this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Niece is left handed to emphasize how sinister she is

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if her sinister nature affects her dexterity.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So much so that the french call it gauche ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe even Rive Gauch, depending on her artistic preferences.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
sinister                left (handed)

same-picture

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

I unironically love sad girl books

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm disappointed the tea isn't labelled

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

*latest fad

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not big on Sad Girl books, but it's a genre of music I listen to quite a lot.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sad Girl music like Daughter and Julien Baker?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the rec on Daughter. It's amazing stuff and I'm honestly amazed I somehow missed it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Apes of the State have a cool sound, will have to dig more into them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there some emotional opposite of that, too, you know of?

Like happy people?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tag yourself, I'm Tedious Poetry

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I'm the bug watching her write

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I’m the flip flop just barely hanging on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Journaling*

Looks like this cishet is ending on a Hot Girl Summer.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This looks like a yoloswag or whatever his name is comic

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that comic heavily influenced by Kelly comics?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're riffing on that political comic in the Watchmen, in the New Frontiersman newspaper. CWing for fash shit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Considering Alan Moore's politics that also has to be riffing on something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.