jephjacques : Marten Explains It All

Remember that she mentioned Pintsize as a benchmark of kink. Doesn't necessarily mean that she still wants to be there when he arrives. But yeah, I suspect that she's mostly just hitting a minor limit. She's nice, but all these references to her possibly coming into intimate contact with other sapient beings are likely to be wearing her down.

Philip Masters

2024-10-31 10:40:52 +0000 UTC

I finally noticed Pintsize's sad little face in the first panel. Awww.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-31 09:16:41 +0000 UTC

This is a thing that needs to exist.

Opus the Poet

2024-10-31 04:49:20 +0000 UTC

Lucy: Psychiatric help 5 cents (after inflation $6) (apologies to Charles Schultz)

Bill Marcum

2024-10-31 04:02:41 +0000 UTC

You're right. It's not that she's been lying. Perhaps "vulnerable" would have been a better word than "honest." She'd been so busy making incorrect assumptions about other people that she hadn't said much about herself beyond the surface level.

Lisa

2024-10-31 03:59:06 +0000 UTC

But Hanners was the one who mentioned Pintsize? 😂 I don't think she's fed up with him. As far as we know, he's just been vibing. I think Hanners hit her limit with Anh misunderstandings, though. Or she's just being very emphatic.

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-31 00:05:32 +0000 UTC

Don't Google that on a library computer.

ValdVin

2024-10-30 23:39:10 +0000 UTC

Ahn needs to be consoled by her new girlfriend, Hannelore.

Chris Warren

2024-10-30 23:07:35 +0000 UTC

Actually, Pintsize getting a job as Anh’s AI companion could work quite well. It’d give him a purpose in life with Martin gone, and allow Anh to explore her possible kink with a degree of deniability. (“No, he isn’t my sex toy, he’s my personal disorganiser. Don’t be vulgar.”) And I think that Anh might be able to turn on enough ferocity to keep him in line when necessary.

Philip Masters

2024-10-30 23:04:19 +0000 UTC

Yeah, Hanners’s expression panel 1 implies to me that even she doesn’t want to take any more of Pintsize’s shit just now. She’s nice, but there are limits.

Philip Masters

2024-10-30 23:00:14 +0000 UTC

A chorus of AIs appears in the background shouting "Bios! Bios! Bios!"

David Durant

2024-10-30 22:47:29 +0000 UTC

Hot take, since we're speculating—Ahn's asexual, romantically-inclined, and lesbian or bisexual. Fucking girls may not be her thing, but being gently petted by the girl holding her leash might.

Clarence the Liar

2024-10-30 21:29:09 +0000 UTC

Anh seriously needs better friends. Hanners is good at sincerity.

Sparky

2024-10-30 21:22:40 +0000 UTC

Is Fetlife still a thing? Because there have to be a bunch of ways for Anh to explore her kink without riding the Infinite Carousel of Drunkenness and Shame at random wedding receptions.

Halloween Jack

2024-10-30 20:53:40 +0000 UTC

It took me several "He's pretty attractive"s before I got there, but same.

Adarsh Nednur

2024-10-30 20:39:39 +0000 UTC

More BDSMwakening, I think.

Philip Masters

2024-10-30 19:37:44 +0000 UTC

Oh man, now I’m imagining Martin playing a metal cover of the “Clarissa Explains it All” theme song

pfreya

2024-10-30 18:38:51 +0000 UTC

But will Anh drink enough to be interested when Pintsize sidles up to her? Hypothesis: Anh's sometimes-inconvenient level of sexual focus actually indicates that she doesn't find the sex she does get entirely satisfying. I'm sure that she usually has little trouble getting some, but perhaps she just wants more an hour later - because it doesn't do something for her. So yeah, I'd say she needs to sort out this repressed kink thing.

Philip Masters

2024-10-30 17:29:59 +0000 UTC

I'm not sure I've noticed her lying at all. A degree of straightforwardness actually seems to be one of her virtues. (Okay, mostly. She was prepared to break Sven's heart if Hanners asked her to.)

Philip Masters

2024-10-30 16:24:34 +0000 UTC

Only when her lips move.

