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A Softer World (Webcomic)

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A Softer World is a Photo Comic, full of dark surrealist comedy and just plain weird stuff. Generally, Emily Horne takes the photographs and Joey Comeau writes the captions. The comics often focus on death, love, loneliness, or other similarly heavy themes. There are few if any actual characters, apart from Baby Doom (now deceased) and a small cat.In almost every comic slightly cropped or zoomed versions of one photograph are arranged into 3 panels, with a short line of text over each one; the writing is usually divided into a straight line, a subversion and an over-the-top punchline. A frequent variation will have a second punchline in the rollover text.Shares a forum, Truth and Beauty Bombs, with Dinosaur Comics and The Perry Bible Fellowship.The strip officially ended on June 1st 2015 after 12 years with its 1243th strip, but came back for five strips due to meeting a Kickstarter goal for the Best Of book.
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Fair Cop
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Fair Cop: The narrator of 482 is very appreciative of good looks of the police officer arresting him. "I don't mean to seem disrespectful officer, but god damn. I want, like, three of you."
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Kill the God
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Kill the God: The protagonist of 244, a young, innocent-looking child who picks up a telephone and asks the operation to put God on the line. He proceeds to threaten God, telling him "You're next." 909 twists the saying "man plans, God laughs" by comparing it to the fable of the hard-working ant who prepares for winter and the grasshopper who just laughs at the ant until winter comes and it has to beg for help because it didn't stockpile any food. That it means humanity outlive God is stated in the alt text, which claims it's like "the real version. Where the ant let the grasshopper die."
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Parents in Distress
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Parents in Distress: The narrator of 638 is an Actual Pacifist, and avows to remain so until either the day they die or until the day someone threatens their mom. "I would seriously stab Gandhi in his face for that woman."
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Hitler Ate Sugar
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Hitler Ate Sugar: In the alt text of number 716, the narrator claims that everyone knows Hitler was a waiter, therefore making it okay to be mean to them.
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Virgin Sacrifice
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Virgin Sacrifice: "If I could get a hold of a beautiful virgin girl, would I be summoning you in the first place?"
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The Anti-Nihilist
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The Anti-Nihilist: 767's narrator thinks that nothing matters in life, so they might as well be nice to people.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: The phrase "a softer world" is said three times in total in the comic. First in Comic #3, whose narrator is awed to find what they call a softer world in the caves behind their house, whose people understand what they had to do for love. It's the alt text of the final comic of the 1000th comic special. That comic's narrator muses that they don't want a world without pain or sadness, they just want a world where those things mean something. It's not mentioned again until one of the final comics,#1237, which itself is a Call-Back to #3. The narrator finds what they call the ruins of a softer world in the caves behind their house, bleakly saying that "kindness couldn't save them".
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Always Someone Better
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Always Someone Better: 1220 remarks on it, saying that while there's always going to be someone out there better than you... "But, on the bright side, who cares?"
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Death by Origin Story
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Death by Origin Story: Invoked; the narrator of 314 says that while they never wanted anything to happen to their parents, "a hero needs an origin story."
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Alt Text
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And the Alt Text to 658 is a Mountain Goats lyric.
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We All Die Someday
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We All Die Someday: "I intend to deserve it."
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Cute Kitten
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Cute Kitten: Used to mock Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in 427 by supposedly doing the same thing, but with kittens instead of zombies. This creates "Pride and Prejudice with kittens. No, Kittens and Kittens and even more kittens, oh my goodness, by Jane Austen."
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Ambiguous Situation
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Ambiguous Situation: The girl who killed herself in 46 mentioned the main character in her suicide note in a way that could be read as affection or condemnation: "You were always laughing."
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Deal with the Devil
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Deal with the Devil: Parodied. The narrator in 686 sold their soul to the devil, but not for money or power or anything concrete. Apparently he just told them it would be good experience, as if it was an unpaid internship.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: When the strips are humorous at all, it's with very dark comedy, usually joking about the pointlessness of life and the inevitability of death. It's also common for the actual strip to be poignant but have darkly humorous alt-text.
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Some of My Best Friends Are X
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Some of My Best Friends Are X: Multiple times. "I'm not racist. My best friend is black. SHE'S the racist one." Deconstructed in another comic - having a gay friend doesn't mean you're not a bigot, it just means your friend isn't paying enough attention.
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I Just Want to Have Friends
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I Just Want to Have Friends: In 746, the narrator thinks that to make everyone love her, all she needs to do is be herself but with money.
