Jason, grab the Power Booster Rod
on April 6, 2017 at 12:01 amChapter: Unmasked
Characters: Alan Rees, David Walkerton, Dina Sarazu, Jason Chesterfield, Linda Walkerton, Tony McHenry
Location: Storage and Lockdown
“First of all, Charles Schulz is dead.”
“NoooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo–“
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Originally posted:
July 19, 2002
Also,
Everyone’s got superpowers and Martians are real.
I might have more sympathy for Linda, except one problem – Linda. I’m going to break something to you.
You. Are. Not. Sal’s. Mother.
Not in any sense but biological and that’s not the sense that’s most important. Martha was her mother. Not you. So please stop pretending you’re this long suffering, oh so sympathetic mom who just LOVES Sal so much and is SO close to her, and like you can jump in now that Martha’s gone and act like you’re her mom, please and thank you.
Are you reading this spoiler-free?
All of this is stuff that’s already come up in comic.
I would argue that, too, but remember that Martha seemed too aware that she was merely acting as a stand-in, and her actual child was off who knows where. I mean, SHE SLAPPED SAL. That loses a LOT of “real mother” points in my book.
Also, I don’t think Linda is playing the sympathy card so much as talking out loud to herself. I do that a lot to psych myself up to do things I end up not doing b/c anxiety =p
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Oh, Martha’s a terrible mom, but she is the mom who raised Sal. She may have felt like a stand in, but she was all Sal had ever known growing up.
I don’t think she’s intentionally playing for sympathy, but it’s been driving me up the wall how she plays up the mom thing since she showed up. Had she not done that, I might feel less irritated about this.
One thing to remember here is the feelings of all the people involved. Sal doesn’t think of Linda as her mom and Linda has no illusions that she does. Linda, however, has never not thought of Sal as her daughter, even if she was unable to have the relationship with her that she would have liked to had the circumstances differed, and can’t not act in relation to that anymore than Sal can treat her as a parent.
I think BBCC is more referring to how it’s not fair to Sal for Linda to be all like “I’M YOUR MOMMY NOW” rather than caring how Linda feels about it. After all, Linda is an adult.
Personally, I am adopted and never knew my birth mother. My non-birth mother may be an abusive rhymes-with-punt but she’s still the only mum I’ve ever known so she’s always going to be mum to me whether she deserves the title or not. Because some woman who gave me up at birth and I’ve never had any contact with definitely doesn’t deserve that title. So I feel like Linda has zero ground to stand on here.
You’re right. I don’t care how Linda feels about this situation. She’s allowed to care about Sal, but she has no right to pull shit like “I’m your MOTHER.” “Come give your mommy a hug!” “My baby” bullshit. That sure looks like she has illusions that she can march back into Sal’s life and take over as mom. She is not, was not, and never will be Sal’s mother. She gave her up, she has no right to this whole ‘Oh, woe is me, I have to send my daughter (who I barely know) to jail~” crap. If this were Martha, much as Martha was a lousy mom, I’d be more sympathetic (ish) because at least she WAS a mom.
Linda needs to accept she is not Sal’s mom. I have no patience for bio parents who show up out of nowhere and try to play parent cards to adult children because they feel bad they didn’t have a relationship before. She can feel like her mom all she wants – it will never make her Sal’s mom.
Honestly, I always got the impression that her pushing it so hard was her – if ill-advised – way of trying to make up for not being there to raise Sal by trying to be a loving mom now.
That sounds plausible, but also like a plan that anyone with the facts of what happened (namely, Sal was not raised by this lady and didn’t know she was adopted until recently) and a sense of empathy would know was doomed to backfire.
Charles Schulz?
In the grand scheme of thing, Schulz is peanuts.
….
*flees for dear too-soon punning life*
Too soon.
TOO. SOON.
Wait, I meant, what took you so long?
“…Annonce un brillant réveil…”
“Also, I’m Big Boss now. Because my son killed your father while he was trying to resurrect you after my daughter killed you. Because SEMMF works on Klingon promotions, I guess. Shut up or I’ll have you killed again.”
you mean everything since the year 2000
When Linda says Professor Doc was injured in the collision, she means the collision of his face with Sal’s fists, right?
A lot can change in three years. Tony’s in for some surprises when he learns what’s different.
Wasn’t Schulz already dead by the time Tony died?
Nope. Tony died on January 1st, and Schulz died about six weeks later on February 12th.
A comic strip about Schulz’s death, featuring Danny and Billie, ran in the middle of the Year Zero storyline.
…whyyyy did i think he died in 1999, that makes no sense
Y’know, I never do this, but I can’t deny Willis this pre-generated script for his next Slipshine:
Keep in mind that they’re giving Joyce sex-related objects
Hi, Dina
I’ll lay you down over there.
Dammit!
AH-CHEW!
Someone interrupting someone to talk to Dina, despite their fellow’s insistence they have to keep going. The conversation is trying to set Dina up with Billie while under the impression she’s interested in Joe.
Wait, hold on.
Gotta talk to Dina
We have to get in!
FORGET Joe!
So I saw Billie the other day