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Advanced Diplomacy

🕑 Added 2024-10-28 01:07:04 +0000 UTC

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Leak

"Find out sometime next year on yet another episode of... Questionable Content!"

Leak

Anh ihilation (2018)

enchantedsleeper

Good catch!

enchantedsleeper

Imagine Faye coming up to the bar to sit for a bit (but gently declining another drink from Emmett and getting a water instead). She overhears some of what Anh is saying and gives her a bit of advice from her own experience of grappling with queer feelings - without having any idea that Anh is talking about Hanners xD

enchantedsleeper

So... Faye, then XD

Clifton Royston

Someone else commented on it, but he's doing some nice subtle things with light and shading that make it feel more dimensional.

Clifton Royston

Absolutely right

enchantedsleeper

Occam's gay-zor am i right

Ursus Ridens

Is Jeph handling perspective differently lately, or is there just an unusual depth of field in this number?

Carrie

Bookbeard, this is why I used the word press. As in firmer than before maybe with some explanation he feels or sees as justification.

Rob Vary

Because Hanners is wealthier than she is.

Chris Warren

I think I'm in love with Anh. She needs to become a regular character.

Lucas Werkmeister

it was pretty dark outside in https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5425 already (last panel, window), though I for one didn't notice it at the time

Clarence the Liar

"I declare you weed and weed. You may smoke the doob."

Green

Afterwards I saw them kissing in one of the cars 😳

Todd Ellner

More like a 66 or 99. And 99 is already married to Maxwell Smart

Todd Ellner

Anh isn't up to Claire's standards

Todd Ellner

Because people who have no morals do have Standards. More importantly, there is no reason to needlessly turn potential allies into enemies.

Doc Gumby

More verbal hi-jinx to come tomorrow I'm sure. I predict at least one face palm.

Miyaa

Did we ever get Ahn’s surname? Because I would think Baka would be an excellent last name for her. Ahn Baka.

Miyaa

Which we will definitely need a Patreon version of.

Miyaa

Otto Korrect is Hannelore Von Schwartzpunkt’s henchmen and eventually a kind of a boyfriend in a Doctor Drakken and Shego way.

Miyaa

Comes with being Veronica’s kid.

Miyaa

Not at the wedding, those table rentals are expensive!

Hugh Eckert

She's very goal-oriented. Her goal is getting railed. She has not yet achieved her goal.

Miyaa

God no. Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse is terribly overrated. Better to go to a family run steakhouse for privacy.

Ísabel Pirsic

Anh’s basal brain works on the fight/fuck/financially buy out triad

Philip Masters

Anh is honest, seems to have a sentimental streak, and doesn't seem to bear grudges. I'd truest Tai and Cleo's judgement on her, and they keep her around.

Philip Masters

Hanners may have realised that Fay, for all her other virtues, isn't really mediator material.

Philip Masters

Her categories aren't limited to "rich" and "boring"; she's happy to hang out with Tai and Cleo, and then there are the people she wants to shag. So you can add "attractive" and "entertaining and non-threatening" to the list, for a start. But she does tend to open dealings with new people with "seduce" if they're attractive, "intimidate" otherwise. But "intimidate" bounces right off Hanners, and she can't fit her into any other categories, so her brain has got scrambled and reset to "seduce".

Philip Masters

She's amusing to watch and doesn't really try to hurt people unless she has a clear reason. That makes her worth keeping around as a friend. From this, she's apparently become part of a fairly tight group of friends. Now, one of that group is getting married; excluding any of them from the bridesmaid group would be blatantly hostile and mean and might destroy the group. So you invite her along, ask her nicely not to let her libido cause trouble, and appreciate the tear she shed at the ceremony.

William Cole

She still wants to bang Hannelore, just not her boring friend.

Philip Masters

I dunno. Isn't she kinda Kinsey-six lesbian? She might prefer to politely refuse offers of MFF threesomes.

