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Honestly I’m kind of baffled at the notion Jack did anything wrong or creepy in that scene. He pretty much went along with the deliberately deceptive signals Annie was putting out. I’m unsure if Jack has literally ever did anything questionable outside of being literally mind controlled. Dude is barely even miffed at this weird pointless manipulation. Captain Oblivious fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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I honestly can't think of anything, no. It just seemed odd to conflate saying Annie did deceive him in that scene with saying Jack did nothing wrong. Those are two different thoughts!
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I'm surprised in all of this, no one mentioned the semi-bad advice Annie got in the forest after declaring (by process of elimination) Jack as her crush back home: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/extracomics/comic.php?c=Annie%20in%20the%20Forest%20Part%202&p=10 Like, she was being cruel and kinda dumb like a teenager, but I also don't think she felt nothing for him either.
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I read that as actually fancying Jack but also, at this point in the narrative, still processing her outlook on her idolized mum who apparently had gods dance to her tune So she likes boy attention from the least unpleasant amongst the boys she gets to know (as a standoffish nerd who does not make friends readily) but she also wants to be cool as a cucumber more, and that's what comes first. The Forest relentlessly encouraging scheming as basic social interaction is no help, either, of course. It's one thing to emphasize the virtue of keeping your thoughts to yourself when embedded in a tight-knit community of friends and family where there is very little real privacy - but another thing to emphasize this to someone who is already prone to self-isolation in a highly atomized culture (observe that very few characters on the Court side have siblings, even as the Forest elves overflow with them; it's a hypereducated one-child-household social strata). It is not until after this interaction ("would you describe this friend as a happy person?") that Annie seems to rethink her outlook. There's lots of this subtle social commentary embedded in GKC, I think; the contrast with later chapters can be stark. ronya fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Jul 11, 2023 16:22
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Oh no, Coyote. Please don't. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3D7Y_ycSms
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 Her entire existence as a narrative tool is to be his girlfriend, to be rescued or threatened to give him purpose and pathos.Do we know how she feels about becoming human? What she wants in her future? Does she have friends? Does she have hobbies? Has she existed in this comic for a single page as more than a moving prop for the narrative beats of Loup’s development? I take back the shoujo criticism. This isn’t even self-insert main character shallow fanfiction-tier. This is a 90s comic love interest. Lana was a robot fridge.
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The logical thing would be for this to be a bit from Coyote to provoke Loup into killing him or something, but  at this point.
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Ngl I am reading “Loup, you fool!” in the Cobra Commander voice here.
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mycatscrimes posted:Also correctly observing that the story was potraying Annie doing that isn't the same as saying she owed Jack anything or that he never did anything wrong, wth. That Tom handled a complicated setup like that so well really makes the whole Lana deal even more confusing. It's like seeing a video of a gymnast's routine linked in an article about them falling down three manholes. Splicer fucked around with this message at 11:16 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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coolusername posted:
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Lol, let’s kill Coyote to save Lana.
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Jul 12, 2023 11:40
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please mean that this will all be over soon
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coolusername posted:
Back before we knew Jerrek was Loup, she had a pretty fun personality lol
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That's not Coyote. This is not the same comic.
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poo poo, we're reverting to denial.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Ngl I am reading “Loup, you fool!” in the Cobra Commander voice here. Goddamn it don't make me reevaluate the entire webcomic by imagining Coyote with the Starscream shriek E: you know what, never mind, it actually works well on this page
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CodfishCartographer posted:Back before we knew Jerrek was Loup, she had a pretty fun personality lol I thought she was going to be an annoyance "falling in love" with the first person she saw because that's what she thought she was supposed to do. Instead she was 100% correct to be romantically agressive because it was TRUE LOVE which is dumb and boring and kind of weird And we still have no idea WHY Loup loves her back other than the fact she pursued him. He just does because he does.
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XkyRauh posted:That's not Coyote. This is not the same comic. and you may ask yourself why do I read this and you may ask yourself where are those likable characters and you may tell yourself this is not my beautiful god and you may tell yourself this is not my beautiful court
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Phy posted:Goddamn it don't make me reevaluate the entire webcomic by imagining Coyote with the Starscream shriek That’s how I’ve always heard it. 
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I wasn't a believer before, but now would be a perfect time for Lana to pull a goose wife. Annnnny minute now. Please? 
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if Lana was another fabrication then Robot would have sussed her out just like he did with Jerrek, it’s not happening
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I'm reading this as coyote trying way too hard to sell that he's upset and didn't plan this.
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Nettle Soup posted:I'm reading this as coyote trying way too hard to sell that he's upset and didn't plan this. we just keep jumping around between the stages, i think this one is bargaining?
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I mean, isn't part of the coyote stories that they always go wrong somehow, also?
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This is just the product of the unholy marriage between English sexual repression and late 90s-early 2000s anime.
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I'm excited for Coyote to eat and devour Lana, aka Boxbot, a truly terrible robot (new human)
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I don't know exactly how this is going to end, but I know I'm not gonna like it.
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Skippy McPants posted:I don't know exactly how this is going to end, but I know I'm not gonna like it. acceptance.
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Oxxidation posted:and you may ask yourself Jerrek's really got me down Reading the page I sigh, Why are the Annies not around Open the site again, though the fun is gone Throw me a lifeline, Or run this poo poo into the ground
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Tony looks at the next couple of lines and starts hitting himself
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Oxxidation posted:and you may ask yourself BSS: Bisexual Super Son > Gunnerkrigg Court: this is not my beautiful god. this is not my beautiful court
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Same as it never was
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I’m so excited to see how dumb this gets!!! 
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Huh. No moral, Lana just gets Straight Up Eaten. makeofthatwhatyouwill.jpg
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She's definitely still alive.
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Tom binge watching Tropes Against Women during quarantine as writing prompts. Unless she alien's her way out if his chest all "gently caress you I'm built of blue nanofibers dumbass" e: series of flashbacks where we learn that she deliberately engineered the alley scene fully aware she could pitch them all into the sun if required Splicer fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:I’m so excited to see how dumb this gets!!! Ditto.
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Stale, tired and overused: fridging a woman. Fresh, new, exciting: the woman used to be a fridge.
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