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Way to practice your bait and switch skills, Ruby.

-Claps-

We atleast finally have a title reference... since it took MA3 forever just to refer to a MAT

This one's on Zii actually, Ruby did call it a fan club from the start.

I'm betting that she also invited Angel

So... it will be a Yaoi Fight Club then?

Run, Zii, run!

Hah - I thought that Ruby's little current scheme might bring Zii back into play in this comic. Looks like she's Ruby's only recruit for now, too.

Don Alexander wrote:Run, Zii, run!

Why? Zii may be disappointed, and Ruby needs to work on her expectations management skills, but if Zii sticks around for a sticky bun and a chat now she's here, they get on pretty well - and Ruby is no threat to Zii's safety or sanity. Last time they talked, Zii clearly found Ruby quite interesting to hang out with.

Plus, there's plenty for them to talk about, much of which could be good for Ruby. Somewhere down the line, it's going to come out that Ruby knows that Zii had a thing with Amber in the past, and Ruby still needs to get her head around that; Ruby may also end up venting about Amber, and Zii may have the smarts to give her an alternative viewpoint on that, and maybe start her off on the long, slow process of building bridges. Alternatively, Zii may just ask if Ruby has a boyfriend, and end up helping her decide where she does want to go with Andy. Or they may just talk about Ruby's business plans.

Or they may even talk about yaoi, which doesn't exclude giving Ruby something to think about. Zii is someone who enjoys yaoi but also has a very full real-world sex life; she might try to convince Ruby that, you know, exploring some of this hunky-male-bodies stuff in real space is a good idea.

I like how this thing mixes Ruby's maturity for yaoi with the immaturity of a child's club house.

I am not sure where in the timeline this takes place as far as Menage a 3 is concerned, but when we last saw Zii there she did not have many good options other than cold showers. At least she has a shared interest in yaoi and if the meeting gets too dull Zii will lighten things up unless Angel was invited too then Ruby might have to play peacemaker.

I'm not sure that I'd call yaoi fangirlism terribly "mature". Pretty harmless good-natured fun, sure, and obviously only likely to kick in after puberty, but it's still kind of overgrown-adolescent-squee stuff. Especially with Ruby, who's blatantly using it as a way of displacing and partly sublimating her sexual urges. She's very much like a 14-year-old with a thing for boy bands.

But yeah, the clubhouse and password idea is very adolescent. Ruby is definitely working through her teen years, ten years late. I can definitely see Zii nudging her into a slightly more mature frame of mind, in which yaoi fandom is seen as spice to a life which involves actual physical sexuality, rather than being the point of the exercise.

And assuming that this comic is approximately synched with Ma3, Zii probably came in the hopes of taking her mind off her current state of frustration. But she wasn't too desperate, last we saw - just a bit twitchy. Hanging out and bonding with Ruby will probably be sufficient distraction for the evening.

If Angel showed up, though - well, it's war between those two. One would most likely leave in a huff with some harsh words. I suspect that would be too much of a distraction from the Ruby-based plot for it to be the writers' plan.

"Characters Who Always Top" was the topic Ruby wanted to start with and I would definitely say that is mature subject matter.

"Mature Subject Matter" is not the same thing as mature subject matter.

(Unless you consider, say, a 14-year-old boy's obsession with BOOBIEZ! to be mature.)

If Ruby was just obsessed with seeing shirtless men then yes, but there is a big difference between a 14 year old obsessed with breasts and a young 20 something woman interested in characters whose sexual position it to always be on top.

True up to a point, I guess. Though how much Ruby is really, deeply interested in characters and plot, and how much she's just desperately making excuses to herself for wanting to see hot guys shirtless and banging, might be argued all night.

Certainly I think she's going from nerd to geek. She prides herself on being cerebral, so when she encounters something that appeals to her hormones, she promptly gets very analytical and learns all the jargon. Actually, she sometimes seems to show more interest in the technicalities of her geek interests than Gary does.

I'm thinking someone else from the cast of Menage a 3 will show up to the Yaoi fanclub meeting.