Philip Masters

She is a very well-brought-up heiress. I'm sure that she is generally terribly polite about being mean to people. It's an art. Plus, it looks like she doesn't actually go round being horrible to everybody on sight. Despite the comedy set-up, she's really not unremittingly evil. She may be stunningly rude when she feels it's necessary, but she mostly preserves the niceties. Being *pointlessly* rude just alienates people and makes life more difficult.

Stephen Wells

https://dresdencodak.com/2009/01/27/advanced-dungeons-and-discourse/ and https://dresdencodak.com/2006/12/03/dungeons-and-discourse/ specifically:)

Huw Morgan

At least Tai has her head on straight (pun not intended)

JourneymanWizard

Wait, why is Ann worried about *politely* declining something?

Carrie

This is a fun thought.

Clifton Royston

I'm sure she's never tried. Declining that is.

Stephen Wells

This is literally a Dresden Kodak comic :)

Zak Reichle

@William Cole: excellent! 🤌🥹

David Paul

Given her orbital pedigree, Hanners is the one that seems so down to Earth...

David Paul

Orbital Uber Eats

David Paul

A suplex is just an over-complicated 69.

Mad Marie

Now I'm imagining Maxwell's Demon using Occam's Razor to make Pascal's Wager on the Ship of Theseus while sailing towards Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.

Dean Reilly

Honestly, how much experience does Tai have with politely declining threesomes?

enchantedsleeper

Okay, but if Claire is standing right there then I need to know what she thinks of this situation XD Because I feel like she'd find it *hilarious*. Or she could Librarian Anh into leaving Hanners alone.

enchantedsleeper

I misread that as "weed", and I think some weed would probably help

Mad Marie

Theory: Anh was not actually invited to be a bridesmaid; she assumed her way in the door.

Ste Saunders

It might be a five, the amount of cleaning equipment Hanners would require is probably sufficient to be considered its own entity

Nulgar

It wouldn't be a threesome, Anh, Marten is in a happy relationship. It would be a foursome.

Bill Silvia

The wedding is grant-funded and getting Anh out of the house for the day was a stipulation of the grant?

Bill Silvia

If briding wasn't already an exhausting affair, I would agree. A bi person who is not currently being wedded would be very welcome to give some perspective.

Bagge

Tai and Marten should totally both be mediators

Diptych

I once saw Occam and Hanlon get into a knife fight in a car park.

William Cole

If they got Veronica involved, in could be Anh no Dom(me)ine.

Clifton Royston

To be fair, Anh has appeared in less than 10 strips so far, and Hannelore has probably had 1000, and two substantial changes in personality along the way. She was kind of a creepy stalker at the beginning. I'd be willing to give Anh a chance and see how she develops, if she becomes a regular.

Clifton Royston

@Mad Marie: I suppose most people assumed the hypothetical that you had your own razor? Perhaps they were all borrowing Occam's razor on that occasion.

Clifton Royston

Maybe Anh once rescued Tai by pulling her out of the path of a runaway invisible emu, and now Tai owes her an incalculable debt. It could have happened. You can do anything in backstory!

Clifton Royston

I'm getting more the impression that Anh experiences the whole world as either "people I want to fuck" or "people who want to fuck me", and from her viewpoint there is not nearly enough overlap between these two groups. (This might be only how she feels right now in the grips of HORNY, and not life in general.) Thus the last previous conversation - if Anh didn't want to fuck Hanners, then it must mean that Hanners wants to fuck her - but no! She is now trying to comprehend how Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham, whom Anh can not ignore because she is Rich, could possibly be neither one of these two groups. Add a 3rd person, Marten, and she immediately resets back to default.

Leak

Anh, no 2024...

Quasitling

Cue up smash cut to the aftermath of the orgy. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4008

Clifton Royston

Well done, I mean arrrrgh

Opus the Poet

Damn you Otto Korrect!

legobil

Poor Hanners. So defeated… 😩

Todd Ellner

Ahn no horribilis

Andrew

It can also turn unicorns into narwhals.

