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WCDT 2912 to 2916 (9-13 March 2015)

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tywren:

--- Quote from: chaospersonified on 11 Mar 2015, 16:31 ---If we're moving quickly, it's more likely towards Faye's support group, which I doubt will be especially full of squee. This was a squee moment before the serious sets in, I predict.

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I hope you're right, because all the squee has warn out it's welcome as far as i'm concerned.

Interlude:

--- Quote from: NilsO on 11 Mar 2015, 02:05 ---Possibly, but remember that Dora and Marten had several disagreements before breaking up. This was just the first warning, I guess more will come. It seems Dora is slowly heading for a friendless life (OK, she still has Mieville, unless she has run away, we have not seen her for a very long time).

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I've always thought Dora was sort of the odd-girl out in this group of friends. She's at a different place in her life than the other members of the cast. Not only is she older, but she has a set career as a business owner. Sometimes you outgrow a group of friends. It's not a bad thing. It just happens. It's hard to relate to a party girl when you're a very work-oriented person, for example. (It's one of the reasons I feel like the Tai/Dora relationship would have some issues. I can't imagine Dora being okay with the constant drug use or the slacking off and lack of ambition, but that is projection on my part.)

Who is she really close with, anyways? She dated Marten, and while they are okay now, they're not really friends anymore, either. She's never really been close to any of the others, except Faye, and I always felt that was more of an incidental friendship. How often do they hang out, just the two of them, aside from work? That's not even mentioning the current situation between them. Dora's part in the comic has always been as boss of Coffee of Doom. I am afraid that if her friendships with the other cast members fade, she will disappear from the comic. But, as a pretend person, I think she would probably be better off without some of these relationships. Not that any of the other cast are specifically bad for her, but I just don't think she's ever really had a good connection with any of them, and it would be good for her to find other people that she COULD have a supportive and relaxing (that's a weird way to describe friendship, but I know that I am thankful to have friends I can just let my guard down with and chat and have fun with, as well as talk about serious matters) friendship.


--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 11 Mar 2015, 03:53 ---Changing the behavior seems like a better plan. Let's not mischaracterize my opening bold statement while we're pointing out what I originally said. If you want to hold me to to "would be better" you've got to accept that I think Dora is wrong and Dora probably needs to focus on smaller items. I may not have qualified one statement enough, but I made it pretty clear otherwise that I was stating my view, not a bold declaration of universal truth.

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I think that is a good point. It's hard to change something about yourself that is...well, such a big part of yourself. And if that's what you focus on, it can be easy to start feeling like you are a problem/worthless/etc. It would probably be a lot easier to start with the smaller things-- how she talked to Tai was the problem, not the message of what she was saying.


Note: Dora is the character I relate to the most in this comic, so clearly I am biased.

explicit:
Aww, now I'm sad. I didn't want to be sad tonight Jeph :(

chaospersonified:

--- Quote from: explicit on 11 Mar 2015, 19:37 ---Aww, now I'm sad. I didn't want to be sad tonight Jeph :(

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As upset as I am... I fucking called it. We're on the express train to melacholy from here till Monday, folks, or so I suspect. We may get a glimmer of hope, but it will be temporary, until the rift between Faye and Dora is fully healed, anyway.

jwhouk:
Two things:

1. Faye took control of the convo and the situation. She's the John Lennon of this Beatles breakup. They're not gonna reconcile until Faye says so.

2. That .horse t-shirt is going to be a big seller. I'm calling it right now.

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