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Little Tea Pot

by Paul Taylor on September 27, 2017 at 9:58 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Alana, Atsali, Ruri, Skylar
Location: Dragon's Wall College

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Discussion (50) ¬

  1. Norman Prather
    September 27, 2017, 10:07 pm | # | Reply

    Ah the look of long suffering with the patience learned over her century as a tea pot.

  2. Robert Nowall
    September 27, 2017, 10:20 pm | # | Reply

    Alana beat me to it. I like her, she’s silly.

  3. BarerMender
    September 27, 2017, 10:25 pm | # | Reply

    I’d like to see that aura in color.

    • Jeff Weiner
      September 27, 2017, 10:27 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe she was one of Tina’s tea pots in the cycles of the Calendar Machine where she collectd them. She could describe the aura in color.

  4. scantrontb
    September 27, 2017, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

    i wonder what would happen if she were ever to do a comic cross-over into the Coffee of Doom coffee-shop from Questionable Content? they are sorta on a “tea smelling” arc over there with various types/styles of tea evoking various “visions” for the various robots in the comic… with Assam having an especially um… “unusual” response… would Ruri either be able to see the same vision as the tea sniffing robot, or maybe even possibly influence what the tea sniffee sees in the first place somehow?

    • Dave
      September 27, 2017, 10:50 pm | # | Reply

      I suspect that a humanized teapot sniffing tea from a teapot, might create a recursive self-referential implosion which would suck everyone in the coffee shop into some sort of dreadful hell dimension …

      … where the only tea was Lipton in a bag, and the only coffee was Nescafe.

      • Shela
        September 27, 2017, 10:59 pm | #

        AAAAAAAAAHHH!!! *runs screaming into the night*

      • Sjmcc13
        September 28, 2017, 7:17 pm | #

        Well, that would be one way to break my caffeine dependency 😉

      • scantrontb
        September 28, 2017, 9:30 pm | #

        Huh… i wasn’t thinking along those lines, as good as they are… i was thinking more along the lines of: “What if they BREWED the tea IN Her teapot”?

      • Fairportfan
        July 11, 2019, 3:49 am | #

        honky-tonk hell where
        the beer tastes like water
        and the wine don’t never flow
        juke box’s blown
        if you wanna hear a song
        twisted sister’s on the radio…

        Webb Wilder, “Honky Tonk Hell”

    • RatatoskRider
      September 28, 2017, 9:16 pm | # | Reply

      Hah! My guess would be an understanding on [u]why[/u] they are smelling what they do.

      I would love to read that cross over, in anycase.

  5. Mark N
    September 27, 2017, 10:40 pm | # | Reply

    She could have been one of Jin’s pots. I seem to remember something about her collecting tea pots.

    • Jeff Weiner
      September 27, 2017, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

      Jin remembered Tina’s collection, that may have existed in one or more of the earlier cycles of the Calendar Machine. Tina didn’t.

  6. Adama
    September 27, 2017, 10:47 pm | # | Reply

    Great backstory. Cute final panel.

  7. gyrre
    September 27, 2017, 10:49 pm | # | Reply

    Looks like a few people called this yesterday.

  8. All-Purpose Guru
    September 27, 2017, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

    That look of extreme… …tolerance on Ruri’s face.

    Sometimes you love your roommate. Sometimes their body is found outside the commons.

    • Dave
      September 27, 2017, 11:17 pm | # | Reply

      The look on her face is only natural. You would expect a teapot tsukumogami to have a glazed expression at least occasionally.

      • Carl-E
        September 27, 2017, 11:51 pm | #

        I see what you did there.

      • Guesticus
        September 28, 2017, 12:50 am | #

        The glazing is catching, look at Sali in panel two 😀

  9. All-Purpose Guru
    September 27, 2017, 10:57 pm | # | Reply

    This school is in Tokyo, right?

    • TKKain
      September 28, 2017, 11:18 am | # | Reply

      Yup.

  10. B0mar
    September 27, 2017, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

    Excellent! gyrrer and Siarles nailed it precisely.

    … and we know what the “energy” problem is. This girl needs a fire lit under her.

    • themadkansan
      September 28, 2017, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      thpppppppppppbt 😛 🙂

  11. GrantCMcCormick
    September 27, 2017, 11:48 pm | # | Reply

    Atsali needs to introduce Ruri to Jin, since Ms. Jin is (paraphrasing her talk with Alan) a ceramic container that often contains tea!

