Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2922 to 2926 (23-27 March 2015)
Neko_Ali:
Faye's father used to sneak a drink when they went out for their weekly milkshakes because her mom didn't like drinking. So it's unlikely they were active alcoholics, and I doubt they were at all. One drink a week doesn't make a problem. Being a tea-totaller could be an indication that Faye's mom or someone close to her was one... But there is no other indication, and it's as or more likely that she just didn't approve of drinking.
Faye calling herself a coward is unfair and counter productive to healing. Everyone fails sometimes, everyone has problems. That doesn't make you a failure though, which is how Faye's been feeling more and more since she found out Angus might be leaving, and crystallized when he got the part and she realized she couldn't go with him. Not wanting to uproot her life for her boyfriend doesn't make her a failure, but that's how she felt. So she climbed into a bottle and pulled the cork closed until she nearly drowned in it.
Today's comic, hearing other people's stories and realizing that they were all, including herself, just people with problems. Problems they tried to hide from with alcohol. And which all caused even more problems. That doesn't make them failures... It makes them human. In a way, she's found her people. People that she can understand where they are coming from, and they can understand her as well.
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 24 Mar 2015, 19:20 ---Faye's father used to sneak a drink when they went out for their weekly milkshakes because her mom didn't like drinking. So it's unlikely they were active alcoholics, and I doubt they were at all. One drink a week doesn't make a problem. Being a tea-totaller could be an indication that Faye's mom or someone close to her was one... But there is no other indication, and it's as or more likely that she just didn't approve of drinking.
Faye calling herself a coward is unfair and counter productive to healing. Everyone fails sometimes, everyone has problems. That doesn't make you a failure though, which is how Faye's been feeling more and more since she found out Angus might be leaving, and crystallized when he got the part and she realized she couldn't go with him. Not wanting to uproot her life for her boyfriend doesn't make her a failure, but that's how she felt. So she climbed into a bottle and pulled the cork closed until she nearly drowned in it.
Today's comic, hearing other people's stories and realizing that they were all, including herself, just people with problems. Problems they tried to hide from with alcohol. And which all caused even more problems. That doesn't make them failures... It makes them human. In a way, she's found her people. People that she can understand where they are coming from, and they can understand her as well.
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A drink a week doesn't make an alcoholic, but someone sneaking it does tend to raise red flags.
I'm curious to see how this changes her relationships with the main cast. She may come to the realization that not only the drinking but also a lot of her other defense mechanisms hurt her and the people around her. I can't help but wonder whether we'll see a more vulnerable (or at least more open) Faye... with lots of puzzlement and "What have you done with the real Faye?!!?" from various main cast members.
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 24 Mar 2015, 19:29 ---A drink a week doesn't make an alcoholic, but someone sneaking it does tend to raise red flags.
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I'm just guessing here, but there are a lot of churches in the South that advocate abstaining from alcohol completely, to the point where even the communion "wine" is actually grape juice. (I'm sure they have them up north, too, but... Bible belt.) My guess is that Faye's mom is or at least was a member of one of these churches.
So sneaking a drink a week to avoid getting in trouble with a religious wife... less of a red flag than it might otherwise be.
TRVA123:
We probably will never know much more than we currently know about Faye's dad's drinking. However, the fact that he drank in secret, coupled with Faye's own alcoholic tendencies, is very suggestive. I don't see why it should be just dismissed out of hand as an inconsequential thing.
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 24 Mar 2015, 19:42 ---
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 24 Mar 2015, 19:29 ---A drink a week doesn't make an alcoholic, but someone sneaking it does tend to raise red flags.
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I'm just guessing here, but there are a lot of churches in the South that advocate abstaining from alcohol completely, to the point where even the communion "wine" is actually grape juice. (I'm sure they have them up north, too, but... Bible belt.) My guess is that Faye's mom is or at least was a member of one of these churches.
So sneaking a drink a week to avoid getting in trouble with a religious wife... less of a red flag than it might otherwise be.
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There's also entire denominations that abstain completely from alcohol (the church I was raised in being one of them, that being Seventh-Day Adventist). We certainly had grape juice to go with our communion bread - which I somehow managed to get even though I was never baptized :psyduck:
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