ARE THEY NOT THE PICTURE OF PACT-MATES? THIS COULD BE YOU AND ME

June 7, 2017 11:23 AM

The adventures of Antler Guy and Neighbor Steve

I have the feeling that the families get along great except for Steve. Like, the wives are baking (questionable) brownies together, the kids are playing together, Antler Guy occasionally takes Son and Timmy to school (no car, just carries them in huge swinging strides through a nexus of ungoldly sights in a swirling netherworld shortcut. Sometimes they stop for McDonalds). Hell-wife gave them a potted Audrey Jr., Steve’s wife (who I now christen Sharon) gave them a begonia. One time Steve tries throwing holy water but all Antler Guy does is thank him, saying that no, Antler Guy isn’t Catholic but it’s the thought that counts, he is so kind to water his creeping deathshade vines regardless.

posted by Lexica (13 comments total)

I love how tumblr is incapable of dealing with multiple levels of quoting without turning comments into extremely long one-word-per-line poems
posted by GuyZero at 11:29 AM on June 7, 2017 [2 favorites]

Yeah, if your browser has a "reader mode" I'd recommend it (once you've seen the photo).
posted by Lexica at 11:30 AM on June 7, 2017

This link may be more readable. (It's just missing the very last comment about reblogging)

http://ebonykain.tumblr.com/post/154534228268/karacat-othersideofforty-erinnightwalker
posted by haruspicina at 11:33 AM on June 7, 2017

Yeah, this seems both cool and also a demonstration about how Tumblr has some terrible affordances.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:37 AM on June 7, 2017

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posted by zamboni at 11:49 AM on June 7, 2017 [1 favorite]

Append /mobile to the url and it will be significantly more readable.
posted by yasaman at 11:58 AM on June 7, 2017 [2 favorites]

classic Night Vale neighbors
posted by palindromic at 12:09 PM on June 7, 2017 [2 favorites]

That really made my day. Thank you for posting.
posted by Caduceus at 12:52 PM on June 7, 2017

This post happily reminded me of the "sadness reprieves" from Tragedy Series, especially "He let his inner-demons out to frolic in the sun".
posted by brainwane at 1:18 PM on June 7, 2017 [3 favorites]

That post keeps getting better as it goes around on tumblr. It's up there with my very favorite post genre right now, which is "what if humans are the weird race in the universe". (sample)
posted by rmd1023 at 6:51 PM on June 7, 2017

(and the starfleet version of "humans are the weird ones")
posted by rmd1023 at 7:41 PM on June 7, 2017 [1 favorite]

...

Woah.
posted by wenestvedt at 9:25 PM on June 7, 2017

I clicked on that thinking there was going to be a Hannibal joke. And, uh... oh my.
posted by lagomorphius at 10:51 AM on June 8, 2017