A comic depicting a character wearing a hoodie with the colors of the French flag, sitting in front of a computer. A narration box opens: "A very weird thing I never expected to happen when I moved overseas." The French character is sitting with the French flag behind her, implying she's in France. She's putting a message in the junk box, muttering in annoyance: "Ugh, I only shopped there once, seriously..." Another narration box continues: "Junk e-mails give me nostalgia now." The French character, now sitting in front of the US flag, implying they're in the USA, is looking at the computer screen fondly, saying: "Aaw... It's from that place I used to shop at..."

Getting sentimental over the smallest things (of course it ain't like I can really shop there anymore 'cus I'm too far so capitalism doesn't win yet I guess)

#lifechange #livingabroad

A fanart of the titular character from Tove Jansson's picture book "Who Will Comfort Toffle" from the Moomin series. Toffle is standing in a bag three time their size, floating above the sea in partly cloudy weather, looking at the horizon and blocking some of the light with their hand above their eyes.

Today was the first anniversary of the day I moved overseas.

...Anyway here's Toffle

#moomin #moominvalley

A comic titled "Words people say arbitrarily like they only mean one thing (again)". A feminine-presenting person, thereafter called character A, is talking to a character wearing a hoodie with the aromantic-asexual (aroace) flag colors, thereafter called character B. Character says: "A while ago, she used to like me, but now, she sees me as a friend." Character B looks very confused, and after a pause, asks: "So... She still likes you?" Character A responds: "Well, no, like I said... She USED to like me, but now we're friends." Character B, in further confusion, insists: "Yeah, so she still likes you?!"

Did a genuine double-take at a "used to like me" recently, so you know the drill

#aromantic #asexual

A comic titled "Immigration is fun (3)". Two characters, one wearing a shirt with the colors of the U.S. flag and the other wearing a shirt with the colors of the French flag, are shown sitting at a table talking to a person off-camera. Two arrows point to the two characters, with a legend saying: "Us in a meeting with our immigration attorney, getting to the unrelated chitchat part." An additional arrow pointing to the French character adds the following legend: "My European brain still not getting why we do unrelated chitchat." The voice of the attorney, off-screen, says: "We'd love to go to Greece with the kids someday." It then adds: "What about you two? Any countries you're planning to visit?", prompting a confused "Huh?" from the French character. The last panel zooms on the French character lost in confusion, thinking: "How? I can't legally travel out of the U.S. until this is settled... And even if I could, we'd need money, which has all been going to marriage and moving and immigration fees and your fees... And to make more money I'd have to work, which I also legally can't do until this is settled... As our attorney, you should know that, right?" One last legend pointing to the French character concludes: "My European brain also not getting why people here aren't as risk-averse as I was raised to be".

Nowadays I can finally make plans to visit my family in my home country again, and that's been a huge relief. But yeah... The way all of those absences of rights casually get glossed over by USAmerican optimism is weird while it's happening. Sometimes even kinda brutal.
#usa #europe #cultureshock

A comic depicting a character wearing a hoodie with the colors of the French flag, passing my characters A, B and C who are all wearing the colors of the United States flag. Characters A and B are chatting. A says: "And with gas being so expensive these days...", to which B responds: "God, tell me about it." Later, the French character, while exiting her car, passes by character C talking on the phone. Character C says: "I swear, we're paying way too much for gas these days. It's insane." The French character lifts her eyes, pensive, to what is revealed in the next panel to be a gas station price sign, advertising gas for 6.30 dollars a gallon. She thinks: "Yeah. Still cheaper than what I'm used to." A narration box explains: "It was about 6.50 dollars a gallon in France a year ago when I left and it's now close to 9 dollars a gallon due to U.S. affairs."

Mind you, that's in a France where the average salary is about two-thirds that of an average salary in the US, post-2008. And yeah, we have more trains, but that's not accounting for rural areas. Anyway. Hearing the #gasprices thing always gives me pause with my still very French lens.

