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Actually Believe You

by Paul Taylor on April 24, 2018 at 10:46 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Castela, Luci, Tina
Location: Mucho Mocha

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Discussion (43) ¬

  1. Dave Van Domelen
    April 24, 2018, 10:54 pm | # | Reply

    Of course, as a B&W strip, we can’t page back to check….

    • Fairportfan
      April 25, 2018, 12:08 am | # | Reply

      My thought exactly.

      And what makes Castela so sure that Tina is messing with Luci?

      • Guesticus
        April 25, 2018, 7:56 am | #

        Because Stela knows what colour blouse Luci was wearing when she came in (lavender polka-dots)

    • DannyboyO1
      April 26, 2018, 2:12 pm | # | Reply

      I looked anyway. >_<

    • Hinoron
      January 11, 2024, 10:36 pm | # | Reply

      You know… What Paul really SHOULD have done, is do a slightly different pattern on her shirts both days. Not enough for the eye to notice, but detectable once we checked back and looked for it (I know you did! Don’t lie!)
      Just to screw with us in the same way Tina is screwing with Marci. ^_^

      • Hinoron
        January 11, 2024, 10:40 pm | #

        …I went and called her “Marci” again, like the Peanut’s character she’s a homage to, didn’t I?
        (sigh)

  2. Dave
    April 25, 2018, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Tina… the Demon World’s most skilled puller of legs. Or, the most engaging teller of interesting truths. Or, both?

    • gyrre
      April 25, 2018, 3:44 am | # | Reply

      I think we’re about to find out that this is indeed a different Luci. Just ne that switched places awhile back.

    • Typeminer
      April 25, 2018, 5:49 am | # | Reply

      Maybe I just didn’t get enough sleep, but I am laughing so damn hard at that last panel 😀

    • Mickk
      April 25, 2018, 6:15 am | # | Reply

      Both, I think. However…. I bet most people have experienced something along that line, like being *absolutely certain* that you put something in a certain place and have gone get to get that something later and find it somewhere else knowing that nobody has been around to move it?
      Or something like what Tina said.
      Maybe I’m just going mad in my old age :p

      • Joecrouse
        April 25, 2018, 9:00 am | #

        little of column a little of b. Little of C because object have a life of their own

      • Harley
        April 25, 2018, 12:30 pm | #

        this happened to me just yesterday. just got my stomach meds refilled, but hadn’t been able to get my migraine meds, so I had an empty bottle and a full one. was getting ready to leave, put the empty bottle on my dresser to toss later and took a couple pills from the full one without looking before leaving it on my bed. left the room, decided I should take the bottle with me, and went back and got it off the bed…it was the empty bottle. for a different prescription. either I just switched universes, or I took the right pills out of the wrong bottle. I still had them in my hand…

      • BarerMender
        April 25, 2018, 4:40 pm | #

        I had a bag of apples in my refrigerator. A clear plastic bag. It had one apple in it. I went to get my last apple and there were two. Next day, I went to get my last apple, and there were two again. I said, “Hey! I have a bottomless bag of apples!” That jinxed it, and the next day there was only one.

  3. GrantCMcCormick
    April 25, 2018, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    I wish I knew which theory of the metaverse was in play here.

    • Dave
      April 25, 2018, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      In formal terms, it seems to be based on a Many Worlds quantum theory. The “individuals unknowingly switch between super-close universes” has a strong Worlds Of The Imperium flavor to it.

      I wonder if Shelly’s artifact-sword was named Balingore? 🙂

      • gyrre
        April 25, 2018, 3:45 am | #

        As I’ve mentioned before, this sort of thing always strikes me as a bit too familiar.

  4. drakeye
    April 25, 2018, 3:24 am | # | Reply

    but is she lieing thats the question…

    • Negatron
      October 12, 2019, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

      Well, she IS referencing the Mandela Effect, i.e.: the moron phenomenon for the unobservant – as well as the paranoid conspiracy theorist. So I’m guessing YES, she is lying.

