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Transcript:A comic in four panels:

Panel 1: Young witch Pepper, writing at her desk, with a feather pen and ink. She worries, clearly struggling to find inspiration with a white page, while her hand support her head. On the wall near to her a calendar with a big 'Deadline' in red written on it, circling a day. All the day before that one are striked with a cross except one. Whatever Pepper is supposed to write is up to the audience's imagination.

Panel 2. Suddenly, a powerful goddess emerges from a light before the writer, her aura like a flame of pure golden light. She stands divine, while Pepper is captivated in awe before the gorgeous goddess, radiating light and life.

Pepper: Who... Who are you?!

Panel 3. The Goddess of Life bends slightly toward Pepper while creating a spell with her hands in a intense light a rounded object. She speaks with an air of complicity.

Goddess of Life: I am the Goddess of Life, and I've come to give you a special gift.

Panel 4. The Goddess of Life's gift is a lemon fruit. She beams with pride and happiness. Pepper looks resigned with a mixture of disappointment and exasperation.

Pepper: Of course...
Goddess of Life: You're welcome.

This comic strip is a reference to the proverbial phrase: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade"

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1083/the-gift-of-life

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[-] kfh@lemmy.world 72 points 2 months ago

The follow-up

[-] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago

Lemons are a product of selective breeding, life didn't give us lemons, we made them.

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 months ago

When life gives you citrons, pomelos, and mandarin oranges, make lemons.

[-] Klear@quokk.au 11 points 2 months ago

Alternatively life used us to make lemons.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[-] Klear@quokk.au 3 points 2 months ago

And plastic lemons.

[-] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 10 points 2 months ago

Depends on how to look at it, if it gave us the capacity to turn those fruits into lemons, and gave those fruits the capacity to be turned into lemons...

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

If a man and a woman have a baby, did their parents give them a baby? No.

We made lemons, life gave us citrons and bitter oranges.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[-] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Depends who you ask. Lot of people who are dead inside these days.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

And some of us have interesting mental disorders like believing we're part of a simulation.

[-] Dampyr@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago
[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Neat, I'm out of lemons. How about an 'Army & Navy' cocktail?

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Huh, an offshoot of Open source Pepper&Carrot?

Btw, someone wants to update/contribute?

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

I was gonna say looks like pepper but I don't recognize the comic.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My weird meandering mind interpreted:

  1. Girl is wearing some sort of 18th century pirate hat.
  2. Lemons are a source of Vitamin C.

Everybody's ~~gangsta~~ pirate till the scurvy hits.

[-] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Artist gave up the ability for this comic to go viral by having the goddess have enormous bazongas /s

Edit: forgot to add the /s because im dumb

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

She doesn’t though? Those are actually fairly realistic proportions.

Besides, life/fertility goddesses are historically depicted as extremely fat women with enormous breasts specifically because it symbolizes pregnancy and breastfeeding - the source of human life. If anything, this comic breaks tradition by making Life way too damn skinny.

[-] RUN_DMG@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

And you gave up your ability for anyone to take you seriously with this post...

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

enormous

Oh, sweet summer child

[-] asciimage@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

This comment can make sense if you read it as "the author did not draw enormous bazongas, this giving up the ability for the comic to go viral by the goddess having them". But that's a stretch.

[-] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is what i literally meant to say in my joke, but forgot everyone here is neurodivergent and cannot extract my joke from my poor communication due to my own neurodivergence

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it wasn't the missing /s so much as just everybody reading the exact opposite of your actual intent

this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2025
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