One Way To Survive In A Ruined World.

「The story 'Life and Death Companions' wants to continue.」

A gift for Eve.

Can we normalize this?

Like please please please??

No joke is one-size-fits-all, but adding "but I remain optimistic" at the end of any somewhat-speculating statement makes it funny, taking a different tone in each.

Adding it to the end of something positive gives it an unexpected twist - implying that whatever the good thing that happened was, it wasn't what you expected or hoped to happen, but you're yet to give up hope of whatever the fuck you've now vaguely implied towards might still happen. "He survived and is expected to make a full recovery, but I remain optimistic."

Adding it to a neutral statement implies that you think something can be done about it, funniest if the statement is something that obviously can't be affected. "Apparently it's tuesday tomorrow, but I remain optimistic."

And the bleakest, most hopeless statements just become bleakly funny by the grim absurdity. "About 30 seconds remain until impact, and the chances of any of us surviving the crash are zero. But I remain optimistic."

Kim Dokja after infodumping to his mom, probably

Translation: New project started

:O

what could it be?

That's how they met. Believe me, I was a duck!

tsk tsk, younger siblings😒

vaguely inspired by this fic.

(i've been getting into DC stuff/the batfam a lot recently. more sketches/doodles under the cut. can y'all guess my favorite robin....)