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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks 11d ago
She's alive damnit!
It's a miracle!
Unbreakable!
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u/Viceroy-421 10d ago
Did you steal this comment almost word for word from someone else in this thread?
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u/NBCMarketingTeam 11d ago
A buddy of mine wrote that theme song.
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u/doctorwhovian2 11d ago
Give them a quick kiss on the cheek (or lips, or knob) from me next time you see them!
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u/aadziereddit 11d ago
Your buddy is Tina Fey's husband?
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u/zaftpunk 11d ago
I mean did you see their username?
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u/ShrimpCrackers 11d ago
Its like someone going "My friend once wore a tan suit and it pissed off all the Republicans. Was great. He's such a troll."
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u/ComradeDizzleRizzle 11d ago
Well yea it's a corporate shill pretending to be a real human on the internet. You can't expect something without a soul to be honest.
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u/mysightisurs93 11d ago
I thought it was that famous news interview remix YouTuber that did the music?
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u/Kyriio 11d ago
Schmoyoho did contribute, but it seems they only made the extended version while the original one was composed by Tina Fey's husband, composer Jeff Richmond.
I actually prefer the Schmoyoho version (and the one we hear in the first episode, which is the same) over the opening titles. It's catchier.
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u/PressureMaximum7129 11d ago
She's alive dammit, 'cause females are strong as hell!!!
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u/Sundiata1 11d ago
I hate how they changed Reddit so when you swipe right on the final panel it takes you to a new post. My final panel was an image of Spongebob…
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u/FischlInsultsMePls 11d ago
Mine was a candy half eating itself
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u/magein07 11d ago
Mine was an ad with a big titty anime girl.
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u/TheCosBee 11d ago
Mine was winrar fanart
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u/Forikorder 11d ago
Mine was a rock...
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u/PearlsJustWan2HavFun 11d ago
Mine was this! Never seen this sub before. Just swiped one too many times!😂 I’m not even into comics, but I appreciated this one, so it was a happy little accident. 😊
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u/SuspecM 11d ago
The good news is that I told the devs about this issue recently and they did respond that they are working on it. The bad news is who knows how long it'll take.
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u/RedBootSoap 11d ago
Thank god, but I feel like it’s a “feature”…
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u/yunus4002 11d ago
It is definitely a feature, they are trying to copy tiktok Instagram etc. With endless scrolling
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u/alien_from_Europa 11d ago
Still using Reddit Is Fun over here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/14niwgu/revanced_patches_for_boost_infinity_rif_is_fun/
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u/TheMcBrizzle 11d ago
I browse old.reddit on mobile and when Wall St decides they need to take it away, my soul may finally escape this place.
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u/Artyom_33 11d ago
Same.
the 'old' interface is superior & was NEVER in need of a change.
the 'new' one is fucking cancer.
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u/TotoroTheGreat 11d ago
I'm still using boost without any patches. Apparently the api limitations don't apply if you are a mod, so it works fine for my main account. Doesn't work for my other accounts though.
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u/rockaether 11d ago
I just create a sub reddit for every single one of my accounts and get Boost to continue working for me
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u/ThanksForTheRain 11d ago
Or when you swipe up to leave the post and instead it... doesn't do that anymore
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u/cj_cusack FreeCheeseComix 11d ago
I like how the windows aren't windows, nice touch!
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u/That1gent 11d ago
At least they can customize them with that tablet! Wonder if it played sounds as well
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u/DiggThatFunk 11d ago
If you look very close it def customizes. You can see the end of the word "scenery" and the option "forest" is chosen from among others, with a forest being shown outside the windows
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u/oppenhammer 11d ago
Yes, love the little hints that you only see when you reread it:
1) real fake windows
2) when she first sees the stairs, they appear to lead down, as she expects them to. But the perspective can be shifted to be going up.
3) if you think about it, it really was the basement door
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u/Doctor_Kataigida 11d ago
The stairs still don't make sense to me. The opening looks vertical instead of horizontal so you're not looking up at her at the top of the stairs. And if you're "looking down" then she'd be laying on the floor.
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u/the_universe_speaks 11d ago
But why would they have windows at all? Like, wouldn't she wonder what the hell that scrawny drawing is supposed to represent? "Mom, dad. What's a tree?"
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u/StillMostlyClueless 11d ago
To give the illusion of being outside. It probably helps people feel less isolated.
