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OMFG ITS HAPPENING
GIFFANY.
"Oh bugger" is the appropriate response to those sorts of feelings :P
how dare those feelings do that. without my permission too. so rude.
It is entirely how I'dve envisaged Harry to react to that realisation. 👍
I thought she knew! and was just avoiding thinking about it!
She's danced around it (once literally 😇 ) but yes, we humans can be ridiculously good at fooling ourselves sometimes.
It's a error tossed by the intellect-emotion interface when it achieves an unexpected state of awareness that creates a new meta-state of being that encompasses both. For some, it's an entirely unexpected state of being and actually cause a base error state on reset.
So...yes!
AAAAAAAAAAAAA
♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
W00T!
Harry used the L-word! It's super effective!
Lesbian...?
The other L word.
Logic?
No, that's the one that's effective on Ben.
....Lesbians?
It's not a trick.
(Finishes quote)
.... Lithuania?
...Lots
Liberal?
Somehow, I would think of Harry as a Tory.
... Lagniappe?
Lemon?
Ludicrous?
Limberger?
. . . . lugubrious?
Liver?
Ledger? Leeks?
Come on everyone, it's obviously Lang!
(I apologize to the, probably limited, people who might get this, and almost definitely will not find it funny ^^)
Don't be silly, they wouldn't be lesbians in the mid-19th century. The term didn't exist yet. They'd be sapphists or some other charmingly quaint term.
Pardon if the phrasing there isn't quite right. Getting tone across in text is hard.
We gotcha.
"Chums" or "really good friends" who care about each other deeply and share a bed
Luckily, this is before Victoria became Queen, when she declared such women do not exist.
wow harry, now who's getting soppy <3
They honestly do make a great team, like it's easy to imagine a "hapless sidekick" version of Sid, but even back in Chapter 1 you could see him improvise and keep up in situations where he was out of his depth. Even when he stumbles or ends up in awkward situations he takes it in stride. He's like Lupin the Third crossed with Guybrush Threepwood.
Rincewind
Suddenly I want Sid to incorporate a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle into his act.
We all do Harry. You just happen to have exclusive rights to the lanky ledgerdemain.
Thank you for helping clue me in on the literal meaning of legerdemain - I believe it's French for "light of hand" (and in Sidney's case, light-fingered too).
I'm french and I had to look up what it could mean...
wooow
Welcome to the voodoo therapy session
Aw. Ms Harry, your Mum is going to be so pleased.
Actually, she probably would be, especially in light of her apparent disapproval of Nicola's orientation.
Although I expect the conversation will go downhill rapidly once the subject of grandchildren is raised.
Does it say something bad about me that my first response to that comment was to wonder about whether reliable contraception is readily available in Widdershins? And then to think that Eliza would probably be the right person to ask?
And then to start scheming about submitting exactly that question for the next inter-chapter Q&A?
First thought: Surely there has to be SOME emotion related to contraception.
Second thought: If you're not careful, that's going to get way too close to one of those awful PMS jokes.
Third thought: Eliza is awesome. Why would I ever want LESS of her? Ignore first two thoughts.
Fourth thought: Oh, wait, hit the sperm with laziness. Why was I looking only at female contraception?
Fifth thought: But, dagnabbit, I love Eliza. Let her solve it.
Sixth thought: Wait, is she too busy for apothacarying right now? Should we ask Will instead because she's too busy having awesome adventures?
Will unlikely to have that problem. For much the same reason as Nicola.
The Barber sisters’ replies on contraception methods:
Nora: Why would I want to stop having children?
Nicola: Not something I have to worry about.
Harriet: Hrm. Bugger, haven't thought that far ahead yet.
Florence: My husband is gay.
And weirdly, it hadn't occurred to me that Florrie's husband is gay; I forgot about the option of marrying a good friend for money and living separate-but-together lives that make you both happy. Thanks!
Or even...
[https://archiveofourown.org...](https://archiveofourown.org/works/3248951 "https://archiveofourown.org/works/3248951")
ALL THE TADA EMOJIS
Now that is a fancy flower. One day someone will ask: "Harry, when did you realize that you love him" and she'll go: "Oh, some weird witch forced me to talk about my feelings to make a giant spirit flower bloom "
(And people, knowing the Barber family reputation for misadventures will shrug and look for stronger wine. XD)
Florrie and I have been waiting years for this!
Well, that went fast.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Nyree in Panel 1: "oh, spill the juicy details, love."
Meanwhile in London, a cheerful woman in the De Montfort manor is making unstoppable noises of joy, and no one gathers an idea as to why.
*in Widdershins, not London. Otherwise completely accurate!
Mrs de Montfort is staying at her London Town House for a serious two-day assault on Harrods. Also, to make sure her husband has not escaped.
Whoever he is
Awwwww!
Am I the only one thinking that that last panel needs a "boing!" sound effect?
"boing" but in a really fancy intricate font.