Andrew L Butula

Anh yes!

jonesnori

They meant Dora.

Mark Eichin

He already *said* he wanted to open a coffee shop, based on my vast experience of "coffee shop web comics" isn't that *already* destined to be his path?

djellafine

"there is no other possible explanation other than people want me" lol

BookBeard

You know, I think Hanners inadvertently nailed Marten's ideal career path here. With his chill demeanor he would be phenomenal as a professional mediator. And with the kind of over-the-top personalities that Cubetown attracts, that's probably a service they could really use.

jonesnori

Yeah, but as a *bridesmaid*?

Jan Szejko

"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

Clifton Royston

I guess I can buy that.

BookBeard

The vibe I'm getting is "old friend you feel obligated to invite even though you don't really want to."

Clifton Royston

Clearly Anh would just interpret a suplex as another come-on.

BookBeard

The space princess role was always a better fit for her than heiress. "Okay Anh, let's get dinner!" *pizza crashes from orbit*

Clifton Royston

Strike that last, Tai's face shows that Anh's already succeeded in annoying Tai again. How *did* she get invited as a bridesmaid?

Dan Curtis

A suplex is the answer to this problem.

William Cole

Don't bring a razor to a railgun fight.

Maurice Kessler

[cracking knuckles] Martin steps in!

William Cole

What's left of Anh after that would fit in a teaspoon.

William Cole

So THAT'S how Jeph gets the rest of the cast to Cubetown!

SilverbackRon

you always make me laugh.

ValdVin

"There's no license, we didn't even want th--" "I pronounced you married, and my word is law!"

kaitou

When Occam's Razor meets Ellicott-Chatham's Razor...

Clifton Royston

All of Northhampton could be leveled in the resulting volleys of hostile misunderstanding and failed communication. So yeah, sounds good, and I hope Jeph goes for it.

Clifton Royston

On which side, someone else's bold misconceptions of what you were up to, or as the one holding the misconceptions of what someone else is up to? (In one particular social disaster I think I was both.)

Clifton Royston

Night is falling on the wedding reception and Anh's bold misconceptions are not yet corrected. Can Marten's power of chill aura save the evening? Or can he at least get Anh out of Hanners' hair and back to annoying Tai or Sven?

Clifton Royston

Yes! This is how I've been feeling about *everything* since the time-skip to the wedding.

Adarsh Nednur

That's what I said too!

Davus Otho

Oooooh, Ahn thinks that she's great so Hanners must be trying to get with her or something.

Holly Nelson

My Anh Theory is that she divides people into a) boring, and b) rich like me. But now she has met someone who is fabulously rich, but who presents as a Boring Tribe member also. Anh literally has no idea how to relate to Hanners, so she’s trying on various approaches from her sadly limited repertoire of social connections.

awgiedawgie

You may be, but I like the way you think.

Nancie

At this point, I’d like Hanners to channel a teeny-tiny bit of her mother, completely out-heiress Ahn, and scare an inkling of manners into her. I may be evil.

Carl Fink

Actually, no. Iris is capable of real affection. She just isn't capable of expressing it. Anh, so far, has zero redeeming characteristics.

Carl Fink

The funny part is how Jeph anticipated your thought and gave Fay an excuse to not be around for this. Hey, where's Penelope? Where's Emily, who used to work at the library? Were they in the background somewhere?

Kelcrow

Occam's Threesome? That sounds unlikely, and yet... I'll see myself out.

BookBeard

Yeah, but he would assume he just misplaced it.

BookBeard

Doris is Marvin's friend, she just married Tay. Geez, some people just don't pay attention...

Jon

Well, Occam would at least notice his razor going missing…

Chauncey

Beyond Ahn being a piece of work. I feel as if Jeph put some extra work into the shading/lighting of this issue.

