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by shaenon on May 31, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Duane B.
    May 31, 2022, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    First star on the left, and on till morning

  2. Frank Hightower
    May 31, 2022, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Unity, if she named a robot Wonder, I’m pretty sure it was after Stevie Wonder, not Wonder Bread™

  3. Alphaghoul
    May 31, 2022, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    White bre- is she talking about boring and / or white people?!

    • Shadowmehr
      May 31, 2022, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

      With Tigerlily, it’s more and than or, but yes, that is correct.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 31, 2022, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

      Well, “whitebread” is what they sometimes call things that are basic and a little dull. That’s why I couldn’t buy a new Chevy Cavalier when I wanted.

    • BarbaraK
      May 31, 2022, 11:40 pm | # | Reply

      I believe that is one of the things she called him, but I don’t remember when. Can anyone help with this?

  4. Jim Janney
    May 31, 2022, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    Fine, but Panini is already taken.

    • khn0
      May 31, 2022, 5:25 am | # | Reply

      panini is a plural, it’d be panino, unless speaking of the sandwich…

      • awgiedawgie
        May 31, 2022, 6:54 pm | # | Reply

        Panini is what Tip named the dinosaur. Whether the word is singular or plural is kind of irrelevant now.

  5. Candace
    May 31, 2022, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Oh, dear, Tigerlily must really have it bad.

    • Aname
      May 31, 2022, 1:39 am | # | Reply

      Well Tip is quite the biscuit and muffin as well as a nice bit of crumpet even if he is a cracker.

      • Duane B.
        May 31, 2022, 11:21 am | # | Reply

        And, he is very flaky, but, not a crumb.

  6. juniorwences
    May 31, 2022, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    But Rainbo is white bread, too.

    • BMunro
      May 31, 2022, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      Mind. Blown.

    • Bernerlb
      May 31, 2022, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

      Or Bimbo

  7. palenoue
    May 31, 2022, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    I love that phrase: She’s having an emotion. Short, to the point, doesn’t intrude on privacy with needless details like what kind of emotion or how it started. Four words say it all.

    • sheer_falacy
      May 31, 2022, 4:23 am | # | Reply

      The main character in the Murderbot Diaries uses that phrase because they are uncomfortable putting other labels on it. They’re a nonhuman sapient trying to figure out their place in the world, so they’d fit in pretty well with a lot of the cast here.

      • Konrad
        May 31, 2022, 8:02 am | # | Reply

        It’s possible that Shaenon and Jeff got the phrase from those books. I just reread the first volume, and I find it interesting how Murderbot divides sapients into four categories:
        Humans
        Augmented Humans (humans with the ability to directly interface with networks)
        Constructs (basically robots with organic parts so they look human)
        Bots (inorganic robots and AIs)

        • Andy4Hire
          May 31, 2022, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

          Possibly. Me, I associate that phrase most closely with this exchange from the Doctor Who short “Bad Night”:

          Doctor: Rory! She’s having an emotion!
          Rory: What’s wrong, Amy?
          Amy: Why are you calling him?
          Doctor: It’s his turn.
          Amy: You two have– You two have turns?!

        • Shaenon
          May 31, 2022, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

          I got it from my own description of my dad at my wedding. He got soooo drunk.

          • georgethearchon
            May 31, 2022, 8:59 pm | #

            (Cackles) “And no one will ever know”

          • Andy4Hire
            June 1, 2022, 8:02 pm | #

            That is the best origin story for that phrase, Shaenon.

      • cloudster
        May 31, 2022, 9:29 am | # | Reply

        My wife said one of her fave fanfic writers, Astelat, had a new story out, and I asked if it was Murderbot/Transformers. It gave her pause, and she said “I’d read it.”

  8. Robert Nowall
    May 31, 2022, 6:21 am | # | Reply

    All this time I thought his favorite thing was casual sex.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 31, 2022, 6:57 am | # | Reply

      I thought his favorite thing was makeovers.

      • undercoverbrothergrim
        May 31, 2022, 7:13 am | # | Reply

        Makeovers are occasioned by the subject having emotions.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 31, 2022, 11:13 am | # | Reply

        Mmm. Now I’ll have to start at the beginning and count makeovers this time. (I counted thirty-four, er, encounters.)

    • Shen Hibiki
      May 31, 2022, 7:53 am | # | Reply

      Come on. His favourite thing is himself.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 31, 2022, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

        Ooh… nice burn.

    • Dewy
      May 31, 2022, 10:16 am | # | Reply

      Tip has grown as a person since we first met him. He’s not nearly as shallow as he was. Still not that deep, though. I’d say he’s up to his arm pits and eying the deeper end of the pool speculatively.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 31, 2022, 11:22 am | # | Reply

      Also…

      “When the dog bites,
      When the bee stings,
      When I’m feeling sad,
      I simply remember my favorite things
      And then I don’t feel so bad.”