So intricate that it looks like "bingo!" instead...
… it took her by surprise? After all the teasing, in-story shipping, and sinful hallucinations she's endured, it just took her by surprise?
Sheesh, Harry, those were some quality blinders! ;)
oh bugger blinders blind love's bloom bleautifully.
Well, I take it as somewhat... reasonable, I think. That these things don't help, I mean.
Bc, imo, real love feels as a unique and deeply intimate feeling (see the cliche "I love you as noone has loved anyone before") so all these "Find a perspective husband/a gentleman for you/Someone has a crush!/Kiss now etc" (general examples) don't really sound like something relevant to that. Too common, too superficial. Yeah, I actually dislike in-universe shipping, especially with messing with others' letters.
About Lust's hallucinations, well, I'm sure that experience made Harry feel stronger her appreciation for her Sid, but also it could confuse her in the way "Sid and I have never done things like those, I've never dreamed about us doing them in that way... so it can't be romantic love?"
Love is a common word for an individually unique situation where the ENTIRE world is redefined for an individual in ways they could NOT have envisioned it before the transformation. It is entirely natural for the person changing to NOT see what is coming, that takes a perspective that most of cannot have and still be an individual.
Yeah, while she snapped-out of the illusion by realising how the fantasy Sid didn't match 'her' Sid, Harry would also be aware that amplifying and fabricating that emotion was Lust's whole deal - plus as everyone here's said, denial's a hell of a thing, especially when your parents want you to 'find someone and settle down' and you identify yourself as not-that.
Heh. I'm not really saying anything that you've all not said here already, so I'll stop now. 😉
C'mon Harry, don't you read the comments?
FINALLY. [Edit: That's directed at Harry, of course.]
You finally said what the shippers have been saying for nine books.
Stupid dust speck in my eye...
oh that was easier than expected
..."Easier."
YESSSSS!!! GO BE HAPPY!!! You deserve it!
HAPPY is where she will end up, but it isn't one and the same...next is the test of it, is it real? Can it sustain? Love isn't allays happy, bit it's on the way there. It can make your life as a whole MUCH more difficult, but also more rewarding. I get so annoyed with date movies that show this moment as the end of the journey. It is not. It's just the beginning of a even grander one. :D
In life, the simplest truths are the most difficult to admit. I suspect Barber has just realized this.
Georgia O'Keefe approves.
Harrys thoughts "So that's why Lust tried to distract me by making a fake Sid act super Soppy?"
Ta-da! Shazzam!
♫No stopping the talking once you start♫
♫Curiosity and Kindness break my heart♫
♫I let Duty drive us apart♫
♫Oh bugger; I'm in love♫
I softly screamed out loud
You thought the flower represented Harry's emotions? No my friend, those are all of the shippers shaking with anticipation in panel one and then bursting with Florrie-level excitement into emotional and literal screaming at the end.
Oh no, she's activated The Giant Artichoke of Love!
They'll be wishing they still had ammunition for the rifle when it grows to consume the whole island.
Is it just me, or is there another layer of blossom yet to go?
Fucking finally, YES! The suspense was driving me mad. Now get on home and kiss your man, Harry!
Help, my living room is now filled with purple hippos of happiness
Yay! She admitted it! (She's probably scared for him, too, considering the condition he was in when she left.)
If she gets home fast enough she can meet her future in laws. And then try and explain why she has the same name as his boss.
I mean maybe the specific combination is rare, but there should be a lot of Barbers in the world.
Not really. Wolfe said he was "Heinrich" (Henry) Barber. Not Harry. After all, the pictures on the wall were of Henry.
SHE SAID IT! SQUEEEEE!
EEEEEEEEEEE! NUMFAR, DO THE DANCE OF JOY! :D :D :D
It's usually only corpse flowers that get that big...
Critical hit!
(Sirens go off)
Don't know why I'm reminded of this song. :)
[https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAwSQq44O_U "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAwSQq44O_U")
Been thinking of a home and lost love and this pops up
Thanks so much for posting this.
WOTE is a favorite of mine. Never been to one of their concerts, though I live in Toronto.
Ohhhh! So beautiful!
Yeah, that moment when you're like, oh hey, I'm in love! And everyone around is is like, seriously? We've been seeing that big purple thing spinning over your head for months now!
Beaky, Liony, monster bud turns into massive flower - that would impress the gardening types - where do I get the seeds?
I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of shippers all cried out in thrilled ecstasy.
Oh that's just perfect!
I'm sure that doesn't mean anything.
What we cant hear through the medium of a comic is the boss music starting. hope you stocked up on potions, harry.
Given her smoking habits, she probably has matches or something to use for her special attacks which will be super effective on this plant boss!
HEH I. Love. This. Page! It is so fitting for her...
This reminds me of one of my wife's friends. When she announced her engagement she was very surprised that the universal response was "Oh, you finally figured out that you are going to marry him."
We all need a magic feelings flower sometimes