The Horror Of Hormones
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Moray is capable of delaminating her buttfor, and it is HORRIBLE
Took us 25+ years to realize it wasn't (just) metabolism keeping us underweight but that pesky Eating Disorder we'd avoided acknowledging. Teenager years can take a flying leap, you couldn't pay us enough to relive that.
What's a buttfor? Ok. I feel better now.
My own teen days were generically awful (normal teen awful plus "super-brain poindexter awkward speech-and-theater geek" awful), so I would prefer not to rerun them. At all. On the other hand, going back knowing what I know now ... might make for a bit different experience. Except not having the Internet would kill me.
I would hate to actually *relive* my teen years, knowledge or no knowledge (I think having your adult self's knowledge would just make it harder to bear the idiocy of everyone else) but I often wish I could watch my teen self live out a random day in the past. No particular occasion, just a regular day. I bet there are loads of details I've forgotten (and I also bet it would be super weird to see my past self not glued to a smartphone).
There are a few things I miss about being a teenager, and a few things I'd like to redo both then, and since then, but there's not enough that would make it worth reliving all of it again.
There are certainly things I very much miss about being a teenager, and things I do not.
I do not miss being a teenager AT ALL. You couldn’t pay me to go through that again.
Amen. Getting rid of the physical running down would *not* be worth doing that again.
Chaotic good, doing the right thing, the wrong way. Says so on my t shirt.
19, 17, and 14 were...ok. I am on the fence about those and I think I'd not be even slightly interested in reliving the rest without some major modifications. 12 was the worst, though; I'd definitely pick that year last for dodgeball.
Eithe grade was my worst, registered for 4 schools and moved before I got to attend two of them. One we knew about because we knew when we were moving and it was before school started there, also knew we were moving again over Christmas break, but our landlord was blackballed for rent law violations and we had to move again to a place run legally.
I survived my teen years by insane luck. Very happy they’ll stay in the rear view mirror. That said - Sam is starting to understand that learning agency is tricky. Apologies can be made & fences mended. It’s time to figure out how the bullies are to be dealt with.
I share what I've learned, it may help. The 3 "A's": Acknowledge your error. Apologize to those who(m?) you've harmed. Atone by not repeating the error in the future. Some folks won't accept an apology? I drop it. I didn't mean to harm or I wouldn't apologize, but that may not be enough for some. I can't help that, but it's why I have to not do it again.
Maybe the problem with constructed intelligences is that being a teenager is a required stage of intellectual development.... someone email Altman!
The comic may be through its teenage years, but none of the AI characters are even to them. No idea if Jeph is going to have them suddenly going through even more hijinx or not. I personally think it wouldn't be called for. A lot of why human teenage years are so problematic is the hormone soup we suddenly have to deal with. I mean, sure, we had hormone soup before; we're kind of made of hormone soup, but it suddenly changed in dramatic and surprising to us ways. Another large part of why human teenage years are so problematic is we've gotten to the point in our development process where we have a psychological need to be recognized as capable individuals, but most of us do not get that recognition from any of our elders. Some of us do not merit such recognition, but the need for it is there nonetheless. Most of the AIs in the story are already getting recognition as capable individuals from the human adults around them. Also, I'm not sure how much impact them being first generation has on their psychological needs. I feel like I personally wouldn't be too upset about not getting acknowledgement from people who don't exist, but i feel like I've met others who are different in this regard. (Generally, these have been people of the Wunderkind variety. Technically human, but they surpassed all of the adults around them, so their acknowledgement didn't really satisfy. Once again, this is not really an apples to apples situation.)
Panel 4 "thump" - how heavy is Bubbles and how is Faye not dead from the thiccness?!?
Very heavy, and I assume Bubbles is aware of her mass, and is very, very careful.
Yeeeeeeah, i've done puberty twice, and can't say it was much fun either time, tbh.
I miss quick healing, being able to bounce on falling, not having to worry about diet, and not too much else
I kept the quick healing into my 50's and the high metabolism into my 60's. I developed diabetes in my early 60's so I have to watch my carbs, and my bones are not as dense as they used to be when I could get hit by cars and walk away from the smoking ruins of the car. I broke my clavicle a few weeks ago just falling out of bed. I'm going back to the hospital this morning to assess how the healing is going
to be fair, when I was a teenager, I was pretty, would often get mistaken for a girl which was great as a trans girl. also them hormones are hitting me hard all over again because of HRT so I get the experience without the looks/energy. ~<3
...huh. It never really occurred to me that the AI characters just kind of...pop into the world fully formed, for the most part. Interesting.
Mmm, Yay at least IS showing a growth cycle. At least now he's a cranky teenager... https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5691
If I could go manipulate time so I could transition when I was a teenager but I would then have to live through being a teenager AGAIN it would be SUCH a hard decision
I don't have your experiences, since I am cis. But as a survivor of the teenage years might I suggest that, if you COULD change time, transition just AFTER your teenage years? And first find a supportive and understanding community. DO NOT RETURN TO TEENAGE YEARS.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_kmTQj8x0N8
Fine, then, I can't ignore it so I'll ask the obvious question. Feel free to say it with me, "What's a Beneficial use of Delaminization?"
