- cross-posted to:
- comicstrips@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- comicstrips@lemmy.world
Title text:
“Want to feel old?” “Yes.”
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3172/
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Heartbreaking.
And imagine that we could reverse aging, so even those joints would not hurt. With more investments into biogerontology we could do that. Please, consider signing up the #DublinLongevityDeclaration to request more funds to such research 👇 https://dublinlongevitydeclaration.org/
Every single one of these X-Years updates just wrecks me. Here’s to many more!
That is the right kind fo want.
Surprise wife hug attack. She won’t see it coming.
awwwww
My years are ticking by. I feel this comic hard.
So happy for you, Randall! Enjoy every day, event he bad ones.
Shit, right in the feels. This is nice to read.
Is this win?
Beautiful
I remember the first one. I cried. I cry at every one of these.
For those who may not know, Randall Munroe is the author of XKCD.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Munroe :
In October 2010, Munroe’s fiancée was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer; there had been no prior family history.[51][52] The emotional effect of her illness was referenced in the comic panel “Emotion”, published 18 months later in April 2012.[53] In September 2011, he announced that they had married.[54] In November 2012, Munroe published a comic entitled “Two Years”, reflecting on their relationship since his wife’s breast cancer diagnosis.[55] He revisited the subject in December 2017 with a comic entitled “Seven Years”[56], in November 2020 in a comic entitled “Ten Years”[57], and again in November 2025 in a comic entitled “Fifteen Years”.[58]
I’ve been a fan of xkcd for almost 15 years myself. Randall seems like such a genuinely great person and I cry with the happies a little bit every time there’s another comic on how long they’ve had together after the diagnosis.
Damn. I’m happy for them.
I’m not crying, you’re crying! Shut up!
XKCD has a few of these tear jerkers that rank as some of my favorite all time strips
For all the popularity they have for their comedic and science strips, they also put out some really good emotional ones.
Back in my day, webcomics weren’t all fuzzy like reading through tears!
Same! Who’s responsible for this degradation in image quality?!
I think we might be getting old.
Nah, I’m gonna blame JPEG
I’m crying, and I’m not ashamed of it.
I have a para-social relationship with an Internet cartoonist and his life partner, that part I’m kinda ashamed of, but the tears are genuine happiness, and have I really been following him for over 15 years? There’s some sadness in those tears, but they’re covered by the happy ones
I’m not crying you’re crying
We both crying :3
This comic made me feel old and I love everything about it.
