A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Edison Rex
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Angel's Orchard
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Cyanide & Happiness
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Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Sleepless Domain
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In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Stand Still, Stay Silent
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Empowered
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A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Barbarous
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A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
Sister Claire
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Peritale
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A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
Novae
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The Messenger
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In a ruin-abound town cursed with bad luck, Kai and Kalla--a young boy and a fledgling dragonbird spirit--take on a quest in hopes the reward will solve all of their problems.
The Golden Boar
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A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Nigh Heaven & Hell
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Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
Blindsprings
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Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
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A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Three Panel Soul
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It's a pretty rigid format but we keep the content loose, you know?
Guilded Age
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Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
The Weave
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A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Monster's Garden
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Champion pit fighter Kilo Monster was content to spend the rest of his days tending to his quiet garden alone... until he met a curious robot girl and her human family.
Not Drunk Enough
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Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
Freakshow
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A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
Lies Within
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Sakana
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Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
Darkling Bright
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At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
Saint for Rent
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Ozzie the Vampire
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Dumbing of Age
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Heroes of Thantopolis
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Namesake
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There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Augustine
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August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
Little Tiny Things
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No. Good start Lucy. When Sarah hears Jacob moaning in ways she wants him to do while on top of her but instead hes under Lucy, and that noise shatters her heart, then Lucy will have done a good job.
Big same! I was very into Love Story and I liked her other stuff. Then I started to be interested in other artists. Of course, when my sister became obsessed, I got annoyed with Swift. I got more respectful about it because I love my sister, but I still try to avoid Swift’s music.
I can confidently tell you that all it takes is a single charismatic kid doing so, and something like that will return, at least on a micro scale. XD
Last year I was working in a school, where one of the students, a very friendly and likable guy, referred to everyone as ‘fellas’, and individuals as ‘my fellow!’; by January about a third of the students were calling each other fellas. XD
“Fellas” definitely has come back into mainstream use. I hear that one all the time. Maybe it never went anywhere, but I don’t hear its gender contemporaries like “dames” or “broads” nearly as much at least not in the states.
I’m pretty sure it’s a vaudeville reference, as a shortening of the “sad trombone” used to indicate something comically bad or sad happening. A sort of musical sting for a particular kind of punchline used to indicate that the audience should laugh, much like the rim shot but with a different context/connotation.
I don’t know when specifically it began seeing use as an onomatopoeia for conversational use, but I imagine it couldn’t have been long after the 1930s as that’s more or less when vaudeville died, or it may have been during or after the vaudeville revival in the ’50s. It may have occurred rather later, of course, as the musical sting entered the cultural lexicon and thus was used in other media, first adopted into film by comedy movies largely inspired by vaudeville acts, like the works of Abbot and Costello and The Three Stooges, and still shows up to this day on occasion.
It actually dates back to the 1800s, if you can believe that. It’s a shortened onomatopoeia of the full “sad trombone” riff. You can hear it at https://wompwompwomp.com/
Apparently it is an album deep cut that got rereleased last year and was a pop hit. I haven’t willingly listened to pop radio in years and I was never enough of a fan to go diving through her albums so it makes sense that I haven’t heard of it
I feel like Taylor Swift is big enough to where she might have just picked some stuff up by just cultural osmosis, hearing it playing when the Spotify playlist goes to random or even just over the speakers at walmart
I mean, I guess she isn’t the most culturally tapped into the pulse of things, but it’d still take some serious doing to not know any Taylor Swift songs.
Sal’s music classes or whatever have required her and Danny to practice MBop by Hanson, which she pointedly refused to remember the title of. I’d guess she now knows a lot of songs that wouldn’t be considered her kind of music.
My older brother listened to her a lot when we were in high school, but the vast majority of my non-consensual T-Swizzle experience was from the muzak at an old job of mine.
I’m never going to get “Shake It Off” out of my head. It was for a while and then I started reading comments and now it’s back.
I literally hate that I can’t find a single Taylor Swift song that I sincerely enjoy. It actually feels bad to admit that you don’t really care for her music. People read things into it, that I REALLY don’t want them to think about me! But I just can’t find anything appealing about it, besides being catchy and competently written! And the people who like it, are clearly connecting with it on a pretty deep level, so I know there’s something there. It’s frustrating.