A comic with a simple style depicting two people wearing clothes with the colors of the asexual flag, facing each other and having a conversation. The person on the left says: "As a sex-repulsed asexual, I feel like I'm treated as inferior to sex-favorable asexuals because I can't give people the satisfaction of talking about, writing about, or engaging with sex." The person on the right says: "As a sex-favorable asexual, I feel like I'm respected less than sex-repulsed asexuals because I don't conform to the stereotype people have of aces, so they either kinda ignore my orientation or impose new stereotypes on me." A second panel shows both of them looking dejected, supporting each other by the shoulder. The person on the left concludes: "So, basically, we can't win, huh." The person on the right answers: "What else is new."

We're getting there little by little, sure. But it's a road.

Anyway happy international asexuality day

#asexual #internationalasexualityday #asexualvisibilityday

A comic titled "Words people say arbitrarily like they only mean one thing (been a while)". In the first panel, two characters in the forefront are looking at two characters happily chatting in the distance. One of the two characters in the forefront is wearing a nondescript shirt, whereas the other is wearing a hoodie with the colors of the aromantic-asexual (aroace) flag. The nondescript character asks the aroace character: "Hey... Do you think V is interested in K?" The point of view then shifts to a front view of the two forefront characters talking. The aroace character responds, matter-of-factly: "Why wouldn't she be? K's super interesting. He's always up to something cool." She smiles and adds: "In fact, everyone should be interested in him! Did you know he backpacked through New Zealand last year?" The nondescript character, now looking dejected, comments in a low tone: "Why do I ever talk to you?"

I dunno I'm still not funny yet still not stopping I guess

#aroace #language

A comic titled "Suburbia is scary (4)", depicting two characters seen in a high-angle shot, standing in front of the entrance of a hybrid rail station. One is wearing a T-shirt with the colors of the U.S. flag. The other is wearing a hoodie with the colors of the French flag. The French flag character looks dejected and says: "Let me get this straight... This is a railway station. Aplace that offers an alternative mode of transportation for people who do'nt have a car, or, admittedly, people who don't want to use a car... And THIS IS WHAT THEY SURROUNG IT WITH?!" The view zooms out to reveal that the hybrid rail station they are at is surrounded by a giant, practically empty parking lot. A narration box concludes: "I don't think California fundamentally knows how trains work."

Now if that abomination had more than a couple cars at a time in it, maybe I'd see a point. But no. It's always this deserted and it destroys my brain so completely. Just… Why.

...Myeh, I guess I shouldn't be surprised in hindsight.

#unitedstates #european #cultureshock #carculture

lmao not Bluesky bots flagging my very sex-repulsed art as explicit for some reason
Not the first time it happens across platforms and that's just another reason for me to clown on bots atp

A posing shot drawing of a Pokemon team from Pokemon Yellow, comprised of a Parasect, a Snorlax, a Shellder, a Butterfree, a Pikachu and a Farfetchd. The training, a short person wearing a black round hat and a yellow sweater, is standing on the Snorlax's shoulder.

A posing shot drawing of a Pokemon team from Pokemon Sapphire, comprised of a Blaziken, a Seviper, a Vileplume, a Crobat, a Tentacruel and a Swalot. The trainer, a man in a biker jacket smoking a cigarette, is kneeling in the middle, surrounded by the Pokemon.

Those times I replayed Pokemon Yellow on GBC and Pokemon Sapphire on GBA and made up teams that my OCs would like (that was in 2024 and 2025 so it's old already but apparently I guess I'd never shared them here, so there we go)

#pokemon #pokemonteam #oc

A comic titled "Things in the U.S. that will forever crack me up (1/?)". A character wearing a T-shirt with the U.S. flag colors and a character wearing a hoodie with the French flag colors are looking at a display of books in a store. The French character comments, pensive: "Secret at the Bakery, huh... I wonder what kind of book this is..." Suddenly she notices something a points to the book. "Oh! I got it!" The image zooms in on a corner of the book with the mention: "a novel". The French character enthusisastically points at it with both hands, exclaiming: "IT'S A NOVEL!" She is then seen pointing at a variety of books, still exclaiming: "And that's a novel! And that's a novel! And this one!" while the U.S. character calmly comments: "Yes, honey." A narration bubble concludes: "Novels that need to tell you that they're "a novel" right on the cover."