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: A Softer Sea is a fan-made one for the comic as a whole.
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Beautiful Dreamer
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Beautiful Dreamer: The narrator of 656 says that their love interest is beautiful while sleeping, "But that's not good enough." They then request for their love interest to Please Wake Up, revealing that it's a far darker situation than the reader had been led to believe.
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Protocol Peril
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Protocol Peril: "'It's a compliment in their culture.' ... I am never believing anything you say again. (Now come bail me out.)"
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: 648 and 784.
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One True Threesome
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One True Threesome:invoked "Okay, you don't think 'threepover' is funny. But I still want to sleep with you both."
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I Like My X Like I Like My Y
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I Like My X Like I Like My Y: The narrator of 1227 likes their witches the way they like their books: "properly respected for their cultural importance", and possibly flapping around a haunted mansion. In 397, the narrator likes their women like they like their squirrels: "Preternaturally intelligent." (But not in packs, please.)
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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue...
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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue...: ...you can do whatever you want to me.
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To Hell and Back
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To Hell and Back: Painfully subverted:
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Metaphorgotten
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Metaphorgotten: 654 twists the phrase "Revenge is a dish best served cold" by saying that accidentally shooting yourself is proof that it's a dishbest served by someone with at least a bit of experience cooking. 662 has an addition to the classic Sphinx's riddle of "What walks with four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs at night?", In the comic, they add an extra line to the riddle "then becomes a burden and gets put in a home?" The narrator of 735 either quickly loses track of their metaphor or deliberately subverts the expected comparison. "I usually sleep in, but not today. Today I wake like the Kraken! Weird and damp. (Surrounded by terrified fishermen.)"
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Hope Is Scary
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Hope Is Scary: The narrator of 880 is afraid now that they have the chance to experience something better than they have before. They compare themselves to a lion raised in captivity whose keeper left the cage open.
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"Knock Knock" Joke
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"Knock Knock" Joke: Often used, and often twisted. The narrator's grandma starts to tell a knock-knock joke in number 30 but can't remember how it goes, leaving her in tears. "I can't remember" she says and starts to cry. Number 732 starts off following the structure of a knock-knock joke, but it's then revealed to be the police knocking on the narrator's door to tell them that there's been an accident. The narrator of 268 relives their boredom by using knock-knock jokes to play cruel jokes on their grandma. They start to tell her one, but when she asks "who's there?" they pretend as though she's asking a serious question and ask if she remembered to take her medicine. In number 600, it starts off as a normal joke but it quickly becomes evident that the person has serious depression when they reply with "I'm so sad I could die."
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Platonic Prostitution
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Platonic Prostitution: The narrator of 183 hires a prostitute to play hide and seek with him. While she thinks it's some kind of sexual repression thing, he just misses having friends who are girls. He doesn't mind paying her, as he considers it worth it.
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Straw Vulcan
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Straw Vulcan: "I am a being of pure reason."
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"Before" and "After" Pictures
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"Before" and "After" Pictures: The narrator of 221 says they have no use for them, since they can't remember starting and they're never done.
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 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_52488c54
type
Drowning My Sorrows
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_52488c54
comment
Drowning My Sorrows: Implied in 707, whose narrator muses that just as we need happiness to appreciate sadness, "we need sadness to appreciate alcohol."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_52488c54
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1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_52488c54
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_52488c54
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_53e1ce4e
type
Please Wake Up
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_53e1ce4e
comment
Please Wake Up: Please don't leave me alone with our stupid children.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_53e1ce4e
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_53e1ce4e
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_53e1ce4e
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_5a365ed2
type
Incompatible Orientation
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_5a365ed2
comment
Incompatible Orientation: Summed up in 164. "Love you. Miss you. Wish you weren't queer." Subverted in 868, whose narrator clarifies that yes, they're gay...but they're gay for the person they're dating.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_5a365ed2
featureApplicability
-0.3
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_5a365ed2
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_5a365ed2
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_5b01a021
type
The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_5b01a021
comment
The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House: Parodied in 1015, where the person is indeed calling from inside the house... about the ad that the homeowner placed in the paper.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_5b01a021
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1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_5b01a021
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_5b01a021
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_64f3ea6e
type
Disneyfication
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_64f3ea6e
comment
Disneyfication: Subverted. The narrator of 528 wanted a fairy tale romance, but hadn't actually read any actual fairy tales. The implication is that they ended with something far more in line with the Brother's Grimm version than they wanted, continuing on to say that it's the "First time I've ever wished for a disney version."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_64f3ea6e
featureApplicability
-0.3
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_64f3ea6e
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_64f3ea6e
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_6e37c196
type
Once Done, Never Forgotten
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_6e37c196
comment
Once Done, Never Forgotten: Parodied. Yes, the narrator of 1194 committed elaborately staged psycho-sexual murders... but they also have a dog walking company, why doesn't anyone talk about that?
