I like soccer (known as football by the less uncivilized world) and The Cure! Although maybe that's just because I like both but aren't a die-hard mega fan of either.
Roast Beef's "Oh my god that is the worst possible answer in the universe" panel in response to Todd's position on birth control goes through my mind more and more with contemporary politics.
I remember when Todd answered a question and Ray said "Daaaaamn, that answer needs some work!" I think about this a lot and can't wait to use it someday.
@@stm7810 can't remember Todd's exact words and too tired to search, but it was something to the effect that abortions should be legal only because Todd refuses to wear condoms
@@stm7810 Roast Beef, forced to vet Todd as Philippe's running mate for the Presidency, is asking Todd for his stances on the issues of the times. "What are your positions on reproductive rights for women?" And receives the answer, "Bitches gotta take their ****** pills! I ain't wearin' no gunny sack!"
@@sandordugalin8951 Longtime Achehead here. For those seeking context: From memory, Ray, Beef, and Todd were discussing how Todd had lost weight, and Todd describes it as him having so much sex that he lost the squirrel equivalent of eighty pounds. "Whaddya think we do up there all day? Pray an' sweep?" Beef comments that squirrels are constantly having sex, all unprotected and everything. "But, how do you keep from getting kids or a disease or something?" "I guess by not givin' a shit!" "Daaaaamn! That answer could use some work!"
I know, it reminded me of Stewart Lee telling an overly long joke, deliberately mess up the punchline if there is one, then blame the audience for not laughing
the joke with a punchline is the "hollywood movie" of jokes. it's the norm because it's expected, not because there's actually anything inherently better about the format.
@@sandordugalin8951 I don't know if this is a controversial opinion but I liked Bojack, for sure there are moments where he does things that I can't even comprehend and he's obviously not in the right most of the time, but I found him charming and kinda witty in a lot of circumstances. Maybe, I don't like him per say, but I always want to like him.
@@bujustic That's the entire point of the character. He's a kinda likeable narcissistic washed up TV star, but he wants to be more and be a better person, but then he does incredibly unlikable stuff that makes you not like him even though you WANT to like him.
I'm only a few minutes in but nothing has made me want to read a comic more than seeing a character say "So wispy a spider covets" I love it. "Just like old times" while happily stepping in dog shit, I love it. This is exactly the kind of stuff I would send to my friends.
"Because I pay attention. I PAY ATTENTION. You didn't know I was paying attention because you weren't PAYING ATTENTION. When I was a kid, A teacher told me to pay attention. I guess I took it to heart. Beats me, man. Beats me why most dudes suck. Sure as he'll ain't my scene."
@@Nersius By being very long and having most of its prose in the form of IRC chat logs, which are remarkably good at including huge amounts of words while including nothing more important than evoking a particular character's voice.
Ngl, after you showed me the one about Roast Beef buring his new nice shirt in the back yard, all I wanted to do was just hug him and reassure him that it will be OK. +1 engagement. ~♡
All I could do was think about all the things I'd bought for myself and then got self conscious about and thrown away before someone knew I had nice things lol
Oh, I used to read Achewood back in the day! My favorite was always Roast Beef, since we both come from Circumstances. Edit: I could have waited ten more seconds of the video til you mentioned this lol.
Man that toast comic hit me so hard I almost started crying. Your analysis of this comic made me think about my favorite webcomic (A Softer World) and how much it means to me. Great vid Slime
24:46 “Maybe you will see him come to grips with the fact that he deserves love. That he is a regular man, and sometimes a regular man does a regular thing, like marrying someone good.” Ok... that one got me way too deep. Im actually crying...
Achewood always surprises me to this day with being able to illicit emotions. I recently had a major falling out with nearly all of my closest friends, and this video brought me to tears.
1. I feel high on this video's vibes 2. I feel like I understand Thought Slime a lot better now 3. I am now a fan of Achewood Thanks for supplying a feasting ground for empaths in one video lol
Without Achewood, we wouldn't have Bojack Horseman. Both developed into something far more than their origins, and both are fantastic character studies into relationships and psyche.
Me, I'm just happy for someone finally explaining to me in detail what Achewood is and why every so often I'll find someone who cares about it deeply enough to link pages from it entirely out of context
You earned my subscription the day you made Roast Beef not being able to chew thru to toast your thumbnail for your video on mental health, because that panel was the first time I've ever felt the experience of "being seen" by media. I literally cannot wait to watch this video.
Since this videos publication, I have gone on to convince several dozen folk to give achewood a chance. I rewatch this in times of "circumstances", mainly for the sake of re-witnessing the downfall of The Jeeps; brought on by the power of friendship, and this gun and molotov they found. Powerful stuff.
