30-09-17 I can destroy him

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Re: 30-09-17 I can destroy him

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I knew he was going to say okay, but I still found it funny :)

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worldshaking00 wrote:
Sun Oct 01, 2017 1:44 am
The idea of a threesome from James is actually a little awkward now that I think of it. If he is truly committed to Tracy, the possibility of adding another person to their sex life might jeopardize things. Is James intending to be the only one to get to touch/have sex with Tracy? If James is OK with sharing himself with another, and Tracy is Ok with that, where is the disconnect in his brain that BJs are demeaning but sharing himself with two lovers isn't? Tracy is willing to share her lover with another?!? She obviously digs him, so why not allow her to please him her way? It's just too much for me to handle. He's just a plot device to mess up/with Gary. Come to think of it, so is Tracy, since she can't manage to get a handle on her affairs with her man... and I am sure will find some sort of way to blame Gary for her lack of setting boundaries.

I don't fault James for being bi-curious. Gary did it to himself getting that damnable grapefruit involved.

There aren't many Gary-style ways for him to get out of this threesome. I hope that Peggy helps to bolster him OR give him advice to get out of the threesome, since as many have pointed out, she has a great sane mind. However the power of the script is strong with this story, so I don't see that he will. He could always ask Matt to step in for him, but I have a feeling that Gary might just borrow the Black Stallion if he doesn't want to actually do the insertion physically himself. I can envision Gary is his cheekless chaps with the giant strap-on. Although if the trend continues as is, James will love getting the backdoor action and Gary will be even more in trouble. Argh. The stupidity of the situation hurts. b-(

Repeating because it requires it: Tracy needs to tell James about her cam-girl show, and enlighten him to her real talents. If he balks, it wasn't meant to be. I also hope that if they do go into BDSM threesome mode that she doesn't broadcast it, legal reasons aside.
In James' case, I'd say it's a mental thing.

There's plenty of people out there who think going down on a guy is demeaning but don't think the same for going down on a girl.

It could also be that James is gay and he hasn't be able to admit it to himself yet.

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that's the direction of this I'm getting. He's gay, just in denial. The fact he's holding back on letting Tracy do things she wants to him but not Gary says a lot
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Really should have thrown your own condition in there, Tracy. "BJ or GTFO" as the kids these days may or not may say.

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At most, James is bisexual. His sex life with Tracy is clearly far too active and mutually satisfactory for anyone to call him “gay” with an, ahem, straight face. The fact that this comic seems to assume that straight guys are generally quite cool about receiving blowjobs from other men confuses the issue further.

His real problem is some mix of old-fashioned chivalry, feminism, and just simply liking to both give and receive good sex. All three are admirable in themselves, and could mix perfectly well, but James manages to smoosh them into a heap of inconsistent gibberish. Tracy should have talked him through this by now, and if Gary was a proper human being instead of Gary he’d grab the guy and say “It’s not my job to patch over your cognitive dissonance, go get your blowjobs from your hot and willing girlfriend (you lucky bastard)”. But instead, idiot plot.
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Gary's troubles may still in large part be due to extreme social anxiety. Whenever things happen that he has no experience dealing with, he panics and tries to be as accommodating as he can so people won't be angry with him. Unfortunately for him, he takes it too far and keeps making mistakes because he fails to just take a step back and consider his situation with whatever semblance of rationality he can muster, rather than rushing to find a solution.
I could imagine he was the victim of severe bullying as well as sexual frustration in his youth.

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Which would make him a tragic figure (if, frankly, a boring one). But he’s not written as tragic, if only because this is a comedy.

Plus, I dunno, he seems to be fairly socially functional on the rare occasions when it suits the plot. He was also a bit more conedy-active back in the first volume or two (ironically, the only period when he’s actually mentioned having been bullied), coming up with comedy schemes to get nude pics of DiDi and so on. Mostly, I think, he’s a comedy geek who’s been severely flanderised into hopelessness.
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Spidrift wrote:
Sat Sep 30, 2017 5:06 pm
Replace “violent” with “sex-crazed” and “strength” with “perversity” and, well, that’s roughly what he tried to do. However, he failed to ask himself how many Vulcan ships got blown to crap before that worked and oh god why am I doing this it’s not like I’m a Trekkie?
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I find your logic to be suspect, Captain. Vulcans do not bluff. Either regarding Klingons or the butt stuff.

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It's funny, i remember when people thought James wouldn't like Gary, now it seems he might like him a lot.

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Honestly, I found this strip hilarious... Oh, sure the stupidity is quite high, but... well, sometimes at this point, they deserve it and I doubt they will make it to the point...

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At this point, @Badman!, I don't think we can rule anything out.

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I think Gary should Double Down on that bluff, Butt Destroy with James giving Gary a BJ and Tracy giving James a BJ

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Don Alexander wrote:
Sat Sep 30, 2017 10:14 am
LarsenSan continues to disapprove of this plotline. :P
Why mentioning me? It's clear that not only me, a lot of people here are pissed about this storyline. This is bad writing at its finest. :-\

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ok, not all at the same time :P

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Re: 30-09-17 I can destroy him

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The only chance that Gary may actually have to get out of this situation is to do the butt-wrecking first, and to do it in such a way that James will not want to go near Gary for the next few centuries. Perhaps fisting would be viable. With a little sand added to the Crisco.
Spidrift wrote:
Sat Sep 30, 2017 10:11 am
Idiot plotting at its highest, with Ma3's peculiar love of threatening its male characters' anuses as a bonus. And James would do best to enter a monastery.
What makes you think his butt would be safe in a monastery?

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