…and that after only one week! selkie+amanda will need the better part of a decade to get to that point 😉
selkie´s reaction though, so brutally honest, no sugarcoating whatsoever – totally her
LOL—they will have to start using those titles without the quotes soon. 😉
Really, it’s moments like that that make it clear how much work Todd and Andi put into the girls. I wasn’t sure how it would play out when it turned out Amanda was Todd’s and Andi’s child (Andi’s backstory seemed so problematic…but that may be my own bias having been around my own family figures who have been radically dishonest), but the sisters’ growth has felt very natural. I know it’s not easy for most blended/adopted families, but I like to believe it pays off when people’s hearts are in the right place and they are brave enough to confront their problems while seeking help from the right people.
Not just that, but, the coming together of Selkie and Amanda as sisters still feels like such a recent development, and when I went back to check it happened back in 2015, four whole years ago! Almost literally half the comic ago, which means they’ve spent half the comic in this dynamic now, yet it still feels new. So crazy!
Isn’t there some real ‘thing’ that’s called the “Adoption Honeymoon.” Where the kids are super well behaved until they can’t stand being so angelic any more, and they revert to being normal kids again?
So butts have just become part of the conversation, I see…
Very cute brotherly/sisterly reaction between Sandy and Wu…
…and that after only one week! selkie+amanda will need the better part of a decade to get to that point 😉
selkie´s reaction though, so brutally honest, no sugarcoating whatsoever – totally her
nah, it’s been much longer than a week… they were together way back in strip 115 acting better than most kids would about differences of opinion.
They’ve been friends for a long while, growing up together, but we’re only formally adopted recently.
LOL—they will have to start using those titles without the quotes soon. 😉
Really, it’s moments like that that make it clear how much work Todd and Andi put into the girls. I wasn’t sure how it would play out when it turned out Amanda was Todd’s and Andi’s child (Andi’s backstory seemed so problematic…but that may be my own bias having been around my own family figures who have been radically dishonest), but the sisters’ growth has felt very natural. I know it’s not easy for most blended/adopted families, but I like to believe it pays off when people’s hearts are in the right place and they are brave enough to confront their problems while seeking help from the right people.
Not just that, but, the coming together of Selkie and Amanda as sisters still feels like such a recent development, and when I went back to check it happened back in 2015, four whole years ago! Almost literally half the comic ago, which means they’ve spent half the comic in this dynamic now, yet it still feels new. So crazy!
Not me, I didn’t start it, Selkie did, … She started it, honest! I didn’t do it! It was Selkie! I only copied what she said! She started it.
Isn’t there some real ‘thing’ that’s called the “Adoption Honeymoon.” Where the kids are super well behaved until they can’t stand being so angelic any more, and they revert to being normal kids again?
Gosh, I hope so. When’s this super well-behaved, angelic kids thing supposed to start? Nearly eight years on now, and we’re still waiting for it…
I had a pre-adoption honeymoon I guess? Everything was great, and then they adopted me, and suddenly I couldn’t do anything right.
“I need chairs to hold my butt with!”
You’re not fat, Todd. I’m sure a chair, singular, will do you just fine.
I think Todd’s ‘bedoom closet’ is lacking an ‘r’
Doesn’t your house have a beDOOM?
Although, given what happens to Selkie in her own ‘bedoom’ it’s probably visionary spelling 😉
should have been a reply to my previous post