[1545] Feng Shui

[SilverbackRon]

Jul 27, 2015 16:08:13 GMT Trillium said:

There are two chairs available. The other one is with the desk. Hopefully they will bring them together and no end up sitting on the floor.

I hope we are in for some exposition and flash backs.

I honestly first read this as "I hope we are in for some explosions..."

[Refugee]

Jul 27, 2015 8:05:35 GMT warrl said:

Or, of course, the "week" is a joke.

Tom has edited his comment "Yeah that was a joke, sorry."

(I think this is an edit. Before today, wasn't it just, "Yeah..."?

[thescarredman]

Anthony certainly seems looser when it's just him and Kat's dad. I guess that's why he took Annie's blinker with him, so she could see what's really on his mind.

[matoyak]

Jul 28, 2015 3:01:21 GMT Refugee said:

Jul 27, 2015 8:05:35 GMT warrl said:

Or, of course, the "week" is a joke.

Tom has edited his comment "Yeah that was a joke, sorry."

(I think this is an edit. Before today, wasn't it just, "Yeah..."?

1544 had "yeah" as Tom's comment. Pretty sure 1545's has been what it is since it was posted, unless he edited it really quickly after posting (Like, before this thread had more than a page). Or maybe I'm just going batty.

[eyemyself]

Jul 28, 2015 3:21:57 GMT thescarredman said:

Anthony certainly seems looser when it's just him and Kat's dad. I guess that's why he took Annie's blinker with him, so she could see what's really on his mind.

Donny has a plan, that much is certain. It remains to be seen what that plan is and what, exactly, Mr. Donlan wan't Annie to see.

[stephenls]

I think it's interesting that Anthony has made two jokes here, both hinging on self-awareness. The first is about his tendency to be brusque; the second is about his tendency to be obsessive.

So. He knows exactly how brusque and obsessive he comes off as, he knows exactly how cartoonishly off-putting he is when it comes to both, and he has no intention of changing either.

[TBeholder]

Jul 27, 2015 7:45:39 GMT ctso74 said:

As far as we know, he believes his bone-lasers worked, and he thinks he emotionally lobotomized his daughter...

No, his head pigeons must have told him.

Jul 27, 2015 7:45:39 GMT ctso74 said:

due to the eminent threat of pregnancy. I still don't get that, at all.

If this makes no sense even to yourself, then why do you repeat it?

Jul 28, 2015 17:22:42 GMT stephenls said:

So. He knows exactly how brusque and obsessive he comes off as, he knows exactly how cartoonishly off-putting he is when it comes to both, and he has no intention of changing either.

How the latter follows from the former?

[zbeeblebrox]

Jul 27, 2015 7:02:58 GMT Chancellor said:

Did Anthony Carver.

Just.

Quip?

British comedians tell Tony his humor's too dry.

[radia]

Hello! Long-time reader, first-time poster here.

It occurs to me that Donald is placing a lot of trust in Annie. He can't know exactly what's going to happen here, but evidently he feels that whatever it is, she will be able to handle it. Or at least, that she deserves a chance to. I mean, he didn't have to ask for the blinker stone; he could have just gone to see Tony and then told her about it afterwards, which would have given him the chance to edit (not knowing that Rey is eavesdropping, of course).

Possibly he thinks that Annie might find it hard to believe what he says about her father, and the stone solves that problem. But it's a risk. There are undoubtedly things going on that she's not supposed to know about, and this could blow that wide open. It's telling that he either trusts her enough to let her in on some of her father's secrets, or just considers that she's suffered enough in ignorance, and is willing to let the chips fall, etc.

[justcurious]

The risk that Donnie is taking is that what Tony is going to say might be something worse than he anticipates. It could be something that hurts and angers Annie more. Donnie obviously wants to believe good of Tony and I think he has no way of knowing what Tony tried to do in Divine.
I think what Donnie is trying to do is to get Annie to understand and see past Tony's emotional communication problems. What he is overlooking is that if there are good faith attempts to communicate then those intimately connected to someone like Tony will pick up on different cues from the usual ones. This obviously happened with Tony and Surma. That it didn't happen with Tony and Annie is revealing.

[TBeholder]

Jul 28, 2015 20:54:25 GMT radia said:

It occurs to me that Donald is placing a lot of trust in Annie. He can't know exactly what's going to happen here, but evidently he feels that whatever it is, she will be able to handle it.

Or he is placing a lot of trust in Tony. Or he thinks it cannot get any worse than it is for Annie, so the only way is up.



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ET
im having trouble believing that this is an actual page and not an edited picture from the forum
27 Jul 2015 | 12:03 AM

Eska
You know how when you bite into something that has a weird elastic texture, and you're not quite sure how work your jaw around it and you keep chewing and chewing awkwardly like its old gum? That's what Tony's sense of humour is like to me.
27 Jul 2015 | 12:05 AM

Dierna
Awww how cute...he's trying to make a joke....does he even know how to smile??
27 Jul 2015 | 12:51 AM

acelightning
Ah, keeping alive the British-mystery-story tradition of "drinking Scotch out of the tooth mug"...
27 Jul 2015 | 1:05 AM

Siraj
*eyebrow raise* huh...
27 Jul 2015 | 3:23 AM

sb
No apologies will ever be enough, Mr. Siddell, that was pretty terrible. It must also be said that most non-court-compatible versions of Feng Shui do not go for minimalism all that much. Tony must be a purist.
27 Jul 2015 | 7:23 AM

NotABoxBot
Now I'm confused. Is this whole page a joke? Or does Tom mean to clarify that the last remark was a joke?
27 Jul 2015 | 9:35 AM

Kenbobb
Caught me off-guard again. I love how Tom signals what he is going to do pretty clearly, and then still managed to do something that astonishes me. This plot is continuing to thicken and swirl in a most rewarding way!
27 Jul 2015 | 11:26 AM

^_^
Feng shui like traditional feng shui, obsessive feng shui, conversational feng shui, hipster feng shui, or joked feng shui? That remains to be seen. Anyway, I am waiting for a montage of him placing the chair in all possible and impossible positions ^_^
27 Jul 2015 | 11:51 AM

Bard
Was that actually a joke? Right now, it's not difficult to see Anthony ACTUALLY spending a week doing feng shui on a chair. Supposing he actually is into that sort of thing.
27 Jul 2015 | 3:05 PM

ScarletLetterer
Okay, who's operating the Tony robot puppet this evening? Because it's sure not the same...being who was operating it at the Donlans'. This is getting weirder and weirder.
27 Jul 2015 | 5:25 PM

November
The way to a man's heart is through his... liver.
27 Jul 2015 | 6:15 PM

lensmaker
Yes Tom, nice work. I think Tony is the type to obsess over something as fluid as the location of an armchair and joking about that is neat deflection for him and a way of saying "don't move the chair, my world view needs that chair precisely there to stay stable". However, I also think that one of the ways that Don Don acts as Tony's friend is to mess with his reality. Get him slightly drunk and then move the chair every time he is distracted...
27 Jul 2015 | 11:05 PM

[sapientcoffee]

...
...tooth mug?

[goldenknots]

Jul 29, 2015 6:14:42 GMT sapientcoffee said:

...
...tooth mug?

Where you keep your choppers overnight. Wouldn't want to strangle on them in your sleep, would you?