Chit-chat time.
Watch the comic drawing process here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1076923271
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POHL (VO): I asked you to set your hand on your head earlier because I used the flow coming form you as a temporary anchor. This should be a more sustainable version of that.
POHL: Don't take this hairclip off, or you'll get the screaming worms again.
AMANDA: YES SIR!!!!
TODD: Amanda, are you going to be okay?
AMANDA: I don't know...
TODD: Why don't we all go sit down and talk it out. You too, sweetie?
SELKIE: Fines...
TODD: I can refill the snack plates first, if anyone needs chit-chat treats.
SELKIE: I'ms good.
AMANDA: Make mine spicier. I need to tell my stomach whose boss.
POHL: Don't take this hairclip off, or you'll get the screaming worms again.
AMANDA: YES SIR!!!!
TODD: Amanda, are you going to be okay?
AMANDA: I don't know...
TODD: Why don't we all go sit down and talk it out. You too, sweetie?
SELKIE: Fines...
TODD: I can refill the snack plates first, if anyone needs chit-chat treats.
SELKIE: I'ms good.
AMANDA: Make mine spicier. I need to tell my stomach whose boss.
Burn the insolence from it's protective lining. Make the gut flora scream for mercy.
Oh, heckums. Taking bets now on one of the Sarnothi kids (lookin’ at you, Tehk) recognizing Amanda’s hair clip as Echo work and taking it from her. Resulting in screaming worms at school in a very impossible to ignore kind of way. 🙁 I hope Pohl or someone figures out a way to hide it the way Selkie’s bow was originally, before that can happen.
I mean, the Sarnothi children can probably be dissuaded from trying anything if SELKIE tells them that an Echo made it for Amanda and TOLD Amanda to wear it.
Ah. Yeah, that’s true enough. Here’s hoping! 🙂
Selkie’s expressions and body language are really well done here. The exhausted and fed up really comes through.
Oh Amanda no, the LAST thing your stomach needs right now is spicy. Your determination is admirable but no, just no. Bad bad bad idea.
Actually, I’ve discovered by happenstance that in some situations spicy food actually really helps my stomach settle. I happen to eat a lot of it regularly so that may be part of why.
It’s amazing what familiarity can do in a system. I drink a lot of milk, but my doctor had me cut it out for an elimination diet while trying to get to the bottom of some digestive issues, since lactose is a very common culprit. My stomach FREAKED OUT.
Not gonna lie, definitely done what Amanda’s doing on multiple occasions with the logic of: if I’m gonna be sick, it might as well taste good on the way down. Unfortunately, if you’re already sick when pulling this stunt, when it comes back up again, it burns like a mother…uh… mother fudgecicle.
Buuut since she isn’t sick, you go girl! Show it who’s boss!
The problem is conditioned taste aversion. If you suspect you’re going to be sick, don’t eat any of your favorite foods, because there’s a good chance they’ll nauseate you for the rest of your life.
My mom ate ginger candles to relieve the nausea from radiation therapy. She couldn’t eat ginger after that without feeling sick.
That was my mom’s logic as well whenever I was sick. If I was gonna puke anyway, better eat what I want to make me being sick somewhat enjoyable at least.
I think I might be in a minority here in that eating spicy food can SETTLE my stomach when I’m feeling nauseous. So when I saw Amanda’s comment my first thought was “good idea, that’ll help.”
Meanwhile bland food makes me feel more sick. This confuses people trying to help me.
Chicken nuggets. Those things are magic. I can be throwing up WATER, but somehow those stay down.
… Except for when I was in labor. The one time they didn’t.
Uh, Dave, you want WHO’S boss – who is boss- not WHOSE boss – boss of who.
I have to commend Selkie on trying to understand what her sister is going through. What is great and wonderful for Sarnothi seems to be a slice of Hell for Amanda.
The most unbelievable part of this is Amanda’s ability to eat immediately after throwing up @_@
XD Oh Amanda. Never change, goober.
Has anyone mentioned that now that the girls are mostly calmed down. Someone’s going to have to call Then and Avery about this?
I’m sure they will but the in-comic time for all of this is maybe twenty minutes. Once everyone’s settled down and the immediate crisis is fully averted, I’m sure the shock over the implications of all this is going to kick in for the adults.
Is Amanda officially turning into Selkie, now? XD
Amanda that’s not how that works!