no. 456

Jamie: "You're an asshole"
Cheryl: "I'm a woman. I'm not an asshole, I'm a bitch."
Jamie: "Bitches bring puppies into the world. You're an asshole."

From the comic "Leftover Soup"

no. 455

"It strikes me as sad when something becomes widely disregarded. Piles of unsold Halloween “goods” are shoved into bins, to wait in the shadow of aisles filled with Christmas and Thanksgiving. No, I don’t especially want or care about plastic skulls and pumpkins. It is not about the object, I think, but the inherent humanity present in that object. Somebody made it. This would not exist if not for them, and yet what value does that add to such a thing? There is no passion in the factory, so none ends in the product. It is the way of our world to create in surplus while stripping away significance, one very much costing the other. I know the person who made this stuff didn’t give a shit. I wouldn’t. But when I look at that pumpkin, I see a small bit of someone’s life and can’t help but feel it deserves better than the throwaway bin at Fred Meyer."

Alex Hobbs

no. 454

"It doesn't take much cruelty, to make people afraid of your kindness"

a softer world, no. 1171

no. 453

"When you say average, do you mean that basically if you tightly gathered all the girls in the world, it would turn into that girl!!? That would be a girl crystal!! Th-that would be a jewel!"

Shinohara En, the cross-dressing, girl-loving protagonist of Komura Ayumi's manga Usotsuki Lily, vol. 0, ch. 4, pg. 30


As someone who has long been a champion of seeing beauty in the "ordinary", I find this to be a lovely statement.