September 18th, 2020
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Neat.
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley, Nicola Barber, Nyree
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Nicola's spirit smells like burning, nice:)
It's because she's with the heat
hsss
By that logic, there should also be a lingering smell of peaches, because she's the fuzz. :-P
Nah. It's fourth anchor witch which feels her like that.
(Fourth anchor is deep in the ocean. You can't see or smell, and sound would be drowned out by those blassted steam ships. What's left?)
At least it's not the fourth wall witch.
I suspect that Officer Barber has strong feelings about things. I further suspect that they are not happy feelings.
On one hand, her sister has returned after several months of uncertainty. On the other hand Pryce has bought his way out of prison, and I don't believe that she is quite over her distaste for Mal yet. Now the city is asking her to hand over a mansion to him!
Yeah, but she was thanking Eliza for Knotty's work -- with a smile on her face, even -- as recently as Tuesday.
I think that any anger we're seeing Capt. Barber show is due to Pryce getting away.
Ship ship ship!
Well, Nyree already thinks she's hot...
Someone came for her daily flirt with Wolfe, "And, well, well, well, what have we here, now?".
"Harry didn't mention that she had a big sister. Come here often?"
Captain Barber is canonically lesbian.
I'm confused. Are we talking about shipping Nyree with Wolfe (Wolfe is definitely interested in women, jury's out on men while Nyree's orientation is a complete unknown), Nyree with Nicola (in which case lesbianism would be reason why it would work rather than wouldn't), or Nicola with Wolfe (which, incompatible orientation aside, is unlikely given that they've known each other since No Rest for the Wicked without any sparks flying)?
EDIT: Apparently I forgot about some hints we've had regarding Nyree. Thanks, Emily!
Pretty sure "we're" talking about Nyree and Harry's "big sister".
>Nyree's orientation is a complete unknown
She's made one or two remarks that suggest she's attracted to women (most notably when Harry says "Have to borrow more than that [shoes], unless you want ladies fainting at you," and Nyree says "Why wouldn't I want that?!"
I was responding to "her daily flirt with Wolfe." Nyree hasn't ever met Wolfe before (panel 2). So that leaves only Nicola to be referenced by 'she' -- and Nicola is lesbian.
Now the new dating possiblity of a long distance relationship. 'So O'Malley, could you pass on a letter?' "S're thing Captain Barber"
Somehow I imagine Nicola would not want Mal to be aware of any such letters.
Aw, no comment on Eau de Wolfe yet.
Nice house, though.
Hmm... with him being very ["there,"](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/october-13th-2014 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/october-13th-2014") he should probably be more noticeable to the other witches too. Theoretically.
According to Google Translate, Wolfe's comment basically means "Good gracious!"
oh my goodness, really?
It does! (Source: I speak his language)
ah, there's an annoying side-effect to spirit-smell, huh? never sure if what you're smelling is actually physical, or just someone walking by. lucky there wasn't any fire today - except for nicola rocking that uniform, but then that's always fire.
Since O'Malley can't see color normally (outside of spirits) I imagined it'd be the same for the others but Mountain witch doesn't seem deaf unless she' really good at lip reading
Yeah, I'd assumed that the others would lack some part of the normal sense in exchange for the spirit one (like being tone-deaf, or some such), but maybe O'Malley's just coincidentally regular old color-blind?
If he was color blind in addition to having the Sight, wouldn't he have continued to be color blind when Ben accidentally gained his Sight, and Ben would have continued to see the rest of the world in color?
And isn't color-blind just for a few colors, red/green or blue/yellow?
There are different types of color blindness. I think the kinds you're talking about (red/green and blue/yellow) are more common than complete color blindness (monochrome vision), but seeing in monochrome can still happen in humans.
Interesting, I didn't know that.
From what I understand there's a few different forms of it depending on how many types of cones you're missing. But yeah, red/green colorblindness is the most common, I think
O'Malley isn't blind other than seeing spirits; an aspect of his seeing ability is different (color). It is likely the same for the others; their sight or hearing is slightly different than what others hear, but they can still smell / hear.
Right, she sense it via smelling.
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Look, having a big place is nice on paper, but this is gonna be hell to clean up, unless the hippo helps.
(... especially if the hippo "helps")
Something to keep Ben busy!
Hence the stipend, I imagine.
Maybe it's large because a paat witch could also see spirits and wanted rooms for their friends to stay :)
Ha yes, I was so hoping the two of them would meet (╯✧▽✧)╯
What a nice nickname for O'Malley, "City"! :)
First thought of Nyree smelling Nicola's burning: this ship is on fiiiiiiirrrrrreeeeee!
