Ugh. Stayed up way too late working on this one. Was reading on the Net Neutrality fiasco and lost track of time. >_>
Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow, my fellow Americans. Eat sensibly out there!
"Sparkles" is her new name. She's not Amanda anymore. This is her life now. ... am I joking? I dunno, it's 4am. Nothing makes sense anymore.
… I can find no fault in her argument. Adults are stupid sometimes.
(says the 40 year old)
I second this.
(33 year old here)
Yep.
(26, but still an adult, dammit.)
Word (another 33 here)
Ooooooooooooooh Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaah… (56 years worth of expertise in stupid speaking here.)
Her reasoning is sound. (25)
While I don’t disagree (I’m age 37) I feel it doesn’t address the idea that kids can be pretty dumb themselves, even in cases when they HAVE all the information to make decisions with (I do think it unfair to judge a kid on stuff they’ve not learned yet).
How about “adults can often be inflexible in their thinking.”
Yup, not a whole lot to argue with here.
And if “Sparkles” doesn’t become a permanent nickname for Amanda, I’m gonna be sad now. 🙂
Do I hear the tinkle of a stone in a glass house there? Amanda could come back with “Glowstick”!
That works better than ‘Fishface’
So dumb that a waitress comes up with a great cover story about cosplay and the adults stick to the unbelievable genetic condition one.
Genetic condition is technically true, and also makes it clear that it’s a permanent thing rather than something they can just take off at will.
Cosplay would only work well as a one off with people you won’t see again – or who won’t get interested and start asking about what kind of contacts you used. 😀
Refuge in Audacity people. This is why a dinosaur could walk around in public for a short time and people will think someone’s moving a model for the next Jurassic Park movie.
Your comment made my day! XD
I can’t remember the name of the book, but I read an amusing sci-fi novel about aliens living among humans and hiding out in a theme park which worked really well until someone noticed they weren’t “cannon characters”.
Quozl, by Alan Dean Foster 🙂
Yes that was the one! Thank you. 🙂 I couldn’t remember the title only that the name of the aliens was the name of the book.
Gonna add that to my read list.
SISTERS SISTERS SISTERS
(just sayin’)
They do seem to have gotten the hang of it quickly, hm?
There’s a difference between Open Secret, and Undeniable Secret. For instance, everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons. But, because they deny having weapons…they can pretend they don’t when it’s convenient. (Sorry, it’s the biggest ‘open secret’ I know)
The issue isn’t making sure people don’t know Selkie is not human. The issue is making sure people can’t PROVE she’s not human…and that she doesn’t end up on the news.
Glowing eyes and energy beams lean towards the latter.
Or the JFK assassination. It’s not like nobody knew the CIA weren’t behind it, but as long as the government kept officially denying it, everyone who did claim the CIA were involved could be labeled as “paranoid conspiracy theorists”. Then the government does finally publicly admit it a couple months ago and… Well it’s old news.
There’s no denying it, because it’s finally been officially admitted, but it’s “old news” and other more recent shenanigans by the CIA are still “paranoid conspiracy theories”. It’s not like everyone who accuses government agencies of anything are always right (I find space alien theories to be particularly sketchy), but sometimes the CIA does bad things and gets away with it even when everyone knows about it, just because it’s publicly acceptable to call their critics “crazy”.
It doesn’t matter if you can prove the beam is real, as long as the government calls you crazy and the news media is willing to make that the story. “Man, remember when that big optical-illusion happened and a bunch of crazy people thought it was an alien beam of some kind? Anyone who knows how rainbows work knows it was just natural light-diffraction.”
Just wanna say, Georgie knows, too…
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie39/
(in case the link doesn’t come through, see number 39 in the archive)
Happy Thanksgiving Day to all who celebrate it. Tomorrow being the big day, I am *really* deranged! >__<
Sparkles? I don’t get it.
I accidentally copied and pasted my last comment, sorry.
Uh yeah, She said everyone at the orphanage new, remember? Happy thanksgiving right back atcha man.
ROFL I LOVE Sandra’s new nickname!
Do you mean Amanda’s Nick-name? I like it too, but it might be a really old moniker from when Selkie had a bad dream, I’ll have to check…
Yep, one of the worst foibles we have as adults – underestimating just how canny kids can be.
I thought this was part of the point of her… having children be the first exposed to her because they can cope better…
I thought that was brought up somewhere? Maybe it was just comments?
Agent Brown may not have specifically said so, but I always thought that was more or less the purpose of Selkie being their ‘case study’.
Sparkles? I don’t get it.
Amanda’s eyes, page 1003, last panel.
I wonder if the next page will have Amanda flipping out about being called ‘Sparkles’…
My headcanon:
Amanda, side-eying: “Sparkles?”
Selkie: *imitates Amanda’s prior giant eyes*
Amanda: “…fair.”
Kids are way smarter than adults sometimes!
Fantasy/scifi words where the impossible happens do kind of favor kids in this regard.
This is a common phenomenon in fiction, not believing in ghosts in the real world is the smart and sensible thing to do, yet if you live in the ghost busters universe you’d have to be crazy not to.
Impressed that this is a setup where a lot of people honestly know that Selkie’s inhuman, and instead of throwing stones or trying to actually harm or kill her, they just bully her like any other kid.
“Dude, she’s got four arms and sees eighteen colors of light, and when she pronounces her actual name, it shatters TV screens. But we just put tapioca in her bed when she wasn’t looking, and sometimes switch names on our homework. Why?”
They treat her like a person, albeit a freaky person, but still a person.
That is still more than can be said if most adults realized she’s not human.
I still think most adults would treat her the same on an individual basic still – but would freak out about the implications of there being non-humans in general.
Well, about that, he could assume that just a foreign language, and story ends. Even if most likely really know it.
And on the umptityth re-reading… Amanda! Language! ^_^
Go for “heck” or “Hades” instead!