picaro
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Post by picaro on Feb 17, 2009 11:01:47 GMT
I always thought of Annie as asexual. I consider her lack of blush in this page another sign of that - she's not embarrassed about being paired off with someone because there is no emotion there at all. It's all platonic.
Besides, when does Annie actually have time for a boyfriend? When she's not on strange adventures round the Court and Forest, she seems to work pretty hard (except for Double Physics. Annie and I agree there). She wouldn't have time even if she was interested.
And now that I've made two barely interesting points, I'll go back to Feminist Literature essays.
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Post by todd on Feb 17, 2009 11:48:31 GMT
And Annie does have a strongly detached tone (appropriate for a medium). She's not completely unbiased (note her approach to Eglamore, for example), but a lot of the time she's quietly observing and thinking about what she's observed in an analytical fashion.
Not that such an attitude would entirely rule out the possibility of romance (Jones, who's even less emotional than Annie, is apparently interested in Eglamore), but I do find it unlikely that we'll ever see Annie with a boy-friend.
(And it helps to give her one or two traits different from her mother - judging from the photograph, she and Eglamore were already an item, or moving towards it, when she was Annie's age - in case she doesn't want to keep on being thought of as merely "Surma: the Next Edition".)
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Post by versasovantare on Feb 17, 2009 17:22:02 GMT
Hey, didn't Eglamore have a slightly odd expression when he found out that the blinker stone belonged to Annie? I wonder if the recent reveal about their status as romantic gifts had anything to do with that.
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Post by warrl on Feb 17, 2009 17:50:11 GMT
I wonder how long it'll be before Annie finally has to make it clear that she likes Mort, yes, but not in that way. (And let's hope that when she says it, Mort isn't within hearing range without her knowing it).) "I find him a bit lacking in substance. And he's so transparent."
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Post by warrl on Feb 17, 2009 17:53:11 GMT
Uh, actually, that raises the question- has Annie ever laughed in the comic? Other than in a childhood flashback? Because if anybody is likely to extract a giggle from her, Coyote is. A fistful of dirt
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Post by warrl on Feb 17, 2009 17:55:30 GMT
Especially don't look bored around a trickster god. They will unbore you. This is not always a good thing. ROFL!
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Post by sandjosieph on Feb 17, 2009 19:58:58 GMT
I actually found the whole thing about couples being brought up slightly odd (almost grating but that's just me). The conversation I was sort of expecting had Anja simply asking Annie who gave her the Blinker stone and just leave it at that. But now that I look at it, it seems only right for Anja to say something like that. She's probably just as much of a romantic as her daughter.
Speaking of Kat, I just noticed how fast she bounces back from various things, like when her mind "borked" at the thought of her parents getting tattoos, she was back to normal by the next page.
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Post by Goatmon on Feb 17, 2009 20:07:22 GMT
Awkwaaaard
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 17, 2009 21:51:07 GMT
Uh, actually, that raises the question- has Annie ever laughed in the comic? Other than in a childhood flashback? Because if anybody is likely to extract a giggle from her, Coyote is. A fistful of dirtAlso: "Steady on there, girl!"
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Post by pudgimelon on Feb 18, 2009 2:36:41 GMT
In the comments below this comic, there's a lot of talk about Anja "enforcing a hetero-normative paradigm" and other nonsense. For example:
"I would like to have thought that Gunnerkrigg court was not the sort of place where people automatically assumed a couple meant a heterosexual pair." Leigh, 16.02.2009, 2:26am
And why would they not?
Assumptions are based on norms. If 90% of your population is heterosexual, so why would anyone make a different assumption? To do otherwise would be to "enforce" a flipping of the "norm" so that the minority option MUST be considered as the default option.
That's just silly.
I understand that there are a lot of hurt feelings wrapped up in words like "normal" and "traditional" for some people, because being "not normal" often gets twisted by others into "abnormal" or "wrong".
But at the same time, those hurt feelings don't justify lashing out every time someone asks a perfectly "normal" question.
