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Antihistamine

by David M Willis on August 4, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Vote for Robin
└ Tags: doctor beverly, jennifer, ruth

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    August 4, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

    ANOTHER YEAR CLOSER TO THE GRAVE

    • fire_daws
      fire_daws
      August 4, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      Sorry, another awful birthday comic for you. Still, you have the 2016 one.

    • Yet_One_More_Idiot
      Yet_One_More_Idiot
      August 4, 2019 at 1:30 am | #

      Ouch, this comment…and my birthday is only 2 days away, too.

    • Michelle J. Caboose
      Michelle J. Caboose
      August 4, 2019 at 2:19 am | #

      Another year over; a new one just begun.

    • Icalasari
      Icalasari
      August 4, 2019 at 3:00 am | #

      Hey, chin up! At least this one ended up Ruth being alive and not on Blaine’s creepy as all hell face that gives puppies nightmares while causing babies to scream in terror

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      August 4, 2019 at 4:04 am | #

      Could be worse, this could have been another Blaine and Asher comic.

    • Abel Undercity
      Abel Undercity
      August 4, 2019 at 6:48 am | #

      You have the same birthday as my girlfriend. Clearly it’s a day that produces awesome people.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        August 5, 2019 at 12:00 am | #

        also a significantly less terrible president than the current one

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 4, 2019 at 9:07 am | #

      God speed, Ana Chronistic. God speed.

      Oh, wait.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        August 4, 2019 at 9:30 am | #

        God Slow, Anna. God slow.

        FIFY

  2. Rabid Rabbit
    Rabid Rabbit
    August 4, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    I like Dr. Beverly’s complete refusal to take Ruth’s longing for the grave seriously. The lady gets when it’s just rhetorical.

    • AntJ
      AntJ
      August 4, 2019 at 12:29 am | #

      Yeah, “frankly I’d rather have died” and “I long for the peace of the grave” are somewhat worrisome but far less scary than the stuff she was saying before Carla turned her in. At least her eyes are more than dots now.

  3. Deathjavu
    Deathjavu
    August 4, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh right, the other train we were watching was also in the middle of a crash.

    …is there anyone we can check in on right now that isn’t a friggen trainwreck??

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      August 4, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

      Dina sleeping on her new plush, maybe?

      • AntJ
        AntJ
        August 4, 2019 at 12:32 am | #

        probably turns up in the end-of-book bedtime montage strip

      • Alanari
        Alanari
        August 4, 2019 at 1:33 am | #

        You mean, the plush that could cause all kinds of trouble for becky?

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          August 4, 2019 at 1:57 am | #

          Could it really, though? Can we actually break down #RaptorGate so even a legally-illiterate individual is able to understand exactly why purchasing a gigantic plush dinosaur can result in Bad Consequences and specifically which ones?

          • Alanari
            Alanari
            August 4, 2019 at 2:16 am | #

            To quote becky, it’s “baby’s first campaign finance violation”. Basically, she stole money from her employer to buy her girlfriend a gift.
            I’d at least be fired for that.

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              August 4, 2019 at 4:08 am | #

              But it has “vote for Robin” embroidered somewhere on it, so technically you could justify it as very specific lobbying to the almost-19-year-old-aspiring-paleontologist demographic.

              Campaign finance laws are so loosely interpreted and poorly enforced in the US…

              • Eldritch Gentleman
                Eldritch Gentleman
                August 4, 2019 at 6:04 am | #

                They can totally spin it as being nice to the autistic community.

              • ajm5007
                ajm5007
                August 4, 2019 at 8:27 am | #

                Using campaign money to buy a gift for one specific voter is stop a violation, even if the gift is campaign merch. That said, it won’t be obvious from the paper trail that that’s why the item was purchased, so she might get away with it.