While not as epic and heartwarming as The Great Outdoor Fight, I always liked The Badass Games. A contest over who is the baddest, manliest man in the cast, that is ultimately won by the fussy elder who shows he's badass by subverting the expectations of masculinity, beating out the guys who try to prove their manliness though more stereotypical posturing. Edit: Also, very Achewood Eyeball Zone.
As somebody who started a webcomic in 2002 it tickles me to hear Achewood described as "obscure". Also: congrats on the wedding! Hope it's a great honeymoon :)
You’re the main reason I became anarchist and when you speak about your mental health struggles it really helps me a lot, I’ve been struggling with ADHD/Depression/Anxiety my whole life and I love being able to hear one of my favorite creators perfectly express what I need to hear about how ubiquitous yet manageable the human condition is.
I tried to skip to the end of the Great Outdoor Fight spoiler but I accidentally caught the last two seconds and I have absolutely zero idea how squirrel nuts are related to any of this. Somehow I feel this was a better outcome.
I feel like this placating in the comments really harms the palpable energy of this channel. This comment reminds me of how you talk to a moody toddler
I've never read Achewood, but this video and it's meaning to you hit me in a heartwarming and very meaningful way. I really like this video, thank you Slime Boy
Yeah I mean Homestuck isn't just a comic strip, it's a serial with an ongoing storyline that you NEED to start from the beginning for it to make sense.
Friend: Read homestuck. Me: Why? Friend: Well....ok, there's a lot of really interesting stuff that happens and it's really dense, the first 800 or so pages are basically an elaborate joke about FIFO, but it's funny trust me. Me: ....No.
I think I only read the like choose your own adventure game kinda parts of homestuck like problem sleuth. It's been years though. Enjoyed them well enough just kinda stopped reading for no particular reason.
I've had a copy of The Great Outdoor Fight sitting on my bookshelf for years. I didn't know it was part of a bigger thing, and I've no idea why I never read it, but I'm finally gonna crack into it thanks to this video (I even skipped your spoiler section- a thing I never do)
Had a great outdoor fight poster on the wall for years. It finally fell off the wall during a small flood caused by a tree growing through our drainage pipe. Found it poetic that outdoor wood is what destroyed that poster.
I don't care about this comic and probably will never read it, but Slime's affection for it is contiguous and I love watching their joy talking about it. Lifts my spirits.
Oh man. I've just finished a marathon read-through (I have no idea how many times I've done that so far) and then I stumbled on your video. That someone could actually put a voice to what I know about Achewood is just inspiring. You just gained another subscriber.
I... genuinely can't conceive of attempting to read Homestuck for the first time in 2020. I first read it back in 2013, and even that felt like I missed the heyday of Homestuck.
3-cell Ds are nice, but for practical day to day, you really can't go wrong with a 2 C Cell. It's large enough to give you the full flashlight experience, while being small enough to fit in most bags. The D cells are definely superior if you have something to carry it in like a truck though.
This is one of my favorite videos on this site. It’s incredibly well-written and always brings up deep emotions in me. I think the right sentiment here is “Congratulations,” because it’s a real achievement to make something this good in such a simple spoken-to-camera format. Well done, Mildred.
Achewood is indeed genius, and this is a great tribute. I would warn people, however, about the horribly unpleasant, borderline-traumatizing "Fast Times at Achewood High" arc. I cannot imagine Onstad was in a good place when he wrote that.
I never really go in to this comic, but my Internet friends from the mid-2000s, and really my only friends at the time, loved it and a lot of the style and attitude informed the way we talked to each other. After this, thinking of giving it another shot.
Oh my gosh. Is this a comic that I missed that actually feels like it captures some of the reason why Krazy Kat is the greatest comic ever made? With Krazy being a gender-shifting avatar of pure love, dancing and speaking in strange poetry and Mexican-American colloquialisms of the 19th century? Which somehow has trans and gay overtones? Side note: Read Krazy Kat. Do it.
I have to say, the "How Law Enforcement Taught Me To Dehumanize" video you highlighted is too important too pass up for _anyone._ If we shame and avoid reformed individuals, are we ever worthy of forgiveness for anything ourselves? Watch that video folks, work yourselves up to it if you have to, but do watch it.
You can forgive and allow someone "back" or whatever if they lie to you, maybe they stole money from you, those are forgivable actions. Engaging in a life-long act of oppression, destruction and dehumanizing to the point of murder? Nah... Those people don't get to come back. Let the right have them. Let the right fully embrace those broken fucking worthless human shells.
