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At last, a normal family
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Behold! a normal family dinner!
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Oct 13, 2024 16:22
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Well, that sure begs a whole bunch of analysis, doesn't it?
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Oct 13, 2024 16:27
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drat all these people are freaks
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Oct 13, 2024 16:41
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that is one of the most powerful manga chapters I have read in a LONG time jesus that was so well done. perfectly captured the atmosphere, awkwardness, separation, fear, and disconnectedness of them all. man I feel so bad for Damian.
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Oct 13, 2024 16:48
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Thinking that Desmond too can read minds, and he just read Damian's mind about what Anya told him at the dance.
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Oct 13, 2024 17:03
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Captain Invictus posted:that is one of the most powerful manga chapters I have read in a LONG time Damian being happy his dad said anything vaguely positive to him at all is kinda heartbreaking. Wonder if we'll get a Forger Family meal next chapter as a contrast.
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Oct 13, 2024 17:04
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What everyone else said. Man you could cut that tension with a knife.
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Oct 13, 2024 17:12
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I don't think there's any material in the world that could cut that tension.Electric Phantasm posted:Damian being happy his dad said anything vaguely positive to him at all is kinda heartbreaking.  It would be cool. Kiss your wife Lloyd
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Oct 13, 2024 17:16
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Omobono posted:I don't think there's any material in the world that could cut that tension. Yor could do it. I want the Desmonds to invite Yor and Loid to dinner.
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Oct 13, 2024 17:18
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You know it's good when you can FEEL how awkward the whole encounter is.
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Oct 13, 2024 17:18
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Electric Phantasm posted:Damian being happy his dad said anything vaguely positive to him at all is kinda heartbreaking. my dinner with anya
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Oct 13, 2024 17:21
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Genuinely great use of the art and minimal dialogue to sell just how awful this must've felt for everyone involved. What an awkward family meal.
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Oct 13, 2024 17:21
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Tree Goat posted:my dinner with anya "I think that Berlint is the new model for the new concentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride in this thing that they’ve built—they’ve built their own prison—and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners. And as a result they no longer have—having been lobotomized—the capacity to leave the prison they’ve made or even to see it as a prison.” And then she went into her pocket, and she took out a peanut, and she said, “This is a peanut.” And she put it in my hand. And she said, “Escape before it’s too late.”
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Oct 13, 2024 17:22
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Getting the feeling Mr. Desmond runs his life on the idea that all words could be lies, and so non-verbal (and indeed psychic) communication is best. And this is the result for everyone else.
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Oct 13, 2024 17:28
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https://x.com/_tatsuyaendo_/status/1845488572964683956 So has the dog also been experimented on or is it just a coincidence that he also has the Desmond stare™.
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Oct 13, 2024 17:34
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InspectorCarbonara posted:https://x.com/_tatsuyaendo_/status/1845488572964683956 So far just seems like a dog doing Doggo things.
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Oct 13, 2024 17:54
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TheKingofSprings posted:Thinking that Desmond too can read minds, and he just read Damian's mind about what Anya told him at the dance. Yeah I admit I have never liked the "Desmond can read minds" theory but it would explain a lot of his behavior/mannerisms, and it would explain his "worthwhile" comment if he found out Anya's secret via Damian just now. That said the only 2 holes I can see would be 1.) that Anya can generally only read pretty surface-level thoughts, though I suppose you could explain that away by saying Donovan's just better at it since he's an adult and a weirdo, and 2.) He met Loid face-to-face and Loid is still active and hasn't been like disappeared or exposed or anything.
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Oct 13, 2024 18:03
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That sudden glance at what appears to be one of the butlers, or what appears to be a revelation he got. It's pretty worrying, whatever that was. But, otherwise, just your normal family dinner.
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Oct 13, 2024 18:15
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After all that silly, fanciful, fantasy, unbelievable dinners you regularly encounter in fiction, someone finally captured what an actually normal dinner, with an actually normal family looks like. Bravo.
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Oct 13, 2024 18:36
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The only way to make a more awkward family dinner would have been for someone to bring up politics.
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Oct 13, 2024 18:57
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Blaze Dragon posted:Genuinely great use of the art and minimal dialogue to sell just how awful this must've felt for everyone involved. What an awkward family meal. Honestly think Demetrius doesn't have any kind of problem with that kind of dinner.
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Oct 13, 2024 19:29
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Has Loid ever acknowledged the existence of Garden in this story? You'd think his intel would be on top of a group of basically superhuman assassins. Has he mentioned hearing anything about Ostania developing a secret psychic program? As it stands, he's usually the smartest and most competent man in the room, but his family are all basically demigods hiding just under surface-level and it's a fantastic part of the narrative. He could solve all of his problems by just getting to know his wife, daughter, and dog, but his determination to keep them all at arm's length in order to be a perfect spy is probably the biggest obstacle to his own mission. He's the perfect spy, but Anya and Yor and even Bond have saved his rear end on more than one occasion and he's never been able to recognize that. If the theories about Desmond having mind powers are true (And I think there's a better-than-not chance they are), Loid's going to have a rude awakening about how exactly this game is really played. This series rules.
