Director Directions
happy new year! gonna do some more cubetown stuff, then some non-cubetown stuff, then back to cubetown, then WHO KNOWS. Well, I know. But I'm not telling you!!!!
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OK, so what we have here is post-Singularity, Swiftian society. Copacetic. What could possibly go wrong?
Oh no, Claire is starting to realize that there's some legitimately cool stuff going on here. Now she's going to get too interested to be angry about it!
Cubetown is a place where someone will spend years trying to extract sunlight back out from cucumbers. Jeph has invented his own Swiftian society.
I mean..."trying a lot of random things, even things that seem useless on their face" is a great way to find new avenues worth researching.
Sounds like a great mind for scientific breakthroughs. Perhaps not as great for facility management
Organizing flow with seventy-six trombones? Yes, that’s a Moray.
Only when you have more than a thousand reeds springing up like weeds
How to make Morays? “Mitosis from my toeses!” quoth The Director.
Researcher: "Ok but what's a Moray?" Director: Friend!
...you will tell us. Over time, you will! xD Happy New Year!
Now the question I have is does this start the ball rolling for Clinton and Elliot to move here? (Did not see a bakery in the Cubetown tour.)
The singularity is already here, its just not evenly distributed.
Happy New Year to all, or as the Klingons would say: be'nI'por (Glorious New Year!)
Is the QC world on the brink of the singularity?
The QC world is arguably post-singularity from Yay's point of view
More A from Moray!
Isn't it DOGS + COLD FUSION = WOOF DRIVE ? (ETA: I see I've been ninjaed by someone who didn't go out for hours of contra dancing.)
The future LOOMS ahead of us
Jeph, may I wish you a happy and healthy new year? Note: that includes hoping you're over COVID with no lasting effects!
I love cubetown????
Cubetown is a gold mine in a hurricane
It sounds like much more of an opportunity in context. Interfacing alien and human organizational and information schema? That is "Kill for the chance to be a lowly peon" territory. To be in charge of the project? "Sell your soul and your relatives' for nine generations."
Considering she hangs out with Martin and co. This isn't too much of a stretch for her.
Considering she hangs out with Marten and the rest, it sounds more and more like the Director made one of those odd connections. "Trained in library science + friends with an Ellicott-Chatham + friends with multiple AIs, + acquainted with The One Who is Several = Should make a job offer."
Clearly the next step is to monetize this discovery. Slimegirl In A Can, coming soon to a store near you!
That could have mixed results in reception. And could end up traumatizing both parties.
I'm imagining this scenario where one of Claire's puns succeeds in giving the director either a world-changing insight, or a complete nervous breakdown. (Do AIs even have nerves?)
Well, Kirk certainly gave more than one AI a nervous breakdown. But that's a different universe.
Happy New Year Jeph, and fellow readers too 🙂
I second that!
To celebrate the New Year, can we please have a strip in which Moray has nipples? (She lactates chowder.)
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EMILY NEEDS TO MOVE HERE STAT
It’ll turn out she’s been interning here the last three years.
You're not telling us because your ideas are too esoteric for a normal mind to grasp. Tl;dr Jeph Jaques is a basement jellyfish
I, too, am basement jellyfish
Cannot confirm; the current very Patreon-only NSFW chapter of Spinnerette has a very exuberant slime girl Sahira fucking two other Sahiras...
One of my favorite things about how QC has always been a sort of near future weird story, like a William Gibson novel but with less violence and cuter robots. Very excited to see where the next year takes us! Happy New Year Jeph, thank you!
A lot of sci-if needs cuter robots.
I'm sorry but "DOGS + COLD FUSION = WARP DRIVE" seems like a fax from Miles Bron.
Emily must be involved somehow.
Happy New Year, Jeph! Also, Happy New Year to all the followers here.
Wait, I thought the Director was made of the exuberant slime girl stuff. Or maybe that is just one of their bodies.
Maybe the innovation was allowing a body made of that stuff to move around outside the water.
Give Moray an absolute dumper of an ass please
Resistance is futile, join the collective!
I have to say that I'm starting to really enjoy Cubetown. Plus, Claire is cool.
YESSSSS, CLAIRE! YOU MUST HELP BRING THE SLIME GIRLS TO THE WORLD
Happy New Year!
Oh, Jeph. Dear, dear Jeph. You'll tell us. You'll tell us all. You always do. You can't help yourself! Delay it until next year if you must, but you'll only be torturing yourself. We know this about you, Jeph.
"Ve haff vayz of makink you tell!!!1!eins"
Is this the Cubetown version of The R̷̻̱͖̺͈͑͝I̷̧̞̩͖̓͜Ṱ̴̤̞̰̦́͌̿Ṳ̸͉͕͉̋̉Ă̴̞͖̈́͠L̷̛̠̘͓̾͆̈́?
Whoa. How did you do that? (or is it part of The R̷̻̱͖̺͈͑͝I̷̧̞̩͖̓͜Ṱ̴̤̞̰̦́͌̿Ṳ̸͉͕͉̋̉Ă̴̞͖̈́͠L̷̛̠̘͓̾͆̈́?)
“Exuberant slime girls” is such an awesome phrase. And her following the logic IS slightly worrisome, but also just proves Yay’s point of why Claire would be so good for Cubetown.
And vice versa. After a couple years there she could write her own ticket anywhere
Motion to change the working name to "Exuberant Slime Girl Town."
seconded
Claire is beginning to understand what's going on. This is either frightening as hell or encouraging for everyone.
I'd suggest running for the hills but once Cubetown gets rolling the hills won't be safe no more. As Captain Kirk once said, "SCOTTY, BEAM ME UP!"
The psychedelic jellyfish has her now. Hook, line and sinker.
Or the other way 'round...
"Exuberant slime girls" is a phrase that will haunt me forever
That's my new neo-punk band name.
I’m loving the cubetown stuff, so I’m really looking forward to seeing where this goes
So, Claire is gonna be a prophet of a God AI. Did not see that coming.
Dogs with warp drive? Hmm.
Should be "woof drive"
Happy new year, Jeph!