Philip Masters

2024-10-30 16:21:28 +0000 UTC

I think it's a relieved sigh, actually.

Hugh Eckert

2024-10-30 16:17:26 +0000 UTC

USBlocked

Hugh Eckert

2024-10-30 16:16:07 +0000 UTC

The mortifying ordeal of nosce te ipsum.

Stephen Wells

2024-10-30 15:40:30 +0000 UTC

I struggle to imagine them ever being at odds. I think their respective energies would simply merge into a single, unstoppable wave of pure wholesomeness which would expand to consume the universe.

BookBeard

2024-10-30 14:40:43 +0000 UTC

She would probably be the first one in line for that

alphanor

2024-10-30 14:10:58 +0000 UTC

Was about to say! We actually saw them pretty recently. Even Penny showed up when Ayo joined the staff at Coffee of Doom. (But it would be nice to see her properly, and Will assuming they're still together). I definitely want to check in on Brun and Millefeuille, and Renee and Dan. There's too many great cast members - clearly we need multiple spin-off strips!

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-30 14:06:41 +0000 UTC

Not just "not especially close" - I don't think Dora and Tai know Yay at all. Despite the expansion of their social circle, the majority of folks in Northampton haven't interacted with Yay.

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-30 14:03:54 +0000 UTC

100% that awakened something in someone. I guarantee it.

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-30 14:02:45 +0000 UTC

MTE - she's like "oh here we go, a direct train back to repression-town"

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-30 14:01:06 +0000 UTC

Hanners' SINCERITY vs Aurelia's MOM VIBES: who will win?

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-30 13:58:36 +0000 UTC

or the Cloak of Normalcy.

allanfranta

2024-10-30 13:51:47 +0000 UTC

@Opus: we're getting old. I didn't recognize any of the actors referenced in the comments, either.

allanfranta

2024-10-30 13:49:00 +0000 UTC

They are like tulips in the spring, they'll be back.

allanfranta

2024-10-30 13:45:59 +0000 UTC

It's safer that way! They have experience!

allanfranta

2024-10-30 13:39:16 +0000 UTC

sadly the embalming will lead to puppy play... with Pintsize... ~<3

Mitsuki Ayane

2024-10-30 13:25:42 +0000 UTC

He's allowed, just very unwelcome.

Uniquitous

2024-10-30 12:20:55 +0000 UTC

Stephen, you just helped me figure it out! Pintsize isn't allowed in Canada, so he can't go with Marten and Claire, but Veronica could adopt him. In later strips we'll see him begging when Marten calls home. I don't think we'll see Anh doing the same, but we can dream.

Orion Rhine

2024-10-30 12:19:24 +0000 UTC

I was going to say, Hanners is just made of pure sincerity.

Carl Cravens

2024-10-30 12:18:42 +0000 UTC

maybe she can put it into overdrive?

Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️

2024-10-30 12:04:04 +0000 UTC

He also had some sincere moments in therapy after the bird left the nest and when talking to Claire after transitioning to his new body.

legobil

2024-10-30 11:14:22 +0000 UTC

Throw herself, flat in her back, expecting belly rubs? Yup.

legobil

2024-10-30 11:11:54 +0000 UTC

Anh’s hair is going full rebel..!

legobil

2024-10-30 11:08:52 +0000 UTC

Also Martens exasperated sigh in last panel.

legobil

2024-10-30 11:07:59 +0000 UTC

Someone needs some belly rubs. Now, is it Pintsize or Anh? I’m imagining Anh wants to hold the leash, but her deep subconscious want the opposite.

legobil

2024-10-30 11:07:37 +0000 UTC

I'm surprised that's not just, always on.

Dilemma01

2024-10-30 11:07:15 +0000 UTC

@Populuxe I prefer the Shield of Boringness.

Opus the Poet

2024-10-30 11:07:09 +0000 UTC

Yeah, Pintsize looks like he is ready with some puppy eyes already.

legobil

2024-10-30 11:05:34 +0000 UTC

GDI that's three "I understood that reference dot gif" this thread.

Opus the Poet

2024-10-30 11:01:12 +0000 UTC

I think Anh would be in the line for that one.

