So Marten’s still pretty angry, and yet he’s already preparing to beg for forgiveness.
It sure looks like it, but maybe Dora will put some sense into him over their emergency bourbon.
Emergency bourbon is for Faye-medicating purposes. Borderline-alcoholic-two-closest-friends-are-fighting-again-and-now-the-stable-one-is-talking-kind-of-crazy-and-I-don’t-want-to-deal-with-this-and-augh-abandoment-issues-and-oh-my-god-my-new-character-design-looks-even-more-like-Velma Faye medicating purposes.
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I just noticed. Two more strips to number #1800. So, revelation, surprise let-down, or non-sequester? My moneys on relationship drama interrupted by actual crisis, but it could go either way.
The Singularity is going to explode and wipe everybody’s memory of these last few strips.
Don’t like Dora’s “new look”.
I’m just sad that the strip got so out of hand before anybody got discuss how eyeball-bleedingly BAD Marigold’s fanfic was.
I started reading it the day it was posted. But after the first half, I needed to take a break for about a week. I managed to finish it this evening.
Her fanfic was HILARIOUS. It’s even funnier because there are so many fanfics out there that are exactly like that.
Non-sequester? Is that the strip when Marten comes out of the closet? 
He’s not gay. He’s just emo. It can be difficult to tell the difference. (I thought for the longest time that Pete Wentz was family, no doubts.)
Yeah, but everybody got to have great sex (which was great) and they were able to get married (because wizards are cool like that) and have even better sex (which is still great), despite Hermione’s Poor Body Image.
I couldn’t get past the first couple paragraphs (though I’d have to give her credit for actually using paragraphs - something that’s vanishingly rare amongst novice amateur writers). I’ve read and written a lot of amateur fiction (I used to be pretty prolific in a particular niche of erotic fiction, though no fanfic), and there’a ton of crap in my genre as well. Being good at it comes with practice and a willingness to take criticism — something a lot of people aren’t. But I can imagine Marigold trying to write erotic fanfic was about on par with my own early attempts at my own genre - i.e., terrible. It’s hard to write “good” erotic fiction when you’re still a virgin yourself and have little idea what you’re talking about 
Whoosh.
Well I spent the better part of the last couple of days reading all 7 years worth of strips (I had only been reading for a couple of months) so I feel like I’m all caught up now. Now I need to look for some Hanners/Marigold fanfic… 
I don’t know whether you were whooshed or you’re saying I was whooshed. My post was intended to be fairly tonguish-in-cheekish in the first place. Except for the part about Pete Wentz.
Marten decides he’s had enough and tells Dora he’s leaving?
Marten decides to end all this back-and-forth and proposes to Dora?
Marten surprise kisses Faye?
Dora tells Marten she’s pregnant?
Hanners makes cookies?
Ura-Maru misspelled “non-sequitor” as “non-sequester”. “Sequester” meaning “to isolate or hide away” - which HNC made a joke about being Marten in the closet. Your response seemed like it didn’t pick up on that.
I disagree: I think his response picked up on it and continued the joke. I think you’re the one who was wooshed.
Very possible.
Hey! That was not a misspelling, that was a spell-check-enabled malapropism, thank you very much.
Much as I hate to say it, it’s pretty clear where this is going.
Dora jumped into Martin’s lap right after the Faye thing blew up, when he needed something simple and uncomplicated. She provided. She’s the most settled and adult of the core cast (this is not saying that much) and didn’t need anything from him that wasn’t fun and easy. Once things settled down and he had time to stare at the celing for a while, he realized that while he (oviously) loved and cared about Dora, he wasn’t in love with her. They were missing the Toto-level connection.
But, being Martin, he couldn’t do something as hurtful as dump her, or even raise the issue. So, he just went on, feeling kind a little trapped, but what the hell, what did he really have to complain about, right?
Which, of course, is exactly what Dora was most worried about, that he was with her not because he wanted to be, because she was convenient, and too much of a puss to leave. Which probably contributed to Dora’s big blowup, which could have been an excuse to dump her, were he the type of guy to look for those kind of excuses. During the process he learned her tragic backstory. Now he REALLY couldn’t leave, he HAD to help fix her. Because you can’t just drop people you care about. Nice guys don’t do that. He’s gotta make everyone happy, even if it means walking on eggshells because [del]Dad ran off with some dude[/del] [del]Mom’s day job makes me feel funny down there[/del] your girlfriend’s got issues.
Sadly, I’m predicting a full breakup and a ‘If you can’t tell a girl you don’t love her, you’ll never be able to tell a girl you do!’ lecture from Sven. Pity. I know I’m in the minority, but I always thought they made a great couple.
Hopefully with minimal fallout, as everyone’s more or less an adult, and that would add a lot of complexity from a writing perspective.
Alternitivly, Faye gets drunk and burns CoD down trying to make a sandwich.
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People who complain about how depressing the story is should be glad I’m not writing it . . . I was convinced Dora’s cat-attack injuries 1500 strips ago were self-inflicted for about 400 strips.
The problem I’m having is that all of the supporting characters seem to be developing at a normal pace. They’re not static and they don’t suddenly metamorphosize into new personalities.
But Dora and Marten are the exceptions. Jacques appears to let them drift along for months of being the same. And then he apparently decides he needs to have them doing something in the story so he throws them into some personality crisis that comes out of nowhere - it’s like he’s shaking up a snow globe. Then he puts it down and moves on to some other characters and Marten and Dora settle back down to doing nothing.
1799 is up. Dora calls quits on the relationship. Marten is a deer in the headlights.