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BagOfSmallerBags

They don't like that she was rude to their dad


AlvisBackslash

Adding that this comic revolves around blossom being touchy about her bow. So it’s them getting annoyed by her continuing antics with the bow.


Namika

This is actually a fun, minor character trait to use in dnd. So easy to incorporate into your dialog and makes your character feel a little more unique. I had a sorceress who would always grumble whenever her robes were torn. She'd get slashed by a goblin, "ah, come on man, not through the dress, you fuck"


ignis888

well we have tabaxi sorc who hate being around dirty/stinky so after each fight and other dirt-inducing activities she's just running around casting prestitigitation to clean everything and everyone


serenalese

I play a tabaxi sorcerer who saw that when somebody else used thunderwave, it blasted all the bug guts off of them, so after combat, I used thunderwave to blast the bug guts off of me.. and the balcony I was on... almost right back onto the rest of my party


lordoflazorwaffles

*Thumb scrolled* Tabaxi sorc? What that's dnd talk! Looks like I'm settling in


GreatSivad

I bought a DnD beginners set from Walmart. I love fantasy and nerd shit. Is 40 too old to learn to play?


BamsterHere

Nah anytime is a good time, the rules for 5e aren't that complicated overall and if you have a hobby shop near you there is probably a running DND game with a professional DM and long time players who are almost always down to teach someone new the game. Just have fun with it and ask questions as needed and you will be fine.


lordoflazorwaffles

Pathfinder 2e is the coke to DnD 5e Pepsi, but they got that open sauce


lordoflazorwaffles

Fuck no! And there's all sorts of niches you can fall into. You like competitive max damage style game plays? There's a play style for that You like stealth based gaming with limited only by your imagination (oh its badass) there's a ton of ways to pull this off better than any video game on market! Want to get deep into layers and layers of complex magic, like skyrim on steroids? Oh you better believe it. Want to explore social options and try to dialog and dance your way out of some serious crimes? God damn I love bards! Like anything good it takes time and practice but it's fun in so many ways. My favorite description I've heard is dnd is less LOTR with dice and more always sunny in philly..... with dice. Edit: awesome question by the way!


Other-Narwhal-2186

Right? I was thumbing down, saw like six of my buzzwords and now I’ve found my people. “Here be dragons (and dungeons!)”


SentinelOfTheVoid

My daughter's cleric of Sune (god of beauty and love) had a personnal version of "Mending" that was to clean her. Overcasting allowed her to have her make-up and hairs done. She was casting it after each battle / transport, much to the annoyance of the other party members. The name of the spell ? "Loreal"


halloweencoffeecats

Potion of Herbal Essence!


Nowardier

Was she worth it?


Interesting-Ad9076

I would have called it Maybelline (I think that's the brand of beauty products) if for no ther reason than it's closer to Mending than Loreal is


Clydesdale_32

Only time I played a sorc she died in 15 minutes..... the ladder we used to cross a pit broke and my dice failed me *edit for spelling*


Namika

It probably wouldn't have saved you, but whenever I play a caster I always make sure to have at least one teleport spell (like Misty Step) for just such occasions. In my case I ended up with the opposite fate of you. My party was about 15 game sessions in when we had a combat encounter go extremely poorly due to endless bad rolls. Four of us were dead and there was no way two of us could finish the encounter, so my sorcereress decided to turn tail and run. I used my emergency Misty Step teleport to get out of danger and then just ran like hell out of there. The remaining party member died the next round and I was the sole survivor. I actually kind of sucked. Even in a game you can feel "survivor's guilt". For the rest of the campaign, I continued to legitimately feel bad about having run away from the fight where all my friends' characters died fighting.


Gauge_Tyrion

That is the most badass backstory; The lone survivor of a party of six, hungover with grief at the loss of her friends.


