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Hello Bored Panda! I’m a Boston-based writer and artist who posts comics online for random strangers on the internet. I always dreamed of being a cartoonist when I was little — now I’m finally doing it!

As always, here are some of my favorite comics I've drawn this year, so far.

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AltBren
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This 1 is bang on. There's a lot of kick back against being woke, woke is just being nice to each other. So they're just defending their right to be an AH!

SolitaryIntrovert
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It also means to be aware of injustices and inequality. Which is why the American GOP hates woke so much.

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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only an American or a very proud person in another country would believe America really has the dumbest people on earth.

Ernst Blofeld
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why would you say that? Most Americans abide by our laws and accept the certified results of our Constitutional elections. Only a small percentage (30%) use a different gauge to determine the winner. The word of a notorious con man and liar.

two-sided llama
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2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i'm pretty sure that all of Europe is just sending us their dumb people. There's no way there no outspoken dumb people in europe ( why am i getting downvoted its a joke)

Jessica Scott
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem is that our dumb people get stuck out on the front lawn, like a plastic flamingo, for the whole world to see. Everyone one else had the decency to put their's in the shed behind the house.

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UnamedJelly
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't get my flu shot. what am I labeled? a crazy antovaxer! I never bring it up, only tell people when they ask if im geffjng it. It is a personal choice. i do not want to argue about it! I have all my other vaxxes!

Malcolm Trower
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don’t know what is free in the USA

Alejandro Lazarte
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in a socialist country and I'd do anything to live in the USA, it always amazes me how is the most overprivileged people the world has ever produced the ones that criticize and complain the most

J L
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If you actually believe vaccines of any kind are beneficial to the human body then you know nothing about how the immune system functions and you should probably leave that out of your work.

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I’ve found my motivation comes in short bursts. I’ll have days where I’ll finish five comics in a couple of hours, and then entire weeks where I’m unable to bring myself to work on anything at all. Everyone always says this, and it’s really true: The best way to feel more creative is to just force yourself to sit down and make something.

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    AltBren
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And judges, they're paid to.

    Ernst Blofeld
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Try breaking the law and see how true that is.

    Catharina Geerts
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a funny saying, but he cannot know this. He probably blames God for all his mishaps

    Aramide Mary
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've been laughing for 2 minutes

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    Wolfy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thats not a squirrel nest....

    Der Kommissar
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and don't get me started on his testicles

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    I’ve got a note where I keep all my comic ideas — there are hundreds in there, and some are good, and most are terrible. But, I get into a bad habit where, once an idea has been sitting in that note for a few months, I start hating it, even if it’s potentially a good idea. A lot of my favorite comics have come from finding a funnier way to frame an old idea I’d been ignoring for a long time.

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    Harley
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After finishing my meal, the waiter gave me a dessert menu. I’m still a little confused as to why he ate my food.

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    Ricardo Ferreira
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't discriminate against mutants!!! 😡

    This comic was inspired by one specific comment I once received on Reddit, but it really speaks to my general experience over there. If someone doesn’t like something you made, they believe it is their moral imperative to let you know in the most devastating way possible. They call that “constructive criticism.” And nothing makes them madder than telling them you don’t care about their dumb opinion.

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    I actually drew myself into that one, which I rarely do. I find myself doing that with comics that are specifically about social media — those weirdly feel more personal than other comics I draw.

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    Aly
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Awww that's one acute baby!

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    Harley
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not having much luck getting a job lately. I wasn't suited to be a tailor, and I couldn't cut it as a barber

    UnimportantDog/Imp (she/her)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate doing stuff. Like why can’t I sit on the couch all day and not go to school?

    Social media is so fascinating to me. Reddit is wild because it feels like everyone is always doing one of two things: Trying to be a comedian, or trying to fight. That’s obviously a chaotic dynamic that I love watching unfold.

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    On Instagram, on the other hand, everyone needs you to know that they know more than you do. And even more than that, that they care more than you do. That’s such a fun dynamic to me, too, because it’s really the heart of social media: the idea that I’m sharing a version of myself for public consumption, and that persona I’ve created is better than you.

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    Jason
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Guess my sister exist no more

    Malcolm Trower
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh dear she is going to get very busy🤑

    Ernst Blofeld
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was sure this was going to comment on transitioning.

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    Jcusack
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OK so for real not once have I seen that logo, nor do I have any form of thought on how to google that to find the answer

    CouchChihuahua (He/Him)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    hey...doesnt zuckerberg own instagram and meta and threads

    Little Bi Guy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd argue that they are both pretty bats**t

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    I didn't do that...
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea and to anyone asking, I'm not sure how unhealthy or healthy it is, but it's absolutely delicious

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    Violet Jensen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean this depends. Is it like, a TV show, or eating uranium glass?

    Elizabeth Brown
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Right? Also I feel like there is a difference between "creators of thing have publicly come out about how they wish the majority of people didn't exist because they exist against the creators beliefs" and "top seven plotholes of thing"

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    Kikadin
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All of those warnings are negative belief systems. Ignore them.

