Tina seems to repeatedly come back to this issue yet there never seems to be any resolution. It feels like she can’t grow as a person until she can find a way through this.
Or retail. I know I don’t really want to go out into Black Friday without a cattle prod connected to a car battery. I may have to to get some essentials, though.
I’m with Tina on all the Xmas BS starting way too soon. Saw Xmas decorations in Costco in mid-August. Radio and TV commercials have been using Xmas music as backdrops for a few weeks now. The overkill just puts me off of the whole season. Would be happy if radio stations put off playing the Xmas songs until about Dec. 21 or later. Get in, get it over with, then get out in just a few days.
HP Lovecraft Historical Society’s Scary Solstice series of CD’s. Listening to a mashup of Christmas carols and eldritch horrors has kept me surprisingly sane so far.
When you think about it, where would some of them go for Thanksgiving? Monica and Shelly have families, and I suppose anybody associated with them like Digit and Dietzel would be welcome…Katherine, Castela, and Atsali make up one family…Jin has her mother…Bud is in a long-term relationship with Monica’s ex…most of the kids at Gryphon High and such are from families…well, there’s Brandi and Tina, they’re alone…
Forgot about some of the other crew. Phix and Bia could go with Shelly, provided (1) they celebrate Thanksgiving, and (2) some explanation of who and what they are has been offered to other relations. But what would Nudge do?
its not quite time yet for my Christmas Doom and disgust song fest. Featuring such Christmas classics as The Night Santa went Crazy, By WEird Al Yankovic, Slashed wrists for Christmas By Gruff Rhys, The Seasons Upon us by the Drop Kick Murphys and of course the best blow your brains out Christmas SUCKS song of all time. The Pogues Classic- Fairy Tale of NY… (not recommended for those with Seasonal affective disorders suicidal thoughts or feelings or who actually want to be happy.
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish Men, Scary Solstice, Demon Sultan Azathoth, Special Book Room, Slay Ride, All I Want for Solstice is My Sanity, Away in a Madhouse…
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer; The 12 Slays Of Christmas; Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire; Jingle Hells; Silver Hells; Do You Kill What I Kill?; Soylent Night; Wreck The Halls; Here Comes Satan’s Claws…
Ok, here’s a horrifying thought:
No one shows up at the shop on Christmas because everyone thinks it would be closed for the holiday, while in fact, several of her friends would love to stop by.
Kinda reminds me of an old “TMI” page, when Pixie went home to spend another lonely Christmas, what she didn’t know was her friends arriving with food and gifts
Christmas is the best time of year, but it’s been commercialized too much. A Charlie Brown Christmas helps inoculate against it. I also recommend reading “A Christmas Carol” by Dickens. It really is wonderful. However, if you do not have family or you are missing a loved one, it can be extremely hard. There is a reason why the season is especially noted for suicides. Tina has a greater pool of sapients to draw from than just humans. Hopefully, Tina realizes that and hopefully her friends notice and do something about it. *Fingers crossed*
One other last thought…I guess integration of some kind has happened with Tina and her inner and sometimes-outer demons—she’s persistently used first person singular these past few months.
But if they were around, they could crawl out, prop Tina up in a chair, and then have a Thanksgiving party all on their own.
I’m used to seeing Christmas stuff start getting put on the shelves just after Halloween, the past few years, and it’s so bad that some places will actually start swapping out their Thanksgiving stuff before that actual day. Of course, they also put Valentine’s stuff up immediately after a couple of days of Christmas clearance is done with, so it’s not like Christmas is the only one they’re taking an extensively early approach to. That said, Valentine’s isn’t going around bullying other [commercial] holidays out of the way. 😛
Sounds like an introvert’s Christmas.
!!?? are you back.??! last update i saw was 2015…. i miss Angel..
WHAAAAAT!? My last update was in February, this year.
I want to get back to it, I just seem to have lost my ability to even.
By Chekov’s Gun, SOMEONE better invite her, or there will be FEELS! I just LEFT Ralph Wrecks the Internet, I can’t handle any more feels!
She can come hang out with my dive bar owning dragon lady and her gaggle of weirdos… :3
she should visit Cara’s coffee house and meet DOC…. (= OR wander over to the coffee of DOOM and hang out with Tai, Dora, and the crew over there.
That’d be an interesting crossover.
Somehow, the moment M and the others find out what she does for the holidays, makes me think that she’s going to find herself with plans soon.
Tina seems to repeatedly come back to this issue yet there never seems to be any resolution. It feels like she can’t grow as a person until she can find a way through this.
Hell, I’m human and I don’t want to get close to humans. I hate the holidays. Most depressing part of the year.
And if you work in the service and travel industry it only become 100X worse.
Or retail. I know I don’t really want to go out into Black Friday without a cattle prod connected to a car battery. I may have to to get some essentials, though.
You mean you need to bring a hazmat suit and tear gas.
HUGS, Tina. HUGS.
I dunno, I think she’s pretty close to humans.
At least, she looks pretty close…
(badum-tish)
Well, I thought Tiffany, seen one time in Monica’s antique shoppe, might be her sister. But even if she is, I imagine they’re not close.
You’re not getting away that easily Miss Tina, not this year (or ever again)!
Thanksgiving: Hungryman ™
Christmas: Chinese Takeout
So long as that takeout is good peking duck!
