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WCDT Strips 3936-3940 (11-15 February 2019)

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BenRG:
I think that today's entire strip can be summed up just be looking at panels 4 and 5. Brun has, during her time staying with Renee, learned something important: As difficult as it is to deal with other people and their weird perspectives and figurative interpretations of reality, it's still better than being alone. I think that Brun doesn't want to be alone again, something that I think she's been for most of her life in one way or another.


--- Quote from: comicalArchitect on 12 Feb 2019, 19:23 ---So Brun's totally gonna move in with another character, right? Maybe Clinton's moving out of the dorms?
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That's certainly one possibility, although I think Jeph will be aware that people will start drawing comparisons with Marten and Faye in terms of the romantic tension between them.

However, IMO at least, Questionable Content works best when it's set around The Odd Couple, their romantic travails, their odd neighbours and their quirky workplaces. It's possible that he's trying to recreate this around The Secret Bakery character group.

Shjade:

--- Quote from: Milayna on 12 Feb 2019, 13:23 ---her track team "friends" had encouraged her, a first year, to go for the top at the competition instead of deferring to the third years, which was apparently a huge faux pas. Then those same "friends" told the third years who were pissed that they had told her to be more respectful, making her look terrible. and leading her to wall herself off.

I couldn't even understand the scene at first, and even after getting the japanese cultural parts explained to me, I still can't figure out "why". I've decided to just shrug and chalk it up to "they decided to bully her, that's just a thing that people do sometimes".

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So the characters in question weren't exactly bullying, or at least not trying to. They were just being spineless: they told the first-year to do her best because they wanted to be encouraging and seem like good, friendly people, but as soon as their encouragement ended up getting them negative feedback from the older students they denied having done it so that they wouldn't have to deal with the consequences of admitting what they'd said.

It's a cultural thing in that specific context, but it's not a phenomenon unique to Japan. Plenty of sycophants around the world.

brasca:
Renee is serious since she’s using Brun’s full first name, but not her middle name so she’s not angry.

People have speculated that Clinton or Elliot could be her new roommate, but maybe Hannelore has come along on her personal journey she might be willing to experiment with a roommate. 

There’s also Roko.  She might need some help with her rent.

Shjade:
Brun will move in with her harpoon, who, we will soon discover, has actually been an AI all along.

Case:

--- Quote from: Oenone on 12 Feb 2019, 18:17 ---I still think there’s a lot of room for Renee to be aneurotypical as well — she really vibes to me as someone with adhd

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Hmmmmh - What makes you think so? I don't feel that any of the cast vibes with my experience of ADHD. Though that doesn't need to mean much, given how varied the symptoms can be, how much the presentation can change in adulthood, or my complete lack of medical qualifications.

I'd say Emily and Hannelore sometimes appear 'hyper' in a way that pushes social norms, but IIRC "stuff I read in passing, years ago" , that's something that exceptionally gifted children/young adults wrestle with, too.

None of the cast appear to have any of the difficulty with executive functioning that are typically associated with all three subtypes (I'm a 'type I/predominantly inattentive' myself, though .... an adult one who had plenty of treatment). Difficulty starting or finishing tasks - or the flipside: Hyperfocus/perseverance on tasks that are enjoyable - I don't recall any of that ever being mentioned so far (Which, again, doesn't need to mean anything at all, really)

If Jeph would acknowledge that one of the cast lives with ADHD, my money would be on Sam (as a hyperactive/impulsive subtype) - though anything she does that appears unusual to me could IMO just as well indicate "healthy, alert 21st century Tomboy, type I"

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