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Changing Places

🕑 Added 2024-05-06 01:14:05 +0000 UTC

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Am Queue

That's why Iris wants the rope

Am Queue

Favorite song ever

Trans4Life2021

Yeah, I feel ya, Ayo. Weed and I don't get along. I found out the hard way that it gives me psychotic meltdowns of the highest order.

Kenneth Carlile

I was so confused when I saw this in the normal feed last night... somehow I missed it on the Patreon feed!

Nicolas Dao-Phan

I just realised Hannelore riffed on the litany against fear.

Clifton Royston

Well done!

enchantedsleeper

Exactly xD But then again, both Yemisi and Iris are un-high and can presumably act as adults (Iris probably unwillingly), though Claire still knows Liz (and Hannelore) best

Chris Warren

Poor Ayo.

ValdVin

Avoiding the "We need an adult" call! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3879

Matt Pedone

Reminds me of "Firefly" by Saves the Day: "Just sail belly up to the clouds, the rocks scraping your back. To breathe in the air will be the only thing that you have"

Leak

Let's hope Ayo hasn't shot the food... hmmm... would she qualify as "White Valkyrie"?

James Anthony

A little inspiration from Dune? “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

Hugh Eckert

Avalokiteśvaralore

Captain Button

Pics or it didn't happen.

Maurice Post

sure it can't, which is why we want to see it nonetheless :D

Julia Allen-Hesse

boddhisatva LOOK OUT [shred guitar solo]

Mark

I'm not sure that the universe could withstand "More Than Ever" Liz.

Jeph Jacques

They can sativa it though

Bagge

To everyone's surprise, Weed did not make Ayo more chill

Len Pal

That's really not that far off from the paper Stephen Hawking wrote (with Malcolm J. Perry and Andrew Strominger) entitled "Soft Hair on Black Holes" though.

Darius Jenai

She just wrote down a bunch of stuff about black holes and unicorns last time, so I doubt it.

David Paul

It could also possibly be, but we need to offer programmers a meat pie floater (which I have never actually seen or tried, even as a resident of Fourecks. I mean, Australia) to test that: https://xkcd.com/323/

Stephen Wells

Not everyone can sattva her bodhi...

Stephen Wells

I missed the Gauntlet reference on first reading. Nice :)

Stephen Wells

The classic from literature is "Overall there is a smell of fried onions" (attributed to William James by Robert Anton Wilson who may have made it up)

Kent Reniche

That is an invasive species also found in Europe.

enchantedsleeper

Actually, this might wind up being a helpful experience for *Ayo* (if she takes Hanners' advice to heart and doesn't just freak out). Maybe she'll find it useful for grounding later

enchantedsleeper

She doesn't have it yet (I think that Iris would consider that beneath her, though) (Literally and figuratively)

enchantedsleeper

I don't think this seems like such a drastic change, for post-travel Hannelore. Maybe just a more pronounced calm side of her

enchantedsleeper

I definitely thought that this seemed like a mindset she developed over the time she was away to help her cope better with the unexpected (and yak dung)

enchantedsleeper

Maybe she'll invent a better vape for weed funtimes

enchantedsleeper

😂

enchantedsleeper

As someone who doesn't always ~know the references, I appreciate the info

enchantedsleeper

I love it XDD Also, I think that Claire might have indefinitely tabled getting high so that she can be the adult instead 😅

Len Pal

I suspect Liz would find inspiration for an actual science she can do so she can break out of her imposter syndrome.

Len Pal

It's always fun when someone busts in with what the reference was rather than let folks who know what it was be like "I see what you did there", but if you're gonna be -that guy-, please get it right. It's the Bene Gesserit litany against fear, not Mentat.

Stephen Wells

Joke's on you, Iris, she's into that...

Doug DeJulio

A *different* gremlin. More like Kyle than like Jerry.

Emmu Lah

You get pink eye when a weed farts in your face

legobil

💯 agree

Andrew

They can smuggle it south inside (a semi transparent) Moray

Brian

I am here for bodhisattva Hanners. I didn’t expect this turn, but it works.

BookBeard

Actually now that you mention it, I think Liz is the more likely one for that. They could each inhale their respective chemicals and meet in Unicorn Grove. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5063 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3147

Diptych

Maybe she'll end up like Roast Beef, and find the perfect strain for treating her anxiety with the minor side effect that it makes her act like a southern belle.

Graydon Armstrong

I would assume solar midnight, which in most places, and even more places during daylight savings, is after clock midnight, so saying midnight is pretty safe, but not foolproof.

Fart Captor

IRIS, NO! …Use a proper leash, for safety 😤

Opus the Poet

"... a man with three buttocks."

Joseph Bonnar

Iris is thinking ahead. :)

Opus the Poet

The Orange Catholic Bible was an amalgam of Bhuddism, Sufi, and Christian teachings.

MikeT

Scott Baio dislikes this

Matthew Van Gangelen

So that’s how you get pink eye. Huh. Good to know.

Opus the Poet

Mentat Litany Against Fear from the OG Dune novel by Frank Herbert for those who can't identify the source.

Opus the Poet

Liz just becomes More Liz Than Ever under weed.

Miyaa

I knew someone in college deathly allergic to tomatoes. My sister is allergic to bee stings and honey.

Miyaa

Wait, there’s Amish in Massachusetts?!

R L

Godsdamnit that's a good one

Yelling Bird

Well I really wanna see Liz smoke up now.

