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TwoPair posted:anyone who uses the term "sportsball" when referring to sports needs to get a swirlie post-haste. Oh, good! We can start with Wil Wheaton.
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Feb 21, 2020 00:12
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I'm glad that in general the good nerd bad jock thing seems to be leaving the pop public subconscious as people realize that nerds are The loving Worst.
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rannum posted:Man the latest monster pulse is pretty depressing It rather is. Especially with Bina being in no state to respond to her mum pouring her heart out like that.
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Feb 21, 2020 00:35
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rannum posted:Man the latest monster pulse is pretty depressing I’ve been really impressed with the last few chapters. MP has always been willing to take big swings (a guy gets killed in front of a bunch of kids in, what, chapter four?) but this has been on another level. On the most recent update, I can’t bring myself to be too mad at Ms. Blum, even if this really isn’t something Bina should hear right now. I feel like it would be impossible to be a perfect parent in the immediate aftermath of your child dying and turning into a depressed blue heart monstergirl. She shouldn’t be saying it to Bina, but I suspect she herself will know that the moment she calms down a bit. Trauma all around.
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rannum posted:Man the latest monster pulse is pretty depressing Between this and that weird evil smirk Bina gave when Maugras told her she could potentially be immortal, I'm getting very concerned for where things might be going, especially with poo poo about to hit the big old Lulenski fan literally any time now.
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I think that Bina is going to end up sacrificing herself to save everyone. A huge part of her character has been dealing with mortality and terminal illness, albeit in a weird metaphorical/not metaphorical monster form. Now she's being told she's going to be immortal, or at least incredibly long lived, and we know how much she's generally terrified of death.
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Joe Slowboat posted:I think that Bina is going to end up sacrificing herself to save everyone. A huge part of her character has been dealing with mortality and terminal illness, albeit in a weird metaphorical/not metaphorical monster form. Now she's being told she's going to be immortal, or at least incredibly long lived, and we know how much she's generally terrified of death. http://www.monster-pulse.com/comic/page-38-chapter-30 i dont ever want less of anything, i want more and more
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One thing to keep in mind with QC is that any character can do or say some stupid poo poo at any time. None of them are really author avatars, or supposed to be "correct."
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Feb 21, 2020 02:15
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rannum posted:http://www.monster-pulse.com/comic/page-38-chapter-30 Now that we've seen more I don't think the time weirdness is that strange. She's tired and dissociative, and before this happened she was pushing herself so much to get things done because she thought she was going to drop dead any day. Now her only job is recovery and it's a lot easier to let the days slip by. It's not normal to do a dissociative timeslip to the tune of two days, but I see how it happened.
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rannum posted:http://www.monster-pulse.com/comic/page-38-chapter-30 See this is both concerning and extremely, uncomfortably relatable. It’s a good comic.
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Joe Slowboat posted:See this is both concerning and extremely, uncomfortably relatable. It’s a good comic. I mean, the part that's always worried me was when Violet read Bina's mind and basically went "holy poo poo, you're kind of a sociopath." It really shook Bina as a person and she's kind of being trying overly hard to prove her wrong ever since, but I don't think she's ever been fully successful.
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Monster pulse has such good and uncomfortably real characters and it owns bones.
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nine-gear crow posted:I mean, the part that's always worried me was when Violet read Bina's mind and basically went "holy poo poo, you're kind of a sociopath." It really shook Bina as a person and she's kind of being trying overly hard to prove her wrong ever since, but I don't think she's ever been fully successful. Everyone is a little off put by Bina except, I dunno, Abel? The Violet being scared of Bina part is good but this one from much later in the comic also stood otu to me http://www.monster-pulse.com/comic/page-37-chapter-29 Wes brushes aside Bina and even Julie's, who throughout the comic has kind of been on her side the most, kind of "hrm...." about her (& it comes up elsewhere too). And Bina's super old friend who she kind of abandoned didn't have much to nice to say either (...mostly because of the abandonment, but, you know) e: Oh man I forgot how much Violet went in on Bina, glad I reread this http://www.monster-pulse.com/comic/page-27-chapter-20 rannum fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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rannum posted:Everyone is a little off put by Bina except, I dunno, Abel? And, well, now she's died, had a literal heart to heart with Ayo, and has been told she is potentially functionally immortal bar accidents. That's a massive shift in the pressures that were driving her, so it's hard to predict exactly how she develops from here.