I dunno it just makes me giggle and I'm very annoying to be in bookshops with now

#unitedstates #france #cultureshock

Two women are speaking joyfully to two younger-looking characters. Women A says: "You got married recently? Congratulations!" Women B adds: "Enjoy your first years, they're the best! After that, the passion dwindles..." The two younger characters give each other a silent, awkward look. They are revealed to be wearing, respectively, a T-shirt with the asexual flag colors, and a hoodie with the aromantic-asexual flag colors. The aromantic-asexual character thinks: "Should we tell them or...?"

...But real talk, I wonder how it's gonna be for us.

#asexual #aromantic #queerplatonic

A comic featuring a character wearing a hoodie with the colors of the French flag. The first panel shows her pushing one suitcase and pulling the other, with the following narration: "When I moved overseas, most of my stuff was put in a container and traveled by sea. I flew with as much as I could fit in 2 big suitcases." The comic continues. The French character is now seen with her partner, who is wearing a T-shirt with the colors of the US flag. The narration proceeds: "So for my first 2 and a half months here, I was overly concerned about saving room for my things." The US character is showing a bowl, asking: "Wanna get this for the kitchen?" The French character defensively responds: "Um... Let's wait til my stuff arrives?" The narration specifies, in brackets: "There was more than enough." It then continues: "And I operated on cartoon logic, rotating the same couple of outfits. Then, when my stuff made it..." The French character is now seen looking into the distance nervously, while the US character is standing next to her with a more relaxed expression. The French character asks: "Honey... Now that it's all unpacked... Do you mind if I–" The US character responds: "Sure, love. Go for it." The French character dashes to her left, exclaiming: "My baby!!" The next panel, she is seen hugging a harp with tears in her eyes, while her partner watches over her with a smile. The narration concludes: "It kinda hammered home that I'd been worrying every day about some things in particular."

It's not even like I play my harp that much these days, but I guess in the end, even STUFF you've lived with for several years, or even decades, winds up getting a free materialism pass. I dunno. Instruments are special like that, I guess.

#nostalgia #music #moving

A comic featuring two character sipping from takeout cups with straws at a table. One is wearing an outfit with the colors of the French flag, and says: "You know, it's funny... Didn't expect it, but sometimes, there's things here that make me feel like I've gone back in time." The other character, wearing an outfit with the colors of the United States flag, asks: "Like what?" The French character responds: "Plastic straws."

California has recently banned plastic bags from stores and coming from France it feels like living through the same canon event 10 years apart. Kinda nuts.

#california #france #cultureshock #plastic

A comic depicting a character wearing an outfit with the colors of the aromantic flag, looking absent-mindedly into the distance. A narration box states: "I don't know if it's because I'm cynical, because I'm anxious about most things, or because I'm aromantic, but..." The character is revealed to be looking at two people getting married, together with her own spouse and an assembly. The narration continues: "I never understood how people can so confidently talk about their relationships like they're eternal." The bride getting married states: "We'll be happy together forever!" as the crowd, including the spouse of the aromantic character, exclaim: "Aaaaw!!" The aromantic character, still looking absent-minded, thinks to herself: "Huh... That's very extreme. I couldn't say that at our wedding..." The aromantic character is then seen in a different outfit, still with the aromantic flag colors, thinking to herself. The narration comments: "Incidentally, once in a while I have to remind myself that at the end of the day, romantic relationships are in about as much risk of ending someday as friendships are, so us aromantics aren't necessarily any less safe from loneliness than others. Romance is just put on such a pedestal of life investment and "foreverness" that sometimes I forget."

I guess "Till death do us part" still does a lot of heavy lifting today, huh.

I dunno. Random shower thoughts that kinda make me wonder where I stand in life sometimes. Don't know if any other aros can relate at all.

#aromantic #aromanticspectrumawarenessweek #aro

A comic depicting a character wearing a hoodie with French flag colors, going through several situations in the United States. A first titles states: "The U.S.:" Narration boxes state the following facts, accompanied with illustrations of the character demonstrating said facts: "Most cars are automatic. People typically bring whole foldable carts to markets to avoid having to carry bags. There's a drive-thru for everything." For the last sentence, the character is seen squinting at a drive-thru ATM, thinking: "OK, but this is overkill." A second title then adds: "Also the U.S.:" Once again, narration boxes state the following facts, accompanied with illustrations of the character demonstrating said facts: "Somehow can't make veggie cans without easy-open pull tabs, forcing you to buy an easily-breakable can opener to open them. Has laundromats you can only pay for with an app which charges you a "convenience fee" if you charge it a non-preset amount." For this sentence, the character is seen looking defeatedly at a blocked-out coin box on top of a washing machine, sighing: "Are you kidding me..." The last fact is: "Has people hand-file and calculate all of their taxes instead of having them pre-calculated by the government." The character, alongside her partner wearing a T-shirt with the colors of the U.S. flag, are tiredly looking at a computer screen. The French character asks: "How do you do it then?" The U.S. character replies: "We pay someone, usually." The French character concludes: "That's not "doing"."

