I figure that the drama is that they are already married, Evie has a job in the area and lil sis needs help getting them settled etc and finding a job for herself.
I can't wait until Evie and Amanda see Faye and Bubbles together.
"They are TOTALLY dating!"
"We are NOT!"
"Hey, is BUBBLES BLUSHING?!"
"I am not!" the blushing Bubbles lied.
Oh god, this thing about self employment hits WAY too close to home, specially the comment at the bottom of the comic.
Wait until these two get a whiff of Faye's business partner. I expect great things from them for the bubbles-Faye thread. Terrible perhaps, yes. But great nonetheless.
Somewhere between girlfriend and handler.
Oh god, this thing about self employment hits WAY too close to home, specially the comment at the bottom of the comic.
Right!? I hate it when people say, "O, you work from home, can't you do "X, Y, Z" for me?" or "I envy you, you can take off whenever you want."
Or you work at home and people don't realize you've taken your lunch hour off to attend a meeting, and now must get "back to work"Oh god, this thing about self employment hits WAY too close to home, specially the comment at the bottom of the comic.
Right!? I hate it when people say, "O, you work from home, can't you do "X, Y, Z" for me?" or "I envy you, you can take off whenever you want."
"Oh, you work nights? Must be nice to have all that free time in the day!"
The other problem is that you never get any time to yourself away from the boss...
If you happen to live in the continental United States or in Canada, there's a good chance your roads are frozen over thanks to yesterdays precipitation.50 feet? :? [calls up the translation app] Ah so 15 meters
Might I suggest driving slower, giving yourself extra space between you and the car ahead, along with giving yourself at least an extra 50 ft to stop?
Or they call at 10:00 AM. "Oh! Did I wake you?"Oh god, this thing about self employment hits WAY too close to home, specially the comment at the bottom of the comic.
Right!? I hate it when people say, "O, you work from home, can't you do "X, Y, Z" for me?" or "I envy you, you can take off whenever you want."
"Oh, you work nights? Must be nice to have all that free time in the day!"
Well, shit, sure I can. That is, if I don't want to meet my deadlines, if I want to lose the trust of my clients, and if I never want to eat, again. WHY NOT!?!And if you're self-employed you're always, always insecure about continuity of work. And your boss is always in the room, looking over your shoulder.
Then there's being expected to keep "normal people hours" on the weekend.Oh god, this thing about self employment hits WAY too close to home, specially the comment at the bottom of the comic.
Right!? I hate it when people say, "O, you work from home, can't you do "X, Y, Z" for me?" or "I envy you, you can take off whenever you want."
"Oh, you work nights? Must be nice to have all that free time in the day!"
If you happen to live in the continental United States or in Canada, there's a good chance your roads are frozen over thanks to yesterdays precipitation.50 feet? :? [calls up the translation app] Ah so 15 meters
Might I suggest driving slower, giving yourself extra space between you and the car ahead, along with giving yourself at least an extra 50 ft to stop?
Also you better have snow tires or slow down even further because your stopping distance increases to guardrail, lamp post, ditch or the ever popular police car fender.
I normally use the 3 second rule under regular driving conditionsbut with today's weather and road conditions it is supposed to be at least 9 seconds when traveling at speed .... that translates into about [does some higher math] 2 meters on average or just far enough behind to see their tail lights flicker off when they take their foot off the brake pedal to start to move and yet close enough not to encourage the [censored] to nose in after passing everyone on the right exit lane. This is one of the many reasons why a very specific vehicle is on my must get list for city driving. :-D(click to show/hide)
I like Evie.
"That's me. I'm Evie." For some reason it just made me laugh.
Anyone think there's a chance Evie is Renee's sister? After all when she first appeared Renee was Faye's Secret Bakery analog, so it would kind of make sense for her to have a lesbian younger sister.
