oooh hey this reminded me of the bowling. This probably means she won’t be arrested… BUt It does little to reassure me about Sal’s fate if she hid A-G’s stuff in her closet.
I mean even if that T. rex was outright blind it should have been able to smell them.
Adept
And in reality the T-rex had eyes the size of oranges, widely apart and facing forward. That apex predator had _amazing_ vision.
Arquinsiel
The motion thing in that franchise is particularly funny because that’s how human eyes work and is actually an adaptation for seeing through camouflage patterning on animals.
IQ has always been bullshit, at least what’s become of it
in the united states, the very concept only ever got as popular as it did outside of the relatively niche field of childrens educational psychology because it was used to disenfranchize people ?
Getes
I tested one once and it just started eating the paper. I wonder how the dinosaur would fare.
Needfuldoer
I don’t think they’d be able to eat the entire dinosaur.
Casi
depends on the dinosaur. something like Compsagnathus i could see someone finish in a single sitting
I also don’t think she’s going to be a major target (though this is still gonna majorly suck for her) , but that’s admittedly at least in part because I know she was woven into this storyline after it was already written.
Thag Simmons
The main thing is that it’s hard to make a bowling date if you’re being deported and I feel like that set-up is gonna pay-off
Giguioto
Not to disagree with the legendary Thag Simmons, but we do know that Asma is still at her desk job in next storylines… So its safe to say our muslima escapes this, but dunno how unphased
Thag Simmons
Fortunately, you do not disagree with me!
Rimwalker55
Deportation shouldn’t be a problem. Only foreign born students are Ruth and Jason.
Not to say some asshole won’t try it.
LR
Citizenship is no defense with some of the goons if you have more of a tan than they tolerate.
Adept
I understand the US has succumbed to fascism and all that, but as far as we know Asma is a citizen, probably native born. Even now she couldn’t be ”deported”, surely.
Well, no. When you grab an American citizen off the streets, hold them without due process, and deny that their birth certificate is valid, that’s just called ‘kidnapping”. If you then ship them to a slave camp in a country they have no connection to, it’s not “deportation”, it’s “human trafficking”.
thejeff
1) I don’t think we have any evidence either way?
2) It’s not legal, but it has happened. That’s one of the problems with skipping due process.
deliverything
Regarding 2: this exactly. If you never get a chance to prove you’re a citizen, it doesn’t help much.
Jon
Or when you do prove it, and ICE throws out all the paperwork you provide, claiming everything from your birth certificate to your REAL ID is “forged”. Which is an ongoing incident.
I genuinely wasn’t factoring in her citizenship. She could have lived her entire life in the states with birthright citizenship and still be at risk from some racist asshole with a badge and a quota
Staying in a position of authority (behind the desk working for the college) is probably the safest place for Asma to stick around right now. Most emergency personnel ignored me when I worked at my front desk. I mostly dealt with allowing EMTs in and out when stidents drank too much. There was one day when an aunt was trying to find her niece and demanding I tell her what room or the girl’s phone number. I called the head RA and sneakily called the room of the girl who did not want her aunt there. The lady got escorted off property, but a cop came back to talk to the RA and I was there. The lady blew a 0.8 BAC. I was raised by alcoholics and had no idea the lady was drunk.
Yeah. I kinda alluded to this yesterday, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the campus cops look at Asma as more “hello, fellow staff member who knows what’s really happening here” and less as “brown woman bad”.
Depending on whether A) they try to get any info about whatever they’re looking for from her, and B) how she responds.
took me way too long to realize you weren’t trying for some sort of “ack, a bus!” thing
Throwatron
To be fair, a wizard who just summoned speeding buses in the general direction of their target would be quite effective.
AbacusWizard
Oof, that’s asking a lot… these days most of my magical power goes towards generating an aura that makes everyone in my vicinity better at math and physics.
And then A-G will chase after to rescue Joyce from the paddywagon. Then the cops can try to nab her, having lured her. Good plan by the cops. (but they’re still cops so 0/5 stars no notes needed)
We didn’t think Mike would actually die either, yet here we are.
Granted the optics for having a character actually get deported would be way worse so I don’t think it would happen, but I’m not going to say ‘DEFINITELY NOT’ anymore.
thejeff
While it would be kind of darkly funny after the setup, this isn’t an ICE raid.
