Sweetheart does realize that she wouldn’t exist if not for Mads, right?
Oh… wait… The Good Cap’n lives in Canada, not the US, so the Cure wouldn’t really be an iss—wait a minute… Canada!?!?!? Land of universal heathcare? But that means…. free Cure for everybody, dramatic sting!
Could this “cure” lead to Sweetheart having only “normal” canine intelligence? How would she feel about that? The same way Tigerlilly feels about not being a mad genius?
It’s not a consequence, it’s the same thing. The Cure works by blocking the ability of the subject to see things as they are. The way Helen puts it, there’s no other component to it, nothing that would target only people with Waltons disorder. A normal person on the cure would become like Bill, so a sapient dog on the cure would become like… I don’t know, Lassie? In any case, it wouldn’t just do nothing.
In fairness to sweetheart, tigerlily said the cure would make her “normal”, not that it would make her reality-blind. Sweetheart might think it would just cure the madness itself
Now Sweetheart, you should at least try your felony aiding and abetting before you decide you don’t like it. For all you know, it might go well with the pumpkin spice.
Sweetheart may want The Cure for their CLIENTS, not necessarily for the Team. None of the team are technically ‘Mads.’ And if they all became Reality Blind, they’d never get their old Skin Horse Jobs back, so there wouldn’t be a Skin Horse comic and then what would WE all do without a reason to check the computer in the morning?
(Plus, it wouldn’t work with Unity’s necrotic goo.)
YES!!!
Extra bonus,Brita is there as well!
Thank you Shaenon & Jeff!!!
=>D
Hey, it’s 3 pumpkin lattes… and bubbles for Bubbles
Can the drone handle caffeine?
Sweet! Gettin’ the band back together!
…come on, somebody had to say it. 😛
Medical lobotomies? Sounds like a job for Skin Horse to me!
=>D
What would “the cure” do to Sweathart? A reality blind buracrat is a hard sell! 😉
Worse yet, a talking dog who doesn’t believe dogs can talk…
Sudden thought: what would happen if they dosed the Whimsy employee-turned-skunk lady from the guest artist week with the Cure?
Well, that’s exactly what she wants.
Exactly! Kinda clears out the moral ambiguity around curing Debbie etc.
It’s only a cure for Walden’s Disease. It can make Mads stop being Mad, but it can’t un-create their creations.
Have you taken a look at politics in the USA for the last 15 years? I’m pretty sure most of the bureaucrats in Congress are reality blind.
Hell, one of the only ones I can think of that isn’t reality blind is Tim Huelskamp and he’s been branded as a rogue nutter.
Sweetheart does realize that she wouldn’t exist if not for Mads, right?
Oh… wait… The Good Cap’n lives in Canada, not the US, so the Cure wouldn’t really be an iss—wait a minute… Canada!?!?!? Land of universal heathcare? But that means…. free Cure for everybody, dramatic sting!
Doesn’t Sweetheart have TiVo?
I’ll bet it was a government employee benefit
Right message, wrong audience. At least the rest might get the implications of all of this.
I take it Bubbles is officially part of the team now?
Absolutely!! Hoooray!
Could this “cure” lead to Sweetheart having only “normal” canine intelligence? How would she feel about that? The same way Tigerlilly feels about not being a mad genius?
No, because Sweetheart isn’t a Mad
You forget, the Cure doesn’t just “cure madness”. It gives you reality blindness.
I’m pretty sure that’s a consequence of curing the Madness.
Yeah. The whole premise is that reality is irrational and many (most?) Can’t deal with it. Of those who can, some are ‘mad’ and able to manipulate it.
It’s not a consequence, it’s the same thing. The Cure works by blocking the ability of the subject to see things as they are. The way Helen puts it, there’s no other component to it, nothing that would target only people with Waltons disorder. A normal person on the cure would become like Bill, so a sapient dog on the cure would become like… I don’t know, Lassie? In any case, it wouldn’t just do nothing.
In fairness to sweetheart, tigerlily said the cure would make her “normal”, not that it would make her reality-blind. Sweetheart might think it would just cure the madness itself
Now Sweetheart, you should at least try your felony aiding and abetting before you decide you don’t like it. For all you know, it might go well with the pumpkin spice.
Sweetheart may want The Cure for their CLIENTS, not necessarily for the Team. None of the team are technically ‘Mads.’ And if they all became Reality Blind, they’d never get their old Skin Horse Jobs back, so there wouldn’t be a Skin Horse comic and then what would WE all do without a reason to check the computer in the morning?
(Plus, it wouldn’t work with Unity’s necrotic goo.)
Really now, Sweetheart. Do you want a supply of homosexuality-antidote, too?