Have you heard All Too Well? Maybe it was just the stuff I was going through at the time, but I fell in love with that song so much. I was never a big fan of Swift but I listened to that so many times.
Have you heard Safe and Sound? I am really not into Taylor Swift (I don’t hate her music, just not really my thing generally) but I have a Swiftie kid who was DETERMINED to find a song I’d like and she knocked it out of the park with this one.
It’s SO different from the other poppy songs of hers I’m used to. Very heavy folk influence. It’s literally on my “faves” playlist now.
And while I’m at it, if my kid is any indication: people who sit in the intersection of “Likes folk music” and “Likes Safe and Sound” should also go listen to the Ginny Di cover of Jenny of Oldstones (yes, the GoT song) immediately, as that’s another one we both heartily agree on. (Not remotely related to TS, just another pretty folk song)
Oh also Look What You Made Me Do is pretty good if you like “edgier” stuff. It was the first song my kid sang/played for me where I was like “okay yeah this is pretty good.”
I think she’s mostly fine. She’s got a few absolutely unlistenable songs (how the fuck does a song like bad blood even happen?) but she’s mostly inoffensive.
Vanilla’s popular for a reason. It’s generally pleasant and inoffensive, and people like that mild comfort. Humans are broadly very insecure and irrational about their little pleasures, and they’ll take any mild criticism or dislike as a personal attack, because now they think you’re taking it away from them.
I get why people like her. I don’t get why people like her to the point of doxxing critics and sending out death threats. Like idk ik my experience isn’t universal or anything but even in my most obsessive fandom stage in my teens (for me it was fall out boy, p!atd and twenty one pilots, so definitely stuff who’s young girl fans were also ridiculed) i never got pissed enough to dm someone that they’re gonna start coughing blood in three days
Basically it’s just that a whole lot of people like her, so even if only a very tiny minority dox critics or send death threats, that’s still a lot of people.
Not everyone feels the need for their entertainment to be ‘edgy’.
They don’t feel the need to listen to rap artists trying to fit every swear word they can into a song, or some group who’s songs are more of a political speech than a musical performance.
They want to appreciate the music based on the abilities of the performers and how catchy the tunes are.
People who listen to music you don’t like (rap and political songs, per your examples) are also largely just listening to music based on the abilities of the performers and how catchy the songs are.
Back when I worked at a fast food place, all the white boys in the kitchen would put on these incredible rap songs that were nothing but immensely vulgar stories about mundane things, like going to the gas station and beating the shit out of their girlfriend’s ex or whatever, and I don’t understand how someone could hear these tracks and dislike them. They’re inarticulate, the beats are repetitive and objectively shitty, and none of these guys have a good voice for these wild-ass stories they almost definitely made up, and it all somehow comes together to create this hilarious form of self-obsessed storytelling.
I’m not trying to dismiss the appeal of catchy well performed music in the way that you’re trying to dismiss the idea that music with political messaging or that has vulgar rapped lyrics might be good or catchy.
I don’t think she’s like a bad artist, I’m not baffled that she’s popular, the thing that baffles me is specifically the intensity of the fandom
I honestly can’t tell if I actually dislike Bad Blood or if I’m just slowly losing my mind due to how frequently I hear it (it’s one of my kid’s faves and she LOVES to sing and has a gorgeous voice so I don’t want to discourage her but omg….)
Cruel Summer though. That song. I am so close to putting a strict limit on it in our house because it has been stuck in my head for WEEKS.
Shake it off is a bop. I can’t actually remember any other songs except maybe the “she wears t-shirts I wear jorts” one, but I do like hearing the neighbour’s kids have their swifty karaoke nights. I like how aggravating it is to my sister.
At the risk of getting doxxed or hexed to cough up blood in 19 hours by a swiftie, i think shes just okay. Mediocre white woman. I mostly just can’t stand her hostile ass fanbase. They’re almost as bad as the Barbz, who are hostile as shit and homophobic and misogynistic.
