your-past-self
Original: your-past-self on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Woman (older, with brown hair): "If you could send a message to your past self, what would it be?"
Younger woman (with dark hair): "Do anything you want, no matter how selfish or repugnant."
Panel 2
Younger woman: "The fact that current me is advising past me implies that current me is ALREADY the result of past me's actions."
Panel 3
Younger woman: "Current me a nice partner, a stable job, a retirement plan, and apparently kid memory of, for instance, stealing food from a hungry child or shooting a man just to watch him die."
Panel 4
Younger woman: "So, the reasonable thing is to tell my past self to indulge in any behavior at any cost, with this full knowledge that there'll be no consequence whatsoever."
Panel 5
Older woman: "I mean, would you change anything about your past?"
Panel 6
Younger woman: "I would like to have taken more questions literally."
Votey:
A close-up of the younger woman's anguished face. Caption (handwritten): "I could have ruined so many more friendships"
Woman (older, with brown hair): "If you could send a message to your past self, what would it be?"
Younger woman (with dark hair): "Do anything you want, no matter how selfish or repugnant."
Panel 2
Younger woman: "The fact that current me is advising past me implies that current me is ALREADY the result of past me's actions."
Panel 3
Younger woman: "Current me a nice partner, a stable job, a retirement plan, and apparently kid memory of, for instance, stealing food from a hungry child or shooting a man just to watch him die."
Panel 4
Younger woman: "So, the reasonable thing is to tell my past self to indulge in any behavior at any cost, with this full knowledge that there'll be no consequence whatsoever."
Panel 5
Older woman: "I mean, would you change anything about your past?"
Panel 6
Younger woman: "I would like to have taken more questions literally."
Votey:
A close-up of the younger woman's anguished face. Caption (handwritten): "I could have ruined so many more friendships"
Alt text
A six-panel comic. An older woman with brown hair chats with a younger dark-haired woman. The older woman asks, "If you could send a message to your past self, what would it be?" The younger woman launches into an over-literal philosophical argument: she reasons that since current-her advising past-her means current-her is already the result of past-her's actions, and current-her has a nice partner, stable job, and retirement plan, she would tell her past self to indulge in any behavior at any cost ("stealing food from a hungry child or shooting a man just to watch him die") with full knowledge there will be no consequence whatsoever. The older woman, taken aback, asks, "I mean, would you change anything about your past?" The younger woman replies, "I would like to have taken more questions literally." Votey: a close-up of the younger woman's anguished, stricken face with the handwritten caption, "I could have ruined so many more friendships," lamenting her past restraint.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.