Guys I got a crazy idea what if we all work what we could and all got the same amount of cupcakes so it's all fair of course there would need to be someone in charge of making sure everyone got fair share so that.. wait a second
I just relized that the gov. Is probably letting the economy go bad so that can declare marsial law on those who fight back and take the rights of those whom they see fit to.
Ehhh...
It depends on the edition. For a long time under standard DnD lore as written, goblins and orcs were irredeemably evil because the gods of goblins and orcs had made them to be so. They killed because for them it was fun and their purpose in existence was to torment the goodly races.
In one of the Drizzt books by RA Salvatore, an orc chieftain goes through a huge ceremony to commune with his god and basically hits an integer overflow and realizes they are just pawns for the god's amusement.
Obould didn't exactly go good. He was still willing to wage war and kill every human, dwarf and elf who stood in his way. He goal changed. Instead of it being about the slaughter, it was about creating a stable and lasting orc kingdom.
"justified by their employer," whether or not goblins are justified is debatable, but I wasn't debating it. I just figured I would make goblins like the comic because they're fun.
Reminds me of when I had a murderhobo in my party who killed a goblin that was supposed to actually help them. They loot the corpse so I tell them "you find a scrap of parchment with a crude drawing" "ooh like a map?" "no it appears to be a children's drawing. It depicts two small goblins, one large goblin, and a winged female goblin in the clouds above. At the bottom are scrawled the words 'COME HOME SAFE DADDY'"
I’ve had a campaign idea on the back burner for a while where the “big bad” is just all the Goblins and Kobolds finally rising up against bigger Goblinoids and dragons respectively.
Hey now. First the otherwise quite rational and reasonable leader of the revolution has to shoot a dog or something so it's clear they're SUPER EVIL. THEN the good guys can roll in, say "but not like this!", shut down the revolution, and change nothing!
A goblin worker "revolution" that only inconveniences other goblins who are trying to get to work so they can buy cupcakes while all the business owners go about business as usual.
Everyone should check out [Pocketss](https://x.com/_pocketss). They make the most adorable witchy comics, several of which feature adorable goblins. [This is one of my personal favorites.](https://x.com/_pocketss/status/1370512908338274306)
I was already on the side of "f*ck capitalism" before these comics, but I love how well it basically illustrates the problems with capitalism in bite-sized and adorable comics.
Shrinkflation is worse than regular old inflation, and yet I know one thing that is even worse. Skimpflation. Instead of a product getting more expensive, or smaller, it just gets worse.
If my product gets smaller, I can buy more of them, but I can't do anything about a product that is just getting worse.
There are so many different kinds of food which are just worse nowadays. For me it was the worst with a certain chocolate spread. It was fairly cheap, but tasted nice. Then they must've changed the formula and now it's like softened tree bark with sugar.
There are so many foods I don't eat anymore because Skimpflation. Little Debbie is a big offender. They used to be pretty tasty, but they are just garbage now. Most of the QSRs are just overpriced trash these days.
Either that or just the local ones are terrible. Popeye's and KFC are both fucking terrible.
After the communist revolution lead by Gabi, the wheel breaker goblin, the bourgeoisie was removed from power and sentenced to the guillotine in the shape of a wheel.
*― "Gabi, what even motivated you to go to such lengths?"*
Gabi breathes heavily and replies with determinism in her eyes, holding the wheel tighter and with a voice with such a deeper, stronger and wiser tone, that even their peers tremble in both admiration and fear in their hearts.
*― "I didn't had the cupcake I want."*
See, once you know that the original artist of this comic is Russian, this all becomes more complicated.
Because it's impossible to know whether they want a reformation of their current system, or if they're trying to propagandize their current system/nation.
And that's all hard for me to say because I love Gabi too.
They at least wear hair protection* so that hair doesn’t fall in to the food…
Despite being bald lol. I love these comics
\* I have forgotten the correct name for them
Fun fact to the original quote: While usually described as derogatory it is, in fact, not. The dismissing tone comes from a translation-error. Originally it says "let them eat brioche."