Opus the Poet

2024-10-30 10:54:30 +0000 UTC

all i'm saying is. tails are fun and she should explore her interests without fear.

Boots McGoot

2024-10-30 10:53:58 +0000 UTC

Second "I understood that reference dot gif." of the thread.

Opus the Poet

2024-10-30 10:53:20 +0000 UTC

And nobody from any of her polycules.

Opus the Poet

2024-10-30 10:51:12 +0000 UTC

In case of emergency, break her glass?

Melissa Wilson

2024-10-30 10:49:15 +0000 UTC

I understood that reference dot gif.

Opus the Poet

2024-10-30 10:48:53 +0000 UTC

Never have I felt such love for Bubbles as when she psychologically unpacked Pintsize in a single breath, while wearing Faye’s old grumble bear t-shirt. And oh how I want one of those shirts!!!

Melissa Wilson

2024-10-30 10:45:36 +0000 UTC

The things I bet she would do if Pintsize just whispered “good girl” as she stormed past.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-10-30 10:44:57 +0000 UTC

That pair, it was for kink.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-10-30 10:40:00 +0000 UTC

He practiced with Flementine though.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-10-30 10:39:10 +0000 UTC

It’s more dramatic than mine. It was more like, “He’s pretty attractive. Wait… do I like men too?” It turns out that I’m in to a lot of things. As my sister puts it, “The ladies, theys, and gays.”

Chauncey

2024-10-30 09:53:57 +0000 UTC

I definitely had "Anh digs in further" on my predictions card for this plotline

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-30 09:41:21 +0000 UTC

Hannelore: "Or Pintsize!" Pintsize: and WHY NOT

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-30 09:40:42 +0000 UTC

Wait, she can radiate sincerity basically at will?

Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️

2024-10-30 09:07:17 +0000 UTC

“Sincerity! If you can fake THAT, you’ll have it made!”

Shane Wegner

2024-10-30 08:56:42 +0000 UTC

Absolutely. The amount of things you can cover the right (wrong?) amount of alcohol is astounding.

legobil

2024-10-30 08:53:59 +0000 UTC

My god I wish that degree of simple, direct, inoffensive truth was enough to break people like Anh in ultimately positive ways irl instead of just leading them to dig in further

Pejo

2024-10-30 08:18:09 +0000 UTC

Oh, FFS, Jamie, not her leg.

dcy665 .

2024-10-30 08:16:47 +0000 UTC

Pintsize and Veronica are here to help :)

Stephen Wells

2024-10-30 08:08:01 +0000 UTC

Embalming fluid is way more goth than like, black coffee or w/e

will davison

2024-10-30 07:58:30 +0000 UTC

I get it. it's hard to be genetically compromised and your fetishes exposed to a general audience. But did you have to add the one for formaldehyde , Anh?

SpookyPenguin

2024-10-30 07:43:18 +0000 UTC

Now I understand why her side of the guest list was originally "whoever Dora wants" xD

Scarlet Shepard

2024-10-30 07:17:02 +0000 UTC

I think the technical term is "throttled". Oh, wait, he's into that...

Alasdair Mackintosh

2024-10-30 07:16:33 +0000 UTC

Undercocked via them bios... D:

Leak

2024-10-30 06:20:03 +0000 UTC

Pintsize getting cpublocked once again :(

MikeT

2024-10-30 06:10:57 +0000 UTC

Don't worry, Anh! This is nothing that a little Evilus Deathicus Blood Blood Blood can't fix!

William Cole

2024-10-30 06:05:27 +0000 UTC

I wouldn't mind seeing Anh in Werewolf Mode…

William Cole

2024-10-30 05:57:36 +0000 UTC

Hannelore is very powerful!

William Cole

2024-10-30 05:53:47 +0000 UTC

Be very careful when involving hammers in puppy play.

BookBeard

2024-10-30 05:24:48 +0000 UTC

Just a bit of Anhesty.

BookBeard

2024-10-30 05:20:45 +0000 UTC

Nobody said that she couldn't proposition pintsize for some puppy play, just that marten and/or hanners weren't getting involved (edit: ducking auto carrot)

Travis Young

2024-10-30 05:12:05 +0000 UTC

I'm betting on Jim holding the leash while Veronica supervises.

