Andy "Merry" Mason
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Andy "Merry" Mason
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Sometimes I draw things. Mostly I just think about drawing things. "Unexpectedly rugged."

ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO NOT STEAL
I believe the NYT does not know what a chip shop is.

They clearly know what "chips" are and that Americans call them "french fries*", but they do not know there is more to a chippy than chips

* yes chips are not french fries but if you want to explain chips to an American that's where you start
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Give my best to Dr Inkandraw
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Gail is nice.
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It does feel more like a Family Guy cutaway than a "this is 100% canon, she marries the violin" statement
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
... going back further we find that it was Alistair who initially wanted to save himself for marriage, so. bsky.app/profile/damn...
Today in #9ChickweedLane I learned Lolly is so horny she fell over and cracked her head open and she died
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I'm also reminded that we HAVE SEEN the wedding, though as the strip has no fixed "present" timeline, we must accept the cartoonist is continuing to write the pre-wedding events in the same way he continually shows Amos and Edda's childhood. bsky.app/profile/damn...
today in #9chickweedlane i learned we're... having a double wedding, sure, why not

half of it to some old man polly met four strips ago, back when he had a mustache and brown hair
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Of course it's VERY HARD to be sure either way because Brooke's so coy about actual sex. Which, yes, it's ostensibly a family-friendly newspaper comic, but also, when you make it an actual plot point it becomes important to actually make a clear statement one way or the other
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Looking back through the tag, this strip seems to encapsulate everything we've seen of Lolly - very keen to flirt and make out but hard NO SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE: bsky.app/profile/damn...

And, yeah, Polly's way more "I just met you, let's bone" per a few on-panel examples.
today in #9chickweedlane i learned the fetishization of marriage will continue until morale disintegrates
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
That furious expression at the recital: "How DARE my sister make out with my fiance on stage!! I'm gonna marry him SO HARD"
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Either way, "supposed to be" is accurate
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Yeah, like character perception is a thing, maybe Xiulan has misinterpreted things? Maybe she's assuming based on the family? Or maybe Lolly is actually very experienced prior to her relationship with Alistair? But either way, this has not been adequately expressed within the text
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
HA HA HA!
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
this is just what happens when your parents' friends have a child and you babysit them and change their diapers and they consider you fully interchangeable with your sibling. They become irresistible to you
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's nice that he has a differently skeevy couple to show learning about sex over and over, apart from school-age Amos and Edda
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
just going to put this here
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Andy "Merry" Mason
anyway, here's hot rod from the second poster
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Wait, wait. Is Alistair now not the horny one? Is he suddenly the uncomfortable-around-sex delicate innocent??
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Thank you!
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I'm not sure what he means or what they might think he means
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Reposted by Andy "Merry" Mason
It is *extremely* easy for people to circumvent Roblox's alleged safety features. The parental controls are wholly inadequate, the restrictions on who can contact underage users are really easy to work around, the age verification they've implemented is wildly inaccurate and unreliable...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Reposted by Andy "Merry" Mason
Sorry LeBron, Grok has bad news -
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
.... Black Socks.
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM