You'll never guess what Idrisah's secret weakness is.
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Gille: (ASL) Because… Doesn't it seem like fun??
Gillie smiles excitedly, eyes sparkling with her cute kitty cat canines showing. Idrisah blushes. Talita watches from the sidelines, amused by how obviously charmed Idrisah is by her wife.
Idrisah: (ASL) Well… regardless. The skyhook is booked out for two years.
She looks at the monitor with Bip. Their avatar is curled up, looking disgruntled.
Idrisah: So unless you REPORT yourself, you'll just be waiting longer to get caught!
Bip: And what’s stopping YOU from turning me in?
Idrisah pauses, not knowing how to respond. Then she looks away, scowling.
Idrisah: … I have more important things to do with my time.
58 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 120”
urlocallesbiab
the beguiling power of the wife! <3
Johnny
Live talitia reaction
Mobi
Idrisah voice: My Wife
arf
Kittenz!!
Storel
It’ll probably take them two years to get all the repairs done. So if you add them to the end of the outgoing queue now, the only problem will be if it takes even longer to finish repairs… Hmm.
Teod
“Look your cat girl wife in the eyes and say ‘No'” challenge (Difficulty: Impossible)
Ruby
Aww
$ilverspoon
Awww, Idrisah can’t stay mad at Gillie 😀 they’re so cute
Rad Internet Stranger
She. Gillie’s a woman.
Spinland
“They’re” as in the both of them. Plural. 🙂
$ilverspoon
Yeah, I meant both of them are cute
JoB
I see that that mutual impulse control thing is still a ways into their future 😀
https://jayeaton.site/RunawayToTheStars/Characters/idrisahcomicselfcontrol.png
Liza
Pure weapons grade cuteonium, as my husband says
Birdie
Two years out probably isn’t that big of a deal, since i imagine ship repair on this extent is not Fast (especially if your repair team is 1)
Vinemaple
So hold on, is Bip’s plan to GET turned in? I mean, I could see some legal arguments and treatments of AI that would allow Bip to get off, or face consequences they deem acceptable, but… I don’t see yet how that would help them jump a two-year queue and go into the interplanetary transport business together. And I’m excited to find out the answer!
JoB
That (full) two-year *outgoing* queue would presumably include shipping out the (once refined) very materials they’re (not-)planning to reroute into repairing the Runaway, sooooo …
Vinemaple
Ah, that sounds fairly straightforward!
Origamigryphon
Is that a jar full of little fossil bits in panel 4?
WorldTaker
it definitely looks like it. IDK what creatures lived on dirtball long ago but they kind of look like shwlls so some kind of shelfish adjacent creature maybe. though probably nothing quite like what we have/had on earth
Jay Eaton
Dirtball’s as dead as our moon, some of those rocks are regolith from outside but the shells are from ordinary snails in the landscaping of the habitat
Pevel
Hey Jay Eaton I would like to ask you 2 things
1 how long each non human sophont would live if they have been at medical technology lecel analogous to 21st century?
2 whatbis the shortest possible lifespan for a sophont and shorest possible childchood ?
JJA
Sometimes in my own work, I find that my characters are letting me speak through them in a way. While their dialogue is entirely normal and appropriate in the context of the story, their words acquire extra meaning and resonance when you look at it from the author’s point of view.
When Gillie says “Doesn’t it seem like fun?” I think that at another level, Jay is speaking through her directly to us.
cain
Because, at the heart of it, storytelling is fun 💚
Greebus
Talita’s smile is so cute. Also, I like the tiny gluggle jug in panel 4. Maybe Talita 3-D printed it for Gillie.
Tumorhead
GILLIE BEAM!!
0xabad1dea
I have more important things to do than handle the rogue AI that has infiltrated every last circuit board on this extremely isolated space rock I live on inside a tiny fragile air bubble. This situation will doubtlessly resolve itself, I have routine paperwork to stamp
Carmenifold
lesbians ^w^
evileeyore
Be Gay, Commit Crimes!
TotallySomebody
:3
eli
wife moment
the Inmara
We will never, ever get tired of seeing Gillie’s teeth.
1d4Nadg
Is that ASL for “skyhook” on panel 3? And if so, is that an official sign or something created for the comic? I know that ASL has a lot of specific words, but it doesn’t seem like a word you’d use that much in nowadays America.
Eithe rway it’s very cool 😀
1d4Nadg
Edit: I’ve been informed it’s actually “year”, which makes more sense.
iisaw
Yes, but now I _really_ want to know what the sign for skyhook is! Of _course_ they’d have one!
SIGSTKFLT
FWIK in real life it would probably just be <>, two words. But Dirtball residents who have to talk about the skyhook all the time would probably have a sign
SIGSTKFLT
I was worried sanitization was off but it’s just excessive. SKY HOOK.
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SIGSTKFLT
okay seems bulletproof to me. also it’s not a script injected into this website could do much damage.
JoB
Considering the distances and speed involved in the real thing, chances are that the Dirtballers’ “short” for it looks like a bear taking a swipe to spac^H^H^H externalize your bowels 😉
caris
looks like the sign for “year” to me.
forest@swifty's hq
the way idrisah smiles at her gf’s pure beaming excitement…. girl, mood, i melt like butter when my girlfriend does this too.
also i love the last panel. “i could but itd be a beaureaucratic nightmare” (convenient, true) being used before the unspoken reasons (“i dont want to snitch on my friends”, “it would be fun actually”, etc)
Claire
83
bitty
They’re so cute waahhh ;w; ooh, I think that’s the sign for the skyhook, rotating the fist around the other one like the spinning hook! Very cool!
Gabite
That’s year actually!
zaratustra
I asked the same thing when it came out on Patreon. It’s “year”.
bitty
learning more asl, one rtts page at a time
Tyrone the Miner
Holy Molly! Get a room you two !
Oh it IS your room….Bip and Talita better get out NOW !
JoB
Bip: “Nah. I wanna watch!”
Gillie: “Don’t make me roll up my screenpaper!”
FuzzySpiderPawz
Gillie using her cat girl charm to sway the favor of her wife, I love them
Gillie said: 83
FuzzySpiderPawz
Accidentally posted this comment twice, rip
Lilac
Talita’s little smile in panel 2…
Lilac
I did not mean to reply here woops
FuzzySpiderPawz
Gillie using her cat girl looks as a weapon to sway the opinion of her wife is everything to me. Gillie said: 83
Fallingfeather
Gillie: 83
Zuorai
They’re so beautiful together I’m going to cry
Adrienne
Even Talita went from “I’m not in on this” to “Yeah, Idrisah! Doesn’t it seem like fun?” when Gillie turned on the catgirl charm
Vinemaple
I suppose she could just be enjoying her friends being cute together, but…
Amanda/OwlBear
aaw thats adorable