Pete

2024-10-30 05:08:25 +0000 UTC

And I thought my sex life was complicated...

Yelling Bird

2024-10-30 05:01:31 +0000 UTC

“This better not awaken anything in me!”

Shane Wegner

2024-10-30 05:01:19 +0000 UTC

Really, if a leash isn’t involved, does it even count as hooking up?

Foal Papers

2024-10-30 05:00:06 +0000 UTC

They've gone to ground. It'll probably be a while before they pop up again.

Uniquitous

2024-10-30 04:59:47 +0000 UTC

Anh is gonna need some puppy play, and no amount of embalming is gonna stuff that genie back in the bottle.

Uniquitous

2024-10-30 04:58:29 +0000 UTC

This is true. It’s definitely a fun option, though. Both are lovely. :-)

Foal Papers

2024-10-30 04:58:20 +0000 UTC

Namasteeeeeyyyyyyy

Magic Chopstick Games

2024-10-30 04:37:44 +0000 UTC

Anh saying out loud that this has disinterred unsettling truths about herself is one of the most honest things I've heard from her since we met her.

Lisa

2024-10-30 04:30:54 +0000 UTC

I'm calling it now: The last couple to use the Hook-Up Room this evening will be Anh and Pintsize. Yes, there will be a leash involved.

Justin

2024-10-30 04:26:50 +0000 UTC

Am I the only one adoring Tai's gentle comforting face for Pintsize (who is so BETRAYED!)? 'Cause I ADORE it. Dora's snicker is also brilliant.

Katrina Urmson

2024-10-30 04:23:37 +0000 UTC

The funniest part of all this is how not-surprised Tai is. Her eyerolls screams "Goddamit, Anh! Not again!"

Bagge

2024-10-30 04:16:30 +0000 UTC

Do we have the ingredients for a double Pharaoh's Last Snort?

Ursus Ridens

2024-10-30 04:11:01 +0000 UTC

To be fair, it hasn't been that long since Willow was in the comic. Brun on the other hand...

Ian Dunbar

2024-10-30 03:53:06 +0000 UTC

You know what I take that back. I was thinking of the wrong late '80s early '90s teenage girl TV show. The big floppy hat was blossom

Michael Phillips

2024-10-30 03:15:37 +0000 UTC

If Martin is going to explain it all, he needs to be wearing a big floppy hat

Michael Phillips

2024-10-30 03:13:50 +0000 UTC

Ain't we all?

BookBeard

2024-10-30 03:10:59 +0000 UTC

There really should be one though.

Nikki

2024-10-30 02:57:52 +0000 UTC

No, no - she's kind of an idiot...

Allan Widner

2024-10-30 02:54:07 +0000 UTC

✨SINCERITY✨

Will Weaver

2024-10-30 02:27:20 +0000 UTC

Most likely between drinks.

Bill Silvia

2024-10-30 02:26:04 +0000 UTC

Despite being an heiress, I don't think Anh has the assets that May is looking for.

Bill Silvia

2024-10-30 02:24:08 +0000 UTC

Yeah, but there's not an open therapy bar.

Bill Silvia

2024-10-30 02:22:20 +0000 UTC

There'll be more.

Maurice Kessler

2024-10-30 02:18:40 +0000 UTC

With hairpins flying like Witch Hazel from Looney Tunes

Bill Grebner

2024-10-30 02:17:24 +0000 UTC

Faye is going to be disappointed she missed this. So much potential for her unique, home brewed, custom built sass.

rhekke

2024-10-30 02:16:18 +0000 UTC

Alcohol is probably the last thing she needs.

Tim Mitchell

2024-10-30 02:01:31 +0000 UTC

Something tells me that if this hyperbolic hypothetical had actually happened, Pintsize might be most closely associated with the role of the dog who finally caught the car it had been chasing for years, and then didn't know what to do with it.

Mad Marie

2024-10-30 01:58:52 +0000 UTC

If we're going full Dropout casting, I think Rekha Shankar might have to play Claire. And while this is definitely not how I pictured his voice, Grant O'Brien has to play Pintsize, just for the personality.

