which, well, sets up years of Lizardbreath being a shit to Candace. We'll get to the exact stupid reason next Tuesday when Elly doesn't understand the situation at all because she wants Liz to be in any way to blame for her misery:
but what's going on is the thing that makes it super God-damned easy to despise the passive lump: her dread of being blamed for the stupid shit she does. Anthony might be a sunken chested loser who won't stand up for himself but at least he's honest about his target fixation.
Two or three weeks is not correct. This is the second time Elizabeth has wanted to break up with Anthony.
This is one of the recurring themes with Elizabeth and Anthony. They are constantly breaking up and getting back together. This moment in June was just shortly after they started dating, which was this comic strip just 4 months prior.
Liz does not wish to remember how stifling her presence can actually be. The strips that preceded the guy thing/girl thing strip:
were a remix of what led up to the how could he break up first strip:
Anthony might like the idea of having the fantasy projection Liz in his life but a very little of the desperate, clingy whack job who has no idea how the world works wearing her face goes a mighty long way.
Did Lynn think that showing a teen girl obsessing over a guy, hanging around the phone in case he calls, and casting aside her friends because she doesn't have enough mental space for both them and the guy was funny or interesting or anything else but really, really sad?
It would seem not. Even after her friends try to explain what Anthony is doing and why men behave the way they do:
Amoeba Brain defines herself by having the goober in her life just like her idiot mother must have:
This idiotic lump of self-loathing would be bad enough on its own but when you remember that she has an appalling tendency towards not having the least idea of what Anthony or any other man might have in mind due to her fear of thinking:
it's easy to see why she's always completely baffled when obvious and predictable calamities happen to her:
What's wrong with Liz is that she tells people to shove warnings that the person she's slobbering over is using her up their asses because she sees the good in everyone.
What's also wrong with Liz is that she thinks that her Informed Attributes should be enough to "win" a guy. Even if she WERE all the things that are listed, it's a fact that attraction really isn't negotiable. Anthony will freeze out a beautiful, accomplished, and smart wife to moon over stupid, selfish, self-centered, going-absolutely-nowhere Liz because the heart wants what the heart wants. Liz will toss aside a handsome, devoted, strong cop who worships her for the slack-jawed, hollow-chested cheater for the same reason. You might be able to "earn" a relationship by making yourself more attractive and "serving" the person you want to notice you until that person feels obligated to give you the time of day- and maybe even a ring- but it won't be a happy union because ultimately it's a hollow marriage of convenience and utility.
It behooves us to remember why Liz does what she does. Lynn might say that she respects John and Elly's opinion but it's fairer to say that having Moomy and Daddy love her is her crack cocaine.
Also, she's really in love with the idea of being in love with someone; actually being in love with someone is, it would seem, a secondary at best thing.
The important thing is to experience those things that Humans are "supposed" to experience- dating, being in love, getting a job, getting married, having children, owning a house...the Pattersons just check boxes and go through the motions without emotions.
I always thought this comic strip was the most telling one about Elizabeth and the way men were attracted to her. Eric may be scum, but Elizabeth is unable to hold his attention even while he is kissing her. Her eyes may say, "Yes" in the candle light, but her lips say, "Think of another woman. Quick!!"
The recurring theme for Elizabeth is that the moment she leaves her guy alone, he immediately goes for another woman. Her men have no loyalty to her and that includes Anthony Caine who ditched her for Thérèse, the moment he found out that she had moved in with Eric. Not only that but he flat out tells her that to her face.
Most men remember a phrase that they carefully kept hidden from her and Michael: "Look at a girl's mother because in twenty years, that's who you'll be married to."
The Elizabeth we see making a complete diaper fire of her social life by overestimating how appealing her personality is tells us a lot about the past Elly would rather pretend not happened.
Considering that Lynn's mother was a woman who was adored by everyone who knew her, I am going to guess that both Lynn's ex-husbands wish that was actually true.
I still think Anthony should have broken his engagement to Therese after he realized that he hadn't really gotten over Elizabeth. He was essentially saying to himself that he wished that Elizabeth wasn't with Eric and that he hadn't gotten engaged to Therese.
