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Title banner: NEVER LET A CHEMIST READ YOUR ROMANCE NOVEL
Panel 1:
A woman with dark hair, round glasses, and a dark blue shirt holds a manuscript and gestures critically. She is speaking to a person with orange hair seen from behind.
Woman: "And this part where you say 'he was hard as steel' is meaningless without a specified temperature and pressure!"
Votey:
A distressed face (the same chemist) continues complaining.
Chemist: "Hard as a rock? TALC is a rock!"
Panel 1:
A woman with dark hair, round glasses, and a dark blue shirt holds a manuscript and gestures critically. She is speaking to a person with orange hair seen from behind.
Woman: "And this part where you say 'he was hard as steel' is meaningless without a specified temperature and pressure!"
Votey:
A distressed face (the same chemist) continues complaining.
Chemist: "Hard as a rock? TALC is a rock!"
Alt text
A two-panel webcomic titled 'Never let a chemist read your romance novel.' In the main panel, a woman with dark hair, round glasses, and a navy shirt holds a manuscript and gestures critically as she lectures an orange-haired person seen from behind. She says: 'And this part where you say "he was hard as steel" is meaningless without a specified temperature and pressure!' In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the chemist's exasperated face continues the rant: 'Hard as a rock? TALC is a rock!' The joke is that a chemist nitpicks romance-novel metaphors with pedantic scientific literalism, pointing out that steel's hardness depends on conditions and that talc is one of the softest rocks.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.