                • ajm5007
                  ajm5007
                  August 4, 2019 at 8:28 am | #

                  *still a violation

                • DSL
                  DSL
                  August 4, 2019 at 3:46 pm | #

                  Doubtful the purchase of a plushie would be an issue even if discovered, unless there were sufficient political points to be made and it was perceived the race was _that_ close. And then Robin pulls out the sympathy stops as others in this thread have detailed or alluded to, and if she’s savvy enough (or, more likely if Becky is), The Hon. Ms. DeSanto makes the dino-plushie equivalent of Nixon’s “Checkers” speech. It works.

      • David
        David
        August 4, 2019 at 1:03 pm | #

        Only to find out that Becky went full science hog and what she thought was a plushie was a Jurassic Park style mosquito blood clone bred using ostrich eggs.

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      August 4, 2019 at 12:19 am | #

      Amber and Walkie are… oh, yeah, they’re train-wrecking each other right now. On the roof.

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        August 4, 2019 at 1:36 am | #

        Is that what the kids are calling it now?

    • Zach
      Zach
      August 4, 2019 at 12:50 am | #

      Ethan. Is he still courting Danny, or have they both moved on?

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        August 4, 2019 at 1:10 am | #

        Let them fuck!

        They’re undoubtedly still attracted to each other. Whether or not they will ever *court* each other — I wouldn’t take that bet at any odds. But I would take a bet on whether or not they ever have sex.

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          August 4, 2019 at 1:15 am | #

          That first line was supposed to start with (left angle bracket Jeph) and end with (slash Jeph right angle bracket).

          I’m tired of having to remember so many fucking different standards for marking up text. We have fucking regressed on that front even more than we have fucking regressed in — so many fucking areas.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            August 4, 2019 at 4:12 am | #

            HTML is the OG, Markup and BBCode are just pale imitations.

            [fake] Brackets should work. [/fake]

            • Marsh Maryrose
              Marsh Maryrose
              August 4, 2019 at 4:48 pm | #

              I know a philologist who was marking up text in SGML years before HTML was a gleam in Tim Berners-Lee’s eye.

          • DSL
            DSL
            August 4, 2019 at 3:48 pm | #

            However, I fucking see that the fucking use of the f-bomb as a fucking catch-0all adjective and as a fucking random fucking punctuation substitute fucking proceeds with all possible fucking speed.

            • DSL
              DSL
              August 4, 2019 at 3:49 pm | #

              Sorry, I meant “fucking f-bomb.”

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              August 4, 2019 at 4:23 pm | #

              You’re missing the true beauty of the f-word by reducing to the adjective. Proper usage covers nearly every part of speech.

              Fuck it! The fucking fuckers fucking fucked.

              • DSL
                DSL
                August 4, 2019 at 9:33 pm | #

                See, that kind of comprehensive creativity I can appreciate.

              • Zach
                Zach
                August 4, 2019 at 10:31 pm | #

                Fucked fucking fuckers fucked fucking fucking fuckers

            • Marsh Maryrose
              Marsh Maryrose
              August 4, 2019 at 5:01 pm | #

              I can’t be the only person who’s ever wondered if the Love Boat cruised on the Fucking Sea.

  4. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    August 4, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 9: It’s Excruciating, and I Long For the Peace of the Grave

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      August 4, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

      Dumbing of Age Book IX: It’s a Step on the Way to Success

    • Chris
      Chris
      August 4, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

      Dumbing of Age Book 9: Frankly I Think I’d Rather Have Died.

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      August 4, 2019 at 12:44 am | #

      **reads shadowcells’ post**
      **FUCKING DIES**
      Oh shit. These are usually pretty good, but they don’t normally put me on the fucking floor. I have literal tears in my eyes from laughing and I think I might have peed a little.
      Bravo, shadowcell. You have officially made my evening.

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 4, 2019 at 8:14 am | #

        Is the best title so far.

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 4, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Well, this is gonna be a needed conversation.

    I’ll keep the broom right here just in case.

