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Well. Guess what I had to vote for. Hint: Look to the left.
Damn, nicely done, Tai.
Doubtful. Crazy gonna crazy and Dora still doesn't have her issues sorted ya know?
Is Tai really that stupid? This is just going to come back and bite her.
Doubtful. Crazy gonna crazy and Dora still doesn't have her issues sorted ya know?
Maybe she hasn't sorted them out, but Tai found one way of getting around them. She diffused the situation, redirected the frustration to embarrassment, and left her wanting to know more
Is Tai really that stupid? This is just going to come back and bite her.
I don't see what you mean. Sure it was a bit crude (alright, more than a bit, since Dora is currently doing a pretty credible impersonation of a beetroot), but she deterred Dora's insecurities quite well.
Delaying and dodging can only hold out so long. I think it's more that Tai doesn't realize what's going on on Dora's end.
We don't know that Dora hasn't been attending regular sessions.
Lets throw out there, that similar situations with Marten resulted in full-blown fights.
This has not.
Progress?
Why would she mention it? Or maybe she's mentioned it "off-camera".We don't know that Dora hasn't been attending regular sessions.
When was the last time she mentioned therapy at all?
Is anyone else thrown off by the comment about the bedroom? I know they'd been cuddling and whatnot, but I didn't think they'd gone very far. Can anyone with good archive-fu tell me where I've gone astray?
Dora has trust issues. Tai, on the other hand, has never even been a relationship that required trust! Do you really think she's going to just 'understand'?
I believe this is the first indication that they've been doing sexy things with each other.What he said. This is a bit surprising.
she has too many issues, which she should solve BEFORE jumping into another relationship straight away.
I would be pissed off if in that situation she smirked at me, then didn't even acknowledge me/say hi, and my issues are not remotely like Doras.Yeah, Allie was pretty rude really, regardless of the smirk.
I am confused. I really meant curtains. The only gutter-mind meaning for curtains I can come up with is, I believe, not applicable to you.(click to show/hide)
...and post your edit, I was wrong.
Why would she mention it? Or maybe she's mentioned it "off-camera".We don't know that Dora hasn't been attending regular sessions.
When was the last time she mentioned therapy at all?
Tai is not, and should not have to be, Dora's therapist.
Friends are supportive and caring but they aren't required to sit down and talk out every single issue every time it comes up. A therapist's sole job is to help someone talk though the things which are problems for them, and be an uninvolved sounding board. Tai's role is much more complicated and she's got legitimate self-interest. And really, is it a bad thing that she's navigated the conversation into a place where Dora can feel confident in Tai's feelings for her, and where the mood is light and positive, instead of dwelling on negatives and possibly getting into an argument which would make Dora's issues worse?
I've been put in the position of trying to be a therapist for a friend who would, in other circumstances, have been a lover, and it destroyed our relationship.
Quote from: ToeDora was right, when Tai brings her A-game, she's doomed!
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That one was also unacceptable in itself, which is why I've removed it.
The obvious answer, of course, is that Tai's bedroom skills are going to purge Dora of her insecurities. Manually.
...okay, but being srs, someone brought up that if this situation happened with Dora & Marten, we'd probably be in a Fight Strip now, whereas with Tai this did not happen. I suspect this is more to do with the differences between Marten and Tai than with Dora's personal growth (though that is very likely also a factor): when Dora did her insecure thing with Marten, he tended to blow it off and/or get defensive about it in a "why can't you trust me" kind of way; Tai appears to lack this defensiveness, which means she isn't providing any fuel to Dora's fire and thus lead to a real fight. I don't know that I'd say this is because Tai's either a genius or an idiot, it's just who she is. Different values, different person.
I think in this case it's just going over Tai's head.
Wait, so Allie knows something about Tai the rest of us don't?
Everyone seems to be assuming that Tai's words in the latest strip were some kind of a clever, thought-out deflection, rather than a simple, straight-forward and honest reaction to what she'd been told.
Does anyone else get the feeling that Jeph will not use this week to disclose what became of Hannelore's first widowed drumstick?
I think in this case it's just going over Tai's head.
