Annotated 2-12
Honestly, Syr’Nj, you’re lucky you ran into two lazy ones. The more proactive racists would run you in for “creating a disturbance,” and what they’d do after that, I’d rather not speculate.
The most interesting thing to me here now is that Syr’Nj calls Bandit a “midget.” She has not yet met any gnomes, and Bandit’s behavior is rather un-gnomelike from what she’s likely to have heard, so it’s a reasonable error. Still, of all the people to mislabel a race… and with a term they’d find offensive, even…
In Minecraft, the recipe for a potion of swiftness is “1 water bottle, 1 nether wart, and 1 sugar.” Syr’Nj’s is presumably a bit more advanced.
At this point in the planning, the player bonded to Bandit was going to be a male, not a trans woman, so Phil left this note: “I opted to make a Three Stooges reference here as the first subtle clue that her player is actually a male. As we all know, all women across the entire earth think the Three Stooges are not funny.”
Phil, you’re old, man. That’s a Futurama reference, now. >_>
Age verification to enter adult web pages are now a sound clip of this and you have to click a picture of either Curly or Zoidberg.
It is absurdly more accurate than asking “ARE YOU 18?! [YES] [NO]”
Genius
Anyone answering Curly will be rejected, deemed too likely to die from a heart condition at the sight of adult materials.
Futurama was a looooong time ago. We’re old.
Watch out, she’s got a head knife!
“In Minecraft, the recipe for a potion of swiftness is “1 water bottle, 1 nether wart, and 1 sugar.” Syr’Nj’s is presumably a bit more advanced.”
I’ll bet. *rubs finger under nose and sniffs suggestively*
So… wait, Bandit’s player is trans?
Huh. I never caught that.
I did kinda binged on this whole massive adventure, but neither did I. Maybe some kind soul with master archiving skill could spot us the general chapter where this was mentioned.
I don’t think that it’s ever explicitly established on the page, but it’s implied by the flashback to her childhood in the 2014 Axemas special. The haircut she has and the toys she was given are very suggestive of her being raised as a boy.
Chrissie, like Shanna, is a character imported from another of T’s series (QUILTBAG, in this case), and it was explicitly stated there.
Actually, as I finish rereading the sequence, Chrissie’s ‘what I learned from the whole mess’ is actually even more strongly suggestive. (And it’s explicitly confirmed in the comments on several strips in the special.)
Didn’t even cross my mind. I just thought she was a bit of a tomboy as a kid, that she was just “a bit of an odd one” growing up because, look at her, she’s a hardcore gamer. Weren’t we all odd ones growing up?
The dialog completely missed me. I probably would’ve thought I was overthinking it had it crossed my mind. I’m stupid like that.
Thank you!
Not stupid, just didn’t cross the same paths she did, so less likely to properly interpret the signs. (I crossed them on the way to a slightly different destination, and I reached it somewhat later than she did, but her line about ‘forcing yourself into certain “who you should bes”‘ really struck a familiar chord.)
That’s interesting. I completely missed that too. But maybe that is because I WAS a tomboy growing up, and asked for toys like that, even had a short haircut in second grade (though I was upset it was a little too boy-like of a style for me). (One Christmas my grandma gave me a handheld ninja game (a cheap gameboy knockoff) because that had been my m.o. and all the other girls my age got frilly dresses for their baby dolls. I don’t think she even knew I had a doll! I was actually kindof heartbroken I didn’t get a dress, and it never crossed my little child mind that she never knew I would even be interested in something like that.)
I definitely didn’t catch that at all. I feel super unobservant. :(
Yep. That one got me by surprise to. I never picked up on that.
It *almost* strikes me as an “oh, and Dumbledore is gay” type thing.
The 2012 Three Stooges movie has precisely a 50% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I think we all know which 50%.
MmmmHmmm…. While I am a Cis Woman… I admit I probably don’t find the Three Stooges as funny as most. I prefer the Marx Brothers.
For a second, I thought that was a potion of wittiness and I thought she was using it to come up with a good retort. Swiftness is more practical
You say that, but I wager there’d be more market for wittiness potions.
Tincture of Treppenwitz.
It must more expensive than witlessness potions. Those apparently cheap enough, since so many seem able to afford them.
I’m pretty sure the correct spelling is ſwiftneſs, not ſwiftneſſ.
Yes, T explains this a few pages earlier (see: cultists with “chipſ”).