Artcow Kimchi Cuddles / Tikva Wolf / Bethany Kurrus - "Shishkaboots!" Bethany Kurrus's Poorly Drawn Poly Tumblr Hipster Comic Approved by Sophie LaBelle

Meowthkip

We had fun, didn't we?
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When you try to squeeze in so much text into these speech bubbles it looks very sloppy.
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Safe spaces are needed between some of these lines.

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Somehow the artist manages to combine several of these errors in any given panel.
 

ActualKiwi

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No shit. Imagine the worst breakup you've ever seen (or had), with both partners slashing each others tires, taking out restraining orders against each other, boiling bunnies and every other goddamn crazy ass thing exes do.

Now make that 7 people and they're each at least 8 times as crazy as those two.
That's essentially what I've seen. It creates a sort of free-for-all miniature war of hatred and resent, with a side helping of madness
This comic has too many textwalls and not enough cuddles. Also, the author cannot spell "fluctuate."
That irked me too..How can you expect to be taken seriously on big issues (when you're also trying to be a reporter/writer for several sites) when you can't even use spellcheck or a dictionary..
 
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Is anyone else getting sociopathic vibes from the author? Throughout most of these comics I've noticed a distinct lack of empathy for other human beings. I mean it seems like she regards love/affection as a token she puts into her partners so they will give her sex and attention. Everything seems so mechanical and forced about the "relationships" she mentions. Like "efficient romance"? Who refers to romance as "efficient"?

Plus the way she treats the only humane character that expresses concern about the relationships is callous and uncalled for. And the general idea I'm getting from these is that there is no such thing as cheating on a person... if you want to establish a relationship with a person, you should apparently be allowed to just HAVE them because it suits your needs (with the notion that monogamy is somehow unnatural or even selfish).

The whole thing seems calculated and stiff, imo. You rarely see more than 2 people in a panel at the same time that are romantically linked. It really feels as though the author is just manipulating partners to agree to her cheating on them and making them feel like shitty worthless people if they grow a pair and tell her to fuck off. Honestly it's very creepy and I'm pretty sure even the crowd of (literal, heh) circlejerking poly freaks are not nearly this emotionless/weird.
 

AnOminous

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Plus the way she treats the only humane character that expresses concern about the relationships is callous and uncalled for. And the general idea I'm getting from these is that there is no such thing as cheating on a person... if you want to establish a relationship with a person, you should apparently be allowed to just HAVE them because it suits your needs (with the notion that monogamy is somehow unnatural or even selfish).

They don't want other humans, they just want warm bodies occupied by subservient cucks.
 
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How you could possibly lack the self-awareness to mistake this level of passive-aggressive jealousy for "sharing NRE" is beyond me.
This just proves what I was saying earlier. "new relationship energy"?? That sounds like a business buzzword. She doesn't view partners in relationships as lovers, she views them as people to manipulate for her own pleasure.

Instead of just being like "haha you guys are still in the honeymooning phase, it's so cute lol", it's like "Please manipulate your new lover to do my chores since he's madly in love with you"
 

Moogsy

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This comic is trash and its humor, when it occurs, comes from a terrible place. This isn't a comic about making it work, it's unintentional self-parody of toxic polyamorous people.

Relationships, poly ones especially, are much more difficult when they contain people who suffer from an untreated narcissistic personality disorder, but that's mostly what this comic is about. "I'm so poly. You're poly with me. Our kid is so poly. Poly is so great."

And my favorite:
Sociopath 1:"I'm leaving you because you wont leave your other poly partners for me."
Sociopath 2: "I choose my other partners"
Sociopath 3: "Don't be sad that you lost someone because my love can replace hers."
Sociopath 2: "Golly you're right! Poly is swell."

That's what polyamory is to the worst of the worst poly people: numbers. "I have 4." "Well I have 6 so if one leaves I still have more than you." "I only have one! I'm not poly unless I find at least one more ASAP!" It's the practice of dehumanizing people for pity, drama, and alt-lifestyle points so no wonder Tumblr loves it.

Poly isn't impossible but the places where it can work are less common than the times where it happens. I've seen long term polyamory totally work in a few isolated cases and one of them is a group of people well into their forties after 15+ years of controlled nonmonogamy. They have well-adjusted kids in high school who grew up with 4 parents. They're really nice people, they don't push poly in your face, and function well as a larger than usual familial unit. The comic is so out of whack with how they've made things work, that I'd call its messages and morals "naively destructive."
 
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