I am very much hoping that Selkie is now invited to Amanda’s house after school in Tehk’s place, so they can talk about how much they think Tehk sucks while shooting video game vegetables like civilized children.
And confusing the hell out of Todd and Andi in the process.
Andi: Hey Selkie, I’m picking you up from school today. Your dad had an architectural emergency.
Amanda: What?
Andi: someone had the blueprints upside down, and they want to ‘keep it that way’. Todd’s explaining why that’s a BAD IDEA.
Selkie: Ohs.
Tehk: *Utterly confused*
Sometimes clients want to make absurd changes to plans after the architect has completed them and/or the contractor has started construction. in my above ficlet/drabble, the client has told the contractor to build the building upside-down.
I know that Amanda is growing as a person but cāmon, heās being a real ass, I hope she has some mean comment planned for Friday update like saying ābut your still a rascist nehtiā.
He very obviously considers humans to be inferior to Sarnothi. Giving her shit for wanting to learn a Sarnothi trait, for example, like breathing underwater.
When Petunia wanted to go to Hogwarts, Dumbledore was very gentle with her, telling her that Hogwarts didn’t really have anything to offer her, rather than telling her she wasn’t “good enough”.
I’m agreeing flat-out that Tehk is a jerk. However hes a refugee in a new place where NONE of the things he knows work right. The air is wrong, the water isnt where it should be, you have to be careful of vegetables. The language is English, for Heaven’s sake! Heaping indignity upon indignity! He’s out of his depth, dirt side.
Then, none of his deities have any traction up here, on land. The boy is like a fi…. I’m not gonna finish that sentence.
That’s a huge stretch, Guru. I don’t know how you get that from the character making fun of someone for wanting to do something that’s biologically impossible. It would be no different than someone making fun of someone else for wanting to fly like a bird. You’re reaching. Also, read another book.
I think Our Highly Esteemed Guru is correct in his assessment: it is not like two humans talking and one wants to fly like a bird. It’s like a fish and a frog talking; one can breath under water and the other wants learn how. The barriers are higher than merely a learned thing — if you don’t physically have the equipment for it.
And if we could not casually throw the word “racist” around without a clear understanding of what it actually means, that would be greaaaaaaaaaaaaat. Because no, Tehk is not a racist. The end.
Just to be clear; Iām not calling Tehk racist because heās racist against humans. Infact, the closest thing to that is when he says that a sarnothi having a human sister is gross so Iām not too sure it counts. The thing about a human being an echo definitely doesnāt count though, although he is going above and beyond to give Amanda a hard time about it, I mean come on, she doesnāt even know about echoes. But what really makes him racist is that he holds strongly to his old countryās cultural segregation really makes him racist, and heās clearly guilty of things that heās accusing Selkie of being. Look I get it, heās having a hard time due to the politics going on and heās just expressing himself, while his sister and mother are acting subdued, but still, heās clearly taking it too far.
So you’re saying Sarnothi society is inherently racist to the core, which makes Tehk a racist just because he has lived his whole life in Sarnoth and has not had any chance to learn other ways of thinking.
Not saying you’re wrong. I mean, there’s room for argument about whether it’s the right word to describe the clans in Sarnoth, but clearly something about the clan traditions was very screwed up and unhealthy, and has gone very wrong. Perhaps ‘racist’ is the closest we have.
But no blame attaches to Tehk for this. Consider a human eight year old from rural Mississippi who has been, say, home schooled, so that he has been exposed to few influences from the outside world, who suddenly finds himself in a public school in, hmmm… Toronto? No, let’s make it Winnipeg. He might similarly be said to be racist against blacks, hispanics, and/or immigrants from the middle east.
Not an exact parallel. In Winnipeg, the human child’s teachers would be likely to know a great deal about American racism and might be prepared to counter it. In either case, though, it would be wrong and very unfair to use the word ‘racist’ to blame the child.
In both cases, the child is going to resist changing because of feelings that abandoning his old attitudes would be betraying those who raised him.
