Pray them through the night
Shelley’s shoes are £700 a pair. Whether you’d find such a thing in your local aquarium centre is, I suppose, down to both the taste of the proprietor and the health of the outlet’s balance sheet. Note today the double j’accuse, including the very rare “reverse”.
The double J’accuse is indeed a thing of beauty. Fish sausage, on the other hand…
The Tim and Eric reference is appreciated.
wondered if i was the only one who caught that. now i’ll have that song in my head all week…
Regrettably, I lack the necessary cultural referents for that. 😐
Lottie’s got Louboutin’s on herself!
I’ve decided to think that they came as part of her retainer!
Who’s she calling “Jack Hughes”?
Knockoffs! Style *and* value!
A double j’accuse! Well worth the wait!
(And worth its weight in wells!)
A double half-reverse j’accuse with a twist! Judges?
9 9 9.5 10 8.5 6
(Last judge was Flovorran – didn’t appreciate her targets, but admired the technique)
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO to the 6 – biased and corrupt judge!
Jack Hughes!
Lottie – ready to deliver two-fisted… er… two-HANDED action!
I would have been very disappointed if a J’Accuse didn’t happen somewhere in this story. All is good.
I am glad to have confirmation that Purley’s is what I in the US would call an aquarium shop, or fish store. The lighting in such places is exactly like it is shown here. Your bright orange ghost sweater would turn green in the blue glow. Wow, John. I’ll never again experience the dark glowing cave of an aquarium shop without looking for the portal to Flovoor.
I used to keep tropical fish (15 years ago now) and so would go to the fish shop all the time, but I still couldn’t remember what those shops are called. I just remember the acronym “LFS” from message boards.
I had tropical fish, too (long ago), including kuhli loaches — help keep the tank clean!
Ah, but the Jimmy Choos are *so* red they’re still red, and stand out as a plot element, even under monochromatic blue light. Storytelling potential like that is what you pay the £700 for.
Our local tropical fish store is literally a shack on the side of the highway. We always wonder what goes on behind those blacked out windows…
I remember Lottie once giving a j’accuse stare to Shelley herself for being pregnant out of wedlock.
Penrose can barely contain his huge of kill them all! Or he just find Lottie’s actions hilarious and want to start laughing, but he knows that will destroy the moment. The double “J’accuse ” is fantastic!
“Penrose can barely contain his huge”
Is that a euphemism? It sounds like a euphemism. 😉
It’s a rare skill to reverse one half of a double j’accuse without the two cancelling each other out.
Double J’accuse!!! Lottie’s leveled up!!!
Double and reverse j’accuse! Lottie has upgraded her signature move!
The next step: Sprouting two additional arms and doing the j’accuse General Grievious-style!
The quadruple j’accuse, often whispered of, but seldom seen!
But *of course* Desmond has his own brand of fishy snacks.
What’s the degree of difficulty for the double j’accuse with a reverse? Gotta be at least 4.0.
Man, Lottie sure threw those 700-quid shoes around with abandon. You’d think she’d have more respect for such high-end merchandise.
Now, 700-*squid* shoes — those, you could toss anywhere in an aquarium store and they’d be fine.
I don’t know how the 700-squid crowd does it. I find it hard to keep more than a single squid on each foot at a time.
While tossing 700 squids around within an aquarium store would technically be fine, the logistics could get tricky, depending on the size of the squids involved. On the other hand, the fact that Rev. Penrose is there kind of negates both the “it’s fine” and the “challenging logistics” of a 700-squid toss.
Omg. Is that a Tim and Eric reference? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDg0dklwW5g
Careful, Flovorrans! Those j’accuses are lethal!
The ‘J’s are like fish hooks, ready to catch
The famed DOUBLE J’ACCUSE! Lottie’s been practicing!
Has anyone noticed that when Penrose is in the presence of sheer Eee-vil, his eyes go dark? As in ‘highwayman mask’ mode? Especially if the Others are Creeps From The Deeps.
Weird fact, but the brow bone on the average male skull is quite pronounced (compared to the female) and apparently this serves the exact purpose Penrose depicts: the jutting brow cuts off overhead light from shining directly in the eyes. Penrose has that reflex to slightly lower his head when in danger, which gives you the eyes in shadow effect.
The artist may have exaggerated the visual effect, natch…
Just him going into Batman mode.
I had a Kuhli Loach when I was a child! It never got the dropsy, it mostly just hid.