  6. Meagan
    Meagan
    August 4, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Agreed, Ruth. Platitudes may be a leading cause of suicide.

    • zombycow
      zombycow
      August 4, 2019 at 1:35 am | #

      I gotta say, as someone that is currently going through therapy, and has come waaay too close to killing himself, I really understand what Ruth means in her hatred of platitudes.

      Platitudes are those things you say that you know wont make people feel better, but you feel like you need to say them because the alternative is being quiet.

      Your ___ love(s) you
      ____ needs you
      you are wanted
      you are special
      It’s just another step on the road to recovery.

      Those movie/comic lines that make the listener tear up from the knowledge that he/she is loved or cared for. but they don’t work that way in real life.
      The listener hears those lines and thinks “Oh, so you’re out of ideas…” because it sounds like it’s coming from a prompter, or it’s being read off a cue card.

      they gave me meds that made me feel angry, sad, unable to eat, and suicidal. i told them i didn’t want anymore, but they told me “there are so many meds out there! One of them is bound to work”
      I know this was meant to be inspirational, to say “there’s still hope” but all i heard was “we’re gonna keep chucking random pills at you and maybe one of them will work.”

      all these goddamn platitudes….. they all have a hint of selfishness or uncaring in them

      Your family loves you: dont die, they will be sad.
      they need you: you can’t die, you have to live for their sake. suffer so they don’t have to go through your death
      you are wanted: other people need you
      suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem: we don’t know if its temporary or not, but you should still keep living anyway, even though each day is painful and worse than death.

      • AntJ
        AntJ
        August 4, 2019 at 1:42 am | #

        If there was a like button, I’d click it.

      • Jaime
        Jaime
        August 4, 2019 at 9:36 am | #

        @zombycow: I am so sorry.

    • Jaime
      Jaime
      August 4, 2019 at 9:33 am | #

      I REALLY hope I’m not being offensive or disrespecting anyone’s experience by posting this. I am clinically depressed and have been suicidal in the past. Sometimes I *need* to hear those “platitudes.”

      When I “backslide” and self-sabotage in one way or another, I tend to immediately start metaphorically beating myself up and thinking I’m a complete and total failure. It sometimes helps to hear that back-sliding can be part of the process of working on mental wellness and I don’t have to start all over, crawling up from the bottom of the pit, again.

      While I know that I have people in my life that would be hurt and miss me if I checked out in one way or another, my traitorous brain sometimes insists on telling me that I don’t matter to anyone and that everyone in my life would be better off if I just wasn’t around anymore. At those times I really do need to be told that people care about and value me.

      I know that not everyone feels that way and, again, I hope I’m not dismissing or disrespecting anyone’s experience. I apologize if I am.

  7. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    August 4, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Alt text: Yes. So, when will you two have a date that isn’t like this?

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      August 4, 2019 at 1:10 am | #

      I mean, to be fair, Billie technically tried to have a second date that wasn’t like this. …on the other hand, since there was drinking, she apparently succeeded.

  8. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    August 4, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    Got an attitude about platitudes

    • m-m
      m-m
      August 4, 2019 at 8:36 am | #

      When a monotreme has attitude is it a platy-tude?

  9. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    August 4, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    *plays the Bee Gees/Peter Frampton version of “Getting Better” on the hacked Muzak*

  10. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    August 4, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

    Ruth: I think I would have preferred to die. Me: Yeah that’s the fucking problem

    • Viktoria
      Viktoria
      August 4, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

      Nah, it’s pretty normal. If you’re suicidal long enough, it stops being a serious thought and more just an idle “no coffee this morning? Why don’t I just die?”

      • MatthewTheLucky
        MatthewTheLucky
        August 4, 2019 at 1:17 am | #

        Yeah that’s the fucking problem

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          August 4, 2019 at 1:48 am | #

          Do you guys not get powerful, sincere urges to lie down in front of a lorry whenever a situation becomes sufficiently inconvenient? Or like, slap your head in the fryers at work because hey, it’s right there and in a few seconds none of it could be your problem anymore?

