deviantart is the only place where real art happens any more and the 46 year olds who have entire deviantart galleries full of hundreds of pictures they created in MS Paint that they’ve been churning out since the early 90′s of their extremely specific fetish where the side character Clopin from Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame cuts off all his hair and feeds it to Quasimodo…they are the only real artists. Untethered by capitalism, untethered by clout, untethered by the algorithm. A minion of only two drives…complete creative agency and also sexy Quasimodo eat hair.
Sir. Ma’am. I’m afraid there’s no easy way to tell you this. We think your son may be a nascent utility monster. We saw him out in the schoolyard with the other children today, stomping ants. All of the children were all stomping ants but he seemed to be deriving a much, a much deeper and more visceral joy from each individual stomped ant, than any of the other children were deriving. Lots of little signs like that. Anyway. We might be morally obligated to get him addicted to heroin
my favorite calvin and hobbes comic is the one where his dad just rolls up and casually destroys his entire night by pointing out some neat trivia about record players
are you sure. are you sure calvin’s dad is not a seasoned elder trickster. are you sure this isn’t the exact outcome he was hoping for
ok but that’s actually canon
You forgot this one
*looks pointedly at ETD*
Calvin’s dad is basically a Calvin who has learned that he can’t get away with running outside naked or throwing snowballs at neighborhood girls, but he is still precisely the same little shit under the thin veneer of civilization.
@lyricwritesproseCalvin and Hobbes has been one of my favorite things since I could read and Calvin’s dad one of my favorite characters, but that last comment blew my mind wide open. Of course that’s what he is. Of course.
one of the most subtly delightful things about calvin and hobbes is that you can SEE that calvin is his parents’ kid: his dad is so playful and imaginative, and his mom has a heck of a temper and a good sense of what’s right and wrong. calvin is a smart, passionate, imaginative kid who gets really upset when he thinks things are stupid or unfair. he drives his parents crazy sometimes because he’s a kid. but they were probably a lot like calvin themselves, when they were little.
My favorite goddamn comic
Also didn’t Calvin make a comment once that apparently his grandma said his mother was just as much of a troublemaker as he is
