#rice boy

[evandahm]

Rice Boy 20th Anniversary Video Essay... did u see

[topatoco]

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Rice Boy! Hooray!!! 🥳

Sit back with a nice plate of orange popping plants and spend a while re-reading (or reading for the first ever time! wow!) the epic tale of Rice Boy over at rice-boy.com, by the incredible @evandahm!

Also, we have a few Rice Boy things on the site, including two prints of a lovingly drawn Rice Boy wandering the lands of Overside. 🚶‍♂️🌱

[evandahm]

Hello; I made the webcomic RICE BOY 20 years ago; I am premiering a big video essay about that on Twitch, Sunday June 14 at 9pm EST if you would like to come by. Starting a preliminary curated music pre-show thing at 8pm EST

video will be up on youtube afterwards

[pumpkaboots]

GASP

[halceon]

What's that script in your banner? It looks cool.

Oh, that is Seen-script from the delightful comic Rice Boy. https://www.rice-boy.com/rb/ Outside the trunk are vowels, inside the trunk are consonants, and if the consonants cross the trunk lines, they are voiced, otherwise not. I think one of its cooler features is that characters are voluntarily vertically flippable, you continue writing from where your pen is.

Anyway, you should go read everything Evan has made. It's good.

[numinouss]

i found the fandom (← vulture picking apart a corpse)

[lookadreygon]

you want to meet these people i promise

you want to get lost with them in their stories

[nonbinarylatula]

Vattu (the comic) is kind of a Homestuck. Several color coded kids swept up in something bigger than them. Especially the Grish's combat divination feels like Evan Dahm's commentary on classpect analysis. (I only make this connection because Evan Dahm literally wrote a comic for Paradox Space, otherwise I would dismiss most parallels as coincidence.)

The colors of combatants' markings (their aspects, basically) represent societal forces and mtg color pie type philosophies and associations, and the course of a fight between two characters is analyzed for omens for future events. It feels like Dahm's gesturing at all the Homestuck fans rushing after a big flash drops to speculate on each scene's implications for how the comic is going to end.