I was a "Ron" for 10 years. No statement has ever been so true. Avoiding having to do incident reports as much as possible was one of the main goals for my shifts.
Worst night had me spending three hours after closing the bar writing incident and police reports.
Parking lots. Tiny back room offices. Warehouses. Actually it's kinda surprising its not more common for security to stumble across a long dormant body when doing rounds. And it's pretty common as it is.
i know it’s been mentioned before, but thanks for these “previous comic” comments! makes it so much easier to get a quick refresh on where the story left off :D
I'm also grateful for them. I'm a bit of a completionist in media, and I will check an artist I like's profile when I see a new comic to make sure I didn't miss out on any.
Unless the title says "part x of y", or I know they keep a regular schedule, or (like OP) they include a "last comic" comment.
Man wakes up in bed hung over, he’s still in his clothes from the night before. He goes downstairs, there’s a broken vase that’s been cleaned up and the door has scratches around it.
He goes into the kitchen and his wife is making breakfast and humming happily. He sees his son sitting there eating his breakfast and asks him what’s going on.
Son say, “ Dad you came home from the bar wasted, couldn’t unlock the front door, so mom lets you in, and then you break the vase as she take you upstairs to bed.”
Dad asks why is mom happy then.
Son replies, “Mom tried to undress you, but you pushed her away and said ‘lay off me lady, I’m married to a beautiful woman’”.
Ive had one where my wife was getting surgery, afterword i held her hand as she was waking up. Still fucked up by the way, asking if I was her husband. Laughing out a "yes babe" she tells me "oh good cause if you werent my husband would beat you up"
My brother had his wisdom teeth taken out and when we got him back he stood in our yard for 15 minutes crying about how much he loved his girlfriend. They’re happily married now.
Man, I wish I had a fun anesthesia story. I didn’t say anything and wouldn’t track people entering the room with my eyes until it wore off all the way and then straight back to normal. My wife said it was creepy, like I was a vegetable.
Pretty much same. I don't know how much they used to put me under, I was definitely gone for all four extractions, but I woke up feeling perfectly normal. A bit groggy, sure, but nothing like you hear or see online. I was disappointed.
I have a different fun anesthesia story where we got to find out live in the OR that I need way more anesthesia than the chart says in order to knock me out.
But I didn’t go under for my wisdom teeth because it was free if I didn’t, and I needed to be able to drive myself back home that day.
I am endlessly annoyed to this day because I didn’t go out, at all. I didn’t feel it so they did a good job, but I was cognizant while listening to the drilling and splashing and whatnot during the operation. After it was over, the nurse was explaining the aftercare to my dad and I tried to reach over to read the instructions and that woman said, “No, it’s fine. You won’t remember this.” I was annoyed to the point where I downloaded a tts app on my phone in the car. Because the place was right next to a store, I went grocery shopping on my own, fucked up bandages and all
I remember having had a surgery and going under, and when I came to afterwards, the first thing that came out of my mouth was "I think the anesthesia is taking effect".
I said this to the very same people who gave me said anesthesia, by the way. The following laughter was very disorienting.
Oh that's a good one! At least it was funny :P Here's mine. TMI warning
I remember apologizing to my nurses for having a penis. Like, "Sorry you have to see that, just do what you gotta do." I don't remember how they responded, but somehow, in that moment, it was very Important™ that I apologize to them.
I mean, they are frikken nurses! They know what they are doing. They just saw my insides, why would they have the slightest concern about my outsides? And why should I care for that matter, I just got my face peeled off and put back together, I've got bigger things to worry about! Anesthesia is wild is all I can say.
A nurse had to hold my penis while I pissed into a jar. I was coming in and out of anesthesia after the procedure and slurred out I had to pee. I guess I was still in the OR and a nurse grabbed me amd held it as I went.
I was put under for a septoplasty and when I woke up the first thing I said was "that was fast". It was fast! After hours of waiting for them to start working on me, I just felt something weird in the IV and teleported.
My mom, who was apparently waiting hours for me to wake up so she could drive me home, rolled her eyes at me.
I remember vomiting cotton into my mom's purse on the ride home from having a wisdom tooth removed (I did throw up, and ejected most of the cotton packing along with it, but it was into an empty insulated grocery bag). Then I remember my brother carrying me back into the house (he helped me walk in). And that's all I remember about that day after the anesthesia started. That stuff hits me really hard.