1:15 matt just summoned every existing copy of this cookbook to their place of residence and will, in several days, possibly a week or two, need to make a formal request to stop sending them achewood cookbooks lest they need to wallpaper their home with them.
i just got a massive wave of nostalgia, i remember reading Achewood and Dr. McNinja back in 2016/2017 😔 i’m glad Slime reminded me of it, i really miss reading it
Hey, so that's where the thumbnail for your Tuff Love video came from! Now I can see why you used it. Edit: Lol, I wrote this comment maybe 30 seconds before you brought that up yourself. This video was wholesome af, by the way.
You know it’s funny that this came to me today. I’ve had some pretty earth shaking personal revelations about who I am that have been brewing for a good long while come to a head this week. It’s good, but it’s scary as hell to go down this path. But your speech about breaking with traditions at the end really spoke to me, and it’s a sign that I’m headed the right way :) Thanks Slime, and congrats on the wedding
I don't have time to watch right this second but I need to get in early and say GOD YES Achewood deserves all the recognition it can possibly get EDIT: Bruh that was Trent Reznor's Volvo get your head in the game!
5:06 slime tried to make the point that you need context to understand this strip but like. ive never seen this comic before but that strip was the funniest thing ive ever seen
The part with ray moving the picture of the motorbike over the mountain has stuck with me for approximately half of my lifetime and I sometimes do exactly that
heres an idea: maybe the lack of art and familiar yet idiosyncratic dialogue creates a situation where you can't necessarily rely on either the real world or natural story cues to interpret the unfolding events, but instead you must look at character reactions exclusively for context. for example, jeeps are not threatening, but just watching the vid I understood the "jeeps" to be something dangerous and imminent for failing to uphold the tradition. Then defying the jeeps re contextualizes them as a societal force rather than a force of nature.
Early webcomics were sometimes very genuinely lightning in a bottle. There'll never be another Narbonic either, and Girl Genius... is a zombie of its former self.
Congratulations, Slime! It's so weird, not knowing someone, and being so genuinely happy for them. It made me so happy to know you're happy. I hope your honeymoon is great!
A stunning tribute to probably the best webcomic of them all. All your "it's hard to recommend" was so familiar. You love it, or you don't. And I love it. Onstad made something so original and funny that it still stuns me to this day.
I used to think I was Roast Beef, but now I realize I am Teodor. Still fucked up, but not as interesting, and I don't have a tight best friend. I just have the internet and frustration.
@@sandordugalin8951 Kinda same? I currently also don't have a thight friend (or any really) but when I had one they were kinda the opposite of me, sooo.
hey this made me really happy. I haven't read Achewood in years, but when I read it I read it over and over. It left bits of emotional understanding in my psyche and bits of silly powerful language in my vocabulary forever. You and I are some kind of dogg.
Bryanarchy yeah, anyone with halfway decent politics have LF vibes while literally the entire opposite end of the spectrum is D&D city. (Not the cool tabletop game for anyone reading this that doesn’t understand the context.)
I've watched a lot of videos recommending various works of media, but I actually go seek out less than 10% of them. Thank you for making this one of the 10%. Congratulations on your wedding! Write your own traditions together!
Over the last week or so, I've occasionally come back to rewatch this video. There's something I find very comfortable about watching you talk about something you seem to hold near and dear. Cheers, Thought Slime.
@@archibaldtuttle9019 i reread the strip and apparently it's "the top". i would feel despair, too, if the only thing i had to listen to was a cassette with "the caterpillar" on it (i love the cure but that song suuuuuuuuuucks)
Shit, back in the 00s, every webcomic used to link to a bunch of other webcomics, and most of them linked Achewood. I first heard about it on LiveJournal.
lmao Achewood was definitely an SA favorite, and how I found it, along with Homestuck and dozens of others no less great but much less famous comics. oh and Tails Gets Trolled, which deserves its own lengthy video essay tribute. fucking masterpiece, that one.
I just discovered That Dang Dad around a week ago, so I was like "hell yeah!" when I saw this Eyeball Zone. I even left a comment about how his video only had 44 views at the time.
Holy crap, I got in the Eyeball zone, praise the eyeballs!
Congratulations! Enjoy your eternal imprisonment within the gaze of Lord Oculon!
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I listen to The Cure and love sports (the sports in question are: listening to The Cure)
Anything can be a sport if you do it wearing knee-socks.
Wow hi moth cub! I like it when I see my favorite creatures interact.
I love sports! (Sports: sitting on my bed; being dysphoric; eating hot chip; lying)
@@VapeKidJr If that was a typo, don't fix it.
I like soccer (known as football by the less uncivilized world) and The Cure! Although maybe that's just because I like both but aren't a die-hard mega fan of either.
