Suko gonna do what Suko gonna do.
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Got a Fanart Update today! Sierra sent me a cute Todd and Selkie drawing:
Thank you, Sierra!
He should've been named Monty.
Suko gonna do what Suko gonna do.
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Got a Fanart Update today! Sierra sent me a cute Todd and Selkie drawing:
Thank you, Sierra!
This is cute. Very cute. Although I hate when people say, “Do this for me, thanks.” and shove whatever it is they want you to do for them on you before you’ve agreed to it and act like saying thanks makes it ok.
Cut her little slack. She’s just so excited by her baby.
Her personality is just like that. It fits with who she is. I’m not saying she’s a bad person, just one of those people with that obnoxious habit. It tends to be very confident, bubbly people.
Two year olds are so silly. XD
THAT CAMERA ANGLE THO! Panel 4 XD
Very nice, Sierra. I like very much.
Meh, no different from little kids running around starkers at the beach.
…Unless you’re a biologist, of course. Really, it’s interesting that Selkie’s species is as close as it is to resembling humanity.
Todd looks upset. I really hope Todd does not ruin this moment by being upset that a 2 year old decided to run around in his birthday suit. That’s what two year olds do. i get that he and Selkie are shocked but Pohl seems to be charmingly oblivious to the little details that Selkie is missing from her past. I really hope Todd and Selkie don’t get upset and spoil this moment.
I’m pretty sure that he’s not upset but thinking more along the lines of, “I don’t want to explain the guppies and minnows to my daughter at eight years old.” and “I wanted the two of us to learn more about the Sarnothi but not start with ‘Hey, that’s what a boy looks like down there’.”
If he thinks Selkie’s never seen a boy naked after three years at a mixed-sex orphanage, he’s more naive then I would give him credit for.
Selkie’s never seen a _Sarnothi_ boy naked, specifically.
I think it’s less angry, more exasperated at the sudden nakedness added to all the activity currently happening. I also think it’s just his eyes squeezed shut, and not “angry eyebrows” over little dot eyes (though those dots do make it look like super beady little eyes, but that doesn’t really mesh with how the art generally is, so I don’t think that’s what’s going on there)
He covered her eyes and closed his own, partly from not wanting to see things he shouldn’t or doesn’t want to, partly from not wanting to deal with that right now necessarily, and partly out of respect for the family who might or might not be open to the idea of a human (or a Sarnothi who’s not part of the family) seeing their private parts.
It’s not an angry reaction, it’s a reasonable one. It could be that the next page says Sarnothi aren’t troubled by nudity but have learned that humans are, who knows?
The world is quite different when you don’t equate nudity with either sexuality or naughtiness. Growing up in a nudist club left me with a fairly objective view of stuff like that, and the fuss people make over nude bodies is something I find partly amusing, partly confusing, and partly just bizarre.
He’s only 2 years old, you can’t really blame him.
I disagree. At two years old, walking and talking he shouldn’t be running around naked.
Btw, what about the penis?
We’ve seen Pohl’s, in the anatomical drawing. Not too different from the basic human shape.
Two year olds stripping and running around naked is pretty common in my experience.
Yeah I remember a few Naked instances with my Baby Cousins back in the day. To be fair a Two year old is beginning to understand their body and at the time, may not understand that being naked around anyone besides your family is not okay, it’s awkward but it’s growing up. 😛
Wow, you must have absolutely no experience with children whatsoever. My brothers ran around naked until about age 10 and still walk around their house in just boxers at 27. My teacher’s kids I babysat for once at 5 and 7 stripped naked and ran around just to see what I would do (threatened to tell their parents of course). Cousins shared the tub (girl and boy) at age 5. Kids don’t get shy until about puberty, after we consistently shame them for years about their bodies being private.
We locked my little brother outside naked in the middle of winter, made him run around the house and come in through the garage where everyone could see him.
