Oops, sorry Michelle didn’t answer your questions! She kinda got stuck in an existential crisis, oopsie doodle!
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The Kickstarter for my 4th Book has launched! Go get it!!!!! I’m really excited about this dang book, it’s gonna look really amazing!
Oops, sorry Michelle didn’t answer your questions! She kinda got stuck in an existential crisis, oopsie doodle!
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The Kickstarter for my 4th Book has launched! Go get it!!!!! I’m really excited about this dang book, it’s gonna look really amazing!
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I, too, find that oboes produce existential crises.
Why is this? How can it be so squawk? What’s up with its wee babby reed?
Poor Michael. I just want to hug you right now in a brotherly way to help you feel better.
Michelle’s father, Michael, died years ago, and we only saw his Shade in Orientations.
I don’t think you can hug a Shade.
His name was mentioned in page 7 of Homecoming.
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/homecoming-7-family-resemblance/
I meant Michelle opps.
This RQ is a bad dose of comic time to real time.
I’m guessing here that Michelle would have finished school in spring 2004, spent the summer break waiting on her final school results, doing her college application and waiting on its approval, before we saw her in early August of 2004 at the start of Orientations.
For Michelle the June 2005 setting of Illumination is a bit over 12 months since she finished school.
Do selkies need medallions, or do they just pass as human by taking off their seal skins?
There was a concept for a selkie medallion (one is even visible in the comic), but Kory said they don’t need medallions.
I must have missed that one. Thanks!
One does not simply stop being an oboist.
Yeah, one does. Somehow, a reed instrument isn’t like a bicycle. You pick it up after a long time, and it’s Squeak City, and you can’t make it work.
Never mind remembering what all those damn keys do.
True, but it still reminds me of a short story I read where the main character was a cyborg (she was an astronaut and got caught in a solar flare that nearly killed her, requiring a full-body prosthesis). I think this was in Asimov’s Sci-Fi, some time in the late 1980s.
Anyway, one of her friends played the clarinet. She reminisces, “I used to play the clarinet too, but I had to give it up.” Her friend asked her why, and the answer was “You have to have lungs to play one.” (Or any other wind instrument, which is why it reminded me of this short story.)
She was also trying to get permission to move to the moon colony, where prejudice against cyborgs was less. She had a bit of a problem with the physical exam, though. “He didn’t care that I don’t breathe. He didn’t mind writing down that I had no pulse. He couldn’t figure out how to get a blood sample without electrocuting himself, though.”
*sad toot*
Well that’s just depressing. Are you ok today, Kory?
Do Tsuchinoko have to stay in Avalons or does everybody already know they’re real?
Uh, my heart! D:
Don’t be sad Michelle I’ll bust my clarinet out of storage too and we can have squeaky duets together! TT u TT
Hhhhhh, it’s like looking back on a fine, strong muscle that has now atrophied. Poor dear girl. <3
existentialist toot! Also, what do dragon eggs look like? Also-also, are there any abalone in zoos for ease of supplying large life forms and possibly hiding nonsentient magical creatures?
Don’t worry, I have an existential crisis about once every other day…
… Someone hug me too please.
Good on your for even attempting to draw all the buttons on an oboe. Jeepers.
Did Michelle’s feathers on her right ear magically appear from the left portrait to the others?
How about the simpler explanation that they were behind her shoulder, then she shifted so that they fell forward? (And they’re attached to her hair, not her ear.)
We know that Totems will live as long as their representative species and die if they go extinct; but what happens to them if they live long enough to speciate into something new through evolution?