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Cake day: August 1st, 2025

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  • Objection. It’s kinda fun to dress up even if you’re just hanging out at home. Then when you see yourself in the mirror you can say: “Lookin GREAT!” and give yourself finger-guns and do a spin move and a pose.

    (even if you don’t really look that great bc you’re old and dorky. it’s just that you’re dressed up a bit, you know?)








  • Don Martin is a legend.

    Martin’s immediately recognizable drawing style (which featured bulbous noses and hinged feet) was loose, rounded, and filled with broad slapstick. His inspirations, plots, and themes were often bizarre and at times bordered on the berserk. In his earliest years with Mad, Martin used a more jagged, scratchy line. His style evolved, settling into its familiar form by 1964. It was typified by a sameness in the appearance of the characters (the punchline to a strip often was emphasized by a deadpan take with eyes half open and the mouth absent or in a tight, small circle of steadfast perplexity) and by an endless capacity for newly coined, onomatopoetic sound effects, such as “BREEDEET BREEDEET” for a croaking frog, “PLORTCH” for a knight being stabbed by a sword, or “FAGROON klubble klubble” for a collapsing building.[9] (Martin’s dedication to onomatopoeia was such that he owned a vanity license plate which read “SHTOINK,” patterned after the style of his famed sound effects.)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martin_(cartoonist)








  • I see… I guess the saying just seems too simplistic. The happiness of a long-term partner is a tricky thing to manage. Like on one hand, I try to do what I can to make a long-term partner happy. On the other hand, I had to come to terms with the fact that sometimes they’re just gonna be unhappy because of things going on in their lives that I have no control over, or of traumas in their past they’re still struggling with, or of chemical/hormonal changes that happen because of life stages, etc. Sometimes it’s just a matter of getting them the help that they need and trying to be supportive. And there are pitfalls like being careful not to enable self-destructive behavior or abandoning your own happiness while trying to help them with theirs. So when I see a saying like that, it’s like a curse of reductiveness.

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