Jeanie Bottle 702
Oct27
on October 27, 2022
at 12:00 am
and modified on October 26, 2022. at 1:26 am
Chapter: Story 15: I Dream of Three Wishes
Characters: Jeanie
Gettin’ right to it, huh?
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Gettin’ right to it, huh?
Genie can’t mess with love with their magic plus Jean pretty sure he want’s to go back to Neil apartment by now..
why does the girl in Panel 1 look so familiar?
The hair is too short to be Red.
Are we about to witness Jean doing something nice?
If I were him, I’d get her the frappuccino before making the wishes, as that might improve her mood.
Good idea. I’d probably be to rattled to think of it in time though.
First off, just really enjoy how much character there is in the first two frames. In just those two frames, we learn so much about him. First, he overfills his coffee. Likely a combination of not having a big work ethic but also by being distracted about a girl he obviously finds attractive. And judging by her computer, she is a frequent guest of his coffee establishment. Giving the feeling that this is not just lust. Their is a familiar connection.
The next two panels were great. Really embracing Jeanie’s ‘I don’t care how I inconvenience others’ attitude. And even with her magic to make anything she wants to conjure out of thin air, did enjoy how she used the opportunity to snip back at the guy for taking her time making his wishes and using the opportunity to insult his service. Their is no malice, just a hint of impatience that I love.
I also wonder if Jeanie now being, well, a genie, she is mentally compelled to do wishes. Almost like an instinct.
What happened to Jeannie’s bottle in the border? There is a shorter haired redhead at Southeil academy. And the is also Belle Lows, Jeannies ex-girlfriend who could be typing a research paper at a coffee shop. Caley, Rogers niece, is still too young but has the short red hair. Jeannie will be in a better mood after some coffee. This one is the least of the idiots.
I would assume it’s a temporary Halloween version, just like the tombstone it’s next to.
Whoever the girl in Panel 1 is, Orange Shirt has his mind on her and not on the cup he’s overfilling. OS may be smart enough to guess genies can’t make humans fall in love. Or maybe he won’t ask because he thinks he’s not man enough. His best move, maybe, is not to do much because Jean seems curious and might actually try to help him out.
Or maybe Orange Shirt won’t ask Jeanie to make Redhead Girl in love with him because he has moral standards.
Certainly arguable, but moral standards set by whom? Remember Orange Shirt smokes weed which I don’t think is legal in the real Florida.
Another reason for his reluctance could be that the girl looks very white, while Orange Shirt, not so much
Don’t confuse legality with morality.
Just because something’s illegal doesn’t make it immoral.
Does OS smoke weed?
goes back to check
If so, I haven’t found the evidence.
Or he could make a totally immoral wish regarding the woman he is lusting after
“I wish I could control what she does”
(Poof – they switch bodies and he now has total control over her)
(and to be fair to her she would need to like the new situation)
Given the sitcom nature of the Jeanieverse I’m betting Jean is either going to give him a pep talk or arrange a “meet cute”. He looks like he’s more likely to ask Jeanie to make him compatible with her and not the other way around. Hopefully she’s not a furry.
Given how this comic goes, there’s a good chance that she’s into girls, and OC’s wish to become her perfect match will result in him getting girlified.
That girl’s skirt is dangerously short. Doesn’t even reach the chair she’s sitting on.
Looks to me more like the girl is wearing boot jeans and boots under her skirt, not pantyhose or tights. She could be a real Florida Cracker, someone who grew up far from the cities of the Sunshine State. Cracker? That term is said to come from the bullwhips they cracked used to drive cattle and, before the War of Northern Aggression, slaves
That’s a recent appellation inferred by race theorists.
The original use of Cracker in a racial term was a reference to Crackers Hard Tack, which was a staple food for poor white people and soldiers. Essentially the same thing as calling people white-bread or Tidy-Whitey nerds today.
Highly unlikely that whip cracking was the origin of the term cracker. In the 1860 census, slaves were only about 30% of the population of the slave states, or 43% of the free population (whites). Registered slave owners were about 4.3% of the population (yeah, about 10 slaves per registered owner). The average family at the time had 5 kids, so some have extrapolated this (assuming 1 registered slave owner per family) to mean 4.3% * 7 people per family = about 30% of Southern whites were in a family which owned slaves.
So the percentage of Southern whites who owned slaves was about 4.3% to 30% depending on how you define “owned”. And they were mostly the affluent Southerners (plantation owners), which is the opposite of what cracker means today.
Divide those percentages by 3 for the white population of the U.S. overall, as the slave states had about half the white population of the free states. Which is where you get the figure that only about 10% of whites at the time were slave owners (10% of white families owned slaves). It’s highly unlikely that a derogatory term for whites originated from something which applied to such a small percentage of them.
Here’s what I got from eymologyonline.com:
cracker:
Southern U.S. derogatory term for “poor, white trash” (1766), probably an agent noun from crack (v.) in the sense “to boast” (as in not what it’s cracked up to be). Cracker “a boaster, a braggart” is attested from circa 1500. Compare Latin crepare “to rattle, crack, creak,” with a secondary figurative sense of “boast of, prattle, make ado about.”