          Uh, me neither. >.>

          • Clif
            Clif
            August 4, 2019 at 8:16 am | #

            I don’t know. No coffee is pretty serious.

            • Delicious Taffy
              Delicious Taffy
              August 4, 2019 at 2:03 pm | #

              For real, though. If I don’t get that extra reserve of energy before work, my spoons are gone halfway through the shift. A body and mind can only run on empty for so long before the whole operation shuts down.

        • not someone else
          not someone else
          August 4, 2019 at 4:11 am | #

          I think a more useful way to put it might be “when someone is able to joke about their depression, chances are good they are actually feeling slightly less terrible that second”. It’s when someone gets quiet about it and acts like it’s not there that it’s a problem, because that means they’re no longer seeking help and reassurance.

      • Eldritch Gentleman
        Eldritch Gentleman
        August 4, 2019 at 5:56 am | #

        A suicidal person’s brain gets really good at being suicidal thanks to neuroplasticity… that’s friggin scary.

  11. Sporky
    Sporky
    August 4, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

    Any time Billie looks at Ruth like that my heart melts even though it really shouldn’t

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 4, 2019 at 8:20 am | #

      Love. Twu Love.

      Yeah, me too.

  12. He Who Abides
    He Who Abides
    August 4, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

    Well, this is fucking depressing.

  13. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 4, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

    🙁

    • fire_daws
      fire_daws
      August 4, 2019 at 7:34 am | #

      Your Gravatar couldn’t be more opposite to your comment.

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 4, 2019 at 8:22 am | #

        I’m not sure I want to see the version of the gravatar that isn’t.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        August 4, 2019 at 2:39 pm | #

        That’s a pretty common problem with my gravatar.

  14. AntJ
    AntJ
    August 4, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

    how did I just notice that Willis puts serifs on the letter I only if it’s the word “I” itself or a derived contraction, and I’s in words like “it” are sans serif

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      August 4, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

      Whoa I didn’t catch that either til you pointed it out. That’s interesting.

      • mrnoidea
        mrnoidea
        August 4, 2019 at 12:51 am | #

        Perhaps it’s one of the subtleties of good fonts in comics.

        • Chris
          Chris
          August 4, 2019 at 9:31 am | #

          Yup. I’ve been involved in the creation of a few professional manga translations, and capital I (the one that’s printed with serifs) is only used for the pronoun. All other i’s are lowercase (printed sans serif), even at the start of a sentence.

        • davidbreslin101
          davidbreslin101
          August 4, 2019 at 3:26 pm | #

          …alongside the reason why Marvel are never going to take up my comic idea “Flicking Clint.”

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      August 4, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

      That’s standard comic convention, actually.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        August 4, 2019 at 1:04 am | #

        And one Willis is quite vocal about. I never ever actually noticed it until I saw him ranting about some comic that wasn’t following the convention.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        August 4, 2019 at 7:59 pm | #

        Wow; I did not notice. And when I was a kid, back before the internets (and before newspaper comics were postage-stamp sized) I took all the books of old comics out of the library.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      August 4, 2019 at 1:26 am | #

      Honestly, this isn’t Comics Fonts 101. This is more like Comics Fonts for Non-Comic Makers. Tomorrow’s lesson: Why Are Comics Lettered in All-Caps, Anyway? The day after that: When To Use Bold, When To Use Italics, When To Use All Caps, and Why It Matters.

      (Actually, the last one is like a week-long seminar.)

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 4, 2019 at 8:37 am | #

        Wait. You mean all this time all the comic characters haven’t been yelling at each other?

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        August 4, 2019 at 8:02 pm | #

        I always liked this Leftover Soup as an example of how and when to escalate comics lettering.

        http://www.leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=876

  15. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    August 4, 2019 at 12:39 am | #

    Billie, Ruth… just do the right thing and seek help… but knowing Willis and his current writing of and Injustice League I doubt that will happen soon.

