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WCDT 15-19 November 2010 (1796-1800)
tbones:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 15 Nov 2010, 12:31 ---Here, pussy, pussy, pussy!
Damn, where'd that invisible cat go?!?
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I mean... how hard can it be to lost a non-visible cat!! Sometimes i impress myself....
hannahsaurusrex:
Are there still Faye/Marten OTP people? Is THAT why there's so much Dora hate? Because thinking of Marten and Faye doing anything more than hugging seriously makes me gag.
Or do you want a new girlfriend introduced? One who is independent, gets his sense of humor, grounded, sexy, educated, and only exhibits panic rarely? OH WAIT, that's Dora.
Let's list the highlights of their more than five minute fights:
haircut (because it lasted the whole day), girl comeon, Sven, pantless 3am hugging, forbidden porn
those were Dora's bad and she recognized it within 12 hours
all the rest were settled within 10 minutes or less.
If your going with the midnight sighs Marten has, we don't know if they're Dora-realted at all, just because she's next to him doesn't mean it's about her.
This incident is the equivelent of "you read my journal!?!?"
It's over and done with boundaries clearly set for the future.
The story hopefully delves into more into exposition of Dora, and some venting by Marten because that makes more sense than full on break up.
Hell, Dora being previously ENGAGED and left at the alter and the date of this fight makes more sense.
If these two break up, it will not be loud and heated. It will be like their beginning, quitely without distractions.
Coco:
--- Quote from: Moxie on 15 Nov 2010, 11:20 ---
--- Quote from: charybdis on 15 Nov 2010, 10:17 ---Also, Moxie, fantastic analysis. I think you're dead on the money with both of them, especially Marten.
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Hey, thanks! I think your two following points are also quite true:
--- Quote from: charybdis on 15 Nov 2010, 10:17 ---I don't think it's intentional so much as she's oblivious and possibly a bit self-centered in that she thinks, "I'm open about porn, why shouldn't he be?"
Also, side note, it must have gotten at least 2x more awkward for Marten when Dora says "I'll show you mine!" when he knows she faps and/or has fapped to his mom. That reminder probably amped up his Defensive Mode considerably.
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--- Quote from: disaacs on 15 Nov 2010, 10:47 ---Also, although I agree with Marten being pissed off, he should not have left. Walking out of a disagreement is not going to solve anything.
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While walking out itself certainly isn't going to solve anything, there's quite a lot of good about walking out when one is too upset to discuss something rationally.
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I concur that your analysis was really good. It definitely helped me adjust my perspective since my committed relationship is relatively open about porn viewing habits and it seemed like such an innocuous thing. Regardless of whether he has a special sensitivity the real problem is that he asked for privacy and she disrespected him because it shouldn't be a big deal and maybe he was just kidding around. Oblivious is not a good look on anyone, especially not a person in a relationship. She really needs to adjust her radar on reading his feelings.
My husband is definitely the type to walk away from an argument to regain composure, but I'm the type that when he does this the argument festers and I get angrier and the longer he waits the more I turn myself into an innocent victim and cast him as the villian. Let's hope Dora isn't like that. But to anyone who is calling for their break up, my husband and I have been together for over seven years, married for one and we are still working on these issues. Life is like that. Not every fictional couple can be Bella and Edward with their perfect stalker abusive loving relationship.
Prince of Space:
--- Quote from: hannahsaurusrex on 15 Nov 2010, 12:37 ---
Or do you want a new girlfriend introduced? One who is independent, gets his sense of humor, grounded, sexy, educated, and only exhibits panic rarely? OH WAIT, that's Dora.
Let's list the highlights of their more than five minute fights:
haircut (because it lasted the whole day), girl comeon, Sven, pantless 3am hugging, forbidden porn
those were Dora's bad and she recognized it within 12 hours
all the rest were settled within 10 minutes or less.
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The time thing! Finally! Someone's mentioned it!
I think a lot of us forget that while we have to sit here for a day waiting for a new comic, the characters are not interacting. They are not in real time.
Even I forget this at times and wonder 'why is this still happening?' or 'why ISN'T this still happening?'
The thing is, barely any time is passing. They're angry for 15 minutes, but to a lot of people in the discussion forums, you'd think they'd been at it for days. But I completely understand this. Like I said, we have a whole other day (or more) before we see their volley. It's easy for *us* to get upset, then get over it, or not get over it. Then when we've been stewing over it, we come back and wonder things we might not have if we'd been able to read the comics back to back without interruption.
Anyone else ever think on this?
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: tbones on 15 Nov 2010, 05:45 ---So what's the point in having fantasies, if you don't want to make them true?
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To get stimulated by things that you can't or shouldn't put into practice.
Nancy Friday's book, My Secret Garden, relates many fantasies that were near and dear to the fantasizer but would be impossible or damaging in reality.
Lots of people in committed monogamous relationships fantasize about celebrities.
If you want it to come true, it's a goal and not a fantasy.
Switching topic, if Marten put a password on his laptop, Pintsize would boot it from a Linux live CD and crack the password, just because he could.
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