You act as if he were CHEATING on you!
on January 30, 2018 at 12:01 amChapter: The Seventh Power
Location: Mexico somewhere, The Fans! universe
I love that this SEMME battleship has a bathroom. And not, like, an airplane bathroom. Just a bathroom.- I would give anything to see the table of contents for A Treasury of Slashfic.
I dunno, Rumy, the fact that Alisin’s unconsciously echoing Dr. Manhattan’s doomed first marriage can’t bode well.
It’s meant to be a bit ambiguous whether Rikk’s interlude with Joyce constitutes “micro-cheating”on his side or not, but I think it’d be a lot more defensible if he’d given Alisin a heads-up before doing something that “felt sneaky.” Rumy’s got a tangle of unrequited feelings for Rikk herself, but at this point she channels them into cheerleading for Rikk and Alisin’s marriage. It takes the sting out of losing a romantic competition if what you’ve lost to is a love for the ages. As a consequence of this, she and her former rival tell each other everything. This triangle would struggle along a while longer until it reached a stabler configuration back in Fans’ original Willis-drawn finale.
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Isn’t it over?
I have nothing to say except this is really good stuff
Oops I replied to you by accident
Well Alisin, the problem is you were still wearing clothes for that second gift =B
(I keed, but yeah, gift-giving is hard)
I’m pretty sure Rikk praying with Joyce doesn’t count as him cheating on Alisin.
It’s called emotional adultery. You’re getting something “intimate” from someone other than your partner.
Yeesh. Refusing to open up emotionally to anyone but your partner sounds like a recipe for co-dependency.
It’s not about sharing, it’s about what’s missing–Alisin can’t share in Rikk’s Christianity, so he’s getting that from someone else, and it’s tearing her up. If she didn’t care, it wouldn’t matter. “Ok, that’s your thing, have fun!” vs. “There’s a cold, hard wall between those days and these…”
And “emotional adultery” implies that he is the one in the wrong. How is her not being christian his fault?
That’s BS, Jen. She ACTUALLY cheated on him, and yet somehow he’s in the wrong because he’s actively trying not to force his faith on her?
That’s a d*mned double standard if I’ve ever seen it.
Southern or cockney?
More Chav than Cockney is the impression I’m getting
Ok so Catching up on Fanz I haft to say going in Alison was shaping up to be my favorite and still sort of is. But after finishing book 2 yesterday and without spolling anything I haft to say my heart bleeds for Rikk and feelings towards Alison is complicated.
I liked the light dramatic irony – Alisin knows that Rikk didn’t sing about her in the previous story, but she doesn’t know he was really worried that he would.
Especially when you consider why he tried so hard not to sing about her – partly because he didn’t want her angsting about how much her sickness was hurting him, but he was able to hold out because their relationship was just that sacred to him.
And the result is that now she’s afraid he doesn’t care anymore. That’s not even light irony.
General arc-building goodness aside, choicest bits:
“He smiled at her like a sunlamp”. The “cold, hard wall between those days and these” echoing Rikk’s “before our bed grew cold”.
I know I’m in deep with people who understand the ref to the Watchmen, I feel like I’m not nerdy enough. Well, yet.
Originally Posted:
May 5, 2003
Are we supposed to know who the “witch” is?
I’m guessing it’s Joyce, which makes Alisin as wrong in that panel as it is possible to get.
No no I think it’s related to recent Adventure that had during the time, maybe I’m just recently catching up but I think it has something to do with a music stealing soul sorceress.
Yeah, it’s a reference to (I think) the previous Fans storyline.
Bottom line: there was a witch who went around forcing people to sing their “I Am” song and stealing their voice when it was done.
The gist is Rikk didn’t sing about Alisin, and she’s reading that as more meaningful than it maybe was
You don’t get to be mad at things that aren’t cheating when you ACTUALLY CHEATED.