Selkie474
May14
on May 14, 2014
at 12:01 am
Leaning tower of speech bubbles.
Quick note about Anime Central this weekend! My plan for the day trip is still to find a spot in the common area and occupy it. I wasn’t able to get an actual Alley table so I will NOT be there. I’ll update my Twitter and the website’s blog with location specifics.
To help you find me, look for the guy wearing this stylish Society6 Selkie shirt:
I’ve also printed up some promotional bookmarks to give away. They look like this:
Hope to run into a bunch of you at ACEN!! 😀
In my mind, Selkie is humming a song to herself as she watches this happen. Possibly the Mariner's Revenge Song. I think she'd enjoy that song.
Please tell me Selkie is recording this so his parents can see how he actually acts.
What are the chances Selkie’s taking video or making a recording? Also: Dave you misspelled “Hobbit” … it’s not “Ashton.” 😉
There’s been cases of students recording bullies acting like.. well bullies and once the evidence has been submitted the school usually demands the content be deleted and sues the parents and student, due to the fact there’s certain laws and regulations in place that prohibits recordings in certain locations and situations.
Which is part of a point I brought up a few days ago.
There’s two ways around those issues:
One, somehow having a court order to back it up,
Or, uploading/threatening to uplaod it to the internet.
The later doesn’t actually prevent suing, but it does tend to shine a bright enough spotlight that something will HAVE to be done about the situation.
I actually think I know what she’s doing. My school library had some security cameras to monitor students. Even if she doesn’t have a camera herself she may have chosen a PERFECT spot to record everything.
Neat song. Oh, oh.
So she will just sit there, with her smart phone on “record”, while Truck convicts himself while arguing with Jessie.
And maybe, just maybe, he takes a swing at Jessie, and she can come across the table and clean his clock, legitimately. With a teacher witness and a video.
I think she can do it. I don’t think she realizes just how strong she is. How many 8-year-old girl-kids you know of that can kick a ball so hard it flies 50 feet or so and hits another kid hard enough to put ’em on the ground? https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie233/
If Truck attacks Jessie, her best bet is to let him hit her – as soon as she defends herself she risks assault charges of her own. Still hoping the Principal Hobbit shows up just in time to have Jessie duck and take that hit himself, though.
Jessie doesn’t know that they are on their way up. How many hits should she take?
Jessie knows they’re coming. She asked for Selkie’s teacher to be paged in the first place.
Well, she knows Mrs A is on her way. She doesn’t know that Principal Hobbit is on his way too.
Selkie’s just like, “PLEASE, continue the confession.” Nice to see Jessie backing up her turn of events since there were “no witnesses”. I’m actually even proud of the principal (for now), going to check things out with his own two eyes.
Indeed, while the Principal may have trouble dealing with angry parents after the fact, he does at least have the sense to take charge when he has the chance to mitigate disaster. Not proud of him yet (he still shouldn’t have given in to the Trunchbulls), but he’s got a chance to redeem himself.
Man, I admire Jessie’s patience. Of course, she didn’t witness what just happened outside. But still: standing her ground, not getting upset, holding firm to demanding something completely reasonable and not even threatening punishment (which probably wouldn’t work in this case)… This is going to make AWESOME FOOTAGE.
Yknow, the other kids really should fear Selkie after this. Out of all of them, she is by far the best criminal mastermind.
We have seen Jessie’s backbone before, with her girlfriend remember?
On how she’s handling this situation, like you said without threats, is something I’m still learning. I did not have good examples, or instincts, for crisis management while growing up.
Watch and learn Selkie. You’ve got good examples.
Hah, I highly doubt, that she’s recording this, considering her stance, but man, I assume she just enjoys the show. She confronted him in a tricky trap way, like a predator would, making him struggle unknowingly and tightening his bonds. Now, the kid feels all powerful because of his parents, and I can’t wait to see his little asshole world to crumble ;3
Bullies rely on their victims being too afraid to act “intelligently” against them.
When you show no fear, like Jessie’s doing, well…
For me it wasn’t being too afraid so much as being too busy fighting down blinding rage so I wouldn’t do something I’d regret after. I do much better when intervening for someone else. Still angry, but more icy calculating than red hot fuzzy. My issue was that once I lost my temper, I was reduced to their level and that was worst of all because then I was beaten by experience and my own internal moral compass.
I’m confused. People keep talking about smartphones but I don’t recall Selkie ever getting one. Though schools ought to have CCTV in communal areas like this (or maybe my school was just plain strange), so if there is CCTV then it’s getting recorded.
She does not, to my remembrance, OFFICIALLY have a smartphone. But Todd gave her something, just before she went back to school, that was small enough to hide in his hands. https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie438/
I’m guessing it’s a smartphone, because the only other thing I can think of, that would “help keep you safe”, that size, would be a weapon, and he had already commented on her temper https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie436/ so I doubt it was a weapon.
could be just a memo recorder.
Welp. Four things here:
One: Selkie’s just chillin’ like a boss, sittin’ back and bathing in the warm glow of the firestorm. Kudos to you, kid.
Two: Tommy’s sense of entitlement is really coming out. And his beliefs are starting to confirm what we knew all along.
Three: Extreme kudos to Jessie for being a Logic Knight and telling Tommy why, exactly, he makes no sense.
Four: And super kudos to you, Principal Sackville-Baggins, for having the good sense to actually do something this time and kick Saruman out of the Shires.
Re Four: what makes you so sure he isn´t going to kick out the hobbits?
I soooo want the next page badly!
Selkie, I really, really hope that we’re all right about Todd’s gift being a recording device of some kind, and that you’ve got some good stuff on it, because unlike some of the others on this comment thread, I do not trust Principal Coward to protect the welfare of his students. Until proven otherwise, he’s just trying to avoid another temper tantrum by the Trunchbulls, and if that means throwing Selkie under the bus, so much the better. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he was starting to think of her as the problem child, because so many bad things kept happening around her.
