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Hodgepodge posted:Like, if my son came come and told me this poo poo happened, I'd have concerns about that teacher and would probably drop in the next day before school to talk to the administration and the teacher about my concerns. The summary would be "explain this behaviour in a way which reassures me that I am not leaving my son with a psychopath in a position of authority over him for several hours each day." Yeah if this is really that problematic Annie can just take it to her dad.
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Suaimhneas posted:I'm starting to feel like he's conducting an experiment here. Like it's a common fire elemental trait to burst into fiery rage with enough provocation, and he needs to know exactly where Annie's tipping point is so he can fine-tune his calculations for the soul surgery stuff This ain't a bad theory! There's even precedent since Jones tried the same thing with her too. has it ever been explicitly stated that Anthony isn't a robot???
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Mar 20, 2015 12:44
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YF-23 posted:Yeah if this is really that problematic Annie can just take it to her dad.
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Mar 20, 2015 13:20
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Hopefully Kat'll kick down her dad's door and say WHAT THE gently caress IS WRONG WITH YOUR FRIEND DAD SERIOULY you have a duty to the student body
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Hodgepodge posted:E: I do hope we get a comeuppance where Kat reminds him that he almost killed Annie, and that's sort of a big deal and ethically he has no right to teach, parent, or practice, even if there are no consequences because it was magic medical malpractice. Kat doesn't really know that. http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1052 "Do you think... he caused this somehow?" "What? Oh, no, no, I'm sure he's off doing important work somewhere."
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Hodgepodge posted:I'm guessing there's some leeway for dickery in a tor.com is doing a re-read of the books and keeping track of the times he does it (among other things) that you might want to check out, its pretty good
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Fried Chicken posted:Absolutely, Snape was a god awful teacher, abusive and cruel to students without any justification. The only reason Snape was still a teacher was plot. Dumbledore needed him around to eventually be a double agent and turn on Voldermort, and that's about it. If he wasn't useful I bet Dumbles would have kicked him out on his rear end like, immediately. Then again Hogwarts is a school where students were once hung up by their fingernails. Snape's pretty nice by those standards. Basically, the court has Tony there for reasons other than teaching.
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Mar 20, 2015 14:48
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Hogwarts was unbelievably mismanaged in all imaginable aspects, up to and including forcing students who have well known dangerous destinies to just keep going to school instead of focusing on the end of the world stuff first and then, y'know, take night classes after that's out of the way.
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Mar 20, 2015 14:53
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Mar 20, 2015 14:59
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Perhaps not giving Antimony a book is part of a ploy to detect her cheating.
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Suaimhneas posted:I'm starting to feel like he's conducting an experiment here. Like it's a common fire elemental trait to burst into fiery rage with enough provocation, and he needs to know exactly where Annie's tipping point is so he can fine-tune his calculations for the soul surgery stuff
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Hodgepodge posted:I'm guessing there's some leeway for dickery in a Mmm. Well. Snape is a caricature, and I actually went to a British private school. While there were, variously, teachers who slept with students, teachers who spent all day browsing porn in their offices, teachers who drank themselves half to death and teachers who had nervous breakdowns and started sleeping under their desks, I don't think I ever saw anything like this sort of abuse. I mean, I'll grant you there might be a species of rich bastard who thinks a beating a day builds character, but I've never met one (probably all went to Merchiston), and the ones I did meet were rather more in the "I want my precious darling coddled and spoilt" mould. Also, the school administration were always eager to placate parents and quash even the slightest hint of wrongdoing- parents were customers, after all. And I don't think fee-paying schools actually are free from government- they're schools you have to pay to get into, not sovereign countries, and mistreatment of children is one of these things that get people worked into a lather. That said, the Court specifically seems to be a sovereign country and a law unto itself, so in this case you might be right.
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Mar 20, 2015 15:23
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...gently caress THIS GUY FOREVER
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Mar 20, 2015 15:23
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Man, this just makes me wonder what he'd do if he found out what she did to the moon.
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I like how my jaw drops just a little lower every page. I'm getting the sense that this is less the case of autisticly-conveyed mixed emotions, and more barely contained seething rage.
