I just looked through the tagged strips with her and saw no indication she isn’t the gender she presents as (ie female). And I would say the hijab definitely indicates she’s intending to present as female.
I’ve always done that. What can I say? I’m a mom friend and now apparently I’m a mom fan.
BBCC
Though, granted, my mom friend-ness in real life extends mostly to things like ‘It’s cold out, maybe bring a jacket’ or ‘I brought granola bars with chocolate chips because I know how to get you guys to eat fibre’ type stuff.
Needfuldoer
Hence the mommentary.
BBCC
Hey, fictional characters are the only people it’s okay to give unsolicited mom-ing to.
It would be pronounced Mon-oot or mon-ut for the singular depending on region, Mon-oo-tee is the official plural and they’d be little floaty air jellyfish, adorably fuzzy, curiously floaty with a poorly-understood flight mechanism (some argue it is only “advanced floating”). Also bit of a hazard to people’s lungs, both because of it being like inhaling a bunch of hairs but also because of the stinging. People often walk into clouds of monute thinking they were gnats only to realize the unpleasant truth once their nose and mouth start burning. Their stingers otherwise have little effect on most human skin so prepared admirers can handle them carefully and enjoy their light, soft dandelion textures before they float away. “Hold your breath for a monute” is a common dad joke as well as a cautionary reminder.
And this word doesn’t come up as anything on a google so it is fair game to get muggled for someone’s fantasy series.
Party encounters 2d4 Monute Clouds in coastal areas.
Marsh Maryrose
“Tiny airborne jellyfish” is the scariest thing since silicosis, and maybe half as scary as phosgene. In a world where we already have an airborne fungus that can be breathed in and cause Valley Fever, let us pray that no monutes, adorable or otherwise, are ever discovered.
billie, you made a mistake by starting to actually do your journalism work again. don’t you know that in a few years…… weeks… whatever, sliding timescale, people like you and i will be the first ones up against the wall?
I do not envy the folks working in the field every day, especially when they’re driving marked vehicles and relatively slow vans. That’s just an automatic 100 point stealth penalty. At least this area is pretty solid blue, so we get more trouble from idiot teenagers who think they’re funny than we do from Orange Julius superfans.
Oh, cool, there’s still a chance we can hear how Becky’s interview went!
Seriously Billie, talk about Becky and what she’s up to. I bet Nash and Rose would totally be into that. And then we’d get to learn how the interview went!
As a longtime reader of Something Positive, I can’t help thinking of Davan MacIntire’s catgirl fans. (Spoiler: it did not end well.)
Billie may believe that the Fan Girls 3 adore her, but the reality is that they worship an idol that they have constructed in their own minds. If she ever fails to be that idol, things might not go well for her either.
108 thoughts on “Bills”
ValdVin
Nash is a hoot. Why is she at the bottom of the poll, anyway?
Regalli
Haven’t seen much of her, maybe?
ShinyNeen
Even less back when the poll first went up.
butts
i voted for her
Reltzik
She’s a hoot BECAUSE we don’t see much of her. Too much and she’d be irritating and make us nash our teeth.
ValdVin
A quick look shows she’s been tagged in fifteen strips, ever. We can enjoy more of her.
(Disclaimer: I voted for her too.)
Rabid Rabbit
I cannot decide whether to boo or applaud you.
Kamino Neko
With a pun, they’re the same thing.
He Who Abides
Do both.
ValdVin
“Nash our teeth” I missed, somehow. Well done.
Moon
I like her but I tend to forget Forest quad exists unless the strip is taking place in it
GoblinScribe
Isn’t Nash they/them?
showler
I’ve seen no such indication. Are you perhaps confusing her with Zaph?
thejeff
I don’t think so, but I might have forgotten. Zaph is trans, but I don’t remember anyone else in that dorm.
DinaJoyce
I just looked through the tagged strips with her and saw no indication she isn’t the gender she presents as (ie female). And I would say the hijab definitely indicates she’s intending to present as female.
BBCC
Nash, stop that. You too, actually Rose, don’t read over people’s shoulders.
Oh, Billie, honey. Pretending to be the perfect girl never goes well.
Woomy
Is telling the characters how to behave every strip just your brand now?
Marsh Maryrose
I thought that was the entire comment section’s job!
BBCC
I’ve always done that. What can I say? I’m a mom friend and now apparently I’m a mom fan.
BBCC
Though, granted, my mom friend-ness in real life extends mostly to things like ‘It’s cold out, maybe bring a jacket’ or ‘I brought granola bars with chocolate chips because I know how to get you guys to eat fibre’ type stuff.
Needfuldoer
Hence the mommentary.
BBCC
Hey, fictional characters are the only people it’s okay to give unsolicited mom-ing to.
Delicious Taffy
I’d argue that fictional folks need it more, since authors seem intent on killing off their moms in really contrived ways.
BBCC
Exactly! Or they have terrible parents! They need some mommentary.
Dark
Depends on how well you know the Real people.
My entire social circle is made up of people who Mom the rest of the circle.
Gets really funny when they try to out-Mom each other.
Plasma Mongoose
Perfection is boring anyway
Doctor_Who
“No problem, I’ll leave you to it. It’s 3:00, that gives me only half an hour to paw through your garbage before it’s emptied.”
StClair
“What, do you go through my trash?”
“Please. I go through everyone’s trash.”
Delicious Taffy
Is that a Pearl quote?
AbelUndercity
The Question.
