On the flip side though they do generally have an average penis length of 6 ft so the joke can still work it just needs to be the penis instead of the balls
I love Buttercup Festival so much. You could frame any strip, any panel and put it on your wall.
I feel like the artist really captured Bill Watterson’s nature aesthetic.
What was the other one, the spooky monochrome ink comic, felt a bit like Spooky Stories you Tell in the Dark but less horrifying but still pretty horrifying? Like maybe midway between Spooky Stories and Edward Gorey. Deadmouse? Ballad! Ballad… I’m gonna go be nostalgic about that. https://web.archive.org/web/20060701020635/http://www.deadmouse.net/ballad/bd1.htm
And to deliver this profound message of “people are inherently distrustful” they needed 20 panels.
They could have done this in one. Have each caveman holding out one hand to pass food and the other hand holding a club behind their backs.
Want to really illustrate the groundbreaking idea that people don’t trust each other? Make a second panel with knights replacing the cavemen and swords replacing clubs, then a third panel swapping in businessmen holding pistols.
If humor wasn’t the goal that’s… fine, but being long-winded in a format based on brevity undermines the message. Using 20 panels guarantees that half of the people who bother to look at the comic won’t finish it. Those that do will probably be bored or even resentful that their time was wasted, making them less receptive to the message.
I find it interesting that your takeaway was “people are inherently distrustful.” While there is truth to that, my interpretation was that “progress can be slow, but it is progress nonetheless.” In this case the “slow” of the message was communicated through the panel count.
I don’t think they told “a joke”, nor intended to. This was a humorous exchange as well as a commentary on human nature. My day is better for having read it.
Bill Watterson is one of the greatest comic artists ever, and even he said (paraphrased) “I enjoy a funny conversation more than just one punchline”.
Another great person, Empricorn said “let people enjoy what they like”.
Yeah, I had cat’s growing up, and I just thought it was normal not to be able to breathe through your nose for long periods of time. By the time I moved out I wasn’t allergic anymore.
We had a neighborhood cat who would show up at the back door meowing for treats and scritches. I am strongly allergic and would run inside after petting her to wash my hands thoroughly and take two Benadryl.
I would still break out in hives all over my arms every single time. But I couldn’t just not pet her! This meme is perfect.
Reality check I developed is rolling eyes far up. If you close your eyelids and then roll the eyes, you can notice how it lifts them (the eyelids) up a little.
While in REM and actually seeing dreams, you retain eye control, so by rolling your eyes you open them up and effectively wake up.
This allows me to escape most nightmares, good stuff
There is no way to “remember” it per-say, you could only somehow train it to be a subconscious habit, these transfer into dreams. Not sure how I did it with mine, I had developed it in childhood, but I do use this trick even in irl when I’m scared, as a reality check.
I’m sorry but how is this extremely amarican. Like the Japanese also assist echother the Russians assist echother. I’m sure people in China and north Korea have friends that assist echother.
Non-ethical could mean without ethics not in violation of ethics?
I guess that would mean the relationship has not or could not be defined by petty human rules of conduct. Like telling a supernova or a black hole to clean up it’s mess.
“situationships” I think is the key operator. Where there’s probably a power dynamic, one person is being led on/getting played, and the other person is the player.
It’s a piss take of the ethical non-monogamy apps.
But if we’re being a bit real - nonconsentual arranged marriages, 50 year age gaps, marriage for money, marriage for convenience etc etc would fit the bill
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