Individual anecdotes do not equal universal truths. What may be “normal” in your family/culture might not be in someone elses. Its comes across as presumptous and rude to state that someone “must have absolutely no experience with children whatsoever” just because their situation doesn’t mirror yours.
That was overstated, but JarMan started it. When you claim a moral standard (“shouldn’t be”) for a very small child, people are going to chime in with their own experiences as counter-proof saying it’s not the overall moral standard you expressed it as.
Little children often strip because they haven’t yet learned — especially after just a couple years on Earth — that stripping is a thing you shouldn’t do. They’re not letting him run around naked, they’re handling it, but this sort of thing happens.
Gabi said you can’t blame him for not knowing better, and JarMan said he disagreed (hence, “you CAN blame him for not knowing better”), which is a pretty ridiculous stance on what a two-year-old is expected to know, fast-growing alien race or not.
Just because things happen, doesn’t mean that it’s appropriate or acceptable to any extent.
Plenty of people who do not like or enjoy kids would find such a thing very uncomfortable, it would be totally unacceptable. Even in a private residence, hosts should take their guests into consideration.
Granted, I’d give more leelay for the two year old, but if they are old enough to walk, to talk, to have limited conversations with, then they are old enough to educate on proper behavior as well.
And running around naked at 10? What was wrong with your parents? That is completely inappropriate. Saying kids will be kids is just an excuse for bad parenting.
So what you’re really saying is that it would make you very uncomfortable. Fair enough. And you’re probably right that this feeling is related to your other point — that you don’t like or enjoy kids, and aren’t really used to them. That’s a totally legitimate reaction.
All the same, as you can tell from the comments here, most people take a much more relaxed attitude towards nudity in little kids. They are amused by it, not shocked. This may have something to do with a year or two of changing diapers! Parents of infants really do have to get over it. It’s not a big deal. Yes, when they’re mobile toddlers and they get away from you before they’re dressed you do scoop them up and put their clothes on, but you don’t try to make them feel they’ve done something terrible — they haven’t. They’re being little kids.
As for the 10 year olds? Well, that’s more unusual, to be sure. But it’s a bit thoughtless to call somebody else’s upbringing that differs from your own, bad parenting. It might be, I don’t know, that LeDayz’s parents believed that teaching kids to be ashamed of their bodies would have been much worse parenting. Kilyle, too, grew up in a nudist club. It’s a point of view. Not mine, but it’s got enough principle behind it that it should be respected.
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In many places, all 2 year olds run around completely naked, and for a few years more.
“Plenty of people who do not like or enjoy kids would find such a thing very uncomfortable”
They wouldn’t like being in the house anyway!
Now, granted, I typically strive to make my guests comfortable. If politely asked I would have no problem with dressing the kid. However, I’m not going to be upset about a kid running around naked for a while, when generally speaking, no one cares.
Toddlers to preschoolers strip all the time—and sometimes at surprising speed. Even our preschool teachers didn’t make a huge big deal out of it. Parents who have had little kids are used to it, and even conservative families make light of it. The only people I’ve met who don’t either don’t have experience with young kids (which applies well to Todd).
My 6 year old nephew routinely greets me at the door wearing nothing but his tighty-whiteys. Never bothered me once, even when he starts rock-climbing up my side for a hug.
I can’t help but wonder if Todd is getting another unpleasent lesson in Sarnothi biology.
“Why does it have pincers?!”
To hold on to you. Duh. XD
Eh, penises are some of the most varied structures in the animal kingdom. You don’t have to look farther than your pet cat (barbed) or dog (bulb) for that. Having a weird penis is not nearly as alien as you’d expect.
You want weird? Google “Opossum penis”…
I am fairly confident that the phrase “You want [adjective]? Google [thing].” has an exceptionally low chance of ending well.
Not to say I’m not as likely as the next person to do exactly that, but it’s basically like playing Google Seppuku.
Earlier today I saw a cover to an old Superman comic where Lois was tricked into marrying a supervillain named Titanman. I got curious about this character and googled “titanman”.
