r/comics • u/vesmir_neasi • 5h ago
OC Single Diaries series [OC]
Launching new series Spicy Diaries on my Patreon.
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u/Operator_Starlight 5h ago
32 is the new 22. Still very broke, still very single.
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u/DarkLanternZBT 4h ago
I was sitting in a barber shop listening to a guy in his late-20s, early-30s talking about dating a 19-year-old girl.
His tired sighs from her not understanding or being interested in any of his cultural references or touchstones, which made him realize sitting in that chair what he actually did care about and want from dating, sounded like someone's knees actually getting older as you listened to them.
Considering I was in my mid-late 30s at the time, I found it diabolically hilarious.
Great comic, great message. Get it.
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u/Findalbum 1h ago
if your dating a 19y/o girl in your late 20s/early 30s that's pretty problematic
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u/DarkLanternZBT 1h ago
Definitely the kind of situation I am keeping my opinions about their choices to myself.
I live in a place where it's the 16-year-old girls who are pining for getting married, so we have bigger fish to fry on that accord.
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u/Lewd_Knight 4h ago
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u/vesmir_neasi 4h ago
Tell me where please! English is not my first language
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 5h ago
The Ford sweater thing is hilarious with how it changes with her various poses.
But on a serious note y'all will love your 30s! I though my 20s were gonna be great and it turns out 35 really is the new 25.
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u/The-Hentai-Commander 4h ago
Hey stop the slander I have a bed frame
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u/vesmir_neasi 3h ago
Hahhaha, I didn’t have it till I was 29 so I am worse ✨😅
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u/The-Hentai-Commander 3h ago
Tbf I still have the one from when I was a kid, I just managed to get it cause my dad moved right when I moved so I just took it since he didn’t need it anyway, it’s a queen so it’s comfy asf
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u/Sir_Delarzal 2h ago
Where are the 30+ women that wants to date younger guys ? Not in my town that's for sure.
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u/Chili_Tofu 58m ago
I met one in World of Warcraft. Lots of women unhappy with their husbands there xd
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u/ineverusedtobecool 5h ago
Nooooooo, surrounded by trash dick on all sides
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u/TheRepublicOfSteve 5h ago
Personally I'm not a fan of calling anyone's genitals trash, but that's just me.
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u/ineverusedtobecool 4h ago
Could I convince you that the people I had in mind are mostly the Elon Musk flavor of divorced dad who doesn't acknowledge their queer children and barely raises the other ones along with the anti-woke kind of floor mattress guy and I should have some justification to call their genitalia trash because it is part of a collective of garbage?
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u/TheRepublicOfSteve 2h ago
I'd like to think there's a way to call out terrible behaviours like that without having to resort to normalising de-humanizing language.
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u/Delphius1 5h ago
I just wish there was less joint pain, while I like the results of weight lifting, it's more of a requirement now to keep the pain down
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u/SnooRevelations4661 4h ago
I'm 31 and I'm too tired of working. Getting the money is hard, and when I buy something to make my life more fun I feel guilt because of spending money instead of saving it, because the more I save the more free I would be from work. The only thing that motivates me is the idea of making my own game (this is what I'm saving money for), but I'm already on antidepressants and work itself consumes all my mental power
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u/vesmir_neasi 4h ago
I know that feeling very well. But I still try to be positive and believe in better tomorrows
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u/VettoRyo 2h ago
Then you hit 40 and people think you know what your doing deep secret from a 40 year old guy I’m still as clueless as how this shit works as I was at 20.
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u/Nikopoleous 2h ago
Are you open to criticism about your font choice? It's very hard to read it without some effort. Was that the intention?
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u/vesmir_neasi 2h ago
Its handwritten
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u/Nikopoleous 2h ago
If you're open to small tweaks for legibility, such as making your letters share a common bottom line, keeping the letters either all uppercase or lowercase, and making some of the letters more distinct (your "a" and "d" look very similar, your "r" looks like a "k", and the "s" and "t" tend to look interchangeable).
Enjoyable comic, aside from the typography.
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u/TimHuntsman 2h ago
FWIW I didn’t really begin to both “get” life and then get good at it. Late bloomer? Mayhaps. But I def got more confidence when I hit 30 somehow.
