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WCDT strips 3676 to 3680 (12th to 16th February 2018)
themacnut:
--- Quote from: ckridge on 15 Feb 2018, 06:25 ---If Marigold has a shred of self-knowledge, she will see that her mind is torturing her for no reason. However, she has largely outsourced self-knowledge to Momo, and Momo is off at her job. Dale could in principle reassure her, but Dale has not shown himself articulate in matters of the heart.
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Marigold is already imagining Dale and Emily engaging is sexy talk; I think at this point Marigold's too far gone into her own jealous fantasies for anything Dale does or says to make it better. Next strip will likely be her going off on them like the volcano Mt Jealousy, belching hot green lava all over the place. Then she'll run off, leaving Dale and Emily standing there all confused, scorched and smoking.
--- Quote from: ckridge on 15 Feb 2018, 06:31 ---Heh. In Dale's place, I would steal Sven's line: "Emily? Nah. Once you hit this, everything else looks flat," with "this" punctuated by a hug. It is often more convincing to present yourself as a bad guy who likes what he likes than as a good guy.
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Heh, I would've punctuated "this" with a nice loud slap on her butt. The surprise and embarrassment might, I repeat might, be enough to shake her out of her jealous fugue. The idea is to transfer her anger from an imagined slight to a more "real" one, and then be totally unapologetic to keep her anger focused there until it faded. I don't think Dale has the social chops to pull that off though.
ckridge:
No, me neither. You have to have spent time on both sides of this fight and made all the elementary errors a few times each.
heyjames4:
I'm not familiar with coffee grinders.
Is on top of the coffee grinder while its running like on top of a washing machine?
Or is there more exposed industrial parts, for the thrill of danger?
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Feb 2018, 23:15 ---Marigold's low self-esteem is really kicking in strongly at the moment, isn't it? Either she's feeling unusually jealous at the moment for some reason or there is something that's making her feel extra insecure about Dale's feelings for her. I mean, the way she turned Emily from 'tall and gangly' into 'curvy vixen' inside her paranoid fantasy-world probably tells us a lot about how distorted her perceptions are at the moment!
So, the obvious question up for debate is: Why? In truth, I think it was just something inevitable for someone with Marigold's very insecure personality. She's fully aware that she's not perfect and is convinced that, because of this, no-one would want to spend too much time around her. Being abandoned is a deep and profound fear on her part.
Oh, by the way, I'm signing her up for fanfic-writing courses with Claire. The dialogue in that fantasy didn't even manage to achieve 'cheesy'.
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Marigold still has the mentality of her high school self after all these years. She thinks men don’t find her desirable because of imagined ugliness instead of excessive geekiness and a tendency to ignore hygiene.
ckridge:
Also, she is hot without being hot in a high-status way, which is a condition likely to have gotten her abuse from just about every single quarter.
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