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Fanart update! Maryssa sent me a drawing of Selkie and Amanda wear the hypothetical lime green and tangerine dresses:
Thank you, Maryssa!
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Selkie: So, you'res really into this. It's a bigs deal, huh?
Amanda: Yeah!
Amanda: You don't think it is?
Selkie: We'res just standings in a line, rights?
Amanda: Yeah, but we also get to dress up really nice! And hear everyone say how cute we look!
Selkie: I don'ts think I've EVER beens calleds cute. Maybe once as a joke.
Amanda: TryingRealHardNotToThinkAboutHowThatsProbablyMyFault.
Selkie: Coulds you repeat that, I hads something guilty ins my ear.
Amanda: Yeah!
Amanda: You don't think it is?
Selkie: We'res just standings in a line, rights?
Amanda: Yeah, but we also get to dress up really nice! And hear everyone say how cute we look!
Selkie: I don'ts think I've EVER beens calleds cute. Maybe once as a joke.
Amanda: TryingRealHardNotToThinkAboutHowThatsProbablyMyFault.
Selkie: Coulds you repeat that, I hads something guilty ins my ear.
Her father and grandmother have called her cute a few times, but sometimes the positive instances just don't stick in your memory.
I suppose it show how far Amanda’s progressed that she’s willing to (kinda sorta) confess.
Not so much confess. Whether you confess or not is really irrelevant. To feel guilty about it.
That is progression.
Hey Dave,
Just a heads up– but for the transcript, if that’s for folks with screen readers, most screen readers can only read mushed together text like that if each new word is capitalized. So you could put it like “TryingRealHardNotToThinkAboutHowThatsProbablyMyFault.” in the transcript. It’s also (sometimes) easier for folks with dyslexia.
Thanks!
Did not realize this, thank you. Fixing now.
You’re welcome! And thank you for doing it!
Gotta admit, snrk’d at Amanda’s rapid confession. Love your work, keep it up and take care of yourself!
I find it hard to believe that no one in Todd’s family has ever called Selkie cute.
Secret commentary confirms grandma and dad have, but as it also says, the positive is very hard to remember in a moment when you’ve had a lot of negative moments come before it.
Okay… I confess…
I very loudly Aww’d at the drawing. They look absolutely precious!
As an avid comic book reader, I have to say I am so happy I stumbled across this series years ago. You really have a talent for character driven story telling. I whittled down my reading over the years but have consistently come back to Selkie, Girl Genius, and Giants in the Playground. I only pic up collected volumes of the DC and Marvel comics I read just to keep up but even then I have dropped down to about 10% of what I used to follow. You have a really good thing going here. I keep trying to get friends to come over to the Damp Side. Eleven years coming up for your Selkie and I look forward to many more to come. Good Job.
The drawing of the girls in the dresses by your reader are so cute.