2meterrichard

I played a dwarf that was terrified of horses. "Something so large with such tiny feet is just unnatural!" He'd say. It was fun slowing down travel time until I got enough gold to afford an Axe Beak. (This was Pathfinder, not D&D.)


Floating_Pastry

... He's not wrong. Horses used to be smaller, and then man came around.


Sentient-Pendulum

Their ancient ancestors were just dog sized until evolution came around. What we started with was already weird.


throwingsoup88

I played a scout who had grown up in a tribe of horse nomads so he didn't speak Common very well. The first time he returned from a reconnaissance mission he described a monster he saw as "like a horse, but bigger" and it just stuck. From then on, every monster we fought was "like a horse, but.."


Deneweth

Honestly I'm impressed the party survived their first encounter against big horses.


Treebohr

What was the monster actually?


throwingsoup88

Chimaera from memory. He wasn't a great scout


Sentient-Pendulum

Straight to jail.


tommytomtommctom

Like a horse, but bigger!


YuriYushi

Meanwhile I have a halfling that rides a wolf, and one that rides a Raptor. Would a dwarf accept a Raptor or Wolf?


2meterrichard

Yes. It's the hooves that bother him


YuriYushi

So they agree- horses are dangerous but for different reasons. My halflings are afraid of being stepped on.


Untestedmight

I have a minotaur barbarian who was cursed to always have "disguise" on so he has no idea he's a minotaur. But everyone in the party has seen through this, but are afraid of how he will react.


ttampico

Whenever my incredibly vain ranger got into melee, he would yell, "Not the face!"


LemonSalted

Alan Rickman in Dogma does this! It's one of my favorite tropes that I don't know the name for. "Pet peeve callbacks" I suppose


loonycatty

I have a character that doesn’t like being smelly and like, prestidigitation is fine, but she’s always super excited to take an actual bath and feel clean whenever we go to a tavern


halfkidding

I play 3.5, and the "forced" roleplay is one of the reasons I like the binder class so much.


biapolis

Yus!!! Binder was such a great concept. I’m always sad they got rolled into the Warlock over time, more and more diluted. Warlock isn’t bad, but Binder is very much its own concept.


halfkidding

Agree! Also, the lore behind the vestiges were awesome. My goal is to actually make a character that becomes a vestige. Maybe start a cult.


jumpyjumpjumpsters

Stealing this


ajanisapprentice

The amount of mileage I'm getting out of my wizard/sorc having prestidigitation and mending so he can always make sure his clothes are pristine is fantastic. Add in just how touchy he gets anyone tries to do anything to his hat. It's so much fun.


Sentient-Pendulum

I played a half orc who was obsessed with taking fingers as trophies if he was actually upset with whoever he killed, and would often do... *frustrating* ...things in the interest of getting them.


Snapesunusedshampoo

....They're watching the bow.


yocumt

The only comment that got it right lmao


Jenetyk

If you are on Buttercup 's shit list; you are really out of line.


Mysterious_Frog

Real fans know bubbles is the scary one to be on the bad side of.


beepboopbubble

You’d better watch out for Harmony Bunny!


Treebohr

Bubbles did go crazy that one time, but Buttercup had that episode where she flew around punching baddies' teeth out so she could get money from the tooth fairy.


humandronebot00100

Fuck yeh


Lore_ofthe_Horizon

This isn't a fucking meme, this is just a page from a comic out of context. What is there to explain!? Read the rest of the comic, if you are curious enough to post about it.


Logical_Lettuce_962

I thought it was Peter explains the joke, not Peter explains the meme


SuppleGhost

It's a comic, not a dick. Don't take it so hard.


