QUILTBAG Queries: Ask T and Jason

[TCampbell]

If it's not spoilery to answer: Are Emma and Uma best described as rivals, friendly enemies, friends, lovers or "who knows; they certainly don't?"

Please don't answer "yes."

Emma and Uma are probably best described as "friends with friction." Each likes the other generally, which is why it is so AGGRAVATING that the other one is just so MULISH about some things that are so OBVIOUS.

[Zanosuke Kurosaki]

If it's not spoilery to answer: Are Emma and Uma best described as rivals, friendly enemies, friends, lovers or "who knows; they certainly don't?"

Please don't answer "yes."

Emma and Uma are probably best described as "friends with friction." Each likes the other generally, which is why it is so AGGRAVATING that the other one is just so MULISH about some things that are so OBVIOUS.

Sounds kind of like how Penny and Aggie might have been, had they not gone for the "more than friends" road, actually.

[TCampbell]

Hey, T this is a permissions thing, and sort of off-topic.

I've been a reader and forum lurker since the Popsicle Wars, made the transition to Quiltbag and love it.

I'm a high school student-teacher, and looking for some more-fun activities to do with my students. I was inspired by Alice's change-the-words Quiltbag strip manips, and I was wondering if I could take a few strips from P&A and Quiltbag, blank out the speech bubbles, fill them with incorrect phrasing (the lesson would be double negatives) and have them re-write the phrases correctly on a blank bubble copy? I wanted to ask to avoid being a copyright infringer.

Man, don't get me started on copyright. No one should be able to prevent you from doing something like this. Needless to say, you have my complete permission.

[Valerie]

Hey, T this is a permissions thing, and sort of off-topic.

I've been a reader and forum lurker since the Popsicle Wars, made the transition to Quiltbag and love it.

I'm a high school student-teacher, and looking for some more-fun activities to do with my students. I was inspired by Alice's change-the-words Quiltbag strip manips, and I was wondering if I could take a few strips from P&A and Quiltbag, blank out the speech bubbles, fill them with incorrect phrasing (the lesson would be double negatives) and have them re-write the phrases correctly on a blank bubble copy? I wanted to ask to avoid being a copyright infringer.

Man, don't get me started on copyright. No one should be able to prevent you from doing something like this. Needless to say, you have my complete permission.

Best. Creator. EVER.

[Green]

Man, don't get me started on copyright. No one should be able to prevent you from doing something like this. Needless to say, you have my complete permission.

<3! Thanks! I appreciate it!

[NobodySpecial]

T., bad form. You should make Green have to post the results to the strip manip thread.

[Ollie]

pre-college, what situations had Lisa gone through that made her really depressed?

[TCampbell]

pre-college, what situations had Lisa gone through that made her really depressed?

She's never been through anything like this.

[sgtrock]

Hey, T this is a permissions thing, and sort of off-topic.

I've been a reader and forum lurker since the Popsicle Wars, made the transition to Quiltbag and love it.

I'm a high school student-teacher, and looking for some more-fun activities to do with my students. I was inspired by Alice's change-the-words Quiltbag strip manips, and I was wondering if I could take a few strips from P&A and Quiltbag, blank out the speech bubbles, fill them with incorrect phrasing (the lesson would be double negatives) and have them re-write the phrases correctly on a blank bubble copy? I wanted to ask to avoid being a copyright infringer.

Man, don't get me started on copyright. No one should be able to prevent you from doing something like this. Needless to say, you have my complete permission.

Just out of curiosity, T, have you ever considered releasing any of your material under a Creative Commons licence? Specifically, BY-NC or BY-NC-SA? Either one of those two would seem to fit the use case we're talking about here. CC even has nifty logos already pre-defined for you so you can link directly to the relevant license page.

[Ollie]

pre-college, what situations had Lisa gone through that made her really depressed?

She's never been through anything like this.

so this would be the worst? Has she ever had any phase of serious downer-ness?

[TCampbell]

Hey, T this is a permissions thing, and sort of off-topic.

I've been a reader and forum lurker since the Popsicle Wars, made the transition to Quiltbag and love it.

I'm a high school student-teacher, and looking for some more-fun activities to do with my students. I was inspired by Alice's change-the-words Quiltbag strip manips, and I was wondering if I could take a few strips from P&A and Quiltbag, blank out the speech bubbles, fill them with incorrect phrasing (the lesson would be double negatives) and have them re-write the phrases correctly on a blank bubble copy? I wanted to ask to avoid being a copyright infringer.

Man, don't get me started on copyright. No one should be able to prevent you from doing something like this. Needless to say, you have my complete permission.

Just out of curiosity, T, have you ever considered releasing any of your material under a Creative Commons licence? Specifically, BY-NC or BY-NC-SA? Either one of those two would seem to fit the use case we're talking about here. CC even has nifty logos already pre-defined for you so you can link directly to the relevant license page.

I specified Fans was CC for a while. I've been more reluctant about this since I started seeing sites like The Best Article Every Day re-present comics not only without mentioning the author, but with the author's name ACTUALLY EDITED OUT, which seems, at best, a misunderstanding of what information-sharing should mean. At some point I'll get up a little "share responsibly" link explaining more thoroughly what rights I grant.

