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WCDT Strips 4026-4030 (17th to 21st June 2019)
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: DSL on 17 Jun 2019, 06:16 ---Seems as though unloading on May's sourness back at the inconvenience store (Kiss my new-cah-smellin-ass!) might have made Roko a little more at ease with herself.
And though I risk being accused of being judgy about apparel, a crop top and shorts worn in public has got to be a sign of someone comfortable in their own skin. Or polymer, as the case may be.
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Gotta admit, my second thought on seeing Roko was "Someone looks to be feeling better about themselves!"
My first thought won't get through my filters for some reason... :evil:
Case:
--- Quote from: Theta9 on 17 Jun 2019, 12:23 ---
--- Quote from: traroth on 17 Jun 2019, 08:44 ---Beepatrice is not really of much help...
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That's an understatement on the level of "it's quite hot inside a star's core."
She appears to be what I call "fucking useless."
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Nobody is entirely useless - they can still serve as an example ...
BenRG:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 18 Jun 2019, 01:51 ---Gotta admit, my second thought on seeing Roko was "Someone looks to be feeling better about themselves!
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FWIW, from the start I wondered if at least some of Roko's problem is that she's sitting around and thinking about how different her body is, heightening her sense of disassociation. If she has something else on which to focus, it wouldn't surprise me if she realises that the body actually works pretty much like her old one and it is something in which she can function. Basically, something along the line of "I haven't even thought about this in a few days now!"
That doesn't mean that she won't have the occasional bad day when she'll need someone to watch her to prevent self-harm incidents like the compulsive face-washing we've previously seen. However, healing will at least come in part from living in her new reality.
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 17 Jun 2019, 23:25 ---When this was first mentioned to me (last week, I think), I was quite surprised because I don't remember this being mentioned in any of their previous appearances. Has Beepatrice mentioned this to Roko? Is there any reason why Roko should know? Is it the sort of thing someone will come out with when meeting someone for the first time? I'm wondering if Jeph is setting up Roko and Beepatrice discussing this at some point in the immediate future.
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The idea comes from this exchange; if Roko is calling her "she" now, the notion falls flat.
Wombat:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 18 Jun 2019, 05:33 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 17 Jun 2019, 23:25 ---When this was first mentioned to me (last week, I think), I was quite surprised because I don't remember this being mentioned in any of their previous appearances. Has Beepatrice mentioned this to Roko? Is there any reason why Roko should know? Is it the sort of thing someone will come out with when meeting someone for the first time? I'm wondering if Jeph is setting up Roko and Beepatrice discussing this at some point in the immediate future.
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The idea comes from this exchange; if Roko is calling her "she" now, the notion falls flat.
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And also from Jeph's author comments that seemed to refer to Beepatrice using they/them.
As for the question, "Is it the sort of thing someone will come out with when meeting someone for the first time?": Yes, absolutely. Of course, it depends on the situation and the person, but there are plenty of times I've shared my pronouns on the first meeting or seen others do the same. For me, it largely depends on the combination of "how likely is this person to reject me" with "how bad will it be for me if this person rejects me." So I might not share my pronouns when interviewing for a job (unless it was at a queer org), but were I in the position of interviewer, I might do so more readily.
In-comic, we saw Tilly share their pronouns the first time they met Martin. In this case, it seemed reasonable enough to me that it happened off-screen, and so I was hoping that was the situation.
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