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How To Suck At Your Religion by The Oatmeal
This is long but excellent
Most people don’t have faith in their god/s. Just brand loyalty. And artificially inflamed brand loyalty at that.
I never really got into Rosenberg’s previous opus Goats, but this comic is simultaneously topical, surreal and consistently funny.
Every Friday there’s another episode of an ongoing story, the first famously being Sciencemaster Adler and his mysterious fan. Or fans. Or maybe they’re not fans but are sentient vegetable people. (Mind you, this is a multiverse, so maybe there’s sentient clothing accessory people as well, but that could be heading into the Douglas Adams Territories.)
After five years I’m amazed it still works.
via FanFiction.Net - The Rev. Cardboard Box’s stories
The new Laird is stopping in Ponyville en route to Canterlot. However, he and his herd are only the first to arrive. The second arrival will be bad enough. As for the third herd of visitors…
This is the story I began in NaNoWriMo 2012. Eventually updates will slow as I get into writing the damn thing from scratch.
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Circa 2004, as used in ASS #4. Words by the Church of the SubGenius. Background music is ‘Techno-Magic’ by Purusa, released as part of The Nehahra Project, a major mod (maps, entities and engine) for Quake.
It also gives me an excuse to try out the audio hosting featcheese of Tumblr. Phnerg.
I likes me some fanfics, so I think it’s time to spread the love. Well, either that or the genital warts. Depends on where you stand. (Link-heavy post ahoy!)
Anyway, I’m in the middle of a few more than I really should be, over at fanfiction.net, as The Rev. Cardboard Box. Recently I uploaded a set of unfinished and unpursued ideas as The Box of Drabbles, which I may return to depending on where I get to with, among other things, Magic, as Opposed to Magic.
MaOtM is an Oblivion/Harry Potter crossover, featuring a more bolshie Harry, an older and more irritable Archmage Ra’jirra, and is likely to end with canon Book 1 before we take off into several sequels. For one, I’ve found other forces moving into play, not only from the magicals’ past (this will be called Heirs of the Founders), but from without as well. Personally, I am of the impression that even with Rowling’s best efforts her magical world couldn’t stay concealed for much longer. In my split, it won’t.
Actually, I rather like stories where the backwards magicals get schooled by their muggle contemporaries. sprinter1988‘s Damn Wizards is technically a sequel to an earlier story, but Harry is thirty years older, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and not pleased that he still has to wipe the collective arse of British wizardry. The six chapters up so far feel like quite the foreshadowing.
Bobmin356 hooked me with his first HP/Pern crossover The Queen Who Fell to Earth – turns out the dragons are from a certain future Anne McCaffrey knew quite well – and is proceeding to explore in the sequel On the Wings of Dragons, where the issues of culture shock are already beginning to rear their heads.
The hilarious author’s notes and disclaimers that head every chapter have nothing to do with my liking his stories at all.
Darth Marrs‘ Star Wars/HP crossover Broken Chains is proving a ripping read: the premise is that Harry fell through the veil and was turned into Darth Shaddix from the game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed before being returned. God help us all.
Also from this author are The Boy Who Fell, in which the fate of the wizarding world lies in the hands of Luke Skywalker’s son, and to a lesser extent The Lord of Light, sequel to The Forever Mage, in which poor old Harry turns out to be immortal and… well you’ll have to read them yourselves, as they incorporate the Star Trek mythos as well.
Another fandom I’m finding interesting is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, probably because Lauren Faust rebooted the concept well out of the traditional Saturday morning cartoon framework. So I’m reading Harry Leferts‘ The Wizard and the Lonely Princess, in which Harry befriends Princess Luna as well as Nightmare Moon (I’m unsure about the latter). Harry however writes in a slightly awkward present tense, which may be off-putting to some.
C. Theron Vulpin has written an inspired crossover with Myst (the original game) called Aitran, in which Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash puzzle their way through the game to release Star Swirl the Bearded on their way out.
Finally, for this post anyway, consider some more Harry Potter… this time crossed over with The Addams Family. kyaru-chan‘s Harveste series is side-splitting in both meanings of the term. That is, if they decide to split that and not something (or several somethings) else.
ghxstglasses asked:
dresdencodak answered:
I’d start here and then just go chronologically http://dresdencodak.com/2009/04/19/onald-creely/
When you’ve caught up to the latest page of Dark Science, then I’d recommend going and starting at the beginning of the archives. I’ve found this is currently pretty much the best way to introduce new readers to the comic!
Dresden Codak is one of those must-read comics.

As seen on Rosscott Inc., then Boing Boing. And now here.