Rob Vary

2024-10-30 01:58:28 +0000 UTC

I mean, we've seen it before.

Doc Gumby

2024-10-30 01:57:00 +0000 UTC

They went deep underground after The Director tried to be "friendly". I imagine that arc would need more unpacking/follow-up before Yay would show up in the comic again--especially in such a populated setting.

Mad Marie

2024-10-30 01:54:33 +0000 UTC

Still a few hungry Allosauruses out there...

Doc Gumby

2024-10-30 01:54:03 +0000 UTC

I can think of two other occasions he appeared on the verge of tears, but Pintsize being Pintsize his sincerity in any given situation is dubious at best. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3087 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3764 (edit: oops, off by one)

BookBeard

2024-10-30 01:53:57 +0000 UTC

I'm not sure Yay has ever been especially close with Dora and Tai. Casual acquaintances at best. And given they are currently in hiding with no contact with even their closest friends... I doubt anything short of maybe Roko getting married would cause them to break radio silence.

Thisguy

2024-10-30 01:53:56 +0000 UTC

Maybe some Rolling Panda play instead?

Doc Gumby

2024-10-30 01:52:12 +0000 UTC

She's kinky as fuck and isn't ready for that

Maya Pilkey

2024-10-30 01:51:28 +0000 UTC

Re: puppy play. Forty odd years ago I was a member of an obedience club (dogs, not kinkiness.) We often hosted informal competitions. At one of these, for fun, we had a few human pairs go through an obedience routine. There was much laughing. It’s harder than you would think — IIRC, only one pair got a qualifying score.

Holly Nelson

2024-10-30 01:47:36 +0000 UTC

I miss them too. But they all come back eventually. Unless they are named Sarah.

SilverbackRon

2024-10-30 01:46:33 +0000 UTC

Wearing a collar and someone holding a leash on it can also simply be an expression of a power dynamic without what is considered puppy play in any way. (This is why I carry my collar and a leash in my purse.) Puppy play isn't the only option.

Carrie

2024-10-30 01:45:59 +0000 UTC

They

BookBeard

2024-10-30 01:43:24 +0000 UTC

The look on Tai's face in panel 4 suggests to me that this isn't the first time Anh has done this. I suspect she's been caught in a loop of upsetting self-realization and subsequent alcohol-based re-suppression for a while now.

BookBeard

2024-10-30 01:43:05 +0000 UTC

Now I'm struggling to think of who else I would cast. Either Josh Ruben or Murph as Marten, maybe Siobhan Thompson as Hanners? Jacob Wysocki could pull off Elliott.

Benjamin Geiger

2024-10-30 01:40:47 +0000 UTC

So Yay didn't make the wedding? I was hoping she would show up in some form.

Phil

2024-10-30 01:38:56 +0000 UTC

If there were a live action QC adaptation, Adam Conover would be better cast as Clinton, IMNSHO.

Benjamin Geiger

2024-10-30 01:38:55 +0000 UTC

Why not both?

Captain Button

2024-10-30 01:37:10 +0000 UTC

Typo: "thoroughly"

Pavel Curtis

2024-10-30 01:34:44 +0000 UTC

Okay but somebody introduce Ahn to May There's an incredibly dorky ship name in there that needs realization and they would be so horrible and messy

Fart Captor

2024-10-30 01:34:42 +0000 UTC

I miss WIllow and Iris.

Doc Gumby

2024-10-30 01:34:06 +0000 UTC

Aw, the most interesting part was entirely off-camera

Zig Justice

2024-10-30 01:33:55 +0000 UTC

Marten abides.

Sean Kinlin

2024-10-30 01:32:43 +0000 UTC

THOROUGHLY RE-EMBALMED

Nicolas Demers

2024-10-30 01:32:36 +0000 UTC

Pintsize always is, and has, game.

Sean Kinlin

2024-10-30 01:32:26 +0000 UTC

yeah Anh was fun but god i miss Brun so dang much 🥺

Logan Nix

2024-10-30 01:29:11 +0000 UTC

Witness the power of her fully wholesome sincerity.

