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2017-10-02

by shaenon on October 2, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. WuseMajor
    October 2, 2017, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    So it seems like Nera is immune too. At least so far.

  2. woozy
    October 2, 2017, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Or they are not immune but they just noticed their web service is down.

    • woozy
      October 2, 2017, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      And they have no memory of what their web page was or why it should have been high in the first place.

      • awgiedawgie
        October 2, 2017, 3:38 am | # | Reply

        They are undoubtedly immune. They’ve seen far too much weirdness — even fought to help the weird — to be blinded easily.

      • Daibhid C
        October 2, 2017, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

        Well, they clearly do remember what their webpage was because they’re discussing an article on it about why a band must be non-human (at least, Jonah is — we’ll have to wait until we get past the characters-having-entirely-separate-conversations bit before we’re sure about Nera) . Unless they’ve rationalised that they write some kind of epistolary-style fantasy-AU real-person fic.

  3. OneUniverse
    October 2, 2017, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Highlights (the band) has a fairly happy sound, so I’m surprised by Yu’s pick.

    • Moe Lane
      October 2, 2017, 12:38 am | # | Reply

      Misdirection.

  4. Pygar
    October 2, 2017, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Nov shmoz K-pop?

    • Altarboy
      October 2, 2017, 3:06 am | # | Reply

      Groan, facepalm, shoves a token valued at one Internet at Pygar.

    • Merle
      October 2, 2017, 9:32 am | # | Reply

      That was painful. As all truly good puns should be.

  5. Ogden Wernstrom
    October 2, 2017, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    My head canon is that Phil the Mynah has also been made blind to all the talking animals. This would imply that Phil can no longer communicate with anyone at all, except for the few non-reality-blind humans.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      October 2, 2017, 10:19 am | # | Reply

      Normal people don’t hear talking animals. Phil is a normal person. Therefore, Phil can’t hear talking animals, even if only by force of will.

  6. Robert Nowall
    October 2, 2017, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    If their server was down it was probably in Houston during the hurricane.

    • strawberrycocoa
      October 2, 2017, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      I can vouch for that assessment!!!

    • OneUniverse
      October 2, 2017, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

      Or in Puerto Rico right now?

      • Sir William
        October 2, 2017, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

        Why would they put their server in Puerto Rico though

        • Robert Nowall
          October 2, 2017, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

          Cheapness.

  7. Eddddd
    October 2, 2017, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    Is that a literal tinfoil hat

    • BRGR
      October 2, 2017, 1:28 am | # | Reply

      No, it’s a noodle colander with wires laced through.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        October 2, 2017, 4:38 am | # | Reply

        Traditional headware of the Pastafarian faith

        • awgiedawgie
          October 2, 2017, 4:56 am | # | Reply

          Yes, but only for the Priests and Chefs.

    • casimir
      October 3, 2017, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      Traditionally worn on the noodle.

  8. Candace
    October 2, 2017, 1:30 am | # | Reply

    Does Jonah’s shirt say “YBIGGROOT”? If so, I don’t get it.

    • M. Alan Thomas II
      October 2, 2017, 1:32 am | # | Reply

      The “Y” is the line between the body of the shirt and the sleeve along with a crease. “BIGROOT” sounds like it’s a reference to a giant tree monster (à la bigfoot and Groot).

      • psychedelicsquid
        October 2, 2017, 1:48 am | # | Reply

        I don’t think that’s an R, zooming in it looks like a plain old F, for a “plain” old BIGFOOT shirt.

        • M. Alan Thomas II
          October 2, 2017, 3:33 am | # | Reply

          Upon closer inspection, I agree.

        • Candace
          October 3, 2017, 12:16 am | # | Reply

          Ah, yes, I see. That would fit. I guess my eyes were very tired last night. Thanks awesome SH fans with better eyes than mine!

  9. Urlance Woolsbane
    October 2, 2017, 2:28 am | # | Reply

    Their reappearance raises an interesting question: How long has it been, in-story, since “Grillo Parlante?” For that matter, what year is it?