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_6e37c196
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_6e37c196
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_6e37c196
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_710f9249
type
Unusual Dysphemism
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_710f9249
comment
Unusual Dysphemism: "He overdosed on pills" is just a polite way of saying "the world got him".
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_710f9249
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_710f9249
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_710f9249
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7236d837
type
Remix Comic
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7236d837
comment
Remix Comic: There's an entire community devoted to resetting the comics to figure skaters. This seems to be catching: Glee has two separate ASW remix Tumblrs. Doctor Who [1]. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic [2] Homestuck [3].[4] EarthBound (1994), including the general Mother series. Kingdom Hearts [5] Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger [6] Dragon Age [7] Hetalia: Axis Powers [8] The Hunger Games [9] Parks and Recreation [10] Mass Effect [11] Star Trek [12] Channel Awesome [13] Marvel Cinematic Universe [14] Sherlock [15] Teen Wolf [16] Ghost Trick [17] The World Ends with You [18] The Slender Man Mythos [19] Welcome to Night Vale [20] Uncharted [21] Zero Escape [22], [23] Fandomstuck [24] Transformers [25] Persona [26] Puella Magi Madoka Magica [27], [28] Akuma no Riddle [29] Katawa Shoujo [30] Pretty Cure [31] Danganronpa [32] Steven Universe [33]
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7236d837
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7236d837
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7236d837
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_780a078e
type
Self-Made Orphan
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_780a078e
comment
Self-Made Orphan: The main character in 734, so that she can go as a 'Sexy Orphan' for Halloween.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_780a078e
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1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_780a078e
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1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_780a078e
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7994c93a
type
Violence Really Is the Answer
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7994c93a
comment
Violence Really Is the Answer: "and the guilt I expected never came."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7994c93a
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1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7994c93a
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7994c93a
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7bd44eb9
type
Smart People Play Chess
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7bd44eb9
comment
Smart People Play Chess: Geniuses play chess in bed.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7bd44eb9
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1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7bd44eb9
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7bd44eb9
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_87b3d1fd
type
Trans Equals Gay
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_87b3d1fd
comment
Trans Equals Gay: "No, I don't want to be a woman. What a stupid, limiting idea of homosexuality. I want you to be the woman."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_87b3d1fd
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_87b3d1fd
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_87b3d1fd
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_88ebc539
type
Always a Bigger Fish
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_88ebc539
comment
Always a Bigger Fish: The narrator of 1075 has creatures inside them that go silent whenever the person they're addressing the comic to is near. They note that "i have never seen them scared before"
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_88ebc539
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_88ebc539
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_88ebc539
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_8a2d8868
type
Not Afraid to Die
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_8a2d8868
comment
Not Afraid to Die: In 400, the narrator explains that while they used to be terrified of dying, they aren't anymore. They say it's because, after getting to know the person they're addressing, they feel that whenever their life ends what they've experienced now will have been enough for it to have been a good life.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_8a2d8868
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_8a2d8868
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_8a2d8868
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_8d0461e2
type
Destructive Romance
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_8d0461e2
comment
The narrator of 709 admits that her love will hurt the person she's involved with; in the alt text she says that all romances end up Destructive Romances because of human nature. "I love you the way a knife loves a heart, the way a bomb loves a crowd, the way your mother warned you about, essentially."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_8d0461e2
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_8d0461e2
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_8d0461e2
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_92f674e5
type
Revenge
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_92f674e5
comment
Revenge: You dedicate your life to it...then, the day after you get it, you see it for much cheaper online.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_92f674e5
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_92f674e5
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_92f674e5
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9421aa41
type
Flipping the Table
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9421aa41
comment
Flipping the Table: Subverting the phrase "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all", the preferred action of the narrator of 586 when they can't think of anything nice to say is flipping the table.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9421aa41
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9421aa41
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9421aa41
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_94680696
type
Shaped Like Itself
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_94680696
comment
Shaped Like Itself: The "random strip" button is labeled "fnord"
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_94680696
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_94680696
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_94680696
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_949221ec
type
Evil is Cool
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_949221ec
comment
Evil Is Cool: Invoked by the narrator of 972. Addressing someone unseen, they comment that "You aren't a very good person, but god damn, you make bad look awesome." invoked
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_949221ec
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_949221ec
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_949221ec
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_966da803
type
Defiant to the End
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_966da803
comment
Defiant to the End: The narrator of 791 says that they aren't going to give up and die, even as it seems that their struggles will be in vain. "I fought my way into this world. I'll fight my way out."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_966da803
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_966da803
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_966da803
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_96a2363c
type
Bathos
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_96a2363c
comment
Bathos: The main source of the strip's humor is the sudden and surprising tone shifts from dark comedy to absurdity to nihilism and back again within the span of three panels.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_96a2363c