Of course, even if it is a recording device, TheJerk is right. There are plenty of schools who can, will, and have gone to great lengths to protect the bullies instead of their victims. And I would not be at all suprised to find out that Principal Coward is cut from that cloth.
Seeing the principals physique makes me think in such a universe he may have been bullied as a child. If selkie has proof he may just side with her and maybe just maybe expel Tommy.
It would be nice, but that hasn’t been the pattern so far.
But if Selkie has proof, he can provide said proof to *ahem* MR *ahem* and Mrs Trunchbull, and get them off his back.
But then we have to deal with the parents ignoring the body of the evidence and dealing with the NATURE of the evidence; “How dare you let this little freak entrap my child with an unlawful recording device!”
And if any parents ever seemed likely to do that, it’s the Trunchbulls.
It depends on the state. Recording without prior permission or advisement is legal in some parts of the U.S.
Will today’s parents just realize their parenting technique is flawed into creating dangerous children and send him to a disciplinary military academy already. He bullies his friends into submission, he threatens teachers, speaking from the perspective of a person with a mental disability that makes it hard to understand the emotions and logic of others Tommy is a danger. He needs to be put in a place where they won’t take any of his bullying bs.
While agree something needs to be done about the boy, I don’t think sending him to military school or boot camp or anything like that will help. Being involved in such a rank based situation will more likely erode his social and empathy skills more. He needs to learn that being from a influential family doesn’t give him power over his peers and teachers. This will not be accomplished by putting him in a situation were ‘rank’ would give him power over people.
Rank based maybe good for him though due to no amount of a donation getting him out of starting at the bottom and having to work his way up. Not to mention that everything he says and does would be monitored and he would be disciplined accordingly. He would eventually stop being such a brat due to learning which behavior led to disciplinary action.
Sometimes military does that, sometimes it just forces bullies to be sneaky and work within the system. Look up “miliatary hazing history” to find some examples of rigid structure and discipline going wrong.
Selkie follows the advice of Sun Tsu (or whoever it was that first said this): Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
My prediction is Selkie’s getting expelled and the orphans are getting suspended with “one more incident and you’re outta here”
I’m pretty sure most of us are continuing to read this with the expectation that some kind of justice is going to be served eventually, and that Dave is a human being who needs money for food. I’m guessing he doesn’t want to starve, so I doubt your prediction is going to happen. 😉
I just hope Tommy gets suspended so his PARENTS have to deal with him for a week. Probably the real reason they put up such a fuss in the first place is to avoid this.
Is this “thumbs up/thumbs down” on the comments a new thing, or is it a result of my computer updating. My homepage changed and BING is my new search engine, so it would not surprise me if the update did this. 😀
I also see that two links I put in a post, about how I think Todd gave her a smart phone, aren’t hot any more.
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The Like/Dislike is indeed new. I added it thirty-five minutes ago.
The links no longer working… I dunno, have to check and see.
I was going to comment on that too. Thanks for putting it in!
Can you set it up so there are ‘likes’ but no ‘dislikes’? In all of my online experience, I have never once observed that the ability to register a ‘dislike’ does anything but make a place less friendly.
I am not wholly sure how to edit the plugin for that, but if it helps ease your mind, two things I like about this plugin are (1) Dislikes will not hide a comment, so there’s no risk of censorship and (2) the Likes/Dislikes are anonymous, so there’s no calling-out of people for Disliking.
Also please be assured that if the feature causes more negativity than I want around, I’m willing to remove it. It’s as easy as de-activating the plug-in.
Why have you added the like/dislike thing? Legitimate comments that are made with the best intentions but which criticize heavily either a particular page or a concept in the comic’s plot, will get dislike-clicked a lot. Also, can you change your choice afterwards, if you click the wrong one?
If the dislikes do not hide comments, then what the frig are they for??
The addition of a Like/Dislike function is something I’ve seen requested from time to time, and I finally decided to implement one and see what happens.
I consider it not hiding comments a good thing, as it always kind of irks me on other websites to see unpopular opinions suppressed. Even without a Like/Dislike button, critical or negative comments still generate feedback and counter-arguments. It’s happened here before and will in the future. A Like/Dislike option adds in an ability to chime in a quick opinion on something for those who may want to express a stance but not be able to articulate exactly what they do or do not like about it.
On paper it adds more feedback and expression options to commentators. How it will work out in practice remains to be seen, but I am tenuously optimistic.
I don’t think you can change your choice with this plug-in, unfortunately.
I just Disliked my own comment as a test aaaand no, can’t be changed. Although you also can’t spam-click either. One vote per comment.
I like having a dislike button. This comic touches on bullying a great deal and when someone is commenting on a nasty personal situation, a dislike button is very handy. Kind of like someone posting they have cancer…that’s not a comment that a like button works very well for either. Also, when someone is being a jerk, it’s helpful to the person they’re attacking to see that other people are not in agreement…something only having the like option does not show.
Nice like/dislike buttons! I’ve seen more comments I would like on this site than anywhere else… I’ve also never had to wish for a dislike button here!
There’s another turn this could take. Bullies hunt what they see as the weak and easy prey. If the prey shows up as repeatedly stronger than they expected they turn to different prey. It’s highly possible as a runner up prize for us that after Little Mister Fats get’s a breather and stops with the vindictiveness he leaves Selkie alone. Maybe a poisonous kiss on the cheek would encourage this.
Of course the best course of action is to have the violent little maniac forced to leave her alone. But hey, any port in a storm.
“Nip it in the bud!” —Barney Fife.
“Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and […]” … and I’ll stop here, I guess.