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WCDT: Strips 2892 to 2896 (9th - 13th February 2015)
Is it cold in here?:
As long as you act on the knowledge that it's the kind of curiosity you need to suppress.
Welcome, new and sort of new people!
hedgie:
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--- Quote from: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 11 Feb 2015, 18:08 ---I think it also answers the question of whether Faye will go to AA or not. I suspect that's what the being ogled by creepy old dudes comment was supposed to imply.
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I seem to recall someone mentioning on the forums (or maybe on his Tumblr) that Jeph wasn't too keen on AA, so I suspect Faye will find some other support system(s).
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It's not always helpful. IMO, the idea of any "slip" being considered a full-blown relapse may lead people to just say "sod it" and fall back into the bottle. There's also the religion angle, which makes many feel uncomfortable. I went to a few ACOA (adult children of alcoholics) meetings, and rather than help me deal with my family, all the made me want to do is head to the nearest bar and drink myself silly.
Dalillama:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 11 Feb 2015, 22:54 ---
It's not always helpful. IMO, the idea of any "slip" being considered a full-blown relapse may lead people to just say "sod it" and fall back into the bottle. There's also the religion angle, which makes many feel uncomfortable. I went to a few ACOA (adult children of alcoholics) meetings, and rather than help me deal with my family, all the made me want to do is head to the nearest bar and drink myself silly.
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A friend once said something similar about the AA meeting he went to; he said he'd never in his life needed a drink more than leaving that meeting.
hedgie:
It doesn't help that a lot of people who are in A* are not there by choice, don't want to be there, and it kinda defeats the whole purpose. I remember smoking outside a bar one night with a friend, and a couple of people we were drinking with. It was around midnight, and one of the guys looks at his watch and says "sorry, we had better get going, we have an AA meeting tomorrow". When I replied "lemme guess, court-ordered", they said yeah. I have done the whole group therapy thing at times in the mental hospital, and there was always someone who just didn't want help, fucked it up for everyone else, and lead me to walk out because I didn't want to deal with their toxic influence.
BenRG:
I guess that my mind works in different ways from that of other people's but, to me, the significant thing in this comic is how comfortable Faye is with Marten's new girlfriend. Even though she has had a recent break-up that was so painful that it came close to destroying her, Faye has no problem opening up to Claire. She even apologises for snapping, wonder of wonders!
To me, this indicates that Faye really does approve of Claire; it wasn't just the drink talking. It also seems to support the theory that Claire is going to have her own, significant role in the next phase of Faye's life.
On the subject of art styling, I think Jeph may have used an old reference for Claire. It seems to be an older version of the character from around the wedding arc.
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