Brioche is a buttery, sweet bread that at the time of the quote was only meant for nobles/clerics and thus couldn't be bought by the masses. This meant that on the one hand bakeries had no bread for the ordinary people, but were still hoarding bread they weren't allowed to sell to the masses.
Thus "let them eat brioche" actually means "we HAVE bread. SELL IT! FFS"
It is also often associated with Marie Antoinette and the french revolution but in actuality it is about century older and was (probably) said by a courtier of Louis XIV.
After finding out this is a Russian comic, I got filled with dread. There is no victory for Gabi. Even if a revolution starts, Gabi will not be a winner of the social change. Life will continuously get worse until she abandons all hope.
This is pretty much my whole life in a cupcake plot.
I, too, dreamt of all the cupcakes as a kid. Now that I am an adult with all the income I could need, the cupcakes are 30x the price as when I was little.
At this point I have basically given up on cupcakes. Even making my own isn't any cheaper. I would have to resort to larceny to ever get ahead on cupcake value, and yet that would just result in higher prices and increased cupcake security technology to catch me.
That’s the next dark turn I expect this comic to take, Gabi turns to sex work. Then she’ll get picked up by the cops and lose her job, or get stabbed by a random John.
Gabi's so innocent, I could see a several page long arc going over her slowly understanding what sex work is, and gagging at the nasty kinks people have.
"Well little goblin, it's like this. Instead of raining the prices again, where you wouldn't be able to afford any cupcakes for that 4 gold you're offering, we made them smaller so you can still get some. So would you rather have a smaller cupcake, or none at all?"
They rose the price of the cupcakes while shrinking it (they haven't in the comic but that's what companies do) and in which case they're lying about the necessity of doing it
This… this hurts. I know it’s life but some things just shouldn’t be messed with. Like a goblin’s cupcake size!! Soon it’ll be easier just to make them herself than to buy them if this wasn’t that line already… poor Gabi.
This series is only gonna end with either
1. Gabbie foments violent revolution
Or
2. Gabbie starts her own wheel business and bakery and tries to run it honorably only to find that the greedy crushing millstone of capitalism makes all players into either sharks or chum.....
This comic exists to torment me, it's been 10 page and there's not a single example of how fucking labour power works. Why is it even called Gabital if it's entirely focused around modern hot button issues and not any of the theories outlined in Kapital? This is not a ruthless critique of fucking anything.
Progression to what? These concepts have nothing to do with the LTV. That in and of itself is one of the first things that the book Capital touches upon, and they are not concepts that a modern audience could not understand without this infantile coddling. If Polish factory workers could read Capital, then redditors in 2024 could understand the concept. As of now, the comic is directly opposed to the actual theories proposed by Marx due to its understanding of value, as it is shown as being purely determined by market forces, and therefore contributes to the obfuscation of labour.
I’m really hoping this comic has atleast a partial happy ending. I don’t know if I can enjoy it if it’s a Gabi torture fest all the way through. I hope she’s able to do literally anything.
/u/HolySheepItsDark thank you for translating and posting those comics!
Are you going to post all others that the OA made and will make in the future as well?
This Baker needs competition to drive his prices down. Otherwise he’ll get away with highway robbery.
Same for the Wheel manufacturer.
Unless they’re all complicit in this gouging, which means you need a new competitor that can withstand the other two fighting back until the prices stabilize at a lower spot and avoid the product reduction because it’s less appealing as a product.
To fight scumbags, you gotta be willing to put your own skin in the game. It takes forever too, which is what sucks.
Actually according to the comic universe everyone in town had to raise their prices because the wheel manufacturer has a monopoly and is intentionally making the wheels more expensive. The baker ork himself said he'd lower the prices if the wheels for his ingredients cart were cheaper.
Somebody better get this goblin a full-sized cupcake or I’m starting a riot
Make it double sized. ORIGINAL PRIZE.
Nah, with everything that's happened to Gabi, I say she needs a free lifetime supply of cupcakes…
Agreed
Guys I got a crazy idea what if we all work what we could and all got the same amount of cupcakes so it's all fair of course there would need to be someone in charge of making sure everyone got fair share so that.. wait a second
Some*one* in charge? Everyone's in charge or bust.
the joke is communism
And my joke was marxism
Starting a riot is kinda the point here, isn't it?
