(original art by Herta Burbe)

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      6 months ago

      Hey thanks for mentioning the artist, I found this online and didn’t have any idea who it was, I’ll update the description

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    The notion of there being someone out there who matches you perfectly or completes you is bullshit. Relationships are complex things that require hard work and compromise if you want then to work.

    This is some whiny, self-pity emo cringe and is frankly insulting to people who have made relationships work like the two on the couch who I guarantee you didn’t just fit together easily without the aforementioned hard work and compromise.

    Or it’s just a comic about a fucked up dog.

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      What counts is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

      • Leo Tolstoy
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    The people on the couch don’t exist. It’s an unrealistic expectation nobody actually has.

    Edit: the unrealistic part is that they have so few corners to fit and they fit perfectly. It’s more complicated than that.

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      I don’t think that’s entirely true, but even if it is, they could be accurately interpreted as one’s expectation of oneself.

      Not a healthy expectation, but a real one.

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    everyone out here stuck on fucking a dog. Or being fucked by a dog.

    But no one out here is talking about the fact that a relationship is what you make it.

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    Now he just needs to find pac man, a ball, some sort of lizard, a handgun, and a few other odds and ends to fill him out.

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    Life is complex. Being compatible just requires a partial match. It’s sweet that a piece of him matches up well with another life.

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      I don’t think so?

      I think it’s alluding to people having different needs, with this dog playing one small part of their complete picture.

      Maybe the other shapes are filled by friends to come, a beloved family member, more dogs, a lot more dogs, oh geez that’s so many dogs.

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    6 months ago

    I get what this is saying, but I also feel like you can work on yourself to make it easier to connect with others.

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    Just recently moved and I don’t have a roommate here yet. He’s moving in at the end of the month. It’s just me and my cat and I’m incredibly lonely. I’m lying in bed feeling like shit and depressed right now and she’s on her lil bed attached to my bed because she might as well be a fuzzy shadow. Can honestly say I’d have killed myself without her because she’s the only reason I’m not dead right now

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    Soul mates are such nonsense. You’re trying to tell me that out of what, 7 billion humans now, exactly one of them is my soulmate? Yeah no. Even if it was even a 1 in 1,000 chance the odds suck. You’re gonna need to lower them expectations bub.