Yeah I was figuring her problems with alcohol were because she hadn't been able to do it when younger and weed she's just used to being around
Am Queue
2024-05-12 04:49:10 +0000 UTC
I believe that the companion AI role has evolved, but not gone away. After gaining a humanoid body Momo still considered herself to be a companion AI, describing it as being "ambassadors of their kind".
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2284
BookBeard
2024-05-09 05:41:50 +0000 UTC
I have spent too many nights up past midnight due to opening an old strip and being unable to stop.
Clifton Royston
2024-05-08 23:53:14 +0000 UTC
Are you saying there's trouble right here in River City?
prettydragoon
2024-05-08 19:14:26 +0000 UTC
Definitely try it alone. I said that because in my experience, smoking after drinking makes people feel a LOT more drunk and not so high. Like the difference between beer drunk and tequila drunk. Bad decisions are made! ;)
Laura Curry
2024-05-08 14:10:47 +0000 UTC
$9.99 per inch - Mr. Troopers pension plan!
Holly Nelson
2024-05-08 11:06:28 +0000 UTC
Nah, that's what happens if you wrap a bight of rope the 'usual' way, tuck the loose ends through the loops of one end, then slide the 'cylinder' down to keep the ends in place.
E.g.: https://imgur.com/a/FxGPhDj
It's not a great way to store rope, but it's not impossible and it's uncommon, but not unheard of.
iko
2024-05-08 06:25:05 +0000 UTC
If you want to try some weed, yes, I would recommend trying it by itself once or twice. Then you get a better idea on how it mixes with other things like a drink. I am not sure it really matters which comes first.
SilverbackRon
2024-05-08 02:47:41 +0000 UTC
Yep, I clicked on that and kept going for nearly an hour.
SilverbackRon
2024-05-08 02:26:23 +0000 UTC
Was absolutely waiting for Liz to say something like "I'm Dutch, remember? We practically INVENTED wiet!"
Amanda L
2024-05-08 01:18:32 +0000 UTC
Is that the way? The times I have tried smoking it was after a few drinks, and I never seemed to feel anything from it. I thought I was just one of those people it doesn't affect. Should I try it alone?
Amanda L
2024-05-08 01:10:20 +0000 UTC
It's an interesting point though. Are there *any* companion AIs left in the comic? It feels like it's a whole think that Jeph's quietly written out.
David Durant
2024-05-07 23:44:36 +0000 UTC
maybe you just need to be a Broadway fan ...
Joe
2024-05-07 23:39:53 +0000 UTC
no, no. Claaaaaaaire-ian, madam libraaaaarian ...
Joe
2024-05-07 23:39:30 +0000 UTC
She could jump rope naked for cash. What did you think I meant?
Yelling Bird
2024-05-07 23:10:29 +0000 UTC
No, Iris, you're going to want that rope with Willow later! Well, assuming it's soft and non-chafing.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-05-07 21:44:33 +0000 UTC
No no no! Smoke THEN drink. Never the other way round!
Laura Curry
2024-05-07 19:21:46 +0000 UTC
She did mention wanting to keep her glasses on, but not specifically how good her vision is without them.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2892
And we have occasionally seen her out and about without glasses, so I'm presuming she also has contacts.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2793
BookBeard
2024-05-07 13:31:18 +0000 UTC
I think Claire might be nearly blind without her glasses. IIRC this might have been established somewhere around when she and Marten first slept together?
Clifton Royston
2024-05-07 13:06:10 +0000 UTC
I assumed they were all renting off the same landlord.
David Durant
2024-05-07 11:55:48 +0000 UTC
I am legally blind without glasses, but I still take them off sometimes.
Carl Fink
2024-05-07 11:36:44 +0000 UTC
The closure of the taqueria implies that Iris may be between jobs at the moment, I hope she finds something that suits her soon.
Stephen Wells
2024-05-07 08:05:40 +0000 UTC
This little "Name. Name. Name. *Nickname*" linguistic tic that Liz has is delightful.
Stephen Wells
2024-05-07 08:00:16 +0000 UTC
She's wearing a turtle shibari harness under that shirt right now.
Stephen Wells
2024-05-07 07:52:22 +0000 UTC
I'm still worried but for different reasons.
Stephen Wells
2024-05-07 07:51:19 +0000 UTC
Iris, Iris, you know Willow would never kick you out.
