This comic is based on a true story--about how a lonely waitress by day and artist by night crosses paths with the man who stood up for her when they were children.
This comic does not have a set update schedule. I will draw pages as time allows. Please enjoy!
Neighborhood Korean grocery store sells their own kimchi with a variety of ingredients. Tragically it uses shrimp. Happily they also make a vegan batch. Vegan kimchi is lighter and sweeter much of the time and it's nice but I do like the pungency and umami flavor that jeotgal provides, and not ALL jeotgal is shellfish. One of my favorite kimchi recipes uses anchovy
While I don't know much about it, I would probably bet there are tons of issues with the cruise industry that would make me not actually appreciate it broadly speaking - HOWEVER, I do really love a lot of the interior design of some cruise ships.. How it's almost like a miniature city crammed into one area. Multiple sections with all different aesthetic designs, a variety of shops, restaurants, activity centers, community seating areas, communal use spaces (like gyms, laundry, pools, cafeteria/buffet (which I always love anywhere)), etc. etc. but then also everyone has a little nice clean comfortable looking space of their own to retreat back to if they'd like to be alone. Maybe it's something akin to the idea of 'walkable cities', where everything you could ever want to do is kind of right there just a short walk away? I also especially love how so much stuff is stacked on top of other stuff, a layered cluster of spaces, bright open atriums, and when they're set up with little walkways down the center between a bunch of rooms so it's almost like a mini city street with apartments lining it, etc.. They often seem like they'd be SUCH a cool place to live permanently, IF only something identical was just built on solid land instead lol
I was in a parked bus, and I was talking with someone. I don’t know who they were but they were dressed in warm clothing (both in color and for the weather) and I had the vague feeling that they were someone I considered a friend.
Half way through our—my—conversation she sat up. I assumed she wanted to get off the bus. The reason we were parked was to let the other people get down and shop around the small stores nearby or stretch their legs at the park. So I didn’t think it weird when she suddenly stood—I continued on speaking.
I had a big suit case of a bag with me and a small off the shoulder bag. She only had a small purse. So she starts to go down the aisle—the whole time I’m following and talking real excited about whatever it was—then, suddenly, she sits.
She sits in a seat at the front of the bus. And i suddenly was so panicked because I had left my suit case in the back thinking we would go back there when we got back on—but then I realize as I look back to her. It wouldn’t matter if I took my suit case because it wouldn’t fit in this seat…and I couldn’t put my suit case anywhere else because it was absolutely crowded in the front of the bus. The only available seat was the one she took.
So now I’m kinda stuttering in my—what I realized now—was a one sided conversation, so, still panicking I ‘play it off’ and keep on walking to get off the bus after I realized she wasn’t listening at all the whole time I was talking to her 🥹 and I tell the bus driver “I’m getting a coffee I’ll be right back” but she doesn’t acknowledge me either, and I felt so humiliated walking off that bus I wanted to cry.
I kept thinking about how when I got back on—I would have to go to the back of the bus and sit by myself. 🥺
i drew lettuce already so of course i had to do the rest of the mew mews!! Tokyo Mew Mew meant a lot to me as a kid so I’m so excited that the reboot is out TwT
you can get this as a sticker sheet on my etsy here!