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Post by xtinas on Mar 24, 2017 10:34:19 GMT
Also, the idea that a question about whether there is just Too Much Representation of non-straights is an innocent question is disingenuous at best.
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Post by xtinas on Mar 24, 2017 2:09:50 GMT
Yeah, there's nothing good gonna come out of this thread. There's a pack of folk arguing that they should be able to Just Ask Questions of whatever flavor they want without offending Those Others, and nothing really goes well with that as the starting point.
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Post by xtinas on Mar 16, 2017 10:41:17 GMT
"Blue" "<blue>" "Ay" "Bluayilu"
Her name is Ayilu, it's five letters, it's right there.
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Post by xtinas on Mar 14, 2017 13:03:41 GMT
Oh dang, yeah, you're right. This lends more credence to the dream sequence/controlled by someone else/idk just not-very-Red theory I have going.
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Post by xtinas on Mar 13, 2017 11:51:16 GMT
Despite frequently being endearingly rude to everyone, this kind of needling is a little out of character for Red. I still think there's an ulterior motive here. The other shoe hasn't dropped yet Yeah, agreed. There must be something else going on here, because I've never seen Red have this level of... I don't know. Insight into human nature? Even as she's getting huge parts of it wrong and painting Annie as some sort of master manipulator, that's still a whole lot of thought I don't expect from Red. As an aside, interesting how according to Red, Annie has all this agency that literally no one else has. Everyone has been manipulated because Annie wants. Even Parley? This is my believing-Red face. I suppose the narrative requires that someone call Annie out for being so blasé about things? And Red ("my hair goes up again!" "stupid big dumb face!") was the closest thing to a person with no emotional investment in sparing Annie's feelings? Doesn't feel right, though. (Also, I'd still love to know wtf Ayilu was doing with her name there...)
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Post by xtinas on Mar 25, 2015 17:24:40 GMT
I -absolutely- refuse to place blame on Annie here. If there is a need to getting her act together, it seems to be for her to begin preparing herself for the possibility that her father is a runaway jackwagon and that that reality may not ever change. Agreed entirely. Entirely. Also "runaway jackwagon" is my new favourite term.
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Post by xtinas on Mar 25, 2015 15:20:59 GMT
I believe I may be Team Kat in this. Yes, he's Annie's father. He is also being a douche, to his daughter, in public. There may be explanations for his behaviour, but there's no excuse, and I find that distinction to be rather meaningful.
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Post by xtinas on Mar 25, 2015 15:14:07 GMT
Exactly. It is only after she states it the second time that he starts to look annoyed. Annie should get her act together. If he was able to just that easily talk about things that he experienced during his leave, maybe he would have also mentioned some in a post card. That he never sent a one might signal something. Who is the adult here, and who is the teenager?
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Post by xtinas on Mar 25, 2015 11:31:02 GMT
Eurgh. If that really was Tony's actual hand piercing Annie's fire-elemental aspect, then that would be a horrible invasion (by her father), and any sympathy I may have had for Tony would evaporate in a hot second. Because eff a bunch of that nonsense.
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Post by xtinas on Mar 17, 2015 22:36:37 GMT
I will say, however, that " But I had good intentions" can only forgive a certain number of sins. And boy he has to account for a lot. This is the truest thing ever.
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Post by xtinas on May 30, 2013 3:17:23 GMT
I'm a Kinsey "to hell with men", so whatever that number is. For romantic orientation, I'm with my genderqueer partner, so whatever that is. For sexual stuff, that seems awfully meat-sack of me, I could be coding, so whatever that is.
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Post by xtinas on May 29, 2013 7:51:57 GMT
So adorbs! i think the original question meant how did it come to be in the forest on that page. like is it from a family of air dwelling octopi or what? Something like that...YES. BRILLIANCE.
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Post by xtinas on May 27, 2013 16:42:01 GMT
kukapetal: I rather enthusiastically liked boys for a while, before I realised that me being not-straight was a valid possibility. And I didn't realise that until I was older than Kat/Paz are shown to be here. Sometimes folk don't realise that other options are personally available for them until someone raises the topic. (Not snark, just wry amusement at my history.) For me, it was a woman hitting on me when I was in my early 20s. I legit had never considered the possibility of me liking women in "that way" before then, so when she hit on me, I reacted not unlike how Kat's been reacting since that first incident with Paz. spritznar: Word, exactly. I mean, for serious, someone assumes I'm straight, I say no and move on with my life. I don't get fussed about it for weeks afterwards, because I'm not straight. (Of course, I'm also not in my teens. ;D ) Kat being fussed about the Paz thing, with the hairband and the "let us stand upright right now" when Parley was working with Robot and all of that, could've been young "I must assert straightness!" stuff... but also really could've been "...I, uh, never thought about this. What?". And then, I read today's comic, and I died of the cute, the end.
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Post by xtinas on May 25, 2013 7:59:59 GMT
"but I think that's in part because most people assume heterosexuality is the default (which, at least statistically, it is)." --legion
Well, thank all the saints that this comic <i>strictly adheres</i> to the statistical demographics of humanity! I look forward to meeting [any number of non-human characters in GC] or experiencing [any number of non-realistic phenomena].
I especially enjoyed the juxtaposition of "this is statistically more likely to be het" and "both views are equally likely". A+, would skip statistics class again.
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Post by xtinas on May 24, 2013 5:40:11 GMT
Dear impish: Bless you a thousand times for your post. I logged in just to say I appreciate the hell outta it.
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Post by xtinas on Jun 13, 2012 16:01:40 GMT
Is anyone else reminded of Dresden Codak?
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