I Am The Most Obnoxious Person I Know

we’re cleaning out our book collection and my dad REFUSES to throw out the like 2005 toronto public school poetry anthology that has my fucking, sasunaru fanart as the cover and i’m going to pass out

is that last comic you posted about a suicide note? I'm confused

One of the rituals from Victorian era’s cult of mourning: if a close loved one died, you’d order yourself some black bordered calling cards, note paper and envelopes. Your border’s width would be determined by how close you were to the deceased, how long you’d been in mourning, and how ostentatious you wanted to be.

Even newspapers followed this etiquette:

Vancouver Daily World, British Columbia, January 22, 1901:

The Guthrie Daily Leader, Oklahoma, September 14, 1901:

Anyway, to answer your question, I doubt it. Unless the guy’s brother was a big stickler for etiquette, pretty full of himself, or had a dark sense of humor, I don’t think you’d mail your own suicide note in a mourning envelope. And in that case it wouldn’t be a very funny comic.

(As an aside, in some places you couldn’t actually mail letters with full mourning borders. They were said to be easier to tamper with; edges could be cut and then coloured with dark ink, so ones that were tinted rather than full-black were also sold).

I’m pretty sure the joke is just that the guy isn’t very smart, and thinks the black border + the brother’s handwriting means his brother must be dead. Really his brother is just in mourning for someone else.

Hey, just so you know, the guy behind the pixie and brutus comics is a tr**p supporter

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Afraid to use your forearms? You’re not using enough elbow. Guys, those aren’t the parts people feature when they dance.

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Remus in Rome.

Remus Lupin going to Rome, and criticising everything like “my brother should have let me build, look at this wall! It’s falling to pieces!” And if ever he has to queue for anything, James says “Oi, his brother murdered him for this city, and he came back from the dead to see how it was doing, show some respect.”

And every time someone tells the story, Sirius points at him like “yeah, we have Remus here, and he’s the wolfiest person I know.” And Peter makes way too many “Raised by wolves” jokes.

maybe once every 3 weeks i think about how Chelsea manning snuck incriminating files past military security by putting them on a blank cd with ‘lady gaga’ written on it