Thanks for getting me to listen to Amanda Palmer again. It always leave me with a sad tired smile, which is better than my regular depressed exhausted slack face.
At one time I used to play (with) a ukelele, and those are in fact the correct chord illustrations for the standard G-C-E-A. ‘my dog has fleas’ tuning.
getting into my mid 30s and, yeah, nothing is more invaluable to a party at this point than all of that stuff. it’s wild to think how your priorities shift so much.
I have this trick, one I’ve cultivated from spite in high school to sincerity in adulthood.
When I was younger, if I felt someone was intentionally attempting to make me uncomfortable, I leaned into it. Somehow, when it came to spite, I gained this supreme level of confidence.
As I got older… I started to use it for other things, wearing it like a cloak. It didn’t always work, and it’s somehow… exhausting to do, but it’s helped me do things shy 10 year old me, or spiteful 15 year old me, or even reclusive 20 year old me would ever have done.
Lucy here, she’s right.
Kill the part of you that cringes.
Just… enjoy stuff. It’s a hard lesson to learn, because of how simple it is.
Blech, thanks for ever-so-sort-of calling attention to how CRINGE-INDUCING it is to say “cringe” as an adjective. All this lazy language mangling is gonna end up sounding as dated as “23-skiddoo,” but I’m sure the perpetrators won’t notice, as they’ll be off copying whatever other allegedly-hip ephemeral horseshit the other internet-drones are inflicting by then.
blahblahblah – Language moves on, it grows and changes. It marks us as a product of our times. And you being completely boring about it does nothing but make you sound like a killjoy.
But the tune I’m imagining is probably way off. Slow and bittersweet, the sort of thing the piano man sings late in the evening when the crowd is ready to slow down.
Cringe is a chain that bourgeoise put on proletariat.
It’s funny how the term cringe was coined in the era of promoting downright aggressive individualism and egoism.
Generally when someone call something manipulative, it’s with a negative connotation, I think a different word would be needed is you want to say it as a positive, thought I am not sure which one.
Persuasive? Diplomatic? Strategic? I think those are the easiest ‘nice words that mean something similar to manipulation’. You are absolutely true though, that manipulation is a negative word with a negative connotation. If someone tells somebody else “Wow, you’re so manipulative”, it’s not gonna make anyone feel good.
Manipulate, like that other word refering to fingers -> fingering, can be used in other contexts, but you’d better be ready for a deep discussion on semantics, etymology, and the importance of knowing your audience.
People seem to forget, Lucy was (is?) the regular-event organizer over on her floor – so it stands to reason she is both adept at the people-pleasing and also managing those frequent casual social gatherings. Would certainly give Dotty a run for her money in that dept if she also lived over there with the regular cast.
The fuck do you mean, “call off the green light”? He’s gonna cause a traffic jam. Somebody’s gonna get in a wreck. You can’t just take the green light away, don’t be so fucking irresponsible.
Calling off a green light is fine. The traffic signal is clearly not working, there’s procedures in place for that. Now, removing the *red* light is a problem.
Danny, if you’re getting serious about the uke, get a decent instrument. That blue hunka plywood youre lugging around reminds me of a Mattel toy guitar with a music box crank sticking out of the side, that I had as a kid a zillion years ago.
Jacob seems impressed. I wonder how many times Lucy has listened to Danny and Sal playing their concerts in the park. Asking Danny to play was a great idea, he’s the only one who can calm Sal down, how sweet!
btw if you're one of those rando bluesky weirdos who doesn't know me but sees me in the wild being sarcastic and don't know i'm being sarcastic because you haven't taken like 30 seconds to, like, maybe look at my user profile or something, keep walking, you're not going to score internet points here
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Good Job Lucy
And Danny too, good job Danny.
Danny has picked up the ukelele and now the healing can begin.
Lucy is harnessing Danny’s power for good and not evil! Huzzah!
No. Good start Lucy. When Sarah hears Jacob moaning in ways she wants him to do while on top of her but instead hes under Lucy, and that noise shatters her heart, then Lucy will have done a good job.