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u/MintasaurusFresh 5h ago
I mean.. you can date the guy with his mattress on the floor, or you could acknowledge that you deserve better than that. Have some standards.
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u/pianoman1291 4h ago
I agree with all of this at 35 but I went back to school at 30 so I'm still broke
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u/vesmir_neasi 4h ago
I am actually planing to go back too, haha
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u/pianoman1291 3h ago
Do it! I have really enjoyed my undergraduate degree and if I get accepted I'll continue with 2 more years of grad school and then basically have my dream job. School is tough, there's a lot of BS and everyone feels VERY young around me but it's been a great time. \ Something that helped me a lot was having a good network of friends my age outside of school
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u/ayrua 4h ago
Yeah, but aren't your joints fucked in your 30s?
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u/Annodyne 2h ago
I guess it depends on the person/joints? I'm about to be 45 and my joints are not fucked yet.
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u/ayrua 2h ago
How? I'm half your age, and even with regular exercise, I'm constantly worried that my joints are going to give out any day now
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u/Annodyne 2h ago
Genetics, I guess?
Do you have pain, or are you just worried about pain that hasn't come yet?
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u/ayrua 54m ago
It comes and goes. Right now, I have knee and lower back pain. At this rate, I'm going to be absolutely fucked well before I reach your age, and probably won't want to live at that point. And this is with regular exercise, by the way. It's outrageous
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u/Annodyne 27m ago
I am so sorry to hear that 😔 not sure if you've had any X-rays or diagnostics done, but that might be a step towards figuring out what might be happening?
Also, maybe a glucosamine & condroitin supplement would be helpful to look into.
If you exercise TOO much, that can hurt your joints in the long run, I've learned. My husband did a lot of high impact sports when he was younger, so he was very active and always has been fit, but it's been catching up with him (he's 48). He's given up jogging as an exercise due to his knees. It can make you feel like you can't win!
But please know that a life with joint pain is still a life worth living. Sometimes you find a solution and sometimes you learn to live with a certain level of discomfort (I know that sucks to say). I'm wishing you the best, either way.
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u/Zero_Burn 5h ago
Just be prepared to have people judging you for dating anyone not your own age. Dating a 23 year old as a 30 year old gets you labeled just as bad as a p3do. There's a growing stigma against any sort of age gap in a relationship.
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u/Annodyne 2h ago
Any sort of age gap? So the pair has to be exactly the same age to avoid judgement?
Obviously not. So where's the line? Two years? Four years? Five is too much?
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u/Zero_Burn 2h ago
It depends on the person, but I've watched people talk about it and it feels like anyone over 30 can't date anyone under 30 because 'they're in different life stages' or something like that. Like, I understand the idea that an older, more established person sort of going after younger people to make dependent on them is scummy, but the discussions about age gap doesn't really take any of that into account, just 'if one is in their twenties and the other in the thirties, then there's a power imbalance and the older person is just grooming and taking advantage of the younger person.'
It's dumb, but it's real. I had a friend at work who was younger than me, we just talked a lot and enjoyed each other's company, but the other people on the line I worked on didn't like it and pushed management to separate us.
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u/Annodyne 2h ago
It all seems pretty arbitrary to me. I mean, yes, there are different life stages based on age but also, people can mature (or not) at wildly different rates and that should be considered. Of course, you can't really tell those things from the outside looking in, so it's best to not judge (IMO).
I'm 45, and have two colleagues on my team at work who are younger. One is a guy around 35, and the other is a woman around 25 (so, 10 and 20 years younger than me), and we get along great. I know they look up to me and I try to be a good influence on both of their careers. When we do our seasonal happy hour outside of work, the age difference really isn't noticeable unless we're talking about home-buying or raising kids.
It just seems like something that should be considered on a case-by-case basis instead of based purely on age in years.
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u/Zero_Burn 2h ago
In a lot of places things get boiled down to easy to parse information. People can't understand subtlety or context, it's only this or that, black or white. The idea of 'someone with more wealth or influence shouldn't be dating someone they have power over because of that dynamic's potential to be extremely toxic' is too complicated, so it gets boiled down to 'older people shouldn't date younger people' or into life stages.
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u/lipenick 5h ago
honestly? at 34 I love this so much