It's a tradition

[spqrblues]

Urk, February again?

Well, don't say I never got into the spirit of it.

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[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

THE TURTLE! THE TURTLE!

*is dead from cute*

Theobroma cacao, meet Romans. Romans, meet theobroma cacao.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I don't know how their civilisation lasted as long as it did without it.

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

Well, they did have wine and pizza!

[corvideye.livejournal.com]

Ah, Seianti knows how to break that pesky 4th wall! So does the turtle...

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

They both have those mystical ancient Etruscan powers, no doubt (that is clearly an Etruscan turtle).

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

Ah, the New World meets the Old World... in the artist's mind.

Double love for the turtle. Well played.

Dr. Phil

[essayel.livejournal.com]

:D frame breaking ladies and tortoises FTW!

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

Love this!!

[(Anonymous)]

Aww, what a couple of sweet girls! Hooray for chocolate, any time of the year. And the turtle... the voice of the turtle is heard in the land. And it says bugs-feed me bugs! Happy Valentines, mighty artist/editor/bon-vivant!
DRW

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

Very cute! I like this installment a lot! :-D

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Totally historically plausible.

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

Aww! I like the turtle, too. :)

Do you kneel like that when you're sitting on the ground/the floor? I would find that uncomfortable pretty quickly; I'd sit cross-legged "Indian style." My two-year old is comfortable sitting with his legs straight out in front of him, and I found that interesting, because I think older folks all bend their knees.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I guess I grew up with a lot of training in sitting like that. Hmm, let me provide context. In a "this midnight service is going on too long someone took the kneeler I need to rest" pose of sitting back on one's heels with one leg slightly off to the side. (And I just hunkered down on the floor to figure that pose out :) )

I once looked around for examples of people sitting on the floor/ground in Roman and Greek art, and if I recall correctly you see a semi-cross-legged, one-knee-up pose a lot (http://spqrblues.com/IV/?p=215). IIRC.

There's also that squat-sit (knees up, rear end not touching the ground) that little kids find easy but adults don't unless it's something they've kept doing regularly.

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

That squat sit is known as the third world squat in paleo circles. It is a natural form that we all should be able to do. I've worked at it and can do it pretty well now. Of course, my knee is happy in that position and then protests like the dicken's when I go to stand back up.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

TMI warning. OK... still here? Supposedly that position is much better for, um, defecation, than how one's organs are arranged when one is sitting upright. Which might explain the need for those oddly specific signs (http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/b8e2b54e-72e1-4dd9-b2f8-6478e8ee68a1.jpg) that are apparently posted in some toilet stalls....

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

LOVE the comic, and turtle, and chocolate

V-Day...Yeah not so much :P

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

(http://spqrblues.com/IV/?attachment_id=2098)This is what comes of not throwing away those doodles...

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

*squee*

[oneangryrabbit.livejournal.com]

Augh, so cute!

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Next year for extra cuteness I'm adding kittens and piglets in bows.

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty darn big kitten in your profile piccy.

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

Love, love, love the comic and sentiment.

I have not been on LJ much lately as I have been kidnapped by Second Life. SO is still working on Titans' TravelsThe Roman View), albiet slowly, and we have been getting a lot of hits from SPQR Blues, so thank you!

I am going to have a mad time catching up with LJ when my SL project is launched next week, and I will probably go back and re-read SPQR Blues because I love it so much. (With your permission, my avi might even mention it in SL.)

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm glad some hits are still coming in the SPQR Blues site! I'm glad to have somewhere interesting to direct people when I don't have more content :)

And I'd love to be mentioned, anywhere. Well, as long as it's a relatively nice mention :D

[pikku-gen.livejournal.com]

I <3 the heart. ^^

And practically everything.

[texascarl.livejournal.com]

Nice! As a certain cartoon tiger used to say "Muchas smooches!" in honor of St. Valentine's day.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Aww, I miss that certain-cartoon-tiger! :)

[rosefox]

Yay turtles and chocolate! And boo for holidays you hate.

I have been trying and trying and trying to view your LJ, and finally someone on the support team said the problem was that I'd set my preferences to show all journals in my style, only it can't apply my S2 style to your journal because yours still has an S1 style. I think this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard and I entirely blame LJ for it--but you might want to make a post saying "If you get an error 500 when viewing my LJ it's because of this ridiculous style thing, and you need to turn off viewing everything in your own style so you can see my LJ", or switch over to S2.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

S1? S2? What what now? I guess I'll change the layout style to...whatever.

Thank you for telling me. I had no idea!

[shadefell.livejournal.com]

My husband fell out over the turtle. DAWWW.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

The turtle is a very romantic turtle at heart, but, not discovering any romance on its long and arduous quest across the panel, it finds that it is also a very hungry turtle, and (after some epic trials involving conquering vertical lines) this other quest is achieved. There's probably also a tasty bug on that grass. It's a happy conclusion for all the characters. Except the bug.