    GP is explicitly set two years after “Choose,” with the two of them a few months away from their eighteenth birthdays. If this gap also follows real-time, then they should be about twenty-one.

    That said, I’m not sure the timeline has quite as tight elsewhere…
    The alternate reality in “Looking Glass Land,” for instance, had a President Trump, and that was apparently contemporaneous with the main one. Not that that means too much, granted, but it’s worth noting.

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      October 2, 2017, 2:28 am | # | Reply

      What other specific time-markers are there?
      “Dead Dogs/Big Bad Wolves” is the only one that springs to mind, being set in 2009. But I’m sure there are plenty of others that I’ve missed.

    • Knabepicer
      October 2, 2017, 6:47 pm | # | Reply

      Looking Glass Land takes place 5 years after And All the Lovely Ladies.

  10. codebracker
    October 2, 2017, 2:48 am | # | Reply

    So it only affected the US.
    So canada is safe?

    • Sir William
      October 2, 2017, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

      No it primarially affected the US
      The others are down, it’s just the US is affected by 100%

  11. awgiedawgie
    October 2, 2017, 3:32 am | # | Reply

    Well, this confirms that the sudden reality-blindness is nation-wide, and not just restricted to Vermont.

    • Mental Mouse
      October 2, 2017, 11:03 am | # | Reply

      But apparently not world-wide.

      • Sir William
        October 2, 2017, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

        Not 100% worldwide anyway

      • Shadowmehr
        October 2, 2017, 7:26 pm | # | Reply

        Not yet. Anasigma isn’t the kind of agency that would let a minor thing like national borders stop their ambitions. This is just the beginning.

        Although if Nera, who isn’t wearing a colander or tinfoil hat, is unaffected by the Crown, then A-Sig’s plans might not be as all-encompassing as they believe.

  12. Frank Hightower
    October 2, 2017, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    Bigfoot… afoot… how long is it before “Foot” makes an appearance?

    • OneUniverse
      October 2, 2017, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

      With his posse? The reporter(forgot her name), Mell, and the hamsters?

  13. awgiedawgie
    October 2, 2017, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

    Zeta. Zeta Vincent. She could change her name to Narbon, since she finally found out she came from Helen, but for professional reasons, she undoubtedly left it as Vincent. No hamsters, though – they weren’t part of the posse. Mell and Zeta and Foot were trying to kill them.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 2, 2017, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

      Hmm… That was supposed to be a reply to OneUniverse’s comment.

  14. Shane
    October 2, 2017, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

    What about Hawaii, Alaska, and outlying US territories and protectorates?!
    PS- also Canada?

  15. Robert Nowall
    October 2, 2017, 3:42 pm | # | Reply

    Site traffic has had a demotion.
    Site traffic’s down to a degree.
    Site traffic has had a demotion.
    Oh, give back that traffic to me.

    Give back, give back,
    Oh, give back that traffic to me, to me.
    Give back, give back,
    Oh, give back that traffic to me.

    It’s gone by a massive reduction.
    It’s gone by a hundred percent.
    It’s gone by a massive reduction.
    We thought that the server was spent.

    We thought, we thought,
    We thought that the server was spent, was spent.
    We thought, we thought,
    We thought that the server was spent.

    Oh, reboot the source of the problem,
    And reboot it ASAP.
    Oh, reboot the source of the problem,
    And give back that traffic to me.

    Give back, give back,
    Oh, give back that traffic to me, to me.
    Give back, give back,
    Oh, give back that traffic to me.

    —from “My Bonnie,” Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      October 2, 2017, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

      Nice.

    • Sir William
      October 2, 2017, 11:33 pm | # | Reply

      It’s simple but has a nice flow solid B material

      • Robert Nowall
        October 3, 2017, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

        Well, I didn’t really have time to seek out something better to parody…it’s been a busy week

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