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[windinthewires]

Hey... can you help me find it? It was something about the winter night and it being great for gay sex.

 

[JD]

[windinthewires]

Aw thank you! 

[mustang6172]

I bet Marten is the bottom in that relationship, or any relationship.

[Random832]

...and yet when people on the board do this...

[JD]

huh?

[Binary]

huh?

I posit that Random832 is complaining about shippers being accused of creepiness for creating same-sex fantasies between random QC characters even though Jeph and guest artists do the same thing in the strip.

His smiley suggests he's being tongue-in-cheek, but people who really argue this are missing the distinction that Jeph is doing it to provide us with amusing and entertaining situation comedy, whereas the shippers are doing it for wank fodder.

[Random832]

whereas the shippers are doing it for wank fodder.

Maybe that's your reason 

But anyway, in somewhat more seriousness...

This is a comic where romantic relationships exist, and where - yes - people sometimes have sex, sometimes all but on-panel (Sven and Gina Riversmith, for example). Yet there is somehow something wrong with what is basically nothing more than talking about potential future plot developments (of various degrees of unlikeliness) - without even making it about sex at all beyond the inevitable fact that the comic isn't shy about acknowledging that people who are in relationships sometimes (but not always) do eventually have sex. And who said anything about it having anything to do with being a same-sex relationship? Though, if that is the reason that Faye/Angus "shippers" are spared the bulk of this scorn (they do get some hate, but it's more about the supposed "fact" that Angus is a stalker than it is that it's "creepy" to think about two characters being together), then... well, that says more about the people calling it creepy, now, doesn't it?

[tuxedobob]

You may have had trouble finding it because this was an "alternate version" of a comic.

[LTK]

While there is a thread like this, can anyone look up the comic about "the worst thing to yell during sex" for me? Also, it would be helpful to know how you archive gurus find old comics easily.

[evilbobthebob]

www.ohnorobot.com for all your webcomic search needs 

[Binary]

Maybe that's your reason 

Naah, me != shipper: I'm content with the hijinks Jeph gets his characters into.

Yet there is somehow something wrong with what is basically nothing more than talking about potential future plot developments

This. Fora are invaluable for analysis (I often learn of nuances I hadn't spotted myself; and occasionally I do need the whole damn joke explained to me). But second-guessing plot developments does Jeph no favours. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5%27s_use_of_the_Internet#Fora for the sort of problems this can cause an author.

And who said anything about it having anything to do with being a same-sex relationship?

That's just me conflating the hostility shown to the Hantai/Hannegold brigade with the Marten/Steve shagging implied in this strip. No axes to grind on my part - hell, Dora and I have at least one thing in common.

[Binary]

While there is a thread like this, can anyone look up the comic about "the worst thing to yell during sex" for me?

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=810

[LTK]

www.ohnorobot.com for all your webcomic search needs 

That's perfect! I'll stick a bookmark on it. Thanks bob and Binary, too!

[Random832]

Yet there is somehow something wrong with what is basically nothing more than talking about potential future plot developments

This. Fora are invaluable for analysis (I often learn of nuances I hadn't spotted myself; and occasionally I do need the whole damn joke explained to me). But second-guessing plot developments does Jeph no favours. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5%27s_use_of_the_Internet#Fora for the sort of problems this can cause an author.

Well, there's that. The Order of the Stick forum has a strict spoiler-tag policy on serious speculation so the author doesn't have to read it. But it doesn't deserve the word "creepy" by a LONG shot, not for that.