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Sad girl books
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Niece is left handed to emphasize how sinister she is
I wonder if her sinister nature affects her dexterity.
So much so that the french call it gauche ?
Maybe even Rive Gauch, depending on her artistic preferences.
sinister left (handed)
Why are all the kids nowadays reading (bad) instead of watching TV (good)? 😥
I unironically love sad girl books
Virginia Lone Woolf
I'm disappointed the tea isn't labelled
*latest fad
I'm not big on Sad Girl books, but it's a genre of music I listen to quite a lot.
Sad Girl music like Daughter and Julien Baker?
Daughter is new to me, but I love some Baker. Apes of the State, Boygenius, Billie Eyelash are a whole bunch of great musicians, imo.
Youth by Daughter is a great taste of their style. Love Boygenius and like Billie, will have to give Apes of the State a listen.
Thanks for the rec on Daughter. It's amazing stuff and I'm honestly amazed I somehow missed it.
Apes of the State have a cool sound, will have to dig more into them.
Is there some emotional opposite of that, too, you know of?
Like happy people?
I think Kero Kero Bonito's Bonito Generation fits the bill! "Try Me" is one of my go-to pick-me-up songs, "Heard a Song" is good vibes, and "Break" is maximum comfy.
Tag yourself, I'm Tedious Poetry
I'm the bug watching her write
I’m the flip flop just barely hanging on
Journaling*
Looks like this cishet is ending on a Hot Girl Summer.
Even though I know incongruity is a part of these things, the combination of small roof and gable end—making the house look British—with an AC unit labelled as "trusty"—implying a long history—bothers me. Does anywhere else have houses like this?
This looks like a yoloswag or whatever his name is comic
Isn't that comic heavily influenced by Kelly comics?
Could be, I just see Kelly and Yoloswag in passing, not huge into political cartoons anymore. I always thought they were riffing on Garrison, but this feels like Garrison anyways
They're both riffing in Garrison for sure, but Kelly comics satirizing conservative political cartoons actually predates Ben Garrison. Seems the Onion has been publishing them since 2006
Kelly's shtick is a satire of political cartoonists in general, who as a group lean right. I'd say Garrison's idiosyncrasies don't have all that much influence. Even the excessive labelling is just a genre trope.
naw they’re riffing on garrison. all Kelly comics are exaggerated conservative takes for satire
e: atp not much exaggeration is needed, so it sometimes comes off as genuine
Ok so this is a bit that makes sense lol, this comic was so fucking funny I had a hard time believing it was genuine.
They're riffing on that political comic in the Watchmen, in the New Frontiersman newspaper. CWing for fash shit.
Considering Alan Moore's politics that also has to be riffing on something.
I've always liked this particular cartoon because it shows how detached from reality the fascists in Watchmen are. It's criticizing the Keene act, which criminalized superheroes and Doug Roth, who is a journalist critical of superheroes who spent his life unmasking them. It's valorizing superheroes in a completely fabricated context, even for the storyline.
The stereotypical superhero portrayed is this blonde white guy with a typical conservative idea of a family, a wife and two kids. That's not true of any of the superheroes portrayed in Watchmen. Most of them are some level of deranged, especially Rorschach. The only two blonde Aryan superheroes were Ozymandias and Captain Metropolis, who were both gay. Not only that, but the comic is antisemitic, despite both Nite Owl II and Doctor Manhattan being Jewish.
Also I'm pretty sure the crying statue of liberty is supposed to be visually similar to the angel statue at the Comedian's funeral.
Alan Moore is a genius.
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