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  1. Posted

    1 hour ago, The Old Hack said:

    Yeah. Sometimes you just can't help that. Jealousy is not an emotion I am proud of, but for a long time I felt it strongly in connection with my older and by far more successful brother. This was also due to certain sibling problems we brought with us into adulthood. And it can poison relationships badly.

    It took long years before I was finally able to begin laying the resentment I felt to rest. But when I succeeded, it made a huge difference for me. I truly hope that if Tedd does feel that way, she will find a better way to deal with it than I did.

    Without trying to take this thread to far off topic, I understand. I've done foolish things out of jealousy too. They are perhaps my biggest regrets. For what it's worth, in all I've seen in all of my lurking, you seem like a pretty good person.

     

    Back on topic. Maybe the reason Tedd isn't telling all of this to Grace is because she's worried she'll say something out of jealousy. Once you say things you can't take them back.

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  2. Posted

    33 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2311

    Elliot's like "...but I just started loving my spells!"

    Also, looks like Dan was thinking about the "Tedd forgot to do something" NP, though he seems to be on the fence about it being canon or not, it certainly is one of those "it could, or it couldn't" stories.

    Also also, Tedd looks more noticeably female in this page than the previous two.

    That's the first thing I saw too. I saw the rant coming (I'd be ranting too), so the seemingly much larger breasts drew my eye. I still want to give her a gigantic hug, I'd be at least as pissed in her shoes.

     

    14 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    This is truly brutal. While we knew or suspected most of this, we finally see Tedd let all her frustrations out about it. I am so very thankful Elliot is there with her. He is the one person Tedd trusts enough to vent at without wanting to hold back because of other reasons. (Yes, I believe she also trusts Grace that much, but I also believe that she would want to avoid letting her full fury land on Grace because she knows how much this upsets her. Grace has problems of her own, and to Tedd's great credit, she does not want to aggravate them.)

    I noticed that, too. I wonder if it is in part because she is letting so much emotion show and moving so energetically that it is stretching her clothes, making her body shape stand out more. It could also be magic, of course, the sheer power of her emotions affecting her mark and her shape. It could be either or even both.

     

    Plus Grace wont be losing her magic. She'll be one of the only people on earth who wont be. It's also been heavily hinted (I thought it was stated, but I can't remember where) that she is much more powerful than most hybrids or Uryuoms, so she will potentially be one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, person on earth if Magic decides to take its ball and go home. I don't think Tedd blames her for this at all, but I would be very jealous in her shoes.

     

    As for being more female... I just read the card game storyline a few days ago, I think Tedd is much more, um, "Top-Heavy" in this comic then she was in that story line. I agree that it's likely that she is accidentally using her mark... Or perhaps her mark has reacted with the TF gun somehow to give her even more abilities. Not likely, but possible.

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  3. Posted

    8 minutes ago, ijuin said:

    Letting people know that the girl Tedd is the same person as the boy Tedd will only result in said people reacting to the trans-ness rather than to specifically Female Tedd.

    I don't know if Tedd has thought this through entirely. If she has i would guess that she is assuming that she is so androgynous anyway that anyone who doesn't know her well wont be able to tell the difference. She even seemed surprised that Elliot could tell she wasn't male.

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  4. Posted

    48 minutes ago, ijuin said:

    Hmm, I don't see Grace really having a "genderfluid" mentality so much as an "agender" mentality. What I meant was that Elliot is the one person who could possibly relate to Tedd's internal struggle over what gender to be. Ellen has had a bit of gender dysphoria too, but she chose to go for fem and not turn back, so to speak, whereas Tedd and Elliot have wrestled with the question in more of a back-and-forth manner.

    That was exactly my point. Grace will want Tedd to be happy, and will love her no matter what. But for all of Grace's good intentions this is something she can't relate to. Elliot can.

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  5. Posted

    2 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Elliot is also possibly the best person for Tedd to confide in, in this situation. Aside from them being best friends for half of their lives so far, Elliot is also the only person Tedd knows who would truly understand the whole genderfluid mindset--Elliot has experienced voluntary male/female transformations, and has recently accepted the girl side as part of self rather than alien.

    I could see an argument being made for Grace, but she'll love Tedd no matter what, and would tell her so. "Do whatever makes you happy" doesn't help much when even Tedd doesn't know what will make her happy.

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  6. Posted

    4 minutes ago, ijuin said:

    So basically, Tedd is in a state of emotional shock, where the full emotional weight is compartmentalized away from the "logic" part of her mind?

    Kind of. For me it was an inability to express myself, and not wanting to attempt to do so until I knew more, rather than locking it away. I just ignored what i couldn't deal with and concentrated on what I could. I can't honestly speak for Tedd, or anyone else for that matter, though.

