The Gift of Life

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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"

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License: "The Gift of Life" by David Revoy − CC-BY-SA 4.0
Tags:  #webcomic  #minifantasytheater   | Download: Markdown
51 comments

51 comments

link Alyssa Voronin   - Reply
TranshumanBlues@mstdn.social

When life gives you lemons, commit deicide.

link Slatian   - Reply
slatian@pleroma.envs.net

When life gives you lemons … use it for flavoring where appropriate, that’s way quicker than making lemonade :drgn_blep:

link Ténno Seremél’   - Reply
tennoseremel@gts.skobk.in

A bug tracker account would have been more useful, though!

link ArneBab   - Reply
ArneBab@rollenspiel.social

awww!

Lemonade! Thank you, life!

(the hair is beautiful!)

link stefan   - Reply
stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de

but... where ist my lemonade?

link   - Reply
utf_7@mastodon.social

@stefan is lemonade always made of lemons and -- i dont know -- pineapple juice pineapplade?

link Ossi   - Reply
Ossi@mastodon.art

I prefer limes muahahaha!

link Æ Sea F.   - Reply
hcf@infosec.exchange

@Ossi but... Life is life! 🍋

(na na na, na-na-na)

link Ray Of Sunlight   - Reply
Ray_Of_Sunlight@mastodon.social

Hilarious 😂

link Gorobar   - Reply
gorobar@rollenspiel.social

🤣

link Tim Hergert   - Reply
cjust@infosec.exchange

https[:]//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt6iTwVIiMM

📽️ original 

link Vincent Cantin   - Reply
greenCoder@functional.cafe

Parce qu'il faut te presser le citron ? 😂

link Panta Rhei   - Reply
pantaRhei@freiburg.social

when live gives you lemons, ask for Tequila.☝️

link Christer   - Reply
christerk@mastodon.social

If life gives you melon, you might be dyslexic.

link Alex   - Reply
alex94@mastodon.arch-linux.cz

Life didn't give me lemons,
it gave me pants, and I've shit them

link A Very Witchy Feff   - Reply
feff@comicscamp.club


That lemon is probably going to make the best lemonade ever though.

Gorgeous work as always!

link SomeVeganCheeseIsOk   - Reply
SomeVeganCheeseIsOk@mastodon.social

a lemon would be a MUCH better gift than an unexpected pregnancy with roaches so she definitely needs to be grateful.

link ShovelTrouble   - Reply
ShovelTrouble@pone.social

@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk Myths and legends don't tend to fuck around, do they?

link Sindarina, Edge Case Detective   - Reply
sindarina@ngmx.com

Time to make lemonade, Pepper! 😄

link madison taylor   - Reply
tomoyo@tech.lgbt

so much vitamin c!!!

link mg. kit   - Reply
kit@m.tripulse.link

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org this one resonates deeply

link Pxl Phile   - Reply
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.

link Linebyline   - Reply
Linebyline@mastoart.social

Forget the lemonade. Make lemon bars!

link cliffp   - Reply
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.

link cliffp   - Reply
cliffp@mastodon.social

My reply (above)has nothing materially to do with the delightful comic!!

link David Revoy Author, - Reply
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.
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.

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link ysaeldev   - Reply
ysaeldev@mastodon.social

nice art

link Art O´ Don   - Reply
artodon@mastoart.social


I like your #art. Is it done with #krita? I ve got a Veikk graphic tablet... ?

link David Revoy Author, - Reply
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 peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantas

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link William B Peckham   - Reply
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! 😋

link Зайчик Подколодный   - Reply
Wesy@mastodon.ml

Look around, take a walk, and leave.

link Arnim Sommer 🇪🇺   - Reply
ArnimRanthoron@ruhr.social


Is it an endless lemon, that you can use over and over again?

link David Revoy Author, - Reply
davidrevoy

@ArnimRanthoron hehe, that would be a very good gift.

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link Arnim Sommer 🇪🇺   - Reply
ArnimRanthoron@ruhr.social


Well, normally one lemon wouldn't be enough for lemonade…

link andre   - Reply
andre@fedi.jaenis.ch

She might have asked for some salt.

link phi1997   - Reply
phi1997@mastodon.social


Fruit is good for you

link Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:   - Reply
lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me

afterwards, child version: lemonade
afterwards, adult version: tequila

link Albert Westra   - Reply
odysseywestra@linuxrocks.online

The irony is that there are so many uses for lemons it is scary.

link LisPi   - Reply
lispi314@udongein.xyz

@kirtai And now I'm thinking about Portal and Cave Johnson.

link Reid 🖤   - Reply
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!

link NullDott(Comms Full 4/4)   - Reply
NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place

"If life gives you lemons, make lemonades"

🖼️ a91831e1127c35e0.jpg 

link indigoviolet :verified_trans:​:verifiedlesbian:   - Reply
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!

link Miakoda :neurodiversity:   - Reply
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!

link Miakoda :neurodiversity:   - Reply
hellomiakoda@pdx.social

@NullTheFool With the lemons!

link Miakoda :neurodiversity:   - Reply
hellomiakoda@pdx.social

@NullTheFool I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

link avatastic :enby_rebel:   - Reply
avatastic@avatastic.uk

@NullTheFool oblig. Cave Johnson rant. youtube.com/watch?v=Dt6iTwVIiMM

link mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignutius: :descartes: :stargate:   - Reply
mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world

I eat a whole lemon a day, I'd appreciate have that for free daily.

link everybody's favorite gay epileptic ringtail   - Reply
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:

link Lucas Treffenstädt   - Reply
lucas@treffenstaedt.de

Really enjoying your comics. I have davidrevoy.com/feed/rss/catego 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.

link David Revoy Author, - Reply
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.

link Kazuya Darklight   - Reply
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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