Danny and his Ukulele FTW ^^
Miss Oli has a ukelele play along cover of ‘Enchanted’
Uwu
Do kids still say cringe? That feels very late 2022 of Sarah. Kids today say skibidi toilet or whatever.
Oh, they say both. There’s also been a recent spike in “womp womp.”
my kids did a wompwomp to me and i never recovered
I now know that I’m using the same vocabulary as literal children. Womp womp.
I know jack about Taylor Swift or her songs. Does this mean i am cringe or womp womp? :p
Womp womppp… Jk, it’s okay. I’ve only listened to her country songs as a kid, I’ve heard only a little of her newer stuff ^^ so I’d be cringe too.
Big same! I was very into Love Story and I liked her other stuff. Then I started to be interested in other artists. Of course, when my sister became obsessed, I got annoyed with Swift. I got more respectful about it because I love my sister, but I still try to avoid Swift’s music.
My sister fronts a Taylor Swift tribute band and honestly our dad is probably rolling over in his grave about it.
I think it’s only cringe to like things, not to dislike or be uninterested in things, but I could be wrong.
Slang culture is really just a loop isn’t it? Wait long enough and “swingin” or “yowza” or “groovy” will come back.
Swingin?
I do enjoy saying yowza in my everyday life. So maybe try saying it more, it might work out!
I can confidently tell you that all it takes is a single charismatic kid doing so, and something like that will return, at least on a micro scale. XD
Last year I was working in a school, where one of the students, a very friendly and likable guy, referred to everyone as ‘fellas’, and individuals as ‘my fellow!’; by January about a third of the students were calling each other fellas. XD
“Fellas” definitely has come back into mainstream use. I hear that one all the time. Maybe it never went anywhere, but I don’t hear its gender contemporaries like “dames” or “broads” nearly as much at least not in the states.
Fella is now gender neutral, thanks to NAFO.
“My fellow” is so cute.
That’s really linear.
Holding out for “spiffing” personally
I’m for 23 skidoo
My friends and I used to use “spiffy” all the time, back in the late high school years.
Thinking about it, it was most likely attributable to our consumption of Calvin and Hobbes comics.
Hg
Lit.
“Cool” has been cool since the 1950s at least.
Various meanings of “cool” go back to the 19th Century, at least.
Where IS Wompwomp actually from?
I know it from the “Fish-Eye Lens” Homestar Runner cartoon.
I’m pretty sure it’s a vaudeville reference, as a shortening of the “sad trombone” used to indicate something comically bad or sad happening. A sort of musical sting for a particular kind of punchline used to indicate that the audience should laugh, much like the rim shot but with a different context/connotation.
I don’t know when specifically it began seeing use as an onomatopoeia for conversational use, but I imagine it couldn’t have been long after the 1930s as that’s more or less when vaudeville died, or it may have been during or after the vaudeville revival in the ’50s. It may have occurred rather later, of course, as the musical sting entered the cultural lexicon and thus was used in other media, first adopted into film by comedy movies largely inspired by vaudeville acts, like the works of Abbot and Costello and The Three Stooges, and still shows up to this day on occasion.
It actually dates back to the 1800s, if you can believe that. It’s a shortened onomatopoeia of the full “sad trombone” riff. You can hear it at https://wompwompwomp.com/
Looking for a better horn effect? Or a new ringtone? Search for “trombone gobble”; the classic Warner Brothers head shake effect.
Far out.
Radical, dude!
Sometimes I Womp-Womp my kids.
They do not appreciate it.
Lot of ‘what the sigma’ going on between my niece and nephew.
How do you skibidi, fellow youths?
well, Willis’s buffer is legendary
Oh my gosh! Lucy’s Doing it! I knew she could do it!
Willis fooled us all! The lukewarm relationship with Walky is what unlocked confident, assertive Lucy.
I feel like the “cringe” part is a clue that the Reality Shoe is about to drop on Lucy.
I am 0% surprised that Danny knows Taylor Swift songs.
I am 100% surprised Sal does, since by this point she was about 6 when Swift switched from country to pop.
Maybe Danny’s sung to her before about how he was enchanted to meet her.
I’d say if you’ve grown up in this era you know Taylor Swift but I actually don’t recognize this one.
