@brigid
Chicago. Parent. Fat. Bisexual. Bipolar II. Loud. Still masking. Kind of cute if you squint. Nerdy, but in a way that's fairly socially acceptable now. I have a kid, Nikole, who is she/they and a spouse, N, who is he/him. Avatar by @rally.luckyraven.cc
My then-6 year old, clinging to a roof 8 feet above the ground: mama, I'm stuck, come get me!
Me, 5'3": You got out there, you can get back in!
They did, in fact, get back in.
This looks very similar to my kid's gradeschool playground in the 2020s, except this one isn't broken and doesn't have bright orange snow fence netting over the broken parts that kids squeeze through anyway.
I see you have encountered my kid!
His commentary is still up but nobody interacting with him can see your post, meaning everyone enraged by strawberries can no longer direct their ire at you and you're free to make a post about pancakes without risk of strawberry-based harassment.
For instance: You post "I like strawberries." John Dingleheimer quote posts you picking a fight about blueberries. Several people repost his quote, others quote post HIM quote posting your post. You block John Dingleheimer. Your post is now gone from every repost and quote post of his post.
Who is your favorite "Resident Alien" character and why is it Judy?
So it’s possible some of the criticisms people are making, which sound like wanting a return to Hays Code era restrictions, is more about an expression of frustration with fictional stories that are uninterested in modeling ideas about how regular folks can work to improve our collective lives
There is a ~lot~ of wealthaganda being pumped out by Hollywood right now where the stories provide zero consequences for vile actions and I think some audiences find that dissatisfying. Or superhero stories and copaganda, where the message is: Only those with extra-legal powers can be “heroes”
Adding to the absolutely bonkers "playgrounds are too safe!!!!!!!" complaints is the fact that kids still manage to find creative ways to injure themselves on modern playground equipment because they are gifted that way.
If I'm not risking a concussion I don't want to have fun!
"What's with all the incest in "Chronicles of Amber" fanfic," grouses someone who has managed to miss not only a whole lot of subtext but also straight up text while reading the series.
www.gocomics.com/luann/2026/0...
"And in conclusion, I haven't actually learned anything about myself or my life goals. Have some pureed pablum of the sort an uninterested 40-something year old would dribble out to a teen they weren't too fond of."
Libraries feature in both today's "Wallace the Brave" and also "Nancy."
In one we discover just how destructive a specific child is.
In the other we discover just how sexy Aunt Fritzi is.
Gold stars for both.
What kind of fancy ass playground equipment in the early 00s was almost entirely plastic????
Anyway I'm surprised it isn't a photo of nothing but wobbly metal and shit, you know, from back when it was considered A Good Thing to have kids regularly break bones playing.
Mark should be permitted a little murder, as a treat.
I'm just glad he didn't like... wind up marrying Janice or something. Oh no. I shouldn't have said anything!!!!!
This is such a pointless thing to get riled up over. I agree.
#9CL #9ChickweedLane
He has demonstrated an ability to have men in grey flannel suits in boats for months at a time. Why is this guy wading through water (treading water?) fully dressed?
The logic in the strip is generally internally consist, if you're familiar with the way the strip functions.
This isn't consistent.
So we had Thorax, Mermaid, Thorax, Thorax, Piano Fuckery, Mermaid again.
This is one of the things that bugs me about McEldowney. You want a series of Thorax Wordplay? Fine. Put it in one solid chunk. You want a guy in a grey flannel suit who's inexplicably in water up to his neck? Chunk it.
OTOH her "information" could very well be "Sarah physically assaulted me when I encountered her in a public place." Which Tony wouldn't be cool with.
"No, no. You don't understand. Yes, it's against the rules to smoke in a dorm, especially to smoke a drug. But. She was SAD. She HAD to smoke the drug."
"I see. So Sarah enforced the rules. Thank you for clarifying."
www.dumbingofage.com/comic/offsea...
"You see, Tony, Sarah... followed the RULES and reported someone for BREAKING THEM."
"I have never found her more sexually attractive. Thank you."
Luckily it didn't stick, I think because there were so many other targets and I shut things down quickly. But it was like... dude, how pathetic ARE you that you're spending time on this?
Yeah, same here.
Dude name searched on twitter and directed people at me. I had to go private for a bit. I had like 0.001% of the followers he did.
Yeah my husband's been having a craving for it.
Apparently someone needs to say it again but you can just not imply that Trump is an awful person because he's fat. You can just list one of the million ways he's morally and ethically terrible. It's not his fatness, I assure you.
Your fat friends and family can hear what you're saying.
I might swing through the Eastern European Grocery Store this weekend and get both and also some rose hip jam.
I'm such a water baby, too. I need to get into the lake this summer.
Ugh. Maybe I'll brown some onion, garlic, and minced beef and put it in some store-bought pie crust to make """hand pies""". Maybe I just really want onion-y meat.
One time I spent over an hour in a too-small inner tube on a lazy river with a very short loop and I emerged refreshed and renewed. What could a goo tank do? I'd love to find out.