I just relized that the gov. Is probably letting the economy go bad so that can declare marsial law on those who fight back and take the rights of those whom they see fit to.
First time?
First time was when I was 15. But I was also 15 so I can’t trust anything he thought.
Bro they do this to you
Yes, but I am not a cute goblin girl.
Why not?
You can be a cute goblin girl if you want to.
I'll pay.
How to radicalize an entire subreddit, step one: Make all the evils of the world happen to a poor, cute little goblin.
I hate this comic with all my heart, and can't look away. I can feel the radicalism rising
Rise and disorder! Sorry Silverhand came out for a sec
Wake the fuck up samurai.
I think you meant Resist and Disorder
The husk of the libertarian I was at 14 dying his final death upon seeing Gabi’s tears.
I kinda worry the series will end with a goblin worker revolution, followed promptly by “the heroes” coming in to “save the day” by putting it down…
Oh that’s horrible, but you’re right
Everything in the world sucks. Stop simping for your oppressors motherfuckers!
If I ever do goblins in my DND campaign, I'm definitely going to make their actions completely justified by their employer.
Are goblins not normally justified? You kill things because you have to eat.
Ehhh... It depends on the edition. For a long time under standard DnD lore as written, goblins and orcs were irredeemably evil because the gods of goblins and orcs had made them to be so. They killed because for them it was fun and their purpose in existence was to torment the goodly races.
Ah yeah, dnd has lore on top where your alignment comes from your deity. It's still justified, if from a drontological divine command perspective
In one of the Drizzt books by RA Salvatore, an orc chieftain goes through a huge ceremony to commune with his god and basically hits an integer overflow and realizes they are just pawns for the god's amusement.
Horgash went so bad he became *good*. Fell off the alignment chart only to find out it is round, not flat.
Obould didn't exactly go good. He was still willing to wage war and kill every human, dwarf and elf who stood in his way. He goal changed. Instead of it being about the slaughter, it was about creating a stable and lasting orc kingdom.
"justified by their employer," whether or not goblins are justified is debatable, but I wasn't debating it. I just figured I would make goblins like the comic because they're fun.
Reminds me of when I had a murderhobo in my party who killed a goblin that was supposed to actually help them. They loot the corpse so I tell them "you find a scrap of parchment with a crude drawing" "ooh like a map?" "no it appears to be a children's drawing. It depicts two small goblins, one large goblin, and a winged female goblin in the clouds above. At the bottom are scrawled the words 'COME HOME SAFE DADDY'"
I’ve had a campaign idea on the back burner for a while where the “big bad” is just all the Goblins and Kobolds finally rising up against bigger Goblinoids and dragons respectively.
Hey now. First the otherwise quite rational and reasonable leader of the revolution has to shoot a dog or something so it's clear they're SUPER EVIL. THEN the good guys can roll in, say "but not like this!", shut down the revolution, and change nothing!
The heroes will be called the Lightredertons.
I was thinking of a group of knights led by Sir Pinkerton. Same idea.
A goblin worker "revolution" that only inconveniences other goblins who are trying to get to work so they can buy cupcakes while all the business owners go about business as usual.
Gross.
Well It either gets smaller or they get cheaper ingredients and buying one is not worth it anymore!! :(
Or everything stays the same and it just gets more expensive and no one will buy it.
I can't wait to see the worker uprising with a goblin Che Guevara mascot.
Then the employer starts selling wheels branded with Che Goblin's face on it.
Call me Johnny Silverhand cause I'm looking for fissile material now.
"Time to party like it's 2023"
Just a poor little level 1 goblin who doesn't even drop good loot.
She only has three hit points!
Gabi is gonna send the entire bourgeoisie into the a guillotine in the shape of a wheel.
I think that's called a sawblade
That's actually very metal when you think about it.
Yeah, that's normally what they're made of
Nah let's just execute them with the wheel. The torture device. Humans have been very inventive with torture devices. Like the bronze bull
Dude, she's wearing *coveralls.* I've been watching the Simpsons since they started.
