SS4 156 A surprise visit from Janey's mum
skyangel on Nov. 21, 2012
Hi everyone,
In case you had forgotten, Janey's mum is a Jehovah's witness and this caused a lot of trouble back in the early days of their relationship. One thing I noticed with my first partner was that althoughher mumwas always telling us ‘you are all family to me’ it was amusing how quickly the partners always got the blame when something went wrong with her children's lives. Big thanks to Emi for sorting out the JW mag image for me. I said I'd sort it out and…. totally forgot!
I put a teaser on the bottom this week for the Xmas special which reminds me of the ads you used to get in the old paper comics, soI quite like that :) I'll dooneeach week until we finally start to run with it. There's only a few more pages of this chapter to go anyway now so I want to run this straight after.
Have a nice week. :)
skyangel at 2:33AM, Dec. 15, 2012
Liz: It's the same one I used last year. I would ahve liked to do a new one, but as this was up for so little time last year and I was too pushed for time to do another so I thought using it again was better than nothing. :)
skyangel at 2:31AM, Dec. 15, 2012
DV: Oh wow, I didn't expect anyone to be so curious about that, but yes, you're right it appears to be the cover of a pamphlete handed out for a 2007 convention. :) http://www.pnc.com.au/~fichrist/Follow%20The%20Christ.html
DarkVisor at 2:47AM, Dec. 14, 2012
Showed the page to one of mums friends, and they recognized the magazine, they just have to look for it
DarkVisor at 3:38AM, Dec. 13, 2012
Asked Mum about that mag, she asked at the Hall but couldn't find anyone who knew what it might be (she thinks it might be one of their 'special' one-off magazines rather than the usual WatchTower/Awake!'s)
Lunaris Victoria at 1:54PM, Dec. 11, 2012
BTW, Sky...gotta say that I love all the new background art. :)
oldironside at 1:07PM, Dec. 11, 2012
Ah, Bear. A couple of months ago I was walking along my street and saw a couple of attractive young ladies walking confidenlty in boots ahead of me. When they went up the stairs to my block I thought: "Hmm, I wonder who they are visiting." My curiosity peaked when they stopped at the front door I share with six others and started examining the names on the doorbells. "Have they been sent to me by a benevolent God?" Then I saw the Bibles they were carrying...
BearinOz at 4:53PM, Dec. 10, 2012
I WAS actually referring to TOmmyM's shredded Armani's, but hey-ho! B-) When I worked shifts, I used to 'engage' JWs and Mormons in long chats on the veranda. As a born-agin atheist, they couldn't catch me out on biblical stuff, as I'd had a 'gutful' of it growing up. I thought of it as my civic duty - saving my neighbors along the street from their visits B-) ...the word must hav eghotten arounf tho - I;m home most of the time now and none of them call!
skyangel at 3:22PM, Dec. 10, 2012
Bear: haha I wonder if a charity shop would handle it! lol
skyangel at 3:20PM, Dec. 10, 2012
DV: Good point. I'm never rude to them as I can tell it's important to them and I accept their free mags too, but we tend to accept now neither side will ever change. :)
skyangel at 3:14PM, Dec. 10, 2012
Hi Guys,haha well I shouldn't say anything to spoil it at this point but I think most of you guessed anyway ;) Hi again Hannah, yes I based Janey's mum on the mother in Jeanette Wintersons 'Oranges are not the only fruit' which I believe is semi-autobigraphical. When I first introduced her I had a gay reader whose mum was treating her with very similar negative views about it, so it has always felt comfortable doing this with her. As I've said before though, I'm not having a dig at JW or religious people in general, just the certain type of person who likes to judge on God's behalf.
oldironside at 2:00PM, Dec. 10, 2012
Bear: I'm sure Sarah doesn't want it, and neither would anyone else. I'm reminded of the car boot sale butt plug...
BearinOz at 2:18PM, Dec. 8, 2012
such a waste! - when there are charity clothing bins she could've put them in B-)
tommym at 12:38PM, Dec. 8, 2012
Dear Sky, DV, Yeah The JW's are nice and polite when speaking with people. My Grandmother would make a contrbution every Saturday and I would wind up reading the "international section". Emi does a good depiction. Hannah, Sex toys for mom, sounds like a good idea:) Oldironside, yeah you are right. I read a story of a women who threw out an expensive bed because she found her husband was cheating. Also ripped to shreads his 2,000 dollar suits.tommym
dragonrider at 11:14AM, Dec. 8, 2012
True Story friend of mine and her husband is open Wiccan so the JW's tormented her to no end stopping to witness etc. One day she saw them coming to the door and stripped starkers answered the door, invited them in but told them they would have to be skyclad as she was for the Ritual that was about to begin. They never came back. And yes the strap-on a give back for Christmas, she should tell Anne that she's sure Janey will enjoy Claire using it on her as much as she did when she used it on Janey.
dragonestea at 10:32AM, Dec. 8, 2012
I hope I never meet somebody like this in real life. Large amounts of violence would ensue.
HannahBailey at 10:20AM, Dec. 8, 2012
One of my old friend's family are witnesses, Kind of odd considering who SHE turned out to be from how her parents are. I think Sarah's being a little pushy. lol. Dude, the sex toys would be the best thing ever to get her mom out of the house. lol NO BUT REALLY, I think it'd be interesting if Sarah got close to Jane's mom out of this, if Sarah did decide to start going to church...Where do you start? Where the people you know go.... MMh.
oldironside at 7:12AM, Dec. 8, 2012
@tommym: To be honest, I think that's exactly what Claire and Janey have already done with it.
DarkVisor at 7:09AM, Dec. 8, 2012
Oh, looking forward to the EndOfYear Festivities special :D
DarkVisor at 7:08AM, Dec. 8, 2012
Will have to see if mum has a copy of that pamphlete (looks kinda like the 'ads' they have on the back of WatchTowers, their pamphletes tend to be much smaller) Just want to point out, like with every religious group, not all Witnesses are like Anne (and if you can get past the preachy stuff, the WatchTowers and Awake!s are very informative about the world and stuff. Did you know it is thanks to them you can still go next door in US and ask your neighbour for a cup of sugar without getting a license from City Hall?)
tommym at 6:21AM, Dec. 8, 2012
Dear Sky, I hope its NOT the strap-on. The JW's would throw it in the nearest trash can,and thats if they could get themselves to even touch it in the first place. Sarah should mail it to Janey along with a nasty note on what she and Claire should do with it:) Great ad! Sarah looks Lean, Mean, Cool and Strong! So damn SEXY:)tommym
BearinOz at 5:49AM, Dec. 8, 2012
Oh and one of them, when someone said "What's GOd's view of homosexuality", answered "From above!" B-)
BearinOz at 5:47AM, Dec. 8, 2012
Well I'd forgotten about the strappie, but I DO hope it's that, or similar. I've had several friends over the years, who were "grown up out of" JWs. 2 got married at different times (civil ceremonies) and each time their oldies were there for the ceremony and long gone before the festivities. p.s. I Love the 'ad.' B-)
oldironside at 3:06AM, Dec. 8, 2012
"I know the other two have had the same thought" Yes, but in my case at least it caught my better judgement off guard.
Little Swan at 2:42AM, Dec. 8, 2012
Please please please please be the strap-on xD I know the other two have had the same thought :P
Lunaris Victoria at 2:39AM, Dec. 8, 2012
My bet is it's long, loose, and coated in juice. >.> But fucknose if I'm right. Off to bed with me before I make anymore bad puns regarding my suspicion...