30/01/2024 16:10:47 ¶ ● ⬈

weirdmageddon:

> i love these tags this person is so right

> actually, can you imagine if dave was raised by B1 roxy?

> i wanna get into this actually

> (ok i had to spend a few hours rewriting this because IT DIDNT FUCKING SAVE AFTER FIVE HOURS OF WRITING WHEN MY COMPUTER UPDATED WHILE I WAS AFK so it would mean a lot to show this post some appreciation. i LOVEEE hearing what other people have to say)

> even though these things mom does are presented in an extravagant, kitsch, jokey way, her intentions always came from a place of sincerity. she is simply Funnie

> but rose reads too far into it and assumes things that aren’t there, that her mother is passive-aggressively feigning interest in rose’s interests simply because the things she does are so extra. “why do all of this if not to mock me”

> im telling you right now if dave lived in this household he wouldn’t assume antagonism, he’d go,

> don’t forget who LITERALLY patented tangible jpeg artifacts as their post-scratch adult self and scattered shitty scummed up statue of liberties all over the planet. theres no way some of that overboard artful shit wasnt post-ironic / circling back around to genuine funny sincerity

> dave’s natural state is funny sincerity like roxy. he’s had the natural capacity for this type of humor from the start and this is the direction he goes towards when he grows out of his brother’s shadow by the end of the comic. dave and roxy share an earnest “so bad its good” type of humor

> (lots more under the cut; the length of this meta analysis just got unwieldly with all the pictures and whatnot)

> Keep reading