So tempted to draw the first panel of the next strip in a Star Wars lightsaber duel mock-up, but I don't think it would fit Amanda's personality. Selkie'd love it though.
I appreciate his view of things, for sure. But now I’m sad because it appears this’ll be an activity just the two girls partake in, rather than the whole family, which makes this an entirely different affair really 🙁
Grandpa Theo for the win! But then he’s the one who was willing to be Selkie’s unicorn a few chapters back so not all that surprising. I agree with him, perhaps a supervised “fight” with no stakes might be good for them. Clear the air a bit as it were.
This is really nice, I would love to see the whole evening nothin’ but Selkie and Amanda developing a sister relationship, but my drama senses is tingling .
Oh, Theo. They don’t have “some kind of rivalry.” They purely despise each other. They’ve been behaving themselves only because there are adults around. You might end up learning a lot more than you counted on with this tactic.
OR (Pollyana mode: Engaged) maybe they end up having fun, and the walls built up between them start coming down tonight.
I don’t think they ‘purely’ despise each other. Each has demonstrated a significant non-zero degree of empathy towards one another (Amanda during the shirt incident, and Selkie with regards to some of the shit she knows Amanda has been through/subject to, among other things).
They don’t get along in part because Amanda wound up focused on Selkie as a symbol for her own social rejection. Amanda raged when she found out Selkie had been adopted, but not because Selkie got adopted so much as because Amanda herself /had not/ and is dealing with some heavy fear of rejection.
They have some mutual antipathy as a result, but they don’t actually seem to flatly hate each other as much as they might claim…they simply slotted into each others lives as a convenient lashing-out point: Amanda because she sees Selkie as a competitor for affection she desperately needs, and Selkie because she never understood why Amanda was so antagonistic towards her for so long that antipathy became habit (sufficiently habitual, in fact, to be useful as a method of truth-seeking).
I think that’s apt to change now that they’re having to spend off hours together, see more of each other’s lives, share families and so on.
Not apt to happen overnight, but apt to happen over time.
I hope you’re right. I think, long term, you ARE right. I’m just thinking still that – at least in the short term – Grandpa may be about to get more than he bargained for. Which will at least give the adults some guidance in how to handle defusing them from here.
This is silly and cute. I’m not sure why everyone is so uptight about this, well, everyone but Theo that is. I mean, Mari markered Selkie to begin with, what did she think was gonna happen? As it is, they’re just having fun. Now maybe it’s gonna get out of hand, but as of right now there’s nothing wrong.
Speaking as a mom, it does have the potential for one of them to get angry and lose control (probably Amanda; she seems to have less experience with playing and letting things go).
I dunno. Judging by Selkie’s expression she’s getting into the spirit of things and ready to have fun, but Amanda still has her metaphorical claws out…
I have never in my life met anyone who has seen that movie.
Green Samurai: “You will be defeated for we have honored our ancestors and you have not, we will be victorious and you will lose for you are purple and we are green, haha!”
Purple Samurai: We will defeat you, for we have done honor to our ancestors and you have not. We will have vicotory and you will suffer defeat for we are purple and you are green, haha!”
No idea what it was called, but that was about all the dialog in the movie, and the martial arts were really well done for a B movie.
You’re just reminding me of The Color Wars (or something like that), which I watched as a kid, which was a combination of teaching color combos (they all attack with paint, and when blue hits red it becomes purple etc.) and empathy and working together to make something greater than you could make on your own.
Grandpa Theo is a Genius! He wants to see the dynamic of Selkie and Amanda firsthand, not what he has heard. Theo to me is like Qui-Gon Jinn in that he lives in the moment and wants to use the situation as a lesson. Think back to the Fish eye comic where Todd and Grandma Mari turned down Selkie’s favorite food but he was like “Pass it here.” My favorite line in the comic is “Sometimes, you just have to suck it up and eat the eyeballs.” Out of all of the family, I think Grandpa Theo has the best chance of defusing this seriously drama ridden situation. He can help the kids get along better while helping the adults (Todd and Andi) get over the lies of the past and focus on the future and what is best for the kids. Got to love the grandparents!
