It's ruining my brain, I'll never be the same

[sovay]

I made a new icon. I'm not sure how much I'm going to use it, but something about the ongoing politics seemed to call for it. I believe I have choco_frosh to thank for introducing me to the original context in Questionable Content. Anybody who finds the icon useful should feel free to abstract it.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Suits my present mood, that one!

[sovay]

Suits my present mood, that one!

It's yours!

[lilysea]

I <3 Questionable Content.

[sovay]

I <3 Questionable Content.

I so firmly associate it with grad school, I am sometimes amazed it's still running. (I don't mean this negatively. I feel the same way about Girl Genius sometimes.)

[davidgillon]

I can't help feeling something with Pintsize is eventually going to be appropriate for Trump. Hell, Trump could be the model for Pintsize.

[sovay]

Hell, Trump could be the model for Pintsize.

Yeah, but can we disassemble him?

[davidgillon]

but can we disassemble him?

We need Fay, or Bubbles.

[asakiyume]

Questionable Content! I haven't read it, but it's my understanding it's set at Smith College and features stuff in western Mass.

And yup, I'm afraid the icon will get a workout in the months ahead.

[sovay]

I haven't read it, but it's my understanding it's set at Smith College and features stuff in western Mass.

It is, albeit a western Massachusetts (like the rest of the comic's world) where for no particular reason AI is really common. Some of the characters are robots. Everything else is our continuity.

And yup, I'm afraid the icon will get a workout in the months ahead.

Well, as Tom Lehrer says, be prepared!

[asakiyume]

Tom Lehrer and Scar.

[sovay]

Tom Lehrer and Scar.

And also the Boy Scouts! But I heard Tom Lehrer first, so he gets the edge.

[asakiyume]

Sounds good to me. The Scar one bothers me for its implicit racism, anyway (but it's a good song--though Tom Lehrer's is better).

[alexxkay]

Everything else is our continuity

Idunno, the baseline (human) culture is very similar, but the world is very different in many ways. Pretty sure THEY don't have a President Trump!

ISTR hearing that the writer initially included Pintsize as a joke, and then gradually extrapolated what his existence implied about the world.

[davidgillon]

it's my understanding it's set at Smith College

Several of the characters work at the college library and you'll often see people in the background with 'Smif!' on their tops.

[asakiyume]

*awesome*

[rosefox]

nonethefewer has nearly the same icon, so I was very disoriented seeing this!

(My equivalent icon is from Elf Only Inn.)

[sovay]

xtina has nearly the same icon, so I was very disoriented seeing this!

I am not surprised—it's a very useful kind of icon to have!

(My equivalent icon is from Elf Only Inn.)

(That's also good.)