Jeanie Bottle 766
Dec12
on December 12, 2023
at 12:00 am
and modified on November 24, 2023. at 9:42 pm
Chapter: Story 17: I Dream of Home Sweet Home
Characters: Jeanie
I share Jeanie’s question.
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I share Jeanie’s question.
Easy Makeover with genie Rarity and someone else. Also, Jean may have to live with Guano at the Haji palace because there married.
> Jean may have to live with Guano at the Haji palace because there married.
I get the feeling that she would be VERY strongly against this, hahah.
Too bad she agreed to the marriage, if only to get bailed from the whole fiasco with Blue.
I think marriage is the wrong term. Blue used the stollen Hubun Jadid to force Guano into a bonding that cannot be reversed, and Lahab told Jeanie that it cannot be removed. Jeanie is basically committed to a mating that she didn’t want (since she hates Guano).
She didn’t agree to it
The Blue Djinn coerced Guano into the contract, but because he was in Jeanie’s body, it’s now her problem, because genie society is all kinds of f***ed up, it cannot be undone
Jeanie’s options were “accept it as it is” or “have your mind forcibly altered so that you won’t have a problem with any of this”
Lahab’s exact words were “Well if that’s an issue it’s not beyond our ability to fix.” This could mean a couple of things.
They could make it possible that Jeanie’s free will is overridden and she’d forced to love her partner. This raises a complication with altering someone’s free will. (Since a genie is effectively a slave to her totem, this may not be an issue and only applies to mortals.)
They could bolster Jeanie’s own neurotransmitters and make it so that she believes she wants to mate with Guano, much like she did to Natalie.
Considering Guano is gay, I guess the same disgusting choice applies to him as well.
@Dagor – probably. On the minus side, coerced marriage under threat of conversion therapy. On the plus side, possible redemption arc for Guano?
There’s no need to go stampeding off to worst case scenarios because Lahab said “it’s not beyond our ability to fix” specifically in response to Jean saying she hated Guano. The only thing Lahab was talking about fixing was Jean’s hatred of Guano, which might only require getting to know each other better over a nice cup of tea. And even if Lahab was implying some form of deeper personality adjustment the mere fact that Lahab even discussed the issue with Jean strongly implies that it would require Jean’s willing participation.
Considering Hubun Jadid is magic, it may really be impossible to undone. Like, not something the genies would decide, but as a physical law.
And yes, Jeanie’s options are to accept it as she is or being altered until she accepts.
Specifically, it can’t be undone without destroying the Hubun Jadid, which they are very much not willing to do
This is definitely a physical law, but even as someone who is pro-life myself, Jeanie’s situation is undoubtedly and unquestionably a time to make an exception, she literally didn’t have a choice, and Guano was coerced
You forgot option “kill or exile Guano”. No Guano, problem solved.
Or maybe a blank body.
And back to Haji’s palace she goes. I wonder how long she will be there this time around?
How long, yes, that’s certainly something Natalie is going to want to know, too.
something tells me that when Jeanie finds out the truth, she’s gonna clobber anyone that gets in her way.
Oh hi Rarity.
CD did confirm to me that this purple-haired genie’s look is based on Rarity.
Who is Rarity again?
Rarity is a pony from My Little Pony, focused on beauty and fashion, but there is a human version that this purple haired genie is based on.
Ah, thanks. Although I have seen a few My Little Pony episodes, I am not a brony and I have never seen any of the human version cartoons. That is why I had never heard of Rarity.
She’s actually a fun character there’s one episode where gets kidnapped and winds up using the kidnappers as essentially slave labour to mine gems for her simply to avoid her whining. Then when they use the earplugs she reveals martial arts skills because a lady needs to know how to defend herself.
@Senko – “Dog and Pony Show”, that was the first episode I saw. Also the episode that got me to look up what “Diamond Dogs” was a reference to, since Venture Brothers also made references to the album (though their reason was because legally-not-David-Bowie was a major recurring character in that show).
spa day.
All will be revealed in the next episode, including Jeanie in the new outfit somebody popper her into in the last panel and the longer, thicker hair she seems to have.
Don’t be surprised if we don’t see Jeanie’s new outfit on the next page.
That’s because we don’t get to see birthday suits in this comic…
Doesn’t look like the hair’s longer, just not pulled back in a pony tail.
Ooof, what a tease. How long do we have to wait for interesting part with Natalie and Rodge? I really hope there would be lots of strips from their journey, not just one when they came back. Or maybe Christmas everyday post would be about them? *patiently
CD tends to jump from the A plot to the B plot every few pages. I suspect we’ll get plenty of both “Jeanie’s Adventures in Haji’s Palace, Part 2” and “Natalie and Rodge go on a Yacht Date”.
“A three hour cruise… a three hour cruise.” Well, they do tend to meet characters reminiscent of 1960s and 1970s TV shows.
What’s in the sack that X-mas Jeanie is snuggling up to so…warmly?
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Today’s, ahem, strip: not a fan of thick braids, me.
And my goodness, but these two genies have horrible color sense. Turquoise and lavender on brown skin? ick
A puppy?
I think the thick braids were always buried under her fez. If you compare panels 1 and 2 to panels 3 and 4, you’ll notice that we’ve always seen the base of the braid at the side of her head.
I don’t know, maybe young genies are fashion forward like that.
That is obviously Santa Claus’ Bag of Holding of Infinite Capacity, so it could anything and everything. Toys of every kind, for kids and adults.
i’ll tell you what’s going on
COMEDY!
I do notice the one on the right has pointed ears. Some meaning to it?
We have seen a couple of genies with pointed ears before and they do not appear to have any special significance.
Oh no not the hat!. It’s been a staple of the strip.
Notice that the genie with the offset Princess Leia buns threw it away and didn’t poof it into oblivion. Maybe it will return.
Hmm…I’d say that someone is about to get a makeover with a side of marriage and a dash of comedy sprinkled for flavor. XD
So does anyone want onions or mustard on that?
I think Tabasco sauce. It looks like things are about to heat up.
So where will the Honeymon be? Niagara Falls, Hawaii-she does like to surf. My guess is she will give Guano scuba diving lessons in Neils bedroom.
“What the hell is going on?”
Well if you look down Jean you will see it’s a fitting for your wedding dress.
And as it is a magic one it is a perfect fit – Do not pass Go, proceed directly to
jailweddingI see what appears to be cleavage on Jeanie’s chest in the last panel. I wonder who is responsible for the”poof” that removed Jeanie’s top?
The blue haired genie was judging Jeanies pajamas. I suspect it is her. I think that is Rarity maybe.
Showing a little skin is a crowd pleaser. F’rinstance, I wouldn’t’ve minded if Jean-as-Santa’s-heavily-made-up-elf had hiked up the skirt a little and shown a little more thigh…
“What the hell is going on?” – the tag line to Jeanie’s life!
try as I could i could not get the computer to look any lower on that last panel
LOL!
I think we all wanted our computers to do that. 😉
I thought they couldn’t remove the hat???
No, she just forgets about it, that’s been established.
OOOH! is it finally time, can they magically upgrade her costume/default form to remove the fez for good? Huzzah! Jubilation and such!
No more Archie McPhee “Pez and Fez” parties?
And it is her top that needs to go!
It just occurred to me, how come Jeannie does not have pointy ears like the other djinns?
Not all of them do.
Regarding Jeanie’s fez, there were only three genies seen with any sort of head gear other than wraps and scrunches for ponytails: Jeanie, Jehane, and the one in green and pink (2nd on left, page 478). It’s no wonder her makeover is going to exclude that fez.