Delaminization allows you to peel off all those stickers that the local small ones stuck all over everything, including the screen of your mobile device and your television screen. AND! Delaminization allows you to open that package of scissors which demands you open it with a pair of scissors.
Plez Sam. No moar wronk ting. That’s what we all do. Except when we do do wronk ting.
There, buttfor fortune ... .
I miss not being responsible for much, having nothing but time on my hands, etc. I miss era-specific things like not having a constant crushing dread of the world ending.
As a kid I used to worry about climate change, but I was also convinced that individual actions could combat it so I believed the power lay (partially) in my hands xD Which is less daunting than realising how fucked the entire system is.
What do miss about being a teenager? I miss not having to pay bills.
I really hate being an adult sometimes. Bills are a big reason.
Bubbles and Morray for life <3!!! (Could be spelling wrong sorry!)
Faye might have something to say about that. And I would want to be far, far away while she was saying it. :)
I don't miss being a teen, but I certainly do remember the angst and feelings going on. It's why I have a hard time understanding other "adults" who give kids and teens a hard time, like you were in their shoes at one point why be mean/grouchy about it?
Agreed. I remember being a teen very well (although not as well as I used to, thank goodness.) My pre-teen were very difficult, and high school was no picnic, either. I have a niece who is a teenager now, and my sister has been very apologetic about her antisocial behavior over the last couple of Christmases. I'm like, it's OK, she's a teenager.
Oh, and >thump<
What's a buttfor? Lol
fartin
I miss aspects of being a teenager. Being immortal again would be nice.
Remember when you just needed a gatorade to function after 30 beers? 30 beers would put me in the ground now.
I mostly just miss the lack of actual responsibilities. I think that _this_ is what most people actually miss. Well that and various discontinued/enshittified breakfast cereals.
And everything in your body working so much better than it does now.
Everything failed me as a teenager, society, god, my parents, myself. Fortunately I chose being sorry for myself than actually ending things but it came close at least once. Either you recover or you don't but you are always changed.
My favorite part of the Lord of the Rings is when Aragorn cries “Alas! All my choices have gone ill this day!” If he can have days like that there’s hope for me.
Well, let's be honest. Aragorn was a shit magnet. When you're a shit magnet, it just doesn't matter what choices you made. Something will go wrong. (Or more than one thing, if you're a really strong shit magnet.)
In my experience it is also a feature of being an adult. The only difference is that as an adult you have had more time to get used to it.
Bubbles used subtext! It was amazing.
I don't think i was ever a teenager. Either that or it's incredibly repressed
I've found during my transition that I'm living a second teenagehood! It's weird being a mid 40s teenager...
Well done Bubbles. also "thump" <3
I love Bubbles.
Being a teenager doesn’t always suck. Just most of the time
Lol.
The teenage years weren't bad, besides the being mixed race in the Deep South, but I'd like a second chance at the clue by fours that were swung at me in those years...but I probably wouldn't recognize the passes on the second go round either...given that it takes me 5 years to recognize one unless direct words and pouncing are used.
I'm impressed that your teenage years weren't bad, given your location. Also, I, too, missed a lot of clue by fours as a teenager, and continued to do so as an adult. I'm still pretty slow to notice them even now, lol.
bubbles just doesn't remember being a teenager because an evil ai stole that memory from her
I’m not sure there is an AI equivalent in QC-verse. Not when thinking back to the story Regret & Violence told from their creche and becoming alive.
Whenever anyone wishes to be a teenager again, Mr. Dark's ears perk up.
Reading everything today makes me realize that I wish I'd realized how f'd up everyone was, not just me. In fact, I wish we all realized it. Even the "popular" ones...who I'm sure lived in dread of being found out to be frauds.
The popular ones tend to still live in this dread.
Hmm let's see. Suffering through endless attempts at enforced social interaction by adults who think introversion needs to be cured, barely scraping my unmedicated ADHD ass through school, then finally capping it all off at nineteen with a nice rousing bout of cancer. ... You know, upon further consideration, it turns out that I do not in fact miss being a teenager.
Oof. That does not sound fun. I'm glad you made it through.
I miss the world of someone else paying for me to pursue my hobbies and also cooking for me most of the time. It's very different from the world of being broke and also needing to cook all the time.
I cook. (Instant ramen is cooking, right? :)
I only miss being a teenager because I'd like a do-over. This time, with much better awareness of how to live with a narcissist.
Sam is lucky to have a couple of Cool Gay Aunts.
Now I want to see some Cool Gay AI Ants.
I don't miss being a teenager, but I do always wish I could have had another chance at it knowing 1) my parents were more supportive of LGBT folks than I ever realized at that age, so I could have come out way sooner to them. 2) that I wasn't some huge failure for being chubby But we all have things we wish we knew then or that we could do over I suspect.
In some ways, I miss being 19, when I was *technically* a teenager, but was off at school and could legally drink beer (VA had weird drinking laws- 18 for beer/wine, 21 for hard liquor). That was also before a lot of trauma and PTSD. OTOH, I'm a better person now...
i miss the METABOLISM of a teenager.
