Pangs
EDIT: changed the dialogue for clarity! Or...CLAIRE-ITY?
(no the first one)
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questionablecontent.net is down for me too
Glad to have the comics on Patreon! questionablecontent.net is down (at least from where I am) right now.
Down for me also.
Just random: you've** got me going through the archives again (hit random and go), and it's interesting and sad and interesting how many of the links in your news posts are dead urls now. .. .. way to go survivor! ** ok, so mostly covid-induced depression. but tbf, i'm due again, and QC is a far better place to be than a frackton of other options
Now I'm craving a comic. Oh, good: XKCD is in the next tab. Oh, damn: It's Thursday.
May did specifically ask him, and communication is important in a relationship, so him initially being discreet with his contributed amount has no bearing on what he should have done in this instance. Nor would it have been appropriate for him to bring up how filthy rich he is getting from his songs. Any other character could bring it up, however…
Depending on the circumstances, he could have just said, "Um, well, you know those two songs I wrote about you? ... I donated the proceeds from them. Plus $5. So, in effect, I donated $5, the rest was you." Just to be clear, I only think that would have been appropriate if either it was true, or it worked out that way. (That is, the songs had since made the money in question.) Making that claim without it being true would've been unrecoverable later on.
Why is Sven not just saying it’s May? Isnt Hannelore the one person he told about them hooking up? :0
Smoking on a space station would be a decidedly bad idea in so many ways....
In good C&W tradition jailkid May is a well of inspiration for awful songwriter Sven. Their artistic collaboration will provide constant opportunities for more banging. Sooner or later they'll realize, "It's not just the fucking, I want to fuck him/her."
I quit in January 2014 and it has mostly been fine but this year has TESTED me. :/
quit in 2018 and it has tested me as well. stay strong friend.
fOrEsHaDoWiNg
This past August I celebrated 13 years since my last cigarette. Most of the cravings have passed now.
I'm one lucky fucker who stop smoking cause I didn't like it anymore.
Me too. That realization that, "These damned thing taste like shit smells."
Nan
My mom talked about craving cigarettes 50+ years after she quit. Nicotine (and I believe the ritual of smoking a cigarette) are serious business. She never followed through on her desires for a cig but for sure it came to her every so often.
Yeah, My Dad quit when I was about three (1969) because I had athsma and the Doctor told my folks that living in a smoking household would kill me. He confided in me just before he passed away (2018, Parkinson's) that he still got a crave from time to time. Usually when he was stressed.
Sven's definitely robo-curious
He definitely satisfied that curiosity and is a full on robosexual. Watermelons, too.
Been without a smoke for over 3 years now. Not your fault but any mention of a cigarette makes me crave. Blame 15 years of doing it.
Three years without is good. Keep it up. :)
Be strong, Hanners
Hi Jeph, peeking out from behind the curtain once again to poke fun at his own retcons cause he’s making this up as he goes and is doing freaking amazing at it
I'm wondering how many weeks or months have passed since Hanners came back. How is she still this tan!?
Probably only a few weeks. Time moves slowly in the QC-verse :-)
Yup.. it has been 3wks since I quit.. I am staying 💪 though.
lol i'm glad hanners is back to being a 3d character. Yeah even if it was weird, getting habits at weird times in mental health happens.
Sven is trying to be all leaf-turnovery and be not a dick and gossip. which is cool. he is also quite clumsy and overdoing it because he is not used to it
Oh man, the olden days when Hanners was first introduced! ❤️❤️
Is this leaning on the fourth wall or lampshading Hanners' Flanderization?
Hanners has undergone the very opposite of Flanderization. I might give you the 4th wall bit save that Jeph acknowledged the abrupt change in her character a long time ago. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1046
The morning of Wednesday November 9th 2016, I happened to see one of those billboard trucks advertising cigarettes, and WHAM, after 20 years quit, I wanted a cigarette so badly. All my defenses were down, and I was just hurting. I only stopped having random cravings when I had probable-Covid last spring. It’s amazing how not being able to draw breath can reprogram your brain really fast.
Urg, that sounds horrible. I hope you're doing better now.
Sven is having a day.
Wow, Sven, just creating problems wherever he goes. Everyone here just needs to chill out and see if things are actually as weird as they're saying they are. Of course, having been as neurotic in the past as most of the cast is, I know that's not going to happen.
This had better not be foreshadowing; I don't think I could take it.
