i´m going to pretend that you don´t know this from experience but from reading *way* too much hannibal lecter fanfiction 😉
my highlight of this strip – aside from todd/anyone finally calling amanda out on her behaviour – was selkie´s sweet, dreamy smile in the last panel as she contemplated the taste of human meat. no wonder amanda was freaking out, i mean technically selkie is a predator who could simply *eat* the evidence if she ever pushes her too far 😉
So… the only way I can think of that you might obtain legit, ethical human flesh is… fat-reduction surgery? and it’d probably have weird chemicals in it, and be entirely fat and no muscle, so probably not the best.
Though Leftover Soup has a strip where Max (a vegan) says she’d be happily nomming up human-breast-milk dairy products if the milk were given freely. Cheese or yogurt without ethical problems, basically. And I’m all in favor of that being an option, if people were willing to add it to the market somehow, because the only good reason I can think of to restrict it is the “eww” factor, and that’s a stupid reason to not let other people buy things.
I always imagined that human flesh would taste fairly bad compared to the common meats we eat.
There’s our long history of raising livestock specifically to eat, but also the fact that humans, as a social species that depends on community to survive, would probably be biologically programmed to discourage eating their own kind.
All bets are off when it’s not a human eating though…
I can tell you that I hope to all that you hold dear you never smell the smell of burnt flesh. it DOES smell like roasted pork burned roasted pork. I have nightmares where I can still smell that and BBQs if they manage to BURN the pork can cause a serious avoidance reaction.
Ah, obviosuly. Only the bully is allowed to antagonize their victim. After all, it’s not like we can do anything about that! The victim should be the reasonable one! If they do anything antagonistic back they aren’t helping the situation!
At the repeated abuse she gets just for looking different, a normal child would cry, an adult would be very offended. It’s very lucky for selkie that she has a sense of humor and can sass back.
Agreed – Selkie didn’t lose her spirit, but she did keep it more muted between the first few strips when she didn’t want to bother to meet Todd because no one wanted her until now. She’s shown a lot of growth.
Thinking about it, I cam see Amanda coming along to the Smiths to get her more used to sarnothi. Plus, I want to see Benny and Amanda. You can’t tell me they wouldn’t gang up to cause trouble and argue with their parents together. It’d be a riot.
I definitely think they’d get along. Better than Selkie and Benny, anyways.
Honestly I have no problem with what Selkie said… but then again, just last night I teased my wife for hours about snakes because she saw one in the back yard and wanted me to put up a fence to keep them out among other things… (deadpan stare) yeah… right…
When she finally got mad, I told her I did it because “Yes its okay to be afraid on an emotional level, but on an intellectual level you also know these snakes are more afraid of you, will run away from you, are not dangerous in any way, and are actually beneficial. If you see one and are surprised that’s okay, but to act insane for the next 3 hours? You’re either being hysterical or are trying to milk attention from me in a bad way, and neither are acceptable.”
Sounds like you have no respect for her feelings if you made fun of her for three hours. Plenty of people don’t like snakes and go out of their way to set up things in their yards to try and avoid them.
There are a lot of landscaping options to keep snakes at bay and fences happen to be one of them.
If your wife is behaving in an “unacceptable” manner due to a phobia, and you’re telling her in those words, I’m going to think that SOMEONE is being a jerk about someone’s emotions, and there’s something at best mutually toxic going on there. My experience of 25 years married — and seeing my parents’ toxic marriage till I was 19 — says, “Go to a marriage counselor if this is standard behavior.” ‘Cause what you just described is disrespectful on at least one side and possibly both.
She’s a grown-ass woman. She can act like it. Having sympathy for someone on an emotional level and throwing logic out the window to appease them are two different things. Acting bat-crazy for three hours for no logical reason isn’t something that should be acceptable.
Wow holy fuck. You’re an asshole and shouldn’t be allowed around people.
“Bat-crazy” is something some people actually are. With phobias, anxiety, depression, other psychiatric stuff. You don’t get to make calls on how ‘acceptable’ that is. You’re not the emotion police, and seirously what the FUCK.
She was upset by the snake. Then you teased her for hours, keeping her upset longer than she would have been. Then you told her it wasn’t acceptable for her to be upset for that long.
Please, please stop and think about this. You kept her upset, then told her that her being upset for that long was a problem with her.
If you didn’t want her upset, then why did you tease her? If you did want her upset, then why did you tell her it wasn’t OK?
