Talita is desperately trying to outrun her own embarrassment here.
Transcript
Gillie launches into a series of demonstration sentences.
STATEMENT
Gillie: (ASL) Nice to meet you!
Gillie has an open smile and neutral eyes. Talita copies her, albeit looking considerably more panicked.
Talita: (ASL) Nice to meet you!
"WH" QUESTION: LOWERED EYEBROWS
Gillie: (ASL) What’s your name?
Gillie furrows her eyebrows to make a neutral questioning face. Talita, face starting to bristle, slightly squints her outer eyelids and lowers her upper nictitating membranes.
Talita: (ASL) What’s your name?
YES/NO QUESTION: RAISED EYEBROWS
Gillie: (ASL) Are you copying me?
Gillie raises her eyebrows to make a questioning face, and exaggerates it into an expression of feigned indignation. Talita, mane fluffing out and cheeks bristling and about to combust from embarrassment, copies her by widening her eyes and raising her lower nictitating membranes.
Talita: (ASL) Are you copying me?
43 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 194”
Hanroz
“Are you copying me?” Lmao Gillie be nice 😂
The Opossum Witch
the TEEFIES!! the TEEFS!!!
holly...!
big fan of Pleasant Gillie, Inquisitive Gillie, and “????” Gille
Hunter
I can’t tell of Talita’s eyes are like that because it’s part of her having to change her expressions or because she’s about to shrivel into a corn cob out of embarrassment.
Stray Cat
Both?
The Opossum Witch
Both
mechabiko
big fan of gillie’s face in the fifth panel lol X)
ronan
aw talita, she’s trying her best. also i love her teeth poking out in the last panel, it’s so cute to me!
Gar G
Gosh Talita looks so panicked and embarrassed and I relate so hard to it 😅
Trees
‘Talita is desperately trying to outrun her own embarrassment here.’
Are we sure Talita can’t outrun embarrassment? If anyone can…
JoB
It wouldn’t be embarrassment if it weren’t still able to run circles around you laughing, would it. :-3
Gheesfellow
for yes/no questions: turn your skull into rubber
MyUniverseinaBox
Gillie’s face in the last one, I’m loosing it
arf
Marks for trying, although I think the last one will need a rethink.
I wonder if Talita’s flushed and fluffed feathers can be put to good use?
Yuppi
I don’t think she can do that any more than we can blush on command.
cain
Depends whether it’s something she can consciously cintrol or not. Humans can’t control a flushing response or hair raising, so I wonder if the feather erection muscles are voluntary.
Joysweeper
talita poking herself in the chest with her antler is a great detail
Tentament
Also the click as she smacks her hoof fingers together.
bryn
I love Gillie’s bolo tie! stylish~
hessian
gillie so silly
SheTheTDE
Looks like a strain for her to do this
Counterpoint
That’s because she IS straining, probably 😄… Imagine the intensity you put into expressions as a classic turning knob, with a scale from 0 – 10. Talita is starting around an 11 or 12, and ends up somewhere around a 15 or more at the end 😁… Relax, girl, or you’ll explode any second 🤣!
But no, a little more seriously, she’s doing WAY more than necessary – we’ve seen her doing ‘human’ expressions by reflex many times by now, and, in general, she was doing just fine with them, at least in my book. Now she’s doing it consciously, and slamming through all the stops in the process. When she gets to the point of doing it more casually, like she’s been doing in ‘normal’ life, Talita’ll do great 👍 – but she’s quite a bit off from that, yet (more like “😬”…), until she gets to the point of being able to stop panicking and cooling it a bit (which, granted, is easier said than done in her place… 🫂…)
Rad Internet Stranger
This is beautiful
Vinemaple
Imagine you’re teenage Idrisah… You’ve befriended Gillie because you were intrigued and a really nice person, and the Deaf, off-model GMH girl from the back of the class also seemed relatable in her isolation… and then, once she gets comfortable around you, she starts pulling stuff like panel 5, and makes you laugh your ass off…
Yeah, I don’t think we need any more flashbacks explaining the Touati-Sharpes. It’s all here.
Sparky Lurkdragon
This is definitely one of my favourite individual pages. Everyone loves a good exaggerated face.
Poor Talita, but she’s doing it! She’s doing the scary thing! And Gillie is a great teacher, if not a little trolly. XD Then again I think she’s earned it with this particular friend and student!
the Inmara
We want to sit with Gillie and learn sign language from here.
the Inmara
* her, even.
Adrienne
Those last panels remind me of a moment in college when my friend and I were intentionally making double-chins to be silly, and then her 0% body-fat gym rat boyfriend was like “Hey how are you guys doing that?” totally oblivious…
wingedhorror
Careful, once men find out you can shape-shift, they’re going to tell the Church!
Origamigryphon
Two tiny tongues :3
Madame Thunderbone
I have noticed that a very focused Talita is all snaggletoothed. As someone… unnecessarily expressive, I understand the feeling though have the reassurance that it is not literal, and hope that for the sake of her anxiety, Talita never realizes that’s how she looks, poor lady would spend so much time contriving a way to hide her alien fangs.
Greebus
It looks like her antlers are gonna hatch soon LOL her velvet’s coming off
JoB
Well, this is the moment-or-never for the scientific discovery that explosive de-velvetization is yet another sign of embarrassment in centaurs …
Paroxysmall
all of these faces are amazing but the yes/no Gillie is peak
Claire
Teef :3
pelya
Talita poofs her neck feathers as a substitute for raising eyebrows.
Do other centaurs wave their trunk instead of a head shake?
Paroxysmall
Talita’s feathers are raised because she is increasingly embarrassed. She is blushing and sweating profusely, this is involuntary
also idk if centaurs normally wave with their trunks but they seem to extend them more/aren’t self-conscious about how they look around humans
Nerdanel
I believe poofing up her feathers is just Talita’s way of blushing, because she’s embarrassed right now. The eyebrow substitute is changing the shape of her eyes with the nictating membranes.
Vinemaple
“about to combust from embarrassment” –the transcript for this page
Greebus
I love Gillie’s face in panel 5. She’s a good teacher.
Tentament
We’re reaching levels of floofiness previously thought impossible
Duke 1337-O
I’d laugh if I didn’t have an identical experience learning ASL, myself
A Box Of Fox
At least you’ve presumably got the benefit of having eyebrows!