      —yeah, Rodgers and Hammerstein, yeah, those are the actual lyrics.

      • David B Huber
        May 31, 2022, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

        *Applause*

      • Candace
        June 1, 2022, 12:41 am | # | Reply

        Perfect!

      • Forrest M Davis
        June 1, 2022, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

        Despite having been a science fiction & fantasy fan since roughly age six, I was oddly literal minded and linear thinking so that song confused me – it seemed as if she was saying that dog bites and bee stings were her favorite things…

      • Forrest M Davis
        June 1, 2022, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

        Granted, I was only 7 when the movie came out so my critical faculty was still developing.

  9. VickiC
    May 31, 2022, 6:44 am | # | Reply

    Don’t blow it, Tip! Resist the urge to bring out therapy puppets!
    (Unless they are funky robot puppets or something.)

    • Duane B.
      May 31, 2022, 9:55 am | # | Reply

      Just what puppets he would bring out would be hilarious.

  10. David B Huber
    May 31, 2022, 6:53 am | # | Reply

    This is wonderful! Tip and Tigerlily deserve their HEA.

  11. mooring
    May 31, 2022, 8:06 am | # | Reply

    THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL.
    I’M A PSYCHOLOGIST.

  12. jdreyfuss
    May 31, 2022, 8:19 am | # | Reply

    I bet the first one he meets is batard.

  13. JAWolf
    May 31, 2022, 10:11 am | # | Reply

    Well I Wonder, Wonder, Wonder… who wrote the book of love!

  14. Dewy
    May 31, 2022, 10:19 am | # | Reply

    Sal is always calling Danny Wonderbread. Look where that got them.

  15. Barbara K
    May 31, 2022, 10:36 am | # | Reply

    The world’s largest baking company is “Bimbo Bread”.
    Just sayin’….

    • Duane B.
      May 31, 2022, 10:56 am | # | Reply

      You want to put butter on your what??

      • awgiedawgie
        May 31, 2022, 6:57 pm | # | Reply

        Yes. Yes, I do.

  16. davefromindy
    May 31, 2022, 10:49 am | # | Reply

    Bimbo, Bimbo, where you gonna go-e-o…

    • Robert Nowall
      May 31, 2022, 8:32 pm | # | Reply

      …and you can tell your friend there with you, he’ll have to go.

  17. Robert Nowall
    May 31, 2022, 11:50 am | # | Reply

    She’s over and back, but her Tip-ache’s not taken in stride.
    And you’re the one her springing’s for, corn-fed, and that’s not right.
    And where are you now,
    Now that she needs you?
    Gears on her bill, oh, whatever she knows.
    She’ll try for a rivet that gives her a notion.
    We’ll watch her robots fall apart,

    It’s absurd that these broken parts
    Are just emotion that’s making her over.
    Kind of bizarro, losing her soul.
    But if you come with us,
    Come on board, Tip Wilkin,
    You know that there’ll be nobody ‘round to tell her she’s wound too tight.
    Nobody ‘round in our world to put it right.
    Good-night,
    Good-night…

    If you’re at her side, her parts are all below the bar.
    And you’ve been a part of something else,
    You’ve got to be her White Bread star.
    And where are you now,
    Now that she needs you?
    Gears on her bill, oh, whatever she knows.
    She’ll try for a rivet that gives her a notion.
    We’ll watch her robots fall apart,

    It’s absurd that these broken parts
    Are just emotion that’s making her over.
    Kind of bizarro, losing her soul.
    But if you come with us,
    Come on board, Tip Wilkin,
    You know that there’ll be nobody ‘round to tell her she’s wound too tight.
    Nobody ‘round in our world to put it right.
    Good-night,
    Good-night…

    —from “Emotion,” written by Robin Gibb and Barry Gibb, sung by Samatha Sang, but, really, nobody could sing the Bee Gees like the Bee Gees.

  18. Towering Barbarian
    May 31, 2022, 5:42 pm | # | Reply

    Tip, just keep in mind that she needs your help as a man rather than as a shrink. 🙂

    • Candace
      June 1, 2022, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure he knows that. In Tip’s more recent interactions with Tigerlily, he has appeared to accept her as she is.

  19. Robert Nowall
    May 31, 2022, 6:41 pm | # | Reply

    They’ve stopped to pick up a new passenger, some guy who’s got plenty of brass for sure. To cope with emotions from Ms. Jones’s notions, it’s a guy who can surely kick ass, injure.

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