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WCDT Strips 4331-4335 (18-22, August 2020)

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Tyr:
I can't really justify it, but on further reflection the phrasing of panel one has put idea of Clinton being Biromantic and whatever the appropriate term for a greysexual who hasn't quite figured that out about themselves.

Or maybe he's just a polite young man who has yet to have any sort of long-enough term romantic relationship for sex to really be on his radar and he's making an effort to not get ahead of himself with fantasies.

jesslc:

--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 18 Aug 2020, 18:33 ---Claire's going romance novel at Clinton - but Clinton's the one who's overheating, blushing, and about to blow a gasket.  Claire's fine.

Weighing in on the "Let me think about it" issue - to me, that means "no until I've come back to you about it."  I wouldn't push for another answer, but I also wouldn't give up hope, at least not right away.  If they haven't gotten back to me within a week or so, THEN I would assume it's a "no".

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This is also my opinion. I would say that if someone says "maybe", then it's up to them to get back to you if they conclude that they are interested. If they don't get back to you - then either that "maybe" was actually a "no" all along or it turned into a "no" after they thought about it some more. If their "maybe" turns into a "yes" after they spend some time thinking about it, they will let you know.

And that looks like that'll be the case here :-D :-D :-D
(Proudly waves my Team "Elliot deserves some happiness after Jeph being mean to him for so long" flag)

Also having reread a fair bit of the comic lately, I think Jeph has been leading up to Clinton & Elliot getting together for a very long time. My evidence - not just this moment in 3710 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3710), but also many of Clinton & Elliot's interactions since that time. It definitely seems to me that Jeph has been trying to show that Clinton cares about Elliot a lot (eg. the way he is always so quick to reassure Elliot when Elliot is putting himself down) and that there's some latent attraction that Clinton is experiencing but hasn't recognized yet (eg. Clinton blushing when Elliot compliments him and when he lifts him up). So this week is going pretty much as I expected - Clinton needing some time to think, him talking it over with someone, then realising he is actually interested...

Next up - Elliot speaking to Renee about how he's super worried that he might have screwed everything up? (This prediction is probably too obvious to be worth making to be honest...)

Gus_Smedstad:
Another explanation is that we're putting more thought into it than Jeph has. That he's just gone with whatever he wanted to write in each Clinton storyline, and he hasn't dwelt too much on the backstory.

As for fantasies - well, I was fantasizing about the girl down the street when I was 13. It starts pretty early for guys, I had no doubts at all about my interests by the time I was a 20-something. I have no idea, however, how it is for gay males. I didn't have to deal with any cultural programming telling me that wanting to do stuff with girls was "wrong."

I will say that it was definitely an internal, instinctual thing. Prior to age 13, I knew what the mechanics were, and I knew what the equipment looked like from "playing doctor," but I wasn't really interested. Then a switch flipped and suddenly I was pretty motivated to have sex and think about sex.

ihaveavoice:
As someone who is currently (finally) wrestling with the idea of maybe being greysexual or otherwise ace herself, all that overheating doesn't really fit for me. I can relate very strongly to the sentiment of not really getting how attraction "works," but his response to what Claire's describing...I guess seems very sexual to me? Not sure how to put it.

Tbh, I don't see that much similarity between Clinton and Elliot's situation and the one between Bubbles and Faye. Theirs was a relationship that grew slowly and laboriously: from a seed of wanting to help someone struggling in a familiar dark place, through long term friendship - first shaky, then strong - with a side trip through business partnership before finally arriving at a romantic place. Clinton and Elliot have had some lighthearted interactions as friendly acquaintances, one was immediately or at least quickly aware that he felt attracted to the other, and then the other ended up having to figure out how he feels in response to that. But then...see my above response to Tyr. Maybe the way I'm wired just makes me care that much less about the similar sexuality of the parties involved.

Gus_Smedstad:

--- Quote from: Tyr on 18 Aug 2020, 23:00 ---Or maybe he's just a polite young man who has yet to have any sort of long-enough term romantic relationship for sex to really be on his radar and he's making an effort to not get ahead of himself with fantasies.

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That's not how males work. Sex is definitely on your radar long, long before relationships are a possibility or sex is at all likely.

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