In a way, they can both get their jam on now.
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More Fan Art from Kristine! Some cute drawings of the Family Pets!
Thank you!
Mari and Theo are loosely based on my own maternal grandparents, and many of the gifts I've gotten from them over the years have been practical things I didn't ask for, but appreciated very much once I'd put them in action. One of them is the space heater that's been keeping my room toasty in winter for ten years now.
Amanda’s reaction is so adorable
Ok, so Grandma and Grandpa put some THOUGHT into their presents. Fantastic.
Carving out some space for Amanda to call her own — whether here, or at Andi’s — is definitely the right move. Lets Amanda know there are things she can claim that nobody else should mess with. Gives her a concrete reality that she can count on being there from day to day.
Having seen my nieces and nephews go through “the foster-care nightmare,” I’m aware of how little these kids have things that stick around. I’m used to seeing the same things in my house from a decade ago; they’re lucky if they have them a few months, and even luckier if they have them after one of their many changes of household.
I have this idea in my head that we store memories in objects — or at least that we leave the key there. There’s a lot of things I only remember when I pick up an old object, things I had totally forgotten but which come flooding back at that point. With very few objects remaining to these kids to anchor them to past years, no wonder they keep asking us to repeat the same stories of their childhood so much. It’s like being adrift, in more ways than one.
And I, for one, welcome our new Sarnothi Imperial Overlady.
Did I say Overlady, I meant “Protector,” merry Christmas, from Cygnus ? nine.
ALL HAIL SELKIE THE FIRST!
seriously though, that attitude? makes me wonder whether she gets it from her mom. she can be quite bossy, and tends to be more on the ‘fight’ then ‘flight’ side of things. while its still merely cute given her age, a few more years down the road it would be the marks of a fighter of the sarnothi resistance.
She’s definitely a pugnacious kid, but she does have her sweet moments. Selkie is also from a predatory, obligate-carnivore species, so I guess it would make sense for her to be scrappy by nature.
…I see what you did there, Dave. XD
“Little Raven’s Writing Desk.” Clever.
But where are the inky quills?
“Poe wrote on both.”
:3 Tee hee.
I assume we skipped the part where Amanda gloated that her present was bigger than Selkie’s?
I almost feel like they got her such a huge present on purpose, for that very reason. (Also, while it was probably about the same price as Selkie’s headphones, a kid would probably guess that the headphones were more expensive.)
Also, while I very well may be misremembering, I don’t think Amanda’s been one to gloat in the past – she gets upset when things are wrong, but is pretty neutral to when things go right or go her way (except being adopted by Andi, naturally)
Oh Amanda would definitely gloat if she were in the mood for it.
Ahh, a fan of th New Cleveland Browns in Baltimore, the Ravens? No, a fan of Kathrine & Co. We see how it is. You just don’t like the Ravens, probably a Cubs fan, too.
Go Ravens! Hehe my baltimore pride wont die
How ’bout dem Os, Hon? Ya wanna go downa Point fer Berths’s Mussels? Or downa Pavillion fer crabs at Phillip’s?. Eider way I’m havin’ a couple-a Bohs when we get back from the Yards.
Still, I really thought it referred to the Balto. Ravens, when first I read it. Sadly it did not. Dave is probably a Cubs, Bears, Wolves, Bulls fan. Does Maryland even have a soccer team any more? Years ago they had the Blast, or something.
I’m not even a sports follower honestly. I have to check with my dad and cousins when I want to make sports references. XD
“Little Raven’s Writing Desk”? Hmmm….
Hey, It’s Christmas! Let’s sing some Lewis carols!
Ok, other people are picking up on it too. I’m not crazy.
(Well, I’m at least not crazy about THIS… 🙂 )
‘Twas BRILLig, a-and the-e SLIthy toves
Did GYRE and GY-YMble-le in the wabes–
“Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!”
Because they are both often written on.
Poe wrote on both.
Though I do prefer your answer, to mine.
To be fair, that was Lewis Carroll’s own (deliberately bad) answer.
“It’s nothing like a writing desk at all…”
–Girl That’s Never Been, http://vixyandtony.com/music.html
Ha! That’s good! Thank you for posting that link. ;-}}
Most welcome! They have some fun stuff.
Is Selkie lifting her shirt to get her phone in panel 2, or is that just a coloring error?
I think she’s lifting her shirt to connect the headphones to her phone, or iPod, or whatever….
She keeps her phone in a holster around her torso, next to her heat packs. Its how she smuggled it during the Truck Fiasco
Anyone else think that Amanda’s gonna be a comic book artist when she grows up? Cuz I can definitely see that happening. :3
Um… >_> uh… <_< ... Any appearance of self-insertion on my part is entirely coincidental!
XD Suuuure it is.
A-HA! I was thinking the pants were weird.
Grandma’s light pink pants were established earlier, BUT she switched pants colors on us!
Brown: https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie842/
Pink: https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie844/
I didn’t pick up on the light-colored pants earlier, and her on the sofa here just seemed weird because it looks like two different skintones.
I’d suggest putting at least a little definition into the pants, to have them read less like legs or like legs in tights.
First panel.
That’s the smirk of a Grandma who sees her choice in presents was correct.
I totally forgot about the rainbow hair…. I like it.