• MajorHavoc@programming.dev
    5·
    2 hours ago

    The core premise of “my Dad is Dracula” is profoundly mind-bogglingly dumb.

    So yeah, you’ve got my upvote. I enjoy it every time.

    Edit: the thing is the “wait we’re still doing these?!” humor hits kind of at random. I hope they stick with it and hit some numbers of comics made that are as mind boggling as the core idea.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    Oh man, Bunnicula was probably the first book I ever chose to read of my own free will, not because it was in my parents library, an assigned book, or gifted to me.

    First grade me had no idea what choosing a book would do to your desire to read.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Never read bunnicula, but when I was a kid I was a late reader, especially compared to my family. My mom was 3 when she learned, my brother was 4. I was 7. But once I picked it up, I loved reading, and my neighborhood had a little local library. By the time I was 9 I had gone through all the books in the kids section, and the librarian let me go pick whatever I wanted from the grown up section. I went from reading to stave off boredom to devouring books, because I felt like I had choice. I could choose whatever stories I wanted to read. Like a fucking nerd I chose Shakespeare and a book on mythology, but still. It was the most incredible feeling.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Same! I distinctly remember seeing it at like kindergarten or first grade book fair and going “oh there’s no way I won’t enjoy this” lol. I ate that shit UP, was going around all week to any 6yos who’d listen like “Dude Bunnicula is SO GOOD go get it before the fair’s over for real”. Except using whatever words I’d have chosen in, like, 1992.