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Has she? She's made some pretty impressive jumps but I don't remember flying.
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Yeah, up until now she's only ever jumped. Flying is new.
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May 19, 2015 12:21
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She said "time to fly" when she first realized she had powers. So she says it again now that she actually can.
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Okay that's kind of awesome that she can fly now and I wonder if that was Patricks idea all along. Also, pretty sure she's never flown before.
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SynthOrange posted:She's flown before. Also Patrick's present was really sweet and this had better not be the last we see of him.
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May 19, 2015 16:38
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Man, I just noticed the blood on Patrick's hand. I do like that we get an explanation for Alison's shock so soon. She thought he'd duck, which makes total sense. .
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May 19, 2015 16:58
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What exactly was Patrick's game plan going into this? "I'm going to use my telepathy to make you super mad at me oh by the way here's a touching memento of our time together"?
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Cryophage posted:What exactly was Patrick's game plan going into this? He pretty much had none. He didn't invite Alison with the goal of making her mad; making her mad was just a panic reaction when she started making him uncomfortable.
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So it looks like Allison is falling back hard on the superhero habits despite her words. Yeah, this is not going to end well for her.
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Yeah, he presumably got the gift in advance of their meeting, intending to give it to her next time he saw her. He didn't know why she wanted to meet so urgently because he's been far away from her; he didn't find out she wanted Moonshadow until she arrived at his office. And then, well, we saw how things went from there. I really like this page. "Why couldn't you just duck", she asks, because it would have been a hell of a lot easier for her if he had. And the detail that he not only has the thing, he's gluing it back together, my god.
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idonotlikepeas posted:"Why couldn't you just duck", she asks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-k5J4RxQdE
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May 19, 2015 18:59
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If this entire series is leading up to Patrick winning over Alison by means of a wabbit season/duck season gambit all of its faults will be forgiven. e: to be clear, I mean winning over in a supervillain sense, not a romantic sense. If they do get together they're going to have to seriously work for it. ManlyGrunting fucked around with this message at 17:52 on May 20, 2015 |
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May 19, 2015 19:09
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Alison the big dumb goober posted:Why couldn't you just duck? Why couldn't you just not throw the drat thing at his face in the first place
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ManlyGrunting posted:If this entire series is leading up to Patrick winning over Alison by means of a wabbit season/duck season gambit all of its faults will be forgiven. On a serious note, I don't see Patrick winning her over, that ship has sailed. But I do see Allison easing up on the whole "I've decided to completely ruin you now" bit once she fully realizes that he's just a messed up kid like pretty much everyone else. That is a backstep for her, especially after her last interactions with cleaver, feral, etc. I mean this is the same chapter where she learned about how she was oblivious about how all her super hero "friends" were suffering while she was just doing her own thing without giving a drat about them. That has to be intentional.
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In a way, this entire chapter is a step back for her. She gave up the superhero business because she didn't think it was doing any real good in the long term to go around and punch things, and now she's going through so much effort to track down a villain on her own, as if her personal ability to punch things really hard will make her so much better at solving the case than the actual investigators. And for all the talking at her people have been doing, none of what people are saying is actually doing anything.
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I'm still not sure what was supposed to be communicated about Patrick in that whole scene. The idea of Patrick's powers was always difficult to write about coherently without fully exploring it, but until this chapter they'd done a good job with it. All of a sudden they seem to have bludgeoned the concept into a form that makes no sense and contradicts all the previous work they'd done. If Patrick's meant to represent some sort of utilitarian standpoint on these things, he's just a really bad example of it. If he's supposed to lack self-reflection (as some sort of "defect" that would make the "read your own mind" question meaningful), then it wouldn't explain his high levels of apparent self-awareness in previous chapters- or why that should be some big reveal. If this is all a puppetmaster routine, it doesn't really demonstrate it. I have no idea why the authors decided to frame the whole thing with baby's first discussion of time travel ethics and moral horizons, either. I still can't tell if he's supposed to have actually ordered the execution of random side characters from earlier in the story, or if it's supposed to be a bluff, or what. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 01:31 on May 20, 2015 |
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Strong Female Protagonist: Throwing Fair-Trade, Looney Tunes Coffee Cups at The Man
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Patrick had a tenth as much impact across his entire rant as he does supergluing a broken coffee mug.