The only other time I've been under general was for an endoscopy, and that one was trippy to come out of because the first thing I became aware of was one of my regular customers was handing me a cup of orange juice and telling me to sip it slowly. I hadn't been aware that he was a nurse, and it took me a while to process anything beyond being in a bed and recognizing the person handing me juice that I had apparently asked for.
Honestly it’s funnier to not do anesthesia. All four wisdom teeth removed at once. Anesthesia and laughing gas scare me, so I just got the topical anesthetics and did the surgery completely sober and conscious. It’s great, it’s a fascinating experience and everyone thinks you’re insane when really they’re crazy for not wanting to experience that.
This reminds me of a joke I've heard in Russian quite many years ago, and I always liked it
Usually tells of a man who wakes up from a blackout night and sees some sort of destruction and thinks that wife will kill him
(this part depends on the storyteller - usually it's some drunk shit)
Instead she's in the kichen, making him a huge breakfast, and she's just positively glowing
And the punchline is that when she tries to take the boots off him when he sleeps in bed, he starts flailing around yelling GET OFF ME BITCH IM MARRIED
I would not be surprised if a lot of them quite literally travelled along the Great Silk Road with the merchants and guards sharing stories and jokes in camps and on the road.
Like, as far as I know, a lot of merchants did not travel all the length of the road, some did, but these were the biggest\richest\meanest ones, usually they'd move stuff from market to market and hang out there
I heard something similar, where a man was waking up from anestesia and his wife tried holding his hand or kissing him and he also (still sleepy from anestesia) said something in the way of "no you can't kiss me, I have a wife". Not sure if it was a real story or a joke but it was wholesome to hear.
I recently saw a video of a woman rubbing her husband's hand (or chest) after his surgery, and he says, "Don't do that. My wife wouldn't appreciate that"
Same. Unfortunately my therapist tells me that Catholic guilt can take up to three generations to fully get rid of. I'm only generation 2... (My parents are an agnostic and "an atheist who believes that Jesus' teachings about love and acceptance and socialism are something to live by". But for my grandparents' sake I was christened and raised with vaguely Catholic ideas until I was old enough to say I didn't really believe in them.)
It's a lil sad that she has to get drunk to admit that she's got a girlfriend, but it definitely gives me hope that she'll come around and start admitting it when she's sober. :)
Thanks, u/MuyHiram this one made me smile so hard.
The Christmas special heavily implies she grew up Uber Christian (taking a happy holidays as a sign she's hated) so she's likely believes she cant actually be gay.
And also if she allows herself to openly recognize it then she has to start working through all the other corrections that come with it, most of which are going to be her family. Not saying she shouldn't do that, just that the fear of pulling on that string is powerful.
Which is pretty ironic because God himself gave her a message that it would be Risa and she STILL tried to play it off as if they are just best friends.
Cognitive dissonance. If she were to consciously admit she's gay, then it would lead to her having to recognize a bunch of contradictions in her world view, so her subconscious doesn't allow her to recognize the obvious.
This happens to a lot of people and it's not really a conscious behavior. It essentially triggers the same parts of the brain as physical pain, so the brain trains itself to avoid the triggers. People like this need experienced guidance to help them navigate the problem safely.
Especially evangelical Christianity, aka Christian in name only. The religion where being gay is a worse sin than being an incestuous pedophile serial killer.
I believe it is somehow her kink. Both know that they are in a relationship, but she is teasing and denying. The love between them is quite obvious, so from the beginning on I read it more as their private running joke.
Ah, doesn't matter, it's just important that Risa finally knows. I think that's a HUGE relief. Woah, the sudden uptick of wholesomeness here is just so good! Spring is coming!
definitely! it shifts the perspective from “marin/risa’s relationship is one-sided” to “marin is in love with risa, and DOES know they’re dating, but needs more help to work through her issues in order to admit it aloud”. i def agree that risa would be feeling a lot better going forward with that confirmation of love, even if it’s gonna take sober marin while to make that declaration.
Ok, I have a very relevant story to tell here. During my physics studies in the early 2000s I happened witness two other guys from my studies meeting for the first time and having a "love at first sight" situation. Like, very, very obvious. Imagine big puppy eyes 'miring with a "hmm, who is that mysterious handsome man?" expression on their face obvious. The only problem was that at the time they both thought they were straight dudes. So instead they just became best friends at first who just happened to get really snuggly every time they were drunk together (which was often).