"Our every move is the new tradition."
I have only ever tangentially ever heard of this comic even existing, and now I think I need to seek it out.
So this is what "guess who just got yelled at" and "here comes a special boy" come from
omfg god he did it. he really did it. get ready to get your socks sued off by hbomber's ensemble legal team
I think Matt prefers he/him
@@urbanplanner6623 Thank you! I'll remember to get it right in the future
i don't get it, what did he do to evoke the anger of hbomer(guy, i presume, or maybe i'm wrong?)?
@@rapchee It's a joke about the title format, "X is Genius and Here Is Why"
@@rapchee hbomberguy is the only youtuber legally allowed to use this title format
Roast Beef's "Oh my god that is the worst possible answer in the universe" panel in response to Todd's position on birth control goes through my mind more and more with contemporary politics.
what was that? I'm blind so can't read comics.
I remember when Todd answered a question and Ray said "Daaaaamn, that answer needs some work!"
I think about this a lot and can't wait to use it someday.
@@stm7810 can't remember Todd's exact words and too tired to search, but it was something to the effect that abortions should be legal only because Todd refuses to wear condoms
@@stm7810 Roast Beef, forced to vet Todd as Philippe's running mate for the Presidency, is asking Todd for his stances on the issues of the times.
"What are your positions on reproductive rights for women?"
And receives the answer,
"Bitches gotta take their ****** pills! I ain't wearin' no gunny sack!"
@@sandordugalin8951 Longtime Achehead here. For those seeking context:
From memory, Ray, Beef, and Todd were discussing how Todd had lost weight, and Todd describes it as him having so much sex that he lost the squirrel equivalent of eighty pounds. "Whaddya think we do up there all day? Pray an' sweep?"
Beef comments that squirrels are constantly having sex, all unprotected and everything.
"But, how do you keep from getting kids or a disease or something?"
"I guess by not givin' a shit!"
"Daaaaamn! That answer could use some work!"
Achewood out of context is somehow just as funny as Achewood in context and I love it so much.
don't be all like x is 5 if 5 is what you mean
if 5 is what is on your mind then baby just come clean
Liebot, what's the saddest thing?
@@renfineout5350 The saddest thing is a comment with no reply ... until there is a reply ... but it is a bot.
I listen to the cure and if someone gave me a piece of driftwood with "the Cure" written on it, I would be forever indebted to them
Too depressed to finish toast hits hard.
If you've been there you've been there, if you haven't you haven't.
This was a standard phrase between my now ex-girlfriend and me to do a welfare check.
I've been there. Toast is the worst when you're depressed.
it's half depression, and half realization that you fucking hate toast
I've not been too depressed to finish toast, but definitely been too depressed to make it. It's soul-killing.
Haven't been too depressed to finish toast. Have been too depressed to get up off the floor for two hours. Depression sucks.
am I the only one who thought the "lack of punchline" example was honestly funny without qualification
it's dry humor but it's so good
I know, it reminded me of Stewart Lee telling an overly long joke, deliberately mess up the punchline if there is one, then blame the audience for not laughing
the joke with a punchline is the "hollywood movie" of jokes. it's the norm because it's expected, not because there's actually anything inherently better about the format.
@@LieseFury why just one punchline when the whole joke could be the punch
"draw your favorite maglite" killed me instantly
how much slime could a thought slime think if a thought slime could think slime
7?
Perfect profile pic
a thought slime would think as much slime as a thought slime could if a thought slime could think slime
@@josephpotila7386 12?
"How much ground could a groundhog hog if a groundhog could hog ground?" - James Acaster
Congrats again on the getting married thing
I second this
Achewood walked so Bojack could run
In Secretariat.
Ray is a *likeable* narcissist though...
@@sandordugalin8951 I don't know if this is a controversial opinion but I liked Bojack, for sure there are moments where he does things that I can't even comprehend and he's obviously not in the right most of the time, but I found him charming and kinda witty in a lot of circumstances. Maybe, I don't like him per say, but I always want to like him.
@@bujustic That's the entire point of the character. He's a kinda likeable narcissistic washed up TV star, but he wants to be more and be a better person, but then he does incredibly unlikable stuff that makes you not like him even though you WANT to like him.
Or Adventure Time...
Oh my god I thought I was the only one who remembered Achewood!
i never expected to see the only good beauty youtuber here
Weirdest youtube crossover.
Somebody buy thought slime the cook book.
WE MUST FIND HIM
THAT
COOK
BOOK!
I think it was self-published and limited, so it's not that it's expensive (Though it probably is), but it's near impossible to find.
Every person who bought that cook book is a person who will never part with it
@@GutPuppet Exactly.
