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Serious cuteness overload in the last panel.
- Sandra: Oh, Liz, I’m–
- Larisa: Please, Sandra. Let’s rather do something fun instead of talking about my Wolfram syndrome!
- Larisa: Do you think Woo and Lily would let me play with their kits?
- Sandra: I don’t know. Maybe.
- Larisa: Fire’s really fascinating, huh, Vega? Do you want to see a bigger one?
- Sandra: Please don’t corrupt the youth, Larisa.
- Larisa: Already happened!
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Someone mentioned
http://folding.stanford.edu/nacl/
late in the comments last strip.
Has anyone set up a team yet?
Why can’t I help but think “wolfram syndrome” is something caused by eating an
incandescent light bulb.or a counterfeit gold bar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten
Careful there Larissa, you don’t want to be sent to the ninth circle of hell for fourty years.
Shark wrote:
Her Best Frie3nd JUST Found Out between the Previous Strip, Titled: Dropping The Bomb, and This one.
It’s readily apparent if you read the Last Panel of the previous Strip and the First panel of this one combined with the Title of the previous Strip.
Dropping The Bomb
…
Larisa: I’ll be blind in ten years and dead in twenty. I don’t give a damn if some puritans have a problem with my naked body.
…
Sandra: Oh, Liz, I’m–
Larisa: Please, Sandra. Let’s rather do something fun instead of talking about my Wolfram syndrome!
During the interregnum, Larissa explained just what she meant about Blind in 10 years and Dead in 20.
Undead Ladybug wrote:
One of the meanings of the Word “Rather” is “Instead Of” which makes Perfect Sense in the context of the sentence.
It’s an Awkward construction, but the meaning is clear.
Larissa would Rather have Fun than a Morbid conversation.
Sara wrote:
I’m basing much of my opinion on the Title of the previous strip:
Dropping the Bomb because the only “Bomb” to be dropped there would be telling Sandra about the Wolframs.
We don’t really know how much time has passed between the strips and what we see may be the Tail End of Sandra’s reaction.
Trey Marlette wrote:
I don’t think so. Context seems, to me, to indicate that Sandra is only the Second Person Larissa has ever told and the First was another girl Larissa trusts to Not Say Anything to Anyone.
I can see her Not wanting Landon to know because, if he did, it would cast a Pall over the Totally Happy relationship she plans between the two of them.
For as Long as Possible, she’s going to preserve that relationship’s Happiness.
.
Vega’s fur is going to catch fire.
I SWEAR.
@ TheLoneReader:
Darn it, Novil, not only will Larisa die in 20 years, she’ll spend 40 more in the ninth circle of hell.@ MHW:
Wolfram. NOOOO! LARRISA! *Cries* T_T
@ SeanR:
SeanR wrote:
Ok, since no one has set up a team yet, I went ahead and did one:
Sandra_and_Woo_fans_for_Larisa — team number 229464
Well, this certainly casts a new light on a lot of Larissa’s actions/behavior. It explains her recklessness and adventurousness, to a degree (she’s trying to make the most of the time she has), it might have something to do with her fascination with fire (which is not only bright and colorful, meaning it might be very visually appealing for an artistically minded, romantic person who knows they’ll lose their eyesight – but also symbolic of her “burn twice as fast, twice as bright” attitude to life), and it puts in perspective some of her family’s odd behaviors (it is far, far from atypical for families to break down, much less simply become troubled, following the revelation of a terminal illness in a member, and the particular type which sets an inevitable “deadline” for one within a period of time which is just long enough to appreciate can make living in the same house absolutely nerve-wrecking). It’s been set up well, the hints for it were well-placed (as someone mentioned before, Larissa’s use of medicine corresponds to Wolfram syndrome since many hundreds of strips and almost half a decade before this one), and the execution was sublime. I don’t think this is an anticlimax, I think this is a very appropriate discharge of dramatic tension which perfectly fits the themes of the plotline (Larissa tries not to think about her disease and live in the moment, and thus, just like her, the comic doesn’t dwell on it) which serves to create a powerful, specific form of emotional impact. This feeling of being “robbed” of a conclusion, this frustration, this anger with the “writer” (mirroring an anger with “God” or “life”, were this a real-life situation), is a perfect metaphor for the feelings experienced by someone finding out that a close friend of them has a condition like this (I’ll admit, my best friend told me something very similar just a week ago, and even in a very similar manner – with me becoming heartbroken and him immediately dismissing it and changing the subject – so for me, this strip was particularly painful).
THAT SAID, I would be wary of now going back with a literary magnifying glass looking to interpret every single line coming out of Larissa’s mouth as “foreshadowing”. While to the reader of a dramatic story moments like this come “as they are”, in real life, even people in such a situation as Larissa’s aren’t always, always thinking about it. Furthermore, I think it does such a brilliant, endearing, human character a grave injustice to assume that from now (and retroactively!) her entire life and personality should revolve around this revelation. Larissa may have Wolfram syndrome, but she’s also an artist. She also likes fire. She’s also a tomboy. She’s also a 14 year old, mischievous coquette with a heart of gold. She’s also beautiful. She’s also a good friend. She’s all of those things long before and far above the fact that she has an illness. For all we know, her parents might just be quirky. She might like burning things just because that’s what she likes.
I salute Norvil, and I salute Larissa, and I salute Woo (and the cubs!).
Salute!
So Larisa is going to die? I will pretend I did not read this one.
hello depression my old friend…
So at least the torch will be passed. Poor Larisa!
@ Qwertystop:
Lily told Woo, Woo told Sandra, Sandra told Larisa
I’m confused:
It was previously strongly hinted that the disease had run in her family for generations:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2013/11/18/0529-this-is-not-the-end/
However, both her parents seem to have perfect sight:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/08/22/0301-art-v/
Unless, of course, she’s been adopted?
We knew it was coming, but it still don;t make the impact any less. I don’t want Larisa to die :c Can’t she may a deal with the devil or something to get rid of it?….. i know its morally wrong, but Just think of the sad London if Larisa is gone.
Hold up hold up hold up. I thought she was diabetic! Isn’t she insulin dependant? If memory serves at least….
Anyone else happy that Larisa is a comic character who will eternally be 12 and her condition won’t get worse?
qpwoiru wrote:
Ain’t no time to wonder why; whoopee! We all are gonna die.