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Marten is a nice guy :3
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I keep coming back to Marten's faces in the last two panels and how much perfection they are.
Most of the characters look like themselves, but Marten looks so *weird* in this new style. I have no idea what it is.
I love how when Claire's mom gently ribbed her about not being wild enough, Claire doubled down on being not-wild.
Martin's face in the last panel is very well done.
"This is where the night goes from 'we had fun' to 'mistakes were made,' isn't it?" <a href="https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2798" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2798</a>
I sort of feel like Tai wanting to smoke with Claire and her mom is being REALLY pushy into other people's spaces. I would think if they wanted more friends over, they would have said. Also, Tai squeeing and wanting to go smoke with other people while she's at work is getting to be a problematic thing? Her habit of being too stoned to do her job (even tho her job is as support in a library, i.e. not life-risking or anything like that) has been bugging me a bit.
I think that if there is going to be a controversy about this, it is going to have to be a controversy between transgender women. I don't see how anyone else could possibly have an opinion about what you feel or should feel. It does seem to me, though, that there are two considerations here: 1. What would make Claire a usefully representative trans character. 2. What it would be in character for Claire to do. I'm not at all sure that what resolved Claire's panic attacks, should they have been resolved, was transition. Transition must have reduced general background anxiety and several specific anxieties, but marijuana-induced panic strikes me as just the sort of thing to which someone like Claire would be given. That said, I think you are right, and it is entirely too easy to think of Claire as just another skinny, intense, awkward, nerd girl, with nothing special in her past. Jeph should probably address that. He is likely scared of fucking it up. I certainly would be.
As a cisgender guy, that particular effect of being trans is not at all something that would have occurred to me. I suppose that suggests it might be useful (at least to me if I were to write things like this) to have transgender advisers that one can ask, "hey, what are some things that happen to my trans character that might not occur to me and could show up in the story." And for other characters that fit categories where representation is important. FWIW, personally I do find that I think of Claire as being transgender about as often as I think of that with my trans friends. Which I note for a datapoint to add to other people's data, not to dismiss theirs! Likewise, Diana, thank you for your datapoint! It's different from many of the datapoints I've heard about representation, which IMO is not at all a controversy; it makes it particularly valuable to give me a more complete picture. Especially since, even if 99% of trans people disagreed with you, having 100 people feel represented is nonetheless better than only having 99 of them feel that way.
I'm going to say something that I think is going to be very controversial. While I totally approve of treating Claire just like everyone else and not making a big deal of it, as a transgender woman myself though, I feel like if it's never mentioned nothing about it ever matters then you really didn't make her trans. This would have been a perfect place to include mention here. "If you had panic attacks before, what makes you want to try it again?" "Well that was 'before' and so obviously I'm a lot less anxious now." thus you've given a very believable backstory, given some representation, and a reason for the change of heart, without making some huge deal about it.
That's the thing about being Tai's friend: You need to do so little to keep her happy with you! I also love how Mrs A doesn't really think that this qualifies as 'something wild'. Don't worry about it, Ma'am. I've got the feeling that Tai will talk an under-the-influence Claire into doing something REALLY wild before the evening is up!
It's the little things - wape with your mom, a terrible but sincerely flattering fanfic, be there when she freaks out in the middle of the night, a lack of pants. Tai is pretty chill
Tai? Almost didn't recognize her without her elbow showing...
Such a bad idea both when she has had a panic attack from it previously and has an exam to do! Why is nobody mentioning this to her?!
Cue randomised drug screening at the university :(
Not in a million years. And pot is legal in MA.
I like that it's also a warning to Marten that the next 1000 messages and calls today might get a little weird.
"MARTEN, THERE IS SOMETHING IMPORTANT ABOUT HERMIONE I NEED TO TELL YOU RIGHT NOW!!!"
Marten is going to be the only sober person at this party
I bet you anything Clinton will be roped in to babysit Mom&Sis, because that's just how his life works.
Narrator: Claire ate too many snacks
Oh Tai... 💖 and yay Claire and Mom bonding.
Inb4 Tai steals another of Marten's girlfriends :P
And her mom? :)
WEED PARTY
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Tai! *squee*
I LOVE TAI SO MUCH.
I only really had the one girlfriend in highschool, so I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around that phone call. She shouldn't need his approval, but communication is healthy. How normal would you guys say this sort of behavior is?
Beats me. I didn't have a girlfriend until my Junior year in college.
Awesome xD
Time to queue up some Vengaboys: "We like to party"
Or, to quote Cali Swag District: 'Cause I don't give a f***, blow trees, get money.'
Same. I'd love to get stoned with Claire and her mom.