Happy July! I don’t have anything particularly interesting to say about the comic at the moment, but I hope you’re enjoying it! Look at little Rupert, standing up for himself. Awww.
Happy July! I don’t have anything particularly interesting to say about the comic at the moment, but I hope you’re enjoying it! Look at little Rupert, standing up for himself. Awww.
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Yay Rupert! Yay Lorne, asking the good questions!
This is exactly what I came to say!
Hear the Jub-Jub bird to spun the frumious Bandersnatch!
“my brother is scarier than she is”
very true, and very good point.
reinforced by the previous chapter told us nemean were very close to the line of not getting medallions
Minor correction: They WERE on the other side of that line. The only reason they have Medallions at all is because the two Sphinx in the British Isles went rogue and started handing them out like Halloween Candy.
Go Rupert! *waves tiny ‘yay!’ flag*
i appreciate how Jim can’t come up with a good explanation for Lorne about why Eleanor is dangerous, it shows how this is just…well I was going to say garden variety racism, but I don’t think that’s quite right considering the critters involved. In any case, it shows that the racism towards ‘monsters’ is *taught* in their society and Lorne, who’s hasn’t ‘learned’ it yet, doesn’t see why Eleanor is any more dangerous than someone like John- a foul tempered Neaman Lion. I appreciate this take Kory!
Jim: I don’t want to question the system that gives me privilege!
And it’s moments like these that begin beautiful friendships!
I knew it! Rupert is THE GOOD BOY!
Rupert is so much a better person …
The power of fluffy boys
“… shines within you.”
~Deltarune
There’s so much pain and despair in that phrase.
“I’m used to it.”
You don’t ever want to hear that from someone who’s genuinely hurting. It’s hard to put into words just how deep those wounds go to get to the point where the depth of despair, pain and loneliness is just your new ‘baseline’ your new normal. That’s someone sitting on the precipice of the black spiral.
Gotta say, this is a really well done allegory for racism in the real world because the dividing line is ultimately arbitrary and self-contradictory. Many similar things fall into the trap of having the two groups be clearly distinct and giving a reason for the divide that ends up undermining their point.
I don’t comment here often, but you’ve done an absolutely amazing job of showing on a believable way how Jim was a brat as a child and grew up to be a pretty cool guy.