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WCDT Strips 3650-3655 (8th to 12th January 2018)
gopher:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 10 Jan 2018, 23:32 ---This is absolutely the start of an arc that gets Faye to ask Bubbles out isn't it? Like it just is.
I'm a compromised writer here. I officially can't tell between whether this is effective telegraphing -- the explicit lack of interest in male partners being emphasized, the sister being brought back explicitly to show new relationships as a theme for Faye to echo -- or just my shipping goggles on overdrive trying to justify what I hope it is. This sucks.
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I think it is, but I hope it is not. Feels far too much like the author just putting together two single characters to tidy things up. Faye and Bubbles are great friends and work partners, I don't see them as great romantic partners. Faye is quite broken that way and Bubbles is Bubbles.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 11 Jan 2018, 00:46 ---They're gonna get along just fine as sisters-in-law. But poor Mandy - both her sister and her girlfriend tag-teaming her to wind her up.
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Here's a thought (a variant of one that I had before I got a decent handle on Evie and Amanda's relationship): Maybe the professors at Smif will be so impressed with Evie that, dependent on the outcome of her PhD, they'll offer her tenure at the college. The assessors are so positive that Evie feels that she can start with the assumption that she's going to get her degree immediately. After they take a brief look at Northampton's dire housing market, Faye approaches Hanners, who is more than willing to transfer her tenancy over to the newcomers as she doesn't know when she'll be back and, when she returns, whether she will still want to live in a place so strongly tied to her past.
So, Amanda and Evie become the new next-door neighbours. This stirs up the dynamic in Marten and Faye's apartment, giving Marten the support of Evie as a fellow Token Sane One as well as giving us endless Whitaker Sisters hi-jinks.
Cornelius:
I like the sound of that.
Also, Hanners leaving, means that the band is out of a drummer again.
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: gopher on 11 Jan 2018, 00:49 ---
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 10 Jan 2018, 23:32 ---This is absolutely the start of an arc that gets Faye to ask Bubbles out isn't it? Like it just is.
I'm a compromised writer here. I officially can't tell between whether this is effective telegraphing -- the explicit lack of interest in male partners being emphasized, the sister being brought back explicitly to show new relationships as a theme for Faye to echo -- or just my shipping goggles on overdrive trying to justify what I hope it is. This sucks.
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I think it is, but I hope it is not. Feels far too much like the author just putting together two single characters to tidy things up. Faye and Bubbles are great friends and work partners, I don't see them as great romantic partners. Faye is quite broken that way and Bubbles is Bubbles.
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Dora is quite broken in similar ways as well. That's what caused the break up between her and Marten after all. But she and Tai have been happily together for some time now. People can heal. Faye has healed and grown quite a bit since the days of Angus and drinking herself into the hospital. And Bubbles has grown tremendously since she was introduced. Jeph has been dropping hints like a 50 pound weight about Bubbles' attraction to Faye for a while now. And the set up for Amanda or Evie to make a comment that will bring it all out in the open is clearly here. You can only drag out the 'will they, won't they' thing so long before it becomes boring. So yeah, I absolutely see something happening on Friday and next week dealing with the aftermath. What the thing is we don't know yet, but there are a lot of options.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: gopher on 11 Jan 2018, 00:49 ---I think it is, but I hope it is not. Feels far too much like the author just putting together two single characters to tidy things up. Faye and Bubbles are great friends and work partners, I don't see them as great romantic partners. Faye is quite broken that way and Bubbles is Bubbles.
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I'm not sure myself but I have the feeling that Jeph decided to make Bubbles a romantic foil for Faye fairly early on in the Fighting Arena character arc. It's just that we're just approaching a major event in that arc and that the growth of Faye and Bubbles' emotional bond and mutual intimacy has been going on for so long on slow-burn that it's sometimes hard to remember that this didn't just start suddenly since Bubbles moved in with Faye, Marten and Claire.
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