Ooookaay, first off I never said that Sarnothi culture is inherently rascist to the core. Infact we learned earlier that Their society has a more strong bigotry aspect to it than present day U. S. does, and before that the Sarnothi family Todd had dinner with said that their clans have different roles but people are free to choose jobs that donāt match their clans role. So maybe that family changed their views to fit into a new environment, or maybe they were going through an antibigotry social movement before the recent turn of events, or maybe itās more complicated than either of those two possibilities, we just donāt know, since we donāt have much to go by. Also, I said that Tehk was acting out because of what he was going through, but maybe youāre right, maybe part of it is being patriotic and not wanting to betray his country.
Finally, to you credit you clearly know more about the various political climates in different regions of our country which I in contrast know absolutely nothing about, because I havenāt done any research.
New-found? I wanna know where I can buy a bottle of that!
I’m glad you didnt say growing-up, because as Peter said, “Cause growing up is awfuller than all the awful things that ever were, I’ll never grow-up, never grow-up, never gonna grow-up; not me!
Oh my. Way to go, Amanda! I am genuinely impressed… and so is everyone there. Including Selkie, who is finding out (and liking) what it feels like to be so proud of her sister.
Don’t worry, guys. I’m sure Amanda will eventually have a good occasion to use “nehti”.
Genuinely surprised and impressed.
Your Amanda has leveled up!
Learns Skill: Apology!
Wisdom +3
Charisma +5
Like.
Ditto
I really wish Dave hadn’t had to take the “like” button away. š
I am very much hoping that Selkie is now invited to Amanda’s house after school in Tehk’s place, so they can talk about how much they think Tehk sucks while shooting video game vegetables like civilized children.
And confusing the hell out of Todd and Andi in the process.
I want her to invite Tekh anyway and actually just hang out and make a friend.
i can more see her continue like ‘but you didnĀ“t have to be a colossal nehti about it’
Andi: Hey Selkie, I’m picking you up from school today. Your dad had an architectural emergency.
Amanda: What?
Andi: someone had the blueprints upside down, and they want to ‘keep it that way’. Todd’s explaining why that’s a BAD IDEA.
Selkie: Ohs.
Tehk: *Utterly confused*
Yours= way better than the one I came up with.
I move that we keep yours, and forget mine.
I don’t get it.
Sometimes clients want to make absurd changes to plans after the architect has completed them and/or the contractor has started construction. in my above ficlet/drabble, the client has told the contractor to build the building upside-down.
I know that Amanda is growing as a person but cāmon, heās being a real ass, I hope she has some mean comment planned for Friday update like saying ābut your still a rascist nehtiā.
Where’s the “racist” part coming from?
He very obviously considers humans to be inferior to Sarnothi. Giving her shit for wanting to learn a Sarnothi trait, for example, like breathing underwater.
When Petunia wanted to go to Hogwarts, Dumbledore was very gentle with her, telling her that Hogwarts didn’t really have anything to offer her, rather than telling her she wasn’t “good enough”.
I’m agreeing flat-out that Tehk is a jerk. However hes a refugee in a new place where NONE of the things he knows work right. The air is wrong, the water isnt where it should be, you have to be careful of vegetables. The language is English, for Heaven’s sake! Heaping indignity upon indignity! He’s out of his depth, dirt side.
Then, none of his deities have any traction up here, on land. The boy is like a fi…. I’m not gonna finish that sentence.
sh out of water
hehehehehehehehe
That’s a huge stretch, Guru. I don’t know how you get that from the character making fun of someone for wanting to do something that’s biologically impossible. It would be no different than someone making fun of someone else for wanting to fly like a bird. You’re reaching. Also, read another book.
I think Our Highly Esteemed Guru is correct in his assessment: it is not like two humans talking and one wants to fly like a bird. It’s like a fish and a frog talking; one can breath under water and the other wants learn how. The barriers are higher than merely a learned thing — if you don’t physically have the equipment for it.
And if we could not casually throw the word “racist” around without a clear understanding of what it actually means, that would be greaaaaaaaaaaaaat. Because no, Tehk is not a racist. The end.
