• Victor@lemmy.world
        51·
        3 days ago

        I love that you love your daughter. I wanted a daughter as my first child, but I love my boys just the same. 🤟

        • qualia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          My mom wished I’d been a girl, yet when I wanted a She-Ra action figure to do battle alongside my brother’s He-Man suddenly I’m the one with the problem. In a related trend my local Toys-R-Us literally never carried the April O’Neil action figure. #BattleErasure

  • Glowstick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Can someone please explain this series to me? I’ve been seeing this strip show up a lot and i never understand what the joke is

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      The premise of the strip as a whole is that Dracula is usually depicted as an evil, murderous monster. But in “My Dad is Dracula” he is a loving and attentive father who likes conventionally dad-ish things (like bad jokes, gently teasing his son for not doing his chores, and grilling, etc).

      Many of the strips feature specific jokes in the last two panels: In this case, Dad sounds like he’s about to reveal something significant, or potentially upsetting. But in fact, he’s just letting his son know where a health-recovery item is hidden in the game they’re playing together.

      It’s gentle humor, more sweet that hilarious.

        • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          8·
          3 days ago

          This further proves Dracula is not really an evil bad guy. He went out of his way to make sure the Belmont’s had everything they needed to defeat him, even before they stepped foot inside his castle.

          Dracula is the real OG dad.

          • brsrklf@jlai.lu
            2·
            2 days ago

            There’s a very good Pratchett book (Carpe Jugulum) built on the premise that old-school vampires do indeed always leave convenient stuff a vampire killer would need. Like easily torn curtains, furniture that can be arranged in a cross shape, etc.

            With, on the contrary, a “modern” vampire dad rejecting all of it and trying to make his family adventurer-proof.

            • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldMEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              I see this is part of a series (#23 in fact); do I need to read the first 22 books or can I just jump in at this one?

              • brsrklf@jlai.lu
                2·
                1 day ago

                It’s a bit hard for me to evaluate how it would be to read that one as an entry point into Discworld, because, yeah, I pretty much read them all… All books have a theme and tell a whole story (except the very first two that are really one storyline), and they tend to quickly reintroduce everyone when needed. It might be okay to dive in at that point and beside a little weirdness, it shouldn’t be too confusing… Maybe.

                But I don’t think you would need to read them all sequentially, in any case. Discworld stories typically follow different groups of characters. Just reading a few of the related stories might help familiarizing with the recurring characters in this one. In this specific case, this is pretty much a Witches story with no connection to anyone else. If you wanted an introduction to both these characters and the world, Wyrd Sisters is a good one.

                That site sums it up rather well, you can see the Witches sub-series is 6 books (and Equal Rites doesn’t matter much IMO) :

                https://www.discworldemporium.com/reading-order/

      • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Also, a large portion of the jokes are about Dracula taking the shape of everyday items. I think I wouldn’t remember it so strongly if I didn’t see like a sports-car-shaped Dracula, or whatever.