Anyone think there's a chance Evie is Renee's sister? After all when she first appeared Renee was Faye's Secret Bakery analog, so it would kind of make sense for her to have a lesbian younger sister.Nope.
Oh god, this thing about self employment hits WAY too close to home, specially the comment at the bottom of the comic.
The truest statement I've heard about self employment is 'You get to choose what 16 hours a day you work!'. Though honestly that depends on what you actually do for a living.
The other problem is that you never get any time to yourself away from the boss...
And if you're self-employed you're always, always insecure about continuity of work. And your boss is always in the room, looking over your shoulder.
Oh god, this thing about self employment hits WAY too close to home, specially the comment at the bottom of the comic.
Right!? I hate it when people say, "O, you work from home, can't you do "X, Y, Z" for me?" or "I envy you, you can take off whenever you want."
"Oh, you work nights? Must be nice to have all that free time in the day!"
Well, shit, sure I can. That is, if I don't want to meet my deadlines, if I want to lose the trust of my clients, and if I never want to eat, again. WHY NOT!?!And if you're self-employed you're always, always insecure about continuity of work. And your boss is always in the room, looking over your shoulder.
Um, is "psychology" misspelled in 3652?
"How long you been bangin’ my sister?"
Really? Is that how you talk to someone you’ve just met? Especially if it’s the new SO of your sibling?
I know everyone in the business world seems to be pushing the "gig economy" as the one true way to be successful,
Okay, relationship bad sign here: Amanda didn't think to mention Evie again, even though she has apparently guessed Faye doesn't read her electronic messages. I mean, I can be absent-minded so I don't have grounds to stand and preach. However, I would have expected Amanda to have gushed about her new girlfriend at least once to her big sister during their conversations. Either Amanda is easily distracted or Evie isn't that big a deal for her.
Okay, relationship bad sign here: Amanda didn't think to mention Evie again, even though she has apparently guessed Faye doesn't read her electronic messages. I mean, I can be absent-minded so I don't have grounds to stand and preach. However, I would have expected Amanda to have gushed about her new girlfriend at least once to her big sister during their conversations. Either Amanda is easily distracted or Evie isn't that big a deal for her.
Eh, I didn't discuss my partner with my sister for well over six months, until one day she asked me "So, have you still got your girlfriend in [region]?" and it turned out the grapevine is more proactive than I am. Sometimes, a new relationship is none of anybody's business. On the other hand, Amanda had made the first step of trying to tell Faye, so you'd think she'd have crossed the mental line of keeping mum.
Oh god, this thing about self employment hits WAY too close to home, specially the comment at the bottom of the comic.The truest statement I've heard about self employment is 'You get to choose what 16 hours a day you work!'. Though honestly that depends on what you actually do for a living.The other problem is that you never get any time to yourself away from the boss...And if you're self-employed you're always, always insecure about continuity of work. And your boss is always in the room, looking over your shoulder.
All of this and more is why I hope to never touch self-employment and the "entrepreneurship" world with a 40-kilometre pole. It's a massive ball of 24/7 overwork, overstress, insecurity, perpetual instability, and general not-having-a-life-anymore that, even with the fleeting moments of accomplishment mixed in, it just isn't worth it.
"How long you been bangin’ my sister?"When you're Faye Whitaker, abso-freakin'-lutely.
Really? Is that how you talk to someone you’ve just met? Especially if it’s the new SO of your sibling?
Okay, relationship bad sign here: Amanda didn't think to mention Evie again, even though she has apparently guessed Faye doesn't read her electronic messages. I mean, I can be absent-minded so I don't have grounds to stand and preach. However, I would have expected Amanda to have gushed about her new girlfriend at least once to her big sister during their conversations. Either Amanda is easily distracted or Evie isn't that big a deal for her.
Eh, I didn't discuss my partner with my sister for well over six months, until one day she asked me "So, have you still got your girlfriend in [region]?" and it turned out the grapevine is more proactive than I am. Sometimes, a new relationship is none of anybody's business. On the other hand, Amanda had made the first step of trying to tell Faye, so you'd think she'd have crossed the mental line of keeping mum.
