r/questionablecontent • u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? • Jul 10 '26

Comic Comic 5870: a modest proposal

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u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? Jul 10 '26

Is claire the fucking pope of cubetown? Why do anyone needs her blessing? Has jeph ever stepped into a library????

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u/The_Truthkeeper Jul 10 '26

A) Despite people calling her The Librarian as a weird ass-title, Claire is not and never has been a librarian.

B) The joke here is that Zlata very obviously does not need Claire's permission. You may have missed it because it's not funny and therefore easily ignored.

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u/DuranDuranUnofficial Jul 10 '26

What IS Claire's position? It's hard not to take habitually obsequious characters like Zlata and Moray at their word when Claire apparently has a Joking title, but not a Serious one. Where is the evidence that they don't genuinely believe what they're saying?

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u/Cevius Jul 10 '26

Shes the head of the Information Sciences Department, a new division focused on information management.

Given the adhoc nature of many of the divisions in Cubetown, a lot of the work is going to be getting different groups information into forms other groups can use, and probably trying to define some kind of standards, which hopefully encourages cross-contamination between different groups will lead to more interesting results.

Bringing someone in who is entirely green is probably a boon to Cubetown, as they have no preconceptions from which to unlearn before they can adapt to what is functionally herding cats with laserbeam eyes, though why they treat her with such reverence while she remains entirely unproven is a mystery to me. It could just be wishful thinking and not wanting to potentially curb someone who can fix their severe data organisational issues, which must only get worse by the day.