....Captain Barber, please enjoy this gorgeous smexy tol, maybe you'll smell less like a toaster on fire.
I immediately ship it.
Also, I love the perspective in panel 4.
I mean, she does look rather ....intense back here: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-16th-2012 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-16th-2012")
I can buy that she smells like something on fire.
Nyree: Can anyone else smell burning?
Mal, Wolfe and Ben (looking at the house, together): Again?!
That was my first thought!
No! They haven't even been inside it yet!
That would be O’Malley’s disgusting rollup.
I had the same thought!
I thought it was the house too- that the gov't didn't want to pay maintenance for- but it's probably just Mal's usual series of small fires.
I still think that scandalously short skirt is far too risqué for a respectable Yorkshire town.
I think you're correct. But I'm not sure Nyree cares.
Oho. Oho do I see a potential ship about to set sail or is this a Mirage?
Ships sail with or without loading the canon.
You should be flogged for that pun, sir.
Hot damn! (Badum psh.)
I was surprised Nyree thought Mal's sight sounded terrible. At least you can close your eyes, and it's not too hard to know what's a spirit! Seems easier to live with to me than constant weird smells - but I guess you get used to what you know.
It's Nyree! Hiiiiiiiii Nyree! I missed you!
A comment that works especially well with your current avatar.
Island witch, meet burning.
Given the way law enforcement treated people labeled witches in historical Europe, that might not be an optimal way of phrasing that.
Unless I've been fed a whole lot of baloney …
In historical Britain (and its colonies, I believe), witches weren't burned. Witchcraft was a crime against the state, and anyone found guilty in a (quite ordinary) court of law, was executed in the usual way: By (quite ordinary) hanging. (Hello, Knotty! Aren't you glad not to be historical?)
True. I always forget that the reason Salem didn't burn their witches was because they were operating under English law. (Apparently burning witches was more common in Catholic-majority areas.)
Burning alive was apparently reserved for treason at that point in history.
Burning was reserved for heretics. Witchcraft originally was denied to even exist by the catholic church but later on (late medieval/early modern period) was assimilated in that category.
And it was as common among Catholics as among Protestants and concentrated in the HRE.
so im actually curious what wolfe smells like to nyree...
Cinnamon and petrichor.
Care to elucidate for those of us who did not?
I didn't intend to reference anything, so I am also in that category.
My bad then? I had just watched that specific episode the night before so it was fresh in my mind.
I think most of us hadn't encountered the word before that episode, so it's a pretty common assumption that that's where anyone else got it from!
It's a nice word - the pleasant smell when it first begins to rain after a long dry spell - and once you know it and connect it to that smell, it helps you notice the smell the next time. "Petrichor!" Kind of like seeing a rainbow, pleasure at something unexpected and evanescent.
Doctor Who, series six, episode 4. Petrichor as defined by the tardis is the smell of dust after rain. As for cinnamon well i think we all think wolfe is a bit of a cinnamon bun.
I hadn't heard of petrichor before, but some searching tells me it's a legit word. It's in the Oxford English Dictionary and everything
You can't be serious.
I finally looked up petrichor after seeing/hearing it used in Good Omens (but I don't remember if it was the book or the TV miniseries), so I thought it was a reference to that.
Well now I'm just plain curious about the whole family.
Let the meetcute commence!!!
Oh no, she's having a stroke!
Kate said that she had shown the Witch House once before, in passing. I was trying to find it but haven't. (The story keeps distracting me!) Someone here must be able to identify where it was! ...
Nobody knows?
I checked Curtain Call, but didn't see it. I'm planning to look through the other books when I get a chance.
i actually changed the design at the last minute as i decided the last one didn't have the right feel! apologies!
Ah ha! Although I doubt I would have been able to find it anyway, since I kept reading the story instead of looking for the building. It was great fun. :)
Now I'm curious what the old design was.
So, darling, if you smell
Something burning, it's my heart . . .
(hiccup)
'Scuse me!
If Captain Barber has just walked 'round the corner, Nyree, then, yes, it's just you.
Congratulation to your perfect German!
Ah heh. heheheh. How many birds are you killing with this stone?
I love that the captain smells like burning. She would be an endless fire.
Red heads... aimiright? (Ducks).
She's burning for you, Nyree <3.
I wonder what Wolfe smells like to Nyree.
Well I don’t know bout ya’ll bit K smell a ship