Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, August 20, 2020.
I like to establish dominance over cookies. 😉
Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, August 20, 2020.
I like to establish dominance over cookies. 😉
Well she was planning to eat him when they first met.
Cue emergency alert in 10…9…8…7…
They have a baby. I’m a father – I know how this waltz goes. Hug, snuggle, getting cozy and then the “WaWaWaWa” from the kid’s room starts.
‘Course, they can always let Ruddock babysit.
“They can always let Ruddock babysit.” …or potty-bot!
I am reminded of how we first met M. Adbullahi all those years ago, as an animal rights activist, in Gabon. And thanks to this little web comic, we see that it isn’t just a joke, that there really are animal welfare groups in Gabon:
https://www.oipa.org/international/stray-dogs-gabon/
An interesting read. Thanks to Pierrot (and our esteemed author/artist), I learned something new!
Christopher, I deduce from how you build the personalities of your characters that you must have an incredible grasp of human nature. And along with that, a wisdom in personal inter-relationshipships. You do amaze me at times like the above episode.
I let cookies have their way with me.
@Coyoty: I let cookies have their way with me.
Only if they’re chocolate chip. With snickerdoodles I prefer to have long, deep conversations first.
“MORE…”?
My dogs will “lick my muzzle” for dinner time to come faster… it’s what canids in ther wild do… Also puppies. I allow it because it’s acknowledging my dominance.
They’re still bossy though.
We should all try to be Pierrot.
Is this the first time in a long time we’ve seen Pierrot without Pottybot?
… so has Pierrot been having conversations with his cat? I mean, if you can talk to Coyotes with a translation chip you should be able to talk to cats, right?
talking to cats is one thing. but will they deign to reply?
I have conversations with my cat regularly. Neither one of us has the foggiest notion what the other is actually saying. So how is that much different from the conversations I have with other humans?
Didn’t Pierrot’s cat die?
I don’t recall Mr. Jefferson passing away. I was, in fact, thinking that Emily may have a harder time getting Mr. Jefferson to accept her back than the same with Pierrot.
IIRC, I don’t think Mr. Jefferson made it onto the Spacetrawler or the GOB. I seem to recall a scene when the comic was first starting that had Pierrot moping about the ship because his cat, Mr. Jefferson, wasn’t there, and Pierrot missed him so much.
Mr. Jefferson did make it into space, but I don’t recall him dying. I will double check at some point.
I have a strong negative effect on cookies. They become suicidal!
At least they’re not cannibals like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Those are some seriously screwed up commercials, with the pieces of cereal eating each other.
Someone with cartoonistic talent should do a drawing of one massive piece of the cereal being dumped out of the box as the sole survivor that has eaten all the other pieces. *thud* *buuuuurrrrrp*
Pierrot has expressed to Emily the humanity she herself lacks. And she recognizes it and weeps at the loss, as well as her own shame for not being able to reciprocate. That’s significant progress for her.
But it still isn’t trust. That barrier is still deeply rooted in her, and still shows no signs of breaking. And Pierrot recognizes that too. As much as he recognizes that Emily’s humanity is trying to re-emerge.
Lots of ways to go from here. Lots of things needing to be done. But Emily has to do them… and she has to trust herself doing them. I wonder sometimes whether it was easier for her to slice off two of her own fingers than to confront her emotional wall. I think it must have been. Which leads us again to what will make Emily transform. If Pierrot has got a better idea, now’s the time to show her and help her to it.
Not that she’ll go without suspicion and deep distrust. That’s our Emily, after all.
Emily is such a stoic. Yet we did see tears and a warm hug.
A pleasant human moment and followed by a funny joke.
Cats given translator chips…I would find it interesting.
One of the few times when you shouldn’t listen to Ruddock….. OR IS IT?
Oh, Emily understands biting and dominance. She was raised among coyotes, don’t forget.
It’s all the other human stuff she has trouble with. Trust in particular but that’s not the end of her limitations. And she hasn’t figured out yet how to change, the process that was interrupted by the Puppy-people.
This is all terra incognito to her, and, given her natural wariness, she’s going to have her guard up against whatever comes along, be it coyotes, transgender Bhutanis, war-traumatized Eritreans or symbiotic vests.
And maybe even her tendency to use people for her personal ends along the way, though we’ve not seen much of that. Yet. We’re waaaay past biting at this point.