Oh, I think you did fine with little room for improvement!
I photographed a local production of Rocky Horror Show and it was quite fun. I emailed the producer and asked him to gender-swap it if he ever does it again here.
Speaking of warped…Oops, I did it again: Britney Spears
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no oh no
If I just shut tight the door, then no one’d be burned,
And all bandaged up.
Oh Doctor it was the same wing
Yet what can I do, I can’t find a thing.
‘Cause to not shut that fire door
That is just not typically me
Oh Puppies, puppies
(Chorus)
Oops! I did something wrong, I caused this huge fire
Their wee bandaged tails! Oh, puppies, puppies
Oops! You think I’m evil that I’m spawn from a devil
I’m not nefarious.
You see my problem is this, I’m not what I seem
I faked that rampage, I’m not really mad
I try hard not to cry
I’m about to break cover in so many ways
‘Cause to not shut that fire door
That is just not typically me
Oh Puppies, puppies
(Chorus)
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no oh no
Doctor Darling?
Doctor, don’t fret about me, save it for the therapy staff.
Oh, puppy therapy? That wasn’t the same wing, was it?
*whine, whine, whine*
But to see their little bandaged tails…
Doctor Darling, since I can’t see,
I’ll assume an ironic visual.
Maybe this *is* The Cure—they mess with all your weak points. First she “wakes up” being felt up by a guy she’s attracted to [never mind all that lesbian-in-denial stuff back awhile ago, at least for now], then hit by ungrammatical inspiration posters and office supply shortages, then meeting up with her creator who she *knows* is dead [because she ate him], then seeing the victims of a flash fire who got burned ’cause she *couldn’t* close a fire door—what was my thought again?
Oh, yeah, maybe this *is* The Cure. There certainly wasn’t anything like that in the part of the Institute Tigerlily Jones and Imogene were confined in…
No, don’t never mind the lesbian-in-denial stuff from earlier (double negatives be damned). Sweetheart has been acting a bit… off ever since she arrived. Not only is she attracted to a guy, but she’s been much more OCD and Lawful Stupid then usual. The thing with the hats isn’t in character for… well… anyone, really. And when she’s not in the drone/simulation, she’s back in character, which was also the case when she was “attacking” the town.
I believe Goldbug is somehow manipulating not only her perceived reality, but her behavior as well (possibly by accentuating the simulation with mind-altering drugs, or perhaps using some sort of lucid dream-based simulation, a la Vanilla Sky?).
This is no cure. There’s no therapeutic value here. Quite the opposite, in fact. This isn’t how you make a person sane. This is how you drive them mad (but probably not how you drive them Mad).
I don’t know what effect mind-altering drugs would have on someone whose mind is elsewhere—i.e. not in the drone they’re administered to.
Then again it all plays into Mr. Green of Anasigma sending Echo Bravo to the Institute counting on him failing to keep Tigerlily Jones confined…which he was prompted to by Jonah Yu’s blog calling for Skin Horse to get back together—which, come to think of it, they have, kinda.
I like this line of reasoning. Remember, though, that Sweetheart was less stable than usual at the start of this story- she’d gone rapidly from Type A career-dog to acutely-depressed couch potato. And who knows how being humanoid is affecting her? The new physical and social possibilities, the canine-inappropriate sensory feedback, the body dismorphia…. Sweetheart hasn’t shown any “thumby” tendencies before, so this maybe ain’t something she’s ever planned for.
“she’s been much more OCD and Lawful Stupid then usual” re-read The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day storyline and say that again. No, Sweetheart is being just as stupid here as she has in that one.
Poor Sweetheart. But I wonder, if, just maybe, she figured it out at some point. Goofy and hyper-guilty she may be, but she can be a pretty good take-charge leader too. It’d be nice if SHE was manipulating Goldbug a little here . . .
