Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 4381-4385 (Oct 26th to Oct 30th 2020)
N.N. Marf:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 27 Oct 2020, 06:57 ---I just got back from a walk and had to shake a bunch of snow off my umbrella.
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Something about that sentence strikes me as an absurdist joke, despite it's altogether plausibility. Perhaps the combination of the etymology suggesting shade, from the sun, the often use against rain, stereotypical, and the thought of snow---not necessarily early, for those whose year-end seasons bring snow---or a blizzard, all contrasting each other. The bright, warm sun---though in winter, what a lie that is! The restful, cool rain---though in summer, what a lie that is! The white, frosty snow---though always, what a lie that is!
N.N. Marf:
--- Quote from: 厚目眠子 on 26 Oct 2020, 20:23 ---Brun is a good role model.
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I think you may be right about that, mostly. Considering her choices, how she makes them, mostly. Of course, there are some things that are difficult for her to do, but she works with them, rather than around, mostly. Isn't there an old aphorism, ``everything in moderation, including moderation,'' or something to that effect?
Hannelore, too, I think was a good role-model. Not as much moderation, but important is that she worked with her peculiarities.
Emily, too---in fact, I'm noticing a pattern here, that I also notice outside of fiction. Faye, Elliot, Renee, May, too, would be role-models, were we to know their perspectives, but we don't, so we're left with what might seem to be gratuitous lackadaisical (can't you be serious?), insecure (oh, toughen up!), impulsive (just think before you act), callous (how rude!) behaviours, which really stem from underlying conditions that---I think---are so well represented here, precisely because they are never made obvious. That's the nature of many psychological conditions---who aren't familiar might assume a normal person, then conclude, as though they were normal, that they're somehow choosing to be that way.
A good role-model is one who, despite their situation, does what they can to improve it, irregarding whether it seems so to others.
badbum61:
Wil? Is that you?
Zebediah:
Comic’s up. This is not going to end well.
Also, Wil makes an appearance. I can’t remember how long it’s been but I’m pretty sure it’s years.
shanejayell:
Clinton, drowning your sorrows is a BAD IDEA.
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