[TCampbell]

pre-college, what situations had Lisa gone through that made her really depressed?

She's never been through anything like this.

so this would be the worst? Has she ever had any phase of serious downer-ness?

I'm not quite sure how to answer the second question. (The first is a simple "yes.")

Lisa has certainly experienced the full range of human emotions up to this point. She's been both coldly angry with Aggie, and briefly agitated to the point of sniffling, both during crises in their friendship. And of course, when she was a younger child, she had moments, like anyone else, where she thought everything was ruined forever.

Lisa's usual gift, though, is the ability to bounce back from negative experiences very quickly and/or to distract herself with a complete change of scene or subject. I realize this has made her annoying and/or unrelatable to some of you, but I think that sort of emotional self-regulation is a nice trick if you can manage it, and worth applauding.

It only works, though, if you can continue to view your complete life situation as a net positive, and in the last 18 hours, Lisa's been surrounded on all sides by serious challenges to her self-worth. She can't make it work with Stan long-distance, or so it appears. She can't not care that her relationship with Stan, such as it is, is either dying or dead. She can't be accepted by a social group that welcomes Sara, and which Sara values. She can't keep a secret crush secret, apparently. She can't write a work of fiction that doesn't blow up in her face. She can't even have a decent night of casual sex, or comfort her partner when said partner freaks out all over her. She can't, she can't, she can't. Jumping topics doesn't work if almost ALL the available topics make you feel like shit, and Linguistics 101 just isn't enough to turn her frown upside down today.

[DaraX]

Question for Jason: Is Hank's appearance based in part on/inspired by that of Genjo Sanzo of Saiyuki? Mostly, it's the eye shape that made me compare the two.

[DudeMyDadOwnsADealership]

pre-college, what situations had Lisa gone through that made her really depressed?

She's never been through anything like this.

so this would be the worst? Has she ever had any phase of serious downer-ness?

I'm not quite sure how to answer the second question. (The first is a simple "yes.")

Lisa has certainly experienced the full range of human emotions up to this point. She's been both coldly angry with Aggie, and briefly agitated to the point of sniffling, both during crises in their friendship. And of course, when she was a younger child, she had moments, like anyone else, where she thought everything was ruined forever.

Lisa's usual gift, though, is the ability to bounce back from negative experiences very quickly and/or to distract herself with a complete change of scene or subject. I realize this has made her annoying and/or unrelatable to some of you, but I think that sort of emotional self-regulation is a nice trick if you can manage it, and worth applauding.

It only works, though, if you can continue to view your complete life situation as a net positive, and in the last 18 hours, Lisa's been surrounded on all sides by serious challenges to her self-worth. She can't make it work with Stan long-distance, or so it appears. She can't not care that her relationship with Stan, such as it is, is either dying or dead. She can't be accepted by a social group that welcomes Sara, and which Sara values. She can't keep a secret crush secret, apparently. She can't write a work of fiction that doesn't blow up in her face. She can't even have a decent night of casual sex, or comfort her partner when said partner freaks out all over her. She can't, she can't, she can't. Jumping topics doesn't work if almost ALL the available topics make you feel like shit, and Linguistics 101 just isn't enough to turn her frown upside down today.

It sounds like her real problem is her lack of experience with depression.

As much as Lisa's usual gift has it advantages, it isn't the best empathy-building path out there.
Ever since she started her "your god terrifies me" argument with Katy-Ann, she continues to show signs that there's a deeper, intimate side waiting to get out for when things can't be catch-phrase simple. The empathy and sober perspective needed to help that side of her grow only comes from walking a mile in Charlie Brown's shoes, which Lisa has gotten out of doing for almost her entire life.
Katy-Ann was a similar case, but she answered the call of the Blockhead by the Bridge Out arc and multiple moments outward, climaxing with her drunken confession to Lisa and Brandi. Lisa made motions towards such, but ultimately got out of it quickly, just like all the times before.
Now there's no way around That Kite-Eating Tree, the Summer Camp Bunk-mate who would only say "Shut up and leave me alone!" to you, or Lucy impishly promising to let you kick a football only to pull it out from under you at the last minute every single time, only through them. Hank, now being concerned about Lisa and the local expert on such things, may be just who she needs now.

[TCampbell]

It sounds like her real problem is her lack of experience with depression.

As much as Lisa's usual gift has it advantages, it isn't the best empathy-building path out there.
Ever since she started her "your god terrifies me" argument with Katy-Ann, she continues to show signs that there's a deeper, intimate side waiting to get out for when things can't be catch-phrase simple. The empathy and sober perspective needed to help that side of her grow only comes from walking a mile in Charlie Brown's shoes, which Lisa has gotten out of doing for almost her entire life.
Katy-Ann was a similar case, but she answered the call of the Blockhead by the Bridge Out arc and multiple moments outward, climaxing with her drunken confession to Lisa and Brandi. Lisa made motions towards such, but ultimately got out of it quickly, just like all the times before.
Now there's no way around That Kite-Eating Tree, the Summer Camp Bunk-mate who would only say "Shut up and leave me alone!" to you, or Lucy impishly promising to let you kick a football only to pull it out from under you at the last minute every single time, only through them. Hank, now being concerned about Lisa and the local expert on such things, may be just who she needs now.

No question here, so no answer.