I think I have the pdf of the cookbook somewhere, it was released in some fashion on a web store type thing that might still exist.
i have a tattoo of Hollaindaise, the ambulance bunny from Achewood. All hoppin' instead of rollin'.
I'm only a few minutes in but nothing has made me want to read a comic more than seeing a character say "So wispy a spider covets" I love it. "Just like old times" while happily stepping in dog shit, I love it. This is exactly the kind of stuff I would send to my friends.
So did you like it
"Because I pay attention. I PAY ATTENTION. You didn't know I was paying attention because you weren't PAYING ATTENTION. When I was a kid, A teacher told me to pay attention. I guess I took it to heart. Beats me, man. Beats me why most dudes suck. Sure as he'll ain't my scene."
IKR?
You talk about Achewood the way I wish I could talk about Homestuck.
join the ranks of Tex talks. I believe in you.
Man, that’s such an evocative statement.
This literally reads like sbahj comics with less ironic shittyness
How does Homestuck have 90% the wordcount of Dream of the Red Chamber?
@@Nersius By being very long and having most of its prose in the form of IRC chat logs, which are remarkably good at including huge amounts of words while including nothing more important than evoking a particular character's voice.
Ngl, after you showed me the one about Roast Beef buring his new nice shirt in the back yard, all I wanted to do was just hug him and reassure him that it will be OK.
+1 engagement. ~♡
*entergagement
All I could do was think about all the things I'd bought for myself and then got self conscious about and thrown away before someone knew I had nice things lol
It would probably weird him out. Just tell him it was a good shirt. He would feel better.
Oh, I used to read Achewood back in the day! My favorite was always Roast Beef, since we both come from Circumstances.
Edit: I could have waited ten more seconds of the video til you mentioned this lol.
As someone who listens to The Cure all the time: I feel seen.
😑 Yes.
honestly if somebody wrote THE CURE on a piece of driftwood and gave it to me, it WOULD remind me of eternity and i'd be thrilled
This reminds me of someone trying to sell someone on Homestuck and that makes me super excited to try reading it.
I was literally about to comment this omg
SG Hammerbeck right?! XD
I came here to say this but i knew in my heart it would have already been said
So... this is the comment that the Homestucks rally around then?
I did not mean to be a voice for our people but here we are... 🤷♀️
Man that toast comic hit me so hard I almost started crying. Your analysis of this comic made me think about my favorite webcomic (A Softer World) and how much it means to me. Great vid Slime
24:46 “Maybe you will see him come to grips with the fact that he deserves love. That he is a regular man, and sometimes a regular man does a regular thing, like marrying someone good.” Ok... that one got me way too deep. Im actually crying...
Achewood always surprises me to this day with being able to illicit emotions. I recently had a major falling out with nearly all of my closest friends, and this video brought me to tears.
I hope you all make it back to good. This year is hard enough to make it through without losing important, sustaining relationships.
It really knows how to elicit illicit emotions. :)
the way you described it in the beginning immediately reminded me of homestuck sdfghjk
I'm taking the comment about personal blogs personally.
Time to send out the arachnarmy.
Omg! PZ Meyers! You rock!
Wait shit are you the real PZ Myers? Cuz that'd be wild seeing that you're apparently a frequent Thought Slime viewer and also commenter.
@@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot Why are people surprised when I appear? When did I become a unicorn?
There you are, again! I just keep running into you...
I've never heard of this but I'm getting some James Joyce vibes from the neologisms and bizarre, crude humor and I kinda love it
it's like if james joyce was from california and was the sort of person to try and start a career making craft root beer
1. I feel high on this video's vibes
2. I feel like I understand Thought Slime a lot better now
3. I am now a fan of Achewood
Thanks for supplying a feasting ground for empaths in one video lol
Without Achewood, we wouldn't have Bojack Horseman. Both developed into something far more than their origins, and both are fantastic character studies into relationships and psyche.
Whats the history there? Huge Bojack fan but havent read Achewood (yet)
I was actually looking to see if anyone else saw the resemblance!
Me, I'm just happy for someone finally explaining to me in detail what Achewood is and why every so often I'll find someone who cares about it deeply enough to link pages from it entirely out of context
whoa, thanks for the shout out Thought Slime! I promise to not embarrass you
You earned my subscription the day you made Roast Beef not being able to chew thru to toast your thumbnail for your video on mental health, because that panel was the first time I've ever felt the experience of "being seen" by media. I literally cannot wait to watch this video.
Since this videos publication, I have gone on to convince several dozen folk to give achewood a chance. I rewatch this in times of "circumstances", mainly for the sake of re-witnessing the downfall of The Jeeps; brought on by the power of friendship, and this gun and molotov they found.