Kyle Major

Its the same phrasing used in the comic

Captain Button

I have a friend who is allergic to chocolate. 8-({

JCfromNC

But then who will be her Dave?

BobC

What are your symptoms? My blood pressure crashes, I go ghostly pale, then I faint.

Holly Nelson

Ballmer's Peak? Would that be like Rincewind's crucial blood alcohol level when he visited XXXX?

BookBeard

No matter where you are, it refers to midnight in Northampton Massachusetts specifically. Didn't they mention that in the original movie?

JourneymanWizard

Panel 1: been there Panel 3: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Leak

Hanner's bodhi is ready...

Not that Patrick Foltz

No 1 The Larch

Minzoku Bokumetsu

we have an Amish market that sells it 🤔

Nicolas Dao-Phan

Turns?

Mitsuki Ayane

Iris just mad that all these people are getting some medical fun on, and the one drug she wants is still ignoring her. ~<3

Kyle Major

Imma say it turns her into a gremlin

Not that Patrick Foltz

After midnight when? Is this a UTC thing? Is it based off of the gremlin's point of origin? Does daylight savings figure in?

SpookyPenguin

It would just be Ayo's luck to float into Bubbles tea-dream

SilverbackRon

Something fizzy to drink, like a Pepsi or maybe something without caffeine. Or a fruit juice.

sjlxndr

Sparkle in your china

Sean Kinlin

Ayo may not be about to die, but she probably needs food badly.

Jennifer Doyle

*bows to a fellow rigger*

Leak

ITS, you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZd8jxwdScg

Carl Fink

The weed mixed with alcohol leads to Liz having a creative idea that gets her back into physics productivity. Except the insight is really "There's a funny smell in the room," which sounded really profound when she was on drugs but isn't that useful.

Julia Allen-Hesse

brb gonna sell my house in town

SilverbackRon

That does pose its own challenges.

Carrie

Me 2, c'est la vie

Ursus Ridens

It is delightful to hear of such a result. For me? it was just boring [sigh] -- except for the time I saw _The Saragossa Manuscript_ while loaded. The confusion of my time-sense turned _that_ flick into a masterpiece.

Carrie

BookBeard, thank you for the link! 🙂

Ursus Ridens

Good grief, why don't they see that? But, of course, it looks as though narrative necessity is about to dictate otherwise...

Sean Kinlin

But unlike May, she doesn't have the ass-toot module.

Carrie

Woohoo! ➰🪢▶️

Jeremy

99% of why I'm still uninitiated. LOL

FreeReedz

Hanners is cool.

Alex Rahr

Liz has practice without arms, it'd be unwise to write off her abilities arm-free.

Thisguy

My god… FIRST APPEARANCE OF CLAIRE! Yeah, Hubbert’s peak would be less damaging to the universe.

Michael Phillips

I'm pretty sure that I can rig a harness that would secure someone who has removable arms, regardless of what state their arms are in before or after the tie. I have done arm rope for people who had specific needs to not do things to their arms that are standard parts of rope

Tannerbot

Yes, but it still pokes through sometimes.

allanfranta

TIL

Grace Kieser

She's been working very hard on her mental illnesses for the last while!

BookBeard

That or she sobers up and is freaked out by how drastically it changed her personality and never touches it again. Honestly, I'd say it's a coin toss between the two outcomes. Hanners is difficult to predict.

BookBeard

Or perhaps Hubbert's peak. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2203

BookBeard

You should never give a gremlin weed after midnight.

Sean Kinlin

"And now for something completely different..."

Sean Kinlin

Weed was legalized for recreational use in Mass by referendum a few years back. At least, in our universe.

Graydon Armstrong

Willow's been high before, though.

Graydon Armstrong

snu-snu.gif

Richard

Hannelore says "i'ts" instead of "it's" when high.

BookBeard

But only when high, so it would be a rather psychedelic jellyfish and... oh my god... Ayo was secretly The Director all along! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4943

Gamera

Is weed legal in Massachusetts? Or is Martin going to supplement his cafe by selling Hannalore canadian ganja?

Kyle Noon

Which is also where Herbert supposedly got the inspiration for the Litany

Darius Jenai

Last time Liz smoked, we got the Unicorn Principal

Viktor

It can definitely go either way. It's down to personality, biology, and the particular strain, and you can't know unless you try it.

Timothy Roller

Shiva.

Ben R

It's never good to think you know what you are like when you're high.

BobC

I really hate being one of the very few who is allergic to weed. Sigh.

Tannerbot

So, it pushed Hanner's paranoia all the way around to absolute zen. Nice.

emmavoid

I was about to say that I imagine it's difficulty to tie up someone with removable arms... but then i realized that if she's high when it happens, she might wind up disconnecting both arms and be left just as unable to do anything with them

Thisguy

…who wants to bet that weed allows Liz to hit some sort of Ballmer peak?

Captain Button

The Chathams are an earlier line of the BG breeding program.

Jeremy

Be careful Liz, Iris gave very few specification about rope application.

Matt M

Craspedacusta sowerbi they are exclusively found in the Yangtze basin in China

Captain Button

And when they have gone past, turn the inner eye to see their path. Where the feelings have gone there will be nothing. Only you will remain.

Randi Hart

It'd be interesting if Hanners used this experience as a tool for her to help regulate her anxiety. I know cannabis definitely helped me hugely when dealing with anxiety attacks.