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Good News for People Who Like Bad News
01-18-24
Dear False Positive Readers,
This is Ashley Walton, Mike’s sister and editor of False Positive. I have really terrible, awful news and a tiny bit of good news.
You might have noticed it’s been a couple years since we’ve posted anything on this website. Well, brace yourself for the saddest update I’ll ever share.
This is a wendigo story then…?
Let me explain to that woman what family keepsakes are really about.
Forks over knives. Stems over skulls.
Those are simply adorable.
Oh dear. Her babies, too. How can she even continue on?
Such incredibly gorgeous and expressive eyes.
#makeupfree #nofilter
Well its clear from her tears her appetite is apparently something that pains her and she can’t really control…
Too bad she’s so pretty… I’d STILL be tempted! lols!
Shouldn’t you clean and polish that before you put it on the shelf?
I guess she’s not a very good housekeeper. Then again, neither an I. (Okay, boys, bring in the backhoe.)
Her kids were so cue she could just eat them up! Whoops.
Aww, the poor babies.
Why didn’t she just free herself with the axe while he was out hunting ?
Stockholm Syndrome?
I guess it’s a good thing that she feels remorse?
I think this story is more of a “realistic type of situtation” story as opposed to a “supernatural fantasy” that is usually par for quasilucid’s stuff.
Her dress seems reminiscent of the style that would have been worn around the 1800’s, which was also the time that slavery was occuring in America. My guess is that the “Maestro” was an escaped slave. On his way north, he met “his Beloved” (either a freed slave herself or the perhaps the daughter of freed slaves) living somewhere north of the Mason-Dixon Line. I’m guessing that they either fell in love with each other and they ran away together, or he out right kidnapped her and she fell in love with him afterwards (Stockholm Syndrome), but either way, she (at some point) expressed a desire to return home, which he couldn’t allow (possibly for fear of being arrested for kidnapping or fear of being returned to slavery), thus the need for the chain. It seems like he moved them to the Yukon, as far north as he could possibly get away from the slavery of the Southern States. He either built or more likely found the log cabin and attempted to make a living by hunting, which as a former slave he would have never had to do previously, and thus wasn’t very good at it. They had two kids together, both of whom starved to death and whom they were forced to eat to survive when the “Maestro’s” hunting was insufficient to feed them. With the “Maestro’s” death, his “Beloved” had to once again do what she had done previously, eat to survive. It is hard tell from the comic, but I don’t think that she actually ate his entire body in the course of one night (although stranger things have happened in this comic). Regardless, she is now at the point where there is once again nothing to eat and she must act or starve. Her tears and the act of placing the skulls on the mantle indicate that she did love her family and regreted having to resort to cannabalism.
I like the way you think.