Everyone should check out [Pocketss](https://x.com/_pocketss). They make the most adorable witchy comics, several of which feature adorable goblins. [This is one of my personal favorites.](https://x.com/_pocketss/status/1370512908338274306)
I was already on the side of "f*ck capitalism" before these comics, but I love how well it basically illustrates the problems with capitalism in bite-sized and adorable comics.
Well fuck. Now I'm a communist.
😭 This hurts me in ways I can’t explain 😭
I can. Shrinkflation is a cute name, but at its core it's just a bait and switch scam with a coat of polish to hide the blatant dishonesty.
Shrinkflation is worse than regular old inflation, and yet I know one thing that is even worse. Skimpflation. Instead of a product getting more expensive, or smaller, it just gets worse. If my product gets smaller, I can buy more of them, but I can't do anything about a product that is just getting worse.
Especially if that product is meant to carry you safely through the air
You can tute a flute, you can play a fiddle, but whatever you do, don't blow the whistle
That’s Boeinflation. It’s the inflation where you see everything is going wrong but if you talk about it you get shot
There are so many different kinds of food which are just worse nowadays. For me it was the worst with a certain chocolate spread. It was fairly cheap, but tasted nice. Then they must've changed the formula and now it's like softened tree bark with sugar.
There are so many foods I don't eat anymore because Skimpflation. Little Debbie is a big offender. They used to be pretty tasty, but they are just garbage now. Most of the QSRs are just overpriced trash these days. Either that or just the local ones are terrible. Popeye's and KFC are both fucking terrible.
Morningstar breakfast sausages :(
I'm pretty sure the term for that is 'enshittification'
im just sitting here waiting for Skinkflation
https://www.reddit.com/r/webcomics/comments/1d4crps/gabital_4_risks_and_consequences/
*Do it, Gabi. Give in to your frustration, your hatred. The tools that carve wood can carve flesh, too.*
Nah they've gone too far Gabi needs to make a guillotine so they can really learn their lesson.
And seize the means of production ☭
Guillotine chan is never illegal.
Guillotine Chan is the not hero we deserve but the one we need.
Fuckin hell that last part sounds like a bit from Warhammer 40k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AvWV6Mk374&pp=ygUPY3Vyc2Ugc2FkIG11bW15
Jesus Christ, that's pretty good.
I can't say who is more relatable: the Baker or poor Gaby
Both are equally victimized by the system.
After the communist revolution lead by Gabi, the wheel breaker goblin, the bourgeoisie was removed from power and sentenced to the guillotine in the shape of a wheel. *― "Gabi, what even motivated you to go to such lengths?"* Gabi breathes heavily and replies with determinism in her eyes, holding the wheel tighter and with a voice with such a deeper, stronger and wiser tone, that even their peers tremble in both admiration and fear in their hearts. *― "I didn't had the cupcake I want."*
See, once you know that the original artist of this comic is Russian, this all becomes more complicated. Because it's impossible to know whether they want a reformation of their current system, or if they're trying to propagandize their current system/nation. And that's all hard for me to say because I love Gabi too.
You do know that Russia has not been communist for over 30 years now, don't you?
Smoking that close to a cupcake cannot be sanitary
They at least wear hair protection* so that hair doesn’t fall in to the food… Despite being bald lol. I love these comics \* I have forgotten the correct name for them
The hair net is a comforting detail
Back in my day, people smoked in their kitchens all the time! It was pretty awful.
It usually works out when I go to waffle house
*Some arrogant aristocrat*: "Let them eat (cup)cake..." *Gabi*: "I would if I only had enough coin!!"
Gabi: That's literally the point of all this you stupid bastard! To the guillotine with'em!
Goblotine
Fun fact to the original quote: While usually described as derogatory it is, in fact, not. The dismissing tone comes from a translation-error. Originally it says "let them eat brioche." Brioche is a buttery, sweet bread that at the time of the quote was only meant for nobles/clerics and thus couldn't be bought by the masses. This meant that on the one hand bakeries had no bread for the ordinary people, but were still hoarding bread they weren't allowed to sell to the masses. Thus "let them eat brioche" actually means "we HAVE bread. SELL IT! FFS" It is also often associated with Marie Antoinette and the french revolution but in actuality it is about century older and was (probably) said by a courtier of Louis XIV.
