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2017-09-22

by shaenon on September 22, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Sure as You're Born
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  1. Robert Nowall
    September 22, 2017, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    What’s he gonna say? “Pick a card, any card…”

    • casimir
      September 22, 2017, 12:44 am | # | Reply

      Unity is just applying good management skills. Find the strengths and then target them.

  2. Kaydrien Iceclaw
    September 22, 2017, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Sorry H.T., but you kinda deserve this and we all know it.

    • Candace
      September 22, 2017, 1:36 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart doesn’t deserve this, though. She’s a good girl. (Mostly.)

      • Kaydrien Iceclaw
        September 22, 2017, 8:01 am | # | Reply

        True, but as noted above at least she can walk around in public without causing a panic.

      • Dark
        September 22, 2017, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

        I dunno… she did break the waffle iron.

        • william meagher
          September 22, 2017, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

          And she went on that rampage

  3. Deepthought42
    September 22, 2017, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Okay, so, anyone placing bets that the end of the week cliffhanger is revealing Tip got the cure?

    • Daibhid C
      September 22, 2017, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

      Oh god, I hadn’t thought of that, but now you’ve mentioned it, yes.

  4. WuseMajor
    September 22, 2017, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    I’m starting to wonder if Tip’s suit was somehow delivering a memetic version of the cure via his mojo or something.

  5. Maria Cline
    September 22, 2017, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    What if that Tip starts walking around wearing men’s clothes, convinced that he always wears mens clothes?

    • darkstarling
      September 22, 2017, 1:23 am | # | Reply

      In case of unprecedented emergency, mojo can substitute for heroic willpower.

  6. Shane Wegner
    September 22, 2017, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    Whoa whoa whoa, a cat of any kind being grouchy and ungrateful?! Let’s try and keep this cover story plausible, UNITY.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 22, 2017, 2:55 am | # | Reply

      Oh, she’s just giving him the one command she’s fairly confident he’ll comply with… even if he wasn’t listening to her.

  7. awgiedawgie
    September 22, 2017, 3:00 am | # | Reply

    And here’s a horrifying thought…

    What if the same element that is causing the sudden surge of reality blindness also renders Tip’s mojo — particularly how he affects women — impotent? (Yes, pun intended)

    If Tip can no longer seduce problem people, this could really be trouble!

    • Max
      September 22, 2017, 3:48 am | # | Reply

      Such a devastating blow might easily lead to depression. So it’s really fortunate he’d always have professional help close at hand…

      • Dark
        September 22, 2017, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

        Not the puppets!

  8. Erebus
    September 22, 2017, 3:52 am | # | Reply

    Agreeing with other comments, Tip’s gonna have been cured too.

    • Shadowmehr
      September 22, 2017, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

      Now that’s a scary thought. How far and deep does this field of reality blindness go?

  9. Bruce A Munro
    September 22, 2017, 6:49 am | # | Reply

    On the positive side, if Unity goes on a brain-eating rampage, nobody will be able to tell she’s doing it.

    • Sir William
      September 22, 2017, 7:17 pm | # | Reply

      Regular canibals still exist

      • BRGR
        September 23, 2017, 4:03 am | # | Reply

        The last cannibals stopped being so in 1997. Creutzfeldt-Jacobs.

  10. Kirala
    September 22, 2017, 8:25 am | # | Reply

    This might be a bit more than just the cure, though. Reality blindness sometimes makes people interpret any sapient as human (rather than any animal as non-sapient), and sometimes makes people simply not see things that don’t fit their parameters. I’m a little surprised if EVERYONE sees HT, and sees him as a tiger.

    (Or, y’know, canon drift. Maybe “nonsapient tiger WHAT” is the only currently-canonical reality-blind interpretation of HT.)

    • Daibhid C
      September 22, 2017, 1:41 pm | # | Reply

      The way I understand it (and I could have this wrong), if you see HT, he’s a tiger. Even reality-blind humans have enough survival instinct not to ignore wandering tigers in case they start talking and challenging their worldview.

      But I think if you hear HT before you see him, your brain doesn’t have the discrepancy of “Tigers can’t talk”, so you hear him normally. Then, when you do see him, the “Tigers can’t talk” kicks in and so you decide he can’t be a tiger.

      • bitflipper
        September 22, 2017, 5:07 pm | # | Reply

        I like that! Reality blindness is, itself, situationally unaware!

      • BRGR
        September 23, 2017, 4:06 am | # | Reply

        So, like Frankenstein’s monster, he can only talk to the blind?

        Or via telephone. Technology is amazing.

  11. Eddddd
    September 22, 2017, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    Ah, poor HT. You may be an evil bastard but no one deserves to suffer because of their race/species.

  12. bergerjacques
    September 22, 2017, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    Okay, I’m confused. Maybe I should be. Is the phenomenon that has outed HT and Sweetheart as non-human sapients the ambient radiation of the Groovetron or simply a by-product of the shock caused by Tip’s recent encounter with Tremontino’s exquisitely tailored suit? Either event was enough to cause a reality altering twist to the Skin Horse dimension.

    • Chrisn
      September 22, 2017, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

      Tremontino’s suit might prove to be a protective armor for Tip. It’s pretty powerful.

    • Daibhid C
      September 22, 2017, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

      They’re not outed as non-human sapients. If anything, they’re “inned” – people who were quite happy to accept them as non-human sapients are now recognising them as non-human but quite unable to see their sapience.

      This is a known side-effect of the Mad Science Cure that Helen invented back in Narbonic and A-Sig were experimenting with in “Mixed-Up Files”, but whether that’s what it is is yet to be revealed.

  13. Chrisn
    September 22, 2017, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder if any of the Madblood androids are still running around, causing trouble (I assume there are – he made quite a few). How will those be interpreted by the reality blind? Just as particularly nasty Canadians with interesting music choices?

    • awgiedawgie
      September 22, 2017, 5:13 pm | # | Reply

      The only ones we know for sure that ended up in Canada were the handful that Dave, Artie & Zeta took to Winnipeg to meet Dr. Noah. And all of those were disassembled by the hamsters to make their robot suits (and Dr. Noah was dissected). The whereabouts of the other 14,976 androids is as yet unknown. It’s possible more of them ended up being gathered and disassembled by the hamsters, as they did have “an army of hamsters in mechanical suits”, but we don’t know how many were actually in that “army”. It may have still just been the original two dozen.

      But to the first question — anyone with a Bill Davenport level of reality blindness wouldn’t see the androids at all. They may also not see Sweetheart or H.T. or Unity at all — after all, Bill (as well as the Dave clone on the cure) couldn’t see Artie at all when he was a gerbil.

  14. davidmikesimon
    September 23, 2017, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

    Sweetheart seems like exactly the kind of person who would always remember to capitalize Dumpster, since it’s a brand name.

    • Kaydrien Iceclaw
      September 24, 2017, 9:53 am | # | Reply

      Wait, really?

      • awgiedawgie
        September 24, 2017, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

        A play on their own name, it was patented in the 1930s by the Dempster brothers. They called their original design the Dempster Dumpster.

  15. Knuckles
    February 3, 2022, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

    Pretty nice of Sweetheart to offer H.T. a cover story all things told.

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