It’s one of the only Swift songs I do know, but that’s because I had a girlfriend that was into Swift around 2010-2012… XD
2012? So either this is an album deep cut or I’ve just completely forgotten the verse to a song I actually ought to know.
Yea, it was on the semi-popular side, but it was right on the cusp of the country-to-pop transition; still called country but really sounded more pop.
Apparently it is an album deep cut that got rereleased last year and was a pop hit. I haven’t willingly listened to pop radio in years and I was never enough of a fan to go diving through her albums so it makes sense that I haven’t heard of it
It has infamy mainly for Owl City fans being certain it was written about the Owl City guy, it’s Enchanted.
Meanwhile, the only reason I recognize the song is because I was big into Owl City in that time frame XD.
Owl City is like Metallica for gay people.
Now I either want Owl City to cover Enter Sandman or Metallica to do Deer in the Headlights.
I feel like Taylor Swift is big enough to where she might have just picked some stuff up by just cultural osmosis, hearing it playing when the Spotify playlist goes to random or even just over the speakers at walmart
You have to remember that Taylor releasing her re-records is probably relatively recent, which brought those songs back into prominence.
She went to a private boarding school for troubled girls.
i guarantee she knew many Taylor Swift fans.
I mean, I guess she isn’t the most culturally tapped into the pulse of things, but it’d still take some serious doing to not know any Taylor Swift songs.
they haven’t JUST been making out in the practice rooms
I’m most surprised that Sarah is familiar enough to recognize it just from the chord progression.
No, that’s Sal singing. All Sarah recognised was the instrument.
Best odds are that Danny and Sal have been singing pop hits in practice and this was one of them.
at least he’s not singing WAP again
I am proud to say, that I recognize exactly 0 Taylor Shwifty songs
That’s a weird thing to be proud of.
I’m bored to say the same thing.
I’m old enough to say the same thing. I’m well outside her target demographic.
Same.
Sal’s music classes or whatever have required her and Danny to practice MBop by Hanson, which she pointedly refused to remember the title of. I’d guess she now knows a lot of songs that wouldn’t be considered her kind of music.
Perhaps Sal had to learn it for a class, just like she did Hansen and Mmmbop.
My older brother listened to her a lot when we were in high school, but the vast majority of my non-consensual T-Swizzle experience was from the muzak at an old job of mine.
I’m never going to get “Shake It Off” out of my head. It was for a while and then I started reading comments and now it’s back.
“It’s me hi
I’m the Sarah
it’s me”
Danny: Sun’s going down real low
Lucky Sal doesn’t have a Devil Hulk mood, or Asher’d never walk or talk again.
I can take the ukulele, but I draw the line at Taylor Swift!
Okay, do you want a sticker or something?
I think they were making a joke based on the animal cruelty/racism meme.
I just don’t like Taylor Swift.
I just hope in 6 months, he plays Lestat’s single
If I could “like” this comment, I would.
Taylor Swift. I just don’t see the appeal, other then the glamour, the talent, the natural beauty. But the music just makes me want to hurl.
I literally hate that I can’t find a single Taylor Swift song that I sincerely enjoy. It actually feels bad to admit that you don’t really care for her music. People read things into it, that I REALLY don’t want them to think about me! But I just can’t find anything appealing about it, besides being catchy and competently written! And the people who like it, are clearly connecting with it on a pretty deep level, so I know there’s something there. It’s frustrating.
If somebody wants to read things out of your personal taste in music, that’s their stain to wash off, not yours.
Have you heard All Too Well? Maybe it was just the stuff I was going through at the time, but I fell in love with that song so much. I was never a big fan of Swift but I listened to that so many times.
My wife was obsessed with that song, and it has a charm to it that you can’t help but feel nostalgic about.
Have you heard Safe and Sound? I am really not into Taylor Swift (I don’t hate her music, just not really my thing generally) but I have a Swiftie kid who was DETERMINED to find a song I’d like and she knocked it out of the park with this one.
It’s SO different from the other poppy songs of hers I’m used to. Very heavy folk influence. It’s literally on my “faves” playlist now.
