Flower Arranging
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Roko better set Yay straight PDQ. This is making me sad.
“We abhor an insufficiently gilded lily” is one of the absolute phrases of all time.
Clinton is turning out to be The Marten Who Stayed. Well done, Clinton.
Kiiinda. He's still several oceans away from the patented Marten Levels™ of chill. He might get there in the next decade xD
Yay is very articulate even when upset
Cosmo was the first thing I noticed. 😌
When I write stories, the characters are pretty real during my writing. They each think, speak, and act differently than each other. So, that's good. You do manage to really convince us that all these characters are valid, and real. Good writing there, guy
Snooter dogs ftw! 💜🫶
Insufficiency Gilded Lilly is the name of my new cover band.
honestly same @ yay in panel 4. I'm a journalist for a living and at my job my mantra is "why use six words when i have the entire dictionary available to me." somehow my readers like this??? except the ones that don't, ig
Social junk is freaking hard. Much more difficult than military intelligence work ever was, and more difficult than technical support work.
Yay is having a rough time- they slipped back into 'we' and when that realization hits, it might hurt.
They switched back a while ago, with a little encouragement from Roko. https://web.archive.org/web/20260410233942/https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5736
I find Yay quite charming. That probably says something about me and the people in my life...
I'd argue it says a lot about the people in your life. You are good people, Yelling Bird.
"You're really good at dramatic overcorrections, you know that?" "Well, I did take an elective in 'AP Hand Flourishing' while in the creche."
BookBeard, I have a question. On Jeph's Questionable Content replacement landing page, there is a snippet of a strip showing Claire napping in Bubbles lap while Faye looks on. Can you find it?
Dunno. So far as I can recall, that never actually happened in the comic, and if it's a Patreon bonus strip I couldn't find it. Best guess, perhaps an alternate strip that Jeph decided to change? The art, particularly Claire's shirt color and hair floofiness, seem to place it around the time she started at CoD. https://web.archive.org/web/20260316201512/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4646 One other clue, the name of the image is terryparry․jpg. So... Terry Parry might know? Whoever the heck that is.
It's truly impressive how they don't have Cosmo fuzz all over that black shirt
Because Clinton is getting all the Cosmo snuggles, which you just *know* is driving Yay nuts.
I want a borzoi so bad.
https://clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2023/05/eurovision-saki-and-big-borzoi-everyone.html
I want a borzoi so bad
For Yay, Flair is more than just the name of a pen.
I am reminded that Yay is two years old. And yes, that's very different for an AI than a human, but still. Their vast surveillance capabilities have meant that their experience is very *wide* but it's still not very *deep.*
Probably three by now. And yeah, definitely lacking the experience required to develop people skills, especially since they spent almost all of those first two years avoiding human/ai contact.
You should trust Clinton on this one, Yay. He is something of an authority on the subject of bad first impressions. https://web.archive.org/web/20260312151110/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1902 Really, an absolute expert. https://web.archive.org/web/20260308162320/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2068 A veritable savant. https://web.archive.org/web/20260309092018/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5279
I love that this comment is long enough to get a “see more”
One does not simply "gild" a lily. One must first apprentice to a lily master for 3-5 years.
Once THAT is done, the Lily Master will introduce you to the Lily Guild as one who is prepared to make his Master Lily Piece. Only when THAT is done are you allowed into the guild's great gilding guildhall. :)
You know what also abhors a vacuum? Most any dog.
Also Moray. https://web.archive.org/web/20260309092018/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5819
New life goal: using “insufficiently gilded lily” in anger. What a great phrase.
Yay hates being wrong. They hate being called on it. But they are aware that they do it.
people say nature abhors a vacuum, but since most of the universe is a vacuum that doesn't make sense
Left over from Greek atomist philosophy,
Clinton is really putting it on faith that Yay even *subconsciously* realizes that they flubbed that interaction
honestly i think they do, and they're frantically trying to rationalize it. Yay absolutely seeps insecurity from every pore, i hope they can develop some healthy self esteem, instead of going through life desperately assuring everyone how great they are forever (i trust in Jeph, he's great at character development, we just gotta let him cook)
I love that he's managing to convey his criticisms in the form of compliments
I think it's more that Yay is stubbornly taking them as compliments, regardless of how they were intended.
Good <strike>boi</strike> girl, Cosmo
*good girl
Yay is an absolute delight. I am getting Rarity vibes from her for sure. I wonder what accent Jeph writes them with.
*whispers* “them”
Sorry if I'm retreading old (or recently re-tread) ground here, but didn't Yay switch to use singular pronouns? Still they/them in third person, but I/me in first person, I thought?
Briefly, yes. Roko encouraged them to keep using plural first person pronouns since it felt more natural to them (others are free to corroborate/correct me if neccessary)
Hi Cosmo
I have gilded an Oreo and Girl Scout Tagalongs.
Cosmo!
Hi Cosmo
sounds like a droopy flower
Eventually, Yay will develop empathy. Whether that will be before or after the heat death of the universe, is anyone's guess.
Definitely after.
Cosmo watface in panel 3 is *chef's kids*
I think that must be like "The cobbler's children have no shoes." e.g. "The chef's kids have easymac for dinner."
Domestic arrangements, Yay + Roko + Clinton please, it'd be an incredible sitcom
Featuring Melon as that zany neighbor who’s also their landlord!
Clinton is already so done w/ Yay.
The burden of being The Listener.
Ok so Yay NEEDS to meet DoA Carla.
I feel like at some point Clinton will get a chihuahua and Yay will be indignant about how they do not act in any way like that chihuahua.
If that happens, Miyaa, I expect that the chihuahua will be mortified at being compared to Yay.
Cosmo: always a good boy. *wurfs
Cosmo: never a good boy. Always a good girl.
Love Cosmo's silent contribution to the conversation in the third frame
Snoot?
You know, Yay, you used to DO stuff to justify that opinion of yourself…
Are you advocating for their return to being a cyber-criminal?
... are they going to be a couple? 🤔
Nope. Clinton is now their big brother.
Is this image really blurry for others? I can't tell if it is my device or not.
Image is sharp for me, but could have been a cache/updating thing so maybe check again.