Small talk becomes microscopic

Arguing doesn't solve anything

Gratitude

Today's comic is a remake of a comic first posted on 24 November 2016.

Introducing Friendly Form Letters

The first Friendly Form Letter is up and open to the public here.

So you want to get back in touch

I've spent a lot of time thinking about yesterday's post. I had a long conversation with myself to try to figure out what it is that keeps me from reaching out. Today's comic is an adaptation of that conversation.
More to come tomorrow.

 

 

 

Getting ready for Getting Back in Touch Day 2019

   Two years ago, I posted a comic about wanting to get back in touch with people but having a hard time doing so:

 

 Last year, I took that comic and made a sort of sequel to it, one that might take place only minutes later, as the same character from the original revises their thoughts and prepares to actually do the reaching out:

   I thought then, and still do now, that both versions have validity and usefulness. The sentiment is apparently a relatable one; no other comic in CrustaceanSingles' eight-plus years has ever spread so far or so fast as that one on 27 November 2017 did. I witnessed thousands of complete strangers pouring their hearts out and reconnecting with old friends in comment sections around the internet, all sparked by my sad, strange stick figure's overly wordy thoughts. It was, and still is, pretty surreal for me.

   It's also a little bittersweet. There are so many people I have known and cared about but lost contact with over the years. I haven't reached out to many of them in the two years since I posted that comic. I have plenty of excuses, sure; chronic physical and mental illness are real, and one of the worst things they do to a person is to take away possibilities. Still, I can't help but feel hypocritical posting about Getting Back in Touch Day.

   But instead of hiding from that hypocrisy, I want to face it, think about it, respond to it. Today, I'm posting the original and last year's follow-up. Tomorrow (and maybe the next day), I'll post whatever I can come up with. I don't have any idea what it will be as I write this. I'll be thinking about it, though, and reading anything you all have to say about it, too.

Knight & Knave, partners at law

Mast and furious

[Author's note: Do I feel good about this one? No, of course not. But they can't all be winners, and I'll be back tomorrow to try again.]

The ultimate quest

Inherent permissions

A meal by any other name

Turtle facts!

In and out of sleep

The subject of today's Remake Monday was first posted on 18 November 2014.

The original looked like this:

Help!

Bestness

Mutuality

Discretion in cooking

Watching and waiting

Peace of mind for your peace of mind

"What if your main insurance company refuses to pay based on a technicality? Or what if a sinkhole opens up beneath their offices and they cease to exist? That's where we come in."

The quest for knowledge

 

“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

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The subject of today's Remake Monday was first posted on 10 November 2011.

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Aspirational

You are amazing, and don't ever let me or anyone else tell you otherwise.

That which they say

[Author's note: This feels like a concept these comics must have addressed before, but who has time to dig through thousands of stick figure scribbles just to be sure?]

Sudden remembrance

I hope someone noticed before too long.

Watchful

Is for...fundraiser.

Not to brag

Correction

The subject of today's Remake Monday was first posted on 04 November 2019. It looked like this:

Let's play fetch

Blank pages

The least

I spent way too long polishing the wording of this one, trying to balance colloquial American English with grammatical specificities of past and present hypotheticals and counterfactuals. So I guess that precludes the possibility of the comic being autobiographical.