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WCDT strips 3781 - 3785 (9-13 July 2018)
cybersmurf:
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--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 09 Jul 2018, 23:50 ---Dang Brun, how long had you been working "with a nautical theme"?
I don't know why, but Brun is one of my favorites. probably because she's generally a sweetheart. Doesn't always know how to people, but that's OK. I don't either.
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It is now my headcanon that the harpoon in that bar that burned down wasn't part of the decor, it was Brun's. She brought it with her, and they themed the bar around it.
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"I think about giving the bar a new theme." "Nautical." ".. But-" "Nautical." "...." "I've got a harpoon already."
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: brasca on 11 Jul 2018, 22:51 ---Well we know a little more about Brun, but I’m still curious about whether she was born in the US or immigrated. Since her full name is Brunhilde I suppose she lived for some time in Germany, but her parents originated from Turkey or possibly another Middle Eastern country.
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For what it’s worth, I’ve always seen Brun as being of mixed European and African ancestry - her skin tone and hair match that. If I had to construct a headcanon for her, it would be that her African-American father was in the US Air Force and married a local girl while stationed in Germany. It’s a common enough story.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 12 Jul 2018, 04:35 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 11 Jul 2018, 22:51 ---Well we know a little more about Brun, but I’m still curious about whether she was born in the US or immigrated. Since her full name is Brunhilde I suppose she lived for some time in Germany, but her parents originated from Turkey or possibly another Middle Eastern country.
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For what it’s worth, I’ve always seen Brun as being of mixed European and African ancestry - her skin tone and hair match that. If I had to construct a headcanon for her, it would be that her African-American father was in the US Air Force and married a local girl while stationed in Germany. It’s a common enough story.
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Personally, I think that Brun is an ethnic Roma whose most recent ancestry is German. Her hair and skin colour is consistent with that.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 11 Jul 2018, 11:28 ---I think the raisins are an allegory for the difference between poverty and privilege. It really could have been anything, but raisins just fit into the "bread week" theme easily.
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And where, precisely, does poverty end and privilege begin?
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: wrobrox on 11 Jul 2018, 08:05 ---I actually made an account just to talk about this.
I had a good friend growing up, their family was extremely poor. They had electricity about one week out of the month, bathed in a tub outside, and had to keep their shoes for so long their toes are permanently curled and cramped. They almost never had food in the house and both of her parents were heavy drug addicts.
She is very aware of what raisins are and when I asked her what she thought of this comic and she said it was extremely upsetting. She isn't wholly ignorant of everything her family couldn't afford, and to imply otherwise is grossly offensive.
I had always heard Jeph was disconnected from reality but this is a big one in my view.
Personally I've been very poor. My diet consisted of rice and kool-aid was a big treat that I looked forward to, and I often had to give my dog what little food I had because I consider it unfair to make a dog go hungry, and I was in such a bad place that I honestly wasn't sure if starving to death would be all that bad.
I know what fucking raisins taste like.
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Without being ridiculous here - is it not possible to be poorer than you were? Is it not possible to have different accessibility to these things?
And to throw something in from my own headcanon - people often suspect that Brun has AS, I have AS, there are SHITLOADS of things that I haven't tried and many points in life where I might not have put together that 1. my own experience is unusual 2. the reasoning may be different to what I think it is.
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