  5. Hawk
    April 25, 2018, 4:35 am | # | Reply

    I’ve believed this for longer than I can remember. It explains how so many people can witness something and have experienced different versions of the truth.

    • Guesticus
      April 25, 2018, 7:57 am | # | Reply

      No, it’s just people are generally not that observant

    • Dave
      April 25, 2018, 8:54 am | # | Reply

      Hmmm. So, our universe is the product of the interaction of the Higgs field (which gives us mass), gravity (which gives us weight), and the Rashamon field (which gives us what you said).

    • DannyboyO1
      April 26, 2018, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

      Or… our memories are as bad as research suggests.

  6. maarvarq
    April 25, 2018, 5:24 am | # | Reply

    Wasn’t it established a while ago that making a joke like this with sufficient follow-through can actually change the universe to match?

    • BarerMender
      April 25, 2018, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

      It was hypothesized.

  7. Ponyhome
    April 25, 2018, 6:54 am | # | Reply

    Tina isn’t normally so evil. Which demon is in charge this time?

    • TazManiac
      April 25, 2018, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

      That ain’t Evil, Thats just Wicked. heh heh heh.

      • Bratty Roger
        August 16, 2018, 3:32 pm | #

        ↑This!↑

  8. Michael
    April 25, 2018, 8:03 am | # | Reply

    MAybe demons can recognize more than normal beings. Or is she pulling her leg? Mmm…

    • MidnightDStroyer
      April 26, 2018, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

      Then again, can we be absolutely certain that Tina is a demon? Maybe she’s actually a Troll…
      😉

  9. Cold Ethyl
    April 25, 2018, 8:14 am | # | Reply

    Tina kind of looks Like Dick Tracy with the square jaw…

  10. Robert Nowall
    April 25, 2018, 8:41 am | # | Reply

    I thought those were just continuity errors. Now ask Luci what happened to her tattoos…

  11. Killjoy
    April 25, 2018, 8:46 am | # | Reply

    “Many worlds” is just physicists chickening out on the observed phenomena of randomness, entanglement, etc. See also, all the hand-wringing about black holes “destroying information”.

    • smparadox
      May 7, 2018, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

      That was disproved a few years back. Stephen Hawking congratulated the guy on winning their long-running argument.

  12. ManaLocke
    April 25, 2018, 8:56 am | # | Reply

    Totally explains: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/good-thing/

  13. RBZ
    April 25, 2018, 9:09 am | # | Reply

    Ah, the Chevalier Effect*.

    *Read the Brightonomicon for a sketchy explanation.

  14. wildfox
    April 25, 2018, 9:40 am | # | Reply

    Tina continues to be one of my favorite characters. For so many reasons. 🙂

  15. txmystic
    April 25, 2018, 9:52 am | # | Reply

    The many-worlds theory gets my brain all entangled…

    • Dave
      April 25, 2018, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

      It’s not hard to keep straight, actually. Our universe had True Thomas (the rhymer, poet, and prophet). All of the other possible worlds, quantum-entangled with one other, simply had faux Toms.

  16. Centaur71
    April 25, 2018, 1:46 pm | # | Reply

    this swiching universes thing should only be taken at ‘phase’ value *rimshot*

  17. KnightDelight
    April 25, 2018, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

    Well, Tina once said to Monica to take anything she says with a grain of salt, so who knows.

    Question … if you die in one universe, do you die in all universes? If not, then all those other “you’s” are actually different people who look like you and think like you. Not you, as such. For that matter, if one feels pain, do they all feel pain? Again, if not then they are not all the same person. They are separate individuals.

    • Guesticus
      April 27, 2018, 10:48 am | # | Reply

      Certainly would explain ‘unexplained injuries’ or ‘phantom pain’ 😀

  18. BarerMender
    April 25, 2018, 11:43 pm | # | Reply

    Come to think of it, Castela can smell when people are lying. Does that apply to covens of demons?

    • Bratty Roger
      August 15, 2018, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

      😕 Good question! 🤔

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