Sir Grinds A Lot
GASP
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The grinder is giving Fruit Fucker 2000 vibes. Only angrier.
This might be interesting. The Director is apparently a friend of Yay Newfriend. Yay knows Emily and probably briefed them. (If any entity should be called "they" for multiple reasons, it's the Director, who can manifest multiple bodies and merge their memories. Same reason I say that about Yay.) Yes, "multiple reasons" is a pun.
“Once I’ve learned to use this, I can set up on Grindr!” “I do not think that means what you think it means.”
Damn Marten's gotten smooth. He's a compassionate caretaker.
#1 Goblin Dad
wait...Moray can understand the concept of withholding information about the Director so she can give Emily a fun surprise, but NOT the concept of withholding information about Liz so she can protect Liz's feelings? ARRRGH BAD SINGULARITY BAD
Marten has definitely been saving Sir Grinds-a-Lot for the opportune Liz Moment.
Zlata: Deftly maneuvred, sir! Marten: Hush, Zlata!
So why does Marten clearly is pitching this work for Liz, but Emily is too dense to get that?
She's not dense, she's just not reading into the fact that Marten wants to keep Liz around and in a chill environment away from Emily so that she can regain her equilibrium. To her it just sounds like a fun task.
Why is the coffee grinder so angry?
Not angry… focused.
It turns out Sir Grinds A Lot's real name is Raymond Burr.
His long-running beef with Ruben Blades is legendary.
ZOMG is Marten actually becoming socially skilful? This is a plot twist I was NOT anticipating.
He grew up. Hence the need for new weirdos.
I think Marten know Emily & Elizabeth too well now. Sure the Librarian runs Cubetown, but Marten is the prime minister to Queen Claire.
Yeah, this is excellent. That's a natural 20 handle goblin check.
Perfect!
Marten is in full on "GOD DAD" mode. First, keep Gremlizabeth in the shop, then move Emily elsewhere while he helps Gremlizabeth. Most important, do both without upsetting either. So: Get Gremlizabeth's attent... SQUIRREL! Done. And then send Emily to the Director, again by making it look like fun. DONE! That allows him to focus on Gremlizabeth, hopefully getting her less upset and more on track. (Or of course the Gremlin in Liz could come out swinging, so...)
Wait this could actually be Liz's return to science. She conducts a rigorous double blind placebo controlled market study on coffee preferences and publishes the results in Beans Quarterly
Beans Quarterly is locked in a bitter rivalry with The Bean Counter over which is the more prestigious coffee bean journal.
Does Sir Grinds-a-Lot look like he's glaring? Is he angry about something?
I'd be upset too if I had my mouth constantly filled with coffee beans to chew, without ever being given a good cup of coffee!
Emily being Emily, she actually says “GASP”
I started trying to come up with a "grindset" pun, but then I realized Marten is basically the polar opposite of "grindset"
Got to be on that grindset. Always hustling. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5365
I really liked Sir Grinds-a-Lot's big hit, "Baby Got Beans". I like roast beans and I cannot lie You other brothers can't deny That when a girl brings you the beans that you love most With a dark espresso roast, you get sprung
I hope he doesn't get sprung. The springs in his mechanism are in a delicate balance.
I like big beans and I cannot lie
There is room in Jeph's heart only for butts. He has the disease, you see.
I feel like I need to ask if Sir Grinds A Lot is sentient
In this comic I find it's safest to assume that every object is both sentient and horny until proven otherwise.
Smooth, Marten. Smooth.
Marten. Good job.
I love her so
Which one? (Just kidding, I know it's all of them.)
Perhaps they should ask Marten to be Moray's co-head of Sentient Resources. He clearly has something of a knack for people-handling, whereas Moray's talents lean in... other directions.
GASP
Sir Grinds A Lot probably has a strict "no spiders" policy.
Slowly pan to Gary, hanging just outside Mood's front window, as he sheds a single tear. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2430
An amorphous blob AI that tends sometimes toward arbitrary decisions and Emily in the same room sounds … existentially dangerous.
I love Liz
Moray, don’t be a hypocrite. You just spilled the beans on Liz’s struggles. Maybe learn a lesson from this.
Pretty sure she still doesn't realize she did anything wrong. That'll be an awkward conversation.
The grinder has angry eyes, because if you don't respect Mr Grindy, you will lose fingers. And maybe an eye.
You can't hide your angry eyes...
I think I found a typo: Should be 'Daft', not 'Deft'. Makes much more sense that way.
Deft means clever, daft means stupid. I think we do want "deft", though Marten is dealing with some very daft people
I think I finally understand why Marten’s coffee shop isn’t a success yet, despite being the only one in town. No one in Cubetown appreciates chill.
To be fair, considering it hasn't been open very long, Mood actually seems to be doing pretty well.
When you plan and devise A jellyfish surprise That's A Moray!
🎵 When she learns with dismay Turnabout is fair play That's a Moray!
Why isn't Marten running Cube Town?
Who says he isn't?
Brilliant diversionary tactics on Marten's part. I approve.
"Oooh! Look! Shiny!"
Hahahahahha finally we found out that the years of dealing with Pint Size pay off as quasi parenting skills.
Cut to a very contented Pintsize saying “I told her there are a lot of ways to do this job.”
overseer
Grindy McGrindface
Okay the coffee grinder is definitely a Fruit Fucker homage right?
Bean Fucker!
I say this unironically: Marten is a genius.
In the land of the unstable hyper geniuses, the man with emotional nous is king
Marten: "But mommmm." https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4901 Moray: "Martennn" Come back exactly 902 (<-ETA) comics later to find out who pleads "Moraaaaaaay" Betting pools are forming.
My money is on the DIRECTOR, ValdVin.
Such a cunning plan, Marten! Surely no one will see through it! Destined to succeed, that plan!
"If it was any more cunning, you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel."
She's so adorable!
Is that grinder an AI?
Looks that way
Marten can be pretty fuckin' clever at times
He earned his social first aid merit badge today.
Wait Marten's been using pre-ground beans this whole time? Jeeze, he must not really like coffee.
He's on record as being happy with coffee if it's "hot and relatively brown-colored."
…..goddammit now I want to see Emily and the Director hang out. I feel like they’d either click immediately, or he’d need to spawn a dozen morays just to deal with her.
It's a win for us either way, so…
That grinder looks like it has a surly attitude...
Is it an AI who wants a very low key job? That was my first thought.
Grumpy Grinder for the win.
BLOOP! Incoming!
A+ to Marten for an excellent diversion/distraction. I love friends like this
That’s an Olympic standard distraction.
And The Director already knows about Emily and is hoping she'll come aboard.
Who knew Marten was so diplomatic?
Marten’s true purpose is cultivating a chill space
I wish I was half as skilled as Marten at cultivating a chill space.
GASP is Emily’s shining personality trait. All the way back to liking how books smell.
That is one angy looking grinder.
Aww. It will be a happy wacky daisy chain of positivity.
Marten saving the day once again.
Since when did Marten get deft?
He's not, generally, just every so often things line up for him?
ಠ_ಠ
Glaring, glowering grinder.
Go Marty go!