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2017-08-01

by shaenon on August 1, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Sure as You're Born
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  1. ngmatt
    August 1, 2017, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    I see, so thats what you ment by “Sure as You’re Born” its one one of those kind of story arcs (then again this is skin horse, who knows what kind of subversion we will see)

  2. dvandom
    August 1, 2017, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Soooooo deep in the closet that she’s discovering civilizations of intelligent coathangers.

    • Bruce A Munro
      August 1, 2017, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      Where even the skeletons fear to tread.

    • Jay
      August 1, 2017, 3:34 am | # | Reply

      Mmf, that’s sounding more like the LGB-minus-T and exclusively-straight feminist civil rights (in)fights than simply Sweetheart being closeted, to me.

      • eternalfarnham
        August 1, 2017, 4:05 am | # | Reply

        Little of column A, little of column B?

        “It’s hard enough to be respected as a nonhuman [in my experience] […] I’m thinking of [my] basic welfare [by staunchly refusing to acknowledge anything that would make me even slightly less acceptable to the people I’ve spent my life trying to please].”

        • theysabet
          August 1, 2017, 5:01 am | # | Reply

          There’s an old saying about how nobody is such a fervent traditionalist as someone who’s already rebelled…

          • BRGR
            August 1, 2017, 1:02 pm | #

            Seems like they are either speaking from experience, having learned from their mistakes, or, more likely, are willfully blind to any other alternatives.

      • dvandom
        August 2, 2017, 9:47 pm | # | Reply

        No, her “freak out and immediately grab a guy for a date, never mind he’s a supervillain” reaction to Unity’s smooch suggests a general diving into the closet.

    • Shadowmehr
      August 1, 2017, 7:15 pm | # | Reply

      Okay, we need to see those civilizations in a future story arc. I want to see what the architecture of sapient coathangers would look like.

  3. Bruce A Munro
    August 1, 2017, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    I blame the media.(After all, the positive portrayal of sentient or at least highly intelligent dogs is a historical norm: gay couples, not so much)

  4. Clifton
    August 1, 2017, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    Less talk, more war dog-zombie smooches!

    • D. Walker
      August 1, 2017, 3:47 am | # | Reply

      Technically war dog-war nanite swarm smooches.

      …you know, it suddenly occurs to me a startling number of Skin Horse members are essentially living weapons.

      UNITY, Sweetheart, and Nick were all created for war. Tip is a career soldier with a specialization in Psychological Warfare. Moustachio is a weapon of mass destruction. Dr. Lee is a weapons designer.

      One true unknown is Gavotte, but an intelligent swarm of bees capable of giving orders? Sounds like a bioweapon program to me. Another unknown is Ira, who may or may not be a time traveler and/or secret agent.

      And I suppose we do also have to consider Chris and Marcie since they joined Skin Horse proper recently, and they’re technically both civilians. But they’re also basically devoted to irradiating things without having been given any explanation as to why, and their work has created all sorts of mutated life forms.

      Could they secretly be pawns in a military bioweapon program? Why spend all that time, effort, and money trying to design a living weapon when you could just irradiate all sorts of random stuff for super cheap? Eventually one of them might turn out to be militarily useful by random chance.

      Heck, even minor characters qualify. Konstantin is Russian Special Forces. Bubbles is a commercial AI that got put into a military drone built for espionage and wetworks.Half the reason Tigerlily is kept locked up is so she can build mad science death rays for the government on a budget.

      • BRGR
        August 1, 2017, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

        Only about 10% of a military force are fighting at most. The rest is logistics and administrative overhead.

        Skin Horse is part of the administrative overhead.

        • MisterTeatime
          August 3, 2017, 9:09 am | # | Reply

          They are now.

      • Shikome Kido Mi
        August 9, 2017, 6:06 am | # | Reply

        Of course the majority of Skin Horse’s members are sentient weapons. So are most of their clients. Skin Horse represents people who are largely products of mad science. And mad scientists love turning things to destructive ends and weaponizing everything much more than they do working on peaceful projects.

      • WJS
        August 2, 2019, 9:15 am | # | Reply

        Don’t forget Hitty.

  5. Jon
    August 1, 2017, 1:44 am | # | Reply

    Welllll, technically, the bits in Leviticus that generally cause trouble say nothing about gay *non-humans*… or lesbians, for that matter…

    • Robert Nowall
      August 1, 2017, 9:00 am | # | Reply

      Leviticus says a lot of things…but I don’t recall coconut shell beads being specifically mentioned.

      • Sir William
        August 1, 2017, 10:23 am | # | Reply

        It should have been

        • Cloudster
          August 1, 2017, 10:45 am | # | Reply

          Dante had a circle just for them, but it was cut by his editor.

  6. Robert Nowall
    August 1, 2017, 9:01 am | # | Reply

    Does Sweetheart mean that if that Mercutio and Tony come out, they lose their welfare benefits?

  7. BRGR
    August 1, 2017, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

    I like how Sweetheart’s argument is the same the LGBTQ+ use for distancing themselves from NAMBLA.

    With everyone involved wanting to push their own agenda on the couple of radical experimental physicists, I predict that soon we shall see the violence inherent in the system.

    At this point I would not be surprised if the turtles turn out to be ninjas. Nobody has paid attention to them for so long now that we can’t be sure where they are or what they are up to.

    • underappreciatednecromancer
      August 1, 2017, 8:45 pm | # | Reply

      What?

      • Pygar
        August 2, 2017, 12:53 am | # | Reply

        The turtles are a few days back.

    • Dementron
      April 18, 2018, 7:53 am | # | Reply

      We distance ourselves from NAMBLA because we oppose pedophilia. Pedophilia isn’t “other stuff”; it’s child abuse, and anyone with any sense knows the difference between that and being LGBTQ.

  8. casimir
    August 1, 2017, 11:11 pm | # | Reply

    I think it should be “clients’ sexual identities”. Not sure though.

    • Dementron
      April 18, 2018, 7:46 am | # | Reply

      Sexual orientation, actually. Identity is something else.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 18, 2018, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      The comic is technically grammatically correct, since the two clients share a single sexual identity (assuming they really are both cis males, and we were never led to believe otherwise). But if he had said “identities”, it would have been more correct, since it would cover the possibility of having different identities.

      But Dementron is right… Tip should have said “sexual orientation”, since he was referring to the fact that they’re gay.

  9. Keiya
    November 14, 2019, 7:20 pm | # | Reply

    Sweetheart? Either grow up or go defenestrate yourself.

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