oglaf!

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Jun 25, 2018 — 1 min read

xkcd does the best nerdy comic but oglaf is the comic I never knew I needed – and it’s probably the best ever. It’s wry humour + sex, often featuring erotic fungi and The Blind Gibberer, and even more oftenly situated in the sort of medieval setting that Dungeons & Dragons campaigns are. Most of it reads like those parts of a porno that have an actual story going on and as if they were directed by Taika Waititi. All together, the comics are sort of like bits and pieces of various D&D campaigns in all of history that never got played simply because they couldn’t muster the requisite gravitas, or pomposity. I sat down an hour ago to write this post but found oglaf instead and have been reading it since. So today’s post looks to be a flop, and I’m not even sorry.

*back to oglaf*

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