Remember the supposed definition of insanity: Doing the same thing and expecting a different result. You did an “insane” thing for three hours. Then you blamed her for it.
Please, show these responses to a couple who have been in a happy marriage (both of them happy!) for a few decades, and then listen to what they say.
Teasing her for hours and then telling her she is insane for 3 hours doesn’t sound like a fun evening for either of you. Why keep antagonizing it? Or is it that she wouldn’t drop it even after you stopped teasing her?
See, there are too many things to form a conclusive judgment. One one hand- yes, it is a shitty thing to do that to someone with a phobia. Phobia are no freaking joke.
On the other- There is a fine blurry line between phobia and “phobia”. One is an emotional reaction that shuts down your ability to react logically. The other is an emotional reaction but does not shut down your ability to react logically and is often used to milk attention and neither is not acceptable. Someone who has a genuine phobia of snakes- like my mom- I wouldn’t tease about because it’s not amusing or productive to flip a person’s phobia. Some who just does not like snakes- and does not go into sensory lock down over it- I will tease in a similar manner because yo, snakes can’t hurt you and you are being illogical for the sake of being illogical.
Honestly, I’m so surprised that no one has brought up Roald Dahls justly famous politically insensitive screed on how different hooman-beans taste. So wrong on so many levels, but fodder enough to to give me nightmares for a week.
Then there is Barbara Streisand’s song about:
people:
People who eat people,
Are the hungriest people in the world.
Children, eating other children,
That question deep in your soul,
Should I eat half? Or the whole?
Not to hunger and thirst,
But first be a person who eats people,
‘Cause people who eat people,
Are the hungriest people, in the world.
Isn’t that what Anthony Hopkins sang while he danced in “Hannibal”?
But well, I guess with Amanda it’s always – how did Lillian put it? “One step forward, twenty steps back”. Doesn’t mean I approve of her being such a brat – honestly, sometimes it feels like she is not developing at all or even getting worse.
Remeber the time Mandy was in trouble and Selkie came to her rescue? Yeah, me neither. The way things are going, I think Selkie would spit on her and walk away… Except Selkie is noble in a way Mandy cannot fathom, and would rescue her – possibly just to spite her.
Thank you, Todd. Now follow it up. Selkie…while she isn’t exactly helping at the same time it’s kind of impressive how she manages to keep her sass and snark despite the bullying, the having to share space with her bully again after having thought she’d escaped her. And if Amanda wasn’t acting like a jerk, Selkie wouldn’t be reacting…
Amanda needs to learn to embrace selkies unique characteristics. Imagine how she could terrify the other kids WITH selkies help. “yea Im mean but have you met my sister shes actually venomous”
meanwhile selkie sits there looking slightly hungry with a big toothy EVIL grin. Watching someone Pee themselves as she keeps smileing and said
“Hi” in an evil voice….
Officially now one of my most favorite strips.
“Sweet, tasty pork.”
I think Amanda has to meet some Sarnothi. Just to realize there’s more to them than fangs and claws.
Hey Amanda, you started it: https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie138/
Lol, the style change hits me hard with that one.
Well i am pleasantly surprised woth Todd. 😀
Human flesh doesn’t taste like pork, it tastes like veal.
i´m going to pretend that you don´t know this from experience but from reading *way* too much hannibal lecter fanfiction 😉
my highlight of this strip – aside from todd/anyone finally calling amanda out on her behaviour – was selkie´s sweet, dreamy smile in the last panel as she contemplated the taste of human meat. no wonder amanda was freaking out, i mean technically selkie is a predator who could simply *eat* the evidence if she ever pushes her too far 😉
“i mean technically selkie is a predator who could simply *eat* the evidence if she ever pushes her too far ?”
Selkie: “Ugh, oh GODS, nows I haves to eats this WHOLE damns things… siiiiiigh…”
*must not laugh; partner is sleeping next to me*
He’s wrong, the nickname for human wasn’t “long pig” for fun :p
No, it does taste like pork, a bit bitter but nothing a lite seasoning with salt, pepper, garlic and nutmeg can’t fix.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/29/what-does-human-taste-like_n_5233724.html
OMG, that article is awesome. I especially like the part “If you do legally obtain some human flank, check out our wine pairing guide”
Gotta love HuffPo.
So… the only way I can think of that you might obtain legit, ethical human flesh is… fat-reduction surgery? and it’d probably have weird chemicals in it, and be entirely fat and no muscle, so probably not the best.