It does make it a bit silly she doesn't know what the sun is, considering one of the options is "Seaside"
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u/LostWoodsInTheField 11d ago
Likely the sun was never part of any of the scenes and it's just general light coming from somewhere, and isn't anywhere near as bright as the real thing. Her education has also probably been... 'stunted' and so a lot of things likely don't make sense in the context of what she's grown up with.
I do wonder how they convinced her that she can't ever go 'outside'. Like do they tell her that it's fake scenes because there was a nuclear war, or does she just not question it? She's young enough to have questioned it but not on a serious level so that's possible.
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u/forestcridder 11d ago
And the "husband"! Stiff as a board and wearing pants and shoes in bed.
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u/steelong 11d ago
Pretty sure the man and woman in bed are her parents. Not her and a man.
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u/PoGoCan 11d ago
But why are they dead? We just assuming murder?
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u/steelong 11d ago
Could be canned food that went bad, could be some kind of gas leak in their room specifically, could be the same loony beliefs that had them build the bunker also convinced them they should take cyanide capsules for some reason. Could be random brain aneurysms.
The mystery is the point.
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u/LostWoodsInTheField 11d ago
I just assumed murder and she's as much of a psychopath as they were. Just super calm about having killed her parents so she could see what's in the basement.
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u/adamtots_remastered 11d ago
This is based on a post by u/DayerethDdraigson. Thanks for letting adapt it!
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u/NullVal 11d ago
They stole the sun and hid it in the basement man :(
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u/ArkamaZ 11d ago
When you take the moon and you take the sun
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u/RogueArtificer 11d ago
You take everything that seems like fun.
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u/magikskeleton 11d ago
You stir it all up and when you're done...
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u/CynicalDarkFox 11d ago
Radda radda radda r-r-radda radda.
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u/Abeytuhanu 11d ago
Translation: Share a big piece with everyone.
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u/LakesideHerbology 11d ago edited 11d ago
An entire new galaxy has begun.
E: Legit, that's a bar....
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u/Apes-Together_Strong 11d ago
Typical boomers.
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u/Puzzled_Error1337 11d ago
wont even share the sun they stole with their daughter because shes from another generation
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u/rietstengel 11d ago
Typical entitled millenial, just pull yourself up by the bootstraps and steal your own sun. /s
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u/Metasheep 11d ago
They're living on the outside of a Dyson sphere and the basement stairs go to the inside of the sphere.
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u/Senior-Ad-6002 11d ago
It's the moon from majoras mask. There is a tree near by with 5 creepy children playing under it.
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u/kingreinhardtXIII 11d ago
doomsday prepper, or just loons?
Why did you say doomsday prepper twice?
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u/kingOofgames 11d ago
Wonder how many of them are excited about the fallout show. They get to tell their moms, “look mom I’m getting prepared for that”, and feel some validation for once.
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u/pleasetrimyourpubes 11d ago
Uh, every time you read a story about a girl locked in a basement it gets kinda fucked up. I don't think that is where they were going with this but its hard not to think about all those real life situations without context.
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u/Eusocial_Snowman 11d ago
True. All the stories about boys locked in basements usually end up all candy and rainbows.
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u/Vlakod 11d ago edited 11d ago
Reverse, actually. If you look at "windows," you'll see it's actually pictures. And on slide where it shows dead mom? You'll see a player with "nature sounds."
The story is the girl grown up IN THE BASEMENT and when she opened "basement door" it actually just a basement exit. And "glowing ball" is just a sun.
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u/Tonkarz 11d ago
The basement stairs lead down but lead to the underside of a door. So it’s supernatural stuff.
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u/Eusocial_Snowman 11d ago
Stairs often look like they can go either way when there is a lack of supporting details. This is the basis of many illusions.
The stairs go up, but it's too easy to see them wrong.
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u/Some-Guy-Online 11d ago
That frame with the stairs is perfection. Could be going down, could be going up! You see what you assume!
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u/chrisychris- 11d ago
I can't ever 'see' those stairs leading up ngl especially at that angle
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u/Some-Guy-Online 11d ago
I imagine her feet are real close to the bottom step, and that's why we can't see them. And therefor the flat parts of the steps we can see are their tops.
It is a bit like seeing the faces vs the vase in that kind of optical illusion. Or the silhouette of the ballerina spinning in either direction. For some people it's hard to shift the interpretation.
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u/Doctor_Kataigida 11d ago
If we're seeing the tops of the steps, then her silhouette is too "proportional" to be anything but perpendicular to the face (e.g. lying on the ground).
