• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    31·
    5 hours ago

    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]

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      1 hour ago

      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.

  • lol_idk@piefed.socialEnglish
    18·
    6 hours ago

    My SO and I celebrated a 12 year anniversary of some sort earlier this month and we always take a selfie at some point. I looked at the photo and realized we got old

    It made me so sad that we have so little time here together

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      6 hours ago

      My husband has stopped joking about his hair growing distinguished and started admitting it’s turning grey.

      Now I feel old.

  • kubofhromoslav@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    4 hours ago

    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/

      • Kernal64@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        For all the popularity they have for their comedic and science strips, they also put out some really good emotional ones.

    • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
      681·
      17 hours ago

      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