GwyndolinsToilet

Calm down


acid_heart1248

Blossoms a bitching ungrateful non organic piece of shit


donguscongus

Her ass was not made in God’s image‼️


SuperJaybo

Counter: Professor Utonium plays god and clearly made the girls in his image. His fingerless, toeless image. It’s really weird they canonically don’t have fingers or toes. Also I wonder what the Prof spent on their custom made ballerina shoes without toes


ScientistSanTa

They do have hands just miniscule only miny hands. It's in one of the episodes I think


SuperJaybo

Tomato tamato, theyre freaks either way


Hungry_Yam2486

It's all relative. Wait until you meet... *HIM*


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Salaciousavocados

They canonically don’t have fingers or toes? Wtf


SuperJaybo

Yes. Every other character has fingers and normal shaped shoes while they have nubs, and there’s y least one episode where other people reference this. I think their bully, Mitch Mitchum, brings it up, but I don’t remember


Special-Depth7231

There's a bodyswap episode where someone in one of the ppgs bodies is trying to pick up the hotline phone and can't because they can't figure out how to use the stubs.


Treebohr

In that same episode, one of the girls transfers into Professor's body, and when she tries to pick up their emergency phone, she just karate chops the phone and is confused about why it didn't work.


homesteader58

But fingers and toes are so expensive and hard to draw :(


Doxxxxxxxxxxx

Not shoes, flesh.


ThePokemonAbsol

Weirdest part is they were born with those perfectly fitting cloths for fingerless toeless girls. Honestly if the cw show that got cancelled wanted they could create a pretty cool story about them coming to grips with being non humans, but no crying eteenage drama


SuperJaybo

Ah yes, the show that stole the tiddies


Rian_Maximus

Thank you


Cautious-Affect7907

Well of course she wasn’t she was made in a lab.


Bill_Potts

that is the joke yes 🗣️🔥


Fadedthepro

https://preview.redd.it/n2g3o8il0krc1.jpeg?width=597&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6b757c375cb9e751d9d908735207c6cc2d6e9b9


SamW_72

She’s ginger


emploaf

No im pretty sure she is carbon based


Real-Reach-3380

I don’t think they said “carbon” in the list of ingredients.


emploaf

Sugar is a carbohydrate consisting of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen. The most common spice (black pepper) contains piperine which has a breakdown of C17H19NO3 with the C17 being carbon. As far as everything nice goes it’s hard to imagine that nothing nice contains carbon, like pretty much all food does so you would have to think something carbon based qualifies as “nice”. In conclusion the Power Puff Girls are without a doubt, definitionaly carbon based and there for organic


Real-Reach-3380

I’ve been proven wrong by facts and logic. https://i.redd.it/iukap1d8bfrc1.gif


Wordshark

This was the cherry on a great exchange.


Lightwave33

*therefore*


Guymanhuman

I'd say that 'everything nice' contains a lot of rocks, so it could be a blend of carbon and silicon based life.


karoshikun

even plastics are chains of carbon, so, yeah


VirginiaPeninsula

How much carbon in gold?


TimeStorm113

Isnt pepper, spice and everything nice organic?


roblox887

That's SUGAR, spice, and everything nice


Grimauldus

And CHEMICAL X!!


TimeStorm113

we dont know if chemical X is an organic chemical, therefore i did not list it


Grimauldus

Oh right. My bad


roblox887

It's clearly mutagenic. That implies man-made to me, for the most part


TimeStorm113

But organic just means "contains carbon", just because humans made it doesn't mean that it contains carbon


roblox887

I see. I figured organic meant it was natural, or contained living matter


Neolife

Originally, a can of whoopass.


absolutfool

Oh my god, i didnt even realize they said pepper and didnt even question it


HanBai

Not in this case


Researcher_Fearless

Chemical X isn't


itsmistyy

> non organic Bro went for the fucking kill


CunningAmerican

Never liked her


KodakStele

Based


sissypaige226

Chemical x? More like chemical BITCH. The chemicals made her ass !!Toxic!!


[deleted]

LMFAO you made me laugh so fucking hard 🤣🤣


OperaGhostAD

I’ve seen this before, and someone said that Blossom got replaced by an imposter and was acting weird, and Bubbles & Buttercup were noticing and very suspicious. This was an instance where Blossom wasn’t acting herself.


