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2013-06-26

by shaenon on June 26, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. John Campbell
    June 26, 2013, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Heh, Nick’s T-shirt. Entirely accurate, once you realize that “fake” modifies “girl”, not “geek”.

    • Axel
      June 26, 2013, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

      I just noticed that too and I’m trying not to lough out loud at work. GJ, Nick. Best irony.

  2. Tuiteyfruity
    June 26, 2013, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    *me imitating my dad imitating his mother* As long as he’s jewish!
    and preferably a doctor.

    • jdreyfuss
      June 26, 2013, 9:08 am | # | Reply

      I think the best we’re likely to get here is an engineer. Nice, but he’s no doctor.

      • Yotz
        June 26, 2013, 11:08 am | # | Reply

        But what is a doctor if not an engineer of man?

        • Kaydrien Iceclaw
          September 28, 2017, 8:26 am | # | Reply

          Tech Support

      • Blayzeing
        June 26, 2013, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

        What about someone with a Doctorate in engineering? A Roboticist, perhaps?

      • Tuiteyfruity
        June 26, 2013, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

        anyone with the title of Doctor is fine.

  3. Dave Van Domelen
    June 26, 2013, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Well, he’s a brain in a jar, so it’s not like he’s cis-ANYTHING at the moment.

    • Zap Rowsdower
      June 26, 2013, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      Obviously, he’s cis-helicopter.

      • Dave Van Domelen
        June 26, 2013, 1:18 am | # | Reply

        Trans-former.

        • reynard61
          June 26, 2013, 8:27 pm | # | Reply

          +1!

      • Vincent
        June 26, 2013, 2:32 am | # | Reply

        Comfortable-in-chopper?

        • the1trueian
          June 26, 2013, 7:25 am | # | Reply

          A few points of order 1 Mr.Zerhakker is a post op trans-helicopter.2. He is masculine identified 3until the most recent story arc he was presumed to be heterosexual

          • polerin
            June 26, 2013, 12:54 pm | #

            Ooookay. So, I’m going to have to say “uhm no”
            as a trans person.
            Nick didn’t identify as a helicopter before surgery, and as he is a MAAB person who is masculine identified, I would thank y’all for not calling him trans. Thanks. 😛

    • the1trueian
      June 26, 2013, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      I didn’t say he was transgender, I said he was trans-helicopter. He called the whirly bird his real body remember? Is there a different term for forcibly reassigned people who are accepting of their new physicality?

      • the1trueian
        June 26, 2013, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

        I’m sorry if that was misconstrued.

      • =Tamar
        June 26, 2013, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

        Nick isn’t really trans-helicopter. He’s still a helicopter, just with an extensible option to his physical environment.

        • the1trueian
          June 26, 2013, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

          He Was human by birth, Ergo trans-helicopter.

          • fluffy
            June 26, 2013, 3:06 pm | #

            I love that people are getting into a semantics/terminology argument over the application of ridiculous science fiction stuff as it relates to real-world identity politics.

      • polerin
        June 27, 2013, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

        considering that people use otherkin and people who claim to be trans-racial to discredit trans people, pardon me for being a bit snippy about that. S’not funny when it’s not a joke most of the time. (Yes, I got the joke 😛 )

        plus, there is a huge segment of the population who things that doctors push trans people to be who we are. So the forced transition thing … yeah.

  4. Manifesta
    June 26, 2013, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    They’re gonna need a freakin’ huge chuppah at that wedding! I’d filk “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” nut I’m on vacation in Florida, and it’s too hot to rhyme.

    • Prodigal
      June 26, 2013, 3:16 am | # | Reply

      Zerhakker, Zerhakker, found him a match!
      Nice Jewish boy!
      Oi, what a catch!
      Cartoon talk over coffee
      Then, whaddaya know?
      Nick’s brain, in its jar, is aglow!

  5. Kwaj
    June 26, 2013, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    I am concerned that Nick is unintentionally coming to identify more closely with the drone body than he would ordinarily wish.

    If he is fine with it then I am fine with it.

