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WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
fayelovesbubbles:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 18 Jan 2018, 19:17 ---I'm just imagining that Evie has a parent, or an aunt, or an uncle, who'd look at her performance today and say, "Evie, I bless the world in which you can have possibly grown up so blessedly ignorant about how this shit works and how it feels, but we need to have a talk...."
And, seriously, that's just about all I've got for Evie. She's young. She's ignorant. She's wallowing in privilege and, like most young ignorant people wallowing in privilege, she can be hurtful without realizing it. This is called the arrogance of youth, and it tends to wear off eventually. But I don't see any actual malice. She doesn't need a punch in the face, she needs a remedial course in empathy and some learning experience. As a person of color, she likely has some relatives who can provide both.
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Part of my reaction to her is probably partly because of dealing with women like her in my women's studies courses when I was in college. Graduate students can be the absolute worst.
TheEvilDog:
That's just it. Evie is still technically a student. Everything she has learned is from a textbook or is the secondhand experience of her lecturers. She has the theoretical knowledge, she just doesn't have the practical experience to temper youthful enthusiasm. In a real life setting away from college, if she acted like that towards a more volatile person, she'd probably get a bollicking that would teach her a lesson.
But here's the thing, sharing of knowledge and communication are two way streets. If two people are having a conversation and one is oblivious to the discomfort they are causing, its up to the other to say to them "Look, can you stop? You're making me feel really comfortable with the way you're talking." Straight away, you're telling someone that they are screwing up and they'll listen (or at least, they should). That inability to communicate is actually one of Bubbles' main flaws, she doesn't tell people how she might feel which deepens her problems which leads to more lack of communication and we get into a vicious circle.
The questions we should be asking might be more to do with Bubbles and less to do with Evie. Both Evie and Amanda are only serving as the catalyst and launch point for this story, they aren't necessarily the ones who will change for it being told. That's Faye and Bubbles.
Basically, its pointless getting upset over a character who is only doing what they are written to do and who will most likely disappear in a couple of strips anyway.
Wombat:
New comic.
I feel like Evie and Amanda are looking at Faye with shipper-eyes. Like, maybe those are "what you just said is really cute" eyes, but they feel like shipper eyes. And don't get me wrong, I'm personally all aboard this ship, but I don't see anything Faye just said as particularly romantic? Maybe it's in Faye's expression. Could also be tonally, but since Jeph is aware this is a comic, probably not.
Or those aren't shipper-eyes and I'm dumb, idk.
SpanielBear:
That looks painful. They should see an optician asap.
(also I'm colourblind so could someone just clarify for me- are their eyes red? Do we have a Code Stoker situation here!?)
TheEvilDog:
Funnily enough, all their eyes are brown.
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