Sean Kinlin

2024-10-30 01:27:51 +0000 UTC

I for one would be happy in Anh was a once-and-done character if it meant we saw more of Brun, Marigold, Renee, Willow, Penny and any number of other excellent folks we've not circled back to for some time.

David Durant

2024-10-30 01:26:51 +0000 UTC

Well, we know he's tried it before. Maybe he could give Anh some tips, or lend her a collar.

Dean Reilly

2024-10-30 01:26:48 +0000 UTC

Marten explains it all, or Marten ruins everything?

Populuxe

2024-10-30 01:26:18 +0000 UTC

I could really use a sincerity halo. Best I can muster is an indifference refraction.

Populuxe

2024-10-30 01:25:43 +0000 UTC

*knotblocked

DVW

2024-10-30 01:25:05 +0000 UTC

Pintsize is still game though

DVW

2024-10-30 01:24:24 +0000 UTC

now she needs to run into Ayo and Liz https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5286

Lucas Werkmeister

2024-10-30 01:23:25 +0000 UTC

I don't know if I was supposed to read "Or Pintsize" after "Sorry, little guy," but it's so much funnier that way.

Chris

2024-10-30 01:23:19 +0000 UTC

What gets me is all this is with her BEFORE the drink.

joe velsher

2024-10-30 01:22:08 +0000 UTC

I'M TELLING YOU ALL I'M RIGHT

Lorelei

2024-10-30 01:20:40 +0000 UTC

I ship it.

joe velsher

2024-10-30 01:20:07 +0000 UTC

Not that I know anything about it, obviously. Nope. This is my innocent face.

Foal Papers

2024-10-30 01:19:24 +0000 UTC

Not sure Ahn would know what being cockblocked is like before

Miyaa

2024-10-30 01:18:10 +0000 UTC

Yes

Bill Silvia

2024-10-30 01:17:50 +0000 UTC

Anh's face is wider in the last panel. She is heading for the bar so fast that Jeph drew a "smear frame".

Richard

2024-10-30 01:17:21 +0000 UTC

Yay no one shared the link while I was looking for it https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5179

Bill Silvia

2024-10-30 01:17:19 +0000 UTC

Great. The “Clarissa Explains It All” theme song is playing but instead of Clarissa, it’s Marten. Faye would have definitely been the best friend who climbed in on a huge ladder that no one has ever taken down.

Miyaa

2024-10-30 01:17:06 +0000 UTC

I can help with that!

Kenneth Harris

2024-10-30 01:16:35 +0000 UTC

She's just having a rough night being cockblocked, that's all

Simon Vaillancourt

2024-10-30 01:16:15 +0000 UTC

A form of kinky human animal roleplay practiced by consenting adults. If you’re of age, the channel Watts The Safeword on YouTube has a number of informative videos on the topic. I’m pretty sure there’s an “Oh Joy Sex Toy” comic on it too.

Foal Papers

2024-10-30 01:16:14 +0000 UTC

Honestly, she should ask Pintsize. He might go for it.

Davus Otho

2024-10-30 01:15:51 +0000 UTC

Anh... Anh... You did this to yourself.

Adam with two As, a D, and an M

2024-10-30 01:15:32 +0000 UTC

See Anh's speech in the first panel of the previous comic. Basically a cross between BDSM and cosplay.

mike stone

2024-10-30 01:14:36 +0000 UTC

She's insufferable... I love it.

Armcannon Productions

2024-10-30 01:13:56 +0000 UTC

Wow she's insufferable

Kay

2024-10-30 01:13:35 +0000 UTC

Am I still blushing? … yes, yes I am. Dagnabit.

Foal Papers

2024-10-30 01:13:05 +0000 UTC

Anh suffering from self-awareness

Clark Wells

2024-10-30 01:12:57 +0000 UTC

Better watch it when the hair comes down...

Doc Gumby

2024-10-30 01:12:51 +0000 UTC

Preservation of the dead, as compared to the living type of preservation.

Bill Silvia

2024-10-30 01:12:29 +0000 UTC

The sad look on Pintsize’s face. Poor guy. Once again denied.