And while I’m at it, if my kid is any indication: people who sit in the intersection of “Likes folk music” and “Likes Safe and Sound” should also go listen to the Ginny Di cover of Jenny of Oldstones (yes, the GoT song) immediately, as that’s another one we both heartily agree on. (Not remotely related to TS, just another pretty folk song)
Oh also Look What You Made Me Do is pretty good if you like “edgier” stuff. It was the first song my kid sang/played for me where I was like “okay yeah this is pretty good.”
I think she’s mostly fine. She’s got a few absolutely unlistenable songs (how the fuck does a song like bad blood even happen?) but she’s mostly inoffensive.
I’m more baffled by the intensity of the fandom.
How can you be baffled by fanatics being intense?
I’m baffled that an artist this vanilla inspires devoted fanatics in the first place
Vanilla’s popular for a reason. It’s generally pleasant and inoffensive, and people like that mild comfort. Humans are broadly very insecure and irrational about their little pleasures, and they’ll take any mild criticism or dislike as a personal attack, because now they think you’re taking it away from them.
I get why people like her. I don’t get why people like her to the point of doxxing critics and sending out death threats. Like idk ik my experience isn’t universal or anything but even in my most obsessive fandom stage in my teens (for me it was fall out boy, p!atd and twenty one pilots, so definitely stuff who’s young girl fans were also ridiculed) i never got pissed enough to dm someone that they’re gonna start coughing blood in three days
Basically it’s just that a whole lot of people like her, so even if only a very tiny minority dox critics or send death threats, that’s still a lot of people.
I guess, and people who like really popular shit can be kind of insecure and defensive about their tastes
Do you think it might be because other people describe those thunfs as ‘shit’?
THINGS dammit, I hate mobile keyboards
Not everyone feels the need for their entertainment to be ‘edgy’.
They don’t feel the need to listen to rap artists trying to fit every swear word they can into a song, or some group who’s songs are more of a political speech than a musical performance.
They want to appreciate the music based on the abilities of the performers and how catchy the tunes are.
People who listen to music you don’t like (rap and political songs, per your examples) are also largely just listening to music based on the abilities of the performers and how catchy the songs are.
That’s how humans work.
Back when I worked at a fast food place, all the white boys in the kitchen would put on these incredible rap songs that were nothing but immensely vulgar stories about mundane things, like going to the gas station and beating the shit out of their girlfriend’s ex or whatever, and I don’t understand how someone could hear these tracks and dislike them. They’re inarticulate, the beats are repetitive and objectively shitty, and none of these guys have a good voice for these wild-ass stories they almost definitely made up, and it all somehow comes together to create this hilarious form of self-obsessed storytelling.
That’s the whole joke behind Weird Al’s “Trapped in the Drive-Thru“.
I’m not trying to dismiss the appeal of catchy well performed music in the way that you’re trying to dismiss the idea that music with political messaging or that has vulgar rapped lyrics might be good or catchy.
I don’t think she’s like a bad artist, I’m not baffled that she’s popular, the thing that baffles me is specifically the intensity of the fandom
AFAIK, Swifties identify with the lyrics. The tune is less important.
I honestly can’t tell if I actually dislike Bad Blood or if I’m just slowly losing my mind due to how frequently I hear it (it’s one of my kid’s faves and she LOVES to sing and has a gorgeous voice so I don’t want to discourage her but omg….)
Cruel Summer though. That song. I am so close to putting a strict limit on it in our house because it has been stuck in my head for WEEKS.
Please don’t let this turn into Taylor Swift discourse, I get enough of that unwillingly on twitter -_-
Shake it off is a bop. I can’t actually remember any other songs except maybe the “she wears t-shirts I wear jorts” one, but I do like hearing the neighbour’s kids have their swifty karaoke nights. I like how aggravating it is to my sister.
At the risk of getting doxxed or hexed to cough up blood in 19 hours by a swiftie, i think shes just okay. Mediocre white woman. I mostly just can’t stand her hostile ass fanbase. They’re almost as bad as the Barbz, who are hostile as shit and homophobic and misogynistic.
“Ah you think cringeness is your ally? You merely adopted the cringe. I was born in it, molded by it.”