Possible, but the first response ("Did she? I didn't notice."), assuming it's genuine, seems to me less like it went over her head and more like she just didn't care/wasn't looking for it. She takes a molehill for a molehill, as it were, rather than the shadow of a mountain.
But now we will never know just where that molehill is.Where the mole is?
Who the mole was?But now we will never know just where that molehill is.Where the mole is?
Right, there's a difference between ACTUALLY defusing a situation and just not noticing it. Because whether you think there's a mountain or not, if the other person thinks there is, that's what matters.
I doubt Tai would give her a-game to someone she was just randomly hooking up with.Well, a fair number of people are more comfortable being their most wild and crazy selves in the bedroom with casual hookups than with serious partners: it's safer, in a way, because if the hookup buddy can't handle it and rejects you, you haven't lost as much as if your true love has that reaction.
Indeed. Dora is not the one with insecurity.
I don't see any insecurity out of Tai so far either. She does seem to be on unfamiliar turf though. I'd never invite comparisons with partner's past lovers, but she seems quite innocent doing this.Mmm... But one should think twice about asking questions to which you might not like the answers.
I don't see any insecurity out of Tai so far either. She does seem to be on unfamiliar turf though. I'd never invite comparisons with partner's past lovers, but she seems quite innocent doing this.Mmm... But one should think twice about asking questions to which you might not like the answers.
To the tune of As Time Goes By:
Though Allie is a jerk,
A smirk is just a smirk,
A Tai is just a Tai,
...
Marten challenges this, offers Tai a comparison sample.Yeah, that would never happen.
Marten challenges this, offers Tai a comparison sample.Yeah, that would never happen.
A breakup? Over this?
Uh, 5-year-olds aren't toddlers, as a rule. :-D
I try to like her...but I just can't.
Marten challenges this, offers Tai a comparison sample.Yeah, that would never happen.
Suure it would, and then he'll smarm his way into a foursome with Claire and Emily as well. That woudl be just like him, the dog! :-P
I really hope they don't breakt up over this. But I don't think they will.I don't see this arc going there. It's stayed in the realm of low-level awkwardness for a few strips now. Neither one of them seems to me to be seriously upset about anything.
I can't tell if Dora is saying Tai is better than marten or if she is just re-enforcing the brick wall to the conversation.
Yeah, that was my reaction but I wasn't quite sure how to phrase it, but the whole "Tai isn't into to dudes" was a pretty important part.
Yeah, that was my reaction but I wasn't quite sure how to phrase it, but the whole "Tai isn't into to dudes" was a pretty important part.
Tai can just squint and pretend it's Dora.
Yeah, that was my reaction but I wasn't quite sure how to phrase it, but the whole "Tai isn't into to dudes" was a pretty important part.
Tai can just squint and pretend it's Dora.
I RESCIND MY GRATITUDE!
Errr... correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Tai is in to dudes, and seems way too into Dora to go kiss Marten, even if her skillz are challenged.
Looks like he's setting the stage for the first rough spot they'll hit.
I doubt they'll break up, but I see the potential for some interesting character development.
IIRC, our host has made it clear that Clair's status is NOT going to be used for drama.
Quite frankly, I don't see any of the main characters (except for maybe some perviness from Pintsize) plausibly causing much of a fuss or even giving much of a damn.
Yeah, I can't see Jeph making a cheap joke out of it, for sure.
I regret mentioning it as a possible cliffhanger. I screwed up on the dates, I didn't notice that it was only a couple of strips left before Thanksgiving.
The cliffhanger will be us waiting for a cliffhanger.Or, the ever famous, "Man, nothing ever happens around here."-type strip.
Re: rschill's comment on "there ought to be a limit ... "
Comments like that -- and I don't want to single you out, because I hear such calls from too many people -- leave me cold, mostly because I wonder who the commenters want setting and enforcing the limits.
In the case at hand, Jeph Jacques and QC have established a precedent of handling such issues with thought and sensitivity, to the point where the artist has been driven to the point of near self-destruction by a "fan" who thought he/she/it was being ... witty?
