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WCDT Strips 3251 to 3255 (27th June to 1st July 2016)
mad hands murphy:
She should just stop her.
Orkboy:
This might warrant its own thread, but I'm not dedicated enough to the moment of insight for that.
The general behavior of Bubbles makes me believe that Our Benevolent Comic Overlord is good friends with a veteran. The character is a little too accurate. The loss of idealism, the slightly jaded view of the world, the oddly on-the-nose absence of humor, and the blend of fatalism and stoicism is all way too familiar.
BenRG:
Bubbles, just so that your database is up-to-date, Faye's action in panel 6 is what is known as an 'immature teenage strop'.
FWIW, I don't think that Faye quite knows what to do in this situation either. However, I do think that she's going to learn that there is no more effective a brake on her behaviour than a good friend hovering nearby and glaring disapprovingly at her. She knows this on a subconscious level, of course; why would she be so determined to get her to leave otherwise?
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 29 Jun 2016, 13:30 ---One odd thing is that an emotional crisis of "Oh my god how am I still alive" proportions can often be the impetus for giving an addiction up. Like an old gentleman who had a silver cigarette case with a Nazi swastika on it. He had survived the Normandy Beach Invasion and picked it up off a dead enemy officer. He was fumbling out a cigarette, turned it over and saw the swastika. He kept it ever after as a reminder, and never smoked another.
Morbid? Ghastly? Well, yes. Strictly against regs for trophy taking? Also yes. Had a certain kind of emotional truth about it though.
If Faye were to get narrowly missed by some kind of disaster right now, especially if it put someone else (like Bubbles) at risk, that might be the end of drinking for her. For example if she's in the headlights of an out-of-control concrete truck but gets missed because Bubbles shoves her (or the truck) out of the way at the last second and takes the hit instead? Yeah, that would probably do it - even if Bubbles were relatively unhurt.
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Sadly, not even a near-death experience is enough to get some people to stop.
wlewisiii:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 30 Jun 2016, 00:15 ---
Sadly, not even a near-death experience is enough to get some people to stop.
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I had more than one relative who could only be stopped by death. Grandmother, Uncle, cousins...
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