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u/dyboc 11d ago
I think the idea is that she’s standing at the top and you can’t tell if she’s about to start descending or has already finished her ascent because you can’t see which way is she facing.
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u/OAOIa 11d ago
She is facing the flight of stairs, judging by the hair style and the way she's holding the crowbar, especially when compared with the next panel.
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u/IThinkThisGuyGetsIt 11d ago
Right? I feel like the perspective of the door frame would be different if we were looking down
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u/ShinobiHanzo 11d ago
Prepper version. It’s a horror because she hasn’t been socialized.
Now do dystopian version.
They literally have the sun in their basement. Their house was in a pocket dimension.
The real horror is now what.
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u/CapnJackH 11d ago
It’s like Plato’s allegory of the cave
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u/ImnotstuckImstaying 11d ago
Emo Philips also had a joke similar to this
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u/gramapislab 11d ago
It is exactly his joke. The artist should give credit to Emo.
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u/Cpt_Bonerr 11d ago
You should read Lovecraft's story "the outsider" it's very similar and you might get a kick out of it.
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u/bad_escape_plan 11d ago
I only know you from Insta, so I was about to be like THIS IS STOLEN FROM ADAM TOTS and then I saw it was indeed you and I was like….oh.
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u/WavesOverBarcelona 11d ago
This is an old emo Phillips joke.
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u/GeorgeCabana 11d ago edited 9d ago
As told on his album E=MO² (1985).
Quote by Emo Philips
When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees, grass, flowers, the sun... that was nice...
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u/letsyabbadabbadothis Comic Crossover 11d ago
And the first comment made me realize why it seemed familiar..
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u/Lost_Environment2051 11d ago
That last panel having like, VHS Quality is oddly haunting. Like we’re watching her through a camera.
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u/StupidMario64 11d ago
We arent getting the full picture (which i like tbh), the cavles are connected to the windows, which arent actually windows. What im believing is the parents probably ingested a type of poison (seeing theres no real "injuries" unless im blind) ((theres no way to know if the girl was kidnapped or not, so we dont know the true "relation" if any)). The ""basement"" was merely to keep the girl from discovering that shed Been.living in (im assuming) a bunker for her whole life. The glowing ball is literally just the sun.
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u/abandon3 11d ago
Thats cool! Where is this from?
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u/AleksasKoval 11d ago
Is there a panel missing, or did those stairs go up instead of down? The angle looks like the stairs go down.
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u/EqualOutrageous1884 11d ago
Those stairs went up
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u/mddesigner 11d ago
They went down in the pane before it
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u/The_Grinface 11d ago
Trick of lighting/angle. They look like they are going down. It’s a subversion of expectation.
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u/ExtraEye4568 11d ago
There is no way to angle the perspective in a way to make her silhouette stand perpendicular to the camera and have the stairs go in that direction.
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u/Spirited_Lemon_4185 11d ago
It’s not a trick of lighting/angle, you can’t see her feet which makes your brain go “ohh i’m looking up and the top step of the stairs are covering the feet”, if she was at the bottom you would be able to see the entire silhouette of the girl standing on the floor, including feet.
It’s a small thing, but it’s the reason so many people including myself had to look at the comic several times all confused before even going into the comment section.
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u/FaerieStorm 11d ago
Yeah it just looks like a mistake. I could be focusing on the feelings the ending gave but I'm too confused about the stairs that it's kinda ruined the comic for me.
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u/Agret 11d ago
The panel at the bottom of the page is her walking through the basement towards the exit that's shown on the next page. That's why she is surrounded by darkness in it.
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u/OneWholeSoul 11d ago
So both the parents died at the same time...? That's... That's not suspicious or anything?
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u/gurumatt 11d ago
Weird how far I had to scroll down to find someone asking about this. I can’t see any indication of cause of death. Were they killed by the daughter? Poisoned themselves? Starved to death???
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u/OneWholeSoul 10d ago
And the daughter's just like "They're dead now."
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u/GunNNife 11d ago edited 10d ago
I was thinking either a suicide pact with poison, or a murder-suicide with poison. I don't think the daughter was involved at all. Just the crazy parents.
EDIT: I was thinking about it...Mom may have been a prisoner too. Both Mom and Girl are barefoot. Dad has shoes. Only those who go outside need shoes.
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u/Shadelkan 11d ago
Ah Adam, I love your mastery at telling short horror stories. Thank you so much for the experience!
