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2018-06-30

by shaenon on June 30, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    June 30, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Does this mean our leonine friend is going to redesign the pencil? o_O

    • awgiedawgie
      June 30, 2018, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      Maybe he already did. 😉

      • Exasperation
        June 30, 2018, 1:39 am | # | Reply

        Well, he is a writer with a different set of manipulating appendages than the typical human one, so it only stands to reason.

  2. Bruce A Munro
    June 30, 2018, 6:39 am | # | Reply

    No cobras? No robots? I am disappointed.

    • Seph
      June 30, 2018, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

      The cobras went off with Bubbles, no?

  3. Jon
    June 30, 2018, 6:53 am | # | Reply

    (Did Thoreau really have his mom do his laundry? I don’t know a lot about Thoreau.)

    • greenknight32
      June 30, 2018, 7:19 am | # | Reply

      Yup.

    • Kirala
      June 30, 2018, 7:22 am | # | Reply

      And occasionally bring him a hot dinner—Walden Pond was in a park either in or adjacent to the town (I forget which). Even before I saw Vera’s line, I was thinking that this actually is a lot like Walden. (Oh, Thoreau, you beautiful blinded-by-privilege idealist, embodiment of the “Is this a pigeon?” meme. “Is this rugged primitive living off the land?” “Is this daring political protest?” No, no, it isn’t, but somehow it will get people to do the real thing, and I have to love you for it.)

      • Not Fenimore
        June 30, 2018, 8:26 am | # | Reply

        He was a bit of a faker, yup. My favourite (aside form the laundry thing) is the famous “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” line. Which may or may not be true; but in context he’s implicitly declaring “but I’m not one of them”, which – kinda protesting too much, don’t you think?

        • Sheik
          June 30, 2018, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

          Either that or grudgingly speaking from experience.

        • Andy4Hire
          June 30, 2018, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

          A friend of mine calls Thoreau “a pioneer of First World problems”. I can’t say I disagree with her.

          • jdreyfuss
            February 3, 2020, 1:20 pm | #

            That is a perfect description.

  4. Edgar M Lemos
    June 30, 2018, 9:44 am | # | Reply

    I’m going to wager that “the land” has a 7/11 around the corner.

    • Shadowmehr
      June 30, 2018, 10:13 am | # | Reply

      This is America. No matter where you are, there’s either a 7/11, a Starbucks, or both around the corner. When we finally build colonies on the Moon and Mars, those two business (and maybe a McDonald’s) will have little domes of their own to start selling things to the colonists.

    • Robert Vary
      June 30, 2018, 10:47 am | # | Reply

      They’re in New Jersey, so he’s easy walking distance from at least 17 Wawas.

    • Robert Nowall
      June 30, 2018, 11:28 am | # | Reply

      Walden Pond was just a few hundred yards from the railroad tracks.

    • soft
      June 30, 2018, 5:51 pm | # | Reply

      He’d have to be b&e and stealing if that’s where he’s getting the food considering the reality blindness atm. More likely the safe house had a stash of food he’s pilfering.

      • jdreyfuss
        February 3, 2020, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

        How much of a functional difference is there between living off the land and stealing from a Wawa?

      • Zero
        October 27, 2020, 3:52 am | # | Reply

        How is it pilfering when that’s what it’s there for?

  5. Dr. Steve
    June 30, 2018, 10:22 am | # | Reply

    Poor house, seems it was not as safe as it expected.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 30, 2018, 10:44 am | # | Reply

      Oh, I imagine that the house is fine. I suspect that Bubbles took everyone to crew the Habakkuk, even though we only saw a few of them.

  6. Robert Nowall
    June 30, 2018, 11:29 am | # | Reply

    A little while ago, some of them were on the H. M. C. S. Habakkuk. But not all of them, least as far as we could tell.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 30, 2018, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

      The Habakkuk could not have been crewed by only the three or four individuals we saw, so I’m betting Bubbles took everyone.

      • Robert Nowall
        June 30, 2018, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

        Besides, we only saw Alfie. What happened to Meg and the others? And where are the Jersey Devils they were treating with their venom?

        • awgiedawgie
          June 30, 2018, 8:18 pm | # | Reply

          We saw Alfie, Killbot #2, and Sweetdaddy, so I’m just guessing everyone from inside the house was on the ship somewhere. Maybe hiding, maybe in another brig when AG-I captured everyone, maybe no one thought to capture them since they weren’t with the rest of them (the AG-I team wasn’t all that bright, after all). Since they weren’t directly involved in the story, seeing them was kind of superfluous. Shaenon can’t draw everyone all the time… her drawing hand would fall off.

          I suspect the Jersey Devils are what Tip and Leo are referring to as “monsters out here”. Without the Cobras there to keep them up to date on their “allergy shots”, the Devils will have reverted back to their wild selves.

          • Robert Nowall
            July 1, 2018, 12:16 am | #

            With a good deal of sneezing, no doubt.

  7. Sleepy John
    June 30, 2018, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

    I’m thoreauly enjoying this.

  8. Sleepy John
    June 30, 2018, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

    My wife grew up in Concord MA. Walden Pond is just that. A pond. She didn’t know there was anything interesting about it until her high school course in American Authors.

  9. theysabet
    June 30, 2018, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

    Just as a side thought… where on earth does Leo get his glasses? And for that matter, where do some of the other (moles, I’m looking at you) sentient nonhumans get theirs? The sizes aren’t exactly standard, and somebody’s got to do the lens-work. Do we have a highly-trained sized-to-spec glasses-maker among the nonhominids? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW. (Well, mine does, anyway.)

    • Bruce A Munro
      June 30, 2018, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

      If it’s a non-weirdness-blind human glasses maker, the nonhominid community just took a healthcare hit.

  10. Knuckles
    February 7, 2022, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

    Oh right, everyone in charge of the safehouse left.

    …Sweetheart why didn’t you get anyone to replace the safehouse guards?

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