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You know, I forget if someone brought it up already though I imagine it's come up, but I'm really beginning to think Anthony intends to use Antimony to bring Surma back to life. I didn't before, but remembering the weird bone spear thing, and the chapter dealing closely with how students from the forest get new bodies, it seems like foreshadowing. I mean, the court can just make you a body and stuff your soul in it if it's available. What with Annie having Surma's "spark", it seems like her body might be on ice somewhere just waiting to have Annie's spark ripped out and put back in corpse mom.
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Glagha posted:You know, I forget if someone brought it up already though I imagine it's come up, but I'm really beginning to think Anthony intends to use Antimony to bring Surma back to life. I didn't before, but remembering the weird bone spear thing, and the chapter dealing closely with how students from the forest get new bodies, it seems like foreshadowing. I mean, the court can just make you a body and stuff your soul in it if it's available. What with Annie having Surma's "spark", it seems like her body might be on ice somewhere just waiting to have Annie's spark ripped out and put back in corpse mom. I want to see him try this just so I have an excuse to dislike Anthony even more.
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Why would he waste a book on her it's not like she's going to pass this class after all. Books are expensive. Honestly it was about time this gal was taken down a notch, and of course her father is the man for the job.
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Okay, so, what exactly is this guy's plan here? Is he trying to make Annie lose her temper so that he'll have an excuse to do... something? I mean, he's dedicated the first fifteen minutes of his class to openly tormenting her in front of everybody. Teaching is evidently not a priority here, so he's got to have some kind of scheme.
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Rand Brittain posted:Okay, so, what exactly is this guy's plan here? Is he trying to make Annie lose her temper so that he'll have an excuse to do... something? Gotta admit, its a hell of a way to get folks to remember amino acid structure
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Wow, I think at this point there really isn't anything that can be revealed about Carver that will redeem him for me. Even if he somehow has a super tragic past. Guy is just a jerk and a terrible father/teacher. Way to resort to public shaming to assert your authority.
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I have never been more anxious about any other (web?) comic updating more than I am with this chapter. On a side note, I got the paperback volume 1 in today. I wish Topaco/USPS was a bit better about the package. The bottom of the padded envelope was clearly thrown across the ground at one point (dirt embedded in it), as the back cover is slightly dirty. But man, the first paperback is A. small (8.25" x 5.75"), B. really nicely done. The colr and binding is nice. It looks like something that could be in a big bookstore and sold professionally. I could do some pictures if anyone really cared.
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IUG posted:I could do some pictures if anyone really cared. A few pictures would be awesome, I've been thinking about getting it.
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Rand Brittain posted:Okay, so, what exactly is this guy's plan here? Is he trying to make Annie lose her temper so that he'll have an excuse to do... something? Seems to be working.
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One Legged Cat posted:Here's bettin' he gives Zimmy the stink-eye at least once. YellerBill posted:I want to see him try this just so I have an excuse to dislike Anthony even more.
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None of her classmates are even in "ha ha you got in trouble" mode. Everyone's just like "oh god we're so sorry your dad is a loving dick annie"
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Glagha posted:You know, I forget if someone brought it up already though I imagine it's come up, but I'm really beginning to think Anthony intends to use Antimony to bring Surma back to life. There's a problem with that. Surma's gone to the ether and the only thing left of her soul is Antimony.
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Cat Mattress posted:There's a problem with that. Surma's gone to the ether and the only thing left of her soul is Antimony. I don't want to follow this logic train to its final destination.
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Wulfolme posted:You mean kinda like how Littlefinger won't leave Sansa Stark alone because she looks exactly like her mom? No, you weirdo.
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Cat Mattress posted:There's a problem with that. Surma's gone to the ether and the only thing left of her soul is Antimony. Anthony might not know that, though, if he truly never cared for nor respected the Etheric sciences, like Jones was telling Annie.
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isasphere posted:Anthony might not know that, though, if he truly never cared for nor respected the Etheric sciences, like Jones was telling Annie. The microsat stuff and the interdimensional bone scalpels do not seem like the work of someone who never got into etheric sciences.
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Cat Mattress posted:The microsat stuff and the interdimensional bone scalpels do not seem like the work of someone who never got into etheric sciences. Oh, right. Plain old mad science, then? But I really hope that speculation doesn't pan out. At this point I'd take "trying to save the daughter he resents, through risky life-threatening ways, just to finish the job he started with Surma. Also, still a jerk" over "trying to revive Surma".
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