|
Dang, I really hope Reynardine says something comforting soon, I hate seeing even a fictional kid feel this way about who they are.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 10:29
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 8, 2024 12:37 |
|
|
Stop worrying about that, and think about more smooches. Also haha, Rey's got cat lounging platforms. 
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 10:36
|
|
|
"Do you think I'm wierd?" she asks the animated wolf plushie posessed by a misguided wolf demigod. Owned by her best friend, the girl who can set herself on fire that burns very selectively. In a school that apparently grew up from a seed planted in the woods. Where a humongous inteligent crustacean is the doorkeeper, and that's just the start. If anything, Paz is wierd, she can talk to animals, how is THAT normal?
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 10:46
|
|
|
Plus her dad can make telescopes appear wherever he wants in the Court!
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 10:48
|
|
|
Kikas posted:If anything, Paz is wierd, she can talk to animals, how is THAT normal? Talking to animals is normal. It's when they talk back that things get weird.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 11:03
|
|
|
Kikas posted:"Do you think I'm wierd?" she asks the animated wolf plushie posessed by a misguided wolf demigod. Your mistaken. Rey is a FOX. Very important difference.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 11:10
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 11:10
|
|
|
Kikas posted:"Do you think I'm wierd?" she asks the animated wolf plushie posessed by a misguided wolf demigod. Owned by her best friend, the girl who can set herself on fire that burns very selectively. In a school that apparently grew up from a seed planted in the woods. Where a humongous inteligent crustacean is the doorkeeper, and that's just the start. Yeah, I was actually surprised to see Kat worrying about what people would think of her because of this. I just assumed that, in a world where technology and magic had been separated by a canyon created by a laughing wolf god, whose brother was in love with a human, homosexuality wouldn't really be a thing people cared about. Guess I was wrong.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 11:39
|
|
Bot 02 posted:Yeah, I was actually surprised to see Kat worrying about what people would think of her because of this. I just assumed that, in a world where technology and magic had been separated by a canyon created by a laughing wolf god, whose brother was in love with a human, homosexuality wouldn't really be a thing people cared about. We have smart phones and airplanes and streaming netflix and hologram Tupacs, yet there's still bigots.
|
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 11:44
|
|
|
Bot 02 posted:Yeah, I was actually surprised to see Kat worrying about what people would think of her because of this. I just assumed that, in a world where technology and magic had been separated by a canyon created by a laughing wolf god, whose brother was in love with a human, homosexuality wouldn't really be a thing people cared about. Even if the people around you would obviously not care and you should be able to see that, that doesn't stop you from crapping your pants over it. Side effect of having 'this is weird and people will hate you for it' banged into you by popular culture and the news for your entire life. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Nov 27, 2013 |
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 11:55
|
|
|
Lurdiak posted:We have smart phones and airplanes and streaming netflix and hologram Tupacs, yet there's still bigots.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 12:12
|
|
|
If holographic Tupacs don't get rid of bigots, nothing will. Totally unreasonable.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 12:16
|
|
|
Lurdiak posted:We have smart phones and airplanes and streaming netflix and hologram Tupacs, yet there's still bigots. That is a very good point, I hadn't considered it from that angle.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 12:24
|
|
|
Yeah, it's the holo2pacs that make the argument work.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 12:38
|
|
|
Now I want a holotupac. Where can they be found?
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 12:55
|
|
|
Cat Mattress posted:Now I want a holotupac. Where can they be found? You can't! Apparently the the company that created holo-tupac has since gone chapter eleven. More here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Domain
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 13:30
|
|
|
Honestly, living in the hyper liberal Canadian university environment makes me forget bigots even exist sometimes. So this comic just made me think "what fuckin' decade is this set in?" when I realized I don't actually know what decade this comic is set in.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 13:50
|
|
|
FutureSushi posted:Honestly, living in the hyper liberal Canadian university environment makes me forget bigots even exist sometimes. So this comic just made me think "what fuckin' decade is this set in?" when I realized I don't actually know what decade this comic is set in. Trust me, even in the most accepting environment on Earth where there are no bigots within a hundred kilometres, kids will still have this terror. 
