Ashling has #magicpowers!! Yay! The hash-tag makes them even more powerful 😀
I couldn’t help myself, I really wanted to throw in this social media joke. Especially given that this is exactly what an Irish teenager would do on hearing big news. None of this ‘keeping Ashling’s powers secret’ nonsense…the girls are going to ‘twit’ about this 😀
On the whole ‘twitface’ thing; I wanted a funny name for the service that wouldn’t get me sued and also prevent the comic from looking dated in a few years. Case in point, MySpace was big around the time Bata Neart started, and Facebook/Twitter could easily go the same way in 10 years from now 😀
You can never know with these things.
That will teach you to leave witnesses behind, Ashling. 😛
But then who will she have to go drinking with by the lake? Aoife can’t handle her drink…she gets…..interesting 😀
I know it’s a bit odd to comment on a page from half a year ago, but there’s something I wanted to say about this and I couldn’t think of a good way to bring it up in the current discussion. In real life, what Fiona did here would be really, REALLY not okay. Even though Fiona had no bad intentions at all, outing someone like that can end friendships. It can also have some pretty severe consequences for the person getting outed. In the gay community, I’ve seen people get literally disowned by their parents because of something like that. Of course that’s the real world – hopefully the people of the Bataverse are more open minded and accepting of people being different.
Another thing occurs to me. I don’t know how things are in Ireland, but at least in the US Catholic nuns would be very displeased to find out a student was keeping what they’d probably consider to be a pagan religious item in the dorms and carrying it around with her.
I certainly agree that in real-world situations, unilateral online blabbing of people’s secrets is all kinds of wrong.
That’s kind of one level of what i was doing there. Nowadays you’ll get teenagers (or any obsessive social media user) being less than delicate with people’s information in the hunt for posts that get many ‘likes’. Fiona, although being a level-headed friendly ‘brains of the operation’, sometimes is just a dumb teenager to balance out her serious side. She really shouldn’t #hashtag Ashling’s secret, and that was down to her not knowing better. There will be a revisit of this in Chapter 6.
As for the nuns, well…they are conservative…but from what i know from my step-grandmother (who was a Mother Superior), is that nuns in Ireland seemed have changed a lot in recent years. Many are now more open to other points of view and within some limits tend to benmore liberal. I think there’s a desire to ‘rebrand’ themselves in the past couple of decades, to remove themselves of the steriotype of the evil Irish Catholic Nun 🙂