Ouch. Shades of what happened with Atsali’s friend in the orphanage, lo those many years ago.
Teen-time is rough enough on human kids – the social pressures can be awful, and the isolation sometimes almost literally murderous. For paras… I can imagine it could easily be worse.
Oof. Kind of a gut-shot on 9/11 to refer to people jumping to their deaths, though I assume the timing is coincidental. OK, let’s focus on something else. Oh, I got it. A trivial error. Second panel. “Whether we want them to OUR not.”
… even though the page title is “Separate Things”, I question whether these things are truly separate, or perhaps Briar is seeing a connection that’s not really there…?
It would be fascinating to ask Briar how she felt about her friend’s suicide. A wall of intellectualized text for reguar adults is a way of insulting from pain. Briar? dunno. Which is why it’d be interesting to ask.
A little closer together? I think so. If they are, it’s like when i’m using one of the fonts i made based on my handwriting in my DTP program and i set the “leading” {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading} to zero, or a very small value
“Directional Dyslexia” was mentioned, properly named Dyspraxia, which can happen alongside ADHD. The stream-of-consciousness commentary is probably meant to be indicative of this.
Briar talking about her friend commiting suicide matter factually, kinda threw ‘Stela off her stride.
The clinical detachment she stated it with would throw a lot of people off their stride.
comic came back swingin’ ~<3
That turned dark in a great big hurry.
Ouch. Shades of what happened with Atsali’s friend in the orphanage, lo those many years ago.
Teen-time is rough enough on human kids – the social pressures can be awful, and the isolation sometimes almost literally murderous. For paras… I can imagine it could easily be worse.
Damn, talk about a heavy load to lay on someone during lunch break.
…Oh, dear. That was a curveball. o!O
Castela’s “blue screen of death” right there is the correct response to such a bombshell. I mean, how do you even respond to something like that?
Is this a learning experience for the Blackthorn?
Yeah. Cthulhu says he feels the same way after devouring an inhabited planet.
Well… shit…
Oof. Kind of a gut-shot on 9/11 to refer to people jumping to their deaths, though I assume the timing is coincidental. OK, let’s focus on something else. Oh, I got it. A trivial error. Second panel. “Whether we want them to OUR not.”
Allow me to punctuate your sentiments.
oh. oh ouch. I second JT’s comment. Oof.
I commend the artistic touch of putting that whole speech in a balloon that completely obscures Castela…
Really works when the next panel is her reaction shot of “What The Fuck?!?”
This feels to me like Briar’s way of asking Castella…
“You’re not planning to do anything like suicide, are you?”
… even though the page title is “Separate Things”, I question whether these things are truly separate, or perhaps Briar is seeing a connection that’s not really there…?
Or is Briar seeing a connection nobody else sees?
It would be fascinating to ask Briar how she felt about her friend’s suicide. A wall of intellectualized text for reguar adults is a way of insulting from pain. Briar? dunno. Which is why it’d be interesting to ask.
Just to be sure – you meant ‘insulAting’, and not ‘insulting’, right?
Correct. Insulating.
I think she’d have had less reaction if she’d dropped an anvil in her lap.
Are Briar’s dialogue lines just a little closer together and jumbled-looking, or is it just me?
Jumbled together – i don’t think so
A little closer together? I think so. If they are, it’s like when i’m using one of the fonts i made based on my handwriting in my DTP program and i set the “leading” {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading} to zero, or a very small value
castela.exe has crashed. please reboot and try again.
I wonder what a shrink would say about Briar
I mean, she’s definitely on the spectrum, but where?
I’ve never seen “Rain Man” but som of the things that i have read kind of remind me ofthis.
“Directional Dyslexia” was mentioned, properly named Dyspraxia, which can happen alongside ADHD. The stream-of-consciousness commentary is probably meant to be indicative of this.
Briar’s all; my BFF committed suicide, but it ain’t no thing… 😰