...And how many of those inconvenient things are purely caused by greed at the end of the day gee I wonder

#unitedstates #cultureshock

A comic depicting a young character wearing a hoodie with the colors of the aromantic flag, talking to an adult. The young character says: "I'm aromantic. That means feeling little to no romantic attraction. And in my case, that's none at all. So no... I don't ever want to date anyone." The adult answers with a sorry smile: "Oh, but that's a pity, isn't it?" She then adds, in a speech bubble partially covered by a box: "I hope you [hidden words] someday." In the spot where the hidden words are, the covering box bears the following words instead: "go through exactly what you'd never want to go through", making the whole message "I hope you go through exactly what you'd never want to go through" someday. An arrow goes from the speech bubble to a narration line simply stating: "That's it. That's what this response feels like."

So recently I got an ask on Tumblr from a Mexican teen who shared some life experiences that put right back into perspective how brutal this kind of reaction is, even if it comes from people who feel they mean well.

#aromantic #aromanticspectrumawarenessweek

A comic depicting two characters: a tall one with a nondescript shirt, and a short one wearing a hoodie with the colors of the aromantic flag. The short character asks: "Hey, have you seen that channel covering classic jazz standards from the 50s?" The tall character responds: "Nah... I don't really like jazz." The short character's eyes widen in shock as they ask: "Youj don't like jazz?! How can you not?! Everybody likes jazz! Enjoying jazz is key to elevating the human experience!" The tall character, confused, mumbles: "Uh... in what way?" The short character continues, acting puzzled: "So do you just... Not like music? Do you not like joy? Do you not want any art in your life altogether?" The tall character replies: "Of course I do! Why are we conflating the importance of a single music genre?"

A continuation of the comic shown on the previous image, depicting two characters: a tall one with a nondescript shirt, and a short one wearing a hoodie with the colors of the aromantic flag. The short character is now shown showing a movie to the tall character, happily commenting: "What makes this movie great is that big jazz number the characters break into midway through... Isn't it great?" The tall character sighs: "Sure... Just like all the other movies you've shown me..." The short character and the tall character are then seen sitting at a table. The short character asks, smiling: "So? Have you taken a liking to jazz yet?" The tall character responds flatly: "Nope." The short character replies: "That's a shame... But you'll get there! Someday you'll see how great it is..." The short character is then seen talking to another character, keeping at a distance from the tall character. They say to the tall character with an apologetic smile: "It's not that we don't wanna talk to you... We're just having a great conversation about jazz again, and since you don't like jazz, well..." The tall character sighs: "Alright, I see what you're doing." Lastly, the short character is seen chasing the tall characters with headphones held up, happily pressing on: "Come on, I'm sure you'll like it if you give it a try!" The tall character, exasperated, exclaims: "You've made your point!"

Yeah, I know it's not a perfect metaphor, but I just wanna have my fun sometimes I guess.

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week!

#aromantic #aromanticspectrumawarenessweek

A one-panel comic in cartoony style featuring two people sitting at a café table outside, having coffee in paper cups, wearing purple shirts. A caption at the start says: "Another thing I love about my partner." The character on the left, representing the partner in question, says with a smile: "Oh hey, today's out first Valentine's Day together as roommates!" The character on the right, representing the narrator, responds, also smiling: "Oh yeah!" A caption at the bottom concludes: "How they default to "roommates" instead of "spouses" in conversations like these."

Just a thing my partner said this morning that I felt like sharing. Idk, it's nice.

