I think it is interesting that it looks like Linda visualized her hadelin trees was almost lifelike and instead of just making trees she grew them. And goddess her expression in the fourth panel…I am so squeeeeing on how adorable she looks.
Hmm… Usually each time one creates something complex there are certain points or milestones at which work looks done. Usually there are some noticeable stages of work, like there are drawing stages – sketching, lining, coloring, shading.
But Linda has made it very unusual way because her work had looked finished all the way, from the moment she started to the moment she stopped. It just went bigger and bigger. Amazing! Looks like Linda knows for sure what she is doing and what is to be done.
So, I’d disagree with Sonya about lack of confidence. But it really is very inconvenient to concentrate on every stage of work at once and that that must be preventing Linda from concentrating on anything else but cast.
Here we see the difference between personal confidence & professional (or task) confidence; Linda knows what she’s doing in regards to the casting, the shaping, but her personal confidence is shaky, especially in the face of Sonia’s aggressive self-confidence & dominant personality.
I will posit that the “complete from the start” method might result from upbringing, her mental architecture, or just a latent perfectionism (which would be even more of a detriment than, & a root cause of, over-focusing).
I think the border between professional and personal confidence is so vague and ambiguous that it does not help to clarify anything. If lack of personal confidence is heavily influencing professional work, why should we consider two different confidences instead of one?
I’ll try to elaborate something with the only one, «common» confidence. Let’s try to think, what does Linda want to be sure of? Why does she need her work to look finished all the way? Maybe she wants to be sure that at any moment she can approve or correct her work? However we have not seen her paused in doubt or need to check up. Maybe she used to check everything, and now, out of habit, she is only working out the opportunities for check to build up her confidence, but she doesn’t really use them anymore. This seems somewhat plausible to me.
I wonder if Fen will ask Linda to practice with her eyes closed.
I feel the need to say you both, mikhail and ebonbolt, are over analyzing the page here. So let me just state that Linda hardly considers herself to be talented but despite that she give us a fabulous display regardless of what she believes and puts her all into it. Can you both agree on this?
Yes, I agree. I admit your proposition, but… don’t you find it’s interesting? Why does Linda hardly consider herself talented? What does she want? Why can’t she get it? What does she do about it? And, most importantly, why doesn’t it work?
You have some ideas about this, don’t you? Penny for your thoughts.
Not entirely but I feel more like seeing if they, the three newbies, are what I expect them to be. Which is diamonds in the rough. I expect them to have so much untapped power but don’t have the experience like most do in the temple.
All of them have Hadalen essence that glows blue. Is this just a new direction for the art, or is there a story-relevant explanation? At first I thought it was maybe because Fen was becoming more powerful, but if even new students are having the same thing happening… Perhaps it’s because of a change in the Hadalen core? Or because it’s just a different artistic flare and I’m reading into it waayy too much?
That’s just light from the Aqanin orb reflecting off of it. This blue tint started showing up in chapter 6, page 69 (the Jennie twins have a blue tint to their continuous spell), and Feretta confirms it’s new in this comment a couple pages later (though she says it started on the previous page rather than 2 pages ago, that was probably just because it was super recent regardless. Besides, it’s an off-by-one error, and since this isn’t programming, off by one errors won’t lead to anything breaking, so it’s fine).
Serious analysis from Sonia? Gosh. I guess you do catch more flies with honey. Well played, Fen!
Also, I really like what Linda came up with. It’s really lovely and I’d probably do something similar, had I those kinds of powers.
(That sweet smile at the end makes me smile, too. Heh.)
Quick question wich i had for a while, what happened with space vixen? Was it cancelled? Or moved? Sorry i’m just curious
On hold for the time being.
When it is back we will be waiting ^,^
I think it is interesting that it looks like Linda visualized her hadelin trees was almost lifelike and instead of just making trees she grew them. And goddess her expression in the fourth panel…I am so squeeeeing on how adorable she looks.
