This subject has been discussed in my circle of friends many times. Namely, the root of horror and humor being one and the same.
In the end, it comes down to facing a reality that, at first, your brain just fucking denies. You know it’s wrong. It’s something you cannot accept as truth. So you either laugh like hell at it, or you feel nothing but terror, once the reality gels and you are forced to accept it.
Case in point: I woke up after my first bachelor party, where I’d been blackout drunk. And discovered that my best man had taken digital camera pics (this was back in the day when a digicam was a rare thing – his was a Sony Digital Mavica that used floppy 1.4 mb disks rather than film) of me naked, drunkenly jacking off in his bathtub. And posted this to his website (also back when websites were rare). And had shared the URL with a few of our friends.
Horror? Or humor? I chose a mix of both. And forced him at knifepoint to take them down. At least the ones where I’m covered in my own vodka-steeped vomit, with my cock in my hand, and an alcohol-poisoned look on my stupid-assed face. He still has the pics, and that, my friends, is one of the reasons I will never run for public office. Pity, that.
You could run for mayor of New York City. Anthony Weiner thinks so, at least.
Hell, if you used those as your campaign photos and ran on the “nothing left to loose? Vote for me!” platform you would have a huge support base in people in the same boat. Besides, after that… what could the media dredge up that would seem worse? “Uh… he draws a webcomic… so … uh, sorry, that’s all we have. Back to you in the studio Ty.”
Anybody who’s ever been used or cheated on knows this feeling. It’s not fun. I don’t think I’ve seen it described better than this comic. The red splatter is perfect, that is the exact feeling, in an image.
Poor Mick 🙁 Hope he doesn’t do anything stupid…
Where is a red splatter?
He draws a webcomic? Burn him at the stake!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ JLGrant: Dude, you have my deeepest sympathies. Also, kudos on your reaction / solution to the situation.
I am SO glad that digital cameras weren’t in use by anyone but military and spooks, until after I quit drinking.
Seven minutes after the camera’s disconnected, he gets a call… seems like enough time for somebody to have glanced at a data feed, or status summary, looked at the last minute of transmitted video, settle on a ‘reason to call’… If the call’s Heidi, she’s trying to rescue the situation before his anger has time to take root.
I think she’s a tad late for that..
Could be something else going on. It’s a bit of a stretch but maybe she did not know about the camera, or even about the profile. For example suppose the frame had come from an old ex, to spy on her at one time and she reused it, Or he place where she bought it from had put it in to spy on women costumers, sort of like how computer technicians secretly put programs on to women’s computers that allow them to remotely access the web cam without their knowledge.
I’m curious who’s on the other end of that cell phone call as well, it’s going to be Heidi or someone who was in charge of the feed. My question is how was this thing powered? Most of them have at least a few batteries as backup or as a plug in to the wall to feed directly to it.
One of my thoughts is Heidi didn’t trust him 100% because he just broke up with his girlfriend; Heidi has some insecurity issues at the root of this. Plus, Alex Boxer showing up in his life so close to their getting together, why is it that some guys seem to break up and have dry spells and then get hit by multiple hot women at once or worse get into a relationship and suddenly get hit on by hot women at once.
She likes to watch him sleep. Then post it. Her roomie ran like hell. Hmmm… could this be…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA96RGLwMuw
Better check for FRID implanted or not) tags.
There’s an irony here with the whole Fetlife thing. In kink, there’s a joke. Safe, sane, and consensual…Two out of three ain’t bad. One will do in a pinch. As leatherfolk are prone to much debate about nothing, there are those who have debated which one of the three are most important. Usually, the winner is consensual. Safe and sane are relative terms in BDSM, but Heidi’s gone completely off the mark on the issue of consent, and she didn’t even have to lift a whip to do it.
Camera plus the power for the wifi? A battery would not last very long. Even if the whole frame was full of batteries she was out of town for awhile and hadn’t been back to his place and it was still running. Maybe if it was motion only triggered. Was she using his own wifi to connect, or a point nearby?
1. I am glad I got sober before webcams, cell phone cameras, and cheap digital cameras.
2. Panels 3 and 4 are some of the most emotionally accurate bits on shock I have come across.
I can’t wait for the next day.
Depending on the type of camera, they can run, motion activated, still pictures, every few seconds, and the battery would last for a fairly long time. If she’s over at his house often, she’d have ample time to change the battery out, and if he was wondering why she’s holding the picture, “I just love it. It’s so cute!” The thing that just doesn’t compute for me is the kind of rage that this kind of thing incites in people, do you really want to do that to someone who is a gun enthusiast? I mean, inciting a murderous rage in a guy that can take you out with a variety of weapons anywhere from 10 to several hundred yards away, either looking you in the eye or you suddenly waking up on judgement day wondering why it’s so hot all of a sudden? That’s just a special kind of stupid.
Fun thought: Internet photos have grown so prolific and so profane that in 20 years or so, NO ONE will be eligible for elected office.