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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
MrNumbers:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 30 Jan 2015, 05:46 ---It's worth noting that Marten doesn't want to stay where he is in life right now, FWIW.
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Pointedly aware. I did bring up the notion that since he doesn't have anything more to aspire to, really, what might change for him is a new appreciation and contentedness with his lot rather than a drive to achieve a 'higher' goal, just because he thinks he should do more than he is right now.
Or he might look at Claire a few years down the road, assuming they last that long, and say "Fuck it, wanna adopt?"
Funny thought; Claire might be earning more as a research librarian by that point, and might push Marten to be a stay-at-home-dad.
Gah! I've fallen down the wild speculation rabbit hole! This is like TVTropes, but inside my own head! Urge to write fanfiction... rising... must... resist...
plusorminus:
--- Quote from: DillyDolly on 30 Jan 2015, 06:15 ---
--- Quote from: NilsO on 30 Jan 2015, 05:44 ---
--- Quote from: plusorminus on 30 Jan 2015, 04:57 ---I do think this is the last we'll see of Dora for quite some time. Marten will likely avoid CoD for the forseeable, and so will Claire. Hanners may quit. Dale and Marigold can exist in their own arc. Penny and Cosette don't really have any of their own, and I can count on two hands the number of times Tai has been in CoD since she and Dora hooked up. Sad, really, but inevitable, I guess. :-\
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I do not think Dora will be written out of the series as a bitter and friendless person. CoD and Dora may lose significance in the series, but there are still interactions. Several of the "main cast" still work there, and as long as the Tai/Dora relationship holds, I guess Dora will appear in the series. Hopefully, given time, Dora and Faye can be reconciled as friends, and Faye may even visit CoD as a customer. But Faye getting her job back is highly improbable.
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I agree with both of the points. It's been building up to it, too, as we've seen more and more of the library cast—as well as Marigold's and Dale's story.
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Yes, exactly. I think that Dora will be demoted to "recurring." We'll see her a bit more than we see, say, Steve and/or Cossette, but much less than we'll see Faye, Marten & Claire (and possibly Emily & Clinton), Hanners, and Marigold & Dale. IMO, the strip is moving into a new phase. Marten has a new girlfriend and Faye no longer works at CoD. They are still the strip's main characters so the action will necessarily take place where they are in their lives now.
DillyDolly:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 30 Jan 2015, 06:18 ---
--- Quote from: Shjade on 30 Jan 2015, 02:20 ---
--- Quote from: snubnose on 30 Jan 2015, 02:12 ---I dont think Faye qualifies as an alcoholic quite yet, even if of course she's on the road to that.
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I'd say Faye's qualified as an alcoholic for well over a thousand strips.
By the time you're putting yourself in the hospital by drinking because you were fired from your job for drinking, you're generally well into alcoholism.
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I disagree, Faye drank so much because of her breakup with Angus.
An alcoholic, to me, is somebody who drinks constantly, not somebody who drinks too much because of an immediate and current reason.
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Yeah, but what is the timeline? I thought they broke up quite a while ago. It's not like he left and the next night she got alcohol poisoning. Besides that, I think it's a really bad sign when anyone beyond "college age" gets that drunk—especially when they are doing it for emotional reasons (versus partying too hard). Faye has even hinted at having drinking problems before. I believe she is an alcoholic or is at least on the path to being one.
DillyDolly:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 30 Jan 2015, 06:19 ---
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 30 Jan 2015, 05:46 ---It's worth noting that Marten doesn't want to stay where he is in life right now, FWIW.
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Pointedly aware. I did bring up the notion that since he doesn't have anything more to aspire to, really, what might change for him is a new appreciation and contentedness with his lot rather than a drive to achieve a 'higher' goal, just because he thinks he should do more than he is right now.
Or he might look at Claire a few years down the road, assuming they last that long, and say "Fuck it, wanna adopt?"
Funny thought; Claire might be earning more as a research librarian by that point, and might push Marten to be a stay-at-home-dad.
Gah! I've fallen down the wild speculation rabbit hole! This is like TVTropes, but inside my own head! Urge to write fanfiction... rising... must... resist...
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Librarians usually don't make tons of $$$. It's not poverty level, but it isn't a ton considering they have to be in school longer (you need a Masters of Library Science). It wouldn't be simple for two people to live on that kind of budget unless one of them was working part-time at home—though that could happen—especially if Marten and Claire fostered-to-adopt. And let's face it, if they would probably have to go the foster route as private adoption is scary expensive.
Edit - Quick question to seasoned forumnites or the mod - Are we breaking the shipping rule if we talk about the very distant future of characters who are already together? I doubt it, but just want to make sure.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: DillyDolly on 30 Jan 2015, 06:43 ---Yeah, but what is the timeline?
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Amazingly, Faye and Angus had their last argument and went their separate ways only about a week ago, in-comic time.
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