No Fun For An Idiot In The Sun 2015-06-25

[Catawampus]

I wonder if Nadette's bathing suit is yellow?

Atsali is well on the way to patching her relationship with Nadette.

And Nadette seems to be trying to mend things from her side, too. Which is promising. When both parties involved are trying to repair the damage, then you're already more than halfway there.

ok, bear babe is gonna be floating away now.

Good thing that there ought to be a few life preservers nearby.

Vampires, mermaids, sirens, okay, all of those survive suspension of disbelief, but is there even such a thing as a person who can't read emotions at all? How do you survive even casual interaction without any sort of ability to read those around you?

It's actually a not terribly uncommon problem in people. For that matter, it's estimated that around 1% of the population can't even recognise individuals' faces, even when it is the face of a close family member. The system of the brain that is involved in recognising and reading faces is different from the one that recognises and interprets other objects. If that part doesn't develop just right, or if it gets damaged somehow, then it can make social interaction a bit more challenging. Also, your mental library of facial expressions isn't something that you're born with. You have to build it up from observation of the people around you. If something disrupts that process, then you're not going to be able to tell what expressions mean.

Now that I think on it, I recall reading about a series of experiments done on monkeys in the early 1900's that resulted in not just emotional blindness, but also a higher than usual sex drive. I haven't heard if such tests have also been successfully performed on birds. . .

The human mind is a strange thing. The teenage nonhuman mind is probably even more so.

You know her lungs are still in that unsquishy place behind the squishy fun parts, right?

Or are they? Having a greatly expanded lung surface area might help with absorbing enough oxygen when flying at higher altitudes.

[meisdadoo]

Just as I predicted earlier, when I said I had no idea where this story was going next. . . .another sharp left turn for no apparent reason, then it magically ties back in and it all makes sense several chapters later. Just one of so many reasons my all time favorite amusement park ride is, was, and ever shall be, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland.
(for those not familiar with Mr. Toad or his wild ride, read one of my all time favorite books: The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame. Or you can just read the synopses in Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_in_the_Willows )

[Dave]

Just as I predicted earlier, when I said I had no idea where this story was going next. . . .another sharp left turn for no apparent reason, then it magically ties back in and it all makes sense several chapters later. Just one of so many reasons my all time favorite amusement park ride is, was, and ever shall be, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland.

Welcome to Wapsi Territory... where the landscape is full of bootlegger turns, unexpected divergences and convergences, some amazing blind curves, and what I swear must be side roads through hyperspace.

I'd be glad to show you a map of the place, but they always seem to explode or catch fire spontaneously before they're complete enough to be useful.

[jwhouk]

I wonder if Nadette's bathing suit is yellow?

Good, someone else picked up on the reference!

For the rest of you who are clueless...

[kingklash]

Atsali is well on the way to patching her relationship with Nadette.

A little boob squish goes a long way.

[Gyrrakavian]

And evidently no sense of personal space.

[jwhouk]

I think what we are missing here is that Atsali was not very well acclimated into social graces while she was at the orphanage. She was more or less in a survival mode that really didn't allow her to develop such skills.

Sad, really, if you think about it.

[Dave]

I think what we are missing here is that Atsali was not very well acclimated into social graces while she was at the orphanage. She was more or less in a survival mode that really didn't allow her to develop such skills.

Sad, really, if you think about it.

Quite sad. She appears to have had several strikes against her:

• The trauma of losing her parents - likely the only people she was close to, at the time
• Years in an orphanage (which, reading between the lines, had no effective fostering system, and not enough staff or counselors to provide good social/emotional support)
• Perceptual blindness, which limited her ability to learn the social graces via "feedback" on her own
• Being a Siren, and thus perhaps isolated/shunned by others due to her species' reputation

Any one of these things would have been difficult. With all of them piled up, it's no wonder she's become a rather nerdy loner.

[chibichibi01]

So, its been a while since I've been here and participated in any sort of discussion, so idk if its been mentioned before now, but what Atsali is describing sounds very much like myself. And I'm an aspie. It really makes me feel good to see someone like me in a comic/media that isn't some sort of murderer.

[TazManiac]

- Having the bigger boobs might very well Require a greater lung capacity, if not for O2 intake then maybe just structural strength in an underpinning sort of way.

- Nadette! (Itt'sy bitt'sy yellow polka dots... hah!)

- Theres going to have to be a whole lot of reset/assimilation of new information with the past Atsali exposition.

- My initial reaction? 'Core Dump' anyone?


And where the frack has Berndine been in all this?

[illiad]

etsy, a LOT of chat about all that stuff last few days....

- Having the bigger boobs might very well Require a greater lung capacity, if not for O2 intake then maybe just structural strength in an underpinning sort of way.

for a human, maybe.. But most well endowed are not as thin as atsali, and have grown up with them, so built up musculature to deal with them...
Gravity *works* on humans..!!

Atsali has paranormal stuff, being a siren - that's the reason for 'negating gravity'...

[Opus the Poet]

An example of what happened the first time Nadette was "exposed" to Atsali's "squishy chest parts". http://wapsisquare.com/comic/one-spare-sister/

See the little word balloon on the lower left corner of the first panel? Now imagine her response to being "up close and personal' with them.

[scantrontb]

I wonder if Nadette's bathing suit is yellow?

Good, someone else picked up on the reference!

For the rest of you who are clueless...

it's not Itsy Bitsy, nor Teenie Weenie... ENOUGH, to be called an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie yellow? polka dot bikini...

i DID get the reference, but ya'll are just too on the ball (and have the time, too) for me to have posted that when i get home from work and have the time to read the comics... 0430 is too early to read AND respond before i have to leave for work, blargh...

[TazManiac]

Hrmm... I dawns on me that Atsali cut her off mid declaration.

Maybe Nadette was about to say something like "Atsali, I'm sorry I was crushing on you so hard, but I've gotten over it, and you know what? I met someone new!..."

[jwhouk]

No, that would be cruel. Pablo doesn't do cruel.

(Suddenly remembers Georgette and Kevin)

Uh, well, usually...

[jwhouk]

I was going to get the new comic thread up and going, but Pablo seems to be doing the cliffhanger thing on posting Friday's comic...

[Thor]

So, its been a while since I've been here and participated in any sort of discussion, so idk if its been mentioned before now, but what Atsali is describing sounds very much like myself. And I'm an aspie. It really makes me feel good to see someone like me in a comic/media that isn't some sort of murderer.

You don't remember what Atsali did to Tsillah's mom, do you?

(She wasn't successful in the murder (for a number of reasons) but it's the actions that count!)

[Opus the Poet]

Make us suffer and wait? How DARE he?!?

[Opus the Poet]

So, its been a while since I've been here and participated in any sort of discussion, so idk if its been mentioned before now, but what Atsali is describing sounds very much like myself. And I'm an aspie. It really makes me feel good to see someone like me in a comic/media that isn't some sort of murderer.

You don't remember what Atsali did to Tsillah's mom, do you?

(She wasn't successful in the murder (for a number of reasons) but it's the actions that count!)

Not a murderer, just a dangerous startle reflex.

[oldmanmickey]

witha hair trigger at times