I understand that for a lesbian, it must be annoying to be on the recieving end of questions like: "Who's your boyfriend?" or "So when are you getting married (to a man)?"
But you can choose to walk around with a chip on your shoulder, getting angry at people for asking a perfectly "normal" question. Or you can choose to just roll with it and take it as COMPLIMENT that someone is interested in you and your life.
It's like when I wish someone "Merry Christmas" and get a snarky "I'm Jewish" back in return. I often say, "So? I'm not!"
I just don't see why they can't say, "Happy Hannukah" in return. My intent is obviously to wish them well, and so being slapped back for being "un-PC" is a bit rude, in my opinion, especially given that only 5% of the population is Jewish (and far less than that in most parts of America).
What am I supposed to do, really? Walk around wishing people a generic "Happy Holidays" because otherwise on extremely rare occassions, I might "offend" someone?
That's patently ridiculous. If I wish someone "Merry Christmas", they can wish me "Happy Eid ul-Adha" (if it happened to fall in December) for all I care. I'm not ENFORCING a Christian belief system onto anyone by saying, "Merrry Christmas", and it's utterly silly that a small, vocal and easily-offended minority should try to force me to say anything else just to preserve their fragile feelings.
Honestly, people need to learn how to get along, and we don't do that by slapping each other around everytime someone uses a "paradigm" that is not to our liking.
It's pretty clear that Anja is asking an innocent and sweet question, not enforcing a paradigm. Notice that nobody is getting on Anja's case for "enforcing" other paradigms in that same question. The necrophilia and pedophilia lobbies must be in an uproar that Anja is "enforcing" a "living/same-age" paradigm by assuming it's a living boy, and not a dead ghost-boy or an older man.
Hopefully that little example points out how silly it sounds when someone gets their undies bunched up over a character "enforcing paradigms" in a webcomic. Let's all just take a deep breath and deflate our puffed-up sense of outrage, OK?
The Mort's crush on Annie is sweet and tragic at the same time, and Anja's innocent question is just the kind of thing an adult would do to tease a tweenager about discovering romance for the first time. Reading anything more into that situation is just silly.
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Post by Babble-jargon Bill on Feb 18, 2009 4:32:32 GMT
I'm with you there pudgimelon, the whole thing is just blown completely out of proportion by people who think that being "politically correct" makes them a good person. Obsessing over every single comment that could be thought of as offensive by someone in the world doesn't make you a good person, it just makes you an idiot.
ANYWAY-
I really look forward to seeing what else the blinker stone can do. From the looks of it were in for a quite a display in the coming pages!
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Post by sandjosieph on Feb 18, 2009 5:10:00 GMT
I think the Blinker Stone can do alotta cool things. Perhaps it's capable of taking whole objects with it as it returns to its owners, making it sorta like your own special delivery system. But that would only work if someone can attach something to it AND you're capable of sending it to another place. I wonder if it has the ability to work like a wireless receiver/transmitter to send and receive messages to other Blinker Stones. That being said, perhaps all Blinker Stones are connected in some way!
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Post by Azeltir on Feb 20, 2009 1:35:49 GMT
I just don't see why they can't say, "Happy Hannukah" in return. It's because Hannukah's a bit of a silly holiday, especially when you hold it up to any of our other ones. Regardless, while receiving "Merry Christmas" wishes is a bit jarring to me, it's certainly not insulting and doesn't deserve acidic responses. But "Happy Holidays" is my well-wish of choice. Ben
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Post by warrl on Feb 20, 2009 4:07:01 GMT
I just don't see why they can't say, "Happy Hannukah" in return. It's because Hannukah's a bit of a silly holiday, especially when you hold it up to any of our other ones. Regardless, while receiving "Merry Christmas" wishes is a bit jarring to me, it's certainly not insulting and doesn't deserve acidic responses. But "Happy Holidays" is my well-wish of choice. Ben In the Christian ecclesiastic calendar, Christmas is the #2 holiday behind Easter; in the Christian cultural calendar it's #1 (at least in most countries, including some not-particularly-Christian ones such as Japan). Hannukah is what, the 7th or 8th most important Jewish holiday?
