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  • Awesome Art: The second "Knight In Furs" story by artist Jack-Kaiser (Formerly Jack-Of-Box).
  • Base-Breaking Character:
    • The twins' sister, Kris, rapidly developed into one. Some readers find her amusing and cool. Others find her intrusive and rather rude. The second camp seems to have won, as she's all but vanished from the comic.
    • Evelyne. Some either see her as an insanely rude person that somehow managed to obtain friends let alone a fiancee or as a socially awkward individual who doesn't want to hurt others but doesn't want to be hurt.
    • Matt. Some either see him as the Only Sane Man or as a "nice guy" who doesn't handle rejection well and may have raped Lillian.
  • Broken Base: While normally sporting one of the more mellow comment sections around, Chloe occasionally posts a page that sparks some fairly heated exchanges.
    • Chloe's depiction of Roomie and Lillian participating in a new age sweat lodge fractured a normally mellow comment section. One side accused her of ignorant cultural misappropriation, one side defended her respectful depiction of it, and a third just tried to avoid getting involved with the arguing.
    • If the sweat lodge was a fracture, the conversation between Roomie and Matt that ended with Lillian finally confronting Matt over his actions in their past completely shattered it. The comments section saw several bitter arguments over whether or not Matt should be considered a rapist, and how much (if at all) his insecurity and shouldering peer pressure and expectations that drove him to pressure Lillian into sex mitigate what happened.
    • "No one is illegal" sparked one of the more vicious comment section arguments the comic had ever seen, with readers at each other's throats over Chloe's pro-refugee stance.
  • Growing the Beard: Happens several times over the course of the comic.
  • Harsher in Hindsight
    • Roomie's already rather melancholy comment in 'They stay' is given painful context by the revelation a couple of chapters later that she suffered the death of her best friend at the age of nine.
    • "I Never" makes Roomie's entire personality of drinking and sex this.
    • "Not Fine" reveals even Roomie's couch surfing had a darker side. That being she was forced to because she blew all her money on her drinking problem.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Roomie's clarifying answers about what she meant when she told Lillian "I like you" are even funnier when you notice that every one of the answers is equally true — despite the cliche of "I like you because I want to have sex with you", Roomie really does simultaneously like Lillian, like being around Lillian, and like Lillian for being Lillian — even as she feels sexual desire for Lillian.
  • Memetic Mutation: "Welcome to "GGaR" is an oft used phrase by the fanbase. Typically when a new reader completes an Archive Binge and catches up to the current page.
  • Protagonist-Centered Morality: Matt is derided in-universe as a terrible friend at best and a rapist at worst for talking the comic's deuteragonist Lilian into bed when they were both younger. This ignores the fact that Roomie, Lilian's eventual girlfriend, has a history of getting women drunk and trying to have sex with them (potentially committing date rape), including towards Lilian herself. Roomie's inappropriate actions are noted in a few strips, but she's quickly forgiven and her actions are considered petty indiscretions, whereas Matt has to undergo therapy from guilt and made into a pariah by the rest of the cast.
  • Squick: Roomie's armpit hair can be this to some people.
  • Tear Jerker: "It hurt."
  • Wangst: Richard's reaction to facial hair ruining his self-proclaimed Twink image. Going on a full on personal crisis whine-fest over a few chin hairs.


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