Nowadays Gillie dyes her white hair orange, shaves her body hair, and plucks her whiskers. Kid Gillie was much more visibly off-model.
Transcript
Idrisah: With my mom’s side arguing in Arabic… my dad’s side arguing in Urdu…
Panel background: On one side, Idrisah's mom argues with several of her middle-aged and elderly family members. On the other, Idrisah's dad argues with his own family members.
Idrisah: And me… who isn’t fluent in either…
Panel background: Idrisah stands awkwardly in the background while the silhouettes of her family members argue with each other.
Talita: Your parents never taught you?
Idrisah: We mostly spoke English at home, when I was a kid… It’s always been easier for us to use translation apps for family gatherings.
Talita: What’s there to be anxious about, then?
Idrisah: Well… I’m a linguist! I learned sign language as a kid to befriend Gillie…
Inset panel: Kid Idrisah offers help in ASL to a crying kid Gillie, who has fallen off her bike and scraped her knee bloody. Idrisah has long wild black hair, a t-shirt, and cargo shorts. Gillie is has long fluffy white hair in a high ponytail, mystacial and supraorbital whiskers, and sparse white body hair on her arms and legs. She is wearing a quailicorn graphic tank top, short shorts, and flip flops. Her dropped purse is shaped like a cute penguin and her bike has a design with Saturn on the seat.
17 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 155”
Zidane
baby idrisah and gillie are both so cute, oh my god
Michi
In a world where text threads exists, why are there 6 minute lag video calls? Good to know that humanity doesn’t grow out of technological encumbrances even in their interstellar age.
On a more important note, are Gillies whiskers functional?
zaratustra
Distance between the wormhole and whatever rock the respective parties are standing on divided by light speed.
7arty
The question isn’t “why is there lag?” but “why are people using tech with lag when better alternatives exist?”
notanocelot
No form of ftl communication exists in rtts, so regardless of what you send there’s gonna be lag. Since this lag is caused by distance and not information density you might as well send over as much information as you realistically can (i.e. audio and video as opposed to just plain text)
JoB
Using wormholes and enduring a couple minutes of lag from the in-system distances having to be covered at light speed is the best they can do.
JoB
It isn’t a video call, see Jay’s comment beneath page 153.
Apollo235
*reads through transcript, looks at the seat on Gillie’s bike seat* SATURN!!
(referencing question 18 on https://jayeaton.site/Art/RttS/AMA/2)
Apollo235
*The pattern on Gillie’s bike seat
God I wish we could edit comments, I’m too used to doing it and i forget to proofread
Chrysalis
It’s not a surprise that Gillie and Idrisah were also incredibly cute together as children, but oh my gosh. I have never so badly wanted to reach through the screen and comfort a fictional character.
1d4Nadg
Kid Gillie and Idrisah !!!
Storm
Her lil tail all poofed up 😭
tyrone
Family guy “tripped and hurt knee” scene springs to mind
poor girl…hurts like mutherf…..well a lot
Ruby
Ah, family gatherings. Either a blessing or a living hell, but never not messy and exhausting.
Lamprey
the normal human amount of body hair is already annoying enough to deal with; so what a *fun* experience shaving an entire humans worth of cat fur must be…
Gheesfellow
Social image be damned, I would never be able to keep up this kind of maintenance.
notableanonymity
Oh little penguin bag, we’re really in it now