Ahh, the one reason to think kindly about my being a teenager. Good health.
I mean I would like to be a teenager again so I could get on the right hormones and save myself from a lot of extra angst
Given the situation I was in as a teenager, I'm not sure I'd be able to get the right hormones even with a second chance.
The people who believe or tend to believe that they peaked or had the best time in high school are the ones who are loudest on older social media like Facebook and honestly I trust the least. I have similar mistrust for those who think your peak years are in the 20’s or think you can achieve greatness in your 50’s or older. Not because I think age is just a number but because to think there is a set age that is the most important period of your life does not understand that life is more about the journey than the start, mountain-top or valley experiences, nor the destination either.
I feel like most of the people I've met that think you can achieve greatness in your 50's or older are actually on the same page as you; it's just that they're in their 50's or older, so are focused on that time period. They're saying, "We're not done yet," not "just wait until you're 50 to become great." There may be some people who are saying that latter thing, but I haven't met any of them. The people who think your peak years are definitely in your 20's? I say, don't screw them, what they have might be contagious. What did I accomplish in my 20s? I failed to recover from miscommunication with the woman of my dreams, I managed to finally get a job with an overly desperate company 11 months after graduating, and like most people alive at that time, I survived Y2K. Every bit of accomplishment I'm still respected for today came after my 30th birthday. There are certainly people who have achieved great things in their 20s, but I'm not one of them.
I actually had a decent teenage experience. I'd kinda like to do it again. But do it better.
"thump" 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
pfft, all these simplistic answers to "what's a buttfor". so many things...
What's a buttfor? Storage? Is it for storage?
Not if you don't keep it properly delaminized.
i miss being 15, but that has nothing to do with actually being 15, its just that 2012 was the last full year before i got the biiig depression. tbh a lot of it probably sucked, but nostalgia
2012 was pretty good, tho certainly being a teenager NOW is a fat bag of ass
I didn’t think it was possible to love Bubs even more but here we are, getting a little choked up on an unsuspecting Wednesday morning
what's a buttfor?
I use mine to make bubbles in the swimming pool.
My god! The Buttfor is overly laminized!
Manifesting full-blown Lamiaforminzation!
Puberty sucked so much I had to do it a second time
I don't miss being a teenager, exactly. But I wouldn't mind having the physique of one.
Maybe not the physique. But the metabolism? Definitely interested
People who miss being a teenager just miss not having constant aches and pains
I am so glad to have escaped my teenage years alive... NOW all I gotta worry about is the sad fact that my get up and go got up and went. :(
DelAnhminizing
Wait until they reach adulthood.
"High school ne-ver ends" (OH OH, oh-oh OH-OH...)
Bravo Bubbles honey!! That is spot on the right call ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Let Sam talk and hang on every bloody word.
The only reason I would want to be a teenager again is to do the correct puberty first time around. It would still be awful, maybe even worse, but at least I'd get hips & a hairline
I feel you. I recently bought a racing seat for my hotrod and even the smallest one was too wide. And also too narrow, tiny hips and huge shoulders. It took hours to beat the chest supports far enough apart to sit comfortably.
Everything I do is the wrong thing and makes everything worse and it fucking sucks and I haven't been a teenager since before Sam was born. If you've noticed everything getting worse over the past few decades, sorry; that was me.
"I'm sorry I caused all that cancer." -Bruce McCulloch
I’m 70 years old and I still feel that way.
I’m 80 years old and I still feel that way! My teenage years were living in social hell. The only thing I honestly miss about them is that certain parts of my body were cheerfully functional that now, when I expect any function from them at all, just snicker at me, “seriously?“
Yeah, I'd hate to be stuck in my teenage years. They weren't the treadmill of neverending sorrow that some people had, but they were far from great. I'd much rather have my late 20s and early 30s back.
I miss the *body* that I had in my teenage years. But not the existential apathy.
What's a buttfor? In this instance, cracking the concrete floor if Bubbles is not careful.
Gotta be a dent there at the very least. Well... two dents.
A lot of the people who miss being teenagers peaked in high school.
Or peeked. Or piqued someone's interest. Or developed a lifelong interest in wordplay that leads to posts that make very little sense, all things considered. Possibly I was picked for it.
It should be difficult advising people through a stage you never experienced. Damn few people seem to realise that, alas. I like Bubbles.
Advising and listening are two very different things. Looks like Bubbles is on the right track here.
There are 2 specific moments from my teens that I genuinely miss. 1 was a night of D&D I played with 5 friends. The other was 2 weeks after I'd graduated highschool & was chilling at the beach. Had $1200 in my bank (graduation gifts) & I'd already been accepted to a college. Last time I felt like I had everything figured out.
Personally, I prefer having more of it figured out than thinking I have more of it figured out. I cringe at the idea of giving up all that experience to go back.
Sometimes it never ends.
Not all of us were so lucky Bubbles, cherish you're lack of that experience
What's a buttfor?
Farting obviously, haven't you been reading the comic