![[0173] A Look Into The Mind Of A Troubled Girl](/comics/2010-06-14-[0173]-a-look-into-the-mind-of-a-troubled-girl.png "[0173] A Look Into The Mind Of A Troubled Girl")
The current story arc started with this strip: Slut.
To offer some context: the word “sex” has been written on the box by Larisa.
You can listen to Show me Love by t.A.T.u at YouTube.
This strip was partially inspired by my memories of a girl who went to my class from 5th to 10th grade. Starting with 7th grade or so she loved to dress in short skirts and tight bell bottoms during Summer. She was a rather calm girl so I suposse that it was just her preferred fashion style and not necessarily meant to attract boys. I think she must have been already 14 years old when she admitted during an ethics lesson that she’s still playing with Barbie dolls. I also remember that nobody said anything about it afterwards. Maybe we were already mature enough to acknowledge that all of us had a similar skeleton in the closet. 😉
I think writing a story is a bit like playing with dolls. You’re coming up with life stories and things that happen to persons that are not real.
Completely unrelated to this I want to point out that I proposed three weeks ago that the English football team should consider nominating Woo as their goalkeeper. I feel completely validated. 😉
- Jelena: Dinner will be ready in 20 minutes.
- Larisa: Yeah, whatever.
- Larisa: You brought me flowers, Cloud? You’re such a darling! Now come, let’s go for a walk with our daughter!
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Let’s just hope there’s not a faux bunny , in a pot on the stove, in that dollhouse! Larisa scares me…I’ getting a “Glenn Close-vibe”.
Oh god I was so scared this had taken a very, VERY adult turn. Whew, you scared me there, I know t.a.t.u songs like that, and GOD was I scared >_<
My read on this: Barbie is Larisa, and she really does like Cloud. The other boys are just for fun, although she doesn’t mean any harm, and for the most part they probably don’t take it too seriously either.
I do suspect she’s fine with the way things are now, but that she does like to fantasize. What’s kinda odd (at least for Larisa) is how normal her fantasy is. But it does make sense if Larisa’s subversive personality is partly a front. She may be more normal that we suspected.
I would note that there isn’t anything which mandates that Ken is ALWAYS Cloud.
@Gerardo: I’m not really fond of people who are “in your face” about their lifestyles either, but it has extremely little relevance to this strip.
Well That was just a review of T.A.T.U (the band she likes), cause them always get on my nerves (plus that was only one part of my comment).
Anyway here you have my opinion on the roles of that Ken, Larisa`s Ken is always portraying the boy Larisa will Never ever Get, and Larisa like Cloud for shure but since he is Sandra`s boyfriend there is nothing that can be done.
So do you know how to make yout favourite thing even better? just prohibit IT
wow! nice work! first time reader and im impressed. you are officially book marked.
The first thing that pops out for me is that she can lock her door. I can’t lock the door to my room.
It’s annoying as all h*ll, but there’s something wrong with the lock.
Anyhow, love drama building up?
Has anyone else noticed, btw, how Larisa’s doll’s relationship (obviously married with kids), their traditional clothing (modest tea-dress and suit) and interaction (traditional romance: walks, flowers, etc) vividly contrast with Larisa’s modern clothes, choice of band and behaviour (indifference towards her mother, messy room, flirting around)? The clash between Larisa’s covert conservatism and overtly modern behavour is so abrupt that it makes me wonder if the lady doth protest too much (i.e. Larisa’s an old fashioned girl but, because she doesn’t want to seem uncool, she’s gone to the opposite extreme.)
Made me fall a little more in love with your characters. 🙂
I love Liz more than any of the rest because she is honest with herself to a very high degree. One of the things ‘adult people’ have to market in order to be taken seriously by their peers is the ability to break yourself in various pieces and lie about who you like, whom you like, when and what you like -or there’ll be social hell to pay. Lie, lie-lie-lie, lieeeee as a way of living. Ugh.
I still don’t like that. And I still have my sweetheart’s gifts in my room and hug ’em every morning.
Like I said. I like a lot more Liz. 🙂
i agree comic writing/drawing is much like playing with dolls (in the situation stated) it’s like making a world that you can manipulate and control a world that would take you away from your everyday life situations i do make comics and think of it as an outlet for imagination (so i don’t act weird 24/7) of course it couldn’t compare to this because i’m only writing in notebooks and such (i wish i had a touch pad)
Shouldn’t that box of “toys” be hidden under the bed mattress?
T.a.T.u.? Is there another side of Larisa we’ll see in the future?
Actually, I’m not the least bit shocked. Tomboys often feel they have to hide it when their girly side wants to show. And some people never grow out of the dolls. Look at Demi Moore. She has an entire HOUSE to hold her collection.
yay t.A.T.u. <3
but you could have used the russian version of the song :/
larisa is pretty much like myself (besides the i'm-a-slut-and-proud-of-it part o~o )
Awww…
…it’s nice that under that hardened coquettish exterior there is still a child acting the right age. Sorry, I’m only 16, I still feel like kids my age shouldn’t know what the drug PCP is.
o_O omg is that her and cloud?!
I’m always surprised when i see another tATu fan.
UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
is it just me or does the toy box say……………………………………………….
OH S###
@ Meh:
Meh wrote:
IKR! I was like,” Woa…she needs help if she’s doin THAT at age 12…”
@ Gerardo Tejada:
Are you talking about Sid Vicious the Sex Pistol, or Sid Vicious the Wrestler?
((I wonder if those links will work the way I think they’ll work. O.o))
@ Chrysakitten:
Why do people think it’s creepy that a 12 yr old girl might still play with dolls? And role-playing is one (healthy!) way that children approach an adult life. They get to PRETEND. They get to work their ways through different situations.
Yeesh. People think it’s creepy that Larisa’s hormones are surging as she grows, then they think it’s creepy when she plays with toys traditionally associated with young girls.
It’s not creepy! It’s a way of working out conflicts and approaching the adult world in different ways.
For the record, the way someone dresses should never be assumed to be for someone elses benefit.
I didn’t have any skeletons in the closet at that age.
Didn’t even have the notion of “shame”.
Was close to getting it though… since I said many things that tended to suddenly make me the subject of extreme public mockery for lengthy periods of time… The obvious conclusion was that these people were all idiots for finding such things funny, and couldn’t be trusted with information of any sort… but it took me a while to figure that out.
@ elyki:
No, it’s if you’re NOT doing that by age 12 that you have problems.
This might seem like a bit of a random comment, but when I was reading this strip, the song “Mad World” was on the radio, and when listening to the lyrics, I couldn’t help but think of Larisa: surrounded by people she knows, most of which tire her out, who go through a routine she doesn’t care for, not really seeing the point in their actions. She most certainly is a tragic character, both seeing the depressing reality and funny humor of her world, and she’s the essence of chaotic neutral so certainly knows the world is a mad, mad place to be. She goes to school, but nobody there really knows her. They all look through her, giving shallow opinions of her for the most part.
sweet, Tatu.
Sandra you better watch your friend. That girl is poison. or dangerous. or both
we just cant judge a person in first glace, its same thing as genre of book by cover stupidity.