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 13:55
|
|
|
FutureSushi posted:Honestly, living in the hyper liberal Canadian university environment makes me forget bigots even exist sometimes. So this comic just made me think "what fuckin' decade is this set in?" when I realized I don't actually know what decade this comic is set in. This one I'd imagine considering the anime dancing games.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 14:12
|
|
|
FutureSushi posted:Honestly, living in the hyper liberal Canadian university environment makes me forget bigots even exist sometimes. So this comic just made me think "what fuckin' decade is this set in?" when I realized I don't actually know what decade this comic is set in. Kat played Metal Gear Solid 4 earlier so either the 00/10s , or in the faaar fuuutuure.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 14:47
|
|
|
Lurdiak posted:Dang, I really hope Reynardine says something comforting soon, I hate seeing even a fictional kid feel this way about who they are. He's probably gonna follow it up with something like "But humans are also capable of great compassion and camaraderie; for instance: however Annie feels about this, tell her that someone hurt you over it and I doubt that you will find them to be not on fire for very long"
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 15:25
|
|
|
MikeJF posted:Trust me, even in the most accepting environment on Earth where there are no bigots within a hundred kilometres, kids will still have this terror. Because there's always something we do, say, think, like, or want that deviates from what we perceive to be the norm, and when you're a kid, that can eat you alive. Man, I wouldn't be a teenager again for the world. Edit: Rasamune posted:He's probably gonna follow it up with something like "But humans are also capable of great compassion and camaraderie; for instance: however Annie feels about this, tell her that someone hurt you over it and I doubt that you will find them to be not on fire for very long" Yeah, I think that's what Wise Counselor Rey is angling towards. Because Annie may find other people's sexuality confusing, but Kat's her best friend and she will torch a motherfucker. Fighting Trousers fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Nov 27, 2013 |
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 15:26
|
|
|
This character development is nice and all, but I'm still waiting for Annie eating a huge pizza and going "woo! yeah!" (about the pizza) 
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 16:06
|
|
|
You know, it doesn't seem that Kat is worried so much about whether homosexuality is right or not, but if it's quote-unquote normal. And compared to the average it isn't - I don't think it's controversial to say heterosexual relationships are more common than homosexual ones, and anything that separates you from your peers at that age is something that can be used to make you feel bad about yourself. Please note that I'm not saying that homosexuality is weird or immoral or anything stupid like that, just not as common as heterosexuality. So yeah Rey it's time to cheer this girl up.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 17:02
|
|
|
Commonality does not imply normality, and the inverse.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 17:21
|
|
|
Yeah, that might be true for a dictionary definition of "normal", but it's a loaded word and a lot of people take "not normal" to mean "bad". Both people who don't like what's different to themselves, and people who are "different" and worry about not being accepted.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 18:05
|
|
|
Suaimhneas posted:Yeah, that might be true for a dictionary definition of "normal", but it's a loaded word and a lot of people take "not normal" to mean "bad". Both people who don't like what's different to themselves, and people who are "different" and worry about not being accepted. Yep, and that's exactly the sort of messed up thinking caused by anxiousness.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 18:13
|
|
|
Prison Warden posted:Kat played Metal Gear Solid 4 earlier so either the 00/10s , or in the faaar fuuutuure. It couldn't be that far in the future, given the sort-of timeline in Jones' chapter. Assuming Eglamore is in his early/mid 40s, this takes place sometime in the '70s. Jones' nurse uniform would have been pretty archaic if it was any later, and she keeps up to date with fashion.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 19:04
|
|
|
If you've paid me for a comic, it has been posted. I think only one dude hasn't actually paid yet though. 
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 19:46
|
|
|
Parley was afraid of being seen by her friends with Smitty because he's one year younger. Teenagers make a big deal out of really inconsequential things.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 20:08
|
|
|
Heavy Zed posted:Parley was afraid of being seen by her friends with Smitty because he's one year younger. Teenagers make a big deal out of really inconsequential things. Well, that and her one very colorful friend was thoroughly unbearable and she'd definitely hear no end of grief about it.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 20:21
|
|
|
Well yeah that's kind of my point. Kids aren't born afraid of being different. They learn it somewhere.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 20:27
|
|
|
Lurdiak posted:We have smart phones and airplanes and streaming netflix and hologram Tupacs, yet there's still bigots.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 20:31
|
|
|
Paracelsus posted:I'm not sure why you would think there's a connection between those. There's no single continuum that culture exists along where at one end you have technological progress and homosexuality is viewed as normal and at the other you have no technology and homosexuality is viewed as abnormal. Yeah I think that's the whole point since Lurdiak was responding to this: Bot 02 posted:I just assumed that, in a world where technology and magic had been separated by a canyon created by a laughing wolf god, whose brother was in love with a human, homosexuality wouldn't really be a thing people cared about. Basically the real world changes in ways that are just as crazy and unpredictable as the ones in any fiction but there's no reason to think that directly translates to some fundamental change in the way people act and think.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 20:55
|
|
Heavy Zed posted:Yeah I think that's the whole point since Lurdiak was responding to this: That was my point exactly, yes. The reason I was so hooked on Transmetropolitan when I read it initially was that this was a world so technologically far ahead of our own that it was insane, yet nothing else had changed at all. Same prejudice, same income inequality, same focus on shallow material gain... Technology didn't bring about a Star Trek type utopia, because you can't solve social issues with gimmicks. And no matter how much the world we live in changes, we'll stick to our old flaws unless we directly confront them.
|
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 21:20
|
|
|
Edit beaten like goddamn
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 21:32
|
|
|
Look at Rey tilting his head in the first panel. That is adorable. 
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 23:01
|
|
|
Heavy Zed posted:Yeah I think that's the whole point since Lurdiak was responding to this:
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 23:12
|
|
|
Huh, I just realised that the pedestals in front of the bookshelf (one of which Kat is sitting on) are presumably there so that Rey can hop between them to reach the upper shelves. That's a cool little detail.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2013 23:37
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 8, 2024 12:37 |
|
|
Reynardine's not too good at the "cheer up" business! Maybe it'd go better if Kat had let him make light of things with a lewd remark after all!
|
|
#
?
Nov 28, 2013 00:23
|
|