  16. Robert
    Robert
    August 4, 2019 at 12:58 am | #

    Doctor Beverly may be the perkiest, most alert human being in this fictive universe. Her wide-eyed intensity is very nearly frightening.

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      August 4, 2019 at 9:42 am | #

      Hi Robert! Have you met Lucy?

  17. Pocky
    Pocky
    August 4, 2019 at 1:10 am | #

    Hopefully there aren’t any sentient zombie outbreaks in the future.

  18. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    August 4, 2019 at 1:16 am | #

    Ruth, it’s JUST an allergic reaction. No need to do anything rash.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      August 4, 2019 at 1:17 am | #

      Bah dum tss

    • MatthewTheLucky
      MatthewTheLucky
      August 4, 2019 at 1:22 am | #

      She’s got a histamy of bad decisions.

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        August 4, 2019 at 1:28 am | #

        You were just itching to say that, weren’t you.

        • Clif
          Clif
          August 4, 2019 at 8:38 am | #

          This comment chain is too short and isn’t up to scratch.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            August 4, 2019 at 9:40 am | #

            If everyone on this chain be-hives themselves, it’ll be OK, just don’t let it get too swollen.

            • davidbreslin101
              davidbreslin101
              August 4, 2019 at 3:29 pm | #

              Everyone’s trying to think of antihistamine puns, but there really aren’t a loratadine.
              [crickets]

  19. PB
    PB
    August 4, 2019 at 1:21 am | #

    Her eyes are still green, it’s okay…

    Also BILLIE. THERAPY. GO. DO IT FOR YOUR LADY.

  20. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    August 4, 2019 at 1:34 am | #

    Ruth has antihistamine depression–it’s not to be sneezed at!

  21. Keulen
    Keulen
    August 4, 2019 at 2:13 am | #

    Doctor Beverly is adorable and I hope we see more of her in the future. Hopefully in a non-medical emergency context at some point.

    • CJ
      CJ
      August 4, 2019 at 6:40 am | #

      Should we start shipping her with Leslie?

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 4, 2019 at 8:24 am | #

        It’s never too early.

  22. SpaceshipPilot
    SpaceshipPilot
    August 4, 2019 at 2:14 am | #

    I still wonder if Beverly is her first name or her last name.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      August 4, 2019 at 2:18 am | #

      If it’s her first name, I wonder if her last name is Crusher.

      • Danielle
        Danielle
        August 4, 2019 at 3:18 am | #

        clearly her first name is doctor

  23. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 4, 2019 at 3:18 am | #

    In panel 5, Billie seems to be saying: “Can you please not die. I’d vastly prefer you to be alive, even if I am not.”

    • Shane Wegner
      Shane Wegner
      August 4, 2019 at 3:30 am | #

      “I do want to drink and you to drink with me and not improve myself in any way so far either though”. Maybe she will change.

  24. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    August 4, 2019 at 4:24 am | #

    Ex-cheerleader. Alpha bongo. Problem solver causer.

    • StClair
      StClair
      August 4, 2019 at 1:03 pm | #

      Billie, the cause of, and solution to, all many of Ruth’s problems.

  25. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 4, 2019 at 4:42 am | #

    “Now, focus on the good times, like when you beat the snot out of Amber’s abusive shitweasle of a father. That will cheer you up.”

    “True… But what are the odds of running into him again? Even he is not stupid enough to creep around campus again.”

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 4, 2019 at 8:42 am | #

      I’m glad that’s settled.

  26. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    August 4, 2019 at 4:59 am | #

    Urgh, platitudes.

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 4, 2019 at 8:46 am | #

      In my day we had platitudes from breakfast.

      And liked it.

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 4, 2019 at 9:01 am | #

        In my day we had spell correctors that would substitute words at random.