Though Leftover Soup has a strip where Max (a vegan) says she’d be happily nomming up human-breast-milk dairy products if the milk were given freely. Cheese or yogurt without ethical problems, basically. And I’m all in favor of that being an option, if people were willing to add it to the market somehow, because the only good reason I can think of to restrict it is the “eww” factor, and that’s a stupid reason to not let other people buy things.
I always imagined that human flesh would taste fairly bad compared to the common meats we eat.
There’s our long history of raising livestock specifically to eat, but also the fact that humans, as a social species that depends on community to survive, would probably be biologically programmed to discourage eating their own kind.
All bets are off when it’s not a human eating though…
I can tell you that I hope to all that you hold dear you never smell the smell of burnt flesh. it DOES smell like roasted pork burned roasted pork. I have nightmares where I can still smell that and BBQs if they manage to BURN the pork can cause a serious avoidance reaction.
I’m a seasoned fire eater, I’m rather TOO familiar with the smell of burnt flesh after a change in wind direction mid-breath on an elevated stage. XD
…Amanda had it coming.
Agreed.
True, but it probably doesn’t help the situation to have Selkie antagonize her.
Ah, obviosuly. Only the bully is allowed to antagonize their victim. After all, it’s not like we can do anything about that! The victim should be the reasonable one! If they do anything antagonistic back they aren’t helping the situation!
Oh, most definitely, especially in light of what she told OTHERS (see previous comment where she gave Hamud the skinny on the “class monster.”
True, but knowing this comic we’re in for a long discussion of how everyone is out of line and getting their consoles confiscated or whatever.
Isn’t Selkie doing the “pot stirring” thing, where someone is trying to defuse a situation, and she’s just pouring on the gasoline?
At the repeated abuse she gets just for looking different, a normal child would cry, an adult would be very offended. It’s very lucky for selkie that she has a sense of humor and can sass back.
Agreed – Selkie didn’t lose her spirit, but she did keep it more muted between the first few strips when she didn’t want to bother to meet Todd because no one wanted her until now. She’s shown a lot of growth.
(Obligatory joke about cannibals and if clowns “taste funny”)
Keehee. Cute arts: shudderface, panel 3; teaseface, panel 5.
Thinking about it, I cam see Amanda coming along to the Smiths to get her more used to sarnothi. Plus, I want to see Benny and Amanda. You can’t tell me they wouldn’t gang up to cause trouble and argue with their parents together. It’d be a riot.
I definitely think they’d get along. Better than Selkie and Benny, anyways.
Honestly I have no problem with what Selkie said… but then again, just last night I teased my wife for hours about snakes because she saw one in the back yard and wanted me to put up a fence to keep them out among other things… (deadpan stare) yeah… right…
When she finally got mad, I told her I did it because “Yes its okay to be afraid on an emotional level, but on an intellectual level you also know these snakes are more afraid of you, will run away from you, are not dangerous in any way, and are actually beneficial. If you see one and are surprised that’s okay, but to act insane for the next 3 hours? You’re either being hysterical or are trying to milk attention from me in a bad way, and neither are acceptable.”
Not to mention that most *fences* wouldn’t be an effective way of keeping out *snakes*……
Sounds like you have no respect for her feelings if you made fun of her for three hours. Plenty of people don’t like snakes and go out of their way to set up things in their yards to try and avoid them.
There are a lot of landscaping options to keep snakes at bay and fences happen to be one of them.
If your wife is behaving in an “unacceptable” manner due to a phobia, and you’re telling her in those words, I’m going to think that SOMEONE is being a jerk about someone’s emotions, and there’s something at best mutually toxic going on there. My experience of 25 years married — and seeing my parents’ toxic marriage till I was 19 — says, “Go to a marriage counselor if this is standard behavior.” ‘Cause what you just described is disrespectful on at least one side and possibly both.
She’s a grown-ass woman. She can act like it. Having sympathy for someone on an emotional level and throwing logic out the window to appease them are two different things. Acting bat-crazy for three hours for no logical reason isn’t something that should be acceptable.
Wow holy fuck. You’re an asshole and shouldn’t be allowed around people.
“Bat-crazy” is something some people actually are. With phobias, anxiety, depression, other psychiatric stuff. You don’t get to make calls on how ‘acceptable’ that is. You’re not the emotion police, and seirously what the FUCK.
