Accident
Original: Accident on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child: Mommy, was I an accident?
Mother (woman with glasses and curly blonde hair): Of course not!
Panel 2:
Mother: We used a non-deterministic quantum process to decide whether to get pregnant.
Panel 3:
Mother: An impassive probabilistic universe made the choice. So, from our perspective you're neither an accident nor on purpose!
Panel 4:
Child: But, so... you wanted me then or-
Mother: Ugh, I'm sorry but metaphysics is SO boring.
Votey:
Mother: Just know we're in the branch of the multiverse where I love you just the way you are.
Child: Mommy, was I an accident?
Mother (woman with glasses and curly blonde hair): Of course not!
Panel 2:
Mother: We used a non-deterministic quantum process to decide whether to get pregnant.
Panel 3:
Mother: An impassive probabilistic universe made the choice. So, from our perspective you're neither an accident nor on purpose!
Panel 4:
Child: But, so... you wanted me then or-
Mother: Ugh, I'm sorry but metaphysics is SO boring.
Votey:
Mother: Just know we're in the branch of the multiverse where I love you just the way you are.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A small child asks her mother, a woman with curly blonde hair and round glasses, 'Mommy, was I an accident?' The mother replies 'Of course not!' She explains: 'We used a non-deterministic quantum process to decide whether to get pregnant. An impassive probabilistic universe made the choice. So, from our perspective you're neither an accident nor on purpose!' The child starts to ask 'But, so... you wanted me then or-' and the mother cuts her off, looking weary: 'Ugh, I'm sorry but metaphysics is SO boring.' In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the mother's face as she reassures, 'Just know we're in the branch of the multiverse where I love you just the way you are.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.