today in #9chickweedlane i've discovered you can search GoComics' archives by keywords and thus i've assembled a dagger to plunge into my own soul
https://www.gocomics.com/search/full_results?category=comic&short_name=9chickweedlane&terms=gay
https://www.gocomics.com/search/full_results?category=comic&short_name=9chickweedlane&terms=gay
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And we apparently spend a big chunk of our lives telling our female acquaintances how much we'd love to f*ck them, if only we weren't "gay."
It's not that it's poorly-written.
It's not that it's self-indulgent nearly to the point of being pornographic.
It's not even that it's unrealistic, plenty of people have fluid sexualities and use terms for themselves that a third party might think are "wrong".
Bisexuals don't exist.
I am not even here saying this right now.
so i don't think the tags know what gay means either
so very sorry
ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum
If I weren't a gayyyy man
You decreed I should be what I am
https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2002/10/27
https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/1993/12/05
My dad's a journalist and we subscribed to at least three daily newspapers and it wasn't in any of them, although I ran across it in a newspaper when we were on vacation once.
I misremembered the gag as being from Robot Man and Monty.
The "oh no he's hot" part was initially handled well - he was a weird guy who'd found a place where his specific weirdness
His math, science, philosophy, literary, and religious nerdery was increasingly downplayed and his musical obsession became more predominant, in the way of a man reliving his own Juliard youth. Amos was depicted studying and practicing something like 18 hours a day.
https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2020/02/17