All the top results were gay porn.
Google Seppuku is real.
Well, Selkie must’ve seen somebody naked when she was in the orphanage…but, then, most of them would’a been human, right?
Wait, how is Selkie showing her nudity?
The newborn daughter. Selkie isn’t the one being spoken about there. I took a second with that panel as well do to the word bubble placement. That and not having my coffee yet.
She isn’t. THEIR daughter (the tadpole) is.
Zoras they aint.
Shouldn’t Sai Fen have rolled up the sleeve of her shirt before plunging it arm deep in aquarium water?
It’ll probably be fixed in post when he’s adding the color.
Probably, yes. But I drew it that way on purpose. I figure she’s excited and happy and just not thinking of much except watching her newborn play.
That’s what I took it for. When you’re being careful and logical, you avoid getting your clothes wetter or dirtier than they need to be. When you’re excited and impulsive, you run through the mud in socks, splash water on your shirt, all sorts of things you wouldn’t do if you were thinking it through at the time. Because your focus is on something else.
I love that detail! Looks great colored, too.
Do Sarnothi go through puberty the same way humans do?
For that matter, I can’t be the only one curious about (adult) Sarnothi genitalia, can I? Is it equivalent to humans’, or does it, say, retract or seal when not in use?
So do Sarnothi fry/children have exaggerated ribcages that they grow into as they become adults? Suko seems to have a short torso and quite robust structures off the sides of his body that only seem to have analogs with his sister’s.
Those “quite robust structures off the sides of his body” are his gills.
You notice Selkie, shirtless in the office thanks to Heather, had the same “structures”.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie170/
I was going by that and the anatomical drawings thinking that it was simplified. So that Selkie’s are much more flush with her body, I was assuming there was some sort of ribcage/gill arch bulk present in Sarnothi younger than Selkie.
It was established earlier, that those are gill flaps. It’s why Selkie has to remove her shirt to flush her gills out.
Did anyone say HAPPY BIRTHDAY SELKIE!!
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie101/
DOB, according to her Citizenship Papers. May 24, 2002.
Hope someone made her a turduchen with candles on top. 😛 😀
Even better, a seafood turduchen. Start with an anchovy and don’t stop until you get to the 10 pound salmon.
Now I’m envisioning how to make Selkie an amazing birthday “cake”.
I would take one of those spring form pans and fill it with alternating layers of her favorite fish. Stick it in the fridge to chill and set. Next remove the outer part of the pan and “frost” the “cake” with salmon mousse (minus the pepper and lemon zest found in the most common recipes). This could be piped on just like regular frosting and would even look pink. Then on the top you could take some sashimi roses and an assortment of roe to decorate.
You might need to add some of the mousse between layers for stability or possibly just pour a little unflavored (or shrimp flavored) gelatin into the pan before chilling to help it maintain a good solid shape.
This actually sounds tasty to me. I might actually try and make this for my daughter’s mermaid themed birthday party in August.
I love it! This is very much in character for Todd as a new parent who adopted an older child. If he was a seasoned parent who had Selkie or Amanda when they were younger, he would not bat an eye. Nudity is a very normal every day thing when you have toddler/preschoolers. Even more conservative parents don’t pay it any mind or make a big deal when they’ve been around a little tyke for a while.
Isn’t this hamster wheel dangerous for the kid? Like, couldn’t her fins get caught in it and break?
possibly, but it’s probably no more dangerous to her then playground equipment is to us, and the benefits of play out way any outside chance of injury.
…aren’t those way too small?… How would she even play with a hamster wheel underwater?…
Oh relax Todd. She has to learn how the other half of the species are shaped at some point… and frankly, this is a whole order of magnitude LESS awkward than it would be if she walked in on YOU in the shower at some point. Life’s throwing you a little bone here.
HA! “Little bone”. I didn’t even do that on purpose. ^_^