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WCDT strips 3666 to 3670 (29th January to 2nd February 2018)
ckridge:
First off, yes, it totally makes sense.
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 01 Feb 2018, 10:10 ---However... If during a night of blethering and stuff he had suddenly turned to me and said... "I think I'm gay, and I'm actually quite attracted to you!"
I dunno if an 18yr old me could have handled that.
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The obvious response here is that Faye is a grown woman, and that Bubbles has options other than blurting out her feelings suddenly. Bubbles is a very controlled, precise speaker, and she could figure out just how and when she wanted to have the conversation, and just how she wanted to state her case.
That said, it is the sort of task one would want to think about carefully for a long time beforehand, and that would be catastrophic to do wrong. I still think that if Bubbles doesn't do it she will be succumbing to fear in a way that she will regret for the rest of her life, and denying Faye a chance to make a choice that might turn out well for her. Your post, though, makes me realize how fraught her situation is. She has to say it just right, at the right time, even though she will be scared to death about what the answer might be.
The other thing that you have brought to mind is that the very same damage that makes Faye something of a self-centered lout makes her fragile. She really could use someone to stick around for a while. It would be bad if Bubbles were to get sad and go away. It would be disastrous if she tried to love Bubbles without any heat behind it, just to keep Bubbles from being sad and going away.
Jeph has a really good story going here.
ckridge:
--- Quote from: Case on 01 Feb 2018, 10:21 ---Hmmmh - This is oddly specific. People could be undecided about their feelings, feel that the other is progressing too fast, feel they're not ready (yet), hundreds of thousands of reasons. Humans are allowed to change their minds & hearts, or to be wrong about them. Tricky things, hearts & minds. And they always, under all circumstances, decide about their time, company and body alone. They. Alone. Nobody else.
And who said anything about keeping close company and bathing in the glory of your friend's pain? What kind of sick fantasy is that? Some people just carry on being friends, others play it a little slower for a while to give themselves time to decompress (I often feel the need) - and yet others invent idiotic 'rules' to justify resenting their alleged friend that they allegedly 'fell in love with' for making an autonomous decision about their time, mind and body - it's called The Church of the Nice GuyTM, and it's a place that nobody past their puberty has a good excuse spending any length of time in.
P.S.: Knowing someone wants more than you are sure you can give, or want to give to them, and not knowing which way to jump, and knowing that every day you try to make up your mind hurts them? Feels shite. Fucking up is bad enough when you pay the bill. Fucking up and knowing another gets the pain while you 'go free' - that doesn't feel good. It certainly didn't feed my ego and didn't make me feel admired. What you're talking about is not ordinary people making ordinary, stupid mistakes that hurt others - that's malignant Narcissism. If that's how you believe you would feel in that situation ... stay the fuck away from me. If you know somebody who feels like that in that situation: Get the fuck out of Dodge, yesterday, or be glad you got away if you did already - people like that certainly don't give a hoot about your 'rules'.
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I am not sure what you mean by "specific," but gather that you think I am laying down moral rules where none can exist. It seems to me that the rule that if you know someone wants you to love them, then you should if possible say whether you can or not, is part of a more general rule that if you know something that someone needs to know, and there is no pressing moral reason not to tell them, you should tell them.
As to feeding on admiration and longing, one can do it while feeling pain for the other's suffering and guilt for causing it. People have layers, and most of them are not conscious. The unconscious parts can be happily soaking up admiration while the conscious parts deplore any such impulse. This is not pathological, only human. It is permissible if the other person knows the situation, but I would neither do it nor suffer it.
[An afterthought: being new to the forum and somewhat addlepated besides, I did not realize that the you were the same person in your first and second responses, and therefore that you were the person who had mentioned that you had both been kept on a string and kept someone on a string. Therefore, I did not realize that my comment about garnering admiration from someone kept on a string might sound like a personal slight. I intended no personal slight, only to note what I take to be a universal human tendency. I am sorry for my clumsiness.]
UmberGryphon:
No one's commented on "asbtract" instead of "abstract"? Did Jeph typo, or is Bubbles tripping over her own tongue?
Cornelius:
Quick question though; does this mean Faybles would be a steam ship? If ever it gets launched, that is.
Roborat:
Oh my, Bubbles is so very cute in this page, I love it, nice work on the expressions. Good thing she vents there and not somewhere else :-D. And please stop with the puns, I can't take any more, leaf it alone already.
I am wondering how this will resolve, will Faye finally put things together, or will Bubbles finally put on her big girl pants and deploy the clue bat?
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