Freshwater beach. Sarnothi can’t handle saltwater anymore than we can.
-2/24/2021 edit: my apologies for updating the website so belatedly after the Twitter and Facebook, but I do need to let everyone know that today Selkie will be up later this evening because I may have fried an external hard drive. 😡 Discharge your static buildup people.
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MARTA: Okay, lets change the subject up to something a bit less god-awful.
MARTA: Sparky, Reflex, I got something for you both.
SELKIE: Ams I Sparky?
MARTA: Sure, why not.
MARTA: So, the wedding's in summer, yeah? And I know you two were in the orphanage for your first few summers, so...
MARTA: Steve and I thought we'd treat our junior bridesmaids to an actual summer vacation. Hope you like beaches.
SELKIE: I love beaches! I thinks!
AMANDA: I DON'T KNOW BUT I'M SURE AS HELL GONNA FIND OUT!
MARTA: Sparky, Reflex, I got something for you both.
SELKIE: Ams I Sparky?
MARTA: Sure, why not.
MARTA: So, the wedding's in summer, yeah? And I know you two were in the orphanage for your first few summers, so...
MARTA: Steve and I thought we'd treat our junior bridesmaids to an actual summer vacation. Hope you like beaches.
SELKIE: I love beaches! I thinks!
AMANDA: I DON'T KNOW BUT I'M SURE AS HELL GONNA FIND OUT!
Only took 8-ish years to pick the wedding thread back up, so I'm sure we'll get to this beach trip before 2030. Probably.
Best aunt ever
Just imagining the Hell of a saltwater beach: ‘Remember, you can’t breathe it, and the salt will dry things out, so fight every instinct you have when you are in there’
I assume they handle saltwater FAR worse than we do.
You’d probably be right.
Hopefully Pol has some suggestions. Maybe a swimsuit designed to keep the gills shut so she doesn’t accidentally try to breathe in water she can’t?
Might be a good idea for in general, but it’s a freshwater beach this time so no problems.
Maybe I’m mistaken, but I thought those gills were exhale-only (with both water and air being taken in through the mouth)? More efficient than our silly method that doesn’t allow us to inhale and exhale at the same time, which could be valuable given the lower bioavailability of oxygen in water.
We already saw Pohl in a superfluous scuba suit. Maybe full scuba gear for Selkie would work at a saltwater beach?
It’s like freshwater fish vs saltwater fish.
Congrats Amanda, you get to donate to the swear jar!
Hopefully not that woeful 200 yards of sand Milwaukee calls a beach.
There are hundreds of communities on the Great Lakes with better beaches than the one you describe. And there are freshwater beaches on many other lakes, many of them in a warmer climate.
There are beaches you need tickets for?
There are some you pay to get into but i assumed those were plane tickets?
they could also be tickets for a getaway place/s? My family does a week in this chautauqua resort kind of place on the great lakes, and they use tickets like that
….Does Grandma have the swear jar handy, I wonder? 🙂
Amanda’s probably gonna have to start a tab…
She and her auntie can have a contest to see who fills it up faster?
On that note, what happens when the swear jar is full. It seems like a strange thing to spend on a reward for the family with (yes kids the more you curse the sooner we go on vacation?), but…?
Maybe it goes to something boring, like bills? “This is money that COULD’VE gone for fun stuff, but…”
Freshwater fish breathing salt water?
Oww, yeah this isn’t good. Like at all.
Comment below comic says it’s a freshwater beach.
They could always use it for something mundane like gas or groceries.
This comment was meant for the one above about the swear jar. I don’t know why or how it wound up in this thread.
i certainly hope sarnothi are brackish
Swear jar!
Go 2030! I’ll be 65.
“Do you remember that Coronavirus thing? It made you agoraphobic.”
To Alphaghoul:
Sorry, I’d meant to reply before. My point, which I should’ve clarified better, was that I’ve seen the term SJW has been used to refer to so many different types of people (virtue signallers, social reformers, people getting offended on the behalf of others (who often weren’t themselves offended), progressives, even just people agreeing with something a member of a minority group posted) – to say nothing of its frequent use by trolls – that I feel it’s no longer a useful descriptive term (and can potentially start arguments if you’re mistaken for one of the aforementioned trolls).
Perhaps I’m just overcautious, though; I don’t even use the term “begs the question” due to its split definitions.
Here in Britain a few years ago it became considered insulting to epileptics to use the term brainstorming – suggested replacement was thought-showering. It took multiple statements from the National Epilepsy Society that they did NOT consider the term offensive, including on National TV, to bring the term back into accepted use. There are still a few people who get offended by it, on behalf of epileptics, though.
My ex, who was epileptic, found the whole furoare hilarious.
I assume somebody cleared this with Andi. She hasn’t been in it much lately but she is Amanda’s primary parent, and might have summer plans of her own for them.
“Oh. Gee. You’re taking my kid (and your niece) to the beach for a few days this summer. Shucks. How will I *ever* cope?”
Absolutely. When my daughter was about 13 her aunt announced she would be spending the summer in Jacksonville with them.
Did not ask me, you understand. Told me. It was a done deal.
Nope. It don’t work that way. I had one pissed off little girl, but the point was made. You don’t make plans for my kid without asking me about it first.
Turns out those are tickets to a matinee showing of the movie “Beaches”
…and ain’t nobody likin’ that!
Now I’m imagining salt water Sarnothi that are super colorful.
I don’t get the ‘sparky / reflex’ allusion.
I don’t really get the “Sparky”, but a reflex is an automatic reaction, without conscious thought, to being touched, and it is usually violent. That just seems to fit Amanda perfectly.
It’s also a song by Duran Duran that got stretched to a STUPID length.
Hopefully Andi would be able to choose the time they could go. This *is* a gift for being in the wedding, so it may not be an only now or never ticket. And if aunt was thinking ahead about saltwater/freshwater, she may have thought ahead to check if it was OK with all parents. Or it is for a time when Todd would have custody of both kids.
Oops – this was supposed to be a reply to Andi not to Too Old to be Cool (even though there is no way your name is true!)
It is. I just had a birthday a couple weeks ago, and a lot of things that are supposed to be “cool” I just don’t GET. Like, tattoos – why are they cool? Or rap music.
In regards to Selkie, probably due to her newly-discovered Echo abilities.
Marta knows about those?