I'm not big on Sad Girl books, but it's a genre of music I listen to quite a lot.
Daughter is new to me, but I love some Baker. Apes of the State, Boygenius, Billie Eyelash are a whole bunch of great musicians, imo.
Youth by Daughter is a great taste of their style. Love Boygenius and like Billie, will have to give Apes of the State a listen.
Thanks for the rec on Daughter. It's amazing stuff and I'm honestly amazed I somehow missed it.
Apes of the State have a cool sound, will have to dig more into them.
Is there some emotional opposite of that, too, you know of?
Like happy people?
I think Kero Kero Bonito's Bonito Generation fits the bill! "Try Me" is one of my go-to pick-me-up songs, "Heard a Song" is good vibes, and "Break" is maximum comfy.
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Looks like this cishet is ending on a Hot Girl Summer.
Even though I know incongruity is a part of these things, the combination of small roof and gable end—making the house look British—with an AC unit labelled as "trusty"—implying a long history—bothers me. Does anywhere else have houses like this?
Thanks. I looked up the artist to help narrow things down and found houses in Denver that are similar. The exported image of two-storey suburban housing always seems to have bigger, busier rooflines.
Could be, I just see Kelly and Yoloswag in passing, not huge into political cartoons anymore. I always thought they were riffing on Garrison, but this feels like Garrison anyways
They're both riffing in Garrison for sure, but Kelly comics satirizing conservative political cartoons actually predates Ben Garrison. Seems the Onion has been publishing them since 2006
Kelly's shtick is a satire of political cartoonists in general, who as a group lean right. I'd say Garrison's idiosyncrasies don't have all that much influence. Even the excessive labelling is just a genre trope.
naw they’re riffing on garrison. all Kelly comics are exaggerated conservative takes for satire
e: atp not much exaggeration is needed, so it sometimes comes off as genuine
Ok so this is a bit that makes sense lol, this comic was so fucking funny I had a hard time believing it was genuine.
They're riffing on that political comic in the Watchmen, in the New Frontiersman newspaper. CWing for fash shit.
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Considering Alan Moore's politics that also has to be riffing on something.
I've always liked this particular cartoon because it shows how detached from reality the fascists in Watchmen are. It's criticizing the Keene act, which criminalized superheroes and Doug Roth, who is a journalist critical of superheroes who spent his life unmasking them. It's valorizing superheroes in a completely fabricated context, even for the storyline.
The stereotypical superhero portrayed is this blonde white guy with a typical conservative idea of a family, a wife and two kids. That's not true of any of the superheroes portrayed in Watchmen. Most of them are some level of deranged, especially Rorschach. The only two blonde Aryan superheroes were Ozymandias and Captain Metropolis, who were both gay. Not only that, but the comic is antisemitic, despite both Nite Owl II and Doctor Manhattan being Jewish.
Also I'm pretty sure the crying statue of liberty is supposed to be visually similar to the angel statue at the Comedian's funeral.
Alan Moore is a genius.
