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WCDT Strips 4336-4340 (25th-29th, August 2020)
Wingy:
It just hit me that May is the same character as Ouiser Boudreaux in Steel Magnolias. She feels, with possibly sufficient justification, that life has taken a dump all over her and continues to do so no matter what happens to her. She's got a maximum-force Good Thing happening to her and doesn't know what to do because she wants that new body desperately, but she's terrified something will go wrong and she'll be stuck, still, in the junk she's wearing now, AND she doesn't understand what the protocol is for showing proper gratitude to the people making all this happen. So now she's conjured the party-scene-image, and will likely make an idiot of herself, which will get her thrown out of the shop and therefore reinforcing her negative expectations. Roko is right, and Roko's mistake is going along with this at all.
But what in the world has happened to Beeps (look at her eyes in panel 2 of 4340 - she's never been so sneaky before)? Will she make a play for May? Or try to get May to find a body Beeps finds ... interesting?
chris73:
--- Quote ---She feels, with possibly sufficient justification, that life has taken a dump all over her and continues to do so no matter what happens to her.
--- End quote ---
Apart from meeting up with and taken in by Dale, being friends with Momo, having a job, getting free (or heavily discounted) body work from Bubbles and Faye and getting a a whole heap of money from strangers
Kairi:
I am still just happy that May is experiencing happiness on her terms. Not a vision of happiness someone else told her she needs to have. Clearly trauma runs deep in AI just as with humans. (As we've seen with Bubbles.) It's gonna take more time to heal. And I think *really listening to her* like Beeps did here is a great step in that direction. Showing her she can become a person of her own making.
Also the strippers were clearly set up as a way to assuage the specific fear of seeming poor in a "rich" shop. She busted in with a display of wealth and power. Overcompensation? Yes. But it got her in the door.
If, IRL, a person is being hurt by actions by someone like May, absolutely they can cut her out of their life. People are under no obligation to keep a relationship that is toxic to them. But this comic is a beautiful example of what to do if you decide that the person is worth the effort. QC is good people doing their best. And it's my favorite thing and why I love this comic dearly.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: chris73 on 28 Aug 2020, 05:08 ---
--- Quote ---She feels, with possibly sufficient justification, that life has taken a dump all over her and continues to do so no matter what happens to her.
--- End quote ---
Apart from meeting up with and taken in by Dale, being friends with Momo, having a job, getting free (or heavily discounted) body work from Bubbles and Faye and getting a a whole heap of money from strangers
--- End quote ---
I don't feel that there is a margin of generosity where she ceases to be deserving.
chris73:
--- Quote ---I don't feel that there is a margin of generosity where she ceases to be deserving.
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Just saying that her life isn't as bad as she thinks it is but then maybe thats part of the narrative shes built up for herself
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