    Ernst Blofeld
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have you ever heard of "willful ignorance"?

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    Tasha Love
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anyone else sing the song?

    Wolfy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🎵🎵🎵crrrrry me a river !🎵🎵🎵🎵

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    Lotekguy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a waste. Dying from making a saltwater river.

    Yehoshua Friedman
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If that was funny it might have something to do with Joan Rivers who was a comedian. But it isn't and it doesn't.

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    Bored Llama
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And here we see the trash panda, a beloved cousin of the bored panda.

    Lex <3 (they/them)
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And above my comment we have a bored llama, a close friend of both the bored panda and trash panda.

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    Ernst Blofeld
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I must agree with the "garbage" part.

    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh look, Pollution. *gets out her autograph book* Will War and Famine come, too?

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    UnimportantDog/Imp (she/her)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does anyone else crunch on their ice when they get a drink? Or is it just me? It’s just me, isn’t it

    Lotekguy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Real insensitive to talk about crunching ice right below this picture. Like standing amid the herd while eating a burger.

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    Bec
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In art class the teacher assigned us to draw 100 hands and feet during the semester, because those are the hardest

    Lotekguy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Try putting a turkey on the paper and tracing it to make a hand.

    Steve Hall
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Turning my family into chipmunks would be an improvement.

    Ernst Blofeld
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah! Like Kaitlyn's coming out pic with her giant man-hands behind her back.

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    Auntriarch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to draw a lion for homework. I didn't know how, but I knew how to draw a shed, you can see where this is going can't you, yes, behind the shed

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    Mermeow Overlord (they/them)
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 - 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 - 💛🤍💜🖤 - 🖤🩶🤍💜 - 💗💛💙 (I don't know how to create any others)

    EzDawg
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this comment section sucks...

    SolitaryIntrovert
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    American GOP- Freedom to do/say anything you want, as long as we agree with it.

    Malcolm Trower
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only two gay people in this room give me a kiss and I will tell you who the other one is.

    Parzivalofsadlygrove
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Say it with me: "ITS POSSIBLE TO BE RIGHT WING AND NOT AN AH CHILL" (pls don't kill me with downvotes)

    Ernst Blofeld
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A little jab at Desantis.. me likey.

    laura lee
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not so much gay as mildly amused

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    Soup
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Welcome to the internet Have a look around Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found We've got mountains of content Some better, some worse If none of it's of interest to you, you'd be the first -Bo burnam

    Lemme get the lemons
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    See a man beheaded, get offended, see a shrink, show us pictures of your children, tell us every thought you think.

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    Malcolm Trower
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My computer tells me this every day.

    CouchChihuahua (He/Him)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WELCOME, TO THE INTERNET, HAVE A LOOK AROUND, ANYTHING THAT BRAIN OF YOURS CAN THINK OF, CAN BE FOUND, WE GOT MOUNTAINS OF CONTENT, SOME BETTER, SOME WORSE!1!! IF NONE OF ITS OF INTEREST TO U, YOU'LD BE THE FIRSSSTTTT

    E S
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With the sky being censored, I wonder what shapes the clouds made.

    Ernst Blofeld
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I begin to see why we never see these cartoons anywhere.

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    Lotekguy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wanna see one that changes colors - a comma chameleon.

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    Auntriarch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is worse than Quadrophenia

    laura lee
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always thought I liked Quadrophenia, but I think I got it confused with Listomania, or maybe vice versa, idky but I always confuse these two.

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    Jcusack
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anyone that likes politics, is just the kid that wants to bother people all the time for no reason...

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    2 years ago

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    Harley
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I couldn't figure out why my coffee tasted like dirt. Then I found out that it was just ground this morning

    laura lee
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think I'm seeing a pattern here. Harley, you sure you aren't a middle aged dad?

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    Elizabeth Brown
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A song from one of my fav bands is like this "the bees had declared a war, the sky wasn't big enough for them all"

    Steve Hall
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It all sounds very Orwellian.

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    Ernst Blofeld
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    must be part of the "well trained militia"

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    River wolf (she/her)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WONDERFUL. I’m on lake’s side! I hate climbing and skiing and there are no trees.

    Lex <3 (they/them)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I need some popcorn to watch the drama play out

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    Elizabeth Brown
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait, is this all actual dialogue from the dude? I guess that takes some guts I guess? To be that self aware and just not care

    Ernst Blofeld
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    2 years ago

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    ok.. now I'm down voting. You have been warned. make with the funny!

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    UnimportantDog/Imp (she/her)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Replace last panel with “but when we’re back I’m going home by myself and relaxing” then it’s accurate

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    Bec
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IDK. I might take my chances with the gasoline because I KNOW that brussel sprouts do NOT taste good

    Dave
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love brussel sprouts but only when they are cooked well

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    Ernst Blofeld
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    explains a lot.. you might also enjoy leaded paint chips.

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