Side note: has no one commented on the text at the bottom of the comic yet? :psyduck:
Comic! Reading this makes me wonder how much older Evie is than Amanda. It's really hard to tell in the QCverse how much time has passed, but I'm pretty sure Amanda was 18 when we last saw her. So, if two years have passed she's 20 or 21.
Amanda, you just probably upset your girlfriend... :cry:
And with that, there goes one poll option! I think?Alternate possibility* is that Amanda is upset because she did intend to propose and Faye spoiled the surprise.
I am acquainted with those moments. I wish it was easier to donate my uterus to a woman who actually wants the thing.
For the time being, you can donate your eggs and/or have a hysterectomy if you so choose.
Theoretically. I'm not familiar with egg donation but you need to fit a lot of criteria to be able to do it and it's very hard to find a doctor that will assist you through the process, of any kind of elective sterilisation, if you're not looking for a vasectomy specifically. Especially if you're under 35ish and haven't already had multiple children.
Edit to add that people with penises do get refused vasectomies, but to my knowledge it's nowhere on the scale for people with uteruses getting refused equivalent procedures.
Damn, Evie took that set-up and RAN with it.
For the time being, you can donate your eggs and/or have a hysterectomy if you so choose.
Theoretically. I'm not familiar with egg donation but you need to fit a lot of criteria to be able to do it and it's very hard to find a doctor that will assist you through the process, of any kind of elective sterilisation, if you're not looking for a vasectomy specifically. Especially if you're under 35ish and haven't already had multiple children.
Edit to add that people with penises do get refused vasectomies, but to my knowledge it's nowhere on the scale for people with uteruses getting refused equivalent procedures.
This is absolutely the start of an arc that gets Faye to ask Bubbles out isn't it? Like it just is.
I'm a compromised writer here. I officially can't tell between whether this is effective telegraphing -- the explicit lack of interest in male partners being emphasized, the sister being brought back explicitly to show new relationships as a theme for Faye to echo -- or just my shipping goggles on overdrive trying to justify what I hope it is. This sucks.
She said 'we' have better things to do than look for a new relationship. Who is 'we', I wonder and why is Faye automatically including them in her personal priorities?
This is absolutely the start of an arc that gets Faye to ask Bubbles out isn't it? Like it just is.
I'm a compromised writer here. I officially can't tell between whether this is effective telegraphing -- the explicit lack of interest in male partners being emphasized, the sister being brought back explicitly to show new relationships as a theme for Faye to echo -- or just my shipping goggles on overdrive trying to justify what I hope it is. This sucks.
They're gonna get along just fine as sisters-in-law. But poor Mandy - both her sister and her girlfriend tag-teaming her to wind her up.
This is absolutely the start of an arc that gets Faye to ask Bubbles out isn't it? Like it just is.
I'm a compromised writer here. I officially can't tell between whether this is effective telegraphing -- the explicit lack of interest in male partners being emphasized, the sister being brought back explicitly to show new relationships as a theme for Faye to echo -- or just my shipping goggles on overdrive trying to justify what I hope it is. This sucks.
I think it is, but I hope it is not. Feels far too much like the author just putting together two single characters to tidy things up. Faye and Bubbles are great friends and work partners, I don't see them as great romantic partners. Faye is quite broken that way and Bubbles is Bubbles.
I think it is, but I hope it is not. Feels far too much like the author just putting together two single characters to tidy things up. Faye and Bubbles are great friends and work partners, I don't see them as great romantic partners. Faye is quite broken that way and Bubbles is Bubbles.
This is absolutely the start of an arc that gets Faye to ask Bubbles out isn't it? Like it just is.
Here's a thought (a variant of one that I had before I got a decent handle on Evie and Amanda's relationship): Maybe the professors at Smif will be so impressed with Evie that, dependent on the outcome of her PhD, they'll offer her tenure at the college.