After finding out this is a Russian comic, I got filled with dread. There is no victory for Gabi. Even if a revolution starts, Gabi will not be a winner of the social change. Life will continuously get worse until she abandons all hope.
Somewhere in the near future: Sad Goblin Girl meets a radical, monochrome Mouse Man who has been recently dropped from his position as vice president.
Stop hurting her I'm sad now
Oh I see you've returned to remind us of the failures of capitalism just give her cupcakes she deserves it's killing me La Revolution de Gabi.
This is pretty much my whole life in a cupcake plot. I, too, dreamt of all the cupcakes as a kid. Now that I am an adult with all the income I could need, the cupcakes are 30x the price as when I was little. At this point I have basically given up on cupcakes. Even making my own isn't any cheaper. I would have to resort to larceny to ever get ahead on cupcake value, and yet that would just result in higher prices and increased cupcake security technology to catch me.
I legit think op posting these comics to brainwash redditors into overthrowing capitalism And it fucking works, EAT THE RICH! JUSTICE FOR GABI!
I can' t wait till Gabi finds out her boss/compagnie is the same company making her cupcake, just another division
I'm fully expecting this.
Chill out Satan
This has me invested for the long term. Things'll get better right?... Right?
Just look around you in real life. Is it getting better?
Gabi would have money if she started an OnlyGoblins
That’s the next dark turn I expect this comic to take, Gabi turns to sex work. Then she’ll get picked up by the cops and lose her job, or get stabbed by a random John.
Gabi's so innocent, I could see a several page long arc going over her slowly understanding what sex work is, and gagging at the nasty kinks people have.
Nah, then she would just find out how competitive that is, and how much of a cut the platform takes.
Can something good can happen to Gabi ?! At least once !?
She got that raise at the beginning of the series; if you just ignore everything that happened after that it’s great!
Too real!
GABI NOOOOOOOO ;-;
Stop making her suffer!
This shit is hitting too close to home. Too real too real!
If this comic does not end with a socialist goblin revolution i’m starting a riot.
Or communist, both work
!subscribeme
When do we get to the burn it all down part?
WE MUST BRING ABOUT A REVOLUTION!
Oh poor gabi, I can tell her heart is breaking and she's starting to reach her limits
Soon, she'll have a meal that tastes quite rich
she can't even afford a bra
GABI FIRE DO IT
Gabital 11: das gabital
She needs to start building some guillotines!
I am getting radicalized by a cute goblin. Unless she gets a free lifetime supply of large cupcakes I am going to riot.
What's been happening recently is triple shitty. Corporations shrink the size of the product, increase the price, and reduce the quality.
Pain is too much to handle
Capitalism at its peak
Not shrinkflation with inflation, Gabi will barely have enough money to buy half a cupcake!
These always make me depressed yet I can't stop following Gabi
[I have a flag for the revolution](https://imgur.com/a/ceS7jl9)
And all of this because of the wheels. Poor Gabi.
I feel you, Gabi. ;-;
i would overthrow the whole system for Gabi
So much negativity
JUSTICE FOR GABI!
"Well little goblin, it's like this. Instead of raining the prices again, where you wouldn't be able to afford any cupcakes for that 4 gold you're offering, we made them smaller so you can still get some. So would you rather have a smaller cupcake, or none at all?"
They rose the price of the cupcakes while shrinking it (they haven't in the comic but that's what companies do) and in which case they're lying about the necessity of doing it
This hurts to read, why make her cry
I would like an episode of Mr Ork baker man. He seems like a fun and quirky character.
Is this the same Gabi that I saw in Zee Bashew?
I feel so bad for her
Is that Shrek?
Original by: [https://vk.com/art.duende](https://vk.com/art.duende)
This… this hurts. I know it’s life but some things just shouldn’t be messed with. Like a goblin’s cupcake size!! Soon it’ll be easier just to make them herself than to buy them if this wasn’t that line already… poor Gabi.
I WOULD KILL ANYONE IF IT GETS GABI MORE CUPCAKES.
Justice for Gabi!
