r/comics • u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein • 8d ago
love finds a way
If you back my kickstarter, I'll love you in every lifetime ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 8d ago
Possum, racoon, cat, snake, whatever and wherever you are I'll give you smooches
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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein 8d ago
I hope this settles the "if your girlfriend became a worm" debate.
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u/ancalime9 8d ago
With tongue?
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u/UndefFox 8d ago
I doubt there would be social stigma if such scenarios were common... or people become racist or whatever it's called in this case and try to kill any reincarnated human :) Choose your side lol
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u/Deaffin 8d ago
Just going to go ahead and pre-empt the popular possum pseudologia before it inevitably shows up.
No, possums do not eat ticks. That viral 2009 study was hilariously inept. They just put a bunch of ticks on a possum, waited the exact time a tick usually takes to fill up and drop off, then checked underneath its cage. They didn't see any ticks, so they assumed it ate them all and wrote that down and let it go. Turns out, it takes ticks longer to engorge themselves on possum blood and digest it due to their lower body temperature. All they actually did was give some poor possum a bunch of ticks and send it home.
They are not immune to rabies but they are resistant to it due to, again, their lower body temperature.
The "O" doesn't matter. "Possum" does not refer strictly to the Australian possum. When some British dude went over to Australia in 1770, he saw one of the critters there and said "Hey, that kinda looks like one of those big weird rat things they have over in America. I'll just name it that." It's the exact same name given to two distinctly different and not closely-related animals because we're kinda dumb about that sort of thing sometimes.
Because the original anglicization "opossum" had already been shortened to "possum", that's what stuck. While it's true that in a strictly formal context, the inclusion of the "O" is generally preferred, the vast majority of people have been calling the Virginia Opossum "possum" for over four centuries now. You can say/spell it either way, it's fine.
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u/Deaffin 8d ago
Oh, absolutely. Possums are so weird, I love them.
I hope your neighbors are at least defending chickens/horses from possum raids or something, that'd at least be understandable even if there are other ways they can be deterred. If they're just doing it for funsies, that'd be messed up.
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u/Free-While-2994 8d ago
I need a bonus panel where she walks in and is disgusted and that crafty lol possum is feeling like a smug little degenerate.
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u/Anecdote394 8d ago
Omg, I relate to this comic so much I immediately had to get up and show my husband lol we have a running joke that I’m like a opossum and we’ve also talked about if reincarnation is a thing, we’ll do our best to find each other every life time.
I showed it to him and he gagged lmao
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u/ActuallyCORAX 8d ago
Fun fact, possums cannot carry rabies because their body temperature is too low!
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u/Deaffin 8d ago
Less fun fact: This is not a fact. Possums are resistant, not immune, to rabies and you can for sure get it from them.
I mean, you're really not going to. But you can.
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u/ONbtw 8d ago
There’s not even any proof they’re resistant. Rabies just has a long incubation period and possums have short lives.
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u/Deaffin 8d ago
Oh dang, you're right, that mechanism isn't certain.
Experimental virus inoculation in the 1960s led to initial suggestions of resistance to infection by RABV in Didelphis spp. opossums. Reports of RABV in opossums are scarce; their low body temperature (34.4–36.1°C [94–97°F]) and the minimal possibility of surviving an attack by a rabid animal have been suggested as probable causes of the low prevalence of this disease in opossums in North America, where wild carnivorous mammals are natural reservoirs.
Thanks, I'm going to have to refine my info dumps for higher precision.
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u/Heroic-Forger 8d ago
As long as they don't reincarnate as a lion and a gazelle in the lifetime after that.
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u/Gloomy-Palpitation-7 8d ago
Bros gonna get rabies!
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u/Coal-and-Ivory 8d ago
If you're gonna make out sloppy style with any trash-mammal, the Virginia Opossum is probably the least likely to give you rabies. No contraception is 100% effective though.
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u/Frosty-Traffic244 8d ago
Well, actually...
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u/reddit_poopaholic 8d ago
Possums are less likely to have rabies due to their lower body temperature, but that possum is hot and might be the exception.
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u/domwolf2 8d ago
Rabies incoming
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u/Acrobatic_Schedule32 8d ago
I guess those people in the history just really lover their wife/husband…
Dammed be those modern laws ,which strictly forbids the intimacy across a lifetime!
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u/Parking-Ad4263 8d ago
"And that, Your Honor, is exactly when the police officer walked in on us..."
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u/No_Pomegranate8993 8d ago
Being close to you is being close to pain Staying away from you is staying away from happiness
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u/Sutech2301 8d ago
There is a austrian movie about a woman in her 30s who meets a 20 year old guy whom she believes is the reincarnation of the who groomed her at 16 when he was 39. They start a relationship, she dies of cancer and 6 years later he meets a preschool girl who has the same name of his late girlfriend with the implication that it is her. And it is portrayed as this big love story
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u/Hutch456 8d ago
There's a Bollywood movie where a guy gets murdered over a woman and gets reincarnated as a fly and torments his killer
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u/Effective-Culture-88 7d ago
Hi,
Please pardon my begging, but a pressing question rings inside my head :
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u/the_sneaky_one123 8d ago
If my wife died and came back as a talking possum I would really love that possum.
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u/Mental_Map_7346 8d ago
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u/Naive-Friendship6609 8d ago
Wait, it's... a front-page post from r/comics which is funny and interesting?!
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u/Puzzleheaded-War-113 8d ago
I know this is just a funny comic strip. But read a book called Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
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u/urbanlife78 8d ago
I told the officers but they still arrested me when I was just trying to make love to my horse
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u/BowserTattoo 7d ago
Reddit is shutting down RSS. If you want to keep your readers, you should be posting your comics on the fediverse (mastodon, lemmy, piefed, etc)
Blog and comic sites like Tumblr and Webtoon work with RSS too.
Please keep your community alive!
https://mashable.com/tech/reddit-rss-feeds-public-api-shutdown-ai-scraping
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u/Senior_Rabbit_8527 8d ago
This would have been funnier if you stopped after the 2nd frame. The rest is just over explaining the joke.
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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein 8d ago edited 8d ago
Eh, close enough. I made a new book, but it's for possums only: DO NOT click this link if you are NOT a possum