    • the1trueian
      June 26, 2013, 7:32 am | # | Reply

      That might be due to a Sensory homunculus kind of thing, true he can’t receive touch, but his organic* brain is optimized for four limbs, two of which end in manipulators. Being a helicopter might be awesome, but the Violet drone is probably a comfortable and familiar thing to him. *Note I didn’t say human, he’s a helicopter with a originally human component. That’s basic respect

  6. Joshua Kronengold
    June 26, 2013, 1:47 am | # | Reply

    I -love- the use of that T-shirt!

    Looks like Nick’s having a bit of a gender crisis. Ish. Should be interesting, even if he’s gaming (female avatar, after all).

    • Dave
      June 26, 2013, 6:39 am | # | Reply

      Might not be an actual sexual identity crisis if he’s just being sarcastic.

    • Dewy
      June 26, 2013, 10:29 am | # | Reply

      I seem to recall the last male driver of that drone trying to seduce Tip. I wonder if it is not a side effect of this particular drone model. Or it could just be that taking the shape, even if it a robot and not living, confers some of the characteristics of the shape. I’ve seen this described in shape-shifting fiction before but I am not sure it would be applicable to putting your conscience into a different mechanical shape.

      • Tetra Valent
        June 26, 2013, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

        That same prior driver also went after Dr. Lee.

  7. Moe Lane
    June 26, 2013, 1:54 am | # | Reply

    So what’s the next step up from “It’s complicated?”

    • khade
      June 26, 2013, 2:01 am | # | Reply

      ‘It’s very complicated’? followed by ‘It’s VERY complicated’?

      • History_PhD
        June 26, 2013, 3:16 am | # | Reply

        …followed by, “Don’t ask, if you ask you’re involved..”

        • the1trueian
          June 26, 2013, 7:26 am | # | Reply

          I know that feeling, an accurate description my sexuality takes up a semi paragraph.

    • davidbreslin101
      June 26, 2013, 8:49 am | # | Reply

      If you’re lucky, “deeply ambiguous yet curiously stable.” That’s a fun place to be.

  8. Eddurd
    June 26, 2013, 6:04 am | # | Reply

    Manifesta, not a bad idea (and nicely done, Prodigal), but my brain went in a different direction …

    (TUNE: “Catholic Girls”, Frank Zappa)

    Nice Jewish boy
    Who is working for Whimsy,
    Nice Jewish boy
    Who’s reality-blind!
    Nice Jewish boy
    Gave my number to him, see?
    He’s not gonna find
    That’s I’m poorly designed!

    Nice Jewish boy
    Hasn’t got a clue …
    Nice Jewish boy
    Kinda geeky too …
    Nice Jewish boy
    And I’m also a Jew …
    If he went out with me,
    Would we play D&D?

     Doesn’t know
     That I’m just a brain …
     If I show
     That I live in a tank in a plane,
     Would he then go
     Absolutely insane?
     I sure hope not, he’s a nice Jewish boy
     Though it seems perverse,
     Hey, I could do worse …
     (Yes, he could do worse … than a)

    Nice Jewish boy
    With his hair dark and curly,
    Nice Jewish boy
    With a goyishe nose,
    Nice Jewish boy
    And he thinks I’m so girly …
    If he never knows,
    We’ll just see where this goes!

  9. Dave
    June 26, 2013, 6:43 am | # | Reply

    Didn’t Nick and Dr. Lee set up a dinner date awhile back? Wonder how Virginia will feel about this development.

    • Andy4Hire
      June 26, 2013, 10:23 am | # | Reply

      My guess? A combination of jealous and turned on, both of which she’d be embarrassed to admit.

      Any plan dot makes Ginny Lee blush is a goot plan.

      • Tetra Valent
        June 26, 2013, 2:32 pm | # | Reply

        Just about anything makes Ginny Lee blush.

        • Marcus
          June 26, 2013, 9:10 pm | # | Reply

          Zo dot only meen all plans mit Ginny Lee are goot plans! Unless yoo lose yur hat. Dot alvayz bad plan.

          • Tetra Valent
            June 27, 2013, 12:28 am | #

            Hmm. Score with Ginny but lose a hat in the process? I’d go with it.

            But then I’m no Jaegermonster, just a Frauleinjaeger.

  10. soft
    June 26, 2013, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

    Sweetheart’s reaction is priceless.

    • Shadowmehr
      June 26, 2013, 6:54 pm | # | Reply

      Seconded.

