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

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pwhodges:

--- Quote from: ckridge on 23 Feb 2018, 04:56 ---More could have been done with Dale and Marigold examining their feelings toward each other,
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That's coming - remember how slowly Jeph's story arcs build (and if that doesn't suit you, or tries your patience too far, then maybe this is the wrong comic for you).

gopher:
Hopefully after they make up they can sort out the undelying problems so we don't end up http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1798.

BenRG:
I'm just visualising the strip when this all gets back to Emily.

EMILY (to a 'deer in the headlights' DALE): "So you think I'm pretty?"

DALE nods

DALE: "Well... Yeah! I mean... Doesn't everyone?"

EMILY (to a totally shocked MARIGOLD): "And you think I'm pretty too?"

MARIGOLD: "What? Yes! No! Not like that! I mean... Yes, if you're into girls... I think?"

One panel of EMILY with a weird thoughtful expression and then...

EMILY glomping DALE and MARIGOLD at the same time

EMILY: "Oh I'm so happy! No-one has ever said I'm pretty before!"

DALE: "Hurf?"

MARIGOLD: "Durf?"

ckridge:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 23 Feb 2018, 05:17 ---That's coming - remember how slowly Jeph's story arcs build (and if that doesn't suit you, or tries your patience too far, then maybe this is the wrong comic for you).

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I am quite capable of deciding for myself whether and when to stop reading, thank you.

This arc could quite plausibly wrap to a close with another Momo/Marigold session, three strips of reconciliation, and a joke. This would be forgivable. Every narrative needs interludes in which not much happens to lower tension and provide plausible amounts of time between crises. It would be unfortunate, though, because it would suggest that there is a standard love relationship that works by standard rules. Life would be simpler if that were so, but it's just not. 

A sudden spasm of jealous fear is a sudden spasm of fear, and the appropriate short-term response is comfort. In order to decide whether jealousy is appropriate, though, people have to decide how they want to be together. Neither Dale nor Marigold have stopped to examine their feelings and figure out what they want to do, or to explain this to each other.

I really want them to decide that they are having a romantic, exclusive, intense, permanent love relationship that is the most important thing in their lives, because why would anyone jump off a cliff except in hope of flying? Not everyone sees love as jumping off a cliff, though, not everyone sees monogamous romantic love as flying, and therefore not everyone should want what I do. What everyone must do, however, is figure out what they do want and make sure the other person wants the same thing. As unpleasant as it is, you have to look into the depths of your swampy, overgrown, monster-infested heart and figure out which of those various flickering lights moving around in it you are setting your course by. As yet, no one in this arc has done this.

This is particularly important because each of them is the other's first sweetheart, and how they treat each other now is likely to form their ability to love and be loved in the future.

Neko_Ali:

--- Quote from: brightwings00 on 23 Feb 2018, 01:52 ---Side note: has May ever met Bubbles? Have they/could they talk about fighter jets?

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Yes, early on at the party Faye threw to try and draw Bubbles out of her shell. May's reaction was pretty much throwing  up her arms and going 'My Queen!' and insisting that she get pictures when Bubbles and Faye started boning. Honestly I don't know if it's just she's lucky sometimes or better at sussing out early relationships than we give her credit for.

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