Shades Of A 070
If you’re looking for a moral of this story, today’s page is it. Mmmm heavy handed messages.
On an interesting note, the Qur’an says about as much on gay people as the Bible does- which is not much. For those interested in knowing more check out http://www.imaan.org.uk/
I don’t know if anybody is familiar with it, but the first thing that comes to my mind when I see Chris’ face in the third panel is this little song:
– “Who took the cookie from the cookie jar?”
– “Chris!”
– “Who me?”
– “Yes, you!”
– “Not me!/Couldn’t be!/Wasn’t me!”
– “Then who?”
I just sang that in my head as I read it.
Hahah, I didn’t know this song, I watched it on youtube, thanks for that x)
Brings back memories of kindergarten. XD
Now that’s going to be really interesting … is this still inspired by the unspeakable abomination of a book, or is it free of those chains by now?
Because if it’s still a parody, wouldn’t that require that Chris lures innocent Anwar into a dark dungeon and seduces him to … tie Chris up, and cuddle him, I guess?
I just snorted so hard I hurt my sinuses.
That sounds so ridiculously wonderful that I kind of still want it to happen at this point.
I need to tell this to my boyfriend. I now want him to tie me up and cuddle me. This must be done!
I remember an article by Alex Comfort (author of The Joy of Sex) in the New York Times Magazine circa 1975, where he interviews a guy who liked to dress up as a Nazi biker, and bring other guys home and tie them up. “And then what do you do?” Comfort asked. “I… I kiss them.”
freakin ADORABLE.
My mum had that book. I remember when I found it, I guess I was like ten or so, and I stole it so I could look at all the naked people.
and pleasantly enough, anwar is asexual but not aromantic. yay, they seem to have found common ground!
Actually I’m pretty sure the Quran only forbids the sexual act, so technically an asexual romantic relationship between two men isn’t exactly haram. Go for it Anwar!
The Quran also forbids consumption of alcohol, but judging by how much he drank the other night I’d say he gets pretty lax about things.
But our interactions with him have told us that he tends to be pretty observant. JD seems to think so, at least. They were reminding him at the bar that his drinking would be a bad idea.
It seems to me that he only ever really drinks when his emotions are totally and completely frayed. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s only ever consumed alcohol a couple times in his life (dad’s death, tanked grades/blooming romance combo).
But the Bible forbids homosexual sex as well and still even the most christian Christs I know wouldn’t try to stop Homosexuals from having sex (also some sure want to). But they probably still would feel like betraying their religion when they suddenly feel same-gendered attraction and I think that’s Anwar’s main problem as well. His religion is his moral compass I think and if he can’t follow it he blames himself. I can’t imagine An has a general problem with people being gay or he wouldn’t get along with JD who isn’t properly labeled with “gay” but I think no one who accepts them doesn’t also accept all the other parts of LGBT
I’m having trouble finding words to express how much I’m enjoying this story. I just hate the wait between pages becasue it’s so good and addicting. Thank you, Tab, for creating such lovable characters.
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Random aside cuz I keep thinking it but I love the hands in the first panel. I’m jealous of Tab’s hand-drawing-skills.
Chris’s face in the third panel XD.
Can I just say that communication is the biggest turn on ever? K thnx.
I concur like crazy.
Completely! It’s a part of relationships that is not often explored in fiction. Which is what makes Tab so fab.
100% agree. If only Inara and Mal could just sort things out.
Yeah, I was wondering when being muslim would enter the equation – the issue here not being that they are both men, but that one of them is a non-believer.
A friend of mine who is staunchly atheist and another one who is quite religious – and Pakistani, come to think of it – managed to fall in love with each other and it’s huge issue. How religious is Anwar, actually? He goes to prayer and observes rules like no alcohol and pork, but on the other hand judges JD not from a religious but from an EWWWW Sex! perspective… curious to see where this will go.
that reminds me of a case a doctor told me about. He circumcised a man so that he met the requirements to marry his muslim fiancee. I don’t know though if her family or she wanted him to convert as well.
I do believe I am seriously about to see nonsexual homoromantic romance. OMG. OhmiGAWD. *chinhands* You’ve got me. I’m hooked, even more than I already was. I am YOURS.
Shoot! I missed stream cuz my headset broke and I can’t find the spare. >.<
Chris' face in the third panel…totally the cat that ate the canary.
So, when Chris “came out”, it was as a transvestite/fetishist, not gay?
Chris’ face in both panels is priceless. I would love to be romantic with him! *sigh*
I WANT A CHRIS. /just saying
This makes my heart so haaapppy. I’m just sitting here grinning at my laptop all starry eyed.
Huh. I had just assumed that Chris was some shade of bi/pan. Although the final panel implies that he’s panromantic. I’m interested to see where all this leads to :)
Maybe this is just me, but does anyone else feel awkward about calling Chris straight? I feel like that’s become more and more of…well…not strictly pejorative, but a way to call people vanilla or closed-minded. Where I live, most people in the ‘community,’ call allies, supporters, or even just open-minded people Hetero as opposed to straight.
I’ve never heard of that before. I’ve always heard straight used the same way as gay, which is, not offensive unless you use it to hurt someone, and then only the intent is really hurtful (as in, it’s hurtful if someone thinks being gay is a bad thing, not the word itself). The closest thing to a heterosexual slur I’ve ever heard is ‘breeders’.
no? I mean they are straight. Hetero sounds more pejorative tbh but that’s my association with “homosexual” which offends me. Straight allies are straight allies. I welcome allies but I feel uncomfortable “welcoming them into the fold”? Because they still dunno what it is like. And we need our safe spaces. If they are true supporters they should understand.
Are we sure it isnt guilt about being straight that’s the issue? Ppl dun like being labelled “white” “straight” or “cis” cuz it acknowledges they have privilege. And they see it as an insult because they are used to not being labelled.
Think it’s a problem with labeling folk who might not have strictly speaking picked out their label, or those who don’t want to be lumped in with those who haven’t. Like, ‘straight’ is kind of the default assumption; you don’t come out as your chosen* sexuality, you come out as non-straight-with-some-clarifications. So ‘straight’ could really be seen as ‘undecided’ or ‘unsure’, rather than an option in and of itself.
Also, especially within the scene, more often than not folk will be “straight but” rather than outright straight. “Straight” as a label tends towards the very restrictive side of things, and there’s not as much slack as with some of the queerer end of the scale where all the fun labels live: like Chris being straight-but-genitally-blind-when-it-comes-to-romance, that…that kind of needs short handing!
But yeah, don’t think it’s offensive, just much more common that if you call someone straight, they’re likely to start with the “yeah-but”s.
*I know it’s not a choice per se, just couldn’t think of any better way to denote selecting which label aligns best to your thing.
The pinky! :)
That was a wild guess, wasn’t it? Nothing we’ve seen so far has pointed to Chris being straight and/or into being tied up. All we know is that he likes to crossdress, and he’s talked about being worshipped. Did they talk about this off-camera?
I was kind of surprised about the “straight” part. On the other hand, Chris never did get to finish his sentence onscreen about what he came out “as”…
I think that may have been Anwar making assumptions because Chris had said he had been married, and that he had painted a woman’s dungeon.
Not particularly PC, but I can see how he’d come to that conclusion.
But that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy romance… well said!