talking-is-weird
Original: talking-is-weird on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (with curly dark hair): Talking is weird.
Panel 2:
Woman: I'm just wobbling some mucus membranes right now. They wobble the air, which wobbles some bones in your ear.
Panel 3:
Woman: There is some particular wobble that will break your heart. Another would make you jump for joy. And another would drive you to insanity.
Panel 4:
Woman: For any person, there is some sequence of vocal fold wobbling that will produce just about any mental state.
Panel 5:
Woman: But probabilistically, whatever wobble I do won't have a strong effect on you.
Panel 6:
Woman: It's like I have a superpower that only works once in a million... Hey, are you asleep?!
Panel 7:
Woman: My god. Your vocal wobbling induced a sudden state of somnolence!
Other person (off-panel/listener): Uh huh.
Panel 8:
Woman: It's not like you were being super interesting...
Woman: And we shall call you Slumber Lass.
Votey:
Woman: Stay awake while I explain why you're stupid.
(A close-up of a person's face shown asleep, eyes closed.)
Woman (with curly dark hair): Talking is weird.
Panel 2:
Woman: I'm just wobbling some mucus membranes right now. They wobble the air, which wobbles some bones in your ear.
Panel 3:
Woman: There is some particular wobble that will break your heart. Another would make you jump for joy. And another would drive you to insanity.
Panel 4:
Woman: For any person, there is some sequence of vocal fold wobbling that will produce just about any mental state.
Panel 5:
Woman: But probabilistically, whatever wobble I do won't have a strong effect on you.
Panel 6:
Woman: It's like I have a superpower that only works once in a million... Hey, are you asleep?!
Panel 7:
Woman: My god. Your vocal wobbling induced a sudden state of somnolence!
Other person (off-panel/listener): Uh huh.
Panel 8:
Woman: It's not like you were being super interesting...
Woman: And we shall call you Slumber Lass.
Votey:
Woman: Stay awake while I explain why you're stupid.
(A close-up of a person's face shown asleep, eyes closed.)
Alt text
An eight-panel comic in which a woman with curly dark hair monologues to a listener. She muses that talking is weird: she's just 'wobbling some mucus membranes' that wobble the air, which wobbles bones in the listener's ear. She speculates that some particular wobble could break your heart, make you jump for joy, or drive you to insanity, and that for any person there's some sequence of vocal-fold wobbling that could produce almost any mental state. She admits that probabilistically her wobbling won't have a strong effect, calling it a superpower that only works once in a million. Mid-thought she notices the listener has fallen asleep, exclaims that her vocal wobbling induced sudden somnolence, dryly notes 'It's not like you were being super interesting,' and dubs the listener 'Slumber Lass.' Votey: a close-up of the listener's sleeping, eyes-closed face while the woman says, 'Stay awake while I explain why you're stupid.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.