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Post by bnpederson on Oct 12, 2011 22:01:31 GMT
Am I'm stupid for still wanting them to become a couple even though Kat said she didn't like girls? They are a couple, they're just not romantically involved.
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Post by todd on Oct 12, 2011 22:20:33 GMT
What was wrong with Annie's head before Tom fixed it?
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Post by Max on Oct 12, 2011 22:41:37 GMT
What was wrong with Annie's head before Tom fixed it? Annie's head was little big compared to Kat's.
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Post by fuzzysocks on Oct 12, 2011 23:43:25 GMT
I don't know why everyone is so intent on making them a couple. Is it really that big of a deal? I sleep by my best friend all the time and I have a boyfriend. That doesn't make me have lesbian intentions, I'm just comfortable enough with my friend that I can be affectionate with her.
I see the same thing with Kat and Annie. Just because they are close friends it doesn't mean that they are in love with each other. It actually get's on my nerves to be honest.
I have nothing against lesbians mind you, but I think the lot of you are to busy trying to put people together vs. seeing what it really is.
I'm sure if the story had Jack and Winsbury all buddy buddy like this all the guys that are like, "Oooo Annie and Kat!" would be like ewww or be like, "Well I don't really care."
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Post by bnpederson on Oct 12, 2011 23:50:28 GMT
[...] I think the lot of you are to busy trying to put people together vs. seeing what it really is. You've just described the "phenomenon" of shipping. It's fans of some fiction wanting two or more characters to be together romantically regardless, and sometimes in spite of, what the author(s) intended.
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Post by Tierra Y Libertad on Oct 13, 2011 1:15:50 GMT
I agree with Fuzzysocks -- they are more like sisters in a family who can't afford two beds in their sleeping together or enjoy each other's physical presence as a comfort.
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Post by Eversist on Oct 13, 2011 2:03:03 GMT
I don't know about anyone else, but I don't actually ship Kat and Annie. Honestly, I don't ship anyone in this comic (okay, maybe I did for a tiny bit this chapter, for AnniexJack, but I think I can be forgiven that). My big huge post in the last thread was just me calling it like I saw it, and there were multiple possible interpretations that I didn't even think of that others mentioned, which was great. Honestly, I was letting my vision be colored a bit by all the AnniexKat shippers.
I don't think you should let yourself be bothered by it, though. It's just people enjoying the comic how they want. You're being passive and not really caring who the characters end up with, and that's cool and all, but others get really invested in that sort of thing, and come up with crazy theories or fan fics, and get upset when things don't go the way they want. Or they don't. Whatever. It's obnoxious, to be sure (like how forum-goers were doing that cookie/"I called it" crap like CRAZY awhile back), but people are entitled to do it if they want.
I guess I'm sort of defending the crazy shippers a bit, and I don't want to be that person, but there you are.
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Post by sabriel on Oct 13, 2011 2:16:09 GMT
Truthfully, my mind did jump to AnniexKat first with this, but then I remembered, hey, you know, two things: one, I love sleeping alongside my friends. I don't have a boyfriend but I did that even when I did. Hell, I've kissed my friends on the cheek before. MWA! Two, this is kind of like a hotel field trip situation. There are only so many sleeping spots and then you're going to end up on the floor... if you were Annie, would you sleep next to your closest friend for years, or on the floor? I'm glad of this page though. Kat's still a little peeved in the first couple panels- you can see by the quirk of her eyebrows- and then as soon as Annie clarifies she's like "Oh" with the oh face and immediately goes to sleep. Anyway, I have this feeling Eglamore is going to walk in on them, smile, exchange signals with Bud, and leave without a word. Just this weird hunch I get
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Post by sharpey on Oct 13, 2011 3:07:22 GMT
I'm fairly certain Annie and Kat have a platonic relationship. As plenty have already said, they're innocently sharing a chair and a coat as a blanket. They're far from anything vaguely romantic here.
On a different note, I wonder where Jack has gone since he apparently doesn't need sleep.
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Post by muddkipz on Oct 13, 2011 5:09:21 GMT
I have slept in several chairs before, and as long as whoever's next to you doesn't kick in their sleep, it's much more comfy than it may seem. Although I am a generally tiny person (stopped growing once I hit four foot nine), so I may have a slightly different experience. Since everyone on here seems so concerned with shipping, I'll say that I ship happiness
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Post by BingsF on Oct 13, 2011 5:25:11 GMT
Holy capoly, look at the size of that chair. Who would sit in such a thing? Compare Kat's butt in panel 1 to the seat of the chair. Does the Court have giants? Who normally uses that room/building anyway?
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 13, 2011 6:17:42 GMT
However, addressing Kat as "dearest" reminds me of ...dearest William. So, he ran away. Am I'm stupid for still wanting them to become a couple even though Kat said she didn't like girls? (looks around - no ninjas) "Reynardine. Bag." Annie's head was little big compared to Kat's. Oh. Truthfully, my mind did jump to AnniexKat first with this, but then I remembered, hey, you know, two things: one, I love sleeping alongside my friends. I don't have a boyfriend but I did that even when I did. Hell, I've kissed my friends on the cheek before. Hey, it's not nearly the worst case. There were funnier: ;D As to making big deal out of such things... this every time reminds me of panel 3 here.
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Post by todd on Oct 13, 2011 10:52:24 GMT
As I mentioned before, one good reason for Tom to not take the Annie/Kat route is that, in the eyes of the readers, the "lesbian schoolgirls" element would upstage the rest of the story.
