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Tweak says, "Engage!"

Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-05 18:43:00

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char: hippolyta of themyscira, char: nemesis/tom tresser, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: aaron lopresti, creator: gail simone, publisher: dc comics, title: wonder woman

Wonder Woman #36

This is from Wonder Woman #36, by Simone and Lopresti.

Tom asks Diana how he can trust her, since she said she didn't love him.

They kiss, then Tom says "And I... I don't belong here." He tells Diana to set them down.

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	unknownscribler 2009-10-06 08:52 am UTC (link)
	Diana, sweetie, everyone starts with the blue flame of attraction. It's the only way to know if it's going to turn into that raging orange inferno. Also the idea of Amazon's leaping blindly into a relationship that can last for hundreds of not thousands of years is a prety silly one. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jupiterrhode
2009-10-06 04:10 pm UTC (link)

The nectarine pit thing isn't leaping into a relationship. Diana explains that whether it lasts forever or one night it's just a way of getting to know each other in a sexual/relationship context. Part of the problem was that Tom was used to such rituals meaning something important, where as in Diana's culture it's pretty much just an elaborate way of saying "Hey, you're hot."

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unknownscribler
2009-10-07 05:05 pm UTC (link)

It is leaping into a relationship -- according to Diana, the slightet flicker of attraction is seen as justification for two immortals to decide to spend eternity together (which comes across as nothing but an attempt to play on the hoary old trope of lesbians moving in together on the first date).

Which actually seems completely antithetical to the nectarine pit and the idea of wooing being Serious Business, especially as we've to this point only ever seen OTP style relationships amongst the very very few Amazons who've been allowed to have them.

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	jupiterrhode 2009-10-07 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	No, according to Diana the slightest flicker of attraction is seen as justification for "play." She specifically says "for play or forever." Meaning, in my eyes, you give the pit to someone you want to bone as much as someone you want to spend a literal eternity with. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-10-08 02:58 am UTC (link)
	"Play or forever". In otherwords, the same level of "I don't know her but I think she looks hot" translates as equal impetus for "I just want to fuck her" and "I want to spend the rest of my life with her". (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jupiterrhode
2009-10-08 03:14 am UTC (link)

As we've just seen the courting bond is not permanent. If it works out "I just want to fuck her" is all it ever is, they call it quits, I imagine. So, yes, the same impetus causes that to happen, but that happens in real life. You don't want to spend the rest of your life with someone you don't find attractive. Relationships have to start somewhere, and most people go up and first talk to somebody because they think that person is cute.

The Amazon way is just more elaborate. From what I've seen it doesn't actually seem to work any differently.

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