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It’s not really a “house” - It’s Kolat Towers. Kolat Towers is a pair of wizard towers surrounded by a small compound. There’s a lot of spare rooms.
Reading your comics has accidentally become part of my daily routine, and one of my most favorite at that. Konsi is so cute, and her and Razira are especially cute and wholesome together. Thanks for brightening up my days like this.
Sadly, we are going to run out in (counts) fifteen comics - at which point I’ll be posting these a lot less frequently, but I’ll still be making them :)
Fortunately, in October… I’ll be drawing a Konsi every day for Gobtober.
Impatient for Gobtober then!
fuck yeah
Saaaaame I love them so much. I favorited the author in my Lemmy app so I can jump right to it in the morning 😁
What would Konsi do should they have a serious fight? Throw her out?
I didn’t realize until now that this is your work, very well done!
But… what is railroading here ?
Just a little joke.
“Railroading” is when the DM of your game removes choices, or only gives you once choice for where the story is going next. Because “your place” and “my place” are the same place, the joke is that this is a railroad story - it’s just a joke, not serious.
Huh. Okay. I missed that joke sorry with the title. But yeah, thank you, I know what railroading is.
There being a landlord dynamic in this fictional relationship makes it way less cute. The real enchantment was the threat of homelessness all along.
The idea that Konsi would kick someone out on the street is pretty far-fetched.
“Konsi’s Home for Wayward Liches”
In the previous comic, Addis mentioned that Konsi had “built and hallowed her own temple”
What Konsi actually built is a lodge house for goblins within the city. Goblins who come and join her cause get to live there, while they’re given support and advice on integrating with Waterdeep society (lessons in common, teaching in the law, societal expectations of behaviour, regular baths, etc.) - There’s a shrine to Tymora in the lodge where regular services are held. It can house about 40 goblins.
So… “Konsi’s home for wayward goblins” is… sort of a real thing. Most recently we used it to help rehome a tribe of kobold refugees (we sort of killed their dragon.)
That doesn’t mean Razira wouldn’t feel disadvantaged or pressured to react a certain way in the power dynamic. It doesn’t have to do with Konsi’s internal dialogue. This has been established for reason most commonly in lawsuits dealing with sexual harassment between supervisors and their reporting employees.
First of all, Razira propositioned Konsi, Konsi hasn’t “pressured” her to do anything. Quite the opposite in fact, Konsi tried to talk her out of it at first.
Secondly Razira’s a traveling paladin - she spends most of her time on the road, and only stops in the city occasionally, most days she camps on the road.
Thirdly, both of them have a permanent home in the temple, nobody’s ever going to be “homeless”
These things have all been established in the narrative of this comic already.
Fourthly, Konsi isn’t Razira’s “landlord”. Razira doesn’t “pay rent”. They just live together.
Fifthly, “my house” here is shorthand for a large compound that the adventurers own jointly. Razira is one of those owners as well.
It looks like the person asking the question here is speaking from a place of hurt and their own difficult personal experiences, which might have made them sensitive to things that remind them of something that happened to them.
That said, it is extremely clear that there is nothing improper going on. Konsi would probably be 100% aware of some kind of improper relationship in the first place and wouldn’t let it happen.
Anyway. Konsi anime when 😅
Dude, this is a light-hearted cute comic about people falling in love. It’s not really an appropriate venue for accusing the author of romanticising sexual harassment in the workplace.
I’m not accusing her of doing that on purpose. I’m informing her that it reads that way to people who’ve been subject to similar situations in the past.
“I’m not accusing her of doing that on purpose” means you ARE accusing her of doing that, which is fucking ridiculous.
It absolutely does not. Please stop.
Oh I’m sorry, I don’t mean to say you accused her of doing that on purpose, I’m informing you that it reads that way to other people.
If your takeaway from this is that it’s “sexual harassment” then that’s a you problem.
What threat of homelessness? Razira is a paladin, she can, and is expected to, live out of temples and strongholds of her order. Besides there are much bigger power dynamics of you really care about that sorta thing. Konsi literally talks to razira’s god, and they both know it.
They both believe that the other one has higher rank and standing. Konsi’s wrong. :)
