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A Little Piece Of My Heart

🕑 Added 2024-09-22 01:12:13 +0000 UTC

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enchantedsleeper

They remind me of those squishy pillow things full of swirly liquid that were big in the 90s. I have no idea what they were called...

enchantedsleeper

"I heard The Librarian can see in infrared..." "I heard she can see in ultraviolet!!"

enchantedsleeper

You did indeed call it ^^

enchantedsleeper

The 70s were 30 years ago, right? Right.

Opus the Poet

That's from before the time skip.

Alex Mullenix

Yeah, it's a common bit, but it's also how our brains work sometimes. It feels like 1990 was 20 years ago instead of 34.

Joe

nevermind customs. how about the useless jobs program at TSA - they'll probably say it's too liquid-esque.

joFinndian

I WANT A WOOB-WOOB!

enchantedsleeper

I don't think Clinton is MORE likely to own a shirt saying "queer"

David Paul

Stick it in a freezer and say it's a cold compress.

legobil

Sounds like her memoirs.

legobil

I think the people who need to know, know, and she is fine there.

legobil

If watered and salted, will it grow up to become a spawn of Moray? Would that be clone of the same unit or a new unit?

legobil

Deep? Like an endless pit? (Yes, I know the callback of the borrowed deodorant)

legobil

“But may spring a leak when excited”

Opus the Poet

Boo puns!

Zygo

Is "woob woob" a description of the motions that parts of Moray make, or are they actually vocalizing, like tribbles?

Graydon Armstrong

Nah; I'm pretty sure she can control the cohesion of her goo; she'd have to be able to in order to have enough structure to walk upright. And her skin (if the outermost goo can so be called) would have to be able to be tough enough at her feet to withstand the fluid pressure of 5′ of goo above it; think like a water balloon that tall; the pressure at the bottom is much higher and would bulge or burst it if not accounted for. So in summary, I think she has similar strength to humans if she wants to. Of course, she can puddle if she's not motivated to maintain her form, though.

Lucas Werkmeister

I have so many (rhetorical) questions. Does the part of Moray need to be watered and/or salted regularly? Does it do anything on its own? Can they bring it through security checks / customs at all? Can it reattach to Moray, and if yes, is there a time limit? Could it be reattached to *another* Moray if the Director gloops one out? Could Moray regrow it? :D

Claudia D.

Ooooooh nooooo, Carl!

Bill Silvia

She's told several people that she's trans; I think she even wore a trans flag shirt once.

Carl Fink

Queer space camp? I thought Claire was still in the closet. Is it Clinton's?

Carl Fink

Moray-brand water balloons! Labeled "Don't explode!"

Carl Fink

Probably a wedding to attend. Note: I have no idea how the QC calendar matches that, I'm just saying that the wedding has been planned for what, 11 years in our timeline? Note 2: Yes, I know it hasn't been 11 years.

Carl Fink

As I would a yogurt culture? So, I should discard mini-Moray in the sink and flush it down with hot water?

Carl Fink

Why Belgium? I assume because he works for the EU (headquarters: Brussels).

David Durant

I predict another time jump, this time just enough to get us to the day before the wedding.

Andrew

Hopefully not quite that graphic :)

Cole Blackblood

Hehe, butt jokes.

Sean Kinlin

@Andrew: much like that head in The Thing?

OldGoat

No, I did not know you were from Europe. "Adjacent" means near or next to. I meant nothing more, nothing less. If you wish to be offended, that is your choice. Good day.

Leak

Moray: A Collection of Woobs

enchantedsleeper

I realise that you're in earnest about telling me to Google "Benelux nations" but I'm from Europe, so... I don't need to do that. Trust me when I say that Belgium and Netherlands are not the same, and they're not akin to neighbouring (or even non-neighbouring) US states. They're different countries.

enchantedsleeper

I wish Liz were at the stage yet where she realises that her aggressiveness is (at times) due to attraction, but I think we have a way to go yet xD But I'm rooting for it

Stephen Wells

I think if she went to Evan and sincerely explained that she's been a horrible goblin because she doesn't know how to express attraction, she might get surprisingly positive results.

OldGoat

Will Yay turn up as the officiant at Faye & Bubbles' wedding? I can see them in a Roman collar.

OldGoat

@enchantedsleeper Convenient physical access, google "BENELUX nations." Where ever there's an open boarder, someone will cross it for immoral purposes. My understanding of the European Union is that crossing a national border these days is no more hassle than crossing from Massachusetts to New Hampshire.

jonesnori

That's what I was thinking

allanfranta

It's a tracking device!

allanfranta

Since our emotional foundation usually starts with mother, father, grand parents, older siblings, etc, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. Depends. Marten is a good foundation.

allanfranta

one lifetime, then.

William Burns

Moray Butt

William Burns

Jeph, holiday strip?

Mitsuki Ayane

I suddenly want to go to Queer Space Camp. ~<3

enchantedsleeper

I feel like "10 years ago" has to be a joke xD But time really is soup...

Amelia Lewis

Which is the reason that we know that different parts of her have different textures. Math is hard.