And I don't think they're a romantic couple either (I'm still of the opinion that Annie doesn't even need a romantic relationship, period).
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Post by Refugee on Oct 13, 2011 16:35:08 GMT
Frame six... to me, Kat looks disappointed that Annie isn't going out with Jack.
I don't think it has anything to do with Kat wanting not to be identified as Annie's girlfriend, either. Kat is an Annie + Jack shipper, or at least, an Annie + somebody shipper.
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Post by lunaryon on Oct 13, 2011 16:38:22 GMT
D'awwwww.... Really cute page. Now as a writer, I can say that if Tom is a good a writer as he has been so far, he could easily have Annie and Kat in a relationship without it upstaging the rest of the story. He'll probably need three chapters at the most to get through it all, and the first and last could easily be sub-plots of other chapters. He'd need the sub-plot of one/both of them realizing that they like the other in that way, A chapter in which their friendship nearly falls apart because they each have this big secret, but they get past that, then a sub-plot where one of them eventually confesses their feelings to the other. But the fact is that as others have said this isn't seemingly a romantic situation. But it could be for either one of them. As for Kat saying that she doesn't like girls, a lot of lesbians are like that before they finally realize it. TBeholder: Dude! EGS! very nice.
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Post by davidm on Oct 13, 2011 17:46:45 GMT
"As for Kat saying that she doesn't like girls, a lot of lesbians are like that before they finally realize it."
Anything is possible, but... Since next generation of babies comes more likely from those who like opposite sex, and we have 2 different people here... would seem unlikely.
I personally don't see why best friend and sex are so muddled together these days. People are often best friends with their family (eg brother/sister/father/mother), and best friends with others without having lust for them.
Normally a best friend in this case would have an interest in romance of their friends, both happy if they have success, and some fear/jealousy if that romance distracts from their own friendship. As well if all Kat's friends have romantic success, that puts some "sadness" in Kat not having a boy-toy of her own other than the bird boy she had a crush on.
(Not that far grown up from from dreams of barbie and ken and white weddings, and romance that younger girls already have, and with hormones those sort of romance ideas grow stronger. For example I think young girls are into Twilight movie type entertainment because of the 'romance' element. I haven't seen movies myself, here there isn't much sex if any, that the whole draw is the "romantic" angle. For a female especially, having others desire them as friend or love of my life, rather than as sex toy can be very appealing)
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Post by davidm on Oct 13, 2011 17:53:07 GMT
I do recall for example watching 20+ year old women "friends" or "best friends" giddy with each other over engagement/wedding rings of one of them. They may have had boyfriends for months or years before this... the "romance", white wedding, has appeal.
Girls seem eager to get attention from boys as a way to impress their female friends.
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Post by Georgie L on Oct 13, 2011 18:04:10 GMT
Girls seem eager to get attention from boys as a way to impress their female friends. In much the same way that Boys are eager to get attention from girls to impress their male friends...
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Post by sniperct on Oct 14, 2011 3:59:28 GMT
Annie looks gorgeous in panel 3. She's looking more and more like her mother.
*returns to lurkdom*
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Post by rafk on Oct 14, 2011 5:15:40 GMT
Well, throw in another "aww" from me too. Although, I gotta say, just when I think this chapter couldn't screw any more with shippers, I am happily proven wrong. "Thankyou for reading this 15 week-long chapter about yanking shippers' chains". And it has been one of the most amusing chapters to read in the history of GC, too ;D
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Post by Max on Oct 14, 2011 5:23:00 GMT
We still have at least two more pages to go.
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Post by rafk on Oct 14, 2011 6:12:09 GMT
True. It could easily end up as a full 4-months-long chapter about yanking shippers' chains!
Amusing as it has been, I think we'll see a couple of shorter chapters that give screen time for the likes of Parley & Smitty, Jones, Eglamore, Mort, Zimmy and Gamma.
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Post by fuzzysocks on Oct 16, 2011 10:32:04 GMT
[...] I think the lot of you are to busy trying to put people together vs. seeing what it really is. You've just described the "phenomenon" of shipping. It's fans of some fiction wanting two or more characters to be together romantically regardless, and sometimes in spite of, what the author(s) intended. I know what shipping is... I don't have a tendency of liking it though. I'm very much about things being canon.
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Post by Tobu Ishi on Oct 16, 2011 21:49:06 GMT
I'm sure if the story had Jack and Winsbury all buddy buddy like this all the guys that are like, "Oooo Annie and Kat!" would be like ewww or be like, "Well I don't really care." Although another demographic of fans would probably be over the moon.
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Post by nomibear on Oct 30, 2011 18:50:29 GMT
I'm sure if the story had Jack and Winsbury all buddy buddy like this all the guys that are like, "Oooo Annie and Kat!" would be like ewww or be like, "Well I don't really care." I swear to you, the shippers would come crawling out of the woodwork in HORDES. They'd kidnap Tom and force him to draw a whole new comic/storyline involving those two. In fact, I'm relatively sure you may have spawned a couple fanfics just by saying that
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Post by chaoskid on Oct 31, 2011 4:14:41 GMT
First post of mine. I think Kat looked jealous of Annie and Jack, just me though.
On a side note, I wanna know all of what happened to Annie in the forest.
Also, I won't post much.
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Post by hargharg on Oct 31, 2011 15:41:32 GMT
Don't let yourself be held back. Also, welcome. : )
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