The Gift of Life - David Revoy
::: spoiler Transcript: A comic in four panels:
Panel 1: Young witch Pepper, writing at her desk, with a feather pen and ink. She worries, clearly struggling to find inspiration with a white page, while her hand support her head. On the wall near to her a calendar with a big 'Deadline' in red written on it, circling a day. All the day before that one are striked with a cross except one. Whatever Pepper is supposed to write is up to the audience's imagination.
Panel 2. Suddenly, a powerful goddess emerges from a light before the writer, her aura like a flame of pure golden light. She stands divine, while Pepper is captivated in awe before the gorgeous goddess, radiating light and life.
Pepper: Who... Who are you?!
Panel 3. The Goddess of Life bends slightly toward Pepper while creating a spell with her hands in a intense light a rounded object. She speaks with an air of complicity.
Goddess of Life: I am the Goddess of Life, and I've come to give you a special gift.
Panel 4. The Goddess of Life's gift is a lemon fruit. She beams with pride and happiness. Pepper looks resigned with a mixture of disappointment and exasperation.
Pepper: Of course...
Goddess of Life: You're welcome.
This comic strip is a reference to the proverbial phrase: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" :::
29 replies
Lemons are a product of selective breeding, life didn't give us lemons, we made them.
When life gives you citrons, pomelos, and mandarin oranges, make lemons.
Alternatively life used us to make lemons.
And plastic.
And plastic lemons.
Depends on how to look at it, if it gave us the capacity to turn those fruits into lemons, and gave those fruits the capacity to be turned into lemons...
If a man and a woman have a baby, did their parents give them a baby? No.
We made lemons, life gave us citrons and bitter oranges.
are we not alive?
Depends who you ask. Lot of people who are dead inside these days.
And some of us have interesting mental disorders like believing we're part of a simulation.
The follow-up
Obligatory Cave Johnson rant
Neat, I'm out of lemons. How about an 'Army & Navy' cocktail?
Huh, an offshoot of Open source Pepper&Carrot?
Btw, someone wants to update/contribute?
I was gonna say looks like pepper but I don't recognize the comic.
My weird meandering mind interpreted:
Everybody's
gangstapirate till the scurvy hits.Artist gave up the ability for this comic to go viral by having the goddess have enormous bazongas /s
Edit: forgot to add the /s because im dumb
And you gave up your ability for anyone to take you seriously with this post...
good
This comment can make sense if you read it as "the author did not draw enormous bazongas, this giving up the ability for the comic to go viral by the goddess having them". But that's a stretch.
This is what i literally meant to say in my joke, but forgot everyone here is neurodivergent and cannot extract my joke from my poor communication due to my own neurodivergence
Yeah, it wasn't the missing /s so much as just everybody reading the exact opposite of your actual intent
I'm calling Adult Protective Services on everyone who contrived to misread the comment, I can't fathom how it's possible to fuck up something so clear. I'd also be willing to buy you Hooked on Phonics
He's literally missing the word "not" in the clause that explains what actions the author took.
You're in error, his syntax is correct. In English, as crazy as it may sound, subjects are wont to verb objects. Maybe it's also a little ambiguous without context, but thankfully I paid attention when we learned about context clues in second grade Language Arts, so by taking even the slightest notice of context I'm often able to understand what people mean by what they say. Nobody twisted your arm into being inattentive, ignoring anything not spoon-fed to you, and jumping to conclusions.
[Person] [gave up] [the ability to gain by doing something extra] is easy enough on its own, but even if it's not, just pay attention and think. There's no excuse for getting all the way to the point of expressing your reaction before re-reading, reconsiderating context, and making sure you understand what you read, because you can just do that in your head almost instantly without having to try, I hope.
You realise there's two possible meanings to his sentence, and there's a bunch of religious crazies who would happily use the other meaning without a trace of sarcasm? Try paying attention to current affairs, education doesn't end the moment you finish second grade.
Oh, sweet summer child