Delicious Taffy
You fibber, Pearl doesn’t have any lines in that episode.
Regalli
Hey, haven’t seen that plot thread in a hot monute.
Delicious Taffy
I promise I’m not making fun of you. Monute sounds like a cool biology word. What would a monute be, if there were monutes?
Poofdepoof
My brain is saying it’s got to be related in some way to manatees
Geneseepaws
I think that it’s the ur-marmot.
OBBWG
A protozoa-like critter that causes foot odor (in manatees?)
(Yes, I know manatees don’t have feet. That’s why we’ve never discovered monutes.)
EmCaCo
It would be pronounced Mon-oot or mon-ut for the singular depending on region, Mon-oo-tee is the official plural and they’d be little floaty air jellyfish, adorably fuzzy, curiously floaty with a poorly-understood flight mechanism (some argue it is only “advanced floating”). Also bit of a hazard to people’s lungs, both because of it being like inhaling a bunch of hairs but also because of the stinging. People often walk into clouds of monute thinking they were gnats only to realize the unpleasant truth once their nose and mouth start burning. Their stingers otherwise have little effect on most human skin so prepared admirers can handle them carefully and enjoy their light, soft dandelion textures before they float away. “Hold your breath for a monute” is a common dad joke as well as a cautionary reminder.
And this word doesn’t come up as anything on a google so it is fair game to get muggled for someone’s fantasy series.
Delicious Taffy
Party encounters 2d4 Monute Clouds in coastal areas.
Marsh Maryrose
“Tiny airborne jellyfish” is the scariest thing since silicosis, and maybe half as scary as phosgene. In a world where we already have an airborne fungus that can be breathed in and cause Valley Fever, let us pray that no monutes, adorable or otherwise, are ever discovered.
Mopey
A Hot Monute is clearly some sort of fire-type pokémon. Ultimately evolves into the Last Monute.
Deanatay
monute – a minute in-story, a month in RL
Delicious Taffy
To the untrained eye, it looks like a news article. For those in the know, she’s clearly playing a journalism-themed MUD.
Kyoulkoa
MUDs, there is a term I haven’t heard in a long time
Delicious Taffy
Should I have said MUSH instead? Admittedly, I haven’t played any since high school, and even then I could barely figure them out.
Keulen
There are still some MUDs around with a decent number of people playing them. I play one called Gemstone IV.
Felgraf
Oh shit, I vaguely recall Gemstone III back on prodigy.
Stephen Bierce
Ell! Ay! Pee! Pee! Tee! Oh! Pee! Pee!
LAPPTOPP!
LAPPTOPP!
Leorale
Scoodly-oop BAP dee-adah, LAPTOP
(it was a hit in the 1940s)
DailyBrad
Oh hey, these two, been a hot minute.
Also, forgot Billie doesn’t wear her glasses around this wing much. Hope she’s got some contacts in.
Delicious Taffy
Glasses are for people who don’t have a compulsive need to submit to brown-nosers.
etherealdesiign
billie, you made a mistake by starting to actually do your journalism work again. don’t you know that in a few years…… weeks… whatever, sliding timescale, people like you and i will be the first ones up against the wall?
Delicious Taffy
Too real.
Lacuna
I don’t have a pithy comment, but there’s an Internet hug here if you need it.
Needfuldoer
I do not envy the folks working in the field every day, especially when they’re driving marked vehicles and relatively slow vans. That’s just an automatic 100 point stealth penalty. At least this area is pretty solid blue, so we get more trouble from idiot teenagers who think they’re funny than we do from Orange Julius superfans.
ShinyNeen
Oh, cool, there’s still a chance we can hear how Becky’s interview went!
Seriously Billie, talk about Becky and what she’s up to. I bet Nash and Rose would totally be into that. And then we’d get to learn how the interview went!
Poofdepoof
LOL the power of favoritism I was neutral about this and then you reminding me about the Becky connection has got me all atwitter.
abysswatcher1993
Billie is going to regret being idolized by these girls.
Marsh Maryrose
As a longtime reader of Something Positive, I can’t help thinking of Davan MacIntire’s catgirl fans. (Spoiler: it did not end well.)
Billie may believe that the Fan Girls 3 adore her, but the reality is that they worship an idol that they have constructed in their own minds. If she ever fails to be that idol, things might not go well for her either.
Opus the Poet
As I recall the Will Weaton of that universe is no longer ambidextrous. Since he lacks the requisite number of hands to be ambidextrous.
Keulen
I know the girls in this hall are in general pretty nice, but I think I would find their nosey behavior irritating after a while.
Delicious Taffy
Gosh, you’d be irritated by having instances of SCP-001-A as dorm mates? I guess I could see it.
Newllend(henryvolt)
Yo are on fire tonight.
Delicious Taffy
Well, ya better put the poor fellow out! Huh-ha! Huh-ha!
etherealdesiign
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Isactuallyabear
I’m surprised Billie wasn’t more annoyed at their nosiness.
Dean
Tomorrow’s newspaper headline: PLAGUE OF NOSEY-PARKERISM IN FORREST QUAD CONTINUES UNABATED.
Bagge
Billie ALSO wants to gossip… but she has work to do.
JessWitt
Interesting that Billie got a slight redesign on her lips. Just pointing it out.
Delicious Taffy
Has she had lips before?
Sunny
She wore lipstick for her date with Ruth, so that’s one piece of evidence for her lips existing.