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Commonality

🕑 Added 2022-01-05 01:59:13 +0000 UTC

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Ohh Crap Guy

Panel 1 might as well be official confirmation that Sam has ADHD.

awgiedawgie

Being in my 50s is no picnic, but I wouldn't want to be 14 again. Emmett is quite right - 14 was horrible.

Ruth Merriam

Can I get a creaky hellyeah for us olduns? Class of '76 here. Triple session HS and no lunch break if you were on the morning or afternoon session. Mid-session was for sports and band and such. Not it.

Ursus Ridens

Y'know -- I think that Emmet has a nose that we haven't seen in this comic, Just sayin'.

Ursus Ridens

I'd go back to being 55 in a minute. Fourteen, not so much.

Rooty-Toot-Toot

Sam is a Warrior Queen. Emmett is just one of her subjects at this point

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

"Being 14 is Horrible" Tell ya what, Emmett, sweetie... We'll trade places. You can try being 55 for awhile and see how you like that. I'd go back to being 14 in a minute

Leak

That's just how you get Skynet to design better Terminators...

Ashe C. Addams

when i was in school, having a free period instead of being required to go to the cafeteria was a truly elite privilege, and the only reason anyone cared about making the honor roll. this was particularly aggravating because most of those cafeterias were barely supervised (so, not safe to read, draw, nap, or get a jump on homework, and if you were stupid enough to bring your Game Boy to the cafeteria you sure wouldn't be leaving with it) and i never had money for lunch anyway. with a free period you could actually get something done

Rooty-Toot-Toot

This is an absolutely perfect strip. So. Perfect.

Daniel Blom Paulsen

EMMETT MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS

Growing up in rural western Pennsylvania in the 90's, I never knew there was only other option than to eat lunch in the school cafeteria. It blew my mind when I learned in college that other schools just had like a free period to just go wherever you wanted for lunch.

tim1724

It seems weird to me too but that's because where I grew up in southern California we just had picnic tables outside. Eating indoors was only allowed on the rare occasions when it rained… which usually meant eating at your desk while the teachers were (illegally) deprived of their lunch break.

Hugh Eckert

I graduated from HS 40 years ago this coming June, so I'm in the same age band...

Hugh Eckert

14 was probably the nadir for me in the period 10-17... not that any of my middle/high school years were what I would call "good".

Jim Feldman

My schools did, but that was back in the Neolithic. I've also seen plenty that have table that fold out of the walls in the gym. It's also weird to note that the memory is 50 years old at this point. I'm probably one of the older residents here.

I know there are robots and stuff, but the fact that PVPA (where sam goes to school) has a dedicated cafeteria with lunch tables, instead of just eating in whatever hallway or classroom you want, is somehow the weirdest part so far about the universe

Atashkada

School started to go really badly starting in the 13/14 timeframe when everybody got into puberty and stopped being tolerant of my neurodivergent oddness, so I very much agree.

Mad Marie

For me at least, 14 was an island in the midst of the dark sea of 11-13 and the murky waters of 15-17. Thank goodness for all the insightful, kind, awesome teachers I encountered along the way.

Welp, I guess I have a new reason to like Sam, and another character I now feel the intense need to protect. I will fight Emmett's whole school now

ezazel

now i just want to cuddle them forever.

William Cole

So say we all!

Mad Marie

*Oh person

David Durant

Curious - how do you infer that from what we've seen so far? As opposed to them just being shy.

Pejo

13-14 was the absolute worst. Aside from perhaps now but that's different

Bagge

I love Sam's level of drama in panel 1

Some Ed

Actually, no. Magic Chopstick Games managed to cover that nicely. So, no worries, somebody got it covered. That said, that actually looks fairly late into the eleventh hour. Which I think was pretty typical for me back then. I'm not sure why. We sometimes only had one working bathroom, and a couple times had one fewer working bathroom than that. When the bathroom count is that low, using the facilities at ones earliest opportunity is important. Past me was an idiot. Of course, this is not the first time that I've realized that bit. Also, I've needed to use the facilities the entire time I've been writing this comment, so current me is apparently not much more clever. Sigh.

not til you mentioned it

Waffliesinyoface

*thinks back to when I was 14* ...yeah, yeah, this is accurate

Magic Chopstick Games

What, *nobody* is gonna comment on the perfectly executed “failed to register the acute pee-need until the eleventh hour” bit? I’m mad *and* disappointed

Clifton Royston

14 was wretched, but the several years before that were worse.

Am Queue

14 was fine. 10-12 was hideous.

Thomas Halpin

When I was 14 years old I was forbidden from using the dialup internet indefinitely as punishment for some failing or other, and almost perfected the art of sneaking online when my parents weren't home. I got caught at 15, and sent to a military academy, so I definitely didn't perfect it.

Thomas Halpin

You WERE starting a great new age. 15. Turns out "great" was relative, and could be considered by some to be far from ideal.