Cited Example of Use:
I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their places of abode. [letter from colonial officer Gavin Cochrane to the Earl of Dartmouth, June 27, 1766]
Best kind of skirt. 😉
Jeanie is wearing the same outfit as the genie in the window on page 699. So, time travel theory is probably confirmed.
This explains why Orange-Shirt was so anxious to get to work instead of making his three wishes… the redhead is a regular and he’s more interested in her than what the wishes can bring him. His persona is obviously much deeper than the two idiots he left behind.
I think we all can see what this guy’s wishes would involve.
Ok, so that was her looking in the window a few strips back. A wish involving time travel coming up?
This boy wants the girl, but of course he can’t wish for love.
But what is it all girl wants? Power, wealth, prestige, and the raw masculinity that guarantee that she will be protected from any danger.
He should wish to be the sole owner of the entire cafe chain where he works, this alone will make him a lot more attractive.
His second wish should be about him having skills, not any particular skill but the skill in learning new skills super fast so he can quickly become good in whatever he wants.
And his third wish should be about him great charisma, making him easily likeable by everyone.
So even if she don’t end up falling in love with him, he will have greatly increased his chances with these three wishes and will be sure to find someone else if she rejects him anyway.
Could the little red head in panel one be our beloved “RITA” from prom night. I hope that seat wasn’t cold when she sat down.
Unless she moved to Cocoa Beach, I highly doubt it. Still, she’s my favorite secondary character and the subject of my entire series of fan fiction.
I completely forgot. Rita is the same age as Neil and Jeanie.
I wondered why he went to work instead of taking his three wishes. This makes it a little more clear.
Here’s what he SHOULD say:
“I wish I was good enough to ask that girl out on a date.”
“I wish I had an ATM card for an account with enough money in it to earn $1000 in interest per day, with a $1000 limit on ATM use per day.”
“I wish for the talent to make witty and interesting conversation.”
Effectively unlimited money at $1000 a day, the ability to avoid saying something dumb, and a general improvement in his Date-worthiness. And no Mind Control Shenanigans.
There are three things that we need to be happy, these are money, health and love, so these are the three things he need to wish for.
For the first wish, the best thing he can do is to wish he was the sole owner of the entire chain of coffee houses he works for, including owning the properties and the entire supply chain and having no debt.
For the second wish he should wish to be biological immortal, being immune to any poison, disease and ageing, being in top physical condition forever (or until he dies of a trauma) and having the ability to pass that trait on to all his children and whomever he loves.
For his third wish he should wish to be super charismatic and likeable. This is not the same as wishing for love which is forbidden by Da Rulez but it will make love much easier to find.
Three Safe and Useful Wishes
Wish 1: I wish I knew how to get her to like me.
Wish 2: I wish I had the money to take her on a really great date.
Wish 3: I wish you had that frappuchino you wanted.
Why waste a wish for that frappuccino when he can just make it? A good frappuccino would probably improve her mood and his prospects, and making it would give him time to think.
I wonder what Red Shirt and Blue Shirt will be doing when Jeanie pops back to check on them.
Will he realize that the money is worthless?
Will she realize that she’s REALLY, REALLY attracted to him?
Will he realize the same thing about her?
Will they both be on huge pile of money, but not sitting?
Let’s assume that Jeanie didn’t screw Green-Shirt Green with worthless money (he’ll have trouble enough explaining the real thing). So, Red-Shirt Girl gets a gold trimmed bong and a Porsche and blows the third wish by wishing for more wishes. Green-Shirt guy gets a new car, a PILE of money and a hot girlfriend (whether Red-Shirt likes it or not… the hormones are going to make the difference). There is no way Orange-Shirt guy is going to undo their wishes at the expense of his own, so he’ll probably get all three.
Somebody suggested that one of his wishes would be to be to me more attractive to her. (He looks like he’s more likely to ask Jeanie to make him compatible with her) what if she’s a lesbian? This is totally in keeping with Jeanie ka-changing people.
The LOGO on the red head’s cap looks like it might be a witch on a broomstick.
Wishes to be made
I wish to when the next top prize in the next Power Ball I purchase a ticket for
I wish to be healthy and in good physical and psychological condition
I wish that people around the world could understand each other’s points of view in all the worlds conflicts
I would include the specification that the health would continue until I die of other causes (e.g. traumatic accident that would not leave an intact body).
Orange Shirt: “I wish that girl wanted me.” Jeannie: “Sure! She’s a lesbian.” Orange Shirt: “Wait-!” (Ka-girl!)
Someone else suggested something similar, and I totally want this to happen! 🙂
would like to see one of these stories where a character tries to navigate the world in this new gender with some “realistic” outcomes
how is the identity thing working?
whats up with work?
maybe try and hunt down a way back to being male?
all with some reasonably good artwork- sorry, I am not a fan of Melvin’s
Did you read the fanfiction during the hiatus? Both Natalie and Anne had arcs that included some of what you’re asking.
I did read the fanfic, and thought it was okay
it would be nice to see the struggle and with a new character or maybe two… it would be a good time to see how they navigate that struggle
#702 reminds me of the 1967 version of ‘Bedazzled’.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061391/
That is a really cute look for Jeannie.
O.K. Coffee coming up.