And here is the strip:
which, well, sets up years of Lizardbreath being a shit to Candace. We'll get to the exact stupid reason next Tuesday when Elly doesn't understand the situation at all because she wants Liz to be in any way to blame for her misery:
but what's going on is the thing that makes it super God-damned easy to despise the passive lump: her dread of being blamed for the stupid shit she does. Anthony might be a sunken chested loser who won't stand up for himself but at least he's honest about his target fixation.
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Two or three weeks is not correct. This is the second time Elizabeth has wanted to break up with Anthony.
This is one of the recurring themes with Elizabeth and Anthony. They are constantly breaking up and getting back together. This moment in June was just shortly after they started dating, which was this comic strip just 4 months prior.
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Liz does not wish to remember how stifling her presence can actually be. The strips that preceded the guy thing/girl thing strip:
were a remix of what led up to the how could he break up first strip:
Anthony might like the idea of having the fantasy projection Liz in his life but a very little of the desperate, clingy whack job who has no idea how the world works wearing her face goes a mighty long way.
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Did Lynn think that showing a teen girl obsessing over a guy, hanging around the phone in case he calls, and casting aside her friends because she doesn't have enough mental space for both them and the guy was funny or interesting or anything else but really, really sad?
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It would seem not. Even after her friends try to explain what Anthony is doing and why men behave the way they do:
Amoeba Brain defines herself by having the goober in her life just like her idiot mother must have:
This idiotic lump of self-loathing would be bad enough on its own but when you remember that she has an appalling tendency towards not having the least idea of what Anthony or any other man might have in mind due to her fear of thinking:
it's easy to see why she's always completely baffled when obvious and predictable calamities happen to her:
What's wrong with Liz is that she tells people to shove warnings that the person she's slobbering over is using her up their asses because she sees the good in everyone.
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What's also wrong with Liz is that she thinks that her Informed Attributes should be enough to "win" a guy. Even if she WERE all the things that are listed, it's a fact that attraction really isn't negotiable. Anthony will freeze out a beautiful, accomplished, and smart wife to moon over stupid, selfish, self-centered, going-absolutely-nowhere Liz because the heart wants what the heart wants. Liz will toss aside a handsome, devoted, strong cop who worships her for the slack-jawed, hollow-chested cheater for the same reason. You might be able to "earn" a relationship by making yourself more attractive and "serving" the person you want to notice you until that person feels obligated to give you the time of day- and maybe even a ring- but it won't be a happy union because ultimately it's a hollow marriage of convenience and utility.
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It behooves us to remember why Liz does what she does. Lynn might say that she respects John and Elly's opinion but it's fairer to say that having Moomy and Daddy love her is her crack cocaine.
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Also, she's really in love with the idea of being in love with someone; actually being in love with someone is, it would seem, a secondary at best thing.
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The important thing is to experience those things that Humans are "supposed" to experience- dating, being in love, getting a job, getting married, having children, owning a house...the Pattersons just check boxes and go through the motions without emotions.
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I always thought this comic strip was the most telling one about Elizabeth and the way men were attracted to her. Eric may be scum, but Elizabeth is unable to hold his attention even while he is kissing her. Her eyes may say, "Yes" in the candle light, but her lips say, "Think of another woman. Quick!!"
The recurring theme for Elizabeth is that the moment she leaves her guy alone, he immediately goes for another woman. Her men have no loyalty to her and that includes Anthony Caine who ditched her for Thérèse, the moment he found out that she had moved in with Eric. Not only that but he flat out tells her that to her face.
Oh, Elizabeth. Your Informed Attributes suck.
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Most men remember a phrase that they carefully kept hidden from her and Michael: "Look at a girl's mother because in twenty years, that's who you'll be married to."
The Elizabeth we see making a complete diaper fire of her social life by overestimating how appealing her personality is tells us a lot about the past Elly would rather pretend not happened.
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Considering that Lynn's mother was a woman who was adored by everyone who knew her, I am going to guess that both Lynn's ex-husbands wish that was actually true.
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Amen to that.
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I still think Anthony should have broken his engagement to Therese after he realized that he hadn't really gotten over Elizabeth. He was essentially saying to himself that he wished that Elizabeth wasn't with Eric and that he hadn't gotten engaged to Therese.
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That would be the right thing to do. That being said, it seems to me that explaining his doing so and why would have confused John and Elly no end.
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