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2022-03-05

by shaenon on March 5, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. thejoemoose
    March 5, 2022, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Someone called it, and they deserve a cookie.

    • mnemex
      March 5, 2022, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      Possibly! But no idea whom, if so. No theory from yesterday is confirmed, but several are still possible.

  2. ngmatt
    March 5, 2022, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Did Pavane CURE tigerlilly to get her to go along with her plan? She did originally refuse her offer after all.

  3. Towering Barbarian
    March 5, 2022, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Princess??? o_O

  4. Duth Olec
    March 5, 2022, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Well now who’s going to hold HT prisoner? Do they have conversation pits on Lovetron?

    • alphaghoul
      March 5, 2022, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      Conversation pits? Your gonna have to explain that reference.

      • Dave Silva
        March 5, 2022, 12:36 am | # | Reply

        It’s… literally a pit in a home where people sit to talk. Google it. I was surprised that they were a thing, too.

        • Daibhid C
          March 5, 2022, 5:22 am | # | Reply

          And Tigerlily said she was going to put HT in one. It’s a very seventies thing.

          You know the circular depression lined with couches in Danger Mouse that turns into a lift? That’s one, but they don’t normally turn into lifts.

          • Shadowmehr
            March 5, 2022, 9:26 am | #

            They really should, though. That would be best and spark all kinds of conversations.

      • Robert Nowall
        March 5, 2022, 10:59 am | # | Reply

        You ever see the movie “Help!” with The Beatles? At the beginning, they go into these side-by-side houses, but inside it’s all one house. There’s this sunken area in the floor where a couple of ’em hang out—that’s what’s called a “conversation pit.”

      • awgiedawgie
        March 5, 2022, 5:43 pm | # | Reply

        In the 1967 James Bond parody “Casino Royale” with Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress, she invites him to her home, and they sit down for martinis in her conversation pit – a sunken couch – which later descends to a lower level of the home.

        • Robert Nowall
          March 5, 2022, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

          One reason they fell out of fashion was that too many people who had them would fall in and break something—lamps if they were lucky, legs if they weren’t.

          • awgiedawgie
            March 5, 2022, 11:23 pm | #

            That’s the danger of using them for drinking martinis.

  5. alphaghoul
    March 5, 2022, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Well considering the princess thing she’s probably still crazy in a sense, just a different but related persona.

    • Daibhid C
      March 5, 2022, 5:24 am | # | Reply

      That depends very much on what happens next. Saying you’re a princess doesn’t necessarily mean you’re crazy; it doesn’t make Kate Middleton-Windsor crazy, for example.

  6. Robert Horton
    March 5, 2022, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    If only Barbara Billingsley were still with us, to translate!

  7. OneUniverse
    March 5, 2022, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Is The Plan to end Skin-horse on Shaenon’s birthday?

    • Robert Horton
      March 5, 2022, 3:58 pm | # | Reply

      And ruin Star Wars day?

  8. Jim Janney
    March 5, 2022, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    Nick was a princess and he talks any shin-barking way he wants.

    • dornbeast
      March 5, 2022, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      I think that’s a difference between a Whimsy princess and a Princess of Lovetron.

  9. Sami
    March 5, 2022, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    Sounds like she traded one new-age philosophy for another one.

  10. Peter Lewerin
    March 5, 2022, 1:58 am | # | Reply

    In honour of the Princess’ departure, I have determined that it is time for me to play the video for “The KLF – Justified & Ancient”.

  11. Robert Nowall
    March 5, 2022, 4:16 am | # | Reply

    She’s entered that settled-down mad period now.

  12. Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
    March 5, 2022, 7:27 am | # | Reply

    She slipped in a contraction, “don’t” instead of “do not.” I think the Bernice personality is a thin overlay that will collapse under pressure. Tiger Lily is still in there.

    • Barbara K
      March 5, 2022, 9:08 am | # | Reply

      What kind of pressure? Therapy puppets?

      • Duane B.
        March 5, 2022, 10:50 pm | # | Reply

        Lets start with electroshock, and drug induced coma, No need to go to puppets
        until the kinder and more gentler things have been tried.

    • woozy
      March 5, 2022, 11:42 am | # | Reply

      “She slipped in a contraction.” Is there a trope that constructed entities are not supposed to be able to use contractions?

      • Rimwolf
        March 5, 2022, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

        OK, you asked for it: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpockSpeak

        • woozy
          March 5, 2022, 4:09 pm | # | Reply

          The thing is, I’m not so much surprised there are these tropes but that people take these tropes for granted. There is nothing to indicate royalty from Lovetron are overly analytical or precise (quite the opposite, I’d think) or that they should engage in Spock Speak, and yet here is an observation of a contraction “slipped in”. It’s true Princess Berenice is a bit square and acquiescently congenial in a most un-hip way. But it’s not as though contractions belong solely to the funky.

  13. Rimwolf
    March 5, 2022, 9:22 am | # | Reply

    That awkward moment when you find out your beloved isn’t quite the person you thought they were.

  14. Robert Nowall
    March 5, 2022, 11:01 am | # | Reply

    Princess Berenice—what a surprise. And the scales have come off of her eyes. With untangled mind, she has places to find. While Tip’s eyes are still on the prize.

  15. John Campbell
    March 5, 2022, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

    Princesses can speak jive if they want to.

  16. D. Walker
    March 5, 2022, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

    I didn’t want to believe that a major beloved character would suffer a massive change of personality off-screen. I was wrong, and now I’m disappointed.

    • Towering Barbarian
      March 5, 2022, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

      Brainwashing of that sort was a staple of the old SF Illuminati/secret conspiracy stories. To the point that any Shadow Government story without one would be a bit on the disappointing side. That said, it is also true that imposters, brainwashed doubles and clones are also staples of such fiction and we already have multiple female Bernies running around thanks to parallel universes so you needn’t assume the worst just yet. πŸ™‚

    • Robert Nowall
      March 5, 2022, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

      Well, personally, I think she’s straightened out her speech the better to relate to Tip Wilkin. He had decided to go off with her after all this was over.

    • Canadian Mad Scientist
      March 6, 2022, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

      I imagine we’re going to find out exactly what’s up; we’re just entering this part of Tigerlily’s storyline in medias res. Also, my wild speculation is that, since she’s now actually on a spaceship from Lovetron, she no longer feels the same need for the outward manifestation of funk.

  17. Your Majesty
    March 5, 2022, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

    Some Americans will find that, like someone really cared about, personality
    changes and cheerfully living LIES makes it difficult to depend on them.
    She’s just another chippie who fell for a big name and show. I’ve heard there are
    quite a few of THEM(all sexes) sulking across the land.

    Tip WAS living a far more sensible life before TigerLilly(of fond memory)let her springs get rusted and dried up.

    FH. Princess? GFY, GAS.

    • Towering Barbarian
      March 5, 2022, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

      Define “sensible”. πŸ˜€

  18. David B Huber
    March 5, 2022, 3:38 pm | # | Reply

    Tip needs to hold up the Org Chart proving his position at the pinnacle of the Shadow Government, drop to one knee, bow his head and declare “Tigerlily Jones, I – the embodiment of The Man – surrender to you.”

    That should get a reaction! πŸ˜‰

    • Robert Nowall
      March 5, 2022, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

      If it doesn’t say “Chris Sanders,” that might work.

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