What? Its not a god idea to just TELL people you’re a Sith.
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Just another reminder, next week will be guest art/strips as I take a bit of a Break-cation.
Am I full of crap. Maybe. After all, it's not a story the Jedi would tell you.
What? Its not a god idea to just TELL people you’re a Sith.
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Just another reminder, next week will be guest art/strips as I take a bit of a Break-cation.
This is precisely how this should have gone, and I fully approve of her tactics.
And really, Amanda’s contribution is exactly what was needed there… someone to remind that for all the talk of aliens and stuff, Selkie is the same sarcastic bullshit-artist that they’ve known for years.
Agreed, thank you Amanda, that was the perfect thing to say.
I’ll second that: I agree 110%.
I also love the expression on Amanda’s face… not quite boredom, but a definite sense of “yeah, seen this before, only mildly amused”.
as do I. that is sisterly devotion right there.
Sorry, Selkie, you will always be the penultimate Jedi. It is always the Last Jedi’s job, to Train the new Last Jedi, lest the knowledge be lost to the House Sitherin.
Periwinkle and bronze, Ravenclaw forever!
Star Wars: The Previous Jedi just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Star Wars: The Penultimate-but-one Jedi
Da*n but that made me laugh!
Still, if there are any Nerds in the classroom, they should be wowed by Selkie’s claim, and move to be friendly with her again, not hold her in suspicion. The nerd of my couture is my friend,… Or something something something ForEvar!!
Second to the Last Jedi… Sadly I think this would have been a better movie than the mess we got from Disney.
BLESS
maaan she’s so gonna alienate the new sarnothi kids 😛 unless they’re from Havei Jin Suir. UNLESS Sarnoth itself is sending its kids there legit-?? Or they’re just the last wave of refugee kids after the war
I imagine any new Sarnothi children will end up getting her to ‘translate’ back and forth, as her immersion crash course has likely left her with a better understanding of vernacular, if a bit weak on the esses.
on that note, I’m surprised Lillian didn’t clamp down on it during the three-year stay.
Given Selkie’s tendency toward being full of it, as mentioned on this page, I can see all kinds of hilarious and not-so-hilarious misunderstandings resulting from her being the translator.
I imagine the Imp of the Perverse will be tempered somewhat by wanting to do right by her kith and kin.
That’s . . . actually not too far off from what the Sarnothi had hoped from her.
Wait, *was* she born here? On her paperwork, both “country of citizenship” and “country of birth” were blacked out, which would seem to indicate that they both said “Sarnoth” and not “USA”.
She was apparently born in a small lake, not Superior, which means she may have actually been born entirely in the US and is a “born” Sarnothi citizen because her parents were born Sarnothi citizens.
Or even that her citizenship papers were completely unnecessary but were filled out anyway just to have all of her bases covered.
“Do you all carry tridents? Can I get a trident?”
I love this kid already. XD
If you have enough money you can get whole pack.
That’s our girl!
Honestly, her being totally open to questions and laid-back about it seems like the best course of action.
Selkie’s doing an AMA for her classmates.
I wanna see what happens when these “exchange students” find out Selkie’s an Echo. Will she suddenly collect the minions every mad scientist requires? Or will they grow more wary and fearful of her?
All good minions should have a healthy amount of fear for their mad scientist masters. It prolongs their life… which in some cases may not be the best course of action but hey! It’s usually in ones nature to want to live.
Besides I figure she’s the benevolent mad scientist… like Agatha Heterodyne from the Girl Genius comic. Very much mad. But usually her minions benefit from her antics.
And here is where Amanda shows that she might have accepted that Selkie is her sister.
Dangit, now *I* want a trident! 🙁
Well… Might be poor consolation, but how about a stick of Trident gum..?
If it’s general knowledge that Amanda and Selkie are sisters that helps Selkie’s case as well.
Amanda’s comeback: You’ll sleep with the fishes.
Selkie’s retort: Great! Breakfast in bed.
Haha! This!
Their questions are so cringy…DX
Not when you consider Justice League just came out.
I’d like a trident MYSELF.
Down here on the water, y’all just walk into the store and ask for a fish gig. I got one with 7 tines. Fish, yum! Build a fire and roast ’em right there on the beach.