~Bane; probably
“When the party is in a sing-along, you have my permission to cringe.”
mh. Cute.
And Lucy successfully defused the situation. Well done.
That remains to be seen. I feel like this is a set-up.
the ukelele solves all problems (this is not legal advice)
Amanda Palmer has entered the chat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX07zUo2kSQ
Thanks for getting me to listen to Amanda Palmer again. It always leave me with a sad tired smile, which is better than my regular depressed exhausted slack face.
At one time I used to play (with) a ukelele, and those are in fact the correct chord illustrations for the standard G-C-E-A. ‘my dog has fleas’ tuning.
Oh no, Sara’s a maudlin drunk.
Lucy’s the life of the party!
But like, late 30s life. Being responsible, making sure things are going okay. Not Teenage rowdiness.
getting into my mid 30s and, yeah, nothing is more invaluable to a party at this point than all of that stuff. it’s wild to think how your priorities shift so much.
I have this trick, one I’ve cultivated from spite in high school to sincerity in adulthood.
When I was younger, if I felt someone was intentionally attempting to make me uncomfortable, I leaned into it. Somehow, when it came to spite, I gained this supreme level of confidence.
As I got older… I started to use it for other things, wearing it like a cloak. It didn’t always work, and it’s somehow… exhausting to do, but it’s helped me do things shy 10 year old me, or spiteful 15 year old me, or even reclusive 20 year old me would ever have done.
Lucy here, she’s right.
Kill the part of you that cringes.
Just… enjoy stuff. It’s a hard lesson to learn, because of how simple it is.
The essence of cool
lacking cringe is the essence of self-acceptance
self-acceptance is the essence of cool
(and by “cringe” i mean the verb)
So are they saying that Jacob was enchanted to meet Sarah?
Like…..four moths ago? XD
the fella with the daily music link isn’t here for this one?
No one’s calling you out, Sarah.
That boot fits all on your own.
I think this is what we call “feeling seen” lol. She’s so funny.
Blech, thanks for ever-so-sort-of calling attention to how CRINGE-INDUCING it is to say “cringe” as an adjective. All this lazy language mangling is gonna end up sounding as dated as “23-skiddoo,” but I’m sure the perpetrators won’t notice, as they’ll be off copying whatever other allegedly-hip ephemeral horseshit the other internet-drones are inflicting by then.
Put down the yarn and push pins, Grandpa.
cringeworthy is a good adjective. -worthy is really an underused adjectifier
blahblahblah – Language moves on, it grows and changes. It marks us as a product of our times. And you being completely boring about it does nothing but make you sound like a killjoy.
~and tbh it’s kinda cringe~
in the end it all becomes flippity floppity floo XD
Alrighty, Barf Ninjason. Thanks for the lesson on phases and cringe.
Quite. There was only one era that had proper teen slang, and everything before and since has been totally bogus, dude.
Okay Boomer. (It doesn’t matter if you are actually a boomer or not, this is peak boomer commentary.)
This is Gen-X erasure. (Everything is Gen-X erasure. We don’t actually exist.)
Hey! I like 23 skidoo!
Take a deep breath, acknowledge the cringe with radical acceptance, and move on to better thoughts, friend
Enhance your calm.
L + ratio + who asked + cringe
Here’s that yappucino you ordered
Goofy ahh
Cringe being cringe is an emotional onomatopoea and I am here for it.
This is so not fetch
Enchanted by Taylor Swift (2010)
Thanks, I had no idea.
I was hoping that someone would name it, so I could look up the lyrics. Nice!
But the tune I’m imagining is probably way off. Slow and bittersweet, the sort of thing the piano man sings late in the evening when the crowd is ready to slow down.
It’s a sweet and rather sad song, so you’re not far off.
Awww, this fills my heart
Cringe is a chain that bourgeoise put on proletariat.
It’s funny how the term cringe was coined in the era of promoting downright aggressive individualism and egoism.
Sarah: And I took that personally.
It was just the first chords and Sal is already calm and enjoying singing with Danny, this ship is also great.
And Lucy, well I admit, you anticipated this very well.
