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WCDT 3621 to 3625 (27th November to 1st December 2017)
BenRG:
Well, I've got the feeling that we've reached the end of the 'Introducing The New Big Thing' arc. Basically, it was a compressed version of the introduction of Claire, reducing it to less than 20 strips rather than the hundreds of strips it took to introduce a certain redhead.
I've got a feeling that we're going to be seeing a lot more of them in the future. They might even end up as a main cast member's significant other/very best friend and a member of the main cast, at least for a while. Jeph thinks they're cute, has made it clear that he likes writing them. I just wish that he wasn't being so clumsy about it!
Now, don't get me wrong. I've said before that QC has more in common with 'continuing' comedies and dramas like soap operas than most other web-comics. Because of this, the 'main cast' is always changing and the focus is slowly drifting across new characters as the writer runs out of material for the old ones (who metamorphose into secondary or even supporting roles). Because of this, the introduction of new characters who will take on major roles is inevitable.
I just want to emphasise something: I don't dislike or hate Tilly. If anything, I'm generally indifferent to them. Jeph has really failed in this arc to make me care about them and be interested in their arc in the way I am about, for example, Faye, Bubbles, Marten, Claire and even May and Momo. To me, they'll always be more a foil than a character in their own right so I guess that I've just got to shrug this one off and hope we move onto something interesting next week.
I'm glad that I was right on the nose about the 'Taffy' thing. Either Beatrice, like Veronica, is one of those people who, if she says something in that voice, other people tend to follow along. Or, and this is more likely, Hannelore was tired and a bit out-of-sorts when she spoke to first Tilly and then her mother and she got what the two of them said mixed up in her head.
JimC:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 29 Nov 2017, 23:29 ---the 'main cast' is always changing and the focus is slowly drifting across new characters as the writer runs out of material for the old ones
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Or, of course because that's simply what happens in real life...
anahata:
I'm amused by the way so many posters on this forum were deliberately calling Tilly Taffy while knowing that wasn't their correct name, but have uniformly jumped into line when told to use gender-neutral pronouns.
Is that more important than getting somebody's name right?
Also, as I've not knowingly met any non-binary people in real life, It never occurred to me some of them preferred they/them to he/him or she/her. It's obvious why, but it did make me think for a moment. Well done, Jeph.
hakko504:
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--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 29 Nov 2017, 21:01 ---I find it... Odd that Tilly didn't mention their pronouns until now. This is the fourth person they've introduced themself too, and they didn't have any problem repeatedly insisting that their name was being said wrong, so... It just seems odd that they didn't mention it until now, but bring it up here without any sort of comment or reason for the change in behavior.
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speaking as a nonbinary person, it can be easier to correct new people on your name more than your pronouns. pronouns are gendered by nature, but names have more leeway, especially since nb folk tend to pick unisex names. and people who don't know you tend to easily accept being corrected on your name as "oh, I didn't know" whereas asking for different pronouns than they assumed turns it into a whole Thing.
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Welcome new poster :) Feel free to introduce you some more in the 'Hi I'm new' forum. :clairedoge:
traroth:
Sorry, I don't get the joke about pronouns. I guess that's the limit of my knowledge of the arcanes of english language...
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