We could propose another kickstarter to support the comic, with this as an alternative thankyou for being a backer – you can get a cameo, or a sexytimes of your choice.

You said it, I was thinking it, let’s do it!

Loose cannons sink anons?

Hell now I have to upvote you.

Yep – hormones, genetics, environment… so much can shift within a person, and everything is mutable, given the right circumstances – from sexuality right down to eye colour!

However, I’m firmly on board with this new ship. I get the feeling that pursuing Alison would only lead to suffering and heartbreak for Feral regardless of Alison’s sexuality. Ultimately, in this comic Alison just can’t be happy. Not going to happen. Therefore, any partner of hers will not be happy either.

On the other hand, Feral/Paladin gives both of them a real shot at being happy together. I’m all for it :-).

I am totally cool with that fantasy, but it has to be full of actual lesbians. (Bi women count.) A lesbian Paradise full of straight women sounds awful.

Though the Moon is the head lesbian of the solar system…

Oh sure but the self-loving entitled ass woe is me everybody is wrong and I’m the real victim type? Goes so well with white privilege.

I’m not sure Brad’s… condition equates to a person of color status.

I’m into this Alison/the Moon ship. Does it have a name?

I’m partial to Lunalison.

Though I’m a bit worried about the possible consequences of this relationship combined with Alison’s kinetic abilities. Hopefully Alison will go to the Moon rather than bringing the Moon to her.

Alison: “Isn’t that right Moon?”
Moon: [Literal space emptiness lacking the mere physicality to convey sound]
Alison: “The Moon says yes”

(Two golden internets to whomever catches that reference)

“I’m sinking with that ship.”
Well, a spaceship doesn’t so much sink as crash… 😉

Heh! Permanent happiness is boring, narratively speaking… but I also think that a lot of lazy writers use breaking up relationships as an easy shortcut to create that misery!drama (cough!ShondaRhimes!cough!cough!).

You can have two characters happily together, and still have them sometimes fight, and have problems, and deal with external narrative issues, and personal narrative issues. I haven’t seen a lot of it, but I’ve heard Madam Secretary is a good example of keeping a relationship together despite the trials, and getting the drama from elsewhere. I wish there were more shows that did that.

I’d say EVERY thing Tara says in this is casting out a line. I mean, we’re talking Japanese fishing fleet at this point.

Hah! I guess I was typing too fast. I’ll likely have that mental image forever now!

And I’d say not quite – depends on the celeb. Reality tv stars, yes. Those who actively court the tabloids, yes.

But the majority of celebs are just people who want to be successful at the thing they love. Sometimes that success comes with all of the ‘celebrity’ baggage.

As an aspiring writer/actress, in order to achieve my ultimate dream (to have my own tv series on one of the streaming platforms, such as Netflix – one I could co-star in, though definitely not one where I’d be a solo lead, as doing that and writing/running the show would certainly be too much, and I’m not the sort of person who’d want to take a ‘starring’ role with everyone else taking a backseat anyway. Also, the best shows/narratives have multiple central characters, in my opinion), I’d either need to achieve a certain amount of ‘celebrity’ prior to it happening, or if I lucked out and got a series picked up on the merits of script/concept without being a ‘name’, I’d basically become one by default if the series was successful.

Ultimately, I’d be thrilled to have fans who enjoyed my work/like me as a person – but I’d loathe all the tabloid crap, avoid it as much as possible, and I’d find anyone trying to ‘ship’ me in real life with some other celeb terribly disturbing. It’s basically taking a real person and turning them into whatever fictional narrative suits you, which is not something I’m a fan of.

Besides, if you use that as justification then really anyone on social media could be ‘shipped’, since aren’t users of Facebook/twitter/tumblr/any of the myriad social media platforms also carefully crafting the narrative of their own lives? …hah! Wouldn’t it be hilarious if there were some kind of secret Facebook community of ‘shippers’ who trawl the site to find people who seem perfect for each other and then create ‘ships’? I kind of hope that exists somewhere.

Not really. Shipping the characters celebrities play is one thing. But how would you feel if you found some fanfic where your real life brother molests you and you love it?

Real people is a creep line, no matter how famous that real person is. It’d be fine if it was just “Oh they’d make a cute couple” but we all know that’s never where it ends.

What? No, not from Feral. Feral smelling them off of Paladin!

Everyone’s got pheremones, telling everyone else how they feel. You just can’t consciously smell them, usually. But Feral’s a clear Wolverine expy, and so may very well have the ‘super nose’ aspect of his power, to be able to tell when people are diggin’ on her.

I’m still reading Weedgoku’s statement as having an implied “- to be reduced to” after “most,,, insulting aspect of her character”. I could be wrong, though, and they’re certainly welcome to chime in on what they mean. I’m not going to weigh in on whether or not this arc is actually doing that reducing, though.

There’s a matter of what’s common and what’s not. Straight female characters are very common, and are often shoehorned into contrived romances for exactly the reason you said – because of assumptions that women are obsessed with romance and boys, and that this is what the audience wants to see.
LBP women are still quite rare, major ones are even more rare, and both minor and major ones often have their romantic and sexual lives repressed or ignored (or with Bi and Pan women, they’ll more often be shown with men). So showing those relationships, from meeting/flirting onwards, is not a tired habit but rather a breath of fresh air.
Also I don’t really understand your assertation that this isn’t develpoping as part of the plot…? I mean the direct result of what Alison did to Max was Tara leaving the hospital, and the next scene shows the next things she’s doing? Also the plot has established she’s both gay and very flirtatious and sexual, and this scene shows this and doesn’t break character? And Lisa’s an established character who also knows Al personally? And the comic often jumps between scenes, as well as tones, styles, etc, and I doubt the issue with Max is over just because we get one scene with Tara flirting?

While I thank you for caring about a civil environment here, I have neither abandoned nor retracted my point, though I touched on different points in my last comment.
Straight characters are not, on the whole (I will admit “never” may be exaggerated) said to be “reduced to their sexuality”. People may complain about shoehorned romances, or about constantly writing women around their interest in men, but I’ve never encounterd anyone saying “oh, so now all she is is straight? is that all there is to her character?” just because the plot showed her in a romantic context. Whereas so often with LGBT+ characters, any significant romance or sex, or even just flirting like here, is met with “why do we constanly need to see how she’s gay? is being gay her only characteristic?” In other words, straight romance/sex is just a part of the plot and the character, while LGBT+ romance/sex can’t be.

And I get that really, and it’s a problem when LGBT+ characters are only defined by that identity, to the point of being one-dimensional or having no other arc. But it feels to me like what you’re describing is the opposite extreme, where any case of Tara engaging in something romantic is somehow pandering, and “revolves around her being gay for the sake of being gay”. It feels like the opposite, because we would go from gay characters who can almost only be in romantic stuff, to gay characters who can almost never be in romantic stuff (“because it would be pandering”).
At any rate, as I wrote in my previous reply to you, Tara has been established to be sexual and flirtatious, hardly the opposite of what she was, and more than was established about Al at the beggining of this arc. Seems to me, if we can accept Al getting a crush as part of the story, we can accept Tara getting a crush.

wha…?