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WCDT 15-19 November 2010 (1796-1800)
Fenriswolf:
I cannot resist (ARH) replying just because I am bemused at the people who are all "Dora hasn't even tried". Trying to fix your issues takes a long, long time, and seeing a therapist is not a fix in and of itself. It's just someone with an outside, non-biased perspective who should, possibly, be better at analysing where you're coming from and definitely should have more resources as to how to help with those issues. But therapist or no therapist, these things don't change overnight, and you can't depict someone trying because it's all in trying to act normal and dealing in your own head.
Does it seem that Dora has never allowed herself to actually discuss her issues with Marten? Yeah, from what we've seen, and that pretty much dooms it. Can you force yourself to be a different person just because you totally understand how and why your actions and reactions are inappropriate? Hell no. If she's not emotionally ready to deal, she's not. And it sucks all round. But no one here is a bad person.
It did make me wince reading what Marten said to Faye. I don't think it's wrong, people are allowed to be angry and hurt. But as someone who was raised by people who screamed at me for the pain of my existence, then took me to counsellors to learn how to deal with confrontation healthily, I am allergic to angry words with or about someone I love and even when I have expressed frustration to friends (about my 7 year relationship) it is followed up with an analysis on how and why and what the realistic reaction should be, given I choose the situation I'm in. :P
P.S. This week has made me sad, but yes, I am very impressed by the emotion conveyed by the characters. Especially the break up strip, where all the facial expressions were painfully well rendered. :cry:
Skewbrow:
Poor Marten. Right now being totally numb protects him, but tears will flow in a day or two.
I don't think any of the crew will try to talk Dora to reconsider. At least not next week. No door-bashing. They realize that it won't help now. Just lend your ear to a close friend.
Sporadic :evil: thought: Wonder whether Jeph's timing of this arc was constrained by the ComicCon schedule? I don't know if there's any history of dissatisfied web comic fan/shipper going violently berserk. But if there had been a convention scheduled for this weekend, the thought of rotten eggs/tomatoes just might have crossed Jeph's mind?
Sporadic :psyduck: thought: Few years from today GOMswe will scare the n00bs on the forum with chatter like "Remember the week of Dora/Marten split up arc? The forum hit 40 pages in no time instead of this pathetic 5 pages we get these days..."
What the hell is a :psyduck: anyway? I guess I am expected to google it. It is just that I have googled for something three times while reading QC:
* find out the meaning of 'indie rock'
* find out the meaning of 'yaoi'
* Chuck Palahniuk at which point I learned NOT TO GOOGLE IT.
Is it cold in here?:
Jeph does facial expressions really well, whatever he says to the contrary.
ocelott:
:psyduck: Well, since you asked...
Psyduck is a pokémon. He's got psychic powers, but they give him headaches, hence the head rubbing. (Why do I remember this? Stupid useless trivia taking up brain cells.) All the headaches and the head rubbing certainly seem appropriate in this thread.
Random832:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 19 Nov 2010, 02:18 ---It is just that I have googled for something three times while reading QC:
* find out the meaning of 'indie rock'
* find out the meaning of 'yaoi'
* Chuck Palahniuk at which point I learned NOT TO GOOGLE IT.
--- End quote ---
Er, which of those three taught you "NOT TO GOOGLE IT"? Even "yaoi" simply brings up a (wikipedia) definition, with no images on the google page and no explicit images if you click through to wikipedia.
If you're saying that finding out what it means was bad in itself even without being exposed to porn, GROW UP and I still don't get what the problem with the other two is.
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