Being mostly a kid himself, Theo understands kids. He understood what shoveling manure would do for Todd, what eating an eyeball would do for Selkie, and what a couple of markers will do to defuse the tension between the kids.
Just doing an archive crawl. Wonder how Amanda feels about being neighbors with the teacher.
Don’t know if Andi lives right next-door to Jessie, or across the hall, or just on the same floor, but when Jessie kicked her girlfriend out (for the pranked math homework), and threw a shoe at her (that stuck in the wall), Andi had just gotten off the elevator on that floor. She was going home.
Definitely do the star wars thing for the first panel…..as Selkie’s perspective. Then do the second panel as something COMPLETELY different for Amanda’s perspective. They seem like they would view this fight in totally different ways
To give her a flare for the dramatic but still have a kid thing going, Amanda’s should be West Side Story with Selkie and Manda handcuffed to each other.
*Sigh* Or the knife fight from Michael Jackson’s Bad.
Honestly, I’d be a bit more concerned about how permanent those markers are and what’ll happen to the furniture and the walls if (when) it gets out of hand. 🙂
well… ok, ignore the rather adult context here, but this comic serves as a very good example of what could happen the next day… 😀 (it’s mostly safe for work, but be careful, just in case) http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2422
Hen guards.
Love it.
Well you know hens do need to be guarded. ’cause – foxes.
Grandpa Theo is freaking Yoda! Such a marvelous thing the mind of a child is…
I appreciate his view of things, for sure. But now I’m sad because it appears this’ll be an activity just the two girls partake in, rather than the whole family, which makes this an entirely different affair really 🙁
Grandpa Theo for the win! But then he’s the one who was willing to be Selkie’s unicorn a few chapters back so not all that surprising. I agree with him, perhaps a supervised “fight” with no stakes might be good for them. Clear the air a bit as it were.
This is really nice, I would love to see the whole evening nothin’ but Selkie and Amanda developing a sister relationship, but my drama senses is tingling .
The play-fight *could* turn into a bonding moment, with a supportive family environment. Theo is on to this.
Oh, Theo. They don’t have “some kind of rivalry.” They purely despise each other. They’ve been behaving themselves only because there are adults around. You might end up learning a lot more than you counted on with this tactic.
OR (Pollyana mode: Engaged) maybe they end up having fun, and the walls built up between them start coming down tonight.
I don’t think they ‘purely’ despise each other. Each has demonstrated a significant non-zero degree of empathy towards one another (Amanda during the shirt incident, and Selkie with regards to some of the shit she knows Amanda has been through/subject to, among other things).
They don’t get along in part because Amanda wound up focused on Selkie as a symbol for her own social rejection. Amanda raged when she found out Selkie had been adopted, but not because Selkie got adopted so much as because Amanda herself /had not/ and is dealing with some heavy fear of rejection.
They have some mutual antipathy as a result, but they don’t actually seem to flatly hate each other as much as they might claim…they simply slotted into each others lives as a convenient lashing-out point: Amanda because she sees Selkie as a competitor for affection she desperately needs, and Selkie because she never understood why Amanda was so antagonistic towards her for so long that antipathy became habit (sufficiently habitual, in fact, to be useful as a method of truth-seeking).
I think that’s apt to change now that they’re having to spend off hours together, see more of each other’s lives, share families and so on.
Not apt to happen overnight, but apt to happen over time.
I hope you’re right. I think, long term, you ARE right. I’m just thinking still that – at least in the short term – Grandpa may be about to get more than he bargained for. Which will at least give the adults some guidance in how to handle defusing them from here.
Get back here so I can scribble you.
Gets backs heres so I cans eats yous.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie250/
Maybe they ARE related.
