sorry that this page was a little bit late.
snippet of the worksheet kim is picking at is referenced from DBT skills training handouts and worksheets by marsha m. linehan, on a page about "balancing doing mind and being mind" :)
Oh, new nurse I believe? Tbh I really like the incidental rotations of nurses and patients as a way of just showing really cool character designs. Like, this nurse's face shape? Love it. Colors? Love those too.
carmilla is a god among lesbians. i cannot believe she put on Not-Twilight in the meeting room. i wonder if her enjoyment of it is ironic or unironic given the noted liberties they take with regards to portrayals of vampires
at the mention of marsha linehan's work on DBT i looked up the worksheets to see if maybe they could be of benefit to me. and what i gleaned is that wow, those worksheets are no easy thing to complete... they demand a ton of reflection down to a very granular level it seems...
on another note, i think it's pretty cool that we get to see a window into what media is like within this world! humanity is such an interesting concept to bring up in this comic because i can imagine that the society depicted in this comic probably had to do a lot of contending with what "humanity" even is...
very cool update!! and thanks to other commenters for bringing up the color palate shift, i never would've associated that consciously with kim's world getting brighter!
i like the little detail of the red pencil being worn down to a stump bc carmilla was using it to draw her rose
also kim seems to be very focused on other patients' ability to be released from the ward. off the top of my head this is like the fourth or fifth time she's made a comment or question to another patient (or former patient) about their length of stay in the ward
Cool update! i was waiting for another page, recently caught up after an absence.I really like how the TV is colored and stuff, interested to see where this goes!
My dad's the head of a psych ward, two actually, so this comic is familiar in a lot of weird ways.
"They're trapped in here with me" - well, that's one way to frame it, Carmilla! And don't worry about it, gray - RL stuff is more important after all :)
I’m sorry I might be being paranoid but I don’t know if this is out of the ordinary but it seems you’re putting commas where they usually aren’t placed. I’m not good with grammar so that may not be the case but are you okay?
commas before and after vocatives is pretty standard in english. i spliced the sentences with the second comma to give it more of a casual and brisk tone than a period or semicolon would give, but nothing else is out of the ordinary about the commas, so yeah, i'm fine. :)
reading the author note and then the comments has reminded me that I have a whole set of DBT worksheets I was given by a counselor who understood my discomfort with attending group sessions, about two years ago, that I still haven't managed to get the energy to take a look through again. it occurs to me I'm not sure I ever will, although I still want to.
good update.
hehehe i like that kim looks more pink lately... is that a lighting thing, or conscious choice from earlier pages? i remember some ppl commenting not realizing she was pink or something like that.
i love that as readers we know that carmilla is saying fiancee but it can be assumed that the characters in the story wouldnt know right away which gender it is
the new nurse immediately flexes her position of power over carmilla... also wrt kim pointing out other people getting out or being pre-occupied with their ability to... to me it reads like her first priority is getting out, so she thinks that's everyone else's, too. on top of that, she analyzes the other patient's behavior to see what is acceptable and unacceptable to the nurses and comments accordingly. the first time i was in one of these places i was 17 going on 18 (literally there the week before my bday) and i was just trying to get the hell out so that super resonates lol. the behavior and mindset is so familiar.
this is one of my favorite color schemes shown so far. it's so nice looking. thanks for the update!
I'm reminded of Drop-Out where Sugar references being a vampire several times when she talks about her need to eat meat. Guess Carmilla had some role in creating that association.
snippet of the worksheet kim is picking at is referenced from DBT skills training handouts and worksheets by marsha m. linehan, on a page about "balancing doing mind and being mind" :)