Mad Marie

Fun fact: Occam's razor can be used to shave stripes off of zebras to make them regular horses.

Todd Ellner

Happy ending: the Bros show up, take her up to Sven's room and rail her until she forgets about Hanners, them, and possibly her own name in a haze of neurotransmitters and hormones

Mad Marie

One time I borrowed Occam's razor to shave my legs, but then realized that most likely nobody would notice (or care).

Todd Ellner

I'm holding out for "Men Who Crawl Out From Under Rocks and the Women Who Take Them Home". Worldwide bestseller. But nobody buys it for herself. It's always for a friend

Chauncey

They very well may be in totally different libraries.

Chauncey

At this point, he’s less the main character and more the absolute force that instigates the story’s events. Almost like the “deus” for the QC machina.

Christopher Burke

[DBZA Vegeta voice] Anh, YES!

Doc Gumby

It's autumn though, the trees are all colorful.

Mitsuki Ayane

the hilarious misconstruing that is going on is amazing, especially when neither of them is interested in the other, what is happening? ~<3

rhekke

Anh might be the only thing here denser than the bones of Bubble's chassis.

Todd Ellner

Ahn believable? Ahn bearable? Ahn intelligible?

Chauncey

Yeah. I was pretty sure this arc progressing at 30min/strip. Assuming this arc is set in the Spring, we’d have another week before nightfall.

Mad Marie

Who's Doris?

BookBeard

The same page? I'm not sure Anh and Hanners are in the same book...

Opus the Poet

As long as Iris agrees to leave all her knives behind, sure.

Melissa Wilson

At last! We may finally get to see Marten Reed: Unlicensed Underground Therapist, without having to wait for him to set up shop in Cubetown! 👍

Pejo

Unrelated (strip 4995) but I forgot about Pintsize's "World's Worst Grandma" shirt 😭

Amelia Lewis

Short book, though. Foreword: " " Chapter 1 " " Epilogue " "

Randall Norman Pick

That's about the best outcome at this point.

BookBeard

Or Bubbles. I would love to see her psychoanalyze Anh into oblivion.

Clarence the Liar

This evening can only end with Beeps misinterpreting some sort of social cue and declaring them wed.

Pejo

Dora's dad's books could help her change that lens or at least remove the horny filter

Pejo

this whole mini storyline is silly as hell & I love it, Hanners is lovely & Anh is the worst

SilverbackRon

Like a bulldozer!

Ashley Thomas

it would have been way more fun to ask fay for help. she would have been real blunt and gotten right through ahns shit.

SilverbackRon

At this point, I am ready to vote for it.

Miyaa

That would end up with Iris asking her other roommates if she really is that bad. (Yes.)

BookBeard

He already tried, but Claire wouldn't go for it. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4996

BookBeard

It's too late, she's been caught in the weirdo attraction field.

Logan Nix

"How To Communicate With People Who Assume Everything Is In Bad Faith" would be an instant bestseller, methinks

Yelling Bird

This is so uncomfortably my love-life...

Carrie

I like this!

Miyaa

I grew up with pigs. There are definitely things thicker than pigs.

Carrie

Foursomes and moresomes are great if everyone is on the same page about things.

Doc Gumby

It got dark out pretty quick.

David Jackson

Anh's Razor, meanwhile, apparently holds that you should never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by horny.

Miyaa

Not the bored looking guy! He’s the main character!

Carrie

He should press to officially be that for his position @ Cubetown.

BookBeard

That feels like an absolutely terrible idea. I vote yes.

Timothy Roller

Oh man, been there.

BookBeard

She was interrupted while trying to get into Sven's pants. Now she's horny and seeing everything through that lens.

Carrie

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

BookBeard

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by everyone being super weird. - Hanners' Razor

ValdVin

Ugh! (translated: But of course!)

Peter McDevitt

Foursome then???

BookBeard

It's not the first time people have made this assumption about Marten. I guess he just has that vibe? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=861 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1402