    • Bratty Roger
      October 22, 2017, 12:03 am | # | Reply

      I wonder how Ruri would react to Atsali’s “g-girl” auntis (like Bud, Brandy, and [now possibly] Jin)?

  12. Treesong
    September 27, 2017, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

    Her first response forcefully reminded me of a sentence, from an Alexei Panshin novel, that burned itself into my memory fifty years ago. A thug/bodyguard has been shot or otherwise inconvenienced and:
    ‘I’m a little teapot’, he said, filled his pants, and died.

    • Dave
      September 28, 2017, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      Was that “Rite Of Passage”, or one of the Anthony Villiers novels?

      • GrantCMcCormick
        September 28, 2017, 1:05 am | #

        It was the first of the Anthony Villiers trilogy, Star Well. The entire trilogy is available as a single-volume eBook, New Celebrations, which is how I have it.

        https://www.baen.com/new-celebrations-the-adventures-of-anthony-villiers.html

  13. Dorje Sylas
    September 28, 2017, 2:14 am | # | Reply

    And great-grands cherished tea pot is spontaneously a baby girl. How would you like to wake up to that in the morning? Would tsukumogami be plausible Boltzmann brains?

  14. captxpendable
    September 28, 2017, 2:23 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if she wants to be an Astronaut.

  15. SilentSooYun
    September 28, 2017, 5:01 am | # | Reply

    Ah, a tale as old as time…

    • McClaw
      September 28, 2017, 10:43 am | # | Reply

      So she has a little brother, Chip?

  16. Hawk
    September 28, 2017, 5:04 am | # | Reply

    Think of all the poor bidets, spittoons and other less savory items that could technically be well used and loved (let me tell you, I do indeed love my ADA compliant toilet over the old barely high enough for a toddler model). . . they could be coming to life too if thy last a hundred years.

  17. Dennis
    September 28, 2017, 8:10 am | # | Reply

    I recently watched an anime about this. “Tsugumomo” has a tsukumogami that is an obi. Good bit of folklore in that show.

    • joecrouse
      September 28, 2017, 9:55 am | # | Reply

      The Myriad Colors from 2014… Great anime. also about tsugumomo

  18. Correllian
    September 28, 2017, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    Alana gets knocked across the room in 3……..2……..1……..

  19. Killjoy
    September 28, 2017, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    Atsali is making the facial expression equivalent to the spinning icon that says “processing” while your computer refuses to do anything else.

    • joecrouse
      September 28, 2017, 10:03 am | # | Reply

      spit take in t minus 2 days and counting.

  20. Jayessell
    September 28, 2017, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    Would special circumstances be required for animating artifacts? Aside from just being loved? Otherwise nothing over 100 years would exist.

    • Jeff Weiner
      September 28, 2017, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

      Well-used, and probably being located in Japan.

  21. Vorlonagent
    September 28, 2017, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

    I’m getting a Rei Ayanami vibe from Ruri…

  22. someboddy
    September 28, 2017, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

    Error 418

    • il biggo
      April 22, 2019, 8:52 am | # | Reply

      I was scanning the comments just for this .-D

  23. Avon Fox
    September 28, 2017, 7:41 pm | # | Reply

    Kool-Aid Man may finally find love.

  24. TazManiac
    September 28, 2017, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

    I like it, But them lyrics could use a little flow massage…

    • Hinoron
      September 30, 2017, 1:27 am | # | Reply

      I was just thinking, I’ll admit I’m not 100% certain I remember the song perfectly after more than three decades, but is that not one too many verses?

      • Storel
        May 8, 2018, 12:07 am | #

        She might have repeated the last line with different words, or something like that. But yes, the meter is not good in some of the lines, unless Paul learned a different version of the tune than I did. Here’s the original as I learned it:

        I’m a little teapot, short and stout
        Here is my handle, here is my spout
        When the water’s boiling hear me shout!
        Just tip me over and pour me out.

      • Storel
        May 8, 2018, 12:09 am | #

        It’s probably just that Alana isn’t very good at writing parody lyrics, though. Funny girl, but no sense of rhythm. 8-P

    • Bratty Roger
      August 11, 2023, 5:50 am | # | Reply

      It’s obvious that Alana is no Weird Al Yankovik 🙄

      • Bratty Roger
        August 11, 2023, 5:55 am | #

        This was meant to be a reply to: Storel 😖

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