Afternoon, everyone. I got the creator’s (@leeloodallasmultigrain) permission to rehost Muertitos on tumblr, so that’s what’s going on here.
This comic was so influential to me that I didn’t want it to disappear with its current ComicGenesis site, so I’m trying to share it with the world here on tumblr. I owe it a great debt for my style, humor, and preferred subject matter, so I wanted to give back a little bit.
The goal is to upload two strips a day. That means it will take a bit less than a year to finish queueing via Tumblr. If you like monsters, the afterlife, the supernatural, and comics dense with background jokes and references, I absolutely recommend giving it a look.
So Odin, right?
He’s the Allfather
king of the gods
chopped up his giant dad and fed him to the sky.
Dude has friends in high places is what I’m saying
and all of those friends in high places
they are all WAY overshadowed by the high place that Odin is at
which is a big tower
equipped with a chair
that lets him check out ANY PERSON at ANY TIME
so if anyone is going to be omnipotent
it’s gonna be him, right?
WRONG, SUGARTITS.
THIS IS THE NORSE PANTHEON
WHERE EVEN YOUR PRECIOUS GODS SUCK ASS AND DIE.
Observe:
So Odin is a guy who likes knowledge.
He will do pretty much anything for knowledge
all the way from reading the entire encyclopedia
to this one time
when he NAILED HIMSELF TO A TREE.
YGDRASSIL, THE WORLD TREE, to be precise.
How does one even nail one’s self to a tree?
At a certain point I feel like you run out of hands to nail yourself with
although I guess Odin is the Allfather
and the least the Norse can do for their Allfather
is give him extra hands to help CRUCIFY HIMSELF WITH.
So why is he doing this?
Well apparently he is doing this in order to invent writing.
Yeah
he has to sacrifice himself
TO HIMSELF
in order for some invisible switch to flip in the universe
and unlock writing for everybody.
He has to sacrifice himself for NINE DAYS to do this
and during that time he does not eat or sleep or anything
and he only stops when the nails actually RIP THROUGH HIS BODY
and he falls down onto the ground
screaming
like you do when you’ve been nailed to a tree for nine days.
And then he knows all these runes
like the runes for increase and power and war
and most importantly
SEXUAL PROWESS.
Yep, guys
Odin stapled himself to a tree-stump for a week and a half
in order to make his dick work more efficiently.
That’s commitment.
So the moral of the story
is that you are not trying hard enough in bed.
The end.
This one is obviously considered a long quote, according to the {Length} variable. From the Myths Retold! blog.
Photoset post showing the three possible row layouts; one-up, two-up, and three-up. I went into this tumblr ipsum series attempting to be as bland and/or self-promoting as possible, and it took me like 5 posts to just start posting weird stuff from my filesystem. (Thanks to Asswave for most of these, wherever he is.)
I also added captions to each photo, so you you can experiment with how your theme deals with those.
Single image photo post; remember pretty much any kind of code can go in here! I also set a click-through link on this post in case that's important to your theme.
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This is an example answer. Ever considered playing with the default anonymous avatar in your theme? I sure have.
This is an example ask. In pro alienum deseruisse, eu mea aliquip maiestatis, pro dicit vocibus evertitur in. Posse congue libris mea eu, possit saperet complectitur cum no. Id mei graeco sanctus. An tamquam concludaturque eum, ea sea labore convenire maluisset. Sea nonumes dolores no. Pri ex exerci petentium explicari. Ex eos dico omnium, cum ei imperdiet intellegat ullamcorper. Cu dicit admodum cum, vidisse dissentiunt ei per. Modus maiorum efficiendi an vis, sit id eruditi convenire, dicam...
This is an example answer. Ever considered playing with the default anonymous avatar in your theme? I sure have.
Unlike the previous two, this text post will be very long, and show off common markup within the Tumblr ecosystem. All of the first set of markup is auto-generated by Tumblr's rich text editor, since only nerds use Markdown. Hardcoded HTML is more common.
This is a mention: tigts. This is a link, set to open in a new tab/window.
Bold italics bold & italics strikethrough strikethrough with the previous twoSOME PEOPLE REALLY LIKE ALLCAPS
This image is smaller than the 500px width limit.
This one has automatically been resized to 500px by the built-in uploader.
This one is an externally hosted image inserted into the image's src attribute.
Lists are frequent.
Usually for comedic timing, or "I'm gonna lay down the facts for you tone of voice."
Thankfully, most Tumblr users don't care about the idea of "nesting tags," so it's rare to see lists used for anything complex.
Whether they use an ordered or unordered list for unordered or ordered content is completely up to chance.
Really, the fact that the two have their own HTML tag seems a little inelegant when you think about it. But most of early HTML was very, very inelegant.
Blockquotes aren't used too frequently independently, as they resemble reblogs very closely. It still happens, however, so this example is useful.
That about does it for the built-in rich editor options. Here are some examples of user-constructed custom HTML:
Users love putting odd captions in pre tags. You almost never see them used for actual code, but it could happen.
They also cheat in "small text" using the superscript and subscript tags.
Once upon a time there was a great deal of big(ger) and small(er) tag abuse, but ever since the Dashboard stopped honoring their display their use has dropped off.
receive the sacrament my son lol jk receive acid from the mouth of a skeleton pic.twitter.com/lUt9hKPzym
— Jason Poland (@robbieandbobby) July 17, 2014
You'll also see embedded tweets and other media like this, but again the dashboard doesn't display them for security reasons so they're not common unless below a read more break. Speaking of which...
There are a few tags that the editor refuses to deal with, like definition lists and tables. Let the users worry about those if they manage to squeeze them in somehow.
Headings are a rare sight
They were also once used for big text
Tumblr really cracked down on code sanitizing
That made browsing the dashboard annoying
And generally made a mess of custom themes
Such are the perils of giving normal people access to arbitrary HTML
Most elements with a presentational default are abused in one way or another. I'm sure there are many more examples I've skipped.
This is a post with example content designed to show what sorts of content is too common on Tumblr. This particular post is just a regular old, short text post. (Did you know it was once called a Regular Post?)
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