In a way Snake’s mind has been altered. Rugby Boy called out Master and Snake didn’t cum to his rescue.
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Thank you for noticing that! I was afraid that detail would be lost in French.
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My friends told me about Google translate the day I was leaving Europe on my first visit.
I picked up on that, too, but I figured it was more that Snake didn’t have a chance to arrive on the scene, and not that he was too busy adoring the Deputy.
If it’s the latter… oh boy. Rugby Boy is not going to be happy that the Deputy took his dominant away from him. Unless the Deputy uses Snake to get Rugby Boy to accept a plant…
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A lot of Rugby Boy’s dialogue is really fun. I don’t speak French, so I’ve relied on both Google Translate, several common phrase websites and the like. He’s got a brilliant couple lines in 20 that make me laugh out loud.
I’m really proud of making this character work. He’s ended up going from walk-on to pivotal character in 10 chapters! And we still don’t know his name!
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Here’s hoping we get a dramatic name reveal in 20 or 21!
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We almost had it with Vernon. Rugby Boy said, “My name is…” and then shook Vernon’s hand and was mind blown
I don’t know if he needs a name. Cher doesn’t need a last name.
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Noticed that too! I hope it’s Snake who finally says it, in a suitably climactic moment.
Plus oil is a lot more like an edible. Totally different ride.
(I like oil and edibles. Smoking is rare for me, and always for the social aspect.)
Sorry, really enjoying this thread but nothing to contribute cause I actually haven’t sat my ass down to read Pollination yet. But chatting about weed, now I’m in.
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And no, Absman, I don’t count this as discussing my theories, this is just spur-of the moment speculation. My theory for Chapter 20 is way more involved than this stuff!
My problem with edibles is I don’t know when to stop. I smoke flower until I’m high, then I stop. With edibles, I tend to over indulge because it takes too long. Then I’m fucked.
I confess, I’m starting to find just calling him “Rugby Boy” is getting slightly cumbersome. I want to name, dang it! The poor boy has to have one!
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With the creative flow you have been on lately I can see why you haven’t had a chance to read.
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That’s why I use oil. I use a little spray thing so I’ve got a nice measured way of dosing it. Two sprays is a mellow night, three is pretty-out-of-it, four is holding on to the couch. Takes some experimentation to get right, and the occasional tolerance break to recallibrate.
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I can see Snake calling out his name when he thinks he has lost him and desperately trying to get him back.
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Always make time to read the greats tho. Absman is one of 'em.
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Some of the characters have names, some have only titles, some have titles AND names, some have only nicknames, but they all got aliens in their balls.
Still, my favorite minor character is Sharlene, the waitress at the WV Diner. She’s in several scenes in The Series, but she was also a cameo character in the Original Story!
(She’s “Flo” from ALICE, only a little older.)
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The Kiss My Grits scene was great. I can see that in real life.
A friend ordered hash browns with his breakfast one day. The waitress brought out his plate with grits instead. He complained and she replied “You eat those grits they’re good for you” and walked off.
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Strange story from another life:
I taught music to little kids for many, many years. I used a lot of puppets in my classroom. Yeah, I was that guy.
Anyway, I had this beautiful shark puppet — it looked totally real, with two rows of hard, plastic teeth — kind of scary. So I wanted to craft a character that didn’t scare the kids, but instead made them laugh.
So she became “Sharlene the Shark” and she talked like Flo on ALICE. “Kiss my grits” and all! She had this trailer-park thing going on. It was hysterical.
So the name “Sharlene” for the name of the wsitress is my own homage to myself and a dumb shark puppet — that I still have in my home office!
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