relationship

A four-panel comic showing two women, one with red curly hair and one with dark hair, lounging together looking bored and listless. In panel one, the red-haired woman stands and laments at length that their love has cooled and congealed into polite mutual acknowledgment bereft of joy or hope; the dark-haired woman, reclining with eyes closed, replies "Oh absolutely." In panel two the dark-haired woman asks "But whaddya gonna do?" and the red-haired woman proposes they keep living their current dull lifestyles but reframe their mutual disregard as a 24-hour fetish dynamic. In panel three the red-haired woman dryly says the idea doesn't interest her, but she's prepared to pay lip service to it in slowly diminishing quantities over two weeks hoping the other loses interest. In panel four the dark-haired woman, eyes closed, murmurs "So hot," and the red-haired woman answers "Right on, babe." The joke is that their apathy itself has been recast as kink. In the votey aftercomic, the red-haired woman lies motionless with eyes closed and says "Watch this sexy move where my very inertness becomes a form of aggression" — turning her total passivity into the supposed erotic flourish.