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(CW/TW: Abuse) WCDT strips 3731-3735 (30th April to 4th May 2018)
JoeCovenant:
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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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Gotta say, I'm with you on this one.
Faye seems a bit... *old* for the stereotypical "awakening" of latent sexuality...
But who am *I* to say? I'm a middle aged, hetero, white, male.
I guess my problem with this is it seems very hard to relate to... for ME (YMMV) - given what we know about Faye, to have it suddenly crop up.
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It's a long time coming and we've seen it slowly develop. Something which I had advocated for back when the Faybles shippers started posting their ship support in the forums. It makes it more believable for a character like Faye whom up until Tuesday hasn't had any indication of being romantically interested in the same sex. And, it's quite a relief that Jeph took this route instead of the 'I'm suddenly a lesbian' route webcomics like Spinnerette have taken in the past.
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Oh, absolutely...
As I said, I can *see* why it may have happened. It's just a little jarring in my personal experience.
(I was a pro actor for many many years. And knew, met and was very close friends with a lot of gay guys, and lesbian women. But at no point did my love for them even think of developing into anything else. (And yes, I got offers!) :) )
My biggest fear now is that Bubbles (or Faye) doesn't get even more messed up by what (I think we must all admit) could be quite a difficult and stressful relationship.
(Taking all the factors into account. And what I *think* is canon that AI/Human relationships are not viewed as... 'the norm'.)
I'm still hoping, for both their sakes, that they do talk this out and decide it's a helluva step for both of them, and could lead to either an amazing relationship, or something that could inevitably hurt them both, through no fault of their own.
(Jeez... just read this... Am I making ANY sense here?)
traroth:
So... now that the cat is out of the bag, things will be resolved one way or another. But we still don't know what Faye is actually thinking...
de_la_Nae:
i'm sure someone's already pointed this out too, but just in case:
Jeph is giving us multiple angles on AI sexual and companionship desire. Roko, O'Malley, Momo, Pintsize, Bubbles, May, Jeremy, whats-her-name with Jeremy, Station (forgot about his thing for Hannelore), they've all got different levels of desire, different ideas about what they want, different wants.
cuz i mean whether they're främling, raman, or maybe even getting towards varelse, they're people, and people got different ideas of shit.
also he's making the comic into a Clinton harem anime BUT THAT'S A DISCUSSION FOR ANOTHER TIME :-*
BenRG:
--- Quote from: traroth on 03 May 2018, 05:32 ---So... now that the cat is out of the bag, things will be resolved one way or another. But we still don't know what Faye is actually thinking...
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I think that we obviously know that Faye's calm and emotional balance has been totally blown away by this realisation. Frankly, her stress reactions makes me think that she is not immediately at ease with her reaction to Bubbles' massage. This isn't something she expected and, obviously, she doesn't know what to do.
I had to think about that italicised phrase. 'Happy' and 'Content' both carried implications that didn't really fit.
zisraelsen:
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Not to mention the danger to the structural integrity of the building.
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I hadn't even considered that, and actually looking back I realized jeph gave us her Panic Frequency as the title of the strip! What do you figure the harmonic frequencies of Smif Library are?
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