Powerful stuff.
While not as epic and heartwarming as The Great Outdoor Fight, I always liked The Badass Games. A contest over who is the baddest, manliest man in the cast, that is ultimately won by the fussy elder who shows he's badass by subverting the expectations of masculinity, beating out the guys who try to prove their manliness though more stereotypical posturing.
Edit: Also, very Achewood Eyeball Zone.
So old school he drives a yellow bus with gothic arched windows
THE DUDE PREPARED REMARKS!
I was just thinking this very weak on the rap with a convict challenge, in particular Connie's stated preference for a Kraut cellmate.
A man who can walk into any kitchen in the world and bake the staff of life is COMPLETELY RAW
I ❤️ CORNELIUS
As somebody who started a webcomic in 2002 it tickles me to hear Achewood described as "obscure". Also: congrats on the wedding! Hope it's a great honeymoon :)
You’re the main reason I became anarchist and when you speak about your mental health struggles it really helps me a lot, I’ve been struggling with ADHD/Depression/Anxiety my whole life and I love being able to hear one of my favorite creators perfectly express what I need to hear about how ubiquitous yet manageable the human condition is.
Stay awesome, Comrade! ¡No pasarán!
@@Well.Pharaoh Why do anarchists identify each other as comrade? in true anarchy, there is no camaraderie....
@@stanvans3214 Whatever doesn't hurt your head, my dude.
@@Well.Pharaoh It's cool that you have no explanation. At least in that response, you're being consistent with your philosophical preferences...
@@stanvans3214 I'm a Diagonal. I'd write you some big dissertation on it, but I'm a busy dude. I'm sure Google and Wikipedia can help you.
I tried to skip to the end of the Great Outdoor Fight spoiler but I accidentally caught the last two seconds and I have absolutely zero idea how squirrel nuts are related to any of this. Somehow I feel this was a better outcome.
Hey, a story's gotta start somewhere, and there's no better place to start than squirrel nuts.
hi slimey, i love you so much and your work is so respectable and solid even if you don't always see it that way
I feel like this placating in the comments really harms the palpable energy of this channel. This comment reminds me of how you talk to a moody toddler
I've never read Achewood, but this video and it's meaning to you hit me in a heartwarming and very meaningful way. I really like this video, thank you Slime Boy
Man that whole bit about where to start achewood reminds me of the discourse about where you're supposed to start homestuck
the beginning of act 1???
Yeah I mean Homestuck isn't just a comic strip, it's a serial with an ongoing storyline that you NEED to start from the beginning for it to make sense.
Friend: Read homestuck.
Me: Why?
Friend: Well....ok, there's a lot of really interesting stuff that happens and it's really dense, the first 800 or so pages are basically an elaborate joke about FIFO, but it's funny trust me.
Me: ....No.
Its like part skipping in JoJo. Bad
I think I only read the like choose your own adventure game kinda parts of homestuck like problem sleuth.
It's been years though.
Enjoyed them well enough just kinda stopped reading for no particular reason.
Two of my favorite things together: Achewood and Thought Slime
Congrats on the wedding bells, Slimefriend, enjoy yerselves!
Side note: Congratulations on getting married! ❤️ Glad to hear some positive stuff happened in 2020 :)
Matt's love for Achewood is infectious.
My dad recommend this to me years ago but I'd forgotten to go through and read it until now. I'll check it out!
I've had a copy of The Great Outdoor Fight sitting on my bookshelf for years. I didn't know it was part of a bigger thing, and I've no idea why I never read it, but I'm finally gonna crack into it thanks to this video (I even skipped your spoiler section- a thing I never do)
Had a great outdoor fight poster on the wall for years. It finally fell off the wall during a small flood caused by a tree growing through our drainage pipe. Found it poetic that outdoor wood is what destroyed that poster.
I’ve never read achewood, and I tbh probably won’t, but just hearing about the story of the fight made me tear up.
I don't care about this comic and probably will never read it, but Slime's affection for it is contiguous and I love watching their joy talking about it. Lifts my spirits.
finally someone's bringing achewood to the zoomers
Oh man. I've just finished a marathon read-through (I have no idea how many times I've done that so far) and then I stumbled on your video. That someone could actually put a voice to what I know about Achewood is just inspiring. You just gained another subscriber.
Here comes a special boy!
I wish this had been a thing I could have watched about 15 years ago.
Much appreciated none the less.
2:29
I've read all of homestuck for the first time in 2020 dont test me
how did you do this thing without starting in 2018
...was it amphetamines
I... genuinely can't conceive of attempting to read Homestuck for the first time in 2020.
