I am profusely sorry for the unannounced delay. I lost track of what I was doing this morning, and forgot to upload the comic before work.
Happy Lunch Break Update?
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Selkie: Sos, our Grandpa wanted to show us how to makes wood into shapes.
Selkie: Mine kinds of looks likes a bone.
Amanda: I tried to make a knife. Grandpa said no.
Amanda: We compromised by cutting the pointy bit off.
Amanda: It looks really crappy, but he says “learning wood doesn’t count”, so whatever.
Selkie: I loves you, crappy bone.
Mina: Thank you, Selkie and Amanda, for the duo Show And Tell.
Mina: Please take your seats. Ron, your turn.
Selkie: Shoulds we haves mentioneds the duel?
Amanda: Oh, right, the “Battle of Bone and Blade”
Amanda: I’d rather NOT bring up how we almost lost Shop Privileges, thanks.
Selkie: Mine kinds of looks likes a bone.
Amanda: I tried to make a knife. Grandpa said no.
Amanda: We compromised by cutting the pointy bit off.
Amanda: It looks really crappy, but he says “learning wood doesn’t count”, so whatever.
Selkie: I loves you, crappy bone.
Mina: Thank you, Selkie and Amanda, for the duo Show And Tell.
Mina: Please take your seats. Ron, your turn.
Selkie: Shoulds we haves mentioneds the duel?
Amanda: Oh, right, the “Battle of Bone and Blade”
Amanda: I’d rather NOT bring up how we almost lost Shop Privileges, thanks.
It's been a calendar year since Mina showed up, apparently. Damn, son.
TBF, if I was the girls, and had a stick, first thing I’d be doing is sword fight. Though I would at least wait until away from all the power tools.
And welcome back, Mina, hope she had lots of time with Goli.
Battle of Bone and Blade sounds like a good pirate movie.
For adults. 😉
Aww, it’s so sweet to see them acting like sisters. Really shows how far their relationship has come and how they’ve both matured as people.
I’d like to point out, Amanda has a new hairstyle, a half up half down braid. Which I love btw. They always show a lot of Amanda’s evolution in her hair.
I think that Andi is using Amanda’s hair as a creative outlet. She is an artist…
What kid *doesn’t* have sword fights with sticks at some point? My brothers and I did it all the time. Love to see them getting along like that! 🙂
May they graduate to batakas[0] before they do serious harm to one another.
[0] think semi-rigid pool noodles
Meh, Mina. I got sick of her after she basically encouraged Todd and then got mad when he took his shot.
Sorry, you got sick of her for showing an interest in Todd, but still being upset at him for kissing her out of the blue without permission. I don’t know if you’ve never interacted with another human before, but like, attraction does not imply consent to ANY sort of physical activity. Not even a kiss.
Also, I’m sure you’re not naive enough not to know, that Mina is from a community that can be VERY judgemental about especially women having any sort of relationship outside the confines of marriage.
But I suppose it is fair that you might’ve genuinely forgotten that Mina doesn’t have custody over her son, and that showing a good face to her community is probably a necessity if she wants to have a relationship with him again. But yeah, that is also a thing.
Daughter, we’ve met her once. In fact, it was during Mina’s last appearance. But otherwise, you’re not wrong.
The only differences between people and animals are self control. Both of them were responsible for the situation, but she started it, including inviting him out. Sorry about your wifu, but you don’t flirt and stuff like that and then get offended when someone responds.
Kissing someone out of the blue is a pretty over the top reaction though. I’d see your point if she was getting mad at him for flirting back or asking her on another date. But kissing someone you’ve been on one quasi date with without making sure they’re ok with it is too much.
Good for you. Mina is supposed to be a professional school teacher, she could have been fired for flirting with one of the parents, especially outside of school, and rightfully so, it creates a imbalance of power that can lead to favoritism inside the school.
Your arguments for why Mina is terrible could also be made for why Todd is terrible and shouldn’t be liked. It’s not like he’s not aware of the power he could have by having the backing of a teacher for his kid. Why make a kid study when she can just give them all As? It’s not a case of only Mina could possibly benefit, so could Todd. This all suddenly hits in the heat of a kiss, and she realizes “Oh shit, this needs to stop NOW”. And you act like she didn’t apologize to him for giving such flirtation actions and then getting mad. She did feel bad for what she did in both cases, the outburst and the flirting.
Another note is she’s recently divorced, him recently single. There’s a reason there’s a thing called rebounds, you are so desperate for the love and attention you once had, the second a sliver is found, you go gun hoe and cling. Sometimes it sticks, sometimes you realize you’re being a jerk.
COME ON YOU BONES
Give a kid a stick, and it will either be a sword or a gun. Its pretty much a given.
This is only true for those with Neanderthal genes mixed in. For those with Thetan genes in the mix, it’s wands and scepters. Just FYI. Not that I’ve ever turned my brother into a gnome or ogre. Just sayin’…
My sister-by-adoption and I straddled that divide, with devices which contained the essences of both flavo{u}rs.
I would love to see some actual numbers — with a large sample size — on which kids of which genders turn objects into other objects, and how it varies by age.
Because my understanding of the stereotype is that boys turn things into vehicles and girls turn them into dolls. Give them each a potato or squash, they’ll do opposite things with it. But I don’t know how strongly the stereotype correlates with reality (I assume there’s a gender difference, just not sure how strong, or whether it’s nurture instead of / amplifying nature).
I also would like to see the numbers. In my arrogant experience, little girls like to do things together; cooperatively Interacting, “playing together.” While little boys like to do different independent things Together, “parallel play.”
They have matching shirts! How adorably geeky! Makes me think they planned it just for show and tell.
As for someone reading this all still about 2 years behind the schedule, don’t feel too bad about not hitting the target publishing time exactly. If you really need to do that, I suggest making a buffer of one or two pages (although that may be surprisingly challenging psychologically). But I won’t need that since I read everything in a bunch of multiple pages anyway.