I almost read a nono word on the internet, this day could’ve gone sideways really quick
Oh hey I didn’t even notice the asterisk they used for censoring the slur. My brain pronounced the entire offensive word and I didn’t even feel offended on anyone’s behalf.
I read someone saying the other day, that Hallmark movies make a lot of sense if you think of small town empty-nest mothers as their main demographic.
Edit: I found the comment, couldn’t find the article they’re talking about though.
What if your dying grandfather leave you a plot of farmland in this small little town?
Gay grandson of a big landowner in the midwest, like my family owned half a county at one point. Trust me there was never any worry about “inheritance” making it down to my generation ;) The factory farms bought it all up years ago, and it paid for several old ladies to go on trips, live lavishly, and die very old in assisted living facilities.
Then that town better supports LGBT rights cause I gonna max out those relationship hearts with everyone. Now eat your tasty gemstone.
“Why is everybody moving away from here??? Must be because the immigrants are taking away all our jobs!!!”
A tale as old as time.
Whenever I think back to my hometown I remember how passionate I and many others were about getting the fuck out of there, and remember the types of people who said they’d never leave. It lines up with the comic and political lines perfectly
What’s sad is, this is as-close as it gets to gay flirting in public in a lot of the rural US. You’re actually a hot-commodity if you’re out-and-proud enough to clap-back with a proposition … just gotta play-it extra-safe re:meetups.
Funny, Adam posts it uncensored on Bluesky so why in the world is it censored here? Lol
Probably because whoever posted it here only saw the censored one? Feel free to post the uncensored ones yourself though.
Fine, but you made me open Bluesky again so I’m posting a link instead of an image, as revenge. Lol
https://bsky.app/profile/adamtots.bsky.social/post/3ma5vyi5ets2n
I was only questioning where along the Internet game of telephone someone decided it was up to them to censor the original when Adam Ellis is so very outspokenly pro-gay with his work. I didn’t presume our OP censored it, though.
We all know the rules. That guy is gonna be the love interest and learn some cookie cutter BS Christmas lesson.
The “I’m allowed to say it, I am one” scene was controversial, but critical to the plot
Would honestly be a nice story if he let go of his internalized homophobia.
A white guy with a beard would not be called that in a small town.
They’re more likely to be mistaken as a fellow racist.
Dude is wearing a nice coat and a scarf. Don’t you know if you are not wearing a trucker hat and a coat from the army surplus store that you are a fag.
I was in WV visiting family for Thanksgiving. I wasn’t wearing incredibly nice clothing, but it wasn’t just a hoodie or whatever other junk is cheap. I really felt out of place (which I was). I was getting a hotdog at a place that only opens for two days every year now, that was a staple a famous, and the next nicest clothes was probably some old guy wearing a jacket either from a surplus store or from Vietnam or something.
The good news is no one cared. I wasn’t called anything and no one seemed to be bothered. I am a straight white man though.
As someone who wears a surplus Czech army field jacket, I take umbridge with thine implications. Surplus is just thrift with a bias towards khaki, camo, and questionable food products. Also you can get some pretty solid storage boxes via surplus vendors, I keep my bungies and jumpers in a waterproof 30mm ammo case in the bed of my truck
can confirm, any guy wearing a scarf in the sticks is probably (considered by others to be) a fag
True, if your Carhartt looks unweathered you’ll get glances
It would have to be someone who knows him, or something about his style, accessories, or behavior, that emboldened a stranger to assume he was gay. The comic gives no hint at any of this being evident.
Or maybe that guy calls everyone a faggot because he’s always confrontational.
I assumed he’s exhibiting casual homophobia rather than actually knowing Adam’s sexual orientation.
In some places, it’s basically supplanted the word “asshole” for a lot of people.
My boss is from a small town and, for religious reasons, doesn’t swear and is deeply uncomfortable with it.
But we asked one day if there’s a swear he does use he said
“I hate to admit it, but faggot rolls off my tongue too easily.”
Its the closest he’s ever come to swearing.
A guy who called everybody that would get his ass beat pretty quick in a small town.
Depends on how trim and tidy it is.
Not very
People really think the south/rural areas have people being giant racist homophobes to strangers… No they save that for people they know or think will agree with them
Here’s where you’re wrong
Their litmus test for “people they think will agree with them” is just: be a white man.
I am a burly white dude. Tall, big beard, I look like I walked out of the mountains… Unprompted, some white people will casually say some unhinged rascist shit to me. And have, many times.
One time there was a shooting nearby, a white maintenence worker told me about it, and then without missing a beat goes “it was two black guys shooting at eachother, so much for brotherly love, right?”
Another time, in a gas station up in the sticks, Im buying a can of monster. Some white stranger, unprompted, taps me on the shoulder starts telling me about how the logo is a Jewish letters for the sign of the devil…
So, no, you dont have to be someone these people know… you just have to a white man. They assume any white man (especially masculine presenting) is one of them.
Yep this has been 100% my experience too. How do you deal with them?
depends on how much you want to fuck with em, in the case of jewphobia i like to give em a l’chaim.
“oh shit, the jews really are everywhere”
I tend to look like a hippie that was forced to dress up for church and people definitely just assume I’ll agree with their racist bullshit because I’m white.
Haha, I would disagree with that. I’ve had “fuck you, fag” yelled at me many times in rural areas.
Yep, a few feet of the Purdue campus and suddenly started getting called a removed by random drivers
I had a very similar experience on campus a couple years back, Indiana is not the place to be.
i’m pretty sure i give off “hey, whatever your views whoever you are i’ll accept and validate you” vibes in person then, because jesus the titties on a walrus on a jetski christ the things some people have confided in me.
I don’t know if you noticed, but beards made a comeback during the pan.
I’ve had a beard since 2011 so I may not have noticed
Thank goodness nobody acts like this in the Big City.
They might live here
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities
If it can’t fit an F150 how am i supposed to run over children?
You can use guns to shoot them. It is easier than running over with a car.
Random but I used to have a Fiat Seicento exactly like the one in the pic. Such a quirky little car it was.
Not a fan of statistics?
Personally not a fan of people acting like urban = queer paradise when the city closest to me has had some pretty significant increases in anti-LGBTQ hate crimes:
LACo Reports 2025 Is the Second-Highest for Hate Crimes in 44 Years [highest = 2024]
There were 102 anti-transgender crimes, the largest number ever documented in this report. A staggering 95% of these crimes were violent
Hate crimes targeting non-binary people sharply increased 275% from 4 to 15, higher than 2023, when we began tracking this targeted group
72% of crimes motivated by sexual orientation targeted gay men. This was the second-largest number ever documented for this motivation
But yeah, only rural bad or something.
A numerical increase is potentially worrying, but for urban/rural comparison you need to look at per capita statistics. (You should also keep in mind that these are reported, recognized crimes and there may be confounding factors)
The author could have just used a smaller font so they wouldn’t have had to abbreviate “FASTERISKGGOT”.
This is basically the plot to Funny Farm.
Don’t you want to come back to work at the bullshit store?? Please we could really use you. Who’s going to get addicted to all these benzos??
Source?
Google Adam Ellis. His graphic novellas are good too!
This is Buzzfeed Adam Ellis?
Damn, he’s come a long way stylewise. Good for him.
Yes he’s changed a lot about his style and content!
I see the @adamtots in one panel, probably a good place to look, busy atm otherwise I would.
Accurate.