I first read it back in 2013, and even that felt like I missed the heyday of Homestuck.
3-cell Ds are nice, but for practical day to day, you really can't go wrong with a 2 C Cell. It's large enough to give you the full flashlight experience, while being small enough to fit in most bags. The D cells are definely superior if you have something to carry it in like a truck though.
tbh, you've really sold me on this one
1st time I've ever skipped ahead in a video to avoid spoilers
This is one of my favorite videos on this site. It’s incredibly well-written and always brings up deep emotions in me. I think the right sentiment here is “Congratulations,” because it’s a real achievement to make something this good in such a simple spoken-to-camera format. Well done, Mildred.
Oh man Cartilage Head.
I really was not ready for that this week.
I proved myself a coward who would desert a dying man
this is a lovely and heartfelt video matt and its very nice to see you talking so passionately about something you enjoy.
Achewood is indeed genius, and this is a great tribute. I would warn people, however, about the horribly unpleasant, borderline-traumatizing "Fast Times at Achewood High" arc. I cannot imagine Onstad was in a good place when he wrote that.
I never really go in to this comic, but my Internet friends from the mid-2000s, and really my only friends at the time, loved it and a lot of the style and attitude informed the way we talked to each other. After this, thinking of giving it another shot.
Oh hey it’s the “guess who just got yeeeellled aaaaatttt!” Comic
Oh my gosh. Is this a comic that I missed that actually feels like it captures some of the reason why Krazy Kat is the greatest comic ever made? With Krazy being a gender-shifting avatar of pure love, dancing and speaking in strange poetry and Mexican-American colloquialisms of the 19th century? Which somehow has trans and gay overtones?
Side note: Read Krazy Kat. Do it.
Achewood definitely has some Krazy Kat vibes, mostly in the absolute joy it takes in playing with the English language in unpredictable ways
I have to say, the "How Law Enforcement Taught Me To Dehumanize" video you highlighted is too important too pass up for _anyone._
If we shame and avoid reformed individuals, are we ever worthy of forgiveness for anything ourselves?
Watch that video folks, work yourselves up to it if you have to, but do watch it.
You can forgive and allow someone "back" or whatever if they lie to you, maybe they stole money from you, those are forgivable actions. Engaging in a life-long act of oppression, destruction and dehumanizing to the point of murder?
Nah... Those people don't get to come back. Let the right have them. Let the right fully embrace those broken fucking worthless human shells.
@@TheBlarggle You are literally saying that the world should have more fascists than 0. I hope your feelings of self superiority are worth it, dude.
@@TheBlarggle This sounds like an online leftists parody of a Mussolini speech or something lol
@@TheBlarggle Man, You sound like Nice Pete's secret inner thoughts.
1:15 matt just summoned every existing copy of this cookbook to their place of residence and will, in several days, possibly a week or two, need to make a formal request to stop sending them achewood cookbooks lest they need to wallpaper their home with them.
Nah. He'll get a copy or two, but a lot of Achewood folks will clutch onto it like it is their lifeblood.
i just got a massive wave of nostalgia, i remember reading Achewood and Dr. McNinja back in 2016/2017 😔 i’m glad Slime reminded me of it, i really miss reading it
What a great birthday gift one of my favorite you tubers covering one of my favorite comics
Hey, so that's where the thumbnail for your Tuff Love video came from! Now I can see why you used it.
Edit: Lol, I wrote this comment maybe 30 seconds before you brought that up yourself.
This video was wholesome af, by the way.
You know it’s funny that this came to me today. I’ve had some pretty earth shaking personal revelations about who I am that have been brewing for a good long while come to a head this week. It’s good, but it’s scary as hell to go down this path. But your speech about breaking with traditions at the end really spoke to me, and it’s a sign that I’m headed the right way :) Thanks Slime, and congrats on the wedding
May we have a moment of silence for webcomics on indefinite hiatus
I remember Lick My Jesus fondly. R.I.P.
RIP Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name, you will probably not be remembered.
To Cucumber Quest, with beautiful art and storytelling
Stopped at 17:30, I’ll go in fresh and watch the rest of this later maybe
I don't have time to watch right this second but I need to get in early and say GOD YES Achewood deserves all the recognition it can possibly get
EDIT: Bruh that was Trent Reznor's Volvo get your head in the game!
Came here to post this. The Volvo of Despair was clearly Trent Reznor's.
Gosh, Trent *would* drive a Volvo.