Eh, since the maker she ate turns out to be alive and how was just hand-waved away, this has become increasing too convenient for reality. Just remains to be seen exactly what’s going on. For one thing, I wondered how the institute didn’t notice she was an android when they brought her in unconscious. Unconscious androids don’t pretend to breath. She might have been hooked up to some sort of reality machine all along.
Remember, she’s operating a drone that Anasigma built. Linked in from a cyborg copter that Anasigma built. Indeed, we’ve already seen that Goldbug controls the vertical, the horizontal, etc. for that link. In fact, I’d say there’s no reason to think that the drone is anywhere but in Goldbug’s closet….
Ooookay, Sweetheart is going to go bye-bye for a little while. The nice men in the white coats will take care of her for awhile. What say we go look at Mustachio and his friend (at least until the whimpering stops).
Someone has to do a parody of “Time Warp” to describe whats happening to Sweethearts mind!
Maybe something along the lines of…
It’s confounding;
Ao needs treating;
Badness takes it’s toll.
But listen closer…
As the problems grow stronger.
You just can’t keep control.
I remember doing the mind-warp
Thinking of those moments when
Overwhelming guilt would trip me
And the voice would be calling…
Let’s do the mind-warp again!
Let’s do the mind-warp again!
Now the doctors have left;
Take a look to your right.
Burnt puppies in bits;
Tails bandaged up tight
But it’s the sad little wimpers
That really drive you insane
Let’s do the mind-warp again!
Let’s do the mind-warp again!
[That’s all I’ve got the patience to do for now. Someone else can finish it if they want.]
Oh, I think you did fine with little room for improvement!
I photographed a local production of Rocky Horror Show and it was quite fun. I emailed the producer and asked him to gender-swap it if he ever does it again here.
Puppies! Crispy crunchy puppies, but puppies!
I don’t think that this is supposed to happen, but skin-horse.com currently points here. Thought you’d want to know.
That’s because it’s the latest comic. And yes, that is supposed to happen
Note the date on the comment. 🙂
Hmm… either the comic was put up a day early, or it’s mislabeled
The comics for March 25 and March 26 were briefly visible on the night of March 24. I imagine that’s when this comment was written.
You need to attend the staff meetings more often.
;>D
Mind-breaking goal confirmed.
“Burned Puppies,” the prequel to the Ogden Edsl classic?
They don’t come when you call, they can’t chase tails at all.
The 25 & 26 March comics are both online now (24 March, 10pm PST). Weird.
I think the institute has her houked up to a machine thats meant to causes mad scientist to crack and go all mad sciencey
All they need to do is start laughing and get Helen’s mom in here, and that’s the lot.
Heh, heh, heh.
Okay, this is just plain mean.
Proof that you can be utterly blind to shenanigans WITHOUT “The Cure.” 9_9
Hurra for Brian-M’s Warped Warp!
Speaking of warped…Oops, I did it again: Britney Spears
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no oh no
If I just shut tight the door, then no one’d be burned,
And all bandaged up.
Oh Doctor it was the same wing
Yet what can I do, I can’t find a thing.
‘Cause to not shut that fire door
That is just not typically me
Oh Puppies, puppies
(Chorus)
Oops! I did something wrong, I caused this huge fire
Their wee bandaged tails! Oh, puppies, puppies
Oops! You think I’m evil that I’m spawn from a devil
I’m not nefarious.
You see my problem is this, I’m not what I seem
I faked that rampage, I’m not really mad
I try hard not to cry
I’m about to break cover in so many ways
‘Cause to not shut that fire door
That is just not typically me
Oh Puppies, puppies
(Chorus)
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no oh no
Doctor Darling?
Doctor, don’t fret about me, save it for the therapy staff.
Oh, puppy therapy? That wasn’t the same wing, was it?
*whine, whine, whine*
But to see their little bandaged tails…
Doctor Darling, since I can’t see,
I’ll assume an ironic visual.
(Chorus x3)
No doubt in my mind this is a mess-with-sweetheart simulation.
