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All The While

by Paul Taylor on November 21, 2018 at 1:03 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Tina
Location: Lake Bde Maka Ska, Mucho Mocha, Uptown

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  1. Greyryder
    November 21, 2018, 1:51 am | # | Reply

    Sounds like an introvert’s Christmas.

    • robnot
      November 22, 2018, 9:56 am | # | Reply

      !!?? are you back.??! last update i saw was 2015…. i miss Angel..

      • Greyryder
        November 26, 2018, 1:09 am | #

        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.

  2. bargamer
    November 21, 2018, 2:12 am | # | Reply

    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!

  3. Akamar
    November 21, 2018, 2:50 am | # | Reply

    She can come hang out with my dive bar owning dragon lady and her gaggle of weirdos… :3

    • joecrouse
      November 21, 2018, 5:48 pm | # | Reply

      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.

      • Gyrre
        November 22, 2018, 5:54 am | #

        That’d be an interesting crossover.

  4. Cortanis
    November 21, 2018, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    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.

  5. LN
    November 21, 2018, 4:57 am | # | Reply

    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.

  6. Hawk
    November 21, 2018, 6:17 am | # | Reply

    Hell, I’m human and I don’t want to get close to humans. I hate the holidays. Most depressing part of the year.

    • Cortanis
      November 22, 2018, 1:34 am | # | Reply

      And if you work in the service and travel industry it only become 100X worse.

      • Iceburgh69
        November 23, 2018, 12:48 am | #

        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.

      • Cortanis
        November 23, 2018, 8:07 am | #

        You mean you need to bring a hazmat suit and tear gas.

  7. txmystic
    November 21, 2018, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    HUGS, Tina. HUGS.

  8. Carl-E
    November 21, 2018, 10:17 am | # | Reply

    I dunno, I think she’s pretty close to humans.

    At least, she looks pretty close…

    (badum-tish)

  9. Robert Nowall
    November 21, 2018, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    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.

  10. Guesticus
    November 21, 2018, 11:47 am | # | Reply

    You’re not getting away that easily Miss Tina, not this year (or ever again)!

  11. Jayessell
    November 21, 2018, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

    Thanksgiving: Hungryman ™
    Christmas: Chinese Takeout

    • Gavote
      November 21, 2018, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

      So long as that takeout is good peking duck!

    • TazManiac
      November 22, 2018, 3:34 am | # | Reply

      Thanksgiving; Cook yourself what you want, but pick something you need to Slowcook……..

  12. Killjoy
    November 21, 2018, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

    🙁

    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.

  13. Jeff Weiner
    November 21, 2018, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

    The woman needs a boyfriend, Paul!

    • MerchManDan
      November 21, 2018, 4:22 pm | # | Reply

      I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE 😀😀😀

      • joecrouse
        November 21, 2018, 5:49 pm | #

        Eh I could be persuaded… Ive have a demon ex wife…

      • TazManiac
        November 22, 2018, 3:38 am | #

        🙂 Beware of Stan. t’sall I’m say’n…

    • Robert Nowall
      November 23, 2018, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  14. Xerxes Aragon
    November 21, 2018, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • TazManiac
      November 22, 2018, 3:41 am | # | Reply

      One week after Thanksgiving, that’s all I ask…

    • Iceburgh69
      November 23, 2018, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      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.

  15. Vorlonagent
    November 21, 2018, 2:44 pm | # | Reply

    Tina has a whole family in there….

    • Jeff Weiner
      November 21, 2018, 6:19 pm | # | Reply

      We haven’t seen them out and about lately.
      Could they be coalescing?

  16. Robert Nowall
    November 21, 2018, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

    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…

    • Robert Nowall
      November 24, 2018, 10:16 am | # | Reply

      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?

      • Jeff Weiner
        November 24, 2018, 11:06 am | #

        Celebrate with Tsillah and the Deaths?

      • Robert Nowall
        November 24, 2018, 12:42 pm | #

        Would’a thought Death would be working on the holiday.

      • Guesticus
        November 24, 2018, 3:33 pm | #

        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

  17. MerchManDan
    November 21, 2018, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  18. joecrouse
    November 21, 2018, 5:54 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • Iceburgh69
      November 23, 2018, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      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…

      • Xerxes Aragon
        November 23, 2018, 11:32 am | #

        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…

    • PyjamaPartyMonster
      November 24, 2018, 5:26 am | # | Reply

      Welcome Home by Rehab

  19. Avon Fox
    November 21, 2018, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

    I’ve missed her so much! *feels*

  20. Himax
    November 21, 2018, 11:18 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • Guesticus
      November 22, 2018, 7:54 am | # | Reply

      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

  21. TlalocW
    November 22, 2018, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Yay, a character I care about! 🙂

  22. Centaur71
    November 22, 2018, 5:30 am | # | Reply

    Alas; Humans or no, being a fellow introvert… I’m hip!

  23. PyjamaPartyMonster
    November 22, 2018, 9:15 am | # | Reply

    Ouch! This one hit me right in the feels!

  24. robnot
    November 22, 2018, 9:58 am | # | Reply

    Happy Thanksgiving.!

  25. Robert Nowall
    November 22, 2018, 10:37 am | # | Reply

    What is Becky doing for Thanksgiving?

    • joecrouse
      November 23, 2018, 11:50 am | # | Reply

      counting the Christmas lights, over and over and over… they keep messing her up cause the blink…

  26. W.
    November 23, 2018, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

    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*

  27. Robert Nowall
    November 24, 2018, 10:14 am | # | Reply

    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.

  28. DocForbin
    November 24, 2018, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

    How come there wasn’t a new Wapsi Square strip yesterday?

    • Dave
      November 24, 2018, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

      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.

      • PyjamaPartyMonster
        November 24, 2018, 9:27 pm | #

        He was celebrating Leftover Turkey Sammich Day!

      • Robert Nowall
        November 25, 2018, 1:21 am | #

        I mentally kick myself for not thinking of that myself.

  29. HeySo
    January 23, 2019, 4:29 pm | # | Reply

    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. 😛

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