Observations from my reread of Questionable Content

• Wow, the art doesn’t change very drastically from strip to strip, but when you look back there’s a huge change. (It starts being really gorgeous in the mid-600s or so.)
• The older strips use ableist language a lot, and there’s a couple transphobic jokes. Things I didn’t notice when I was 15!
• The banter is otherwise like, actually really great and I still enjoy it.
• Whatever happened to Raven and Penelope? And Doctor Corrinne? I feel like I haven’t heard from them in a long time but they’re great characters.
• Also, like, there’s this huge cast of well-developed characters, the majority of whom are women AND the majority of whom have canonical mental health issues that are handled well. Reading a bunch of strips at once really showcases that.

no, YOU’RE sobbing while listening to Yeoman by Baths because queer people deserve all their stories to be happy love stories about flying around on an airship

recalcitrantlycaffeinated:

nightmare-ballet:

agrestenoir:

commanderfraya:

icouldwritebooks:

mirab3lle:

thomrainierskies:

mugsandpugs1:

hermionegranger:

autisticcole:

debrides:

I worked with toddlers and pre schoolers for three years. Sometimes I accidentally slip and tell a friend to say bye to an inanimate object (“say bye bus!”) & occasionally they unthinkingly just do it.

I’m glad there’s a teacher version of “accidentally called teacher ‘mom’”

when I worked at Medieval Times occasionally I would slip in real life and call people “my lord”

One time during family prayer, dad began: “our father who art in heaven, American Airlines, how can I help you?”

One time my dad went to the White Castle drive-thru and the lady (who was supposed to say ‘Welcome to White Castle, what’s your crave?’) asked, “Welcome to White Castle, what’s your problem?”

She apologized profusely while my dad proceeded to lose his shit laughing.

Yesterday I went to Wendy’s and the girl said “Welcome to McDonalds” and then just sighed

Somebody in the elevator asked me what floor I lived on, and I answered “please open your books to page eight”, and we just kind of stared at each other, blinking.

i work retail full time and my script gets frequently messy – ill ask the same question twice, or say “$2.60 is your total” while handing back their change, or say “how are you doing today?” instead of “have a good day!” like name it ive bungled it

but anyway, this lady came thru my line buying a book and the review on the front said: “few books are well written, fewer still are important, and this book manages to be both”

as i handed her the bag i was trying to say “thanks, youre all set” and instead my brain mashed up the review and i said “thanks, youre important”

there was this short pause in which i tried to figure out what the fuck id just said. she blinked and then said “oh thank you! youre important too!”

the real kicker was one of my coworkers. when i was relating this story later his response was “at least you said something NICE. last week i accidentally combined ‘youre welcome’ and ‘no problem’ into ‘youre a problem’”

one time, since I used to work as a daycare teacher with preschoolers, i was on my college campus in my gym, and someone was running in the weight room and tripped over a machine and fell, and instead of offering to help, I just stared and said, “This is why we use our walking feet.”

we both sat there for a while until the guy nodded and said, “yeah, okay, i should’ve done that.”

I don’t know what’s worse: answering personal phone calls with “English Department, this is Annie” or answering work calls with “um, hello?” because both happen with equal frequency.

One day at McDonald’s, I kept saying “Have a good idea!” instead of “Have a good day”.  An entire day.

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joeldasalsa: People might not realize how groundbreaking this is to recognize in India.

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captainpoe: Black Panther Costume Design

dinkywinks:

i want to see a lesbian version of queer eye for the straight guy except instead of giving straight people a makeover & making their house look nice, the lesbians get you a lot of comfortable clothes with deep pockets, make you dump your shitty boyfriend, and find you a robust & supportive social circle

botanyshitposts:

botanyshitposts:

one of the most important things ive learned from upper level biology education so far is that dna isnt the god-like all-powerful beacon of similarity between all living beings on the face of the earth as high school science textbooks will lead u to believe but actually is, in fact, the molecular equivalent of a smoldering dumpster fire that’s in a constant state of chaos and cellular scandal like some highlights: 

-the parts of dna that just casually detach on a physical level from the main strand, do some sick skateboard tricks in the cytoplasm, and land somewhere else with 43552342 copies

-the parts that would do A Thing if they wern’t physically spooled up so tightly that the Make Thing Happen machinery couldnt get to them

-the dna thats in ur mitochondria bc the mitochondria used to be a bacteria that our bigger, buffer cellular ancestors just vored in the primordial ooze 

-the dna that’s in chloroplasts in plants for the same reason

-rna….bitches be crazy like what is she gonna do next?? o she gonna act like a protein now and do shit?? im on the edge of my seat 

-sometimes u just gotta make more chromosomes man like sometimes u just be hanging out and u gotta make ur genome 64 sizes larger and then change ur mind only 100,000 years later and delete half of it and thats just how it is on this bitch of an earth

-random shit from like 5 BCE is just casually left over everywhere like no susan i told u to leave that gene alone we might need it to fight dinosaurs again u just never know!!!!!

dna is earth’s biggest and brightest train wreck and honestly i wouldnt trust a dna molecule to water my plants let alone run my body but here we fucking are 

atlasbellamy:

Millennials watching Gen Z organizing huge rallies and standing up to zero-action politicians 

Last night I had a dream that one of my friends (who was actually an acquaintance I hadn’t talked to in a long time) fell in love with another acquaintance. They spent a lot of time whistling together. For some reason that meant I shipped them.

petermaximoff:

petermaximoff:

petermaximoff:

jk rowling really shouldve just shut the fuck up about dumbledore being gay like the series was over what was the point? plus who wanted dumbledores lame ASS to be gay she couldve picked a fucking baller but she chose him wow like tonks was a lesbian the whole time and we all knew!!!!

also seamus and dean were right there!!!!!

nothing sirius ever did in the entire series could be classified as straight