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WCDT: 2455-2459 (27-31 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Is it cold in here?:
Losing The Pugnacious Peach would be like taking hot sauce out of a recipe?
A lot of shipping is failure to realize, perhaps from lack of life experience, that there truly are emotionally close people in a non-sexual way and even a non-romantic way. Hannelore said very early on that sexual activity was psychologically out of the question for her, but even aside from that she and Marten don't even have a "pure and chaste from afar" set of feelings going on. They are nonetheless very important to each other.
Zebediah:
Yeah, I'd say that Marten and Hannelore have something like a brother-sister relationship. My own son has something like this with a friend's daughter - granted, he's 8 and she's 5, so a romantic relationship isn't really an issue right now, but my son has said repeatedly that he wants his friend to be his little sister. Both of them are only children, so it's the closest thing to a sibling relationship they have. Likewise, Marten and Hannelore are both only children, so if they want siblings they have to adopt their friends.
pwhodges:
I have split the discussion of the meaning of words used as insults into a new thread in the Discuss! forum. As a result, one post about the comic got in the wrong place - so here it is:
--- Quote from: CleoKat on 29 May 2013, 13:17 ---But to the comic. Today's was really, really interesting. How long has it been since Marten's spoken about his old feelings about Faye without it being about Dora's insecurity? I'm not sure if we're just being reminded that they had an intense history or whether some of those old feelings are floating around still. I thought I'd groan at the thought of revisiting Marten/Faye but I actually find myself a little excited. Maybe because I love the angst but I like the messiness of their relationship that they've forged into a workable friendship and I think that's the source of Marten's conflict. It's nice to see him sharing with Claire too. My best case scenario is that we'll get a call from Amir and we'll be back on band stuff, I want them to do a gig so badly, it'll be awesome (or terrible, either way, great to read).
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DSL:
This from a so-called "advice" column in one of my client papers:
--- Quote ---Sure, platonic friendships can exist. But I assume they only survive in an unrealistic parallel universe where all humans are unattractive, sexually inept, and emotionally absent.
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Good lord.
Mr_Rose:
Time to fire the head cannon, methinks. Nothing quite like grapeshot to the face for solving problems.
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