Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2873-2877 (12-16 January 2015)
BenRG:
Either someone in the apartment is buying Faye booze on the sly or she's forgetting doing so herself. This latter option is very worrying. A significant time in Rehab is possible in her immediate future. She's not just backslid, she's lost all the progress she made during the lifetime of the comic so far and is still regressing.
Jeph is clearly spending time to establish just how bad (and quickly bad) things have got for Faye. This is good writing -You need to properly establish the peril before you talk about counter move.
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 13 Jan 2015, 21:56 ---This will not end well.
--- End quote ---
I worry that she'll come in to work drunk, Dora will send her home 'until you're sober' and that this will send her off the deep end. Alcoholics can massively overreact to personal setbacks.
NilsO:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 13 Jan 2015, 14:11 ---The power to get to the root of the problem is just a step away. It's not imaginary, it's real. Hyperreal. Integrate it in your life and you're all set. Then you can have pi. Or tau, if you're really hungry.
--- End quote ---
In my language, "tau" means "rope". Yes, you must be really hungry to enjoy it.
(click to show/hide)
themacnut:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 13 Jan 2015, 23:28 ---Either someone in the apartment is buying Faye booze on the sly or she's forgetting doing so herself. This latter option is very worrying. A significant time in Rehab is possible in her immediate future. She's not just backslid, she's lost all the progress she made during the lifetime of the comic so far and is still regressing.
--- End quote ---
It's worse than that. Faye's always been a hard drinker, but she's never drank like this - hungover from finishing one bottle and immediately starting the next? Those are the actions of a person who simply does not want to stay sober. Which means she'll only go to rehab by being dragged there kicking and screaming. And knowing Faye, punching and biting.
This will not be resolved quickly or painlessly, believe that. It's going to get worse before there's even a hope that it might get better. We may see Faye lose her job, at least temporarily, alienate her friends ('cause that's what alcoholics tend to do to their non-alcoholic friends who object to their drinking) and maybe even get kicked out of the apartment because, y'know, she's not supplying her half of the rent anymore and Marten will need to either replace her with a working, paying roommate or end up moving in with his Mother (shudder), in which case Faye's gonna end up on the street anyway.
No intervention is going to solve this quickly - Faye knows full well what she's doing and doesn't seem to care very much. She just wants to stop the pain of her breakup and staying drunk seems to be the most expedient way to do that. Anyone who seriously tries to interfere with that, to essentially make her face her pain, is going to be fought tooth and nail with everything Faye can muster. Yep, this is gonna get ugly, we've only seen the pretty side so far.
jwhouk:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmZp8pR1uc
NilsO:
--- Quote from: themacnut on 14 Jan 2015, 02:25 ---... Those are the actions of a person who simply does not want to stay sober.
... Yep, this is gonna get ugly, we've only seen the pretty side so far.
--- End quote ---
Agreed. So far, we have mostly seen the funny side of Faye drinking, but there is a very dark undertone here. We may speculate if Pintsize was the Booze Fairy in today's strip (as he seemed to encourage Faye to drink in strip #2870), but in all probability, Faye bought the new bottle herself. Pintsize is a pervert, but he does not want to harm anyone.
We may speculate if Marten tried to Talk to Faye last night. If so, she probably just shrugged it off. Apparently, things are going to get much worse before this is over. There will be Dark Times ahead, but I sincerely hope Faye will get help to get through this.
The Booze Fairy revealed (a distant relative of the Tequila Monster): (click to show/hide)
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version