More practically, after the reaction to the protest, Willis committed to giving Asma a higher presence in the strip, which actually having her deported wouldn’t allow. I
188 thoughts on “Safe place”
NGPZ
“oooooo lookie ^-^ bisexual light–”
“THAT’S THE POLICE YOU IDIOT!!!”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
nadamás
“Those aren’t even the right fucking colors!! “
Clif
Really. What colors do you prefer for the purpose?
Kelli
Probably the colors of the bisexual flag.
anon
hope they have good lawyers/maybe raidah will be helpful for once
Steamweed
Worst leather kink college meetup group ever.
Dot
Anyone for bowling, officers?
Bill Erak
oooh hey this reminded me of the bowling. This probably means she won’t be arrested… BUt It does little to reassure me about Sal’s fate if she hid A-G’s stuff in her closet.
Clif
I didn’t know bowling officers was an option.
Ray Radlein
All Cops Are Bowlers
MyBlueBox
Isn’t there someone who is/was convinced that Sal is AG?
Astariel
That would be Jennifer, but she doesn’t live in this hall and probably wouldn’t tell the cops anyway.
Bill Erak
Asma, stay very still. Maybe their vision is based on movement!
nadamás
They certainly have the brain power of a long death scaley predator (no offense Dina)
Thag Simmons
Dina would definitely take umbrage at the notion that T. rex didn’t have extremely acute senses, including eyesight.
DJTsurugi
OH NO! Their vision is based on SIGHT! ~<3
Ray Radlein
+1
Thag Simmons
I mean even if that T. rex was outright blind it should have been able to smell them.
Adept
And in reality the T-rex had eyes the size of oranges, widely apart and facing forward. That apex predator had _amazing_ vision.
Arquinsiel
The motion thing in that franchise is particularly funny because that’s how human eyes work and is actually an adaptation for seeing through camouflage patterning on animals.
Bill Erak
I take offense. I bet any dino would beat a cop in an IQ test
NGPZ
IQ has always been bullshit, at least what’s become of it
in the united states, the very concept only ever got as popular as it did outside of the relatively niche field of childrens educational psychology because it was used to disenfranchize people ?
Getes
I tested one once and it just started eating the paper. I wonder how the dinosaur would fare.
Needfuldoer
I don’t think they’d be able to eat the entire dinosaur.
Casi
depends on the dinosaur. something like Compsagnathus i could see someone finish in a single sitting
NGPZ
“that only works in the movies”
— Dina, rolling eyes
Reltzik
Actually, dinosaur vision WAS based on movement.
…. of photons.
Mustachio
I think her hijab grants her immunity from consideration.
IntangibleMatter
Oh god please don’t let them try to arrest Asma for either racism or being present at the protest
…dammit they’re probably gonna try to arrest Asma
NGPZ
??? ???
Thag Simmons
I don’t think she’s the target, but it feels like long odds she’s going to go unbothered during this.
RassilonTDavros
(Apologies for accidental report.)
I also don’t think she’s going to be a major target (though this is still gonna majorly suck for her) , but that’s admittedly at least in part because I know she was woven into this storyline after it was already written.
Thag Simmons
The main thing is that it’s hard to make a bowling date if you’re being deported and I feel like that set-up is gonna pay-off
Giguioto
Not to disagree with the legendary Thag Simmons, but we do know that Asma is still at her desk job in next storylines… So its safe to say our muslima escapes this, but dunno how unphased
Thag Simmons
Fortunately, you do not disagree with me!
Rimwalker55
Deportation shouldn’t be a problem. Only foreign born students are Ruth and Jason.
Not to say some asshole won’t try it.
LR
Citizenship is no defense with some of the goons if you have more of a tan than they tolerate.
Adept
I understand the US has succumbed to fascism and all that, but as far as we know Asma is a citizen, probably native born. Even now she couldn’t be ”deported”, surely.
John Campbell
Well, no. When you grab an American citizen off the streets, hold them without due process, and deny that their birth certificate is valid, that’s just called ‘kidnapping”. If you then ship them to a slave camp in a country they have no connection to, it’s not “deportation”, it’s “human trafficking”.
thejeff
1) I don’t think we have any evidence either way?
2) It’s not legal, but it has happened. That’s one of the problems with skipping due process.
deliverything
Regarding 2: this exactly. If you never get a chance to prove you’re a citizen, it doesn’t help much.
