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WCDT strips 3681 to 3685 (19-23 February 2018)

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Near Lurker:
It's settled then: Dale's line is "how could I prefer Emily to you when you've got such massive tits?"

BenRG:
I think that Jeph realised that May was being so intelligent and insightful that she would want to say something inappropriate at the end, just to remind Dale who she is. It probably says something about Dale that he actually agrees with her fundamental point.

So, am I the only one that is unaccountably concerned about May unsheathing that knife a little when she got annoyed with Dale? I don't think that she's the sort who will be violent but it does make me wonder if her face was damaged by a sword falling on her or whether she was swinging it around in anger at the way her arm was mucking her around. I'm saying that maybe she has a temper and maybe sometimes it gets the better of her!

I know that there is an animé called 'Magical Love Gentleman' or something like it but is there anything IRL like 'Crab Girlfriend'?

Near Lurker:
There's a dating sim called "Hatoful Boyfriend," a pun on the English (...ish...) "heartful," about a human girl stranded in a word of pigeons (hato).

Tova:

--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 22 Feb 2018, 20:34 ---Actually, the way Momo and May are addressing it odd entirely to me. Like Momo referred to it as just an issue of miscommunication. Marigold imagining Emily and Dale fucking just because they were laughing when she came in is not a "miscommunication" issue. That is a deeper issue, and it feels bizarre to me that it is being glossed over, even by the person giving her advice.

--- End quote ---

Well yes, it's an insecurity issue, and that's a conversation to be had with Dale, not with Momo.

We also don't know how much they discussed that before we see panel one.

brightwings00:

--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 22 Feb 2018, 20:41 ---It works well, if the other person has self-awareness. Marigold has never shown an inkling of self-awareness. Based on her personality as written so far, I'd be honestly surprised if her reaction wasn't "Dale apologized, therefore everything is good now." And then didn't acknowledge any of her own shortcomings. Even when Momo tried to point out her shortcoming in communicating properly, she deflected it rather than face it. And then, to add in, that no one seems to be addressing that the level of jealousy and how upset she got was not a healthy reaction at all to begin with.

--- End quote ---

If I remember rightly, she did realize she was being a jerk to Momo way back when... eventually. Marigold's got all the social skills of a doorknob, but I do think her heart's in the right place.

And the thing is: people sometimes have feelings like jealousy and resentment and anger, and they may not be healthy or fair or even logical. But feelings don't work according to dictum. I would submit that it's okay to feel things--even the bad feelings that aren't nice or kind--that in fact it's healthier to acknowledge feelings and sit with them, without judging yourself, rather than go "Nope nope nope, I'm not jealous, it's cool! I'm fine! I'm totally the cool girl!" and try and suppress those feelings into oblivion.

Note there is a distinct--and important--difference between feeling things and how you act on those feelings and deal with them. I have sympathy for Marigold's insecurity and jealousy; I would have much, much less sympathy for her, say, forbidding him from talking to Emily or snooping on his texts/emails. And there definitely needs to be a talk--hopefully with Momo or Winslow, or hilariously with May--about healthy coping mechanisms. But judging someone for feeling insecure, I think, not only doesn't acknowledge a very human flaw but compounds the problem.

(Also, to quote Jon Snow, King in the North, First Of His Name, etc.: "Everything before the word 'but' is horse s***." If Dale goes in with the attitude/phrasing of "I'm sorry I said that to you, but your attitude was really uncalled for", the part about "I'm sorry I said that to you" is going to vanish in the wind.)

Side note: has May ever met Bubbles? Have they/could they talk about fighter jets?

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