Doc Gumby

A man can dream...

David Paul

It seems not. Apparently removing the bob on her head means she can't do math anymore: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5308

David Paul

Gloopy goggles.

David Paul

That's... what, a week and a half away?

David Paul

That being said, though, her self esteem is kind of shit, and Marten has matured enough to be a reliable anchor. Just don't tell Ol' Boaty that.

David Paul

Yay is every single point of contact for this quest, from start to finish. In a variety of increasingly ridiculous disguises.

Anders Rapp

Liz tearing up in panel four. Nicely done!

Mad Marie

And why does Space Camp have to be in Alabama? Could they perhaps move it to California?

Mad Marie

I made the mistake of googling "Queer Space Camp". Good grief...jerks on the internet may have ruined a perfectly lovely person's childhood dream (and possibly more) this past spring. Why are some humans so mean?

BookBeard

It's the start of a trading sequence involving Pintsize's giant metal dick, the Obsidian Femur of Grobulax, the flying roomba and Melon's original ass. The quest takes ages, but it's the only way to unlock access to Cubetown's fourth quadrant.

Miyaa

4 more years before QC can legally rent a car, which may not be possible in 2030.

Mad Marie

Gloopeus Mini-me

Mad Marie

I wonder if a seatbelt would actually be a bad idea for Moray.

enchantedsleeper

Ahhh, okay. So I did jokingly think that they were coming back for Dora's wedding, but I didn't remember Claire explicitly making an agreement not to move up to Cubetown yet, and everyone seemed to be acting like she'd start right away.

Graydon Armstrong

Like Mr Ball Legs! It's the Santa Clarita Diet conclusion we all need!

enchantedsleeper

I would also not say that Liz and Emmett look alike, but YMMV

enchantedsleeper

Why would adjacent countries... mean they are related... I know this is a crack theory, but I am giving a little side-eye at the idea that Belgium + the Netherlands = basically the same

Graydon Armstrong

If it's part of her butt, that could be an uncomfortable flight.

enchantedsleeper

Wow, we got to the other side of an event (Liz coming to Cubetown)! I do think Liz will be a bit tether-less without Marten and Claire there; she's decided not to give up on everything just yet, but still hasn't figured out what she WILL do. (TIME TO GO MAKE SOME IMPULSIVE DECISIONS, LIKE SLEEPING WITH SOMEONE *cough* Evan *cough*)

Bagge

Awwww. Marten in dad mode is so precious

BookBeard

Actually Claire can already see in infrared. She just doesn't like to brag about it.

Opus the Poet

That's a deep callback.

Opus the Poet

I'd say six months to a year IRL, about 4 to 5 weeks comic time.

MikeT

Shoulder Moray has been deployed!

Stephen Wells

It's a post-post-feminist anti-peri-ortho-meta-ironic classic of complete sincerity about nice butts.

prettydragoon

It is a truth universally acknowledged.

Stephen Wells

Sven's next song "Take another little piece of my heart-shaped ass" does such huge numbers that he can retire :)

Sharpless

I'd say it says camp, but since the shirt is not totally flat, part of the "m" is not visible

BookBeard

If that's part of her butt does that make it a gloopeus maximus? ... I'll just show myself out.

Jan Szejko

When it makes a "woob woob" And it's a part of her boob That's a Moray! (I know that it's butt not boob, but couldn't resist)

Cave

Martin collects another little sister XD

BookBeard

Hah, 10 years? 10 years ago Claire and Marten had just gotten together. This comic has been going for 21 years. QC can now legally drink.

Abhayakara

Pride and prejudice and philosophical zombies.

Carrie

Awe! 🫶💜

KiTA

A few years at least, yeah

William Cole

You say that like it ould be a BAD thing…

Clifton Royston

How dare you remind me of that.

Clifton Royston

Good one!

Andrew

Guess not, maybe the woob will grow arms and legs?

Shawn Spencer

Are we sure she didn't just do that?

Alex Mullenix

Yeah, if this was real time, Marten would be begin every strip complaining about his knees. And Pintsize would have been there on January 6th, but only because it would have been the funniest option.

Not that Patrick Foltz

I thought, Queer Space Camp would be great great band name so I broke out the internet box and: https://www.stereogum.com/1949296/space-camp-bazooka-the-venue/premiere/

Leila

WOOB WOOB

Not that Patrick Foltz

Like the Kool Aid man only less bombastic!

Andrew

Kinda wish Moray could gloop-off a mini-moray that could stay behind

Miyaa

Tomorrow: Steve recruits Mariah Carey to come help Tokyo against Godzilla during the Christmas holiday season. Steve discovers this is a violation of the Geneva Convention.

Juliet Alpha Yankee

I am pretty sure it's Queer Space Camp, but I'm in for a shirt that says Queer Space Carp.

Uniquitous

Awww, Liz. Also, that Moray fragment is requisite for acquiring a unique piece of gear that unlocks an exclusive quest.

Paul S. Enns

What's the last word on Claire's shirt? I can tell it says "QUEER SPACE" in the first two lines, which made me think the last word is "CAMP", but that looks like an "R" at the end of the word.

