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WCDT Strips 3661-3665 (22nd to 26th January 2018)

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jwhouk:
By the bye, in case you didn't look at the bottom of the linked strip, I use the royal "we" very literally.

Shipping is enough of a cultural phenomenon that Jeph would be silly not to use it with a few of his characters (especially Tai, Marigold, and Claire - all who have admitted to writing fanfic).

Is it cold in here?:
I wonder if it's time to excavate the old "OCD Soapbox" thread.

Jeph's breakdown was triggered though not entirely caused by a vicious and incoherent flame about Marigold, as best I remember from Tumblr. He said it was not the only cause but was the rock that broke the camel's back.

Patreon -- let's just say that it's a good thing to sign up for. Now is a good time.

Tova:
Yes, I remember that well. It was this comic, as I recall. The writer was unhappy with the way Marigold was depicted, and said so in a hateful fashion.

I think that Jeph is wise in general to stay away. Not because he does or should have contempt for us, or anything like that. But I feel that he probably feels a lot of pressure to depict well the various groups of people represented by his characters, and the kind of criticism we get here would place impossible expectations on him. It would do any artist's head in, and I guess he's pretty sensitive to it.

I am 100% sure that he is grateful to his fans.

Case:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 24 Jan 2018, 15:44 ---I wonder if it's time to excavate the old "OCD Soapbox" thread.

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I'm sorry for being so verbose about it - guess there's stuff that's been wanting out for a while. It's also partially me learning to talk about a very intense & important time in my life with 'regular people', and partially it's fun revisiting strategies and stuff like that.

Feel free to disagree with me, to doubt my conclusions or understanding (experiences, though ... that's another thing), to talk about OCD anywhichway you like (just don't be an ass about it, I guess) - I'm not trying to make OCD a 'Tread lightly and check your privilege beforehand'-topic. I do reserve the right to say 'that's not how it felt for me' or 'that's not how I understood it' or 'I think you're thinking about phobia rather than OCD', always with the caveat that there's millions of other people who have first-hand experience with OCD and that there's hundreds of thousands of people who know better 'what it is' than I do.

Also: Hanners is a fictional character with similarly fictional mental health trouble. Analysing her essentially means analysing Jeph's informed, but finite understanding of a pretty varied anxiety disorder.



--- Quote from: Tova on 24 Jan 2018, 14:54 ---Sorry about the Patreon thing. I guess I like to plug it occasionally, but that was the wrong way to go about it.

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Actually, I thought it was funny as balls ...  :-D

Wombat:
New comic.

Hm. From a moving-the-comic-forward perspective, I appreciate this page. From a how-I'd-feel-if-Evie-was-a-real-person perspective...not so much. Her actions her make me kind of uncomfortable, which I think is exacerbated by the "Evie is good" comment on the bottom.

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