Yeah that’s still cringy. That’s stereotyping a species based off of a movie he might’ve seen.
Not really. They’re kids, and they’re asking what’s on their mind. Best way to find out the real answers. (That is, if Selkie will give them a straight answer… maybe Amanda will do it for her.) The best way to destroy a stereotype is to ask, “Do you do X?” and to get the answer, “No, I don’t, and I don’t know anybody who does.”
When I was younger, other kids asked me if I was blind without my glasses. It was an ignorant question, but everybody starts out ignorant. I told them “No,” and they learned something. 🙂
I happen to agree. And the movie character is the closest example in their personal experiences. Which is actually a positive thing. They can relate to the character, which makes it easier for them to relate to and understand Selkie.
It’s why humans are storytellers; we learn from stories.
…and DISCUSS! (Theatrical hand flourish)
Yeah, if not from fantasy, where WOULD you draw any comparable “how do I handle this revelation” examples? This is kinda the definition of “unprecedented.”
In the third book of Narnia, “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” we’re introduced to Eustace Scrubb, who is described as having read “the wrong books,” which is to say, exclusively nonfiction. He has facts and figures in his head, but no idea how to handle unusual circumstances — so, of course, when he’s pulled through a magical painting into Narnia, he has zero context for how to deal with it, and can only keep asking for the British Consulate.
Stories are there to give us examples for how to deal with circumstances we can’t possibly predict. Among other reasons. They’re training in the same way that kittens fighting each other is training.
I grew up on country music, and heard from every quarter how country music was the butt of jokes. For a couple of decades I thought that country was the odd man out. Then I got onto the Rock Band forums, and tried to propose a Country Band game (since the rock fans were all “keep your country out of our game!”), and in researching that I found out that the lion’s share of radio stations in the United States are country stations.
Country music is huge, and I had this defensive idea for no good reason, purely from the way I kept hearing it get mocked.
Plus, you know the basic stereotypical country joke, about how you play a country song backwards and get your dog back, your girlfriend back, your truck fixed, your mom gets out of jail? I have heard those ideas in a country song precisely ONCE: The song that directly references that stereotype. I mean, yeah, a lot of country songs are about lost love — like in other music genres, and in media in general, that’s just a common theme — but we don’t have a ton of songs about people losing their dog, having their truck break down, having their relatives go to prison.
(Okay, so there’s songs from the perspective of criminals — Merle Haggard’s repertoire, for one, or “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” — and “Papa Loved Mama, Mama Loved Men,” which ends with Papa murdering Mama and going to prison, and “Coward of the County,” where the character’s dad dies in prison… and a handful songs where having your truck break down is part of the overall theme of bad luck/circumstances (the one that immediately comes to mind is about good friends having your back: “You Find Out Who Your Friends Are”), but it’s really nowhere near as widespread enough to warrant the joke.)
It’s weird the kind of stereotypes we grow up with about even the things we enjoy, just by hearing how other people — outsiders — describe them.
There’s a difference between species and glasses. Especially when she’s a refugee.
But big stereotypes and bigotry and racism etc start out from such innocuous things as glasses; one fears what one doesn’t understand, and fear turns to resentment and hatred. If there isn’t someone to teach about little, simple things like that, it all gets blown out of proportion and we fear, fight and murder each other epicly.
Dave, you didn’t capitalize god when you said, “Its not a god idea to just TELL people you’re a Sith.”. Or did you mean “Good”?
“God” can mean different things capitalized or uncapitalized (generally, Christians capitalize it and refer to the one true God, and a lot of people who aren’t Christians don’t capitalize it because they’re referring to the concept, or multiple gods, or other reasons), but in this case I’m pretty sure he just mean “a good idea.”
Okay. Selkie is either the best, or the worst, person to tell these things…and I’m not sure which. Because she explains things in a Cassandra Truth way…but people might GET it…
And, she’s like…insanely NORMAL about it. “Oh…she’s just a dork…”
I think Selkie and Amanda are slowly but surely forming a great power-duo as the anti-villain and anti-hero. And no, I’m neither willing nor capable of telling which one is who, though. 😛