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They are the best of places
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Oh yes, i havent been to one in years. I remember one with a petshop which sold your Trademark Catsnakes.
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I love those stores. Though I don't need to shop at them, so the magic of the unusual is there for me.
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My favorite is going through the books. That's how Ugly Book Covers got started
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They're like a huge, cold, strangely damp and old-smelling treasure trove.
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This page makes me go "awwwww". It´s nice to know she has good friends that are truly interested in helping her come out of her shelf :3.
(this whole chapter is giving me a huge heartwarming feeling :3)
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I'm glad it's giving you that feeling. It's a needed break from the weight of the previous chapters.
I personally can't wait for this chapter to be over so we can get to the next two, which are much more in-depth to the guys and PN's ground-floor workings. Those are way more interesting to us.
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I see.
I also feel the same, man. I want to see some real action going down.
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Well, the ending of this chapter will be a series of gut punches, followed by a complicated but still relatively mellow world-building and conflict introduction chapter and then followed by the shit hitting the fan in the final chapter of the volume. Things take a hard dive after that, so enjoy Corelle's naive sweetness while you can.
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Aaah, so she will have fucked up shit happen to her like the stuff she went through before, only this time much worse :3.
(I just imagined someone grabbing Corelle´s rose tinted glasses, throwing them to the ground, smashing them with a hammer, and then setting them on fire "gulps".
I guess I have just metaphorically described what will happen to her. Growing up hurts like a mofo "sighs sadly" ,but such is the way of life.)
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Um, what? How on earth did you reach that conclusion? No, that's... okay, no more spoilers for you.
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It´s ok man, no worries.
As for how I reached that conclussion, I´ve always been a pretty observant and analytical person.
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Man-- I feel like a lot of folks could use this kind of schoolin'.
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They sure could.
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I look forward to these a lot more since I started at my new job.
....I troubleshoot people's internet. Lots of yelling people...
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These as in thrift stores? School for weirdos?
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These as in new pages of your comic.
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those cars in the parking lot. WOW. they look AMAZING.
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Thank you!! I like drawing cars. They're relatively easy to make look realistic and they help make the page look 'heavier', I guess is the word I'm going for. I mean, we see them everywhere every day, like light poles and electrical towers, they're just part of the environment. We don't really pay attention to them but it would feel weird if they weren't there.
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I loved thrift stores and five-and-dimes myself because I used my Barbies as action figures, and Mattel didn't MAKE swords or shields or vampire capes or spaceship consoles or harps or bows & arrows for them, so I scavenged everything I could.
My favorite was Goodwill's $1 jars of loose & broken jewelry; my only Barbie scimitar was a chromed brooch; I got three or four great shields for them from those clip-on shoe buckles; small pins and single earrings made great cloak-pins for half-circles of clearance velvet (in midnight blue or vampire black), and so on. And of course the loose glass gems, broken strands of pearls, etc. gave me good treasure to fill those souvenir cedar-chest boxes with. A smallish oval brass tray could be either a boat or an exotic bed-frame; ivory-colored "pins" you stuck through hair rollers could be bones OR arrows, and so on. Styrofoam shapes made great spaceship furniture; wooden building blocks made a forest hut or a mummy's tomb, etc. etc.
I was always puzzled by why most girls outgrew Barbies LONG before college until I figured out most of their dolls just stood around waiting for Ken to invite them to the prom , and that girls never made their Barbie's Cinderella rags out of bits of old sheet, and thought that the fancy ballroom gown had to come from Disney (I was not a Disney fan) instead of your prettiest Barbie, a wedding dress, and jewelry you made yourself from the second-hand stuff you'd picked up in those fun trips to Goodwill. And those girls had never built their Barbies an indian cliff dwelling in the bookcase, a King Tut mask and cobra arm-rings from aluminum foil, a starship viewscreen from black construction paper spattered with white paint....
I'd probably be better socialized if I'd WANTED Barbie to go to the prom, but I still don't regret hitting those five-and-dimes instead. Still, that sort of thing probably WAS easier then because parents weren't as worried about letting their children go out alone as long as they knew sorta where the kids were and that they knew how to get themselves home. And before videos or DVDs, kids only saw Disney movies once or twice rather than every time their parents wanted 'em kept busy, so Cinderella and the rest were from fairytale books you could imagine your own way.
--Nonie, Happily Old at 58
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eldest child's rocking Halloween costume is 80% goodwill. As is hubby's work attire. Wash it good and let's roll. I worked in a thrift store and the manager hid several sets of waiter outfits (white shirt, black pants, comfortable good black shoes) in the back, to whip out the minute a street kid with a job training check walked in -- she'd have that kid outfitted in 5 min flat, and ready for 3 nights of work before needing to hit the laundrymat, $20 Canadian or less. She also had construction worker sets as well, except for boots.
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Sorry it's taken me so long to respond.
I love your account of your thrift-store manager making sure she had work outfits ready for job trainees; that's a rare level of caring--PRAGMATIC caring--and the world needs more people like her.
Definitely made my day.
--Nonie
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Heehee, thanks
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You know what I like best about this story? It's like slice-of-life, but in the future! Semi-autobiographical cyberpunk or something. You could totally see this being real. Brilliant!
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Thank you!! Vik and I try to add autobio stuff and personal experiences/memories when we can. It makes the story feel more relatable.
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Cool! It definitely adds to the story.
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"For socially unacceptable weirdos". Where is this school and where can I find it?
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You need a bunch of weirdos confident in their weirdness to gather in herds, which it tough since weirdos of any confidence level are hermits.
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We need a gathering cry or something, like a giant shell horn to summon the weirdos
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It would be the rhythmical sound of one hundred Doritos bags shaking.
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Such a magnificent cry
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Either everyone Corelle's with has sensitive eyes, or the sun just selectively doesn't shine on Corelle's face.
Because everyone has sun glasses except for her...
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It's Canada so it's really not bright out. They're wearing them as some kind of club thing even though they know it's all stupid as hell.
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Oh I know, lol. I was born in Redmond, WA, which is about 2 hours south of Vancouver.
It rains like, nine-ten months out of the year.
Sunglasses are kinda moot.
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Truth in advertising. Love it 
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Thank you!! The SE universe has a somewhat different history than ours, starting in the 1970's to today. For the most part it's the same - we still have normal cars and heating and iphones and all that, but little stuff, like high quality white tattoo ink and the 80's Dan sitcom being as popular there as Seinfeld was here show how it's different.
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High quality white tattoo ink would really rock.
I admit, at first I didn't think the white was tattoos, I thought she had Vitiligo
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Aw man, can you imagine if we could have custom vitiligo? That would be rad as hell.
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Probably would entail doing something with bleach or Hydrogen Peroxide into the skin cells . . . sounds rather painful/dangerous to me. Some sort of skin bleach put in with tattoo needles . . .
I think I'm both grossed out and impressed at myself for thinking of this >.>
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give's teddy bear a hug a blanket and a lollipop to hep him feel better
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