Some Ed

Some of them are like that, especially those that sit at the outcasts table. Oh, sorry, I mean the unpopular kids' table. I know I was, as were all of the other 14 year olds who sat at the unpopular kids' table in my high school when I did.

Captain Button

When she first appeared she was already old enough that her father was OK with leaving her home alone. Which may not have been the best decision... https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1957

Man when I was 14 I was really into Gun's and Roses and was yelling "14 years that are gone forever" all the time... I though I was staring a great new age. So naive

Carrie

🫂

Todd Ellner

Raising hackles from all the criterion abuse signs. Seriously

Lisa

When Faye was 14, her dad was alive. I wonder how much, if any, of the intensity of her flashback is related to a memory with him in it.

Juni Huber

There is a lot of teenage Faye in comics 502 to 504 (CN sui.!! for 504), but of course those are from 2005, so Jeph would render her pretty differently today I guess.

Ian Wolfe

Puberty is HELL.

Todd Ellner

I am feeling really sad. Kid has been completely beaten down to the point of comprehensively hiding and erasing every personal detail. Bullied openly and constantly AND BELIEVES IT'S DESERVED. Fixated like a newborn duckling on the first friendly face. More red flags than May Day 1946 in Moscow. we are in serious "Take this poor child to a good mental health professional" territory.

Rob McBobson

Well, when we use gendered pronouns it's not because we're actively trying to involve gender. It's just, if somebody wants "he/him" pronouns then I'm gonna respect that, you know? (That's not a diss, just to be clear)

Miyaa

One other thing: when did Sam turn 14? I thought she was 10? Did I miss a time skip?

Miyaa

I could see Marigold see a lot of herself in Emmett or Emmett & Marigold are actually Aunt/Nephew or Niece or whatever would be the gender neutral equivalent. And maybe Marigold has a hoodie big enough to perfectly fit Bubbles?

Fart Captor

Everything about them screaming "some kinda trans" to me, and the consistent use of neutral pronouns seems to make it very clear Emmett is non-binary, imho

14 sucked on toast

Miyaa

So at what Patreon tier do we get the “14 year old Faye” drawing?

Katherine Prewitt

My mom always told me to use they/them for people as a default for many reasons, including politeness, and there not really being a reason all the time for gender to be included in a sentence. Something about not defining people by their parts.

Brian

Awwwww yeah I 100% understand him

Carl Fink

Anyone else finding the white patch on Faye's throat distracting?

Bill Silvia

"New people"

Kimberly Herman

Sam literally referred to only Emmett with "they're" in the previous comic

Bill Silvia

I think there was some similar detail in Millefuille's leg.

Andrew L Butula

Pretty sure we just got that.

Everyone in these comments: Emmett is a non-binary bi person and this is definitive proof because no one has spoken about them and used a gender pronoun yet... Or at all. Me: Or they're an awkward binary and no one has had any need to use a pronoun and when referring to multiple people "they" is a valid thing. And awkward teens (especially guys) can fall in love *hard* with any girl that's just nice to them.

Jenea Ylinen Fredrickson

Technically there already is one cannon: Tilly. They were non-binary. Also maybe Yay, though they're more of a collective.

That panel 5 of Emmett is FANTASTIC. Well done Jeph.

Chelsea

Eeeee well now we all want an Emmett-confides-their-crush to Sam scene

Kajsa Anderson

14 was awful. Hope we get to see more of Emmett, they're adorable

Kenneth

The comic is adorable, but I'm kinda stuck on the AI pelvis cross- section. It's this the first time we've seen that level of detail on the internals of AIs?

Peter Jensen

I have to say, few fictional characters have ever sparked such an instant "must protect" feeling in me, so well done on that. And, uh ... also agreed on that last point ...

Forgettable

It wasn't weird until you made it weird.

Andje Lewkowicz-Lalonde

Panel 2-3: fem vibes. Panel 3-4: masc vibes. Specifically only using they as a pronoun so far? Non-binary 14 year old incoming?

Andrea Andrew

I hope Sam reciprocates.

Tannerbot

Oh my god I must hug this child.

Michael Boettger

No matter how Emmet's orientation shakes out. They are gonna fit right in. Next stop: Coffee of Doom. They'll need the Dora/Hanners/ Claire seal of approval. Momo will be easy. Marbear may adopt them as a little sibling. May?....May will have to be watched.

James Roy

ADORBS. And as many as the disasters and wrong turns have been, I would not trade any of it for being a teenager. I am SO glad I don’t ever have to do THAT again.

Forgettable

Emmett is adorable and I love them. Please make them permanent.

eye see what you did there.

Vilinda

It's official. They've been adopted.

Dylan T

Oh man. That intense infatuation. Been there

Sean Kinlin

Being a 14-year-old cyclops is even worse.

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aaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Adam Friedlander

So horrible.

Ruben Smith-Zempel

That last line is 100% truth. Horrible, horrible, truth. Also, I notice the they pronoun. Are we maybe getting an enby character? I'm excited about that!