I think Sven’s redemption arc will be complete when he stops being dumb. March him right back to May, and tell her it’s not weird unless they give the money more weight than helping a friend in need. I swear to god, if one overcomplication is gonna create an unscalable wall between them and getting over the last vestige of their imperfect pasts, I’m gonna lose it.
I see where you're coming from but I think she needs to come to that decision. I don't think I had a sexual partner just accept that I wasn't up for anything without trying to talk me into it until this year and I really appreciated it.
Sven, maybe you just need to go home and stay inside for a year
Yeah, no, that’s not helping anyone I know.
I love the strip, and I really hate being that kind of guy, but considering that Sven had already discussed this issue with Hannelore, isn't he being a bit unnecessarily vague? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4314
Meh, people close to me (all right, yes, it's me) often can't remember specifics of previous conversations from weeks ago.
I had to dig and dig and dig to find a strip showing Hanners smoking... Yes, that is the first time we see Hannelore, and she seems a LOT different than she is today.
Early instalment weirdness. The medication thing was a later retcon by Jeph .
When I was in university I drank coffee non-stop from waking to sleeping. I would make a percolator pot, drink it till it was empty, rinse and repeat. One Sunday morning as I was filling it with water, my dad came in, saw me, and said, "You're addicted to coffee." "...Yeah?" I said. "I want you to see if you can go a whole week without drinking any coffee." "OK, I can do that," I replied, and poured out the water. At lunchtime on Monday I was in the lab trying to solder my project. Soldering takes four hands even when you can see. I couldn't see. I was also shaking, my head felt like someone had rammed a railway rail all the way through it, and according to my friend I was bloodlessly white (and I normally make Snow White look like Chef from South Park). "Are ... are you alright?" she asked me. "No... I don't think I am." I went downstairs and bought a Coke from the machine and got in my car to drive home. The way I felt, I would probably have been a safer driver after 6 beers than I was just then. Home in half an hour or so, drank 2 coffees straight, had four paracetomol + codeine tablets (recommended dose: two) and went to bed. And that was my week without coffee.
So Paul Erdos, the great mathematician, was rather infamously a serious speed addict. One of his friends (I can't remember who, but I heard the story directly from them, this is firsthand) once bet him $100 (then a sizeable sum) that he couldn't go a month without. He took the bet, and indeed didn't touch speed for a whole month - nor did he get any mathematics done. He then collected the $100, used it to buy a shitton of drugs, and proceeded to crank out a bunch of important papers. I don't know if there's actually a moral to this story. Maybe it's more of an "immoral."
Am I the only one that hopes these two get together? I feel like it would be a natural development in both their character arcs, with Hannelore dipping her toes into the physical aspects of a relationship and Sven navigating the emotional aspects.
Is this the fan solution? Two chars share panel/they should smash.
honestly if sven thinks he can break up an engagement he's more self centered than previously written
He's making a joke, sheesh!
I am the bad news bear about smoking -- I quit in 1987 and I still get cravings. I think I'm hardwired for it, but yeah, I remain strong, or cheap, or whatever but it works.
I quit maybe a year before that, but I'm lucky in that the craving did eventually stop. It took a couple decades though, and I had resigned myself it would be there forever.
Wait, does Hanners know he’s talking about May? I think he told her when he offered money for May’s new body.
Yes
Lovely to see Hanners - feels like it's been ages. With added plot arc no less (what else happened back when she had poor impulse control?).
quit smoking... 6 days ago now?? thanks Jeph. i love you and i needed this!
Good for you!
Sometimes, trying to relate to someone can help bring out the worst in them, especially when having a shit day, ourselves. Know those feels, Sven. And Hanners...as glad as I am that I quit...some days, same.
Anybody wanna guess if Dora found out about Sven and May? Eww!, but I'm proud of you for doing the right thing. And hello Hanners, good to see you.
Hey Hannalore, I'm sure Sven has something you can... no, Sven is growing, this joke is beneath him now.
I’m sure, if, when, and with whomever Hannelore ever explores sexual intimacy, that particular act is the very last one she will engage in. Possibly 900 years after nope-never.
Now I’m craving ordering a late night pizza...
Impulse control problems is the story of my life
You're doing great, Sven
Finally, the smoking is explained a mere 4500 strips later!
Well, to be fair, it *was* originally explained some 500 strips after it happened: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1046