Just to be clear; Iām not calling Tehk racist because heās racist against humans. Infact, the closest thing to that is when he says that a sarnothi having a human sister is gross so Iām not too sure it counts. The thing about a human being an echo definitely doesnāt count though, although he is going above and beyond to give Amanda a hard time about it, I mean come on, she doesnāt even know about echoes. But what really makes him racist is that he holds strongly to his old countryās cultural segregation really makes him racist, and heās clearly guilty of things that heās accusing Selkie of being. Look I get it, heās having a hard time due to the politics going on and heās just expressing himself, while his sister and mother are acting subdued, but still, heās clearly taking it too far.
TV Tropes: Fantastic Racism kinda fits the bill here.
Thank you for posting that. :–)
Although Tehk might also be a species-ist, as well.
So you’re saying Sarnothi society is inherently racist to the core, which makes Tehk a racist just because he has lived his whole life in Sarnoth and has not had any chance to learn other ways of thinking.
Not saying you’re wrong. I mean, there’s room for argument about whether it’s the right word to describe the clans in Sarnoth, but clearly something about the clan traditions was very screwed up and unhealthy, and has gone very wrong. Perhaps ‘racist’ is the closest we have.
But no blame attaches to Tehk for this. Consider a human eight year old from rural Mississippi who has been, say, home schooled, so that he has been exposed to few influences from the outside world, who suddenly finds himself in a public school in, hmmm… Toronto? No, let’s make it Winnipeg. He might similarly be said to be racist against blacks, hispanics, and/or immigrants from the middle east.
Not an exact parallel. In Winnipeg, the human child’s teachers would be likely to know a great deal about American racism and might be prepared to counter it. In either case, though, it would be wrong and very unfair to use the word ‘racist’ to blame the child.
In both cases, the child is going to resist changing because of feelings that abandoning his old attitudes would be betraying those who raised him.
Ooookaay, first off I never said that Sarnothi culture is inherently rascist to the core. Infact we learned earlier that Their society has a more strong bigotry aspect to it than present day U. S. does, and before that the Sarnothi family Todd had dinner with said that their clans have different roles but people are free to choose jobs that donāt match their clans role. So maybe that family changed their views to fit into a new environment, or maybe they were going through an antibigotry social movement before the recent turn of events, or maybe itās more complicated than either of those two possibilities, we just donāt know, since we donāt have much to go by. Also, I said that Tehk was acting out because of what he was going through, but maybe youāre right, maybe part of it is being patriotic and not wanting to betray his country.
Finally, to you credit you clearly know more about the various political climates in different regions of our country which I in contrast know absolutely nothing about, because I havenāt done any research.
Aaaaaand… Sisters. All the way.
LOVING Amanda’s new-found maturity. She should, however, zing this asshole good, though. Even mature people can cast a little shade.
New-found? I wanna know where I can buy a bottle of that!
I’m glad you didnt say growing-up, because as Peter said, “Cause growing up is awfuller than all the awful things that ever were, I’ll never grow-up, never grow-up, never gonna grow-up; not me!
…darn you, now that is stuck in my head
I love her “proud sister” face!
Way to go, kid! You’ll be a decent human being yet!
You all know this is a manipulation right out of the Gregory House Playbook right?
Sometimes an apology is just an apology. Characters are allowed to grow and change.
Oh my. Way to go, Amanda! I am genuinely impressed… and so is everyone there. Including Selkie, who is finding out (and liking) what it feels like to be so proud of her sister.
Don’t worry, guys. I’m sure Amanda will eventually have a good occasion to use “nehti”.
This smells like a setup…”It’s a trap!”
That’s hilarious; considering Admiral Ackbar is known to sensationalize the term.
If you aren’t reading it in Ackbar’s voice, you’re doing it wrong. š
APOLOGY JUDO!
Oh, I thought that was Tehk looking satisfied in the last panel.
Hey, why isnāt my gravatar there?
You had the email address spelled wrong in a previous comment, I think.
I do not remember “nehti”… was that a pre-comic thing, or has it slipped my mind?
Two pages ago.
I love how happy Selkie is to see this. She looks genuinely proud of her sister <3