But even where that's not the case: Let someone say what they will. If it's wrong, or you think they're wrong, call them on it. The marketplace of ideas (which, more often these days than before, translates pretty directly into the real marketplace) will decide who and what will rise. That might be the only realistic way of setting and enforcing the "limit" some people seek to put on others.
In other words, if Jeph and QC can find acceptance handling issues such as gender preference and trans* and a myriad others the way he has -- learning along the way from opinions expressed to him, his own thought processes, and his own mistakes and those of others and any other learning method I've left out -- he deserves every penny of success he gets from doing so, whatever I, you or anyone else says.
Hmm. I might have to actually show some boob in this comic I'm working on.:parrot:
Oh wait, I just remembered the Google Ads TOS. Boob will have to be censored.
But whose boobs would he have shown?
But whose boobs would he have shown?
Everyones.
It's essential to the story!
She seems more of a pop tart girl.
But whose boobs would he have shown?
Everyones.
It's essential to the story!
And your user name is disturbingly appropriate to the quote I linked. :-D
Hopefully her fate is better than the fate of the partridge (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1304).
Not just when portraying humans, either. Momo is a peer to the otherdamn, I should have said "people"
Alyssa Rosenberg wrote recently that Claire was a character first and a trans woman second, in literal chronological order.
Beware of assigning too much social meaning to the comic, though.
But whose boobs would he have shown?
Because if it's Pintsize, I just don't want to see that.
Yeah, I fail to see how this comic could have (or even must have) had boob.It isn't necessarily today's comic. He's mentioned a few times that lately he's been working a few days ahead.
Every other aspect of my life has thrown off my weirdness calibration.
She seems more of a pop tart girl.
Would she eat them cold or toast them like you're supposed to? (My age is showing.)I've only eaten them cold if I buy them and want them right then and there and there is no toaster around. Which honestly has been the only way I've bought pop tarts in the past decade or so. If I bought them whilst shopping and had them at home, of course I'd toast them.
And then Tai pulled her shirt up and asked Marten if her boobs were perky enough.
Claire eating cereal for four panels.
Weirdness calibration (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1666).
Weirdness calibration (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=534).
Marten is the ultimate NTR recipient waiting to happen. It's mildly depressing how aggressively passive he is.
Is that argument controversial? That was before my time.
First post but recent insinuations sure makes it seem like Marten's mother had all of her female co-workers take him aside on his 14th birthday and teach him to kiss properly or else. Maybe.
Okay, sorry, that's just crazy.
You could argue that having a spine is what caused Dora to finally leave him.
But that argument closed several threads around the time of the breakup, so...
Yeah but then he's straight into 'yeah its totally cool to hang out with my ex and, oh, my boss is doing my ex and talking to me about it'. That is not cool and not good for your mental processes.
Marten is the ultimate NTR recipient waiting to happen. It's mildly depressing how aggressively passive he is.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ntr
Actually, that wouldn't be completely out of the realm of possibility...
Not bad for a first post. Welcome! (And, since it was the subject of a previous post, you might want to read up on the forum rules. There are some... things... that are frowned upon because of what happened back during The Breakup.)
I suspect but I'm pretty new to the whole thing. Someone posted one of the strips (a recent one) to their facebook wall and I started at #1 and went thru the whole thing in a breathless two day furious read. Talk about sucked in. Why do I care so much about what happens to cartoon characters?
Actually, that wouldn't be completely out of the realm of possibility...
Not bad for a first post. Welcome! (And, since it was the subject of a previous post, you might want to read up on the forum rules. There are some... things... that are frowned upon because of what happened back during The Breakup.)
I suspect but I'm pretty new to the whole thing. Someone posted one of the strips (a recent one) to their facebook wall and I started at #1 and went thru the whole thing in a breathless two day furious read. Talk about sucked in. Why do I care so much about what happens to cartoon characters?
I've read them only three times or so and still don't remember the relevant strip numbers (except 500 and 1800). I do sometimes remember weird details, though, and I usually remember the general story arc they are in.
Does that help?It does! Welcome to the forum, ASB!