Brighter days ahead.
—
A reader sent me this on Facebook earlier today. She got a new kitten, named… SELKIE. Everyone, meet Selkie IRL:
Dada! Expo speak! EXPO SPEAK, DADA!
Brighter days ahead.
—
A reader sent me this on Facebook earlier today. She got a new kitten, named… SELKIE. Everyone, meet Selkie IRL:
Aaaaaa why are kitties so cute?
Kitties are so cute: because dogs are team players, and cats are all solitary hunters, (except for lions).
So cats cannot hire anyone, since they have no thumbs, cannot hold a pen, cannot sign a paycheck, and must therefore emotionally manipulate your heart into taking them home and pampering them for 16-18 years.
. In real life dogs play the army guys, and cats play the evil scientists who try to take over the world. Cats invented the interwebz to use social media to worm their way into our hearts. Look at those two pictures, …now tell me, “doesn’t it melt your heart?”
Yes, … Yes it does.
But! Doggies are ALSO cute.
Did you forget?
No, and that is why I have a Doggie and not a cat. Cats are evil scientists using the intarwebz to melt our hearts. Dogs are team players, … And I have one on my team. (But I can has no cheezburgers)
Wait, what exactly did he lie to them about? The consequences of his actions or something else?
We will never know. The clever artist has distracted the public with adorable kitten pictures. That which caused the downfall of the family friendly side of the internet has made its way here. Weep. Weep for humanity, and all we hold dear in these, the comments of selkiecomic; for the end is nigh. Hope for speculation and discussion is lost to all eternity. It shall be sacrificed to the all consuming void of fuzzy feline cuteness.
“Was no big deal, just some awkward questions” vs “I almost lost my scholarship because of it”, I’m guessing?
awwwwwwwwwwwwwww cutie pie kitty <3
Hm. My previous comment got filtered. FOR EXPOSING THE TRUTH! CONSPIRACY! 😛
That just happens since the server move, my posts take a while to actually show up too – i asumed it’s like that for everyone.
Sometimes it’s processing delay, but in other cases I’ll see people who have been commenting for ages put in the spam folder or held for approval. Sometimes it’s a typo or a change in their email or their user name, other times it’s an IP address change.
Ahhhhhh I see. I edited my name.
Wait, cutting his webs almost cost his scholarship, or HAVING the webs almost cost him his scholarship?
If he can’t function as an MD because he can’t wear required safety gear (and none is available that does fit) then he really isn’t gonna have a choice.
He preformed surgery on himself, and he didn’t even have a degree yet. Medical schools look down on that sort of thing.
I do sort of wonder about that, since while it was very dumb to do what he did, he might have had medical experience with his species. He might have even had an equivalent medical degree. The issue would have been that he wouldn’t have known how to treat humans (so would need to obtain a degree to work on them and work in the new country).
This is especially true because he’s already a Sarnothi doctor, so he’s already capable of performing surgery on a Sarnothi.
Much like a Vet studying to be an MD can still perform surgery on animals while going to school to hack away on humans.
I don’t think doing it yourself using scissors at home while depressed and possibily drunk counts as surgery, doctor or no.
If he had the webbings removed in a more standard procedure by another doctor it likely would have been fine.
Wasn’t denying the stupidity of what he did, just that he didn’t have a degree. He probably had some form of degree, or recognition as a Sarnothi doctor from training (whether or not it would be recognized by the US is another matter). So less of an uninformed student preforming a horrible surgery on themselves and more of a stressed (and possibly depressed) doctor performing surgery on himself. I wonder if he didn’t have the Sarnothi training if he would have even tried to attempt what he did. The implications and concerns are a bit different.
To take the vet analysis, but reverse it a bit since it is performing on their own species (himself) rather than another (humans), it is like a doctor that is going for a vet degree performing surgery on himself. Add in that he might be one of the more knowledgeable doctors on Sarnothi biology due to his doctor training. This being the case, having another doctor perform surgery on him might be more of an equivalent to having a vet do surgery on a human. The biology differences could cause issues.
Even with that being the case, doing it by himself with scissors wouldn’t have been the best idea. A better idea would have been having it done in the hospital with the area being numbed and having other doctors being his hands, but him dictating what to do.
Perhaps the lie, is that “Selkie will never learn to Gazer-Beam like her Mom” because Pohl believes that the HairBow® Has damaged her ability. What he doesn’t know it that it hasn’t. (Or at least I think that is where Dave is taking us.)
That’s my feeling, too. He’s teaching Selkie to get the most out of what she has left, but she’s way weaker than an Echo should be, and he doesn’t expect her to be able to recover. If he’s right, though, the story is destined to be rather sad and not very much fun, which isn’t the kind of story this has been so far, so by narrative logic, he has to be wrong.
I expect we’ll have a few twists and turns before we get there, possibly involving one or both of her biological parents.
She doesn’t have to get full power for this to be a fun and uplifting tale. Finding unusual ways to overcome obstacles is itself uplifting. Heck, there could eventually be an effect that incapacitates strong Echoes, and Selkie ends up not as hurt because the power it turned against the others was much weaker in her, so she’s the only Echo left standing to do the Thing that’s needed at the time.
Or she could find a way to use tech to overcome her shortcomings, much like Tedd in El Goonish Shive. Like finding a way to reverse the power of the Bow, so that it amplifies powers instead of reducing/blocking them.
Or she could be a unique spokesperson between the two worlds, through some benefit of having lower power. Reminds me a bit of Antimony from Gunnerkrigg Court, able to access and understand both worlds (to a large degree). Selkie could even see things that the Echoes fail to take into account, because she has the baseline power to perceive them but has had to work around her limitations in order to get to where she is, and that has made her clever in a way they haven’t learned to be.
There are options. In fact, I’ve read stories where “hey I got all my powers back full, look I’m not handicapped anymore” comes across as a bit negative of a message, like the idea that people who are less physically capable simply aren’t whole or aren’t worthwhile or can’t enjoy the hero’s path.
I’ve also been disappointed when a particularly badass character turned out to be inhuman (thus explaining his badassery as “that’s what that group of characters DO”) rather than mere human (thus being an outstandingly awesome example of a Badass Normal).
I really favor the tech idea, especially if it is a harmonizing of the Sarnothi and human tech. It would bring in the balance of her being a mix of both worlds and her mad scientist inclinations. Her lack of power could drive her to incorporate other tech methods and add to the normal Sarnothi teaches and responsibilities for an echo (since if she can’t naturally do what they would require an echo to do could give her freedom in what might normally be a culturally restrictive role, especially with the colonies in this case).
I think that’s what’s going on as well. Maybe Pohl is really just wishfully thinking/hoping it destroyed her abilities, too, because if she gets them she’ll be in danger.
That’s what I was wondering as well.
When dealing with dark storylines, photos of kittens are always the purrfect balancer.
I thought that purrrfect was spelled with three Rrrs? I’ve been doing it wrong.
(Screaming kitten meme image has been removed by PETA)
I love the extra little touch of a five-fingered human glove on a Pohl’s four-fingered hands, with the pinky dangling loosely.
Thanks for posting my kitty. Yes she’s a very cute kitten and she can be quite the brat. But she’s also very sweet.
Real question is: does she say “za”?
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie131/
I’m assuming that cutting his webs almost cost him everything because it counts as self harm. Schools tend to get dicey about that sort of thing
Pohl only has 3 fingers (and a thumb), so the fourth finger in glove hangs loose