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Creatures Of Myth
🕑 Added 2023-06-06 01:13:04 +0000 UTCCOOLNICORN
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Bagge
Marten's proud parent smile is awesome
Brent Ward
Nah, she's the alicorn principal
David Howe
Well, unicorn principle makes sense. because unicorn principal would be Celestia....
Erin Halfelven at BigCloset
Bong water
Craig Griffith
Also like heβs best buds with Bembo.
Mad Marie
Moray is charmed and strange, too.
Stephen Wells
Everyone knows that unicorns should be seen but not herd.
Afunnythinghappedtome
If Claire's mouth tastes like a Phish concert, I wonder what Moray tastes like right now.
Hugh Eckert
Otherwise known as the Higgs Buttson.
Michael Chui
Tbh, this makes more sense than the napkin from Glass Onion.
Daryl Sawyer
Charmed and Strange quarks, and also Assam.
Zak Reichle
UNICORN SWARM!
Ursus Ridens
Do...do you...do you mean...that it's unicorns all the way down?
Ursus Ridens
*Are there?
Ursus Ridens
Space cheese -- of course! There aren't any space voles*, so what did you think all those space owls were living on?
Ursus Ridens
That actually explains quite a lot.
Clifton Royston
Liz's thought in the last panel must be running something like: "Was Past Liz an idiot and a flake, or was Past Liz a genius and an asshole to Future Liz?"
John Ridley
Unicorn Principle is just the name of her next band.
Clifton Royston
For those like me who have trouble remembering their particle physics, Wikipedia informs: "Baryonic matter - Nearly all matter that may be encountered or experienced in everyday life is baryonic matter, which includes atoms of any sort, and provides them with the property of mass."
Hugh Eckert
The Coolnicorn is made up of Charmed and Strange quarks. Also, I love Liz's expressions in this strip!
Hugh Eckert
Keith Richards recorded the riff for "Satisfaction" while asleep. Being Keef, he was also certainly on drugs.
Clifton Royston
Other things I am able to make out on that page, with close examination, beyond the "(do math about this)" and "UNICORN PRINCIPLE" In the upper middle: "Universe = simulation? dark matter forms large scale structure substrate for computational components -> baryonic matter" (2nd of these is a hot topic in cosmology I think, 1st & 3rd are staples of crackpot theories and SF. I think Charlie Stross incorporated all of these into the later stages of 'Accelerando' which is still a great book.) Next to the pie chart of DM, NEU, PHO, Atoms (?) are scribbled the words "Space cheese...." I thought at first it said "Space decays..." but now I'm pretty sure it's "Space cheese" referring to the pie chart. Off on the right is "Magnetic monopoles: LiL cuties?" which is almost as great as "UNICORN PRINCIPLE"
Clifton Royston
Yes, it does. I was just about to write that too.
Douglas E. Smith
The Coolnicorn looks an awful lot like the Assam Tea Sexy Unicorn Man. I think there's some quantum entanglement here...
Stephen Wells
Oh no I just noticed - it's unicorns by the end of page 1 and all the pages below are ALL UNICORNS this is perfect :)
Stephen Wells
Particle physics already includes the "penguin diagram" because an author lost a bet. I can absolutely see the Unicorn Principle turning out to be a valid piece of quantum cosmology. It's like the weak anthropic principle but with more sequins.
kupo
This is what would happen whenever I got high and wrote music. I could only make sense of it enough to record it while stoned the next time. Lol
Geo (Overand)
A Google search for "unicorn cosmology" turns up a paper that's only a few days old. So, either Jeph saw that and thought it would be a funny thing to reference, or Liz is right about the universe being a simulation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00722
allanfranta
I can talk quite lucidly whilst stoned out of my gourd, it's come in quite handy when talking with the 'thorities.
Matt
Myth vs reality of getting REALLY high and creating things.
David Paul
From their expressions in panel 4, Marten is like "I haven't seen such complex maths since I tried to figure out how happy Hannelore is..." (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2129), Moray is excited because she is pretty sure Liz made some kind of progress, while Liz herself is like "What was in that tea again?" (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3427)
Γ€ymm
Happy to see indie references come back!
Dean Reilly
Unicorns are made of dark matter. That's why we never see them!
Stephen Wells
Maybe that's why I don't do recreational pharmaceuticals. The inside of my head looks like panel 3 anyway :)
Stephen Wells
I hope she and Evan had a very cuddly night together :) and that Evan will also be more chill when we see her next :)
enchantedsleeper
Liz seems a lot more chill and a lot less goblin-y xD
Leak
I think "EH" is all the dialog it needs...
Gorbulus Maximus
...or both? And by quenching his own thirst, extrapolating outwards grandly?
Zak Reichle
^ Ooh, very nice.
Leak
Liz: "Marty! Fire up the De-Moray-an! We have to go... baked to the future!"
Stephen Wells
As a scientist with D&D interests, I have absolutely produced pages like that while sober, and now I'm worried about what that says about my brain.
Orion Rhine
I think the signs are clear. Liz needs to ditch physics and take up genetics so she can create real unicorns. That will be Cubetown's greatest contribution to the world.
Jay MacKinnon
I feel like the last panel is another case of "there was dialog but it was funnier without it"
Ron Hamann
Marten has had so many great facial expressions this arc.
Wayne Farmer
Liz got so high that she either got a glimpse of Equestria, or of Phoebe's world. And it seems that she and Millie have similar tendencies: https://ozyandmillie.org/2007/10-19/index.html
YsabetJustYsabet
Do not EVER do this while camping at a very, very large event (say, for instance, a medieval re-enactor's war.) A Port-a-john *may* have become inhabited by an inflatable T-Rex with my assistance due to some questionable choices; it seemed like a good idea at the time, but there were a lot of photos of that damn thing later and it wasn't even mine. β_β;
DaddyUmbreon
Omg why does this hit so hard πππ Jeph you beautiful bastarf
SilverbackRon
Long story: The first place I lived after my parents was a house with 4 other stoner bachelors. One guy moved out so I got his room. In the closet one day I found a rolling paper stuck to the doorframe, clearly words of wisdom that he had written down while thoroughly baked and didn't want to forget this epic insight. "A single glass of water lights the world". So either he was tripping and watching the sunlight sparkle on a glass of water or he just had really bad cottonmouth and was wishing for water.
Alan Wiggs
Unicorns' power doesn't come from the monopole in their horns, but their cuteness does.