        We didn’t like it.

  27. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    August 4, 2019 at 7:06 am | #

    One of those situations where silence hurts more than screams.

  28. Owlmirror
    Owlmirror
    August 4, 2019 at 7:10 am | #

    Ruth, if you die, Howard will be all alone with his abusive grandfather, and Bille will blame herself and probably drink herself to death. <- Too fucken dark.

    Ruth, if you die, you will never, ever, ever, be able to put together a team consisting of your girlfriend and current hall residents to pull off a heist with bribes, sweet pranks, and a little applied mayhem and humiliation for the deserving that will transfer custody of Howard to someone who isn’t an abusive shit, and as an unrelated side benefit, engineer things such that the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Cup.

  29. Geneseepaws
    Geneseepaws
    August 4, 2019 at 7:17 am | #

    The last panel. Ruth’s is the most grim face, the worst case of cement-set stubborn grim resolve I’ve seen in this –or any comic. The Awe on Billingsworth’s face, is the just jarring in it’s??surprise?? It’s what?

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 4, 2019 at 8:56 am | #

      She’s just working u the nerve to ask Ruth on a third date.

  30. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    August 4, 2019 at 8:27 am | #

    I don’t think Billie has ever looked more Asian than in the last panel.

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 4, 2019 at 8:57 am | #

      It must be those inscrutable genes.

  31. kilgaen
    kilgaen
    August 4, 2019 at 8:28 am | #

    Billie realising she gotta step up

  32. OrangeJester
    OrangeJester
    August 4, 2019 at 10:06 am | #

    I love the comic, but I’ve never commented before. I’ve been on an antidepressant for a while now. I recently got a sinus infection that was making me feel like total crap. I went to urgent care and, along with antibiotics, the doctor said to get an antihistamine. I bought the extra strength due to how bad I was feeling. Little did I know, one of the interactions of my antidepressant was to make your body absorb a higher percentage of antihistamines than normal. After a couple of days of the antihistamine, I was super drowsy and had trouble walking due to how dizzy I was. I had basically overdosed on antihistamines. Moral of the story, always check your meds for interactions.

    • Old Fart
      Old Fart
      August 4, 2019 at 12:33 pm | #

      Fun fact: some antidepressants interact with ADHD stimulant meds to cause extreme anger, insomnia, even paranoia. More fun: these people often then get misdiagnosed as bipolar. Funnest of all: Since ADHD and depression often coexist (constantly failing while trying your best and being told to “try harder” is pretty fucking depressing), misprecribing drugs to produce toxic interactions is pretty common.
      Personally I’m not on any meds, not because I couldn’t use the help, but because they never work for me. My body chemistry is weird somehow.

  33. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    August 4, 2019 at 11:45 am | #

    Alas it’s true – the road to recovery has obstacles along the way. Ruth just hit her first pothole but it and the other obstructions will not be the end-all of a better life.

  34. Vulcanodon
    Vulcanodon
    August 4, 2019 at 3:28 pm | #

    Platitudes make it harder to trust. I have written several paragraphs after that sentence, several times today, and each time erased them.

    • Vulcanodon
      Vulcanodon
      August 4, 2019 at 3:31 pm | #

      Character I really relate to these days…

      Rockhoof: “Twilight, please understand. I want to be remembered as the hero I was, not the disappointment I’ve become.”

  35. Chessboard
    Chessboard
    August 4, 2019 at 4:00 pm | #

    Meanwhile Billie is like: “I can’t see a single thing. I only know I’m in the right place as I can just sense Ruth’s grumpiness.”

  36. Graham
    Graham
    August 5, 2019 at 3:18 am | #

    Relapse = Success
    Well, time to start drinking!

  37. nightshade
    nightshade
    August 5, 2019 at 3:25 pm | #

    i dont think the way the doctor left was a good thing although theres usually wither a eyeroll or a “sadly shaking her head ” type of thing ……

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