Loving this new assertive, slightly manipulative Lucy.
50/50
Because she managed to calm the tension and yet I can’t stop thinking that she wants to be in control of all this and says “it’s my party.”
I feel like that’s a real negative view of her, especially when she WAS explicitly invited to help manage the party.
Honestly she should get to say this is her party, this was really cool and it’s not like anyone else would care.
Look as long as she uses her powers for good and not evil I am fine with it.
It is manipulative to just defuse a tense situation with something light?
Yes. What it’s not is a bad thing.
Generally when someone call something manipulative, it’s with a negative connotation, I think a different word would be needed is you want to say it as a positive, thought I am not sure which one.
“Leadership”
Persuasive? Diplomatic? Strategic? I think those are the easiest ‘nice words that mean something similar to manipulation’. You are absolutely true though, that manipulation is a negative word with a negative connotation. If someone tells somebody else “Wow, you’re so manipulative”, it’s not gonna make anyone feel good.
I think diplomatic is a good one!
No the fuck it is not. It’s not manipulative. You’re telling tales outside of school.
Manipulate, like that other word refering to fingers -> fingering, can be used in other contexts, but you’d better be ready for a deep discussion on semantics, etymology, and the importance of knowing your audience.
People seem to forget, Lucy was (is?) the regular-event organizer over on her floor – so it stands to reason she is both adept at the people-pleasing and also managing those frequent casual social gatherings. Would certainly give Dotty a run for her money in that dept if she also lived over there with the regular cast.
No run for her money: Dorothy at perhaps her least pleasing when she’s people-pleasing, whereas Lucy does this naturally.
Lucy is sooo much better at ad hoc party events than Dorothy.
YES
THE POWER OF MUSIC KNOWS NO LIMITS
Ok Lucy, you’ve done it. You’re my favorite now.
Asher now on phone: Yes, Grandpa, I’m sure. Call off the green light. We’re cool now.
The fuck do you mean, “call off the green light”? He’s gonna cause a traffic jam. Somebody’s gonna get in a wreck. You can’t just take the green light away, don’t be so fucking irresponsible.
Calling off a green light is fine. The traffic signal is clearly not working, there’s procedures in place for that. Now, removing the *red* light is a problem.
It worked! All Hail Lucy, party host extraordinaire!
Oh great, now you’ve got me listening to Taylor Swift…
YOU’RE THE DEVIL, WILLIS!!
He is indeed The Evil One who will lead you astray
>:D
Ethan and Booster clearly find ukulele irresistible
JAcob, too
It’s an outright Disney Moment XD
It’s a lovely song choice for then, too.
Sal makes the ukelele cool just by taking part. Her powers for good… or evil?
Danny, if you’re getting serious about the uke, get a decent instrument. That blue hunka plywood youre lugging around reminds me of a Mattel toy guitar with a music box crank sticking out of the side, that I had as a kid a zillion years ago.
Decent instruments cost decent money.
I blame Danny’s parents. They should have bought Danny a better instrument and a $300,000 stake in a record company.
Depending on how long this comic goes, it will become a 3d printed instrument like they are giving to kids nowadays
Decent ìnstruments are not made of plastic.
Bruno says Danny’s instruments are indecent. Pass it on.
So drunk Lucy speaks in inspirational Facebook posts?
It’s good advice!
No no no, that’s a Tumblr quote
She’s not drunk, no boozles.
“Lover when I sing my song,
All the Sarahs gonna sing along
And they’re gonna tear their walls all down
And lay their words upon the ground”
Jacob seems impressed. I wonder how many times Lucy has listened to Danny and Sal playing their concerts in the park. Asking Danny to play was a great idea, he’s the only one who can calm Sal down, how sweet!
I’m really impressed with Lucy now. She’s showing levels of awareness that I had no idea was in her.
ok…
Same strip, but tabs and lyrics for Mad World.
Good choice Danny, though I’d love to hear you try play Dancing With Our Hands tied on that thing.
Holy shit Lucy is magic. She’s got that defusal kit ON HAND
That’s actually a very good saying, Lucy, i approve.
I-iii-IV-I-V? Is that a common progression?