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Weekly comic thread, 5/10 - 5/14
Is it cold in here?:
For that matter, why isn't Faye going out and meeting people? Look how few address book entries she had on her phone in 1377. She dodged Hanners's question about why she wasn't doing that in strip 1144. She has Raven's black book, for crying out loud. She knows how to introduce herself, even if she was pushing herself in strip 4.
Blackjoker:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 May 2010, 16:39 ---For that matter, why isn't Faye going out and meeting people? Look how few address book entries she had on her phone in 1377. She dodged Hanners's question about why she wasn't doing that in strip 1144. She has Raven's black book, for crying out loud. She knows how to introduce herself, even if she was pushing herself in strip 4.
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Some of that has to do with personal comfort zones. Some of it might also just be practicality, Faye might actually be thinking of a real relationship and in that case Ravens book, while fun, might not be all that useful. She also has enough baggage that she might figure it's better to work through that than to meet new people. Plus, Marten seems to attract new people to him, she might just figure that if she hangs around with him she will eventually meet the whole town.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Blackjoker on 14 May 2010, 17:49 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 May 2010, 16:39 ---For that matter, why isn't Faye going out and meeting people? Look how few address book entries she had on her phone in 1377. She dodged Hanners's question about why she wasn't doing that in strip 1144. She has Raven's black book, for crying out loud. She knows how to introduce herself, even if she was pushing herself in strip 4.
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Some of that has to do with personal comfort zones. Some of it might also just be practicality, Faye might actually be thinking of a real relationship and in that case Ravens book, while fun, might not be all that useful. She also has enough baggage that she might figure it's better to work through that than to meet new people. Plus, Marten seems to attract new people to him, she might just figure that if she hangs around with him she will eventually meet the whole town.
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Point 2, I think. The baggage thing. Why start new relationships with the "old" you? Faye strikes me as really wanting to get better before she inflicts tries another relationship. Hece all the warnings, blinkenlights, and caution tape. I mean, the Sven thing went soooo well. And while Sven was a dick, as a lot of people pointed out, Faye's incapable emotional state also caused a lot of the problem. FOB just was not going to work with her.
She may push Angus too far. She may also find that his not-so-quiet determination and generally high threshhold for her form of crazy will help her get through another stage or two of growth (let's see, there's larval, pupal, ... what's next?).
So, no commitment. But she and Angus are both willing to feel their way through the minefield that any relation with Faye would be. And if they come out whole on the other side, great.
'Tain't likely, but they seem to think it's worth a shot. Who am I to disagree?
Mad Cat:
--- Quote from: Tuitsuro on 14 May 2010, 05:09 ---[Faye] is basically telling Angus 'Caution, enter at your own peril'.
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More like "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." amirite?
westrim:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 14 May 2010, 14:07 ---Holy crap this is long.
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I've gotten a little too... involved before, shall we say, in all the arguing over "Sven, jerk! bad jerk bad!" vs. "Sven, Sven! (actually, not sure what to put in caveman talk here- maybe...) why expect different?", but when people start hauling out essays it's starting to get a little scary.
But I guess I'll dive back in a little bit. I think we all agree that both Sven AND Faye are at fault for circumstances of the end of their relationship/ getting into a physical one in the first place. But I still don't get why people are so angry at Sven for acting exactly as he had been characterized the entire freaking time- in fact, the first bit of character development he got at all was realizing he had messed up as he fucked whatshername (Gsomething Riversomething)? I may be annoyed and depressed at the dog peeing on the carpet yet again, but getting angry would be pretty silly. Yes, he screwed up, we all know that- but what I think people are forgetting is that, for the first time, he knew it too. And has been trying to fix it (yet treated as though he wasn't, like the incident with Marigold) and mature ever since. Oh, this is getting longish too. Stopping now.
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