Jon
Or when you do prove it, and ICE throws out all the paperwork you provide, claiming everything from your birth certificate to your REAL ID is “forged”. Which is an ongoing incident.
John Campbell
Denying the legitimacy of American citizens’ birth certificates because they’re not white is literally MAGA’s founding principle!
Wizard
Driver’s license? Birth certificate? Looks fake, we’re taking you in anyways.
I really wish I were making this up.
Taffy
Look at some news about Chicago, some time.
Thag Simmons
I genuinely wasn’t factoring in her citizenship. She could have lived her entire life in the states with birthright citizenship and still be at risk from some racist asshole with a badge and a quota
Cimorene
Staying in a position of authority (behind the desk working for the college) is probably the safest place for Asma to stick around right now. Most emergency personnel ignored me when I worked at my front desk. I mostly dealt with allowing EMTs in and out when stidents drank too much. There was one day when an aunt was trying to find her niece and demanding I tell her what room or the girl’s phone number. I called the head RA and sneakily called the room of the girl who did not want her aunt there. The lady got escorted off property, but a cop came back to talk to the RA and I was there. The lady blew a 0.8 BAC. I was raised by alcoholics and had no idea the lady was drunk.
C.T Phipps
This might have been a good time to take a vacation, Asma.
You were warned.
Thag Simmons
Almost makes you wonder how much Chloe knew
Almost, I don’t think Chloe is that perceptive or subtle, but almost
Getes
I think you mean .08, which is just a little intoxicated. I think 0.8 is enough to kill pretty much anyone.
deliverything
Alternatively: some countries BAC measurement is per mille instead of percent. 0.8‰ = 0.08%.
Jay
There are multiple BAC records of over 1.3%, and these people often survive. One was even reported to be totally aware and responsive.
Yes, the LD50 for ethanol is supposed to be 0.4%.
The metabolism of chronic alcoholics functions a little differently, it would seem.
Big Z
Yeah. I kinda alluded to this yesterday, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the campus cops look at Asma as more “hello, fellow staff member who knows what’s really happening here” and less as “brown woman bad”.
Depending on whether A) they try to get any info about whatever they’re looking for from her, and B) how she responds.
asp55
Or vandalism/destruction of a police barricade
AbacusWizard
well this is a problem
Jahu
[swaps the second and fourth letters of your name real quick]
DJTsurugi
and suddenly I am reminded of the line from the Toonami Abridged Team4Star did “eww I said A cab” ~<3
Bajja
Nice
AbacusWizard
took me way too long to realize you weren’t trying for some sort of “ack, a bus!” thing
Throwatron
To be fair, a wizard who just summoned speeding buses in the general direction of their target would be quite effective.
AbacusWizard
Oof, that’s asking a lot… these days most of my magical power goes towards generating an aura that makes everyone in my vicinity better at math and physics.
Morhek
This is going to end with Dorothy and Joyce INSISTING they be arrested, isn’t it?
C.T Phipps
I predict that they will arrest Joyce when she gets insolent and toss her in a car before driving off while Dorothy watches in horror.
Steamweed
And then A-G will chase after to rescue Joyce from the paddywagon. Then the cops can try to nab her, having lured her. Good plan by the cops. (but they’re still cops so 0/5 stars no notes needed)
Stormtide Leviathan
I’m a big fan of this idea but I’m not sure the preview panels entirely support it
anon
maybe carla will call her aprents for a favor assuming they’d be willing to help out
nadamás
Awfulness aside, Asma looks so cute in those first two panels!
NGPZ
please dont let them deport Asma
please
?
not someone else
I don’t think Willis would do that.
I absolutely think the cops would, but I don’t think Willis would.
Nono
We didn’t think Mike would actually die either, yet here we are.
Granted the optics for having a character actually get deported would be way worse so I don’t think it would happen, but I’m not going to say ‘DEFINITELY NOT’ anymore.
thejeff
While it would be kind of darkly funny after the setup, this isn’t an ICE raid.
More practically, after the reaction to the protest, Willis committed to giving Asma a higher presence in the strip, which actually having her deported wouldn’t allow. I
Bryy
It would be more in-line for a deus ex machina that solves everything. That’s really how it seems like this universe ultimately works.