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Growing up is realizing that
Calvin and his dad were pretty much the same person.
Both Calvin and his father enjoy nature. Calvin relishes death-defying wagon rides and contemplating philosophy outdoors. His father, however, enjoys biking early in the morning and drags his family to go on camping trips.
They also enjoy teasing their loved ones. Calvin constantly freaks out and pranks Susie Derkins, his crush. Calvin's dad is no better. Whenever Calvin asks his dad about a topic, like time zones, his father will tease him by lying about the actual answer. Calvin then compares his mother's answer to his father's, most likely forcing his mother to clear up the misconception.
As someone who has multiple Calvin and Hobbes books, this just makes me love them even more. You done good, Bill. You done good.
I thinks folks expressing incredulity at the quality of the writing and composition in Calvin and Hobbes are often missing the context that Bill Watterson is arguably the most influential sequential artist of his generation. Like, this is a guy who once told the editors of nationally syndicated newspapers to go fuck themselves when they wanted to mess with his panel layouts, and not only did he keep his job, he got his way. He could have had literally any gig he wanted, and he chose to be the Sunday funnies guy because that's what made him happy. He's basically the Weird Al of sequential art.
how long should i wait? later is too late.
Navillera (2021) Episode 5
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Tom Stoppard, SHIPWRECK: THE COAST OF UTOPIA Part II
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Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) Episode 9: The Pied Piper
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N.O by BTS λ°©νμλ λ¨ (trans. doolsetbangtan)
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Eileen Caddy
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Makarand Kaprekar, To Race Or Not to Race, That is the Question
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βThe reality is: there will always be more work. From our jobs and owning businesses, to being a manager of our families and our homes - there will always be more work. It never goes away. We never escape from the responsibilities that life presents us. But one of our main responsibilities should be ourselves, after all, there's only one of us anyway.β
Vanessa Autrey, The Art of Balancing Burnout
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[Verse 4]
I used to think I'd be done by twenty
Now at twenty-nine, the road ahead appears the same
Though maybe at thirty, I'll see a way to change
That I'm living for the knife
Working for the knife by Mitski
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cutout from Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 17, 1988
Class of 2013 by Mitski
βi must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.β (calvin & hobbes, bill watterson)
confused calvinist, 6 months after conversion: so when will my plush tiger start talking
gender is a game with no rules. gender is calvinball. is what i'm saying. it's. we're playing calvinball okay.
I Loved Calvin and Hobbes as a Kid!!! I feel so old now.
William B. βBillβ Watterson II.
November 12, 1989
#yes BUT have you ever heard an astrophysicist talk about primordial gravitational waves #or an astrobiologist talk about the drake equation and breaking ice on mars #or an astronomer talk about exoplanets and supermassive quasars #or a biochemist talk about cloning human embryonic stem cells and synthetic base pairs #or a palaeontologist talk about neanderthal cognition and technology #or a neuroscientist talk about animal brain-to-brain interfaces #or a geneticist talk about codons and duons #or a biophysicist talk about quantum biology and electron tunnelling #scientists speak a different language but it's still poetry; it's still brimming with wonder (perfecttags by elucipher -- I really respect Calvin and Hobbes and very rarely disagree, but this is one of those rare moments when I think Bill Watterson kinda got it totally wrong.)
Calvin and Hobbes
Life goals: share a name with an incredible cartoonist and work with octopuses.Β
(photos by Bill Watterson and an octopus)