I was going to respond, as an academic who is currently trying to escape academia, but you beat me to it. Little AIs running around everywhere and their inventor living on a space station, sure, but if Evie was offered tenure while still in grad school, that would be beyond suspension of disbelief.Here's a thought (a variant of one that I had before I got a decent handle on Evie and Amanda's relationship): Maybe the professors at Smif will be so impressed with Evie that, dependent on the outcome of her PhD, they'll offer her tenure at the college.
No offense Ben, but it’s clear you have never worked in an academic environment, if only from your misuse of the word “tenure” as it is used in the academic world. It is just barely conceivable that Smif might invite Evie to interview for a postdoctoral fellowship based on a well-received paper. But tenure is typically only given to someone who has been employed in a department for years and has risen through the ranks from lowly adjunct to full professor. Tenure means complete academic freedom and guaranteed lifetime employment - typically tenured professors can only be dismissed for severe misconduct or illegal activity (and sometimes not even for that.) It’s a long term career goal, not something anyone is given right out of the starting gate.
I Love Faye.
I Love Bubbles.
I just don't wanna see "Faybles"...
:oops:
This is absolutely the start of an arc that gets Faye to ask Bubbles out isn't it? Like it just is.
What, Faye directly demonstrating that she doesn't even contemplate the idea of a female partner as a remote possibility?
This is absolutely the start of an arc that gets Faye to ask Bubbles out isn't it? Like it just is.
What, Faye directly demonstrating that she doesn't even contemplate the idea of a female partner as a remote possibility?
No, just that she's only been dismissing the idea of male ones. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and all that.
This is absolutely the start of an arc that gets Faye to ask Bubbles out isn't it? Like it just is.
What, Faye directly demonstrating that she doesn't even contemplate the idea of a female partner as a remote possibility?
No, just that she's only been dismissing the idea of male ones. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and all that.
Also: Bubbles is really cute in today's comic.
However, did anyone else notice that Bubbles head seems to lack fully formed ears?
However, did anyone else notice that Bubbles head seems to lack fully formed ears?
All anthromimetic chassis have similar ears; its one of the ways Jeph differentiates android chassis from humans.
Re yesterday's strip:
"yo I have been flirting with you for months do you wanna fuck/make love or not"
Cue ongoing sexual harassment and potential rape charges, in today's climate. Perseverance and "wearing her down" is no longer considered acceptable behavior.
Large and made of steel? And will blow you away.
Recommended at the price. Insatiable an appetite. Want to try?Large and made of steel? And will blow you away.Dynamite with a laser beam. Guaranteed to blow your mind, anytime.
I wonder though, will this necessarily lead to the development of Bubbles and Faye's relationship that people want, or will it lead to a defining of where they stand? Like Bubbles confessing how she feels about Faye, only to be gently let down by Faye who tells her that she cares about Bubbles as a friend, but she isn't ready for that kind of relationship.
Really I'm just wanting to warn people about getting their hopes too high, the last arc has pretty much shown that people should be careful what they wish for.
When May first met Bubbles Faye gave May crap for objecrifying Bubbles and particularly her bottom. Now Faye encourages every female who meets Bubble to do it and now Bubbles is written as enjoying it. Can't decide if it hypocrisy or just expediency on behalf of the author to establish Bubbles as a sexual being.
When May first met Bubbles Faye gave May crap for objecrifying Bubbles and particularly her bottom. Now Faye encourages every female who meets Bubble to do it and now Bubbles is written as enjoying it. Can't decide if it hypocrisy or just expediency on behalf of the author to establish Bubbles as a sexual being.
I can't see where Faye is encouraging anything, here...
It depends if Amanda was flirting back or, on the contrary, expressed that she wasn't interested (or worse, scared, disgusted, angered...), or even simply lacked to express interest.