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1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_96a2363c
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_96a2363c
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9a0870ae
type
Screw Yourself
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9a0870ae
comment
Screw Yourself: "I would totally make out with my clone. If it was okay with her. No pressure."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9a0870ae
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9a0870ae
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9a0870ae
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9dab0a6e
type
Continuity Nod
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9dab0a6e
comment
Continuity Nod: The alt text of 886 ("To drown would be an awfully great adventure!") is one to the alt text of 221 (to die would be an awfully big adventure"). In one of the earliest strips, number three, the narrator finds a softer world behind their house. In one of the last strips, 1237, they find the ruins of a softer world behind their house, with the comic's tone far bleaker than three's darkly humorous one. Strips 227 and 667 are nods to strip 26, referencing 'Truth and beauty' and 'Love and dreamer' respectively.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9dab0a6e
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9dab0a6e
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9dab0a6e
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9e1beee3
type
90% of Your Brain
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9e1beee3
comment
90% of Your Brain: What if instead of only 10 precent of our brains, we could access 9 percent. Just one percent less, how happy we might be!
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9e1beee3
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9e1beee3
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_9e1beee3
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a305d1c5
type
A Fool for a Client
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a305d1c5
comment
A Fool for a Client: In 604, the narrator is dealing with someone choosing to represent themselves while under the belief that "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" is a valid legal defense and who is, according to the alt text, eating pizza in the courtroom.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a305d1c5
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a305d1c5
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a305d1c5
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a340a474
type
CozyCatastrophe
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a340a474
comment
Cozy Catastrophe: The narrator of 102 tries to look on the bright side of atomic war, saying it means "no traffic in the mornings, no bills in the mail. I can stay in bed with you all day." The narrator of 920 views the zombie apocalypse as a great time to get together with someone they're interested in rather than dwelling on the fact that it's the end of the world as they know it. 671 takes the form of a broadcast in the aftermath of an unexplained disaster. The narrator warns people that radiation levels are unchanged, so people should stay indoors. They then add, in an oddly sentimental touch for a broadcast, "And be kind to the people you care about."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a340a474
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a340a474
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a340a474
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a39d6056
type
Nice to the Waiter
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a39d6056
comment
Nice to the Waiter: Subverted and parodied in 716.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a39d6056
featureApplicability
-0.3
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a39d6056
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a39d6056
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a448674
type
Gratuitous Latin
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a448674
comment
Gratuitous Latin: The alt text of 632 is "post hoc, ergo propter hoc", a Latin phrase that's come to name the logical fallacy of assuming that something that occurred before an event caused that event. It's relevant to the comic itself, whose narrator says that sex doesn't ruin friendships, people do: it's a post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy to say that because the sex happened before the friendship was ruined, it was ruined because of the sex.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a448674
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a448674
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a448674
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a497eea5
type
Babysitter from Hell
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a497eea5
comment
Babysitter from Hell: "Spare the axe, spoil the child." says the text of 715, with the alt text commenting that maybe they should fire that babysitter, implying that they hired someone who disciplines children with medieval weapons to watch their children.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a497eea5
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a497eea5
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_a497eea5
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ad22fa80
type
Apocalyptic Log
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ad22fa80
comment
Apocalyptic Log: The narrator of 1185 realizes that they're too far from help and that what they're currently saying to their tape recorder are going to be their last words. The comic ends with "[RECORDING ENDS]". What exactly happened to the narrator isn't explicitly stated, but the photo shows a forest, implying that that they met a typical slasher-movie protagonist end.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ad22fa80
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ad22fa80
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ad22fa80
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ae0bbe52
type
Living Statue
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ae0bbe52
comment
Living Statue: In 138 all the statues in town came to life, but they've all seen enough to know not to show it.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ae0bbe52
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ae0bbe52
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ae0bbe52
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b11ac9f5
type
Abusive Parents
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b11ac9f5
comment
Abusive Parents: Jimmy, the narrator's boyfriend in 182, is beaten by his father after he hits the narrator during their fight. The narrator thinks that he's lucky to have a father, and aims to hit him in the fresh bruises during their next fight.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b11ac9f5
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b11ac9f5
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b11ac9f5
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b3c0ed0c
type
Spoof Aesop
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b3c0ed0c
comment
Spoof Aesop: Invoked by some of the strips, which run on the formula of "Standard aspirational phrase...horribly subverted by the end." Maybe none more than this one:
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b3c0ed0c
featureApplicability
-0.3
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b3c0ed0c
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b3c0ed0c
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b3de39a6
type
SexBot
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b3de39a6
comment
Sex Bot: Subverted; the narrator and their Robotic Spouse actually mostly play Battleship.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b3de39a6
featureApplicability
-0.3
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b3de39a6
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b3de39a6
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b82ca416
type
Rage Against the Heavens
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b82ca416
comment
Rage Against the Heavens: "Mm, Girl. Did it hurt? When you fell from heaven? For rebelling against God?"
