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WCDT: 2440-2444 (6-10 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
azurite:
--- Quote from: Latias on 07 May 2013, 12:03 ---
--- Quote ---BUT that kind of dynamic can only work for so long.
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Not necessarily true at all. There are people who have very long distance relationships for very long periods of time. Not everyone is capable of doing this, of course, but that dynamic CAN work, especially when given they're actually within easy driving distance. We don't know anything about how either of them feels about a long distance relationship, so it's a bit early to proclaim that a long distance relationship can't work out long term.
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We did east coast/midwest long distance for five years, and man, if I had a nickel for every time we got the it-won't-work-I-could-never-live-like-that spiel, I'd have a lot of nickels. For some people, long distance is better. It was better for me when I was in my twenties... but, after a point, we had to decide if we were going to have a life together or not. So one of us had to move.
I think I missed the mark with my previous post, anyway - what Angus was actually asking was if Faye saw herself with HIM in five years, if he was in her long term plans. I know her reactions would have made me pretty uncomfortable about my prospects.
Torlek:
--- Quote from: azurite on 07 May 2013, 19:14 ---I think I missed the mark with my previous post, anyway - what Angus was actually asking was if Faye saw herself with HIM in five years, if he was in her long term plans. I know her reactions would have made me pretty uncomfortable about my prospects.
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I believe it's been shown that Faye's abandonment issues have also led to some fairly massive commitment issues and a generic lack of planning when it comes to life. She obviously has no direction in life and one year in the future, never mind five, is probably not something that's on her radar. It looks fairly certain we're about to see a serious Faye-Angus fight, but I think the bigger foreshadowing is that Faye's about to go through some fairly massive character growth.
ZoeB:
Re: 5 year plans
I can't make them - not even 5 month plans. Life's too uncertain.
20 year plans - yes, those we have, full of contingency sub-plans. But they're not detailed.
When I was 10, I decided what i wanted to do with my life.
I wanted to travel the world.
I wanted to emigrate to Australia - thanks to a school project I did at age 6 on the place.
I wanted to work on a space program in the year 2000. Maybe offplanet - that didn't seem unlikely in 1968.
I wanted a husband, and children.
I wanted a PhD in Pure Maths and Astrophysics, like Zoe (the Dr Who companion).
I had to make certain concessions to reality when it came to implementation, though not major ones. The biggest was that I didn't have a female puberty, I had to pretend to be a boy. That actually made a lot of my career choices easier, though emotionally it was devastating. I ended up falling in love with another gal, so it had advantages there. She's straight.
I also found out I was Intersex, and was told the odds of me ever having children were remote. 100:1 against - though we now know that was wrong, more like 100,000,000 to 1 against. But... we had a child anyway. I wanted a large family, but for me, 1 is larger than could reasonably be expected.
At Uni, I kept up with the Pure Maths, but dropped Physics because I found Computer Science more interesting. And because there were (and are) a lot of Astrophysicists driving cabs, you had to be in the top few percent.
More through luck than effort, I got the rest. The family emigrated to Australia (I only got 2 weeks notice). I travelled the world as part of my job - from Zuerich to Seoul and Southampton, Bremen and Bangkok to Akron, Ohio and Hengelo, Overijssel. I played a major role in Australia's second space program - before, like the first one, it too was shut down after achieving spectacular success. Shut down in fact because it was so successful, like the first, accomplishing all objectives, but with no plans by a myopic government for any follow-up.
Now I better get back to my thesis if I'm going to get my doctorate. I have all the published papers, it's just a matter of writing it up.
westrim:
^So, mission mostly accomplishedish!
Marten is once again the punching bag. Yay.
It's not even true. Sure, he's lost direction, but he pretty solidly noted his desire to be in a band and create music. That's more than Faye has expressed- she's got art, but every time it comes up she treats it like more like a hassle than an interest.
This strip bugs me.
Loki:
My jimmies, too, are rustled.
(click to show/hide)Maybe mostly because the sentiment that Marten has no direction has been expressed here over and over again, so Jeph lampshading it kinda has a "meh, tell me something new" feeling to it.
--- Quote from: Faye ---Is contentment the same thing as complacency?
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The more important thing, is it the same as a complement?
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