Alasdair Mackintosh
2024-05-07 07:35:25 +0000 UTC
gah, I gotta stop opening old strips unless I want to get sucked in for hours
Matti Känninen
2024-05-07 07:10:38 +0000 UTC
I was assuming he sometimes wears contacts? And maybe she just prefers glasses to contacts
djellafine
2024-05-07 07:04:17 +0000 UTC
Sean - I almost spit out my tea 😂
djellafine
2024-05-07 07:03:22 +0000 UTC
If you aren't, then what's that rope for and why are you helping Iris with the rent? I might be interested in help with MY rent depending on your answer.
Ye Olde Phart
2024-05-07 06:59:02 +0000 UTC
I dunno, this sounds like money for old rope to me
Andrew
2024-05-07 06:43:36 +0000 UTC
This sounds like deep string theory
Andrew
2024-05-07 06:40:03 +0000 UTC
Librari-ma'am?
Stephen Wells
2024-05-07 06:15:56 +0000 UTC
"Can you nut?"
"Can you not?"
Leak
2024-05-07 05:23:18 +0000 UTC
So wait, if Clinton doesn't actually need glasses, does Claire?
Uniquitous
2024-05-07 04:47:51 +0000 UTC
No, I don't think that's right, Nicholas. The wrapping loops would be bulging because rope needs room to bend back on itself. And the wrapping area is cylindrical.
Andrew Mitchell
2024-05-07 04:29:12 +0000 UTC
It's possible that some of the bottom loops are completely wrapped.
Nicholas Palmer
2024-05-07 04:24:01 +0000 UTC
The way that rope is drawn is physically impossible. The strands coming down should, at least approximately, match the loops going up.
Andrew Mitchell
2024-05-07 04:09:11 +0000 UTC
They found that the connectors don't match back when they talked about it.
Carl G Knoblock
2024-05-07 03:41:56 +0000 UTC
I sing of arms and the gremlin...
Captain Button
2024-05-07 03:18:14 +0000 UTC
Boo. Hiss. Etc.
Holly Nelson
2024-05-07 03:10:27 +0000 UTC
One thing to bear in mind is that the people she gives permission to are asking her for her permission. I suspect that she's inherited her mother's fearsome "mom vibes".
Joseph Bonnar
2024-05-07 03:09:37 +0000 UTC
Miyaa, there is a strip, already posted (Bookbeard, of course) that shows Shibari. It' # 1302. Marten and certainly Veronica would be very much able to instruct Iris.
Joseph Bonnar
2024-05-07 03:07:22 +0000 UTC
I rounded off a bit, but basically 1USD = 0.79 GBP, 20 shillings to the pound, 3 barleycorns to the inch.
BookBeard
2024-05-07 03:06:44 +0000 UTC
Was Iris like a tall Roll?
Miyaa
2024-05-07 03:03:01 +0000 UTC
Alas, either WolframAlpha does not know how to do that or I am not leet enough to perform that conversion.
Miyaa
2024-05-07 03:01:30 +0000 UTC
Or 52.6 shillings per barleycorn.
BookBeard
2024-05-07 03:00:18 +0000 UTC
That’s C$13.66 per inch or C$5.38 per centimeter or €3.65 per centimeter.
Miyaa
2024-05-07 02:51:00 +0000 UTC
I don’t know what shibari is, but I presume it’s something that Iris, Marten, and Veronica (aka Madam Satanic Librarian, aka Marten’s mom) would be able to compare notes on.
Miyaa
2024-05-07 02:47:04 +0000 UTC
Give Iris money 😤
Fart Captor
2024-05-07 02:44:05 +0000 UTC
As for the job at Hex-Mex Pagan Taqueria, it seems like they both worked there until quite recently, since they only mentioned it being shut down when Willow applied at the coffee shop a couple (in-universe) days ago.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5100
BookBeard
2024-05-07 02:40:08 +0000 UTC
IIRC, Iris was a groundskeeper at the college Willow & Yemisi attended and got captured by Willow's friend-making gravity.
William Cole
2024-05-07 02:36:44 +0000 UTC
I'd help Iris out with that rent problem, but we'd be needing that rope... (CONSENTUALLY, before anyone says anything. I may be a bastard, but I'm not a fucking bastard.)
Yelling Bird
2024-05-07 02:35:39 +0000 UTC
As long as it isn't shibarikubi...
kaitou
2024-05-07 02:34:40 +0000 UTC
Only Cubetown personnel as far as I remember. Zlata, Moray, and Evanescent(?)