Thanksgiving; Cook yourself what you want, but pick something you need to Slowcook……..
🙁
Makes me want to invite Tina over for cookies and hot drinks and quiet music, and obligation to talk or stay if she doesn’t want to.
Introvert stuff.
The woman needs a boyfriend, Paul!
I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE 😀😀😀
Eh I could be persuaded… Ive have a demon ex wife…
🙂 Beware of Stan. t’sall I’m say’n…
Meh. A couple months back, I woke up convinced Tina was on the other side of the bed, but when I looked, she had ditched me.
Probably my imagination.
I’m with Tina on all the Xmas BS starting way too soon. Saw Xmas decorations in Costco in mid-August. Radio and TV commercials have been using Xmas music as backdrops for a few weeks now. The overkill just puts me off of the whole season. Would be happy if radio stations put off playing the Xmas songs until about Dec. 21 or later. Get in, get it over with, then get out in just a few days.
One week after Thanksgiving, that’s all I ask…
HP Lovecraft Historical Society’s Scary Solstice series of CD’s. Listening to a mashup of Christmas carols and eldritch horrors has kept me surprisingly sane so far.
Tina has a whole family in there….
We haven’t seen them out and about lately.
Could they be coalescing?
When you think about it, where would some of them go for Thanksgiving? Monica and Shelly have families, and I suppose anybody associated with them like Digit and Dietzel would be welcome…Katherine, Castela, and Atsali make up one family…Jin has her mother…Bud is in a long-term relationship with Monica’s ex…most of the kids at Gryphon High and such are from families…well, there’s Brandi and Tina, they’re alone…
Forgot about some of the other crew. Phix and Bia could go with Shelly, provided (1) they celebrate Thanksgiving, and (2) some explanation of who and what they are has been offered to other relations. But what would Nudge do?
Celebrate with Tsillah and the Deaths?
Would’a thought Death would be working on the holiday.
Thought she was talking about Christmas, and only mentioned Turkey Basting Day as a reference to how early that pagan celebration creeps up every year
Too relatable. 😢 Every year I tell myself the same things, but every year I feel like a failure because I haven’t changed at all.
its not quite time yet for my Christmas Doom and disgust song fest. Featuring such Christmas classics as The Night Santa went Crazy, By WEird Al Yankovic, Slashed wrists for Christmas By Gruff Rhys, The Seasons Upon us by the Drop Kick Murphys and of course the best blow your brains out Christmas SUCKS song of all time. The Pogues Classic- Fairy Tale of NY… (not recommended for those with Seasonal affective disorders suicidal thoughts or feelings or who actually want to be happy.
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish Men, Scary Solstice, Demon Sultan Azathoth, Special Book Room, Slay Ride, All I Want for Solstice is My Sanity, Away in a Madhouse…
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer; The 12 Slays Of Christmas; Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire; Jingle Hells; Silver Hells; Do You Kill What I Kill?; Soylent Night; Wreck The Halls; Here Comes Satan’s Claws…
Welcome Home by Rehab
I’ve missed her so much! *feels*
Ok, here’s a horrifying thought:
No one shows up at the shop on Christmas because everyone thinks it would be closed for the holiday, while in fact, several of her friends would love to stop by.
Kinda reminds me of an old “TMI” page, when Pixie went home to spend another lonely Christmas, what she didn’t know was her friends arriving with food and gifts
Yay, a character I care about! 🙂
Alas; Humans or no, being a fellow introvert… I’m hip!
Ouch! This one hit me right in the feels!
Happy Thanksgiving.!
What is Becky doing for Thanksgiving?
counting the Christmas lights, over and over and over… they keep messing her up cause the blink…
Christmas is the best time of year, but it’s been commercialized too much. A Charlie Brown Christmas helps inoculate against it. I also recommend reading “A Christmas Carol” by Dickens. It really is wonderful. However, if you do not have family or you are missing a loved one, it can be extremely hard. There is a reason why the season is especially noted for suicides. Tina has a greater pool of sapients to draw from than just humans. Hopefully, Tina realizes that and hopefully her friends notice and do something about it. *Fingers crossed*
One other last thought…I guess integration of some kind has happened with Tina and her inner and sometimes-outer demons—she’s persistently used first person singular these past few months.
But if they were around, they could crawl out, prop Tina up in a chair, and then have a Thanksgiving party all on their own.
How come there wasn’t a new Wapsi Square strip yesterday?
It isn’t unusual for Paul to put the strip on a short hiatus over the holiday times. He normally announces it if it’s going to be a week or more.
Also, his son was ill recently – that apparently cut into his writing time and energy.
It’s also possible that he just overindulged in turkey and dressing, as so many of us did, and fell asleep in his dinner chair.
He was celebrating Leftover Turkey Sammich Day!
I mentally kick myself for not thinking of that myself.
I’m used to seeing Christmas stuff start getting put on the shelves just after Halloween, the past few years, and it’s so bad that some places will actually start swapping out their Thanksgiving stuff before that actual day. Of course, they also put Valentine’s stuff up immediately after a couple of days of Christmas clearance is done with, so it’s not like Christmas is the only one they’re taking an extensively early approach to. That said, Valentine’s isn’t going around bullying other [commercial] holidays out of the way. 😛