Had to explain “you know you’re a pony when pony pony pony pony” to my wife today.

Kumquat: The best way that I have ever seen to boof coke was my chinchilla!
Boots: What?
Kumquat: What?

I'm considering an alternative interpretation where this is some strange deep internet romance ARG someone was running, like kindle authors doing a weird Reptilians conspiracy thing as a cute supernatural romance. I don't know if I believe it, as that's pretty high concept and her actual prose and art are not that at all. Maybe she just reminds me of whatever episode it was that had the alien romance that was also Settlers of Catan? Because the mismatched alien marriage to a primitive planet thing is like a whole romance sub-sub-genre, and the idea of being stuck with your bizarre abusive boyfriend alien because you're his eugenics project feels of that ilk.
EYE OF ZA, December 09, 2024, 12:02:15 am

I'd guess it's more a product of the same kind of logic being employed. Even if she believes everything she writes, she's still telling a story to herself and using ideas that show up in bizarre niche romance plots. Sort of like how a Lokiwife might use Joss Whedon tropes in a transcript of an encounter without realizing how fake it seems.

A bunch of tiny holiday shorts by Bill Plympton, based on cards he drew for his family. Not nearly as unhinged as the stuff he's best known for, but he does manage to put funny runnin' legs on things, and I'm all for that.