Maybe this *is* The Cure—they mess with all your weak points. First she “wakes up” being felt up by a guy she’s attracted to [never mind all that lesbian-in-denial stuff back awhile ago, at least for now], then hit by ungrammatical inspiration posters and office supply shortages, then meeting up with her creator who she *knows* is dead [because she ate him], then seeing the victims of a flash fire who got burned ’cause she *couldn’t* close a fire door—what was my thought again?
Oh, yeah, maybe this *is* The Cure. There certainly wasn’t anything like that in the part of the Institute Tigerlily Jones and Imogene were confined in…
No, don’t never mind the lesbian-in-denial stuff from earlier (double negatives be damned). Sweetheart has been acting a bit… off ever since she arrived. Not only is she attracted to a guy, but she’s been much more OCD and Lawful Stupid then usual. The thing with the hats isn’t in character for… well… anyone, really. And when she’s not in the drone/simulation, she’s back in character, which was also the case when she was “attacking” the town.
I believe Goldbug is somehow manipulating not only her perceived reality, but her behavior as well (possibly by accentuating the simulation with mind-altering drugs, or perhaps using some sort of lucid dream-based simulation, a la Vanilla Sky?).
This is no cure. There’s no therapeutic value here. Quite the opposite, in fact. This isn’t how you make a person sane. This is how you drive them mad (but probably not how you drive them Mad).
I don’t know what effect mind-altering drugs would have on someone whose mind is elsewhere—i.e. not in the drone they’re administered to.
Then again it all plays into Mr. Green of Anasigma sending Echo Bravo to the Institute counting on him failing to keep Tigerlily Jones confined…which he was prompted to by Jonah Yu’s blog calling for Skin Horse to get back together—which, come to think of it, they have, kinda.
So where do we go from here?
I like this line of reasoning. Remember, though, that Sweetheart was less stable than usual at the start of this story- she’d gone rapidly from Type A career-dog to acutely-depressed couch potato. And who knows how being humanoid is affecting her? The new physical and social possibilities, the canine-inappropriate sensory feedback, the body dismorphia…. Sweetheart hasn’t shown any “thumby” tendencies before, so this maybe ain’t something she’s ever planned for.
So do I, but I’m sure in a few days or weeks, it’ll all be refuted.
“she’s been much more OCD and Lawful Stupid then usual” re-read The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day storyline and say that again. No, Sweetheart is being just as stupid here as she has in that one.
…and where is that strange music coming from…?
Tell us the truth, authors; at this point you’re just having fun coming up with ideas to torture Sweetheart with, aren’tcha?
Awesome 🙂
I had my doubts on the “she’s being messed with” theory, but I’m starting to warm up to it…
Poor Sweetheart. But I wonder, if, just maybe, she figured it out at some point. Goofy and hyper-guilty she may be, but she can be a pretty good take-charge leader too. It’d be nice if SHE was manipulating Goldbug a little here . . .
We’ve reached the point where i find it easier to believe that her mind is being messed with. Even in Skin Horse!
Eh, since the maker she ate turns out to be alive and how was just hand-waved away, this has become increasing too convenient for reality. Just remains to be seen exactly what’s going on. For one thing, I wondered how the institute didn’t notice she was an android when they brought her in unconscious. Unconscious androids don’t pretend to breath. She might have been hooked up to some sort of reality machine all along.
Remember, she’s operating a drone that Anasigma built. Linked in from a cyborg copter that Anasigma built. Indeed, we’ve already seen that Goldbug controls the vertical, the horizontal, etc. for that link. In fact, I’d say there’s no reason to think that the drone is anywhere but in Goldbug’s closet….
So what you’re saying is that for Sweetheart to win this one, she has to come out of the closet?
Okay, you win.
All of your who think this is just a “simulation” rather than “reality” have obviously just never had days like this yourselves.
Ooookay, Sweetheart is going to go bye-bye for a little while. The nice men in the white coats will take care of her for awhile. What say we go look at Mustachio and his friend (at least until the whimpering stops).