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Et tu, Ray? :ymdevil:
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..... :-s

I know that Dillon said Ray may have more bisexual impulses than her originally thought of himself.But how do you go from kissing lessons, to bottoming under a sleazy producer so quickly?

I wonder how it happened?

I figured Ray would identify as straight, but apparently he's bi enough to have sex with another man? Either that or Nathan has no problem threatening the careers of other people to get them into bed with him. Even if they're straight....

Either Ray is more open minded than we thought....or Nathan is even sleazier that he was before
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I'd say Ray is a lot stupider than we thought, too. :|

Anyway, this is likely gonna repercuss badly. I see bad things coming for the budding Amber+Ray Relationship, Dillon is likely going to be scandalized, and it seems unlikely he'll want anything more to do with a Nathan Porn, I mean Horn(y) production...

Also, dat secretary. Very hard to find. :P
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so much for the ones who said "NO WAY Ray decides to go on the down low"

and should Dill tell Amber about this turn of events?
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I suspect he will not even need to.

Ray: "Amber! Amber! I got the part of the gay detective in the next Nathan Horn movie!! :D "
Amber: "You let him f*** you up the ass, didn't you? :| "
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Ray says truthfully "no" but he thinks " he liked how I ate his banana" (ray is not adjusting his pants)
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*SHAKES HEAD IN DISAPPOINTMENT* I just...had high hopes. That Nathan being a gross sleazebag would eventually fade into the background as he wizened up and stopped or just stopped being relevant. Great job Ray.

Also like others, I didn't think Ray was anywhere near doing this. From 0 to 100 in 5 seconds flat.

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Ah, that's unexpected - the return of Helena!

As to the rest - well, yes, called that,though it was kind of obvious once one spotted the shape of the story. Though I did think that there'd be an opportunity for Dillon to try to talk Ray out of exploiting his new-found bisexuality. Evidently, Ray has got the hang of the Montreal movie business impressively quickly.

And yes, this is going to put all sorts of strains on the relationships between Dillon, Amber, and Ray. I wonder how much Amber and Dillon will end up letting slip about their past interactions with Nathan? And will Ruby hear it?
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Though ultimately Amber can't really judge, she has done the same.

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Nathan is a middle aged man. If you are still a huge sleaze by the time you hit 50 you will probably run in that groove the rest of your life.
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Cortez wrote:Though ultimately Amber can't really judge, she has done the same.
Of course she can't (and nor can Dillon), though she might talk about wishing that she could help other people avoid her mistakes. But Ray accidentally stitched her friend Dillon up with this trick, and, well, she doesn't like Nathan much, and wouldn't want to see him encouraged.

Plus, she's just taking Ray on as her first actual boyfriend, as opposed to her long string of casual friends-with-benefits arrangements and porn industry professional shags. She may find that she's surprisingly unhappy with the idea of, in effect, sharing him with that sleazebag Nathan, even if it is just for professional purposes. (And on past form, Nathan won't be content with just one time with Ray.) I suspect that we'll see her wince quite a lot, and maybe some confused conversations in the apartment.
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Spidrift wrote:As to the rest - well, yes, called that,though it was kind of obvious once one spotted the shape of the story. Though I did think that there'd be an opportunity for Dillon to try to talk Ray out of exploiting his new-found bisexuality. Evidently, Ray has got the hang of the Montreal movie business impressively quickly.
Give yourself credit, you called it back on February 15th.

Now, didn't Dillon get a right of first refusal for the next three leads in his contract with Nathan? Will he remember this clause? Will he use it to bump his boyhood crush/best friend out of the role? Will he let Ray have the role out of the kindness of his heart? Will Ray offer to sex him up if he forgoes using his option?

The most interesting part of this storyline to me is that we may get a better idea on just how ambitious Ray is, and whether he is as honest and naïve as he has presented.
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Maybe Ray is as idiotic as Dillon and believes that same bullshit line that Nathan gave him months ago about being on the down low; and with Ray's paranoia about being gay/bi, I could see him buying the idea that it's not gay/bi as long as he has a woman to bang on the side.

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I suspect that it's simpler than that. (Ray doesn't strike me as an Oprah fan type, for a start.) I don't see Ray as really paranoid, just a little bit naive. We haven't seen him worrying about possibly being gay since that first moment of panic with Dillon, after all. He was worried then about suddenly having turned gay, but Dillon told him not to worry, he was just a bit bisexual - and then Amber confirmed that he still liked women, several times. So Ray, who seems genuinely broad-minded, and who respects Dillon, may simply believe what he's been told; that he's bisexual, and that's no big deal.

Then along comes Nathan with his sleazy offer, and we get the other thing about Ray; that he really, really wants to be a successful actor. He's as obsessively ambitious as Dillon, it turns out. Even so, he'd probably have turned Nathan down last week, when he saw himself as 100% straight - but now, well, his wise friend Dillon has told him that being bi is okay, so he's just using his bi side to get a job, right?

Anyhow, I imagine we'll probably get a conversation in the next strip where Ray explains his logic, so let's see what he has to say. If Ray does point out that Dillon said that being bi was fine, I imagine that Dillon will kick himself, very hard.
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