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WCDT 2887-2891 (2-6 February 2015)

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SubaruStephen:

--- Quote from: Isyrion on 06 Feb 2015, 11:59 ---
Whats the bet on Tai literally squeeing so hard she passes out?

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$5 on her squeeing until her lungs turn inside out!

starkruzr:

--- Quote from: DillyDolly on 06 Feb 2015, 09:36 ---
--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 06 Feb 2015, 09:31 ---Question:

Has it ever been established if Claire had the surgery? I seem to remember her saying she did, but I"m not 100%.

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Here's a better question... Should it matter? Why?

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Wait, what?

It doesn't matter for us and the story. Claire is completely "allowed" in a narrative context to be private about this with respect to the audience. It doesn't matter to us at all. What matters is her relationship with Marten. We do not know Claire's surgical status, and I would be willing to bet you nearly any amount of money that we never will, which is fine.

But like, inside the story? Of course it matters. They've almost certainly had a conversation about this off-panel; like, of course they have, this is an intimate detail adults need to deal with. Lots and lots of people are not going to be sexually attracted to people whose genitals are in a certain configuration. That is entirely understandable and completely fine.

I can't tell which "should" you were referring to here -- the audience-related one or the story-related one.

eschaton:

--- Quote from: Akima on 06 Feb 2015, 16:41 ---Wow! Conflating race and, what, behaviour? Are we seriously going to go down that path? Suggesting that somehow Dale doesn't "act black" enough? I was born in China, and yet here I am communicating in fluent, correct written English. Does that change my race? If I were a comic character, what would I have to do to be "authentically Asian"? Speak broken English with a "flied lice" accent? Wear a qipao all the time? What should Dale be  doing? Saying "dawg" every other sentence?

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It has nothing to do with his behavior.  It's because Dale began being drawn with straight (but poofy) hair.  As I said, I just didn't "read" him as being black because of this, but some tall, dark-skinned guy of unknown ethnicity (South Asian, Hispanic, etc). 

DrBear:
There is only one thing that could top this, and I hope we see it Monday...

The Marten-Claire booty dance  http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=300

Oenone:

--- Quote from: eschaton on 06 Feb 2015, 11:24 ---
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 06 Feb 2015, 11:05 ---Jeph stated unambiguously that Dale was African American in QA Dump #14

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Okay.  I don't read the QA dumps unless I'm linked to them, so thanks.  He doesn't "read" as black to me because of the hair texture.  But it could be straightened, or he could just have "good" hair naturally I suppose.

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I thought he had twists when introduced which had now grown into dreds.

Also I think it's seriously gross you're getting into stuff like his hair texture to determine Dales ethnicity. Are we going to pull out cuatro paintings next?

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