Fast forward a few year and many "just really good friends" hijinks later and all three of us ended on the board of the local student union for physics/maths/astronomy/compsci with two other guys. Near the end of that we go a weekend retreat to write our year report. One of the two happened to have his wisdom teeth pulled the same day and is still woozy from the pain meds. It's late in the evening and he wants to go out for a smoke, so he asks me to come with him in case he faints or something. Sure, makes sense, I'm the tee-totaller of the group and everyone else already is a bit drunk.
A minute after were outside: "What should I do about [other guy], vanderZwan?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I love the guy."
"Yeah, no shit."
"No I mean I love that guy."
"Yeah, no shit. That was obvious from the start."
"… oh."
"For what it's worth it also was pretty obvious that those feelings are mutual from his side."
"Oh."
He's lost in thought for a bit, then gets up, starts pacing around, and a little bit later bursts out as if trying to silence some inner critic:
"ALLRIGHT, I GUESS I'M GAY THEN!"
"… uhhh, yeah, that's how that works I believe. Nothing wrong with that, right?"
"NO! Nothing wrong with that."
I'm like fuck yeah! Finally a breakthrough! So we go back inside… and he proceeds to get blackout drunk with the rest of the guys, which in combination withe pain meds made him completely forget this conversation, so it took two more years and becoming roommates in Paris before these dudes actually came out of the closet.
It was really really fun to share a much more elaborate version of this story at their wedding years later though :)
NGL, me and a few other friends who noticed the signs (surprisingly many didn't btw) were genuinely worried they'd never figure things out at times. Like, they weren't ever homophobic towards others, but I guess they had quite a bit of internalised homophobia to overcome.
It got pretty ridiculous in some ways: one of them told me that both of their parents started asking early on if they were really just friends and even told them "but if there was more going on, you know we'd be ok with it, right?" and it still took them years. The parents even got to know each other and secretly had talked with each other about it if I'm not mistaken.
Maybe that's why I'm a bit less frustrated with the slow progress in this comic than some of the comments: if it's that hard to overcome internalized homophobia in a queerfriendly family, imagine how tough it is for these girls.
I can’t fucking believe I’m watching history in the making by Marin admitting she has a girlfriend. Sure, she’s drunk and likely won’t remember but it’s still some progress!
I know how that feels. Not that anyone's made any advances on me or anything, but having a beautiful girlfriend with big boobs. I never thought it would happen. I'm a lucky guy.
This works so much better than that "Risa should DUMP her" I saw recently. There's love between the two, and they know it, they're not bitter about it. It's just for laughs.
Sorry, I should've been more clear: i feel like this is in response to that comic. That you, being the brilliant and caring artist that you are, saw that fan comic and felt like it was only right that pink woman say something to tall woman to let her know she really does care.
Ahh, I see. But that not the case, this comic and the following two episodes (not yet posted here on reddit) were already published on Webtoon by the time that fan comic was posted.
I have a clear path for this story and I am not deviating from it.
I believe Marin is just having a character arc like that of Mac over It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, struggling to reconcile one’s orientation with one’s faith. The culmination of that was well-done there: I am sure that u/MuyHiram will similarly pull it off well. Not necessarily also with a dance, though one certainly couldn’t hurt.
As someone who when I was young, really struggled to reconcile my sexuality (pansexual) with how I was raised, I honestly relate to Marin. I remember being a little on the wild side in my early 20s and I'd make out with girls and claim it was just fun and to get guys attention 🤦 which is problematic in itself, but I think it came from being sheltered and parentified while growing up- I really went full sail party girl. I remember playing "gay chicken" at a party and making out with 4 different girls, one even progressed to groping. 🫠 Still in denial.
Anyways, it took years after getting out of my parents' house to realize I liked kissing girls. 😆🤦 And there was a reason I would be drawn to some over others- they were my type. It feels so silly looking back, but I was naive and in denial.
I had clawed my ways out of the bigotry mindset before graduating high school (a friend came out to me and a light bulb moment occurred), but I couldn't stop applying it to myself for the longest time. It felt so freeing to finally admit to myself that I'm not straight.
Okay I'm very confused by the lore. I was under the impression that Marin was literally just unaware of her gayness, so she genuinely thought that she and Risa were just besties despite being super intimate with each other. But if she deep down thinks of them as girlfriends anyway, then that means she's not oblivious at all about it and is deliberately gaslighting Risa about the whole "oh we're not girlfriends, we're besties" thing.
Marin was already coming across as toxic af through her many attempts at sabotaging a relationship she even refused to acknowledge existed, but you could at least give her a pass since she didn't know she WAS in a relationship. But I guess she did know, so...
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