Plus, it's brandy and (Safeway) turkey
5:06 slime tried to make the point that you need context to understand this strip but like. ive never seen this comic before but that strip was the funniest thing ive ever seen
i fking love achewood and i just discovered your channel and so this is delightful
This is unironically my favorite Thought Slime video
this makes me think thoughtslime should read homestuck
The part with ray moving the picture of the motorbike over the mountain has stuck with me for approximately half of my lifetime and I sometimes do exactly that
Congrats for your marriage!!
heres an idea: maybe the lack of art and familiar yet idiosyncratic dialogue creates a situation where you can't necessarily rely on either the real world or natural story cues to interpret the unfolding events, but instead you must look at character reactions exclusively for context. for example, jeeps are not threatening, but just watching the vid I understood the "jeeps" to be something dangerous and imminent for failing to uphold the tradition. Then defying the jeeps re contextualizes them as a societal force rather than a force of nature.
Oh crap the Drawn-Slime is back at the end☺😊. Also, always like hearing people talking about the things they really like. 💜💙💚🖤💛❤
Early webcomics were sometimes very genuinely lightning in a bottle. There'll never be another Narbonic either, and Girl Genius... is a zombie of its former self.
I love Achewood so much. My favorite is Roast Beef Goes To Hell.
after dying of Ice Cream Headache, from eating too many Tofutti Cuties. exactly
Congratulations, Slime! It's so weird, not knowing someone, and being so genuinely happy for them. It made me so happy to know you're happy. I hope your honeymoon is great!
hello slime
A stunning tribute to probably the best webcomic of them all. All your "it's hard to recommend" was so familiar. You love it, or you don't. And I love it. Onstad made something so original and funny that it still stuns me to this day.
Congrats once again on the marriage!
I wasn't born with a gene that said stop quoting achewood
wait, am i roast beef? with a less tragic backstory. also I don't know how to code.
We are all Roast Beef.
I used to think I was Roast Beef, but now I realize I am Teodor. Still fucked up, but not as interesting, and I don't have a tight best friend. I just have the internet and frustration.
@@sandordugalin8951 Kinda same? I currently also don't have a thight friend (or any really) but when I had one they were kinda the opposite of me, sooo.
hey this made me really happy. I haven't read Achewood in years, but when I read it I read it over and over. It left bits of emotional understanding in my psyche and bits of silly powerful language in my vocabulary forever. You and I are some kind of dogg.
no one's heard of achewood? Really?? (ok Im Too Online: maybe this IS objectively the case, BUT STILL)
~I AM THE DEATH SOUND~
Also I have the cookbook.
thoughtslime are you a goon
alt: do you have stairs in your house
I just assume everyone doing anything funny online paid their 10 bux at some point.
@@kyleleehufnagel for sure. i've just noticed he's got some LF sensibilities and also that's where i learned about achewood back in like 06
Bryanarchy yeah, anyone with halfway decent politics have LF vibes while literally the entire opposite end of the spectrum is D&D city. (Not the cool tabletop game for anyone reading this that doesn’t understand the context.)
@@kyleleehufnagel I read this little comment thread, and while every thing was in English, I understood 0% of it.
I've watched a lot of videos recommending various works of media, but I actually go seek out less than 10% of them. Thank you for making this one of the 10%.
Congratulations on your wedding! Write your own traditions together!
I guess I should take my best friend's advice and actually read Achewood now.
I think I'm Ray. Or am I Beef?
I'M PHILIPPE
We're all Teodor.
so long as you're not pat (or nice pete), it's cool
I'm Beef. My best friend is also Beef.
I'm folk music cape pat
Over the last week or so, I've occasionally come back to rewatch this video. There's something I find very comfortable about watching you talk about something you seem to hold near and dear. Cheers, Thought Slime.
hate to be that achewood fan, but i'm pretty sure it's _trent reznor's_ highschool volvo (of despair)
With a 'the cure' tape written out in edgy letters in it
@@archibaldtuttle9019 i reread the strip and apparently it's "the top".
i would feel despair, too, if the only thing i had to listen to was a cassette with "the caterpillar" on it (i love the cure but that song suuuuuuuuuucks)
wow this is really good. nice work. Also "a spider covets" at 2:40
Only other place I've seen Achewood is the SA forums. Thoughtslime is 100% a goon. Post your username
I'm Bigpeeler
Shit, back in the 00s, every webcomic used to link to a bunch of other webcomics, and most of them linked Achewood. I first heard about it on LiveJournal.
lmao Achewood was definitely an SA favorite, and how I found it, along with Homestuck and dozens of others no less great but much less famous comics. oh and Tails Gets Trolled, which deserves its own lengthy video essay tribute. fucking masterpiece, that one.
I just discovered That Dang Dad around a week ago, so I was like "hell yeah!" when I saw this Eyeball Zone. I even left a comment about how his video only had 44 views at the time.