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(CW/TW: Abuse) WCDT strips 3731-3735 (30th April to 4th May 2018)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: SPAZwazza on 02 May 2018, 07:07 ---Aaand the other shoe is down.
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Welcome, new person!
With many more shoes to follow.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 02 May 2018, 07:53 ---
--- Quote from: snufflebottoms on 02 May 2018, 04:45 ---As an aside though, real life is messy and complicated. I don't think Faye is a lesbian per say and that's why attraction to another woman will take a long time to process. Perhaps she is "only incidentally homosexual"
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You do know that bisexuality is a thing, right?
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Being bi is something Faye might "take a long time to process".
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 02 May 2018, 11:33 ---
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 02 May 2018, 07:10 ---Faye has FINALLY hit a clue. :D
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Yes, and if she's responding true to form (her form up to now anyway) this is the moment where she panics and runs - AGAIN - from an emotionally committed romantic relationship, fucking up her and Bubbles' business as well as personal life.
Growing closer was easy when she thought of Bubbles as a friend; adding the idea of romantic commitment has scared her away from previous relationships every time so far.
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All true.
The comic is also about personal and emotional growth. I hope, with some amount of realism, for Faye to (eventually!) make this work.
Milayna:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 01 May 2018, 11:09 ---I guess my personal issues with people gossiping about / pushing for / each other's relationships get grounded here, and probably make me more sensitive to it than I have any good reasons to be. "Diminishes my perception of" is literal truth, though it reveals a streak of intolerance in myself wider than I'd like.
I don't think it's a problem with where the story's going though; mostly I see it as a problem with people having picked something in the future as a "destination" and now being focused on the unseen destination rather than allowing themselves to enjoy the trip.
Where they see a "ship tease" I see characters in a relationship that now includes some tension and some attraction and some denial and some doublethink and some orientation/identity issues. It's nuanced, and it's good character development, and the current situation is as much the "destination" as any other part of the trip. So why doesn't anybody seem to appreciate the current situation as a thing in itself, instead of just as a transitory state toward what they imagine some future situation might be?
Everybody could see, a year ago or so, that Corpse Witch was in need of a swift buttkick out of Faye & Bubbles' life. And just such a buttkick did eventually arrive. But I don't recall any serious obsessing about what form and shape that buttkick would take or how it was going to be delivered or by whom or even when. It wasn't a "tease", it was story development. And people were interested in all the bits of story along the way. People speculated about CW's past, about the skatepark's ownership, about what had been done to Bubbles, about whether CW was trying to get leverage over Faye, about past interactions between CW and the police, about corruption and complicity, etc etc etc, and it was all about the story as it was happening. We didn't have everybody focused on the single future buttkicking event as the only possible point of the whole story.
Now they are focused on one thing. They are focused on the development or non-development of romantic/sexual love between these characters. And everything else is getting lost, or passing them by, without any thought or discussion or, it seems to me, even perception. They are invested in particular outcomes, like romance or rejection etc, instead of being able to accept that good stories can be built around whatever outcome comes about. That's even true if the "outcome" is long-term continuation of the tension, since after all the author may be telling a DIFFERENT story using the tension for character depth to inform how these characters see someone ELSE's situation.
To me the sexual/romantic aspect of this character relationship is one topic. It's about five percent of what there is to discuss. It's in the future and a bunch of other things are in the present. When fifty percent of the discussion is used to talk about five percent of the subject matter, I get impatient and wonder why people are being so willfully blind to everything else.
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Particlarly in your second to last paragraph, this is something I've noticed...very broadly, not just here, not just in my friend group or Tumblr or wherever, but...everywhere. Sex and relationships get particular attention. Particular emphasis. from just about everyone. It's...not something that I entirely understand, but there are many things about neurotypical behavior that I don't understand beyond acknowledging them as fact. I might try to discuss it, as a exercise in seeing how closely I'm able to interpret what I'm seeing and further my development of a more "normal" personality, though I'm not usually terribly interested in shipping, myself.
At any rate, I guess my point is, yeah, that happens for ships instead of other kinds of plot points - like Corpse Witch's manipulations - because that's, uh, how people are, I guess, and neither you nor I are going to change how 7 billion people operate.
Ghanima Atreides:
--- Quote from: snufflebottoms on 02 May 2018, 11:39 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 02 May 2018, 07:53 ---
You do know that bisexuality is a thing, right?
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Yeah, and she could very well be bisexual and in her mid 20s and experiencing the first of many attractions to women but the fact that she seems to have no other interest in women up until now and that it took this long for her to think of all the flirting etc. something more makes me think this case is kind of one of a kind for her.
Didn't mean it to be a slam against bisexual people - sorry if it came off that way.
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Hi there. :) Bisexual woman here who acknowledged her attraction to women only in her late 20s; we do exist. So it's possible for Faye to have had an unconscious/unacknowledged attraction towards women that never really hit home until a catalyst made it do so.
(I always seem to pop up in this sort of threads. :laugh: )
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