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when your brain has been blown so far out of your skull that the eyes start clipping through your hair

http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2317
This is not a very good Liefeld comic. The characters all have largely human proportions. That woman exercising clearly has a spine and her breasts aren't either massively huge or showing outrageous amounts of cleavage. Also, every single character actually has joints that can articulate and actual wrists. And there isn't as much as even a single pouch in sight anywhere. What gives?

The One True Tetradecagon or 14 sided polygon. It's actually a web. The not quite current version looks like this:

For the record I can find a canon source for where those links come from.  Granted some are less, shall we say, solid than others.

http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2312
Bless you, Elliot. I knew we could rely on you.

Imagine the following scenario.
Tedd arrived at a restaurant and found the dining room filled with everyone worth meeting ever and they were all dining on steak, lobster, and decadent deserts.  The maître d' slowly leads Tedd thorough the room pointing out the guests and menu options on the way.
Just before being shown the table, the waiter asks Tedd to pay the $200.00 fixed menu price plus the mandatory 25% gratuity.  Then Tedd is led out a fire door and told to sit down on a box by the dumpster.  The waiter gives Tedd a cold can of SpaghettiOs with a jagged lid only partially removed and plastic fork.  Tedd is then told to never come back.
I think that would be less unpleasant that what Tedd is experiencing right now.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This comic passed through my life intermittently as I was growing up, and I like to think that it was one of the factors that allowed me to remember a part of myself that I didn't know that I had forgotten. I'm just glad that I'm actually transitioning instead of ending up waiting again, even though I don't know where my life will be later this year.

This comic passed through my life intermittently as I was growing up, and I like to think that it was one of the factors that allowed me to remember a part of myself that I didn't know that I had forgotten. I'm just glad that I'm actually transitioning instead of ending up waiting again, even though I don't know where my life will be later this year.

This comic passed through my life intermittently as I was growing up, and I like to think that it was one of the factors that allowed me to remember a part of myself that I didn't know that I had forgotten. I'm just glad that I'm actually transitioning instead of ending up waiting again, even though I don't know where my life will be later this year.

I've paid attention to the borders of the comics ever since Dan started doing stuff like this.
He really needs to make it easier to distinguish, though.

"Ew!"

"I was referring to the extent the law of the immortals is holding me back."

"Then say that!"

"Ew!"

"I was referring to the extent the law of the immortals is holding me back."

"Then say that!"

"Ew!"

"I was referring to the extent the law of the immortals is holding me back."

"Then say that!"

All this being said, in all sci-fi settings, whenever somebody comes up with something fancy and new, it's never too long before somebody else figures out how to smash that thing very effectively.

But of course, the game already makes that point well enough already.

depending on which goofy looking lizard monster we're talking about, that guy could very well deserve this

I imagine that the Sockverse is sustained much like the griffin's homeworld is, except instead of magic it's socks.