Nathan Kinsey
2024-05-07 02:32:36 +0000 UTC
They met when Willow and Yemisi were in college (unclear how long ago), and at the time Iris was working as a groundskeeper.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4464
BookBeard
2024-05-07 02:30:50 +0000 UTC
I'm not sure Marten is going to be on-board with the "Madam" part, given how he felt about Data-Mistress.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4934
BookBeard
2024-05-07 02:23:44 +0000 UTC
We've seen her working in the kitchen in the same Burrito place Willow works / worked at. That was *long* time ago IRL but I have no idea how long ago it would be in-world (ask Book Beard). There was also the stand-in yoga teacher gig - but we don't talk about that.
David Durant
2024-05-07 02:21:10 +0000 UTC
Has it ever been said what Iris does for a job? Maybe she was Willow's companion AnthroPC at one time?
PostRetroism
2024-05-07 02:17:51 +0000 UTC
FYI Claire, Marten does know how to use that rope.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1302
BookBeard
2024-05-07 02:16:03 +0000 UTC
Let Willow help!
allanfranta
2024-05-07 02:14:35 +0000 UTC
She certainly has in the past, but not on this occasion.
BookBeard
2024-05-07 02:11:40 +0000 UTC
Liz: "I can handle pot."
Iris: "I would propose knot."
Sean Kinlin
2024-05-07 02:06:48 +0000 UTC
It would be easier than her needing psilocybin with legalization and availability.
Carrie
2024-05-07 02:04:48 +0000 UTC
How does one smoke oneself? Is that sort of an Ouroboros thing?
Sean Kinlin
2024-05-07 02:02:18 +0000 UTC
😢😞
Carrie
2024-05-07 01:59:58 +0000 UTC
Iris needs some help with making 🪢➰ pay her bills. Maybe Claire can get her a book on kinbaku and shibari so she can start running workshops every week and not have any more rent worries?
Carrie
2024-05-07 01:57:41 +0000 UTC
She did, and happily got zen.
Carrie
2024-05-07 01:53:58 +0000 UTC
It's only natural that she'd be protective of her own (adopted) daughter! (Has Claire been permissioning anyone besides Liz?)
William Cole
2024-05-07 01:51:10 +0000 UTC
I'm actually pretty confused by the way the coils don't protrude from the bottom of the wrapped section. All we see is the free ends hanging down. So it seems like if anything, the coils go *right up to the bottom* of the outer wraps, but then that would slip off with any jostling.
Luke Meyers
2024-05-07 01:48:24 +0000 UTC
Placing my bet now on weed evening her out and being a good fit for her.
Panic Blitz
2024-05-07 01:45:35 +0000 UTC
I have a feeling that by the end of the night, one of Liz's arms will be on Clinton for that double arm hinted at earlier, and Clinton's hand will be on Liz.
William Davy
2024-05-07 01:45:33 +0000 UTC
The way that bundle of rope is tied? Definitely.
Jennifer Doyle
2024-05-07 01:44:14 +0000 UTC
Madam Librarian is Martin's Mom circa 431 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=431
Not that Patrick Foltz
2024-05-07 01:39:50 +0000 UTC
You know Iris has fallen on hard times when she starts selling off her BDSM kit...
Sammitch
2024-05-07 01:38:37 +0000 UTC
Gearing up for her job in Cubetown which will be mostly that.
Captain Button
2024-05-07 01:33:02 +0000 UTC
Am I the only one who's finding it a bit weird that Claire's started "giving her permission" to people who are people who are definitely capable of making their own (often terrible) decisions?
David Durant
2024-05-07 01:24:06 +0000 UTC
If you're worried about Liz getting violent, it's really easy to dis-arm her...
Duke
2024-05-07 01:23:02 +0000 UTC
I would be in no way surprised
David Durant
2024-05-07 01:22:41 +0000 UTC
Might have to wake up Elliot after all to help with the clean up.
SpazzyC
2024-05-07 01:21:21 +0000 UTC
Iris is into shibari?
Michael Boettger
2024-05-07 01:21:16 +0000 UTC
Oh Iris. They're much better ways to use rope to make rent money
Robert Spremulli
2024-05-07 01:20:39 +0000 UTC
I was worried when I only saw the Patreon caption in the notification.
Bill Silvia
2024-05-07 01:20:31 +0000 UTC
Claire never got to smoke herself, did she?
Michael Chui
2024-05-07 01:20:13 +0000 UTC
I can relate to Iris.
Andrea Andrew
2024-05-07 01:19:31 +0000 UTC
After "Clanton" and "Madam Librarian" it's obvious everyone's gonna get a nickname by the end of this party.
ValdVin
2024-05-07 01:15:49 +0000 UTC
Conveniently already in a noose shape, nice touch.