June 1st, 2021
1 Jun 2021 · page 1062 of 1306
Nope no no thank you
Cast: Patience Rattaker, Verity Cunningham
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Yep. I didn't think I was a neat freak until I went to visit a former roommate and their bedroom was just like this. Made my skin crawl.
My best friend is like this, we've been friends for years and I love hanging out with them, but goddamn their house is always filthy, I don't know how they can stand it.
When we were living together, I didn't think that I was the neat one!
Speaking for myself, it's because I never really look at it. I'm always buried in either a book or a computer. But I never, ever leave food lying around. That's how you get ants.
Can she keep her smooth talking up in this kind of environment?
Signs point to No.
Gosh, that first panel is gorgeous. All those subtle colors on the horizon!
Ok so the mess is one thing, but how on earth did she get a screwdriver stuck in the ceiling?!
Ever see a depiction of a bored student/clerk flicking pencils up to the ceiling to try to get them to stick?
practice
...and patience
Have you met any actual engineers?
There are no screwdrivers in the ceiling of my office, I'll have you know.
Then you either posssess the necessary discipline, or lack the necessary discipline.
Where there's a will there's a way.
Tag yourself, I'm the banana peel on the boiler
Using a screwdriver to pin your notes to the bulkhead is no way to treat good tools.
It could be an awl but same point.
Of course it could be the good engineer's extra important pile too.
Awl or screwdriver, there is a second one which was stuck to the roof just above the first one.
I'm not lending Patience my tools.
Nor I. Beside the fact that she would either insult them or break them.
No - an awl has a completely different point from a screwdriver.
Ahem, subtle pun.
Should she use a stiletto?
Of course there's no mantelpiece to pin things to, so perhaps a stiletto wouldn't work...
VERITY, EXTERNALLY: damn bitch you live like this?
VERITY, INTERNALLY: oh i can't not fuck her
While it's dirtier than my apartment, it's much better organized.
Not sure of the geography here, but if that’s the sunset, does that mean that the Intentions is sailing out into the Atlantic ?
And doesn't the ship seem a bit smaller all of a sudden?
Also how did they mount those towers once then got off the continental shelf? And near the Mid-Atlantic ridge? Or are we overthinking this?
it's the back end of the ship, it's the exact same size. been using a model for reference for this exact reason! i did put it too low in the water in that panel, but eh.
also the sunset is where it needs to be for panel composition
The ship’s sinking already? But it only just launched!
True, they haven't even gotten far enough out to build up a proper false sense of security yet!
We're overthinking it. The towers can't be in a straight line like a railway, but have to follow the coast and the contours of the seabed. At the time of panel one the Intentions happens to be on an Easterly(ish) heading with the land out of sight.
Maybe they're anchored buoys, with magic keeping them in the same general spot?
Looks like this is the small structure at the very far right of this page.
[https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-4th-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-4th-2020")
"An interest in progress, by which I mean someone is paying me to spy on your dad."
Employer, I think. The boss's daughter is the one with the glasses and the sketchbook. But the overall sentiment is the same.
Thanks for the correction.
I'm sure that it's absurd, but my immediate response was "Meh. That's not bad. My office is no messier than ... Oh"
Honestly, it looks dirty, but not very messy at all. She has some trash that needs to be thrown out, like the banana peel and the crumpled up papers, but no big piles of clutter. And what is there looks like it would look perfectly tidy if there were a table for it to be sitting on instead of the floor.
On second look, yes, you are right. It's missing a few crates or benches to tidy things up and define more precisely work areas, but it's not really messier than the usual view of a car mechanic shop or similar.
It's a room where people live and work. Well, one people, anyway.
Maybe Kate went for a polite mess.
Or, maybe more likely, it's that Verity is very, um, order-conscencious. Bit like Ben.
That being said, I stand by my initial reaction re: screwdrivers through the wall.
Edit: oh, Ben has already been brought up below by Emily
This workroom is the epitome of cleanliness and organization! Verity, you ain't seen nothing yet.
And this is after the cleaning staff has had a whack at it.
I love how many comments are "Oh my gods that's awful!" and how many others are "You call that a mess?"
Poor Vee. We know from seeing her blueprint-style spirit in Curtain Call (https://www.widdershinscomi... "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/may-4th-2018)") that she's a precise sort of person, and a liking for order seems to run in the family (see Ben and Victor), so it's not surprising that that would be her reaction!
Hmm … are Ben and Victor related by blood, or just through the marriage of Vee's parents? Have we been told either way?
… although I guess it'd be no surprise if Vee's parents were mutually attracted to their own, precise sort …
Victor is Ben and Vee's mutual grandfather. Check out this page from Find the Lady - his face in the next-to-last panel is pure Ben! [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-8th-2015 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-8th-2015")
Meanwhile, "Fantastic!" "Yes, it is." is a very Vee level of self-esteem.
The good ship Veratience is listing and taking on water.
I like this lady, we use the same system.
Now that is a significantly smaller ship than we saw in the beginning of the chapter ([https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-4th-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-4th-2020") ). Wonky perspective ... or magic shenanigans (e.g. the ship changing size)?
neither, it's just the back end of the ship. i'm literally working off a 3d model here, it's fine
Of which ship? I've been watching way too much Drachinifel the past few months, so I have to ask. :D
I'm with Verity on this one; how can Patience stand sleeping in a workplace that doesn't have more things on the ground. I mean, you can see the floor! That stack of papers needs to be spread out on a full corner of the room.
Though, the screwdriver being used as a nail is a nice touch. Not sure about the one in the ceiling, as that isn't easily grabbed.
What is a floor if not a very large shelf? It's the most efficient place to keep things.
Eh, you get a bad back from bending over to pick them up all the time
Crouch.
Wait, but if you're both girls, which of you is the neat freak who could safely serve tea in her lab and which of you is the Gear Gremlin?
Gals continuing to be pals.
And just like that, the (proverbial) magic is over.
Yep, she's Ben's cousin alright.
I just noticed, the above water telephone lines.
Holy crap.
They’re th’ pylons with wires fulla dirt so they can do magic on th’ water, see.
Come on, the banana peel...