JMK

2024-10-30 01:12:26 +0000 UTC

Puppy play is a consensual, adult role-playing activity where participants dress up and act like dogs or their handlers.

Michael

2024-10-30 01:12:23 +0000 UTC

Google that with incognito mode on

Nick

2024-10-30 01:12:20 +0000 UTC

So… do we think Pintsize wanted to be involved or just watch?

KingAtticus

2024-10-30 01:11:59 +0000 UTC

I think we might be witnessing Anh having her bi awakening, and I for one am here for it

Adarsh Nednur

2024-10-30 01:11:59 +0000 UTC

Pintsize, for the first time I can recall, is just about in tears.

ValdVin

2024-10-30 01:11:53 +0000 UTC

ah yes, the Sincerity Halo... hanners' secret technique

Bee Screams

2024-10-30 01:11:40 +0000 UTC

This is amazing 😂

sjlxndr

2024-10-30 01:11:38 +0000 UTC

Enbalmbed via pickling with alcohol XD

TheCaptainTrout

2024-10-30 01:11:36 +0000 UTC

Try Cryonics for unsettling truths instead.

Captain Button

2024-10-30 01:11:33 +0000 UTC

So preserved? Embalming is a preservation process,.so would alcohol pickling. So is she trying to preserve these things?

Michael

2024-10-30 01:11:31 +0000 UTC

We may see Pintsize leading Anh by a leash by the end of the reception...

Bill Silvia

2024-10-30 01:11:19 +0000 UTC

What’s puppy play?

Andrea Andrew

2024-10-30 01:11:14 +0000 UTC

I do like Anh's word choice.

Randall Norman Pick

2024-10-30 01:10:44 +0000 UTC

Marten Explains It All

Comments

I finally noticed Pintsize's sad little face in the first panel. Awww.

This is a thing that needs to exist.

Lucy: Psychiatric help 5 cents (after inflation $6) (apologies to Charles Schultz)

You're right. It's not that she's been lying. Perhaps "vulnerable" would have been a better word than "honest." She'd been so busy making incorrect assumptions about other people that she hadn't said much about herself beyond the surface level.

But Hanners was the one who mentioned Pintsize? 😂 I don't think she's fed up with him. As far as we know, he's just been vibing. I think Hanners hit her limit with Anh misunderstandings, though. Or she's just being very emphatic.

Don't Google that on a library computer.

Ahn needs to be consoled by her new girlfriend, Hannelore.

Yeah, Hanners’s expression panel 1 implies to me that even she doesn’t want to take any more of Pintsize’s shit just now. She’s nice, but there are limits.

A chorus of AIs appears in the background shouting "Bios! Bios! Bios!"

Hot take, since we're speculating—Ahn's asexual, romantically-inclined, and lesbian or bisexual. Fucking girls may not be her thing, but being gently petted by the girl holding her leash might.

Anh seriously needs better friends. Hanners is good at sincerity.

Is Fetlife still a thing? Because there have to be a bunch of ways for Anh to explore her kink without riding the Infinite Carousel of Drunkenness and Shame at random wedding receptions.

It took me several "He's pretty attractive"s before I got there, but same.

More BDSMwakening, I think.

Oh man, now I’m imagining Martin playing a metal cover of the “Clarissa Explains it All” theme song

I'm not sure I've noticed her lying at all. A degree of straightforwardness actually seems to be one of her virtues. (Okay, mostly. She was prepared to break Sven's heart if Hanners asked her to.)

Only when her lips move.

I think it's a relieved sigh, actually.

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The mortifying ordeal of nosce te ipsum.

I struggle to imagine them ever being at odds. I think their respective energies would simply merge into a single, unstoppable wave of pure wholesomeness which would expand to consume the universe.

She would probably be the first one in line for that

Not just "not especially close" - I don't think Dora and Tai know Yay at all. Despite the expansion of their social circle, the majority of folks in Northampton haven't interacted with Yay.

100% that awakened something in someone. I guarantee it.

MTE - she's like "oh here we go, a direct train back to repression-town"

Hanners' SINCERITY vs Aurelia's MOM VIBES: who will win?

or the Cloak of Normalcy.

