Still mad that the catharsis for Joyce's crisis of faith and coming out as atheist happened off screen during a time skip
I'm curious what makes you think it was an all-at-once catharsis and not a bit-by-bit leaving things behind, 90 percent of which happened in comic time?
I don't believe it was sudden at all. The build up to it was slow and personally I think it was well written and accurate. But the way we the audience finds out that an important hurdle has been crossed is through another character saying to her, "when are you going to tell Becky you're atheist now"
Maybe this doesn't 100% track, I don't know as I've never been religious, but what I compare it to is me coming out of the closet. There was a slow build up of realisation and coming out to myself was a soft gradual thing - but coming out to someone else for the first time was a big moment in my life story, it was a transitional moment. I feel like we were robbed of that moment by coming back into the story with Joyce already having told a close circle of friends.
Joyce gradually losing her faith has been covered and Joyce dealing with the repercussions of that loss is now being covered currently, there's just a short bit in the middle that's missing and it's a bit I would have liked to have seen. That's all.
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Still mad that the catharsis for Joyce's crisis of faith and coming out as atheist happened off screen during a time skip
I'm curious what makes you think it was an all-at-once catharsis and not a bit-by-bit leaving things behind, 90 percent of which happened in comic time?
I don't believe it was sudden at all. The build up to it was slow and personally I think it was well written and accurate. But the way we the audience finds out that an important hurdle has been crossed is through another character saying to her, "when are you going to tell Becky you're atheist now"
Maybe this doesn't 100% track, I don't know as I've never been religious, but what I compare it to is me coming out of the closet. There was a slow build up of realisation and coming out to myself was a soft gradual thing - but coming out to someone else for the first time was a big moment in my life story, it was a transitional moment. I feel like we were robbed of that moment by coming back into the story with Joyce already having told a close circle of friends.
Joyce gradually losing her faith has been covered and Joyce dealing with the repercussions of that loss is now being covered currently, there's just a short bit in the middle that's missing and it's a bit I would have liked to have seen. That's all.
Well here is my perspective. I am a religious person who has gone from being ultra conservative to being a bisexual leftist. The moment I came to understand I am bisexual was an important and revelatory moment in my life. But the switching off from conservative religious teachings to leftist religious belief? That was more gradual and didn't really have any "ah ha!" moments. There are many parts of my conservative religious teaching I cast aside long before I realized I had cast them aside. For example, I had been fine with gay people since I was 12 at least. So the switch from "I love gay people the same way I love straight people, I even have warm feelings when I see gay couples hugging and holding hands, I just disagree with their lifestyle because God forbids it" to "being gay is not a sin, that's bullshit, God created gay people." was actually a long term shedding of stupid ideas to the point that I couldn't tell you where or when the process started.
Pretty much the same with changing from ultra-conservative to leftist! That transition started with being exposed to people from different walks of life because I moved from a racist small town to a bustling metropolis with people from many countries and origins that I had only previously read about or seen in film. I would have little revelations such as "oh, wait, this guy looks like a young punk, has several kids from different mothers, listens to gangster rap, and has had multiple run-ins with the law, but he's genius-level intelligent and our department pretty much runs off the back of his exceptionalism, the one thing never had anything to do with the other thing." It was an evolution from centrist Republican, centrist Democrat, liberal Democrat, leftist Democrat, Democratic socialist. I guess the biggest "ah-ha" moment was voting for Clinton instead of Trump in 2016 and telling my parents and siblings I was doing that - I hadn't even voted for Obama despite already, internally and without acknowledging it to myself, being a Democrat by that point!
So yeah, telling people important to me about the change was the biggest revelatory moment, and we just had that "on-screen" with Becky.
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This is actually not uncommon for twilighting. Notoriously, the same thing happened with me when I was around....20? 21? The doctor came out of the room where they were doing a scope and told my mother "We are never twilighting him again."
Apparently I physically fought them and shouted obscenities until the restrained me and further sedated me.
It's always full anesthesia now, baby!
This is the first I've heard of "twilighting" and it has a wonderfully ominous sound like "sundowning."
'Twilighting' is the medical term for making a person be still awake but no longer conscious.
I promise it has nothing to do with vampires or werewolves.
I looked it up after seeing the post, so I know! I don't think Twilight, the book, is ominous at all except in the domestic abuse sense. "Sundowning" is the word used to describe how Alzheimer's patients can sometimes become particularly confused and aggressive after the sun goes down. I think both words just have a sound to them that is particularly ominous in a secret and ancient way unrelated to their actual meanings. "Twilight" itself is a lovely word, before it was ruined by Stephanie Meyer. "Sundown" is less lovely, but somehow talking about someone "sundowning" has a feel as if they are walking into a hell mouth. "Twilighting" sounds more like an astronaut flying into a particularly terrifying and unknown section of space.
