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WCDT 14-18 February 2011 (1861-1865)
Dr. ROFLPWN:
--- Quote from: Blackjoker on 18 Feb 2011, 14:31 ---Actually, wait, I am imagining that Marten will come close to trying to flirt with her, maybe even make some progress due to Steve. But then depressed hunched guy finally screws up his own courage, asks Padma out, she accepts and then Marten is left alone, he makes an annoyed comment, then the secret Bakery version of Faye makes a cutting cruel comment and kicks him. Steve then suggests that Marten try looking online, either that or Marten meets his own Tyler Durden.
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Elliot over there has clearly been agonizing about and being awkward around Padma for some time now, also he actually all up and SAID that extra pathetic line about ruining their friendship. In other words, if she picks his sad-sack ass over Marten, I will do an acrobatic fucking pirouette off the handle, to quote Dave Strider.
The Duke:
--- Quote from: themacnut on 18 Feb 2011, 19:04 ---
--- Quote from: daryljfontaine on 18 Feb 2011, 08:25 ---Monday's strip: "...because Renee was asking."
Followed by the collective whiplash of thousands of QC fans.
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Would be a nice mindscrew by Jeph on his readers, but like I said, I don't think he's gonna be that nice to Marten. I think we'll see Dora dating again before Marten, and of course, it won't be Marten she's dating.
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Oh man, I would be so happy. I have developed this irrational desire for things to start working out for Marten. I think I'm projecting onto him; is that healthy?
JackFaerie:
Oh for god's sake, nothing really bad has happened to Marten. I think a lot of you are projecting/identifying with him wayyyy too much and want his life to go swimmingly for your own fantasy identification.
He and his girlfriend broke up. Not even out of nowhere, and for perfectly legit reasons. It sucks, but it happens.
Then he was sad and moped about. Because, you know, it logically follows, since that's what all people who break up do. He got too drunk and got punched out by Faye but didn't even remember it. Honestly that's a lot better than what happened to me in the bad place after my last breakup. Or to others. One girl I knew drank too much, and when she unexpectedly saw her ex at a party, ran out sobbing into the middle of Massachusetts snow barefoot and sans overcoat and still holding her beer bottle; tripped, cut herself up, and had to go get stitches at a hospital. So, y'know, there's worse.
Then his mom came and embarrassed him a little in her efforts to lighten his mood. Oh no! That is surely a fate worse than death that no one else ever suffers.
Then he continued hanging out with his friends and living life, and then he met a girl he's attracted to but couldn't yet have any sort of serious feelings for, and when he came up to flirt with her at a bar, she wasn't instantly into him.
Seriously, that's all it takes for you to cry "Butt Monkey" and "Character Cruelty"? Really? You guys should read some Funky Winterbean. :laugh:
Is it cold in here?:
Being able to identify with fictional characters is a sign that you're dealing with a good storyteller.
Dr. ROFLPWN:
JackFaerie, you are awesome, because that minus the anecdote about the lady meeting her ex is basically my thoughts exactly. I mean, seriously, it was not that long ago that he was able to grin confidently and enjoy his relationship whilst Steve wallowed in the misery of Meena running off with Dave. He's not the butt monkey, he's just having a run of bad luck exaggerated for humor.
Identifying with Marty is all well and good, but projecting is not so good, and we could do with less of it.
And oh God not THE COMIC OF DESPAIR. If we were in that universe Dora would even now be dying of cancer while both Marten and Steve succumbed to alcoholism and someone else I don't know got bullied or foreclosed on or a car crash or drugs.
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