@Opus: we're getting old. I didn't recognize any of the actors referenced in the comments, either.

They are like tulips in the spring, they'll be back.

It's safer that way! They have experience!

sadly the embalming will lead to puppy play... with Pintsize... ~<3

He's allowed, just very unwelcome.

Stephen, you just helped me figure it out! Pintsize isn't allowed in Canada, so he can't go with Marten and Claire, but Veronica could adopt him. In later strips we'll see him begging when Marten calls home. I don't think we'll see Anh doing the same, but we can dream.

I was going to say, Hanners is just made of pure sincerity.

maybe she can put it into overdrive?

He also had some sincere moments in therapy after the bird left the nest and when talking to Claire after transitioning to his new body.

Throw herself, flat in her back, expecting belly rubs? Yup.

Anh’s hair is going full rebel..!

Also Martens exasperated sigh in last panel.

Someone needs some belly rubs. Now, is it Pintsize or Anh? I’m imagining Anh wants to hold the leash, but her deep subconscious want the opposite.

I'm surprised that's not just, always on.

@Populuxe I prefer the Shield of Boringness.

Yeah, Pintsize looks like he is ready with some puppy eyes already.

GDI that's three "I understood that reference dot gif" this thread.

I think Anh would be in the line for that one.

all i'm saying is. tails are fun and she should explore her interests without fear.

Second "I understood that reference dot gif." of the thread.

And nobody from any of her polycules.

In case of emergency, break her glass?

I understood that reference dot gif.

Never have I felt such love for Bubbles as when she psychologically unpacked Pintsize in a single breath, while wearing Faye’s old grumble bear t-shirt. And oh *how I want* one of those shirts!!!

The things I bet she would do if Pintsize just whispered “good girl” as she stormed past.

That pair, it was for kink.

He practiced with Flementine though.

It’s more dramatic than mine. It was more like, “He’s pretty attractive. Wait… do I like men too?” It turns out that I’m in to a lot of things. As my sister puts it, “The ladies, theys, and gays.”

I definitely had "Anh digs in further" on my predictions card for this plotline

Hannelore: "Or Pintsize!" Pintsize: and WHY NOT

Wait, she can radiate sincerity basically at will?

“Sincerity! If you can fake THAT, you’ll have it made!”

Absolutely. The amount of things you can cover the right (wrong?) amount of alcohol is astounding.

My god I wish that degree of simple, direct, inoffensive truth was enough to break people like Anh in ultimately positive ways irl instead of just leading them to dig in further

Oh, FFS, Jamie, not her leg.

Pintsize and Veronica are here to help :)

Embalming fluid is way more goth than like, black coffee or w/e

I get it. it's hard to be genetically compromised and your fetishes exposed to a general audience. But did you *have* to add the one for formaldehyde , Anh?

Now I understand why her side of the guest list was originally "whoever Dora wants" xD

I think the technical term is "throttled". Oh, wait, he's into that...

Undercocked via them bios... D:

Pintsize getting cpublocked once again :(

Don't worry, Anh! This is nothing that a little Evilus Deathicus Blood Blood Blood can't fix!

I wouldn't mind seeing Anh in Werewolf Mode…

Hannelore is very powerful!

Be very careful when involving hammers in puppy play.

Just a bit of Anhesty.

Nobody said that she couldn't proposition pintsize for some puppy play, just that marten and/or hanners weren't getting involved (edit: ducking auto carrot)

I'm betting on Jim holding the leash while Veronica supervises.

And I thought my sex life was complicated...

“This better not awaken anything in me!”

Never have I felt such love for Bubbles as when she psychologically unpacked Pintsize in a single breath, while wearing Faye’s old grumble bear t-shirt. And oh how I want one of those shirts!!!

I get it. it's hard to be genetically compromised and your fetishes exposed to a general audience. But did you have to add the one for formaldehyde , Anh?

To be fair, it hasn't been that long since Willow was in the comic. Brun on the other hand...

If we're going full Dropout casting, I think Rekha Shankar might have to play Claire. And while this is definitely not how I pictured his voice, Grant O'Brien has to play Pintsize, just for the personality.