She was upset by the snake. Then you teased her for hours, keeping her upset longer than she would have been. Then you told her it wasn’t acceptable for her to be upset for that long.
Please, please stop and think about this. You kept her upset, then told her that her being upset for that long was a problem with her.
If you didn’t want her upset, then why did you tease her? If you did want her upset, then why did you tell her it wasn’t OK?
Remember the supposed definition of insanity: Doing the same thing and expecting a different result. You did an “insane” thing for three hours. Then you blamed her for it.
Please, show these responses to a couple who have been in a happy marriage (both of them happy!) for a few decades, and then listen to what they say.
Teasing her for hours and then telling her she is insane for 3 hours doesn’t sound like a fun evening for either of you. Why keep antagonizing it? Or is it that she wouldn’t drop it even after you stopped teasing her?
See, there are too many things to form a conclusive judgment. One one hand- yes, it is a shitty thing to do that to someone with a phobia. Phobia are no freaking joke.
On the other- There is a fine blurry line between phobia and “phobia”. One is an emotional reaction that shuts down your ability to react logically. The other is an emotional reaction but does not shut down your ability to react logically and is often used to milk attention and neither is not acceptable. Someone who has a genuine phobia of snakes- like my mom- I wouldn’t tease about because it’s not amusing or productive to flip a person’s phobia. Some who just does not like snakes- and does not go into sensory lock down over it- I will tease in a similar manner because yo, snakes can’t hurt you and you are being illogical for the sake of being illogical.
Dave> glee-hee-hee! The Hobbit references:)
Ha! now this is a strip for the ages :D.
Honestly I was expecting Selkie to say “but I half expect humans to taste like chickens” but still had a good laugh.
I can’t say how we taste, but from past experience we smell like cheap hot dogs when we cook (or catch fire, like I did).
You are what you eat. In which case, 7 layer burrito.
Well if we’re picking our flavors based on foods we like to eat, I am a plate of beer battered fries covered in cheese curds and barbecue beef.
You sound delicious! ? Meanwhile I probably taste like Chicken Tika Masala
Canajan, eh?
Sounds wonderful.
Nope, American, but I was at a fair that had that and ever since, I make it as much as possible.
And yeah, it is wonderful.
Honestly, I’m so surprised that no one has brought up Roald Dahls justly famous politically insensitive screed on how different hooman-beans taste. So wrong on so many levels, but fodder enough to to give me nightmares for a week.
Then there is Barbara Streisand’s song about:
people:
People who eat people,
Are the hungriest people in the world.
Children, eating other children,
That question deep in your soul,
Should I eat half? Or the whole?
Not to hunger and thirst,
But first be a person who eats people,
‘Cause people who eat people,
Are the hungriest people, in the world.
Isn’t that what Anthony Hopkins sang while he danced in “Hannibal”?
Cheesy roll up, loaded potato griller, diet Pepsi.
Damn it now I’m hungry!! What’s a girl to do?
For me a plate of steamed vegetables with a side of meatloaf wrapped in bacon.
…so when will she stop acting like a nasty little speciesist brat? Cuz I’m getting tired of her crappy attitude already. -___-
Yeah, I kinda thought she was over that kind of stuff after everything that happened. Especially thinking of this page:
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie680/
But well, I guess with Amanda it’s always – how did Lillian put it? “One step forward, twenty steps back”. Doesn’t mean I approve of her being such a brat – honestly, sometimes it feels like she is not developing at all or even getting worse.
Remeber the time Mandy was in trouble and Selkie came to her rescue? Yeah, me neither. The way things are going, I think Selkie would spit on her and walk away… Except Selkie is noble in a way Mandy cannot fathom, and would rescue her – possibly just to spite her.
Thank you, Todd. Now follow it up. Selkie…while she isn’t exactly helping at the same time it’s kind of impressive how she manages to keep her sass and snark despite the bullying, the having to share space with her bully again after having thought she’d escaped her. And if Amanda wasn’t acting like a jerk, Selkie wouldn’t be reacting…
Hoping that they come together to love each other.
Amanda needs to learn to embrace selkies unique characteristics. Imagine how she could terrify the other kids WITH selkies help. “yea Im mean but have you met my sister shes actually venomous”
meanwhile selkie sits there looking slightly hungry with a big toothy EVIL grin. Watching someone Pee themselves as she keeps smileing and said
“Hi” in an evil voice….