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2019-10-16

by shaenon on October 16, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. awgiedawgie
    October 16, 2019, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Okay… this is just hilarious!

    • Feech
      October 16, 2019, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      Agreed!

  2. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    October 16, 2019, 3:12 am | # | Reply

    Not taking up mekeeping, then?

    • Efogoto
      October 16, 2019, 3:42 am | # | Reply

      just one more letter … menkeeping.

      • warpzone32
        October 16, 2019, 5:28 am | # | Reply

        *slow clap to everyone responsible for this*

  3. Barking Monkey
    October 16, 2019, 6:11 am | # | Reply

    I wouldn’t eat the ‘honey’ he produces.

    • curtisrivers
      October 16, 2019, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

      Tip would.

  4. sweetuncleLESLIE
    October 16, 2019, 7:32 am | # | Reply

    Indeed, Sweetheart. Sadly, things have gotten to such a pass.

    To other fans of Gavotte: it’s a simple way to spend one’s time, and by turns, amusing and satisfying. Some speak well of the practice, but populizers are
    needed….

  5. Robert Nowall
    October 16, 2019, 7:40 am | # | Reply

    The issue is less can he get out, and more how did she get him to get in there in the first place.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 16, 2019, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      She’s a swarm of bees. She can be very persuasive.

  6. Seph
    October 16, 2019, 7:45 am | # | Reply

    In what way is she cultivating him?

    • Dr. Steve
      October 16, 2019, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      To be taller and more ill-tempered?

      • greenknight32
        October 16, 2019, 10:55 am | # | Reply

        Keeping him in that box should definitely make him ill-tempered.

    • BMunro
      October 16, 2019, 1:36 pm | # | Reply

      “Can I get out now?”
      “Not until you make more progress in your violin lesson!”

    • Shadowmehr
      October 16, 2019, 8:59 pm | # | Reply

      “I keep telling you, if you want more than one of me, I have to either get out of the box or you send Marcie in!”

  7. Frank
    October 16, 2019, 8:23 am | # | Reply

    …Sherlock Holmes retired?

    Gavotte hasn’t retired yet?

    • Dan
      October 16, 2019, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

      “His Last Bow” Holmes doing some counter-intelligence work in the lead up to WWI indicates he is generally retired and doing bee keeping.

    • Lady E\
      October 17, 2019, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

      The 2015 movie, “Mr. Holmes” starring Ian McKlellan, DID have Holmes as retired and keeping bees.

      • Lady E
        October 17, 2019, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

        As did a Neil Gaiman story.

  8. Robert Nowall
    October 16, 2019, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    I’m intrigued by a notion: Sherlock Holmes retired to cultivate bees. Maybe he cultivated Gavotte. She does have that British accent.

    But, also, that might mean that all that about bees being space aliens and going to the planet Lovetron might be a delusion, too.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 16, 2019, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

      Bees being originally from another planet does not preclude the possibility of people cultivating them once they’re here.

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      October 16, 2019, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

      The bees=aliens theory was confirmed by Dr. Who. Although I think their homeworld was called Melissa.

      • Trivena
        October 16, 2019, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

        Close, it’s Melissa Majoria. I wonder if that means there’s two planets, and/or if Melissa is the name of their star?

    • VickiC
      October 17, 2019, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      Given the lifespan of bees, Holmes may have cultivated an ancestor of Gavotte’s. Then again, the accent may be British, but the name is French…

      • Terry hunt
        October 18, 2019, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

        Holmes was canonically of part-French descent, so maybe he passed on some of his hives to relatives across the Channel.

  9. Daibhid C
    October 16, 2019, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

    I now feel like the Skin Horse universe should also be home to a sentient vegetable marrow (what happens to a courgette/zucchini if you allow it to grow), who is cultivating small, moustached men.

  10. Doug Relyea
    October 16, 2019, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

    So… this is… Beezle Bub?, Gavotte’s first cultivar?

    • awgiedawgie
      October 16, 2019, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

      This is the eminent Chris Sanders, nuclear scientist and cultivar extraordinaire.

      • Robert Nowall
        October 16, 2019, 6:41 pm | # | Reply

        I think all the men around Annex One could be described as ill-tempered. (Describing them as “men” might be a bit of a stretch, given their behavior at times.)

  11. Robert Nowall
    October 16, 2019, 6:11 pm | # | Reply

    “…we gotta sink the Bismarck ’cause the world depends on us.”

  12. Shadowmehr
    October 16, 2019, 9:02 pm | # | Reply

    I realize that this is probably just a one-shot joke, but with Gavotte, you can never be completely sure if what she’s doing won’t be a Chekov’s gun for later. Although I can’t think of how a boxed Chris would be useful later.

    • Seph
      October 16, 2019, 10:02 pm | # | Reply

      Annex One is captured by Anasigma, and everyone inside is taken prisoner, but they don’t find Chris because he’s in the box; he goes on to retake the building for Team Good Guys.

  13. jdreyfuss
    February 5, 2020, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

    But this one isn’t a cocaine addict.

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