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WCDT Strips 3661-3665 (22nd to 26th January 2018)
Shjade:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 24 Jan 2018, 02:24 ---"Yes, these people are responsible for me living the lifestyle that I have, and appreciate my artistic output... but their all weirdos and I want nothing to do with them." ... kinda thing ??
That saddens me.
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When you look at how this forum reacted to, for instance, Tilly, a character Jeph actively enjoyed drawing, can you really blame him?
What reason does this forum give him to like it?
Eastrim:
--- Quote from: anahata on 24 Jan 2018, 00:52 ---
--- Quote from: Eastrim on 23 Jan 2018, 23:17 ---Always fascinating when an artist who actively dislikes this forum and a large portion of his fanbase for shipping has his own characters ship unironically.
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The sort of shipping that is discouraged is when there are no indications in the comic that the relationship might or even could happen. With Bubbles and Faye, it's been made clear enough that Bubbles has feelings for Faye, though maybe not the other way round.
Anyway, Amanda and Evie's wide-eyed enthusiasm about it does them no favours. I wouldn't want to be seen behaving like that.
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It's been made clear to the audience, but Amanda and Evie have absolutely zero hints; not from Bubbles, and certainly not from the oblivious Faye.
It's also entirely counter to Faye's demonstrated and stated romantic/sexual orientations, which Amanda as her sister should be aware of; Faye is heterosexual, and has repeatedly rejected robosexuality (sometimes not even when Pintsize was propositioning). Shipping Bubbles with Faye was even deflated 100 or so strips ago when Claire did it (and tied into crack shipping like Sherlock/Mr. Darcy). Rhetorical question: would we or he be as tolerant of a ship if it were a heterosexual couple were shipping a lesbian with a guy they worked and hung out with? Fin with Clarence?
He's always been hypocritical about it; the thing that really set him off was Hannelore shippers, but he also drew her lusting after firefighters to the point of leaping into their arms, on good enough drugs when we met her that she could smoke, and a practice date with Sven. However, we aren't allowed to take any of that as an indication she might be able to work past her neuroses she explicitly wants to conquer some day and speculate about why she would cross that Rubicon and who she would do so for. It's a general "hands off fanbase, I'm the only one allowed to play with my toys!" attitude.
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 24 Jan 2018, 02:24 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 24 Jan 2018, 02:05 ---
--- Quote from: Eastrim on 23 Jan 2018, 23:17 ---an artist who actively dislikes this forum
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I think that was successfully changed through 2011 and the following years. Now, instead of "actively dislikes" I suggest "tolerates with studied indifference".
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Hmmm...
I was not aware of that!
Sounds like the "Oldfield School of Fandom" to me.
"Yes, these people are responsible for me living the lifestyle that I have, and appreciate my artistic output... but their all weirdos and I want nothing to do with them." ... kinda thing ??
That saddens me.
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Around the time that Tumblr led him to drink himself into stabbing his hand for the crime of making Marigold self conscious and Marten socially awkward, he also came on the forums and basically ranted about how their denizens disgusted him.*
*Timeframe may be unreliable.
Is it cold in here?:
This could be as simple as Faye having no same-sex history or fantasies and therefore having a blind spot.
A Freudian would say that if someone avoids a subject that consistently, it's because they know the subject exists and are unwilling to address it.
ImVeryAngryItsNotButter:
Has anyone else noticed Brun sitting in the booth in the back?
brasca:
At least Faye didn’t jump to a further conclusion and try to hook Bubbles up with Punchbot.
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