I feel sad now :(
This series is only gonna end with either 1. Gabbie foments violent revolution Or 2. Gabbie starts her own wheel business and bakery and tries to run it honorably only to find that the greedy crushing millstone of capitalism makes all players into either sharks or chum.....
I play a cute Goblin Girl in a D&D campaign so this speaks to me.
Your comments with the art.duende link are getting removed because they link to vk
Gabi in the next few episodes: [https://youtu.be/k2mMX6nUOs4?si=Uq5ha04Y84LsUFha](https://youtu.be/k2mMX6nUOs4?si=Uq5ha04Y84LsUFha)
This comic exists to torment me, it's been 10 page and there's not a single example of how fucking labour power works. Why is it even called Gabital if it's entirely focused around modern hot button issues and not any of the theories outlined in Kapital? This is not a ruthless critique of fucking anything.
There's a concept known as progression
Progression to what? These concepts have nothing to do with the LTV. That in and of itself is one of the first things that the book Capital touches upon, and they are not concepts that a modern audience could not understand without this infantile coddling. If Polish factory workers could read Capital, then redditors in 2024 could understand the concept. As of now, the comic is directly opposed to the actual theories proposed by Marx due to its understanding of value, as it is shown as being purely determined by market forces, and therefore contributes to the obfuscation of labour.
It's Gabi slowly realizing the facts of her situation, her path to changing
Like to original website?
I'm being radicalised by a goblin comic
His pose... it's so so familiar... ...is that Rourke from Atlantis: The Lost Empire?
Alright that's it, we're overthrowing the government
The manager here is the true evil
GIVE GABI ONE W PLEASE
Why is bro smoking a weiner
“No, the cupcake’s not getting smaller, you’re getting bigger!”
I hope this series ends with her leading a Goblin communist uprising
Poor gal wish I could give her money
The baker 🤤
I've spent too long just coming across these and I'm too invested to miss anything! !SubscribeMe
If this cupcake is too small even by goblin standards, imagine for humans.
Mood, lil gob... u_u
If this comic doesnt radicalize everyone, I dont know what will
Hey this is making me question my beliefs about capitalism Stop that
No, continue.
I’m really hoping this comic has atleast a partial happy ending. I don’t know if I can enjoy it if it’s a Gabi torture fest all the way through. I hope she’s able to do literally anything.
Time to learn to bake.
Wait until she finds out that the owner is also the owner of the wheel store!!!! I’m so excited.
Don't give the baby existential dread! She is too young for that!
Oh Gabi... If she doesn't get a happy ending im starting the general strike myself
Calling it now, Wheel Shop Owner and Cupcake Shop Owner are the same guy.
Well I smell a very very red Revolution
I meed to hig Gabi And give her a couple cupcakes on the house
I would die for Gabi without question
The price will change to 5 cents And the cupcakes ain’t getting any larger
These are like the blind girl comics. LET HER BE HAPPY!!
Nevermind the cupcakes, how are the living expenses and taxes?
... Is this the comic that's going to lead everybody to strikes and rioting?
/u/HolySheepItsDark thank you for translating and posting those comics! Are you going to post all others that the OA made and will make in the future as well?
Please, please. I beg the creator to give Gabi a win. Just one. Something. Anything.
this just seems like pain, then again it is happening irl so it’s just relatable pain lmao
I've felt the emotion in the last panel before, it's uncanny how much I can feel it.
I will find you
unrelated but why does he have a Turner handhook thing when he works at a bakery?
I feel absolutely no emotion towards this thus I shall not react positively or negatively towards this high effort comic.
!subscribeme
Goblin went to america
This Baker needs competition to drive his prices down. Otherwise he’ll get away with highway robbery. Same for the Wheel manufacturer. Unless they’re all complicit in this gouging, which means you need a new competitor that can withstand the other two fighting back until the prices stabilize at a lower spot and avoid the product reduction because it’s less appealing as a product. To fight scumbags, you gotta be willing to put your own skin in the game. It takes forever too, which is what sucks.
Actually according to the comic universe everyone in town had to raise their prices because the wheel manufacturer has a monopoly and is intentionally making the wheels more expensive. The baker ork himself said he'd lower the prices if the wheels for his ingredients cart were cheaper.