#asexual #queerplatonic #queerplatonicrelationship

A comic titled "Suburbia is scary (3)". A character with a T-shirt colored with a French flag pattern is seen sleeping peacefully in a bed at night, surrounded by speech bubbles of sound effects and people shouting. A narration comments: "Back when I lived in the city, I was surrounded by human noise 24/7. Drunk people going home after parties, vehicles passing by quickly, parents with kids, people crying all night after getting dumped... I thought I could sleep to anything." The second panel then switches to the same character now in a bed next to another character wearing a T-shirt with a USA flag pattern. The multiple sounds are now completely gone, replaced with an overwhelming rumble shown in all caps and large characters in a red-colored speech bubble. The character with the French flag T-shirt is now wide awake, livid, with bloodshot eyes. The narration continues: "But clearly, I wasn't ready for suburban reefer trucks idling by the window all night."

A continuation of the comic in the previous image. The French character is sitting at her apartment complex's leasing office, talking to a representative. She says: "Reefer trucks keep idling all weekend under our window! It's clear noise disturbance! Can't you put up a sign?" The representative answers with an apologetic smile: "Sorry, it's out of our hands..." She then adds, looking more serious: "Besides, it could be worse, you know... You could have transients." The French person, surprised, goes: "Wha-? What does that have to do with-" The representative cuts in: "We had some here a couple years ago... Took forever to get rid of them." In a muffled voice, losing her composure a bit, the French character tries to answer: "But like... They're not physically capable of making as much noise as a reefer-" The representative cuts in again: "They kept going through the trash cans... Residents were terrified." The French person, now upset and panicking, tries to weigh in, in an increasingly small and shaky voice: "Well, people throw out a lot of thigns here... And they leave the trash cans open all the time... If they're worried-" The representative continues: "We were all so nervous about the rats they were gonna attract!" The comic then cuts to the French character loudly crying, seeking refuse in the arms of her partner (the person in the USA T-shirt from the previous image), who's trying to comfort her by petting her hair. Panicked, she cries on: "What just happened?! Seriously, what just happened?! I'm telling her about the reefer trucks and she starts being cruel to homeless people totally unprompted! What's wrong with people here?!"

Let's be clear: I'm not exemplary by any means when it comes to helping homeless people. But where I came from didn't prepare me for the sheer level of callousness for them I see here in the US.

#usa #cultureshock #aporophobia #classism

A comic titled "More things my spouse once said with little to no context". The spouse in question is shown in a simplified drawing style, talking to their spouse and emoting to the following lines, out of context: "I would drink your eyes." Then "I have a stomach." Then "You're like a popsicle... I love it. Are you alive though?" Then finally "A little stabbing never hurt anyone" (said in a harmless way).

Today was my partner's birthday, so here. Here's more of those.

#sliceoflife #queerplatonicrelationship

A slice-of-life comic starting with the following narration: "When we were still long-distance, during one of my visits, my partner took me to Build-A-Bear so we could make bears with personal voice messages for each other." A panel shows the narrator and her partner in front of a Build-A-Bear recording machine. The machine speaks out in front of the partner: "Here's your message : 'Hey baby, it's me!'" The partner recoils in mild embarrassment. The narrator smiles a bit awkwardly, saying: "Guess they replay it to check, huh..." The narration continues into the second panel: "Of course, when it came time to pack my life away to move overseas, the bear my partner made for me ended up in one of the boxes." Here, the narrator is seen packing a bear who looks like her partner into a cardboard box. The narration continues: "But I guess I accidentally put it right in a corner, so when the movers came to pick up the boxes..." A panel then shows a mover lifting the box in question, now closed. From the movement, the voice message from the bear emits from one corner of the box; saying: "Hey baby, it's me!" again. The narrator, standing behind the mover, blushes, startled. The narration continues: "They kept hitting the voice box accidentally." The mover is now seen passing the box to a colleague, while the voice box keeps repeating: "Hey baby!" continuously in the middle of an otherwise noisy room. The narrator stands in a corner, still blushing, thinking to herself: "GOD I hope they don't notice..."