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Oct 13, 2024 20:05
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Desumaytah posted:Has Loid ever acknowledged the existence of Garden in this story? You'd think his intel would be on top of a group of basically superhuman assassins. Has he mentioned hearing anything about Ostania developing a secret psychic program? He knows Garden exists, discussing it with Franky just before the cruise arc, though Franky has better intel on them. Psychic powers, no - he knows of the project that enhanced Bond's intellect, but doesn't know it gave him precognition. narm00 fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Oct 13, 2024 |
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Oct 13, 2024 20:15
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InspectorCarbonara posted:https://x.com/_tatsuyaendo_/status/1845488572964683956 max is a good boy he was just excited to see damien but yeah the eyes seem deliberate, and we already know about bond other than that agree with what people have already mentioned: excellent chapter, i feel very bad for damien, and donovan can probably read minds. also curious what demetrius' deal is because it doesn't seem to be the same thing
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Oct 13, 2024 23:31
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Man Man Damian looking at his mother for any kinda of assistance and her just looking away like that hurts
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Oct 14, 2024 00:06
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Man Damian, give up on your family and just hang out with Anya more. Just like Loid planned
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Oct 14, 2024 01:40
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donovan has autism and genuinely enjoyed being able to have dinner with his whole family it was silent because he doesn't do well with small talk (because autism) his wife is bipolar his elder son(s) are also neurodivergent damian isn't old enough to understand mental illness yet and yeah donovan can probably also read minds
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Oct 14, 2024 02:49
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where the red fern gropes posted:donovan has autism and genuinely enjoyed being able to have dinner with his whole family ...It's weird how realistic this all sounds. I legit wanna see Mrs. Desmond seeing Loid for therapy on recommendation of Yor. Would be a legit fascinating chapter.
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Oct 14, 2024 03:16
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doomrider7 posted:...It's weird how realistic this all sounds. I legit wanna see Mrs. Desmond seeing Loid for therapy on recommendation of Yor. Would be a legit fascinating chapter. "Have you tried roundhouse kicking your husband, my wife does it and it seems to work out for her. You might need to get drunk first, though."
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Oct 14, 2024 03:28
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Yeah this was a very affecting chapter 
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Oct 14, 2024 04:33
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Like, the difference betweent Melinda/Damien's eyes and Donovan's/Brothers eyes was really good
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Oct 14, 2024 05:04
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stuker posted:max is a good boy he was just excited to see damien but yeah the eyes seem deliberate, and we already know about bond Donovan had creep eyes even as a kid back in Henderson's flashback, so clearly that is, to an extent, just apparently part of the Desmond bloodline. So Demetrius takes after his dad whereas Damian is more like his mom... only without whatever is going on up in her noggin...
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Oct 14, 2024 06:07
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Some observations that may mean nothing other than continuing the atmosphere. Donovan doesn't begin eating until the rest of the table has begun. Melinda doesn't eat anything. Demetrius only makes responses. Damian and Demetrius do not sit directly opposite each other - Damian is slightly closer to their mother while Demetrius is slightly closer to their father, but there's a gap on either side anyway. Donovan looks from Demetrius, to Damien, to Melinda, holding his stare until his eyes narrow (that latter two reacted to his stare). He waits for the rest of the room to leave to talk to Damian. His eyes are narrowed again as he leaves, with an implication that what he found "worthwhile" was not, in fact, what Jeeves stated. If we assume some level of esper power at play, it also occurs, from Anya's earlier PoVs that Demetrius has what could be termed a perfect mental defense, and Melinda's thoughts, while less absolutely impenetrable, are also constantly in flux between extremes...which would seemingly at least muddy the waters against intrusion. Damian doesn't have anything that could be described as an outright guard.
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Oct 14, 2024 10:49
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Holy gently caress, that chapter My heart is still beating, how the gently caress did Endo DO that!?
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Oct 14, 2024 13:17
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doomrider7 posted:...It's weird how realistic this all sounds. I legit wanna see Mrs. Desmond seeing Loid for therapy on recommendation of Yor. Would be a legit fascinating chapter. much like the previous poster suggested that loid’s spy mission would be dramatically easier if he revealed the truth to his family and learned to genuinely trust and rely on them, similarly the central conflicts in the manga would be dramatically easier to resolve if loid were primarily a psychologist who had a side gig doing spy stuff a rather than vice versa
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Oct 14, 2024 14:37
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Tree Goat posted:much like the previous poster suggested that loid’s spy mission would be dramatically easier if he revealed the truth to his family and learned to genuinely trust and rely on them, similarly the central conflicts in the manga would be dramatically easier to resolve if loid were primarily a psychologist who had a side gig doing spy stuff a rather than vice versa yor should also have to explain that she murders people for a living.
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Oct 14, 2024 15:01
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Rubellavator posted:yor should also have to explain that she murders people for a living. Yor having to explain to Anya that being a highly skilled badass assassin is not as cool as she thinks it it. 
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Oct 14, 2024 16:06
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Electric Phantasm posted:Yor having to explain to Anya that being a highly skilled badass assassin is not as cool as she thinks it it. "Look, Anya, I know you think that being an assassin is cool, but it's largely intense fast-paced battles against a variety of well-trained and extremely talented foes with fantastic animation!"
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Rubellavator posted:yor should also have to explain that she murders people for a living. Yor is a public servant and murders on the side. It's "other duties as assigned."
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