the rave arc continues.

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      the comic is a kind of diary so its about whatever beens going on in her life. She tries to keep track of amusing stuff. Think of it about things you might tell as a story to your friends while hanging out. Some can come off as straight out jokes but some are like: Ok ok. so im at this rave and man this total frat boy comes in and is looking at me and waving and im like. whoa. I want to get away from this guy. So just as im looking to get as far away as I can. Get this. He starts macking on this other dude. Not just any dude but he practically looks like he could be on field and stream. Anway Im telling my buddy about how my douchedar is way off and hes all like. Oh no worries there. Our bears strung out on molly make eye contact with anyone coming in to where the douches just skaddadle.

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        Molly is MDMA,

        It’s apparently burning man and all the problem guys are freaked out by the bears tripping Molly and just staring.

        The last pannel, the dude on the left is a Molly bear.

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          There’s the missing link. It’s been about 20 years since I knew anyone who took mdma, and back then they called it eckies.

          At risk of sounding out of touch, there’s no way I could have known what anything in panel 4 was supposed to mean.

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            Speaking as a perpetual wallflower who has never been to a rave in my life, I found it understandable. Admittedly I’ve heard the term “molly” in reference to ecstasy, but you see as guy wide-eyed staring at someone who looks incredibly uncomfortable about it. Seems pretty obvious that’s the “molly bear” that uses “prolonged eye contact” to make “uh-ohs” so uncomfortable that they either leave or at least don’t come to another one.

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          its in portland and he calls it burning man camp so im thinking its something like the old bar camp but instead of being tech its like a side party for folks who attend burning man.

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            A burning man camp is a pre/post burning man meetup where you can get a feel for new people to the group and make plans. Generally easier to pile 6 people into one car rather than try to get 6 cars into the desert.

            My dude owned a suburban that he only used for taking his people to burning man.

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          That’s a man not a bear though, what does bear mean in this context?

          Life is strange haha

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            2 days ago

            Well, if it’s using the term in the same way as the first couple panels, it’s a big hairy gay man.

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        Maybe the joke is not to judge a book by its cover? Or that it’s nice to go to safe events where bad people are harassed until they leave?

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          I thought it was a smidgen of self awareness about how quickly we judge people.

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            That was my thought in the first two panels but the last two seem to reverse that. But hell I probably already put way more thought into it than I needed to already.