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Dogs and cats living together, mass υστερία!

...somehow, it didn't it me either that Ashley and Bad Tom probably have had sex, but thinking about it, it doesn't really make sense for them not to, or for Bad Tom not to at least have tried to pressure her into it, in his passive-aggressive way. As for the "shocking revelation," I wouldn't have been surprised either way. What does surprise me, though, is how unpopular she seems to be with girls whose names don't start with alveolar approximants. I guess it makes sense, but... darn you, Hughes and Fey! You've twisted my mind!

Um, yes he did; he said he'd "hit that."

I suspect these two feel no need to make explicit that that's the denominator.

There's a particular haircut - which isn't Diane's at all - that's become memetically known as the "bisexual haircut," after a Tumblr (I think Tumblr) conversation that noted it was sported by Korra in the fourth season (when she starts dating Asami), Marceline in a flashback to when she was still "friends with" Princess Bubblegum, and the player character of a game called Life Is Strange, a quasi-visual-novel that centers on a bizarrely coded (for an M-rated game from 2013) relationship between two women. I can't remember if the last one was ever involved with a guy, but the whole thing became a meme anyway. EDIT: Actually, going back and looking at Korra, you might make a case for Diane's haircut, although I think the "bisexual haircut" usually has more volume.

Hey, if Sarah and Diane can hook up in this arc, why the heck not?

Dan seems to be really into swinging these days...

...yeah, I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at the new Diane and not think "Sarah."

Yay! Now she just has to wait to be reunited with the accidental creation of the... (the word I'v thought of is unwise)... henchwoman... of the dictator who came within centimeters of skewering her and her girlfriend's brains to a wall!

...she's a magic-using celebrity.

...why does she need to make excuses at all? Everyone knows she's magic now, and everyone knows now how weird magic can be; can't she just say "it's magic"? Commentary reaction:

...sometimes I feel like the gods themselves are shouting "NOW KISS!"

I was scratching my head, wondering if this happens in one of the later games, before I read the commentary to see the joke is that it doesn't.

Yeah - that's why it always irks me when people make fun of "duck and cover." That's terrific advice, and basically the advice you'll find in preparedness pamphlets today, trying to steer as clear as possible of the stigmatized phrase. Obviously, if you're too close to the epicenter, it won't help, but that's not whom it's meant for. You can find telephone poles in Hiroshima that show the silhouette of the leaves of trees. Dirk Gently complains about the titanium airplane joke, but the people who tell that joke must know that there's a reason, even if they don't know what it is, why the black box can be built to survive when a plane can't (incidentally, his explanation is wrong: while it's true titanium couldn't fly as easily as steel and aluminum, the plane could be built of a more durable metal, but that would actually be worse for the water balloons inside, as well as worse for the black box), whereas the people who make fun of "duck and cover" truly think they've outsmarted nuclear preparedness experts based on the logic "nuke strong, blanket weak."

What I'm not clear on is whether that's Magus's room service or she just thinks it is because she thinks that's his door.

I sincerely doubt that Magus isn't into women. The fact that Ellen seems to be considerably more into women than her brother could be said to follow the circumstances of her creation, but it's certainly withstood whatever Nioi did, and she almost seems to be less into guys than he is at this point. I suspect magical burnout can override stomach capacity. But given some of the stories I've heard about Michael Phelps and The Rock...

So he does have enough? Only this seems like it's building to him being just a few dollars short...

I'm just wondering what exactly will be this arc's inevitable riff on the line "are you a boy or a girl? I can never tell."

If Catalina's about to make them all girls, it does. Especially since they have no way of turning them back. (Granted, Susan probably wouldn't mind watching them go at it as girls, either, but right now she could see lesbian PDA anywhere, while this is her only immediate chance to see Elliot and Justin in a non-canon setting with a third sexy queer boy whom at least one of them's attracted to.)

Pretty sure she was planning to turn them all female without changing their clothes. After all, I don't think anything involving male bodies would prompt that expression from Cat.

Actually, it didn't hit me at the time, but how did Charlotte of all people get roped in before Sarah, Susan, or Justin? Especially since Justin works with Grace...

I actually had to go back to figure out how Ashley knew that. Beneath my medial temporal lobe is a pickled seahorse on a toothpick. Anyway, the fact that he's used the word "her" four times in such a short spiel makes me think he's gauging their reaction. (Kinda not cool, man.) "For her" feels especially conscious, being omissible entirely. Elliot and Ellen probably wouldn't blink normally, but the latter did say "he" back in the bit I had to look up, and that probably caught Arthur's attention, and Ashley may or may not have caught it as well (after all, it's not uncommon in the real world to screw up the pronouns of cis people without any subtext). If she did catch it, which Doylistically she probably did, with the second panel being foreshadowing, she may well be indecorous enough to ask. So we're not following up on the daughter right away. Maybe it was just a throwaway line, and it's no one we know? I might've thought so if it weren't someone we knew so well. No, I still think either it's Susan's mother, or Noriko was a cuckoo's egg.

...I guess addressing your father constantly as "sir," and in a moment of weakness, by his first name, is something you'd expect from his daughter. I suspect it's more significant than that, though. Either this will make him somehow related to the other two seers (i.e., to their common mother and her sister), or he's Susan's maternal grandfather.

Somewhere, Good Tom's puppy sense has left him very confused.

I feel like DGB are going to have to build their agents into an outright paramilitary to maintain order... and considering they already press-gang wizards...