There's a nice short story I once read about how when people reach their 70s, they develop psychic powers and join a brotherhood/sisterhood of psychics consisting of every elderly person on the planet keeping the horrors of space at bay.
These horrors manifest as nightmares targeted at children, but the elderly fight the mental battles for them every night. The battles are hours long, mentally taxing, and the wounds manifest the next day as a slow crawl towards Dementia.
Anyway, this comic reminded me of that before I undestood the sex stuff
I read a similar story about how a child (of parents who were fighting a lot) had a teddy bear who came alive at night to "fight the nightmare monsters" which were, somehow, real. That poor teddy looked worse for wear as time went on, it was a real tear jerker. (I'm totally not tearing up just thinking about it, you're cutting onions ya bastard)
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themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 92 pts · 172d
Plot twist, they were actually playing Warhammer 40k with the neighbors.
baines@piefed.social · 81 pts · 172d
is the joke horror or swinger?
can@sh.itjust.works · 149 pts · 172d
You tell me
the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 171d
S&MBC
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 172d
Oh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 171d
Calm down Hedonismbot
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 171d
Not sure what you mean, but okay.
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 171d
It's a Futurama reference
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 170d
Thanks.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 170d
Calm down Takei
marcos@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 172d
The mouseover text on the original will also help answer your question.
nailingjello@lemmy.zip · 52 pts · 172d
YerLam@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 171d
Didn't realise we were looking at the back of her head and thought she was actually a doppleganger with a weird blobby eye and mouth.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 170d
I saw a woman with voluminous hair with a head that is a potato
toynbee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 171d
I thought it was a paper bag to disguise whether she was.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 170d
Yeah same. I was confused as all hell
tetris11@feddit.uk · 34 pts · 171d
There's a nice short story I once read about how when people reach their 70s, they develop psychic powers and join a brotherhood/sisterhood of psychics consisting of every elderly person on the planet keeping the horrors of space at bay.
These horrors manifest as nightmares targeted at children, but the elderly fight the mental battles for them every night. The battles are hours long, mentally taxing, and the wounds manifest the next day as a slow crawl towards Dementia.
Anyway, this comic reminded me of that before I undestood the sex stuff
sirboozebum@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 171d
What was the name of the story?
farfalla@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 170d
I want to know too !
noughtnaut@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 170d
I read a similar story about how a child (of parents who were fighting a lot) had a teddy bear who came alive at night to "fight the nightmare monsters" which were, somehow, real. That poor teddy looked worse for wear as time went on, it was a real tear jerker. (I'm totally not tearing up just thinking about it, you're cutting onions ya bastard)
Xerxos@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 171d
If course the next day the kids had to kill their parents: "Mom never smiled like that, the doppelgangers must have won!"
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 170d
Are they swingers? I think I'm too awetistic to get the joke here.
Allero@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 170d
Yes, you got the joke right
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 170d
egrets@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 172d
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Bat Individual!
MBM@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 170d
"You'll know who the monsters are because they are the ones that lose" is a fun implication (before I got the actual joke)