  11. Moor
    June 26, 2013, 12:51 pm | # | Reply

    Wow. It doesn’t seem like Nick is being sarcastic.
    So there’s the question of whether Nick is being fluid with his(?) gender, or with his sexuality on a homo-/hetero-sexual scale. (As an aside, I’ve always wondered whether it was like that — does homo-/hetero-sexuality stay more constant over transition, or does interest in men/women?)

    Either way, I also wonder if this will affect his experience in online/gaming communities, what with their (possibly only stereotypical? I don’t know those communities very well) common use of “f*g” and the like.

    • the1trueian
      June 26, 2013, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

      Fluid might be likelihood. He is a helicopter now he doesn’t actually have fun bits, And so he could theoretically do anything romance wise that doesn’t directly involve fun bits. p.s the 3 letter F word is more of a derogatory postfix on the Internet nowadays rather than having to do anything with homosexuality specifically

      • mittfh
        June 26, 2013, 4:58 pm | # | Reply

        That’s probably the best description we can achieve.

        In the beginning, Nick was a straight, cis-gendered male.
        Then his brain was transplanted into a V-22 Osprey (which technically is agendered), but while regarding the helicopter as his true body (which was probably more like going with the flow, accepting it and making the most of his new form as resistance would be futile) his brain was still wired up as straight, cis-gendered male.
        Now he’s piloting a gynoid drone and decided to experiment with going out with the employee to see what it was like (“for the lulz”).

        So in general, Nick is a very adaptable chap who’s prepared to give (almost) anything a go – after all, it’s not as if the drone can get pregnant, is it?! 🙂

        Note I said almost – sharing a bed with the resident crossdressing casanova may be an experiment too far… 🙂

        • the1trueian
          June 26, 2013, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

          *In my best Eastern European accent*is what I say.

          • the1trueian
            June 26, 2013, 5:40 pm | #

            And I think tip would most likely not be that interested in anyone without human fun bits anyway.

          • Tetra Valent
            June 27, 2013, 12:21 am | #

            Indeed, Tip spent a significant portion of the prior story arc expressing just such disinterest.

  12. jdreyfuss
    June 26, 2013, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

    One of my mom’s favorite jokes goes something like:

    Joshua comes home for Thanksgiving his freshman year of college. When he gets home, his mother greets him with, “Have you met the Rosenbergs’ daughter, Sarah? She’s perfect for you. Young, beautiful, funny, and talk about brains? She’s studying to be a doctor!” Joshua sheepishly says to her, “Mom, while I’ve been away and been able to think about it, I’ve come to the realization that I’m gay. You don’t really need to set me up with any more of your friends’ daughters.”

    The mother is crushed. She spends the entire weekend pouting and Joshua goes back to college wondering if he picked the right time to come out. A month later, when he comes home for winter break, his mother greets him at the door with a big hug and says, “have you met the Goldsteins’ son, David? He’s perfect for you! Young, handsome, funny, and talk about brains? He’s studying to be a lawyer!”

  13. Maki P
    June 26, 2013, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

    Love the shirt! Totally acquerate just once

  14. Andrew
    June 26, 2013, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

    Oi vey. And I think Sweetheart’s brain broke.

    Plus, he doesn’t look a bit Druidish.

    • Grantwhy
      June 27, 2013, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      However, I doubt Nick is a base?

  15. Shadowmehr
    June 26, 2013, 6:59 pm | # | Reply

    Please note Sweetheart’s grumpiness towards Tip’s “activities”, and her outright shock that Nick would be doing anything similar.

    I hereby predict that at some future date, Sweetheart will find some other hyper-intelligent dog and be at least twice as annoying as she finds everyone else at this point. At which point her co-workers will enjoy having their verbal revenge.

  16. Grantwhy
    June 27, 2013, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    However, I doubt Nick is a base?

  17. David DeLaney
    August 28, 2013, 7:55 pm | # | Reply

    “… Nobody’s perfect!”

    –Dave, homages ‘R us

  18. Werwolfe
    February 1, 2017, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

    I can just see the daytime talk show headlines: “I married a helicopter!”

    Have to say, it’s nice to see characters evolve a bit in a comic now and then. See Unity’s innocence in addition to Nick being more than a foul-mouthed dudebro. Knew there was a reason I was re-reading this.

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