Sorry I’m late——！！ It takes me more than one month to finish it, but I still can’t make it on Sam’s birthday 😦
This is the whole comic for celebrating Sam’s birthday! I posted the last page on the May 2nd, but actually there’re 9 pages of it (I cut it into 36 pieces for fitting into Tumblr). It’s a wonderful experience to draw so many different versions of Sam in one comic. He’s really been through a lot, but I believe he’ll be happy at last!!
The credit for lines is to @efflorescentjared . Thank you so much!! I can’t come up with these smooth and native lines without you. Thank you for your effort!! And to @moqueener She is the person who do most of the work on communication between both sides. Love you!
Anyway, hope you guys enjoy it. All the comments are welcomed. Thank you! 🙂
“Diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets.
Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to
lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they
lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible.
“
Fatsplaining at its finest. I don’t give a fuck when someone chooses to not be healthy, but don’t sit there and make bullshit excuses and blame anything other than yourself and your lack of self control. Take responsibility and own up to it, you’re not fooling anyone.
I’m sorry other people’s shapes make you so angry that you pretend science is wrong
Obviously this person must think climate change is wrong and vaccines cause autism
Signal boost this guys bc I had no idea this was happening, I was going to order from recently too, I already had it planned out. This is NOT OK and needs to stop.
I have a friend who has a child, and their child is always sick. Always crying. Just generally, not a very happy wee lamb. Every other day she’ll come to me, complaining how awful it is to have a Difficult Child. And at first I made all the right sympathetic noises, I consoled her, I asked how I could help.
And then her kid gets allergy testing done, and several allergies are confirmed, and I think great! This is likely why they are always upset and ill! Maybe now they can get better!
And my friend… does not stop exposing them to the allergies.
“But they’re allergic to wheat,” I say, “and milk, and you’re still giving them those things.”
“Oh but they’re only minor allergies, not like, anything dangerous.”
“But that’s not… that’s not how that works,” I say, trying to be helpful, as I explain that even low level inflammation can be extremely detrimental in the long term, and extremely painful to deal with and how exposure therapy doesn’t always work. So of course he’s always sick and always crying. Of course he is.
And she rolls her eyes and says, “Look, I know you think you know a lot about health. But you’re not a parent, so I can’t expect you to understand.”
Because apparently upon the benediction of motherhood, the sacred knowledge of the universe is imparted to you the moment the umbilical cord is cut. Because apparently someone who is sick all the time, wouldn’t be able to understand. Except of course I don’t understand her. I understand her child. And what it’s like to be ignored, and hurt, and abused. And sick.
And suddenly you realize, maybe your friend is not your friend in the way you thought they were. And maybe, likely, probably, they shouldn’t be a parent.
No offense, but if that was my friend coming off with, “I know more than a doctor simply because I popped a kid out of my uterus,” we wouldn’t be friends anymore after I sat them the fuck down and schooled them for an hour. Like, no, honey, your kid’s health is more important to me than your dumb ass.
@thebibliosphere you did alert Child Protection Services, right?
Someone is gonna get that kid out of there before that women poisons her child to death, right?
I didn’t because I know that being in the system isn’t a guarantee of safety or even removal from the abuse, and wanted to try to get through to my friend one more time before potentially putting her child into a system that I know first hand absolutely sucks.
I contacted the rest of our mutual friends who live much closer than I do, and they basically had an intervention. My friend is now in therapy for her depression and is getting help from friends with the kid (cause her husband sure as shit doesn’t do anything to help) and things are much better over all.
She’s still a self righteous shit who uses the “you’re not a parent” line every now and then, but she’s at least a self righteous shit who is caring for her kid and is now taking him to see an allergist regularly.
I mean, you did leave off the post on “the child is getting exposed to allergens and the mother doesn’t care” so while I say the death-threats and desire for vigilantism are a bit extreme (and that’s putting it politely), I can understand the concern.
Yep, I did. Because this was a personal venting post that I posted a while ago at the time something was happening in real time and was distressing me.
And then because tumblr is a nightmare site and I never know from one minute to the next which posts will gain traction or not, I’ve been putting up with comments in my inbox like “your friend deserves to die and so do you for not protecting that child” for uh, a good while now, so y’know, I’m sorry if I sounded a little snappy in the tags, but I’m a tad Done with this post in general.
Other people showing concern or being able to relate to it is completely understandable and okay. The violent shit in some of the comments and my inbox however, not so much. And those people need to evaluate their own life choices and find some chill. Preferably away from me.
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