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WCDT: 2816-2820 (20-24 October 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
BenRG:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 20 Oct 2014, 05:25 ---I hope that Angus gets the same degree of support. He needs it, and deserves it, too. Right now, I can imagine him just sitting, staring into a fire. As guys tend to do, in my experience.
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Do you know what I'd like? I'd like for Angus to go into a bar to drown his sorrows and encounter Sven. The two of them get talking (not knowing who the other is, at least at first). Sven gives Angus a verbal slap-down about giving up so easily and letting Faye go. "Here's a bit of free advice, man. I made the biggest fuck-up in my life when I let that woman walk out of my life because I was scared of committing to her. If I were you? If I had the choices you now have? I'd hold on to her so tight that the only way they could seperate us would be to cut my cold, rotting corpse loose. Now get back there and prove to her that you love her as much as she deserves!"
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For some reason, I just suddenly had a flash of Sven being Angus's Cyrano de Bergerac, providing the words Angus needs to reassure Faye and win her back. Only Dora, who knows her brother's lyrical style so well, recognises that the words are his and knows just what he's willing to do to make Faye happy.
anahata:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 20 Oct 2014, 06:15 ---Now get back there and prove to her that you love her as much as she deserves!"
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He doesn't have much wiggle room though, does he?
Giving up his new job offer would be terrible for them both, as discussed many times before.
So Faye is forced to choose between LDR and moving to NY, neither of which she seems to want much.
The only damage that Angus can repair is to apologise for expecting Faye to be unreservedly happy for him, focus on her needs and maybe talk about what they can do to make the LDR option as painless as possible.
It seems incredible that they didn't discuss this before. Maybe neither of them really thought he'd get the job.
MooskiNet:
Heh - it's never been Sven's silver tongue that worked on Faye. That was pure pheromones, man.
eschaton:
--- Quote from: aphanisis81 on 20 Oct 2014, 03:21 ---Agreed! The library strip, and also the one at the Horrible Revelation where they're just waiting with bated breath for Angus to say the word, are brilliant. Their presence is especially incongruous since they're clearly UMass students (and I'm not just stereotyping, one of them wears either a UMass cap or hoodie), and they're hanging out in Northampton - sometimes even at the Smith/Smif library - which is a highly inconvenient 10 mile drive from Amherst, and also one of the most bro-free places in New England.
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Hey! I'm a UMass graduate (lived in the Valley for six years, between undergrad and masters), and I spent quite a lot of time in Noho. I could name drop places, but it was all over ten years ago now, and probably only a small slice of the forum actually knows Northampton well.
Of course, no one would ever have confused me for a Bro.
GarandMarine:
I've always seen it as a matter of courtesy "Hey are you okay with seeing this person again on a regular basis? Are you solid there emotionally or do you not want to deal with it?" There's also the matter of minimizing the drama that can infect small groups of friends. I think the major issue here that people are having with Marten/Tai/Dora is that Marten's passive as all fuck, so it's possible that in her enthusiasm she was tossing her friend under the bus. That obviously hasn't happened in this situation, so all good, but this kind of crap, especially with even vaguely volatile individuals involved, has detonated groups of people I really miss hanging out with.
I don't think Angus is going to get that pep talk, and I doubt Sven is the kind of man who could even begin to give it. In the end this was a short relationship they both enjoyed, but this is Angus's dream. A man (or a woman) has gotta do what they've gotta do, and if you have a dream, a passion, then you do anything you have to do to chase that and don't look back. The lives we have in many cases are relatively comfortable and easy, taking the plunge into the unknown is harsh, and terrifying, but there's no better moment in life then right after you cut yourself free and make a leap of faith.
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