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  7. Posted

    1 minute ago, The Old Hack said:

    Ah. Yes. I can see that. This sounds frighteningly plausible in Tedd's case. I am very glad she has Elliot to support her.

    I've been sitting here almost since the instant you posted trying to think of how to respond, but nothing sounded right.  I too am very very glad she has Elliot to support her. I've had a similar destruction of what I thought was my place in the world, and it is nothing to go through alone. As much as Mr. Verres loves his child, he would not be a person Tedd could turn to.

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  8. Posted

    8 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    You are not alone. Tedd has had her entire rug of dreams and ambitions yanked away from under her and she has to deal with this on top of everyone else. What is strange is not that she is making plans for a worst case contingency but that she is dealing as calmly with it as she is.

    There's a type of freaking out that's so deep that often other people can't tell there is anything major wrong. I've seen in in cancer patients, their whole world is (or might be) so suddenly and rapidly falling apart that they can't process it. They just go about their life doing what little they can, with whatever control they have, until they can process it into words.

     

    EDIT: A word.

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  9. Posted

    I can't be the only one who wants to give Tedd a big hug right now and tell her it's all going to be ok. Dysphoria is literally indescribable to someone who has never had to live it. The thought of being granted a 'treatment' (don't know what else to call it) like Tedd's mark and then being told my every use is risking it's loss would be devastating to me.

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  11. Posted

    Wow, I picked the right time to return to EGS after a hiatus.

     

    I am an openly poly person, and as a poly person I support all the pairings shown in this comic. :D I also am glad that Dan attempts to show several different kinds of relationships and love in EGS. I don't really know what else to say, but i read the most recent comic after catching up and it made me want to say something about it, some kind of thanks, even if Dan never actually reads this.

  13. Posted

    50 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    It just seems like, for the moment, Diane and Charlotte have completely forgotten about Diane's outburst on the way to the belltower. I'm hoping they haven't and that we get to see Diane apologize to Charlotte.

    Is this a "My 'ship has not yet sailed" moment?

  14. Posted

    1 hour ago, Matoyak said:

    Only if you're focused on the main storyline. You could spend hundreds of hours in New Vegas and only touch a few main story quests, while still doing tons of other quests and stories. Granted, that'd be pretty tough (more so than the main line) doing it all non-aggressive, but...

     

    No-kill runs are some of the most fun to watch, while at the same time being the most frustrating to watch.

     

    ^I might have hundreds of hours watching let's plays...

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  15. Posted

    Nine Robots a Beeping's first album, Dance Statue Dance, went over like a lead balloon... Surprisingly well as lead balloons actually can fly.

     

    My new band is Disciples of Caliban, we do love ballads set to grindcore tunes.

  24. Posted

    4 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Isn't that the same thinking Jerry got mad at Les Immortals about?  There are grown-up already around who could be called in!  Susan is only 18 and still in high school, too young to drink, too young to rent a car, and mostly untrained; she definitely shouldn't be the first choice to go after the monsters!

    I posted something similar to this in the last incarnation of the forums. The Immortals pointing Susan and Nanase at the Vampire in Paris, assuming they are the Immortals Mr. Verres contacted after he ran into Pandora in the woods, makes a certain amount of ruthless sense. Either Susan and Nanase gain abilities are are more likely to Awaken and the people around Moperville are that much better able to defend themselves from whatever is coming, or the two girls die and the world is not worse off then it was before.

     

    Like I said, ruthless, but with a certain kind of logic behind it.

  25. Posted

    On 3/19/2016 at 10:07 PM, Scotty said:

    I could probably safely place this story happening between the breakup and New Years Eve (28th or 29th), Sarah could have come up with the idea of making MV5 as a way to get her mind off of the breakup, which goes with her reaction Ellen's sister comment. It can't be the 30th because Ellen and Elliot were together discussing Susan's birthday and when Grace had called Ellen, she looked as if she was in "just gonna chill around the house" mode and while we don't really know how much time pasted during this NP, it was probably longer than "Playing with Dolls" especially if you account for them playing video games afterwards.

    It also couldn't have been New Years even or New Years day cus, well parties and monsters and burnouts and such. January 2nd would be out too because of Ellen and Nanase getting together to discuss what they learned the previous couple days, as well as play with magic. Beyond that we get into Elliot Sarah and Susan working on the video revealing the breakup and then school stuffs.

    I at first thought this story took place after New Years. but reading what you said, I think you are right that it takes place a day or two before. I don't recall any mention of school or Eliot getting a new gf, or anything that should have happened in the week after.