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b82ca416
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b82ca416
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b82ca416
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b983a56b
type
Came Back Wrong
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b983a56b
comment
Came Back Wrong: In 668, the narrator buries someone in a creepy ancient cemetery and they come back to life, but different than they were before. The narrator doesn't mind though, as the person was "kind of a dick, originally." In 232, the narrator is just irritated by the changes that bringing her dead loved one back to life has brought on them. Her zombie significant other now demands she bring them brains, which pisses her off.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b983a56b
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b983a56b
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b983a56b
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b9955dad
type
Wanting Is Better Than Having
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b9955dad
comment
Wanting Is Better Than Having: I wanted to have you. I didn't realize having you meant I'd stop wanting you.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b9955dad
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b9955dad
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_b9955dad
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_bb18a227
type
It's All About Me
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_bb18a227
comment
It's All About Me: While the protagonist of 883 does eventually realize that other people have feelings, their main concern is how rough it was on them to realize that. The protagonist in 65 is upset that for the second year in a row someone they loved died on their birthday... because that means that their birthday party is canceled again.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_bb18a227
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_bb18a227
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_bb18a227
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_bb3224b3
type
Best Years of Your Life
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_bb3224b3
comment
Best Years of Your Life: Over a picture of two kids on a ship.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_bb3224b3
featureApplicability
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_bb3224b3
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic)
hasFeature
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_bb3224b3
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a
type
Shout-Out
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a
comment
Shout-Out: To Spider-Man, among others. 594 is entitled A Song of Ice and Fire Ants. 443 is titled Me fail romance? That's unpossible. 633 references a parody comic of ASW by XKCD "Hell is other people" is the Alt Text for one comic, a reference to Jean-Paul Satre's No Exit. Nirvana gets one in the alt text for [34] And again here. To Wall Street in the alt text of 879 The Alt Text of 653 is "teenage suicide: don't do it!" I finally developed a computer with feelings. It just doesn't have feelings for me. (It's in love with Randall Munroe). And the Alt Text to 658 is a Mountain Goats lyric. The alt text of 761 is "Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?" To a well known line by (supposedly) Ernest Hemingway, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn", and to A Farewell to Arms in the alt text. I've seen the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are answers." I shot a man in Reno just to watch you smile!
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I Just Want to Be Special
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I Just Want to Be Special: The narrator of 251 takes waking up in the woods covered in blood surprisingly well because in their view it means that they're either crazy or a werewolf... but they definitely aren't a nobody.
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: "You and me, and baby makes..." "...life into a series of compromises."
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ccb97ff2
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_cd2b8aa3
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Space Is Noisy
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_cd2b8aa3
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Space Is Noisy: Averted "This is the way the world ends not with a bang but only because explosions don't make sound in space."
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_cd2b8aa3
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ce75a983
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Screw Destiny
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ce75a983
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Screw Destiny: "When I was just a little girl, I asked my mummy what should I be? "Fuck 'should'," she said."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ce75a983
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ce75a983
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_d07900bc
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"Not Wearing Pants" Dream
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_d07900bc
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"Not Wearing Pants" Dream: Subverted when the Ambiguous Syntax of the sentence reveals this not to be a dream at all.