More random slice-of-lifey stuff I guess. Sorry for putting a lot of that out there TwT

#buildabear #sliceoflife #longdistance

A comic depicting a character wearing an outfit with the French flag colors, waiting to cross the street. A caption first reads: "Crossing the street in Paris: 1- Wait for your turn." The character is shown waiting as cars pass and the pedestrian crossing sign shows a red silhouette standing. The caption continues: "2- Cross." The pedestrian crossing sign has turned to a green silhouette walking, and the character is walking across the pedestrian crossing. The caption then resets to: "Crossing the street in California: 1- Press a button to ask for permission to cross." The character, now waiting to cross in front of a bigger, busier road, presses a button on the pedestrian crossing sign pole. The pedestrian crossing sign displays a red hand. A voice coming from the button shouts: "Wait!" The caption continues: "2- Wait." The character is shown waiting for 3 continued panels as the sign still displays the red hand, the road is still continuously busy with cars, and the "Wait!" voice repeats aggressively. Eventually, looking a bit defeated, the character thinks: "I wonder if I'll get to cross someday..."

A continuation of the comic in the previous image. After a long blank of waiting, the pedestrian crossing sign finally turns to a white silhouette walking, with a light chime ringing. The character, looking tired, starts crossing, thinking "finally"... In the next panel, immediately, the pedestrian crossing sign changes to a countdown starting from 20, with the chime now sounding aggressive, startling the character, who starts running as the countdown continues, thinking: "What do you mean, 20 seconds to cross? I had to wait, like, 4 minutes!"

I guess I should also mention it's lucky IF we get sidewalks and pedestrian crossing here in the first place huh...

How civilized was the US supposed to be again?

#carculture #suburbia #usvseurope

A comic starting with the caption: "Ever since I was a kid, I've always gravitated towards those typically same-sex, typically comic relief buddy duos always attached at the hip, in anything I read or watched." The comic shows a character wearing childish pigtails, sitting and reading a book. Floating heads of pop culture duos are shown around her, with captions pointing to who they are: counter-clockwise, Pinky and the Brain, those two guys from Osamu Tezuka's stories, Lumière and Cogsworth, and those two guys from Waiting for Godot. The next panel shows the same character putting the book down and thinking to herself. Captions continue: "But unlike a lot of people who liked them, I didn't exactly see them as gay couples. I could definitely understand shipping them, but them having side romances or whatever didn't ruin them for me. In my heart, they had a special bond anyway, and it didn't have to be romantic." Another caption opens the third and final panel: "For years I didn't fully know how to express something like that... So in hindsight, I guess it's no surprise that after my now-partner told me about queerplatonic relationships and I did some research on 'em, it opened up a lot of mental doors." The character, now grown up and wearing a hoodie with the colors of the aroace flag, is seen looking something up on her computer with a mindblown expression.

Just to be clear, I don't really SEE duos like this as examples of a #queerplatonicrelationship, per se. A lot of them are probably much sooner meant to be reminiscent of gay couples. I'm just saying they happened to scratch an itch I didn't fully realize I had back then. Been thinking about that.

A comic depicting two characters, one wearing a hoodie with the colors of the French flag (thereafter known as the French character) and one wearing a T-shirt with the colors of the US flag (thereafter known as the US character). They are sitting in a leasing office, talking to a representative also wearing a sweater with the colors of the US flag. The leasing representative says: "Thank you for coming. We've received noise complaints from your downstairs neighbor... Could you please be more careful in the future?" The French character replies: "We'll try, but I'm not sure what makes us so noisy..." The US character adds: "We hardly ever have guests, we're usually in bed early... We walk and talk normally as well, so..." The leasing representative smiles sympathetically and replies: "Oh, I believe you... It's just that sound travels easily in this building. It was built in the 60s, so I guess it's an issue of it being old." The French character smiles cynically, thinking to herself: "Right... "Old"." An arrow points to them with the following caption: "Previously lived in a city building built in the 1900s; had upstairs and downstairs neighbors; never received a noise complaint in 7 years."

Sorry I'm sharing this here so late... I started a new job and it's kept me busy TwT

Anyhoo. While I'm venting about stupidly light stuff, might as well also say, congrats to the US for doing an imperialism again last week I guess. Yeesh.