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Post by Azeltir on Feb 20, 2009 5:27:01 GMT
Hannukah is what, the 7th or 8th most important Jewish holiday? Let's count! 1) Yom Kippur 2) Rosh Hashannah 3) Pesach (Passover) 4) Sukkot 5) Purim 6) Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah 7) Purim 8) Tisha B'Av Each of those is more important than Hannukah, in my book. There are a few more that are on par with it (Tu B'Shvat, Lag Ba'Omer, the Tenth of Tevet, and the Seventeenth of Tamuz, for example), but those eight, roughly in that order, are considerably more important. Still a fun holiday though. And school's off for it, occasionally. But all eight of those are far more fun and meaningful. Ben
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Post by xenophonhendrix on Aug 24, 2009 10:13:01 GMT
Why would something as useful as a blinker stone become a gift so strongly associated with romantic relationships? Would that be tolerated by potential mystics who needed a blinker stone for training but didn't have a significant other to give them one?
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Post by Aris Katsaris on Aug 25, 2009 19:26:04 GMT
Thread necromancy is a bit annoying, it makes it difficult to find past threads.... I suggest starting a new thread for your question - it's an interesting one.
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Post by xenophonhendrix on Aug 26, 2009 3:39:20 GMT
Different boards, different cultures. Some sites get testy if one doesn't put one's postings in the designated threads.
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Post by Seth Thresher on Aug 26, 2009 3:54:47 GMT
Different boards, different cultures. Some sites get testy if one doesn't put one's postings in the designated threads. I can attest to the unfortunate truth about this. My other forum HATES making new threads when an old one can be dug up. Yet, at the same time, if no one wants to talk about the old thread, that is just as annoying D= They could never make up their minds!
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Post by judgedeadd on Aug 28, 2009 21:47:51 GMT
One day, I shall make a big post which will be a regularly updated list of all comic threads. This way, they'll be much easier to find.
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Post by King Mir on Aug 29, 2009 1:04:14 GMT
There is a search feature. It's quite easy to find a comic thread by number. How would you make a thread to improve this?
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Post by Yin on Aug 29, 2009 6:26:18 GMT
Since we enclose page numbers with square brackets that are also used in the board's html (so to speak, I don't know the proper term) it doesn't turn up either.
Best way is to manually hop back through the forum, and if threads are continuously used/necro'd it'd be pretty difficult to find a particular thread.
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Post by Aris Katsaris on Aug 31, 2009 2:24:54 GMT
You've not actually tried what you suggest, have you? If you had, you'd have seen it's not actually easy at all.
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jon77
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Post by jon77 on Sept 1, 2009 6:11:10 GMT
There is a search feature. It's quite easy to find a comic thread by number. How would you make a thread to improve this? I'm guessing it would be a thread with just one posting, which would contain a long list of links to the other threads. Since this thread would be updated every few days, it would always be easy to find at the top of the forum (it might even be pinned at the top). The links in the message would be in a constant order (page number of the comic), rather sorted by the date of the last post, which constantly changes the order.
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Post by warrl on Sept 2, 2009 20:55:56 GMT
There is a search feature. It's quite easy to find a comic thread by number. How would you make a thread to improve this? I'm guessing it would be a thread with just one posting, which would contain a long list of links to the other threads. Since this thread would be updated every few days, it would always be easy to find at the top of the forum (it might even be pinned at the top). The links in the message would be in a constant order (page number of the comic), rather sorted by the date of the last post, which constantly changes the order. In the list of threads, click the "Subject" column header, then after the screen refreshes click it again.
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Post by Casey on Sept 2, 2009 21:00:46 GMT
Yeah it's a bit late for that helpful piece of information warrl, ha ha!
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