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WCDT: 11-15 July 2011 (1966-1970)
wrwight:
I thought this was perfect. It's Faye and Marten sitting together and talking. To me it kind of ties the whole thing together, and gives it a "things are getting back to normal" type of finality. Can't wait to see what Jeph has coming up next, but I suppose I'll have to. Oh well then, I can't wait to see what the guest strips do. It's always an interesting week when guest strips abound.
jwhouk:
And we end the week with?
A repeat of the "Deep Sigh" comic. - 3 (10.3%)
Faye and Angus makeout snark! - 1 (3.4%)
OCDJ Hanners gets her next gig! - 8 (27.6%)
Tai cries herself to sleep - 3 (10.3%)
Marigold vs. Dale - at a house party? - 4 (13.8%)
Marten cries himself to sleep. - 1 (3.4%)
Dora cries herself to sleep. - 0 (0%)
Pintsize cries himself to sleep. - 4 (13.8%)
Sven joins a monastery. - 3 (10.3%)
Post-party waffles. - 2 (6.9%)
Total Voters: 29
Okay, now I believe that Jeph really does read the forums. He did NONE of the ABOVE.
DSL:
--- Quote from: cesariojpn on 15 Jul 2011, 03:44 ---How anti-climatic end to the week. "Oh, my legs are numb."
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Kind of a metaphor, really. Marten would like to join the party -- better himself -- but his motivation is asleep.
stoutfiles:
--- Quote from: JackFaerie on 14 Jul 2011, 21:58 ---
--- Quote from: guayec on 14 Jul 2011, 01:42 ---i assume dora is joking? about that being the (only?) reason to not have casual sex with tai?
i wanna think she is joking.
i wanna like dora again.
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Wait, why would that possibly make Dora a bad person? Assuming she doesn't know Tai has deeper feelings for her, there's no reason NOT to have a casual fling with her except for the fact that it would make things weird with marten for both of them.
Dora knows Tai dates people casually, thus has experience in no-strings-attached sex, and thus should be a good candidate for that. She likes Tai as a person. She's just realized that she can't be dating anyone right now, but having casual sex is separate from that--she doesn't have to be celibate while she works on her issues. She has problems with insecurity and trust in relationships--in a truly casual FWB arrangement, her issues shouldn't apply. So assuming Dora doesn't know about Tai's feelings for her and finds her attractive, the Marten factor IS the only real reason not to hook up with her.
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 14 Jul 2011, 05:46 ---Oh please, Tai barely knows her. It's all about looks as Tai is an horny, immature little girl.
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I don't understand why everyone is acting like Tai is completely incapable of serious relationships. If you recall when she was first introduced, Tai was the one WANTING to have a serious, committed relationship with a girl who only did poly arrangements. Since the casual-relationship model was the prevalent state of things at her school, Tai gave up on having a serious relationship and went along with the flow, eventually getting a bit caught up in it, but it never really made her happy. And recently she's been thinking about how it hasn't really made her happy and how she really wants a serious relationship--which is in fact what she wanted all along. Yes, she's not the most mature person, and that certainly played out in her past sexual relationships. But she was a college student and experimenting--almost no one is mature in that situation! Poly relationships are very difficult to conduct without drama unless you have a fair amount of relationship experience, so the fact that Tai's had drama simply says that she's normal, not that she's spectacularly immature. It's kind of like calling a beginning gymnast a klutz because they had no one to teach them the basics and started trying to perform advanced maneuvers right off the bat instead. And actually a lot of times when we heard about relationship drama in relation to her, Tai was talking about other people.
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Our Tai experiences include trying to be naked during an apartment move, showing off her vagina, getting drunk and hopping on people...
Tai, like many people, say one thing but do something else. But I'm not mad about that, I'm mad that she shows no respect for Marten who is her one true friend in the group. She does not love Dora, it is a crush. She barely knows Dora. She could just wait a while and not stab her friend in the back.
gangler:
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 15 Jul 2011, 08:00 ---Our Tai experiences include trying to be naked during an apartment move, showing off her vagina, getting drunk and hopping on people...
Tai, like many people, say one thing but do something else. But I'm not mad about that, I'm mad that she shows no respect for Marten who is her one true friend in the group. She does not love Dora, it is a crush. She barely knows Dora. She could just wait a while and not stab her friend in the back.
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None of those things are indicative of an inability to maintain a monogamous relationship. More an indication of an enjoyment of drunken buffoonery than anything else, and also a general lack of modesty or shame in her body.
Tequlla makes Tai's clothes fall off. That's all.
Anyway unlike the rest of the cast Tai's just a girl. Young, immature, she lives in another world entirely. I mean we've gone in depth into the fact that her life is all college drama and hormonal barely adults trading partners. A crush is a huge deal for people in that age demographic. She's probably never even dated anyone exclusively for more than a few months. Might not even actually have experienced love as such yet. All just part of the journey. What you describe as a stab in the back I'm sure she sees as nothing quite so noteworthy, and what you describe as a crush I'm sure she doesn't view as quite so insignificant. It's a difference of perspective here.
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