#usa #france #housing

(Updated version)
My online shop akhtsjrep.myshopify.com (which includes a printed compilation of my #asexual / #aromantic comics among other things) is now back in business! See 2 images shared here for details^^

A comic titled "Two ace partners in married life (baking for friends and family)". Two characters wearing purple-colored clothes are seen looking at a pie. Character A, holding a sugar bag, says: "Now we gotta sprinkle it with sugar!" Character B, holding a spoon, responds: "I'll use a spoon." Character B starts hovering the spoon over the pie, while character A starts singing: "Just a spoonful of sugar..." Character B continues: "Brings the enemies down." Character A, looking confused then amused, asks: "Wait... What??" Character B shrugs, saying: "Listen, I don't remember the lyrics." Character A comments: "I have the weirdest mental image now."

I'm very late atp but I hope you guys are having a good end of your year TwT

#marypoppins #sliceoflife

A comic titled "Immigration is fun (2)". Two married characters, one wearing clothes with the USA flag as a motif and the other with the French flag, are looking up information on a phone. The USA character comments: "Says here that to prepare for the green card interview, we should gather evidence of a bona fide marriage, such as a joint bank account." The French character responds: "Oh, OK... So we should go open one!" Cut to the two characters sitting at a desk in front of a nondescript character carrying the description: "Bank". The Bank character says: "A joint bank account? Sure! I'll just need both of your social security numbers." The French character responds: "Well, I don't have one." The Bank character replies: "Oh? Well... I suppose your green card would be enough." The USA character responds: "Well, she doesn't have one either... Yet..." The French character adds: "See, I have to apply for one, and the joint bank account is supposed to help with that." The Bank character replies: "Not to worry! I hear ya. In that case, we'd just need a document with both of your names and your address, as proof that you live together." The USA character responds: "Oh, we have a joint lease!"

A continuation of the comic on the previous image. The Bank character responds: "Oh, I'm so sorry... A joint lease is the one thing we can't accept." Both the French character (dejected) and the USA character (surprised) reply: "Oh." The Bank character adds: "A joint electricity or phone bill with both your names would work, though!" The USA character responds: "Well, we don't have one right now, but we can see with our phone plan provider and come back when we have one?" The Bank character replies: "That'd be great!" Cut to the French character and the USA character sitting at a desk in front of a nondescript character bearing the descriptor: "Phone plan". The Phone plan character, pointing at a tablet on the desk, says: "All set! Your wife's name is now added to the plan." The USA character responds: "Amazing, thank you! So, both of our names will appear on our bills from now on?" The Phone plan character replies: "Oh, I'm sorry, we don't have the clearange to show more than one name on our bills..." The USA character, confused, just reponds: "Wha...?" The French character, looking defeated, mumbles: "This is gonna be a long one, huh..."

I'm glad that part's over, but yeah, it was definitely a ride while it lasted.

#bureaucracy #usa

A comic titled "Suburbia is scary (2)". Narration starts: "Where I come from, it's common for housing near amenities like shops, third places or public transportation to be more expensive. And I get why. It's convenient." A character wearing a hoodie with the French flag colors is shown smiling and standing next to a house covered in dollar signs, surrounded by a tram, a bar, a movie theater, shops and trees. The narration continues: "But from what I've seen at least in this corner of California, housing in the suburbs, where there's none of that around, is about as expensive if not more. And it seems that's because..." The character is now looking confused, seen with the house only, the rest having vanished. The narration continues: "It's close to a road, and apparently that's what people care about the most." A road covered in cars is revealed behind the house. The character, looking defeated, sighs: "Oh boy."

...I dunno, I somehow don't see the point in treating the thing you stay on for a long while that supposedly gets you to the most desirable places AS the most desirable place... But who knows maybe there's something I'm not getting about the secret charm of roads or something

#usa #cultureshock

A humoristic comic featuring a character with a hoodie with asexual flag colors, and a character with a sprout on his head. It is titled: "Talking way after the fact about "hear me out" cakes." Panel 1: Asexual flag character: "What confuses me the most is... Aren't more people into supposedly outlandish things than one would think anyway? Like... How is it a "hear me out" if everyone is in on it?" Panel 2: Sprout character: "Look, I'll try to explain this as simply as I can..." Panel 3: Sprout character: "The joke is sex." Asexual hoodie character, looking defeated: "Yeah, that's why I don't get it, isn't it..."

Arguably sharing this conversation just for the conclusion but yeah

#asexual #hearmeoutcake #sexrepulsed #ace