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2022-05-26

by shaenon on May 26, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    May 26, 2022, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Sweetheart can’t handle honest admiration. 🙂

    • Candace
      May 26, 2022, 2:35 am | # | Reply

      Well, H.T. did try to date Sweetheart once upon a time. She almost gave it a shot, then chickened out. Then I think later he was trying to convince her to rule at his side, or some such thing, although that might have been when he was a plant zombie. I think it’s pretty clear that H.T. is sweet on Sweetheart, and always has been.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 26, 2022, 6:27 am | # | Reply

        Well, if Nick and Virginia can get together…

      • David B Huber
        May 26, 2022, 9:47 am | # | Reply

        Although Unity will always be Sweetheart’s #1, Unity does enjoy wearing tiger ears so there may be some wriggle room for a bit of polyamory…

        • Candace
          May 27, 2022, 1:53 am | # | Reply

          I don’t really see Sweetheart being into that. Sweetheart seems like the type that, once she’s committed, she’s committed, and that’s that.

          • David B Huber
            May 27, 2022, 4:44 am | #

            Oh, I agree with you, Candace. I was just facetiously suggesting that H.T. might lose his ears if he keeps it up! 😉

    • Shadowmehr
      May 26, 2022, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

      There can be some doubt about H.T. giving honest anything. The cat is a schemer, a demagogue, and always concerned with his power and stomach, not necessarily in that order.

      • Daibhid C
        May 26, 2022, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

        Ninja’d.

    • Daibhid C
      May 26, 2022, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

      H.T, has never offered honest anything. He may (in fact probably does) admire Sweetheart’s coup, but if he’s saying it, it’s because he has an angle.

      • Darkstarling
        May 26, 2022, 11:53 pm | # | Reply

        He may even honestly admire HER, even be romantically interested, but will still always be working some angle. And the angle will ultimately come first.

        • Candace
          May 27, 2022, 1:54 am | # | Reply

          This is true.^

      • Kanta
        May 28, 2022, 2:06 am | # | Reply

        I’d believe he honestly wants brunch. Possibly also elevensies.

  2. thejoemoose
    May 26, 2022, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Hungry Tiger, indeed.

    • David B Huber
      May 26, 2022, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      Once you’ve gone back for seconds in Pittsburgh, a side of beef and ostrich eggs just doesn’t cut it anymore.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 26, 2022, 9:35 am | # | Reply

      He’ll eat anything.

  3. Kairamek
    May 26, 2022, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    But what about sec- er, Third breakfast?

    • Candace
      May 26, 2022, 2:36 am | # | Reply

      That’s elevenses.

  4. Cipher
    May 26, 2022, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    “We already had one yes, but what about Second Coup?” -H.T.

    • Darkstarling
      May 26, 2022, 11:54 pm | # | Reply

      Perfection

  5. LuckyCheshire
    May 26, 2022, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    Is it time for elevensies yet?

  6. Robert Nowall
    May 26, 2022, 5:40 am | # | Reply

    That’s it, Sweetheart. Play hard to get.

  7. Circeus
    May 26, 2022, 6:03 am | # | Reply

    *hobbit voice* “I don’t think she knows about third breakfast”

  8. jdreyfuss
    May 26, 2022, 8:12 am | # | Reply

    Even now HT continues to underestimate her. He thinks that a coup can only be pulled off by the military, and fails to realize that 90% of the government, including the military, is bureaucracy. The best person to pull off a coup quickly is a bureaucrat with enough other bureaucrats backing them.

    • Candace
      May 27, 2022, 1:56 am | # | Reply

      Agreed 100%.

    • Aname
      May 27, 2022, 4:09 am | # | Reply

      Also militaries ‘generally’ work within the rules, it’s sorta inbred for them.
      Whereas bureaucrats interpret the rules and so do anything they want and then justify their actions after the fact with an interpretation of the rules which suit them or make more rules to justify themselves.
      TLDR: militaries follow orders, bureaucracies “It’s good to be the king”

      • BRGR
        May 27, 2022, 4:37 am | # | Reply

        Military coups are not unheard of.

  9. Robert Nowall
    May 26, 2022, 8:49 am | # | Reply

    So Sweetheart has pulled off a coup. H. T. says “didn’t have it in you.” So is Sweetheart skirting ’cause H. T. is flirting? Like others, they haven’t a clue.

  10. Pat
    May 26, 2022, 10:11 am | # | Reply

    But who was breakfast?

    • Robert Nowall
      May 26, 2022, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

      (…somehow I feel a rant coming on…)

      I don’t think we’ve ever figured out how the Lovetron Saucer was provisioned. The Undead aboard would need brains (a Brain-O-Mat?) but all the others would also have to be fed and watered even without special diets.

      Haven’t seen any toilets / heads / bathrooms either. Waste disposal might be a problem. When you gotta go, you gotta go.

      Maybe if it were a short flight to Lovetron.

      Maybe ’cause it’s Pavane behind it, food supplies might run heavy to honey.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 26, 2022, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

      Breakfast is your first meal of the day. It doesn’t matter what time of day you have it, or what you eat. For example, it’s currently 3:45pm, and I’m eating burritos from Taco Hole. But technically, I’m eating breakfast, because this is the first I’ve eaten all day.

      Of course, that raises the obvious question of how anyone can have two breakfasts in one day.

      • Duane B.
        May 26, 2022, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

        Have them simultaneously

        • awgiedawgie
          May 26, 2022, 9:24 pm | # | Reply

          Yeah. I can accept that. And it makes me hungry.

      • Candace
        May 27, 2022, 2:01 am | # | Reply

        awgiedawgie, I guess it depends on one’s operational definition of a fast. How long does a fast need to be to be considered a fast? Perhaps, for example, a hobbit might define any time period longer than two hours during which one has not eaten to be a fast.

  11. Frank Hightower
    May 26, 2022, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

    HT needs to say the GD words

    • awgiedawgie
      May 26, 2022, 3:42 pm | # | Reply

      “Good Dog”? I’m not sure even that would get him released.

      • Duane B.
        May 26, 2022, 10:11 pm | # | Reply

        A good scritch behind the ears may work

        • Candace
          May 27, 2022, 2:02 am | # | Reply

          Or it might get him bitten, if he didn’t ask for permission first.

        • s854
          May 27, 2022, 8:57 pm | # | Reply

          Duane: It may work for a human or a machine, but, as a tiger, HT doesn’t have the sort of digits he’d need to do that.

  12. Bernerlb
    May 26, 2022, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

    I love that the bars of HT’s cage would go nicely with Tigerlily’s dress. Could she please have a disco ball for the conversation pit?

    • Candace
      May 27, 2022, 2:03 am | # | Reply

      The cage must be made of Space Metal.

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