make-love
Original: make-love on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (red-haired, glasses, in a red shirt): Up until the 1940s or so, the phrase "make love" just meant doing romantic stuff. Then, it got crowded out by the meaning "to have sex."
Panel 2:
Woman: What's cool is it retroactively makes old novels filthy!
Panel 3:
Woman: Two Victorian characters go into a park and "make love."
Panel 4:
Man (brown-haired, yellow shirt): Huh.
Panel 5:
Woman: See how powerful language is? We can turn prudish media filthy!
Man: Okay. So?
Panel 6:
Woman: We can do the opposite too! We can take filth from today and make it weirdly nice!
Panel 7:
Woman (pointing finger): And that's why, from now on, I'm using the f-word to describe the act of making cupcakes.
Panel 8:
Caption (pink banner): SEVERAL GENERATIONS HENCE...
A robotic/cyborg figure holding a tablet, surrounded by dripping purple ooze: Why are David Mamet's characters so concerned with baking?
Votey:
Handwritten text inside a box: "The f-word" refers to "for"
Woman (red-haired, glasses, in a red shirt): Up until the 1940s or so, the phrase "make love" just meant doing romantic stuff. Then, it got crowded out by the meaning "to have sex."
Panel 2:
Woman: What's cool is it retroactively makes old novels filthy!
Panel 3:
Woman: Two Victorian characters go into a park and "make love."
Panel 4:
Man (brown-haired, yellow shirt): Huh.
Panel 5:
Woman: See how powerful language is? We can turn prudish media filthy!
Man: Okay. So?
Panel 6:
Woman: We can do the opposite too! We can take filth from today and make it weirdly nice!
Panel 7:
Woman (pointing finger): And that's why, from now on, I'm using the f-word to describe the act of making cupcakes.
Panel 8:
Caption (pink banner): SEVERAL GENERATIONS HENCE...
A robotic/cyborg figure holding a tablet, surrounded by dripping purple ooze: Why are David Mamet's characters so concerned with baking?
Votey:
Handwritten text inside a box: "The f-word" refers to "for"
Alt text
An eight-panel comic. A red-haired woman in glasses excitedly explains language to a man in a yellow shirt. She says that until the 1940s "make love" just meant romantic stuff before it came to mean having sex, and that this retroactively makes old novels filthy: "Two Victorian characters go into a park and 'make love.'" The man flatly replies, "Huh." She insists language is powerful enough to make prudish media filthy and also do the opposite, taking today's filth and making it weirdly nice. The man asks, "Okay. So?" Pointing a finger, she announces, "And that's why, from now on, I'm using the f-word to describe the act of making cupcakes." Final panel, a pink banner reads "SEVERAL GENERATIONS HENCE..." and shows a cyborg figure amid dripping purple ooze holding a tablet, asking, "Why are David Mamet's characters so concerned with baking?" Votey (aftercomic): handwritten text in a box reads, "The f-word" refers to "for" — revealing the swapped meaning was the innocent word "for" all along.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.