yeah except that’s the part we love too, it’s the weird implication that you can’t think your art is great or something or have other ‘obsessive’ interests without being inherently infantile that i take issue with

Edit: and to be clear I do not think, for instance, marvel fan-ism is like good or ok. I’m talking about actual hobbies like regular traditional art or composition or, even, nerdier stuff that’s actually cool, like radio shit or linux tweaking. It’s unfortunate because the comic actually seems more condemning of the latter than the former even though I would say there’s much more overlap between marvel nerds and apple nerds than there is between apple nerds and, like, xX_phatcockdrawer_Xx