Conversing
Sep15
on 09/15/2015
at 12:01 am
Chapter: Longing and Other Inconveniences
Characters: Randie, Randie's conscience
Location: Cypress City, the apartment
Randie often fights with herself over decisions… One doesn’t always have this sort of experience when arguing with one’s self.
Here’s some more “head chats” from the past.
http://squidrowcomics.com/tempted/
Always good to know you still HAVE those little internal voices, isn’t it? My friend Suburu used to claim he lost all access to his conscience. He was a very scary person when it came to making decisions, very cold and logical and often very unbending to any arguments or new information.
Is your friend named after the car? Actually, it’s spelled differently… what an interesting name…. anyhow… my decision making skills leave a lot to be desired…. probably because I am an emotional decision maker. I let my emotions weigh too heavily. And then I go back and forth with the struggle to come to the right decision. What if I make the WRONG decision… ? But what if… etc, etc. This is probably where the floating heads came from… this inner conversation that I have with myself…
Suburu Takashige (another friend I lost this year, somewhat ironically while driving a Subaru) was a japanese fellow who chose to deliberately misspell his name when he romanized it specifically because of an anime character who shared said name and his occupation. He hoped to distance himself from said character (it never helped….).
Being an emotional decision maker can be troublesome! Depending on my state of mind I flip flop between emotional and logical, and they both have their downsides. Emotional means you tend to shoot for satisfaction but you trip over a lot of other factors that tend to be uninvolved, I find. Logical gets you results….. but often not satisfaction. I usually boil my decisions down to a twenty minute self argument then go for what feels best or is necessary. Or, like Randie has on at least one occasion, I go get ice cream to continue the debate with!
“On the other hand”….becomes “on the other head…”
I think we all go around and around on some things. Randie has just made it visual, because that’s the way her brain works.
PS her evil head pulls out all the stops…..cheater….
Ha! “On the other head…” Yah, the shady head usually uses manipulative measures… “Oh, it doesn’t hurt to just… have one piece of candy corn…. oh, the whole bag is alright… it’s a small bag.”
Angels and devils always have wings.
I like these wings a lot. But I gatta tell ya, these ones, even though I use a template I created… take forever to do… layers and subset layers in Photoshop… but I like the result. This particular toon took days… working on and off.
*hehe* Just be glad there aren’t six or seven. It’d be MIGHTY crowded.
And at least they’re flying heads without hands. Otherwise it could break out into a free-for-all snowball fight and then nothing would get decided.
A snowball fight would be interesting… the most these two could do would be to spit at one another… and this just gross… but not out of the question for evil head RAndie.
Ah! The floaty heads are back! The “goody-goody” seems to have gone through a major upgrade for her feathered wings. Just curious, does “naughty” have an eyebrow piercing to match Grace’s unpleasantness, or is this something Randie has secretly been wanting to do for some time? Now to see if the “Guilt Sheep” are next to make an appearance. 😉
You caught it! Yes, the eyebrow piercing is a direct reference to Grace, the epitome of evil… or so she was (is that a hint?)… Randie considers her to be the most unpleasant person she knows… so it makes sense that she’d see her evil self as having a connection. And of course, the Guilt sheep have to come out… usually they come out at Christmas when the to-do list is off the charts.
Don’t these two use FaceTime or Skype? Or phone, or at least text? Not sure why she needs to wait for him to return before discussing this.
Ah… here’s how I used to ask for things growing up… maybe this will give you an insight…
When needing to ask for money, or a something material… I would sit and fret over how I was going to approach my Dad for such things… often getting stressed out, then I would go to Mom and discuss it, hoping that she would just ask Dad for me… When she said “go ask yer Dad, I would then suggest that SHE could do it for me… “no, if you want it, go talk to… back to fretting.
Communication doesn’t run strong in Randie’s family.
As for the FaceTime and Skype… such matters are best discussed in person, especially if it’s kind of a big deal… it would inevitably come down to “Randie, we’ll talk about this when I get home.”