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chicgeek wrote:This is going to be-eventually if not right away- a serious story and Monica will have shit of her own to work through while mentoring this fae. You can slam a lid on a bubbling pot, but it's still going to boil over catastrophically.

I agree. There are probably rape related issues Monica has not dealt with even now. Her helping Calista may have just as much cathartic effect for her as the little Fae. As you said, what she did was not really rape per se, but may be close enough for Monica to see the whole thing from the other side. Maybe not the sexual side, but from the rage, control, and humiliation aspects of of rape. Perhaps going through all this will give her a profound insight into her rapist's feelings and POV. What "demons" he had inside him and what they may have caused him to do. This by exploring Calista's driving forces that would cause her to do such a drastic thing. In so doing she may be finally able to overcome some last barriers to her letting go of her trauma at his hands. While she may not be able to forgive him, she may, at least, understand better and, with that understanding, put it to rest. That's one of the basic tenants of reincarnation after all. You have to be both the victim and the criminal. The hunter and the hunted, etc. to truly understand. For that you need many lifetimes as many different people. You must see both sides of everything before you really become enlightened. And can't nobody reincarnate like Jaguar Girl.

lake_wrangler wrote:

illiad wrote:you ask for a camel, he may offer you these...

And yet, it's technically a dromedary, on that image...

Maybe, BUT they are all the Camel family, genus 'Camelus'
http://www.iaszoology.com/camels-of-the-world/
"The old-world genus Camelus has two species, C. bactrianus (two-humped camel) and C. dromedarius (one-humped camel)"

scantrontb wrote:

Mark N wrote:But now Paul has told us that the Cheerleaders in her old school were mermaids. That would explain her reaction to Jessie being truthful.

?huh? i'm not understanding what point you are trying to make... could you rephrase the question?

When Calista found out that Jessie was being truthful to Atsali she was shocked by it. It seems that to her mermaids are not to be trusted and now the cheerleaders that had humiliated her are now confirmed to be Mermaids (Tuna).

MerchManDan wrote:That'll teach me to actually read comments in order - I had merely skimmed Catawampus's's's post immediately before this one, so when I read his comic* I had NO idea what was happening.

Eh, that's the typical reaction of people to me anyway. . .

Besides, having context is for boring people!

Hee, yes, I meant Georgette. D'uh!

illiad wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:

illiad wrote:you ask for a camel, he may offer you these...

And yet, it's technically a dromedary, on that image...

Maybe, BUT they are all the Camel family, genus 'Camelus'
http://www.iaszoology.com/camels-of-the-world/
"The old-world genus Camelus has two species, C. bactrianus (two-humped camel) and C. dromedarius (one-humped camel)"

I know, I know... I already pointed that out above...

lake_wrangler wrote:

illiad wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:And yet, it's technically a dromedary, on that image...

Maybe, BUT they are all the Camel family, genus 'Camelus'
http://www.iaszoology.com/camels-of-the-world/
"The old-world genus Camelus has two species, C. bactrianus (two-humped camel) and C. dromedarius (one-humped camel)"

I know, I know... I already pointed that out above...

I get the feeling that we're all going to end up ridiculing one another over this little issue.

You know what they used to say in the ads for that brand: "I'd mock a while, for a Camel."

(puts a "Cold Turkey" brand nicotine-free nicotine patch into the Pun Jar)

What happened to shadowinthelight's spider camel image? It's not showing up, anymore...

lake_wrangler wrote: Maybe, BUT they are all the Camel family, genus 'Camelus'
http://www.iaszoology.com/camels-of-the-world/
"The old-world genus Camelus has two species, C. bactrianus (two-humped camel) and C. dromedarius (one-humped camel)"

I know, I know... I already pointed that out above... [/quote]
well, I was just backing it up with a good source.. I find some dont like clicking... :/

lake_wrangler wrote:What happened to shadowinthelight's spider camel image? It's not showing up, anymore...

The server is down, and according to http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/static.fjcdn.com it's not just me.

... that's FunnyJunk, isn't it? Heh ...

illiad wrote: well, I was just backing it up with a good source.. I find some dont like clicking... :/

GASP! Are you saying that Wikipedia, which I had originally linked to, is not a reliable source?

lake_wrangler wrote:

illiad wrote: well, I was just backing it up with a good source.. I find some dont like clicking... :/

GASP! Are you saying that Wikipedia, which I had originally linked to, is not a reliable source?

hey ya knoooow... :/ :p

Wikipedia seems to work on the "Somebody Said" method of attribution. I remember a story about a Famous Person challenging a Wiki entry that had botched his quote. The Wiki rep declined the challenge, because the FP had no source reference, just their word for it.

Funny how that "hearsay" thing doesn't work in Court Trials either.

Heh. I haven't checked lately to see if it's been challenged or removed, but there's a line in a Wikipedia page that resolves a long-standing controversy, which has no attribution - it's there because i know it for a fact, because it happened to me, but i have no other authority for it.

It is, however, a good place to begin research, because it will likely point you to other, more "acceptable" sources.