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familial stranger, page 24 (end)
🕑 Added 2018-08-21 07:00:03 +0000 UTC first page - previous pagehaven't slept, long day, all-nighter, etc. i'm sure any worthwhile thoughts will come back to me for the review post.
but. that's that. the comic's done, finally, and i'm unsure how i feel about it because it ended up being so long. it did do what it was intended to do, though -- revisit the characters in drop-out, lightly touch on development of their issues since then, and propose the idea that people are not meant to find where they belong necessarily as much as they will always start to carve out a niche in their environment and selves to fit into it.
or, less pedantically, home is where the heart is.
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gray Folie
hi. i made it non-canon because i didn't want jason to be an absent father canonically. it aligned with too many stereotypes; even if it was based on my own father situation, it's different, and it was one of the elements of canon that i could feasibly change and abandon... so i did. other parts of canon i'd rather get rid of, like lola's drug dependency, are too ingrained in the fabric of drop-out to get rid of them, and i was advised to just leave it alone and do better.
Avy Surresh
So, from the future, where you made this non-canonical, I have to ask - why? I mean, DYSTAI works even if this is still canon - after realizing that 'where I came from' is less important to lola than 'where I am now', they come back, take up doing art, and we get to see that Sugar isn't able to make that leap - that where she was is as much a part of 'who she is' as where she is now.
Charlie Mead
This update made me cry, gosh I love Sugar saying 'I'm planning to never put you through something like that again'... Maybe that isn't the 'right' thing for everybody in Sugar's position to say but it's such a reversal of her Drop-Out attitude ('there's no guilt to a corpse').
