Of_Sunlight@mastodon.social
Hilarious 😂
★gorobar@rollenspiel.social
🤣
★cjust@infosec.exchange
https[:]//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt6iTwVIiMM
📽️ original ★greenCoder@functional.cafe
Parce qu'il faut te presser le citron ? 😂
★pantaRhei@freiburg.social
when live gives you lemons, ask for Tequila.☝️
★christerk@mastodon.social
If life gives you melon, you might be dyslexic.
★alex94@mastodon.arch-linux.cz
Life didn't give me lemons,
it gave me pants, and I've shit them
feff@comicscamp.club
That lemon is probably going to make the best lemonade ever though.
Gorgeous work as always!
★SomeVeganCheeseIsOk@mastodon.social
a lemon would be a MUCH better gift than an unexpected pregnancy with roaches so she definitely needs to be grateful.
ShovelTrouble@pone.social
@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk Myths and legends don't tend to fuck around, do they?
sindarina@ngmx.com
Time to make lemonade, Pepper! 😄
★tomoyo@tech.lgbt
so much vitamin c!!!
★kit@m.tripulse.link
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org this one resonates deeply
★ppxl@social.tchncs.de
this fully colorized comic was made possible by the loving help of either tax form fill-in procrastinating or the filthy dishes in the kitchen sink that need to soak in another 2.5 days.
★Linebyline@mastoart.social
Forget the lemonade. Make lemon bars!
★cliffp@mastodon.social
The phrase "feather pen" caught my eye. An English speaker would probably just say "quill'. This led me into a tangle of French/English translations. Online dictionaries (the zombie corpses of living languages) tell me that the English 'pen' is equivalent to 'stylo' in French. I'm also informed by online dictionaries that English 'feather' is equivalent to 'plume' in French, as is the English 'quill'. The dictionaries also tell me that 'la plume' means 'the feather' in English.
cliffp@mastodon.social
My reply (above)has nothing materially to do with the delightful comic!!
davidrevoy
@cliffp Haha, right, "pen feather" is my literal French native brain translation for the "Stylo Plume" 🤣 Thanks for pointing it, I'll fix it on the transcript of the source for the main website but might leave it this way on Fediverse to avoid poping in everyone's notification with the edit.
3 ★At least, an ultimate proof that I don't use AI translator and I'm still authoring this manually. 😺
Worst is that I knew the word "quill", now you mention it, but couldn't remember the word.
ysaeldev@mastodon.social
nice art
★artodon@mastoart.social
★I like your #art. Is it done with #krita? I ve got a Veikk graphic tablet... ?
davidrevoy
@artodon Yes, it was done in Krita. You can check the *.kra source file with layers on the final page here if you are curious about the process https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/011.html
3 ★wbpeckham@techhub.social
You're a witch for Pete's sake; You don't turn down the lemon. It's a prime ingredient for lemon meringue pie! 😋
★Wesy@mastodon.ml
Look around, take a walk, and leave.
★ArnimRanthoron@ruhr.social
Is it an endless lemon, that you can use over and over again?
davidrevoy
@ArnimRanthoron hehe, that would be a very good gift.
2 ★ArnimRanthoron@ruhr.social
Well, normally one lemon wouldn't be enough for lemonade…
andre@fedi.jaenis.ch
She might have asked for some salt.
★phi1997@mastodon.social
★Fruit is good for you
lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
afterwards, child version: lemonade
afterwards, adult version: tequila ★
odysseywestra@linuxrocks.online
The irony is that there are so many uses for lemons it is scary.
★lispi314@udongein.xyz
@kirtai And now I'm thinking about Portal and Cave Johnson. ★
Reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info
Make life take the lemons back! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons!
NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place
"If life gives you lemons, make lemonades"
🖼️ a91831e1127c35e0.jpg ★indigoviolet@tech.lgbt
@NullTheFool When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
★hellomiakoda@pdx.social
@NullTheFool
Alright, I've been thinking.
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?!
Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?!
I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down!
hellomiakoda@pdx.social
@NullTheFool With the lemons!
hellomiakoda@pdx.social
@NullTheFool I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
★avatastic@avatastic.uk
@NullTheFool oblig. Cave Johnson rant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt6iTwVIiMM
★mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world
I eat a whole lemon a day, I'd appreciate have that for free daily.
ida@is.nota.live
you know, life never did actually give us lemons.. she only gave us citrons, mandarins, and pomelos; the epoch of the lemon is humanity's doing :floofTeehee:
lucas@treffenstaedt.de
Really enjoying your comics. I have https://www.davidrevoy.com/feed/rss/categorie2/webcomics/ in my rss reader, but it doesn't seem to give me the latest posts (the latest I see on it is from December 2024). Could you have a look 🙂 I'd be happy to provide more info from my end if you need it. The main feed seems to be working fine.
davidrevoy
@lucas Hey, thank you for your words and for reporting the issue!
★I downloaded the XML and I see: it looks like the RSS reader for category is stuck or something. I'll try to put the hand into it today.
KazuyaDarklight@mastodon.world
Lemons are a product of selective breeding. Life didn't give us lemons, we made them. Something to think on.
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