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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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:3 Love the dialogue~
She's too busy worried about being pretty to others to care about a purple void.
Seriously, though, I like the concept here: following a scene in the boy's locker room, where Gavin "sets the record straight", in a manner of speaking, to two of his less-informed classmates, we see one in which Maria does the same to Holly and Debbie. They're practically mirrors of one another... just like how the boys' and girls' locker rooms are frequently mirrors of one another! (woah, meta) Anyway, I love how Maria turns Debbie's assumption back at her: if lesbian girls like every girl they see, shouldn't straight girls like every guy they see? People feel attraction for individual members of certain groups, not the group as a whole... at least, in general. Maria's "WANT to be...?", though tiny, makes a big impression, and really helps build up for her "smiling daggers" face in the following panel. This isn't the way Maria wanted to be (hell, she's been fighting it for years), but it's the way she is, and she's finally come to accept herself for it. Maria's comment in the second-to-last panel ("those guys aren't girls") is witty and hilarious, I might add. I love how Holly turns it around in the last panel though; her stupidity is actually a form of genius? Egads! Holly's discovered Maria's interest in Rain without even knowing it.
The most significant element of these past few pages, however, is that we've gotten to see how Joe (and Josephine) Everystudent reacts to homosexuality among their peers. Previously, all we've really seen is everyone being vaguely tolerant of Rudy, except for the ultimate douchecastle, Todd Bittner. Here, though, we see their ignorance regarding homosexuality (Drew avoiding the locker room for fear of "turning gay", Robert thinking that "bisexuals are a myth", Debbie assuming that lesbians like all girls, and Holly calling lesbianism a choice). While not hostile to their gay and lesbian classmates (i.e. the Strongwells, playing a tag team of sorts), most of the students seem in-the-dark and uncomfortable with regards to homosexuality. I can't imagine they get a very complete sexual education in a Catholic high school (but then again, my public high school didn't do much better).
All in all, an awesome page, full of humor, stupid questions, and Maria being... well, Maria. And we wouldn't have her any other way!