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_d07900bc
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_d62dd556
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The Chessmaster
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_d62dd556
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The Chessmaster: Subverted painfully in 364. The narrator of the strip begins to compare life to a chess game requiring strategy and forethought... Before he trails off and instead says how lonely he is, implying that his worldview of life as a game has driven everyone else away from him.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_d62dd556
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_d62dd556
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_d9587b39
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Happily Failed Suicide
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_d9587b39
comment
Happily Failed Suicide: In 158, the narrator found that his significant other was cheating on him, and took pills to commit suicide after finding out. They ended up just making him poop all over their bed instead of killing him though, which he cheerfully concludes is a funnier story in the long run.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_d9587b39
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Write Who You Know
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_df9eda66
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Write Who You Knowinvoked: The authors have used photos of their friends.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_df9eda66
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_df9eda66
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e2de05e8
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Throw the Book at Them
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e2de05e8
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Throw the Book at Them: As a child, the protagonist in 67 used an encyclopedia to brain the man who was implied to molest them. "Books can set you free" indeed.
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 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e333cef7
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Not Big Enough for the Two of Us
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e333cef7
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Not Big Enough for the Two of Us: "This town isn't big enough for the two of us. ... Let's run away together!"
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e333cef7
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e3b0cd87
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Morality Pet
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e3b0cd87
comment
Morality Pet: 955's narrator is addressing the person who they find brings out the best in them and makes them want to be a better person. They then add that unfortunately, that's not really what you want in a CFO.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e3b0cd87
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e3b0cd87
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e42e91b4
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Godwin's Law
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e42e91b4
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Godwin's Law: Zig-zagged by the narrator in 803, who says that "People who compare every petty evil to Hitler...are worse than Dracula!"
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e42e91b4
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e42e91b4
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e624f0e8
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Suspiciously Specific Denial
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e624f0e8
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: "I'm unarmed."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e624f0e8
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_e624f0e8
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ea39d156
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ea39d156
comment
Who Wants to Live Forever?: "I'm not even sure I want the time I have." Living forever would be hell.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ea39d156
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1.0
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ea39d156
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ea85d6ea
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All Just a Dream
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ea85d6ea
comment
All Just a Dream: The narrator of number 44 would like to see the depressing stories in newspapers end with "But it was all just a bad dream", for once.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ea85d6ea
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_ea85d6ea
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_eb2195d9
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Rousseau Was Right
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_eb2195d9
comment
Rousseau Was Right: I believe most people are inherently good. But overcoming our nature is what separates us from the animals.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_eb2195d9
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_eb2195d9
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f0df1a7f
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Secret Other Family
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f0df1a7f
comment
Secret Other Family: #802, although the reason it upsets the narrator is typically a little off.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f0df1a7f
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f0df1a7f
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f1356f5e
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Speaks Fluent Animal
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f1356f5e
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Speaks Fluent Animal: "Animals talk to me."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f1356f5e
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 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f1356f5e
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f1356f5e
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f275ee5f
type
Dead Sparks
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f275ee5f
comment
Dead Sparks: In 524, the narrator and their partner have fallen out of love... and the narrator feels weird about the fact that not being in love somehow makes the sex they have exciting again.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f275ee5f
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1.0
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f275ee5f
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f275ee5f
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f2fe3a61
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Romantic Runner-Up
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f2fe3a61
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Romantic Runner-Up: Second best isn't so bad.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f2fe3a61
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 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f2fe3a61
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f2fe3a61
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f627b434
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Platonic Life-Partners
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f627b434
comment
Platonic Life-Partners: "You and I will never be a great love story. That's okay! Let's see what kind of story we'll be! (Ooh! Ooh! I hope it's science fiction.)" "but i do want to hang out with you for basically the rest of my life"
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f627b434
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 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f627b434
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f627b434
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f792bc7b
type
Dying Dream
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f792bc7b
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Dying Dream: The narrator of 228 realizes that she and her friends probably didn't survive a crash after she realizes that they've spent five afternoons just making cupcakes together.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f792bc7b
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f792bc7b
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f96f8980
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Love Makes You Crazy
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f96f8980
comment
Love Makes You Crazy: The narrator of 647 tells their love interest that seeing them smile gives them crazy impulses, in ways they like. "Like I want to step in front of buses, in a good way." In 642, the narrator wants kids one day to tell scary stories about the things they and their partner did for love.
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f96f8980
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A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_f96f8980
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_fbd285b7
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Comically Missing the Point
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_fbd285b7
comment
Comically Missing the Point: "and my party was cancelled."
 A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_fbd285b7
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Secret Other Family / int_dceef831
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