She grew up around Cronin mages. Her visual memory of trees is watching them grow just like that. :p
That makes absolute sense ^,^
Hmm… Usually each time one creates something complex there are certain points or milestones at which work looks done. Usually there are some noticeable stages of work, like there are drawing stages – sketching, lining, coloring, shading.
But Linda has made it very unusual way because her work had looked finished all the way, from the moment she started to the moment she stopped. It just went bigger and bigger. Amazing! Looks like Linda knows for sure what she is doing and what is to be done.
So, I’d disagree with Sonya about lack of confidence. But it really is very inconvenient to concentrate on every stage of work at once and that that must be preventing Linda from concentrating on anything else but cast.
Here we see the difference between personal confidence & professional (or task) confidence; Linda knows what she’s doing in regards to the casting, the shaping, but her personal confidence is shaky, especially in the face of Sonia’s aggressive self-confidence & dominant personality.
I will posit that the “complete from the start” method might result from upbringing, her mental architecture, or just a latent perfectionism (which would be even more of a detriment than, & a root cause of, over-focusing).
I think the border between professional and personal confidence is so vague and ambiguous that it does not help to clarify anything. If lack of personal confidence is heavily influencing professional work, why should we consider two different confidences instead of one?
I’ll try to elaborate something with the only one, «common» confidence. Let’s try to think, what does Linda want to be sure of? Why does she need her work to look finished all the way? Maybe she wants to be sure that at any moment she can approve or correct her work? However we have not seen her paused in doubt or need to check up. Maybe she used to check everything, and now, out of habit, she is only working out the opportunities for check to build up her confidence, but she doesn’t really use them anymore. This seems somewhat plausible to me.
I wonder if Fen will ask Linda to practice with her eyes closed.
I feel the need to say you both, mikhail and ebonbolt, are over analyzing the page here. So let me just state that Linda hardly considers herself to be talented but despite that she give us a fabulous display regardless of what she believes and puts her all into it. Can you both agree on this?
Yes, I agree. I admit your proposition, but… don’t you find it’s interesting? Why does Linda hardly consider herself talented? What does she want? Why can’t she get it? What does she do about it? And, most importantly, why doesn’t it work?
You have some ideas about this, don’t you? Penny for your thoughts.
Not entirely but I feel more like seeing if they, the three newbies, are what I expect them to be. Which is diamonds in the rough. I expect them to have so much untapped power but don’t have the experience like most do in the temple.
Sp the cat snake os next. Who wants to bet the ferret explodes?
All of them have Hadalen essence that glows blue. Is this just a new direction for the art, or is there a story-relevant explanation? At first I thought it was maybe because Fen was becoming more powerful, but if even new students are having the same thing happening… Perhaps it’s because of a change in the Hadalen core? Or because it’s just a different artistic flare and I’m reading into it waayy too much?
I’d say they are no mere students.
In any case, such a blue glow has existed since after Alfred Hadalen took direct control of the core, since the historical beginning.
https://www.feretta.net/comic/a-tale-of-tails-5-66/
That’s just light from the Aqanin orb reflecting off of it. This blue tint started showing up in chapter 6, page 69 (the Jennie twins have a blue tint to their continuous spell), and Feretta confirms it’s new in this comment a couple pages later (though she says it started on the previous page rather than 2 pages ago, that was probably just because it was super recent regardless. Besides, it’s an off-by-one error, and since this isn’t programming, off by one errors won’t lead to anything breaking, so it’s fine).
Thanks for pointing this out! It is quite curious.
Serious analysis from Sonia? Gosh. I guess you do catch more flies with honey. Well played, Fen!
Also, I really like what Linda came up with. It’s really lovely and I’d probably do something similar, had I those kinds of powers.
(That sweet smile at the end makes me smile, too. Heh.)
Those comments are almost exactly what I expected sonia to say plus her princess side is getting the better of her. Lol