February 21st, 2020
21 Feb 2020 · page 966 of 1306
Get a room, or maybe a boxing ring, either works
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Gren, Parsley, Will Sharpe
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So it would seem that Mal hasn't fully explained what the Anchor space is like, at least to Ben.
With regards to the other situation developing here ... Oh, Ben!(facepalm)
Love is in the air, it seems
I think Parsley and Gren will make a cute couple
I'm all for ships, but for the love of satan please keep them in the same species.
Don't argue, Ben, else she'll get out the gun 'n globe!
Parsley: "Noot!"
[https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs3BHRIyF2E "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs3BHRIyF2E")
Will's expression in panel 3 is mine right now ^_^
Hmm, so it something about Anchor #4. Still curious now if this means the Americans found it and believe they just need a Witch for it, or if they think having a Witch will help them find it?
… did I miss a couple of strips or when did those two get married? XD
I was picking up shipping vibes in the first scene they met :P
That means Mr Pemberton Pryce is on our side. Or at least on Ms Swift's side. Doesn't it?
Two people can be on different sides while having the same goal.
I suspect Mr Pryce only acts in his own interest. But if he proves Ms Swift right by finding the fourth anchor, won't that take away her reason for living? Anyway, it is obvious there are 6 anchors.
She lives to be RIGHT
I have this vision from a few years in the future, when Lord O'Malley is installed in his Widdershins mansion and you can book day trips to any of the four anchors, of Will coming into work and finding Ms Swift staring at her empty blackboard and her redundant filing system with a look of complete desolation on her face.
I doubt it. Those of us who tend to obsessively fixate on things are rather good at finding new topics (targets) for our laser focus
Perhaps she can prove that the plays of Mary Sidney were actually written by an obscure wool merchant from the Midlands.
Or else her blackboard is filled with strategies to woo Ben. And when she finally has the nerve to approach him he says, "Oh Eliza, my heart was yours from the first time you said 'detailed and thoroughly organized filing system' " Their honeymoon is spent alternatively blowing up globes and painstakingly gluing them back together.
I think she's got too much energy -- she'll turn it towards the next mystery or interesting tidbit as soon as the fourth anchor is proven
Will ships Eliza and Ben already.
So I've been curious about the timeline thus far and unless I missed a more obvious info drop, here's where I think we are:
-Eliza says Harry is missing for a month early in Chapter 8, and then there's a "One Month Later" title card after the botched hanging. So we're 2 months + some unknown amount of time after the incident.
-Eliza says Ben was wrecking up her shop "the other month", so probably still within 3 months?
-Harry mentions to Nyree that she's been on the island for "weeks" rather than "months", so it's possible these stories aren't happening exactly concurrently.
So Pryce has had a few months since news of the incident to realize there's a new witch and try to locate him. The paper he hands Ben seems to indicate he did this through his own men's investigative work rather than one of the characters who knows Mal is a witch.
All this is to say: This is a fun chapter and it's been fun to try and plot out where we are :)
My guess is that it's probably been 2-3 weeks since the end of Hangman's Knot. Eliza and Will seem to be settled into their respective new jobs, but Will still has the upper-arm cast showing under his left sleeve, so it hasn't been long enough for his broken arm to finish healing.
Woah! Good catch
Someone pointed out we actually see Eliza for the first time back in Green-Eyed Monster here: [https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-21st-2014](# "#")
And it sounds like that wasn't the first time she'd had to call Ben and the others about a buggerup, so when she refers to him wrecking her shop the other month she's probably talking about that, not something that's happened since the end of Curtain Call.
not quite her first appearance..! [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-25th-2011 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-25th-2011")
Swifty's shop was been next door to Harry's office, all this time?
Ben, you're talking to the head of the Fourth Anchor Society here...
"Oh no... she's got a hot filing system and commitment to it... oh no"
I do have to wonder what causes an anchor to form in the first place
big Ley line energy
boop da doggo
This is absurd and delightful.
No, no...it's thorough.
Raise your hand if you went directly to panel four for the other story going on....
Flirting over the filing! Scandalous!
Is [Eliza good at desummoning](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/character-questions-2-2 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/character-questions-2-2")? Although right now Ben might be more interested in someone who can help find a witch.
This page is killing me. Whether these two end up together romantically or as platonic partners in crime, something's going on here and I LOVE it.
You can feel the Romantic Tension. SO MUCH.
Either way Ben ships it.
Will in the background like
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turned on disqus's gif picker for y'all, enjoy
What movie is that from?
No idea. Picked it from the list of searching for 'why'.
Sam Raimi's pulp classic Darkman. He doesn't look that pretty for most of the film.
I've been quietly shipping Ben and Mal for ages, but you know... I can be convinced by ... thorough arguments.
mal is aroace so it probably wasn't meant to be :) fun bromance though
The bromance lives eternally.
I feel u ben,,, poor boy was just kidnapped no wonder he's overtired,,,,
Sharpe: "My shipper-sense is tingling!"
Panel two: I'm no longer entirely sure they're still talking about filing. Is this double entendre?
When Nerds Flirt
I could hear the 'shipping squeeeeees all the way from the twitter preview.
Snoot Booping!
SHARPE SHIPS IT!!!!
Nearly missed that interlude between Gren and the kitty! Wonderful. Both keep to species protocoll, and who has to suffer for it? Not the cat, of course...
Parsley and Gren! 😻😻
what is the "oops" ?
That's because Ben had just put his foot in his mouth by saying that the Fourth Anchor, Eliza's favorite theory, is nonsense.
To quote the Nifty:
My, what a sexy filing system you have there
I'm just as delighted as Sharpe is by all the filing-related flirting going on, but my favorite thing on this page has to be Gren's reaction to being nose-booped by Parsley. "This is NOT how I thought this interaction was going to go!!!"
"...I concede that I've seen Stranger Things this year. But..." Ben, have you been using the Hotel Gula to catch up on your Netflix queue?
(I'm sorry, I had to.)
What a ridiculous comeback...it's normal for an anchor to have a witch, it was the two hundred years without one that was weird. And the witch was going to 'happen to be known' by several someones, it happened to include Ben. So what?
"Shipper" fleets, anchors a-weigh and set sail!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO /BARELYJOKING