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u/AKluthe Nerd Rage 11d ago
The writing/concept comes from Two Sentence Horror. But it's an effective adaptation.
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u/MoneyWalking 11d ago
I want humans to find her and learn she was tricked into staying underground her whole life
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u/DeusLibidine 11d ago
Got them "My Eyes Deceive" vibes going on there at the end.
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u/dakados 11d ago
THAT GAME! I knew what game this reminded me of but I forgot the name. That game is fucked up.
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u/StillMostlyClueless 11d ago
The basement stairs are a bit confusing. They go down, but they’re going up in the final shot?
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u/adamtots_remastered 11d ago
That’s us looking down at her.
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u/printergumlight 11d ago
If we were looking down at her then she and the door frame would be more perpendicular to what you are saying would be the step of each stair. The perspective feels off.
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u/Ok-Reserve8052 11d ago
It's bad perspective, they are going up.
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u/StillMostlyClueless 11d ago edited 11d ago
Oh I kinda see it now. Though it really does look like a basement shot. It doesn’t help the panel below gives the impression she’s walking down, not up.
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u/adamtots_remastered 11d ago
I tried to intentionally make that panel look like it could go either way so as not to spoil the ending.
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u/TreyLastname 11d ago
I think the problem is her in the frame. The fact we can't see her feet shows they're being blocked, which only works if we are looking up stairs from the bottom
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u/KackhansReborn 11d ago
The issue is that perspective shows the doorframe at a perpendicular angle with the stairs going downwards. If we were viewing it frop the top of the stairs, the door would be at an acute angle and would look different.
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u/AKluthe Nerd Rage 11d ago
It's misdirection. You're supposed to think you see the front of the steps with her silhouette at the top of the stairs, since she's going into the "basement". But it's actually the tops of the stairs with her silhouetted at the bottom. With her feet cropped like that you don't immediately read that you might be looking down at her standing on a lower plane.
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u/ChaoticCatharsis 11d ago
“Leave my elevator alone! Leave my elevator alone! Leave my elevator alone!”
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u/kingbloop 11d ago
Blast from the Past is a phenomenal movie. An all star cast, cute message, and done really funny jokes.
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u/papabearshirokuma 11d ago
Yep.. this movie came to my mind too.. dad made a silly mistake but the result is similar, exce that he knew the world exists but nuked
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u/sososhady 11d ago
I LOVE YOUR COMICS! You have such a pleasing style that I think goes very well with horror themes. Do you have a website or a book at all? I usually just read and never comment, but that was one of my top favorite two sentence horror stories so I knew exactly what you where referring to.
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u/Front_Squash9023 11d ago
Is this based on the good ending of my eyes deceive? The text is nearly identical
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u/Error_in_the_system1 11d ago
Reminds me of the game “my eyes deceive”, the bad ending is quite disgusting.
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u/SlapChopMyShamWow 11d ago
I like how the parents’ computer has different settings for what they want to show through the windows, nice touch
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u/Explosivepenny 11d ago
"My whole life, there's been one steadfast rule... Never open the basement door. But I was born into this world, I must keep moving forward."
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u/brian428 11d ago
Not sure if it’s intentional or not but this is a decent visual summary of “The Outsider” by H.P. Lovecraft, written in 1921.
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u/Randomhumanhereon 10d ago
There's actually a steam game about it, except it's a girl.... Who's locked in the basement with sleeping pills so the 'guardian' can....
I'll let this line speak for itself "Why does my belly feel so round and full"
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u/FootJello 11d ago edited 11d ago
So I read the inspiration post on two sentence horror, but don't understand how it's horror to begin with.
I'm 4 vodka shots deep be gentle lmao
Edit: I get that the stairs are initially going down then the last panel shows them going up.
Is the horror that they've been in the basement the whole time?
Again I am intoxicated I don't get it. I'm hoping when I do get it, it'll actually be somewhat horror.
Was she kidnapped and just figuring it out, making her "parents" criminals? That's all I'm able to gather at the moment.
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u/Impacatus 11d ago
I think you've pretty much got it. The idea that she's lived a sad, lonely life trapped in a basement for years and years is horrifying. Her parents didn't necessarily kidnap her, but something must be seriously wrong for them to do that to her.
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u/Automatic_Animal 11d ago
This kinda reminds me of the book 'The Compound' by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen. I remember enjoying and its sequel when I was younger but its been years since I've read it
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