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I’m pretty sure Violet is reading what Bina consciously believes about herself there, not the absolute truth. Bina thinks she’s a sociopath but she’s really not. She’s just scared of death and a teenager and has some issues with her parents and feeling guilty that she has a complicated and distant relationship with her mother. It’s like how Violet thought ‘I’m super intelligent so I can’t have emotional problems’ - at the time she was extremely hung up on rationality and conscious thought and, well, Bina was refusing to recognize her positive feelings because she was extremely hosed up and still is. That’s my take, anyways, because I love Violet’s super-smart super-dumb phase. E: wait of course Bina has positive emotions and things, but she’s been literally separated from her heart. Of course she’s dissociated from them, and Ayo is much more emotionally mature about recognizing that love can coexist with negative feelings. Joe Slowboat fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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Joe Slowboat posted:I’m pretty sure Violet is reading what Bina consciously believes about herself there, not the absolute truth. Now consider that from Violet's point of view, in her super-smart super-dumb phase. It seems like before she got hit by a ghost, she was pretty good at expressing her emotions, and after she's painfully aware of exactly how many emotions she has, amplified and rattling around in that giant brain of hers. She's also fixated on helping Abel, and knows that Bina likes Abel, and knows that Bina doesn't like Violet, and knows that Bina is ready and willing to punch Violet in the brain. I'm pretty sure in the theme of Violet's emotions coloring what she read Violet's unease about Bina and later fear of her colored in a lot of stuff that's not quite right. Bina's definitely got issues, but even if she struggles with applied empathy she doesn't lack it, and being irritable and hard to connect to does not a sociopath make.
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BTW, Feast For a King Another Serving: Episode 2 just dropped for $7, I'm only about halfway through but I'm really loving it. It's 200 pages of pretty densely packed lore, slapstick comedy, and socially awkward interactions set to comedically rear end-themed music.
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Man, whenever someone mentions "Bina" I keep thinking of All Night Laundry.
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Never Satisfied: So, child or grandchild?
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PMush Perfect posted:Never Satisfied: So, child or grandchild? General consensus seems to be child, and Sylas' dad is the dad. Would explain Sylas and Lucy's resemblance at the very least. Peony and Sylas' sister Emilia look too much alike too, so I'm thinking Sylas is the one kid from the Dubois marriage, and Lucy, Emilia and Peony are all Lapointe/Dubois kids. This seems to be a common theory, though, so at this point I guess the real question is what exactly lead each of the kids (especially Lucy) where they are now. Fidelia is ruthless enough that a few weeks ago I was expecting purposeful abandonment, but she seems pretty emotional about this (if she's being genuine).
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rannum posted:Today in Monster Pulse: audible oof Not doing much to assuage that whole “on the road to becoming a supervillain” thing you got going on there, Bina...
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I am starting to think that, beyond the depression, Bina and Ayo were put together just wrong, in a deeper way than just looks New Sleepless Domain. Either she is under some sort of control that Bud is twigging to, or Cassidy is a way bigger rear end in a top hat than we all thought and she is tripling down at this point. Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Feb 22, 2020 |
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Unlucky7 posted:New Sleepless Domain. Either she is under some sort of control that Bud is twigging to, or Cassidy is a way bigger rear end in a top hat than we all thought and she is tripling down at this point. Not necessarily. This seems par for the course for an rear end in a top hat who's been secretly sure she's figured out The Enemy and now is faced with her friends disagreeing. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Feb 22, 2020 |
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Unlucky7 posted:New Sleepless Domain. Either she is under some sort of control that Bud is twigging to, or Cassidy is a way bigger rear end in a top hat than we all thought and she is tripling down at this point. She thinks she's getting rid of a threat and that everyone else is a secret bitch, too. She is, of course, mistaken on both counts.
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I would trust Bud with my life but literally nothing less important, which is a good trait in a friend.
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Bud definitely has some extrasensory powers that let her notice this was going down.
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I just wanna add that the runny nose really completes the ugly cry effect
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Ditocoaf posted:Not necessarily. This seems par for the course for an rear end in a top hat who's been secretly sure she's figured out The Enemy and now is faced with her friends disagreeing. I do agree! But also like...is it physically possible to be that dislikeable?
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I’m loving Vedika just going “Cass, what?” Hoping this is a good learning experience for her but she seems pretty lovely.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Bud definitely has some extrasensory powers that let her notice this was going down. I bet she had one of those flower drones watching this. Which would lead one to believe Bud had an idea that Cassidy was up to something, which opens up its own set of questions.
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I know perception powers are a possibility but when Undine did training with Vedika she was practicing distance telepathy by just moving around the field area, where she saw HP & Harley practcing. I just assumed Bud literally saw everything that happened, not sensed it happening. Then she goes "well this is going to poo poo", told vedika to get Harley and rush over herself for some Confrontation. Also Harley was lifting weights with gabby so I can only imagine Gabby gives a smal fist pump to herself at calling cassidy being the secret bitch.
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Gabby is getting into position for a “shut the gently caress up” punch once Cassidy goes full on ranting
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I don't think anyone there is going to punch Cassidy, only maybe Heartful Punch because it's literally her thing and also she's romantically interested in Undine, whom Cassidy is terrorizing.
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Though the author is doing a really, really good job of presenting the case for a Cassidy/Fist interaction.
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Yeah, but they're teenagers, and haven't really been shown to solve interpersonal problems with violence. They're pretty well-adjusted all things considered.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:I don't think anyone there is going to punch Cassidy, only maybe Heartful Punch because it's literally her thing and also she's romantically interested in Undine, whom Cassidy is terrorizing. I'm putting money down that Cassidy's romantically and unrequitedly interested in HP, which is why all of this is happening to begin with
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