Astral twins
This is silly and cute. I’m not sure why everyone is so uptight about this, well, everyone but Theo that is. I mean, Mari markered Selkie to begin with, what did she think was gonna happen? As it is, they’re just having fun. Now maybe it’s gonna get out of hand, but as of right now there’s nothing wrong.
Speaking as a mom, it does have the potential for one of them to get angry and lose control (probably Amanda; she seems to have less experience with playing and letting things go).
Wish I had time to 16-bit the characters into a flat battle background with overturned cars and trashcans. Hee hee. I totally get it, Dave.
“Amanda, we shares a father.”
“No. That’s not true. That’s impossible!”
“Search your feelings, you knows it to be trues!”
I want to “^” both of you 1,000,000 times! (Dammit, Gravatar! Give us a “Like” or “^” button or something like that!)
The entire top level of the next comic should be differing perspectives. Star Wars for Selkie, and…whatever Amanda thinks for hers
I dunno. Judging by Selkie’s expression she’s getting into the spirit of things and ready to have fun, but Amanda still has her metaphorical claws out…
I have never in my life met anyone who has seen that movie.
Green Samurai: “You will be defeated for we have honored our ancestors and you have not, we will be victorious and you will lose for you are purple and we are green, haha!”
Purple Samurai: We will defeat you, for we have done honor to our ancestors and you have not. We will have vicotory and you will suffer defeat for we are purple and you are green, haha!”
No idea what it was called, but that was about all the dialog in the movie, and the martial arts were really well done for a B movie.
You’re just reminding me of The Color Wars (or something like that), which I watched as a kid, which was a combination of teaching color combos (they all attack with paint, and when blue hits red it becomes purple etc.) and empathy and working together to make something greater than you could make on your own.
Grandpa Theo is a Genius! He wants to see the dynamic of Selkie and Amanda firsthand, not what he has heard. Theo to me is like Qui-Gon Jinn in that he lives in the moment and wants to use the situation as a lesson. Think back to the Fish eye comic where Todd and Grandma Mari turned down Selkie’s favorite food but he was like “Pass it here.” My favorite line in the comic is “Sometimes, you just have to suck it up and eat the eyeballs.” Out of all of the family, I think Grandpa Theo has the best chance of defusing this seriously drama ridden situation. He can help the kids get along better while helping the adults (Todd and Andi) get over the lies of the past and focus on the future and what is best for the kids. Got to love the grandparents!
Grandpa Theo is the best tbh <3
Being mostly a kid himself, Theo understands kids. He understood what shoveling manure would do for Todd, what eating an eyeball would do for Selkie, and what a couple of markers will do to defuse the tension between the kids.
Best Grandpa both girls could have, really.
Just doing an archive crawl. Wonder how Amanda feels about being neighbors with the teacher.
Don’t know if Andi lives right next-door to Jessie, or across the hall, or just on the same floor, but when Jessie kicked her girlfriend out (for the pranked math homework), and threw a shoe at her (that stuck in the wall), Andi had just gotten off the elevator on that floor. She was going home.
Definitely do the star wars thing for the first panel…..as Selkie’s perspective. Then do the second panel as something COMPLETELY different for Amanda’s perspective. They seem like they would view this fight in totally different ways
To give her a flare for the dramatic but still have a kid thing going, Amanda’s should be West Side Story with Selkie and Manda handcuffed to each other.
*Sigh* Or the knife fight from Michael Jackson’s Bad.
Honestly, I’d be a bit more concerned about how permanent those markers are and what’ll happen to the furniture and the walls if (when) it gets out of hand. 🙂
well… ok, ignore the rather adult context here, but this comic serves as a very good example of what could happen the next day… 😀 (it’s mostly safe for work, but be careful, just in case) http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2422
Hopefully those two will start to get along. They’d make an awesome team.
Lol; Todd is collateral damage in panel one.