2013-11-02
Original: 2013-11-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A grinning child with dark skin and dark hair, in a yellow shirt, reaches out.
Child: TAG! YOU'RE IT!
Panel 2: A child with red/orange hair responds with a long, deadpan speech bubble.
Red-haired child: ...ITNESS HAS NO OBJECTIVE BEING. IT EXISTS ONLY IN THE MINDS OF THOSE WHO ACCEPT THE RULES OF THE GAME, AND 99.9999998% OF SUBJECTIVE OBSERVERS DO NOT ACCEPT YOUR SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION.
Panel 3: Close-up of the red-haired child, scowling.
Red-haired child: A SIMILAR PERCENTAGE HOLDS FOR YOUR PERSONAL SENSE OF JUSTICE, OF BEAUTY, OF HOPE, OF LOVE.
Panel 4: Close-up of the red-haired child, mouth open mid-rant, brow furrowed with emotion.
Red-haired child: YOU ARE A VOLCANIC ISLAND IN A DEEP SEA. BARREN, SHALLOW, ALONE, AND *TEMPORARY*.
Panel 5: Extreme close-up of the red-haired child's wide, staring eyes and furrowed forehead.
Red-haired child: TAG. YOU'VE GOT ENNUI.
Panel 6: The dark-skinned child clutches their own arm, looking dejected and unsettled. The red-haired child's mouth is shown grinning at the edge of the frame.
Panel 7 (final wide panel): Silhouettes of the two children sitting on the ground against a dark green/blue background. The red-haired child points at the other.
Red-haired child: NO TAGBACKS.
Child: TAG! YOU'RE IT!
Panel 2: A child with red/orange hair responds with a long, deadpan speech bubble.
Red-haired child: ...ITNESS HAS NO OBJECTIVE BEING. IT EXISTS ONLY IN THE MINDS OF THOSE WHO ACCEPT THE RULES OF THE GAME, AND 99.9999998% OF SUBJECTIVE OBSERVERS DO NOT ACCEPT YOUR SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION.
Panel 3: Close-up of the red-haired child, scowling.
Red-haired child: A SIMILAR PERCENTAGE HOLDS FOR YOUR PERSONAL SENSE OF JUSTICE, OF BEAUTY, OF HOPE, OF LOVE.
Panel 4: Close-up of the red-haired child, mouth open mid-rant, brow furrowed with emotion.
Red-haired child: YOU ARE A VOLCANIC ISLAND IN A DEEP SEA. BARREN, SHALLOW, ALONE, AND *TEMPORARY*.
Panel 5: Extreme close-up of the red-haired child's wide, staring eyes and furrowed forehead.
Red-haired child: TAG. YOU'VE GOT ENNUI.
Panel 6: The dark-skinned child clutches their own arm, looking dejected and unsettled. The red-haired child's mouth is shown grinning at the edge of the frame.
Panel 7 (final wide panel): Silhouettes of the two children sitting on the ground against a dark green/blue background. The red-haired child points at the other.
Red-haired child: NO TAGBACKS.
Alt text
A seven-panel comic. Panel 1: a grinning dark-skinned child in a yellow shirt reaches out and shouts "TAG! YOU'RE IT!" Panels 2 through 5: a red-haired child responds not by running but with a deadpan philosophical monologue, arguing that "[tag-]ITNESS HAS NO OBJECTIVE BEING. IT EXISTS ONLY IN THE MINDS OF THOSE WHO ACCEPT THE RULES OF THE GAME, AND 99.9999998% OF SUBJECTIVE OBSERVERS DO NOT ACCEPT YOUR SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION," then that the same is true of "YOUR PERSONAL SENSE OF JUSTICE, OF BEAUTY, OF HOPE, OF LOVE," calling the other child "A VOLCANIC ISLAND IN A DEEP SEA. BARREN, SHALLOW, ALONE, AND TEMPORARY," and finishing with "TAG. YOU'VE GOT ENNUI." Panel 6: the dark-skinned child clutches their arm, looking crushed, while the red-haired child grins. Final wide panel: the two children sit as silhouettes against a dark background; the red-haired child points and says "NO TAGBACKS." Votey: a black-and-white drawing of the red-haired child's head and grinning face with curly hair, sketched in loose ink outlines, embellished with decorative swirling lines around the chin and hair.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.