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There are people in the comments section arguing over whether Patrick's method of gluing the mug back together is cultural appropriation.
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I know I'll regret this, but how is gluing something back together cultural appropriation?
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Somebody said the mug would be a good candidate for kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold. But they said at the same time that it would be cultural appropriation to do so. It's always striking to me that some people fervently believe that you aren't morally allowed to do certain kinds of art unless you're a certain race.
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There was even a "It's not my job to educate you" involved.
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Wittgen posted:Somebody said the mug would be a good candidate for kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold. But they said at the same time that it would be cultural appropriation to do so. It's always striking to me that some people fervently believe that you aren't morally allowed to do certain kinds of art unless you're a certain race. Spike Lee agrees, white people aren't allowed to make movies about black people
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Wittgen posted:Somebody said the mug would be a good candidate for kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold. But they said at the same time that it would be cultural appropriation to do so. It's always striking to me that some people fervently believe that you aren't morally allowed to do certain kinds of art unless you're a certain race. Well as a member of the Aleut tribe, it's ok for everyone to learn our art style and use it to make art. You want to make one of those intestine raincoats, I ain't stopping you. In the mood to make a canoe out of bark? Go buck wild, it's cool.  Atmus posted:There was even a "It's not my job to educate you" involved. This is a thing nobody has ever said to me in person. Atmus posted:Is he still really mad at Tarantino? Django was awesome.
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Taking ideas that aren't "culturally part of your heritage" has been a thing since a fish tried getting in on that "legs" thing that bugs were crazy about.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:In the mood to make a canoe out of bark? Go buck wild, it's cool. Cool, thanks!
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Discendo Vox posted:I'm still not sure what was supposed to be communicated about Patrick in that whole scene. The idea of Patrick's powers was always difficult to write about coherently without fully exploring it, but until this chapter they'd done a good job with it. All of a sudden they seem to have bludgeoned the concept into a form that makes no sense and contradicts all the previous work they'd done. If Patrick's meant to represent some sort of utilitarian standpoint on these things, he's just a really bad example of it. If he's supposed to lack self-reflection (as some sort of "defect" that would make the "read your own mind" question meaningful), then it wouldn't explain his high levels of apparent self-awareness in previous chapters- or why that should be some big reveal. If this is all a puppetmaster routine, it doesn't really demonstrate it. This more or less expresses something I've been struggling with putting into words. I have no idea how to read Patrick's character right now. This entire office scene seems completely at odds with his presentation elsewhere, and not even particularly consistent with itself. I guess wait and see for now 
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Everything about the mindreader seemed reasonable until they made him absolutely brainless.
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Hollismason posted:Okay that's kind of awesome that she can fly now and I wonder if that was Patricks idea all along. Was the angry levitation thing new as well? I don't recall her doing that before.
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It's all new.
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Leper Residue posted:Speaking of Looney Toons moments, she had herself one there. Yep because in the same chapter where people have been brutally murdered, no less than 4 people have espoused their personal philosophies, or hero has been tracking down said murderer, and it's been revealed that the mind reader can't read his own mind; it's never too late for a little levity. Glad to see the authors always give Allison the little boost she needs to make it through those hard times.
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Why am I not surprised that a chapter that originally focused on murder, rape related issues, and how different people choose to handle social problems has devolved into focusing on Allison and fluffing her character? I don't care if the next page is inevitably going to be Allison breaking down as she realizes that the person she loves is an emotionless manipulator and her former comrade is a murderer, none of this matters in the greater context of the chapter and it's just a diversion from the real plot. Someone said this a while back in the thread but the high water mark was the chapter with Feral.
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Was Allison's mom always one of them bird people from Zelda
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You just know that the government has that line tapped and this call has initiated a panicked emergency meeting.
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Serious Frolicking posted:You just know that the government has that line tapped and this call has initiated a panicked emergency meeting. No kidding, a whole family of possums?
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Let's spend all of the following update on possums
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Surrounding Mega-Girl's home and family with cute, soothing animals seems like a pretty reasonable use of taxpayer money, obviously.
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