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WCDT strips 3671 to 3675 (5th to 9th February 2018)
SpanielBear:
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--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 05 Feb 2018, 09:59 ---
Can I just say...
I was totally unaware of Singles Awareness day...!
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We need a Singles Awareness Day Awareness Day!
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So long as it doesn't fall on Infinite Recursion Awareness Day, that should be fine.
TinPenguin:
I believe it typically falls on the Feast Day of Cyril and Methodius, for those unlucky enough to have no bro to create transformative new writing systems with.
Mr. Skawronska:
Other: May "trying her feminine wiles" on a human. Hilarity ensues. Pintsize gets jealous.
Zelia:
Long time reader (since 2008 I think), new poster because there's an angle here I'm not sure people are considering. This relationship between Faye and Bubbles is the first intimate, asexual, non-romantic partnership between any characters in this strip, the first queerplatonic relationship. While some people are calling for a resolution to perceived romantic tension, and other's just want Jeph to change focus for a while, I find their relationship refreshing. All too often in literature the very important friendships in people's lives, the sorts of friendships that are true partnerships, are treated as second-string to romantic and sexual relationships. Even though Bubbles may be interested in romance to some extent, she's clearly happy with the partnership she has, and may be willing to leave behind her romantic interest forever to sustain that relationship. Even romantically inclined people can be perfectly happy without romance in their lives. There doesn't need to be a resolution. And I'm happy to continue watching their friendship as they feel out their personal boundaries. This is what queerplatonic relationships are all about, that personal definition of what works and what doesn't for the people involved.
I'd actually be disappointed if Jeph decided to quickly veer this off into romance or sex. It's interesting as it is.
ckridge:
Hi, Zelia. I, too, am happy to see the present growth of trust and intimacy between Faye and Bubbles go on for a long time. I think romantic love is one of the highest possible human states, but this gradual opening is beautiful to see and good in itself, not merely as a route to something else.
I must differ about this being the first intimate, asexual, non-romantic partnership in the strip, though. Such relationships are the rule between humans and AnthroPCs. Pintsize and Marten, Hannelore and Winston, and Marigold and Momo all have such relationships.
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