Oh. I actually didn't know that was what you meant by "Sundowning." I thought you were referring the to deadly racist policies in America that have existed.
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I've never had faith and therefore have no context for someone deciding they don't believe but I do think that Willis' portrayal of it, were that all DoA was, makes for one of the best and most realistic webcomics. I wish that's basically what he wrote.
This is actually not uncommon for twilighting. Notoriously, the same thing happened with me when I was around....20? 21? The doctor came out of the room where they were doing a scope and told my mother "We are never twilighting him again."
Apparently I physically fought them and shouted obscenities until the restrained me and further sedated me.
It's always full anesthesia now, baby!
This is the first I've heard of "twilighting" and it has a wonderfully ominous sound like "sundowning."
'Twilighting' is the medical term for making a person be still awake but no longer conscious.
I promise it has nothing to do with vampires or werewolves.
I looked it up after seeing the post, so I know! I don't think Twilight, the book, is ominous at all except in the domestic abuse sense. "Sundowning" is the word used to describe how Alzheimer's patients can sometimes become particularly confused and aggressive after the sun goes down. I think both words just have a sound to them that is particularly ominous in a secret and ancient way unrelated to their actual meanings. "Twilight" itself is a lovely word, before it was ruined by Stephanie Meyer. "Sundown" is less lovely, but somehow talking about someone "sundowning" has a feel as if they are walking into a hell mouth. "Twilighting" sounds more like an astronaut flying into a particularly terrifying and unknown section of space.
Oh. I actually didn't know that was what you meant by "Sundowning." I thought you were referring the to deadly racist policies in America that have existed.
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no wonder Joyce and Liz get along - she seems like the exact same type of asshole Becky is
now, will Willis ever address why Joyce seems to repeat to those kind of friendship dynamics and how it relates to her relationship with her faith and her church?
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I don't believe it was sudden at all. The build up to it was slow and personally I think it was well written and accurate. But the way we the audience finds out that an important hurdle has been crossed is through another character saying to her, "when are you going to tell Becky you're atheist now"
Maybe this doesn't 100% track, I don't know as I've never been religious, but what I compare it to is me coming out of the closet. There was a slow build up of realisation and coming out to myself was a soft gradual thing - but coming out to someone else for the first time was a big moment in my life story, it was a transitional moment. I feel like we were robbed of that moment by coming back into the story with Joyce already having told a close circle of friends.
Joyce gradually losing her faith has been covered and Joyce dealing with the repercussions of that loss is now being covered currently, there's just a short bit in the middle that's missing and it's a bit I would have liked to have seen. That's all.
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Well here is my perspective. I am a religious person who has gone from being ultra conservative to being a bisexual leftist. The moment I came to understand I am bisexual was an important and revelatory moment in my life. But the switching off from conservative religious teachings to leftist religious belief? That was more gradual and didn't really have any "ah ha!" moments. There are many parts of my conservative religious teaching I cast aside long before I realized I had cast them aside. For example, I had been fine with gay people since I was 12 at least. So the switch from "I love gay people the same way I love straight people, I even have warm feelings when I see gay couples hugging and holding hands, I just disagree with their lifestyle because God forbids it" to "being gay is not a sin, that's bullshit, God created gay people." was actually a long term shedding of stupid ideas to the point that I couldn't tell you where or when the process started.
Pretty much the same with changing from ultra-conservative to leftist! That transition started with being exposed to people from different walks of life because I moved from a racist small town to a bustling metropolis with people from many countries and origins that I had only previously read about or seen in film. I would have little revelations such as "oh, wait, this guy looks like a young punk, has several kids from different mothers, listens to gangster rap, and has had multiple run-ins with the law, but he's genius-level intelligent and our department pretty much runs off the back of his exceptionalism, the one thing never had anything to do with the other thing." It was an evolution from centrist Republican, centrist Democrat, liberal Democrat, leftist Democrat, Democratic socialist. I guess the biggest "ah-ha" moment was voting for Clinton instead of Trump in 2016 and telling my parents and siblings I was doing that - I hadn't even voted for Obama despite already, internally and without acknowledging it to myself, being a Democrat by that point!
So yeah, telling people important to me about the change was the biggest revelatory moment, and we just had that "on-screen" with Becky.
Oh. I actually didn't know that was what you meant by "Sundowning." I thought you were referring the to deadly racist policies in America that have existed.
i assumed
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now, will Willis ever address why Joyce seems to repeat to those kind of friendship dynamics and how it relates to her relationship with her faith and her church?
my guess is, absolutely not
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it's people, killing robots
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