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I really like how Jimmy's main power and greatest strength is empathizing with his enemies, even if they're stinky ugly blobs of slime that fart.
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One of the main characteristics of dreams is that in dreams you can't read things, and there sure are a lot of instances of Jimmy being unable to read things...
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May 16, 2019 22:24
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Buck just wants to be a big, strong older brother.
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Jun 15, 2019 18:44
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There is a very clear elitist hierarchy with regards to the way people speak French, where Parisian French is considered "true" French and as you get away from Paris the French they speak is seen as less "pure" and thus less desirable. There is absolutely an ethnic and racial component to this form of linguistic discrimination as well. Parisian French is pure and good and desirable, while stronger French accents, especially those from the south, Marseille especially, are perceived as silly accents for silly people. The francophone Belgians and Swiss are perceived as dumb. Canadian French is, as GP and Crow said, hillbilly French. ...and then there's Africa. As much as France would like to have the world forget, they have lots of blood on their hands when it comes to Africa and France's colonial treatment of it. They like to think that they're paragons of tolerance and secular acceptance, but there's still a whole lot of implicit, low key racism in France, even without accounting for the recent rise in populist/nationalist rhetoric that has targeted Jews and migrants, and one of the elements that evidences this racism is France's view of African French. The French spoken in Senegal, Mali, francophone Cameroon, Burkina Faso, and Côte d'Ivoire (I may be forgetting a few) is seen as dirty. When French academics spend hours and hours bloviating about how one must strive to speak français propre ("clean French") they are talking about Sub-Saharan Africans specifically, and when Africans are excluded from the Prix Goncourt (the highest literary honor for the French language) this lack of cleanliness, linguistic and also, implicitly, racial, is stated as the reason. The people of Northern Africa, especially Algeria, are also seen as, say, less clean than the French, and therefore inferior, but the massive influx of Algerians into France during the second half of the 20th century has forced French society to begrudgingly accept certain elements of Northern African French and even adopt some slang words from Arabic. The ironic thing is that it is these very "dirty" francophones who are keeping the language alive. French was considered the language of diplomacy until the end of World War 2, when it was overtaken by English, which had by then become the lingua franca of the world. The only reason it has remained relevant on an international scale is because there are so many African francophone countries who insist on using it in organizations such as the UN. Elsewhere in the world, French was once seen as the language of prestige and culture, but most people have pivoted towards English, which is more useful and less fussy about how it is spoken, or Chinese, as China is going to own everything by 2030 anyway. The French speakers of Africa, however, remember how their (mostly white) schoolteachers taught them to love their language, and they keep it alive despite France's best efforts to convince itself otherwise.
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Jun 17, 2019 19:06
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VoidBurger maybe?
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Jul 4, 2019 09:55
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My theory: The Mad Queen is Jimmy's doctor and the caterpillar is Jimmy's nurse. The Mad Queen goes on about how she wants to protect Jimmy and keep him safe, but to do so she wants to mutilate Jimmy. This might be an allegory for surgery, a medical procedure that involves and even requires pain and bodily harm. The Caterpillar is the person who speaks to Jimmy before he can meet the Queen (in the same way that a nurse is in charge of patient intake before the patient sees the doctor), asks questions that are really riddles (like those patient intake forms that have 1000000 questions and are often difficult or impossible to answer), is always short on time (nurses juggle a million patients), and do things that they say are good for you but might be perceived as punishment from Jimmy's point of view.
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Aug 30, 2019 01:28
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I think that Jimmy sometimes feels as though no one in his family really cares for him, save Lars. Helga runs hot and cold and tends to bounce back really quickly; Andrew cares about destroying the Pulsating Mass because it's a problem to solve, not because of how it treats Jimmy or how bad it makes him feel; and Buck kind of dislikes Jimmy anyway, or at least Jimmy seems to think so.
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Sep 5, 2019 23:45
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RabidWeasel posted:Other than Lars, everyone's response to Jimmy is dominated by his disease in some respect, Lars is the only one who treats him like a normal kid. Yeah, this. Lars treats Jimmy like a person, not a disease. Granted, it's not that the others don't care about him, they very clearly do, but people in extreme situations need something to anchor them to normalcy and to remind them that their suffering doesn't define them, nor does it encompass the entirety of their existence.
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It’s so sad what happened to that poor boy who died of cancer. Any way, let’s play some golf!
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