Sean Kinlin

Saying that Liz might be secretly the daughter of Mr. Bennett sounds like a backdoor way of turning this comic into Pride and Prejudice.

Jeremy J Nickurak

So say we all

Sean Kinlin

🎵Come on! Take another little chunk of my butt, now baby! Come on, take it! Take another little chunk of my butt! Oh, yeah, break it! Break another piece off of my butt, now honey! You know it's IR, 'cause it makes you see heat!🎵

Simon Green

Wear it like a super gross hat.

Graydon Armstrong

Hah the text was off my screen at every step of getting to the comic!

Simon Green

Meanwhile, in the QC universe, it is now [checks notes] 3 weeks since the start of the comic

BookBeard

Because of the text accompanying the comic, but also yes the Butts Disease would make it a pretty safe bet even without that.

Sean Kinlin

BookBeard always comes through in the end.

Sean Kinlin

She's probably got one of those, too. (she kinda is one, really)

Drazi

Yes, you are not the only one.

Sean Kinlin

A few dozen? You're optimistic that it will be that soon.

Graydon Armstrong

Why are so many comments assuming it came from her butt? Just because of Jeph's Butts disease?

OldGoat

But why Belgium? He may have been up to some hanky panky there for some time. Maybe Becky Bennett can provide more information.

BookBeard

Interesting theory, but a slight chronological hiccup: Emmett's dad presumably moved to Belgium *after* they were born, and Liz is 5 years older than Emmett.

Andrea Andrew

So I guess we won’t see Liz and Moray for a while in our timeline.

Andrea Andrew

And in QC time, where two weeks could take 5 years, we might not see them for a long time!

OldGoat

Looking through earlier strips, specifically around the time Liz dropped her phone in the toilet (5018), I noted Emmett reporting that their father had to move to Belgium (5023), which, I do believe, is adjacent to the Netherlands. Emmett and Liz look an awful lot alike, more than can be written off to being drawn by the same artist. Meneer Appleboom and Mr. Bennett both seem to have a decent measure of asshole in their personalities. Are Liz and Bennett secret siblings?

Czarzhan

I don't think we'll be seeing Yay for a while. Either that, or they'll show up by the end of the year.

AlexKorobeiniki

Kay, I’m sorry but Liz making Marten part of her emotional foundation is extremely adorable and probably a bad idea lol. In the sense that making another person a foundational part of your emotional stability is generally a bad idea

Zak Reichle

I really do too

BookBeard

Warning: Moray has NOT been evaluated for oral use! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5392

BookBeard

I hope Moray can keep it together. She collapsed into a depressed puddle after twelve hours last time. Marten and Claire aren't moving until after Dora and Tai's wedding, which I would estimate is still at least two weeks away. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4869 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5201

Green

"We'll be back soon" See you in 2027, Liz

Alex Mullenix

Reading this during the intermission at the Death Cab/Postal Service show and thinking about how they're the kind of bands you referenced at the start of this strip 10 years ago (that's when it was right, 10 years ago?). Now seeing them on stage, even they're a bunch of grey hairs. The passage of time, man.

ValdVin

Yep. Every human in that apartment is nicknamed "Flowerpits" for a reason.

Andrew Mitchell

Same.

ducksauz

I've seen other comic artist do it too. It definitely focuses the reader on the feels happening.

Holly Nelson

But of course, Claire and Marten have a lot of arrangements and packing to do. I daunt at the very thought of packing and moving again, but they’re young - they’ll heal.

Andrew Mitchell

I'm guessing swallowing it WITHOUT chewing.

Yelling Bird

So how would a human install this irfrared capability? Eat/drink it? Rub it on like sunscreen? Stuff it into some other orifice? Whatever the answer, I'm interested.

Claudia D.

Chris-you mean…culture up multiple Jelly jars of Moray? That’s mind boggling!

Magic Chopstick Games

[Curly voice] Wooooob woob woob woob woob woob

BookBeard

Does anyone else smell daffodils?

Claudia D.

🙄. 😆

Isaac Rivers

Can Claire interface with it to see in the infrared too or ..

Chris Weigert

Just treat it as you would a yogurt culture…

Captain Button

Yes, if you feed it after midnight...

Doc Gumby

Pintsize.

DVW

woob woob

BookBeard

When posterior ooze Shows you infrared views That's A Moray! When you bestow to Claire Part of your derrière That's A Moray!

Mad Marie

I want to go to queer space camp

Claudia D.

Could that souvenir piece of Moray become "an adult" Moray? You know how some animals make buds that become new individuals,? Would it be a clone of her? Asking for a friend…

Pejo

OK as much as I love Moray, we need to find Yay, I'm getting impatient 😰

Damian Paradis

Can't she just... re-goo the IR functionality? She's practically all goo-stem cells.

SilverbackRon

Jeph could sell those like little stress balls.

ValdVin

I think it registers farts as it registers anything coming out of the body: At about 98.6F. My experience with firehole suggests it's related to Scoville Units more than degrees F or C.