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We’re sorry about the short hiatus, but there’s been some stuff going on (Mattias was out of town for a week, after some fretting around I went to the international comics festival in Copenhagen, Komiks.dk, my brother graduated…) and also, the weather has been absolutely lovely which hasn’t exactly helped us focus on indoors stuff like comicking and such. ;) After this loooooooooong winter, and knowing all too well how the most of Swedish summers tend to rain away, we just had to take the opportunity to spend some time in the sun.
Anyway – enough with the excuses and onto the comics. You get 8 pages this time to make up for this site being a little quiet the last few weeks. :3 This time we’ll continue on Dores’ flashback. The last time we saw her she was a happy little camper, having just found some confidence and a purpose at the end of Chapter Two.
Oh yeah, about the whole “the next chapter is the last chapter of WBK” deal. Well. We were met with some healthy scepticism about that and we think you may be right. We’re not sure yet. See, storywise it really feels like we’re going into the last fourth of the story now, so we are heading for the end, but yes, it might actually be impossible for us to get it all down in only ~160 pages. We always knew the last chapter would be perhaps a little longer than the others, but we never thought there would be enough pages for five full chapters. Now we’re not so sure anymore. We’re going to have to finish thumbnailing the whole script before we can say for sure how long it will be. Oh well. (To be honest this new insight was a bit anti-climactic for us. We really thought we’d be done soon…)
/Emelie
Ps. There seems to have been some debating going on about page 487 that we haven’t had the time to participate in. Well, here’s what we have to say about it:
Dores’ and Vandi’s relationship and whether or not they are more than friends is intentionally ambiguous and will not be explored further than this (at least not in What Birds Know, but possibly in future spin-offs ;)). Make of it what you wish. As for whether or not they’re having sex in this particular scene… uhh. O_o No.
As for the discussion about whether gay people can have sex or not… Uhh (again). O_o I’m trying hard to think of a witty reply but can’t really come up with one at this hour of day (it’s 04:30 in the morning here) so let’s just put it like this: Yes. Yes, they can. *stares blankly*
Wow, there’s a actually a person out there saying “it’s impossible for two women or two men to have sex”
I couldn’t believe it so i went to check.
I really hope that he/she’s just trolling and doesn’t actually believe that.
It’s a troll, ignore it. You really think they could be on the internet and *not* know? :-P
@Tim McCormack: That’s probably the case, though people do believe the craziest things out there so it might as well be someone who genuinely believes that gay people can’t have sex… -__-
Just wanted to officially wash our hands of this comment(er) so that nobody thinks that we somehow endorse this opinion (since we decided not to delete the comments, troll or not).
As some one who prefers lesbian porn to any others I really didn’t take the scene in that way O.O Nudity does not equal sex people…nor do hugs.
As I was loading this page, it took a long while for Elia’s profile picture to load up. I actually gasped at the thought that you took her profile down!
I figured the author was screwing with us. I know that what I said sounded offensive before (http://fribergthorelli.com/wbk/index.php/page-487/), but the reason I said it was because it seemed so familiar for them to be together like that (tragedy or not). I’ve seen besties get touchy-feely with each other, but with Dores and Vandi, there seems to be more than that.
What? It’s impossible. Don’t they teach biology in schools anymore? It’s called “sex” because it’s the act of “sexual reproduction” (and don’t try to tell me that it’s asexual reproduction). Sticking things into an orifice of the DIGESTIVE TRACT is not sex, nor can the mere rubbing of body parts for pleasure be considered sex.
I disagree. I don’t think “Having sex” is the same as “sexual reproduction”. That’s kind of like saying “running” stands for “running towards a certain goal” and that it’s impossible to actually run in any other circumstances. To have sex is the act of stimulating sexual organs. That’s why it’s called “sex” in my book. One organ does not need to be different from the other, or be inside the other.
That was a really bad analogy. The stimulation of organs is a necessary part of sexual reproduction, without which conception would not easily occur. Not using the proper orifices or using hands, mouths, etc. or artificial devices to achieve stimulation only fools the body into giving off the necessary reactions for sexual reproduction.
Keeping biology and evolution out of school is bad, but it is equally bad to force students to learn only the popular notions of what sexual reproduction is and isn’t.
Okay, this just comes down to what you put in the word “sex”. The point I was trying to make is that “sex” does not equal “sexual reproduction.” We’re not going to convince each other, so I’m out of here.
Remember, guys, if a couple is infertile, that means they can’t have sex! If you use birth control, that means it’s not sex! Since, according to Acacia, only sex for reproductive purposes counts as sex.
*eye roll*