Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT April 26-30, 2010 (1651-1655)
akronnick:
Dora is a Duck-Tape Ninja!!!
All fear the wrath of her mighty Tape-Jitsu!!!
I wonder what Faye's reaction will be when she finds out who Marigolds encounter turns out to be?
Kugai:
Duct Tape - the universal tool :-D
snubnose:
--- Quote from: Nightson on 29 Apr 2010, 00:14 ---Clingy generally equals insecure, jealous and controlling.
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Clingy means clingy.
If you mean insecure, jealous and/or controlling, then say so.
People can be nice, tolerant, supportive AND clingy.
JackFaerie:
Fist off, no, you cannot be clingy and NOT be insecure. They are two sides of the same coin.
Second, in guys, clingy bleeds over VERY easily into creepy. If you've just met the guy and he's ALREADY following you around like a puppy and/or gushing praise and/or trying to make plans for the next two weeks, that just makes you want to scream "back off! and leave me alone! you don't even know me!" Remember that we girls have to deal with slightly different shit than you guys do. We're very sensitive to the whole clingy/creepy/jealous/stalker continuum, because the stakes are rather higher for us. If a guy trips our signals on that wavelength, we run. But with clingy, usually best-case scenario is that the dude is insecure, and that's not attractive either.
Mind you, I can be clingy. And that's one of my worst qualities relationship-wise. And yes, my clingy comes from insecure. Think Dora. But I try to keep it in check.
Anyway, with my own damages, I wouldn't mind a guy to be codependent with--but this is only after we've actually gotten to know each other and established a deeper emotional connection. And I would like someone who'd be emotionally open and commit to me and all that--but the thing is, someone who clings to you right off the bat usually isn't even into YOU, but whatever idea of you he's constructed in his head, and that's all sorts of deeply uncomfortable. Someone who seems aloof at first meeting gives off the signal of "I'm not gonna smother you or hold you up to some imaginary standard of perfection and then be disappointed that you aren't my imaginary version of you down the line," and so can actually be more appealing. Or at least more safe.
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 28 Apr 2010, 23:44 ---
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 28 Apr 2010, 00:32 ---Funnily enough, my local library not only lets me return books I don't like, but also demands I return the ones I do like. Remember where Dora's boyfriend works.
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Err ... "Dora's boyfriend" ?
Please don't say you've forgotten the name of the main character of the comic ?
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No, I was making a point—that Dora would think 'library book' because her boyfriend works at one. Marten's name was rather inconsequential to the Dora-centric assertion I was building, and so he got the boot. It's called rhetter riteror fancy talk. Oh, and the 'main character' status is a little debatable. Faye headlines about as much (she passed Marten at one point), with Hanners breathing down their necks.
--- Quote from: Kugai on 29 Apr 2010, 00:20 ---Duct Tape - the universal tool :-D
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As Mojo reminds us, Red Green is the universal tool. The man's a tool in any situation, as it were.
And I hope Dora splurges for the genuine stuff. The Fred's knock-off, for example, will neither hold as strongly nor be as painful coming off*. I like Faye well enough, but she needs to learn when to zip it. Nothing like ducking the mouth to make that point.
*Naturally, I'm assuming that last point.
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