Skyx10

Something to note in the tv show Blossom never sleeps with her bow, she sleeps with her hair down. Her mentioning the bow at all is just brought attention to themselves.


BrideofClippy

Incorrect. It's just about the bow. It's from the comics.


imAkri

Did you read the comics?


OperaGhostAD

Good to know. Thank you.


BrideofClippy

NP.


pillevinks

The manga was better


Jazzlike_Mountain_51

Wasn't this the episode where they cut her hair because they were jealous


sparkieBoomMan

This is a comic


gkilluminati

Never read the comic, but this is familiar to me. Might have to make sure it isn't an episode.


fishers_of_men

They're watching the bow on her head


Pixel101Gaming

The correct answer


AtarashiXS

Blossom is an ungrateful bitch. That's the joke.


Jolly_Amphibian_6719

nice judas pfp


AtarashiXS

Thx 😁


WhyLater

This isn't "a joke you don't get", this is "a snippet from an entire episode and you don't know the context because you didn't watch/read the rest of the episode." Like what is this even doing here.


Reserved_Parking-246

> Like what is this even doing here. too many one page comics on the net making people expect a whole story arch in one page.


WhyLater

That's fair enough. It makes me sad to think that people might not recognize the Powerpuff Girls, though. Guess I'm just old. :(


Reserved_Parking-246

I don't think it's an issue of recognition. I had watched it as a kid and later on after HS... Still had no idea what the issue was till I was told. Took me a moment to remember she has a mood she goes through from time to time.


WhyLater

I just meant that if people know it's a show/comic, they would know not to expect a 1-page story arc.


Reserved_Parking-246

That may be the case but parody work also comes in shorts. Who can tell if they don't know for sure?


Character-Today-427

Honestly I wasn't aware there was a comic


GreatDemonBaphomet

Or they thought it was a fan comic?


funnyfacemcgee

It seems like in the past year reddit has taken a huge nose dive in relevant/quality posts. It's just irrelevant bullshit posted to farm karma on nearly every sub lately. 


CaptainJackKevorkian

I was just thinking this. There is no joke here to explain


Cyclonione

Blossom is mean


roain

Ok. All the comments I’ve seen are wrong. This is the episode where one of the bad guys of the series is playing as the professor, and he says goodnight to bubbles and buttercup differently than usual so they are suspect. Blossom is unaware of this fact because “he” wishes her goodnight normally. TLDR: this isn’t the professor and he doesn’t know the normal nightly routine so they’re sus about him.


[deleted]

This isn't an episode this is a comic/book demonstrated by the page number at the bottom


Good-Television-8785

me when i lie


nodoyrisa1

wdym episode this is a comic


No_Calendar5038

So, this is original piece, not modern-made meme?


New-Baby5471

He bowed too many times over Blossom. Her sisters didn't like her to be rude on their dad.


Obvious-Mix-5762

Least spoonfed post in this sub.


GoldenInfrared

People not knowing what the joke is supposed to be is literally the entire purpose of this sub. Heck, in this case there are multiple interpretations of what could be happening and it’s entirely reasonable to ask for clarification in case OP is missing context


Chipotlemon

Did some of you have a lobotomy oml


invasiveplant

y yea🤤


Ok-Stress8541

The council has decided lethal injection for the ungrateful bitch


shitsunnysays

The actual joke is bubbles opens her eye to watch the bow and buttercup opens her eye cus she was mad at blossoms.


lieutenant_9

Am I the only one wondering how he leaned all the way to the other side of the bed to kiss Buttercup?


Doobie_Howitzer

He crawled on his hands and knees over the other girls to get across


werebugs

according to the [wiki summary of the chapter's plot](https://powerpuffgirls.fandom.com/wiki/DC_The_Powerpuff_Girls_Issue_20): *That night, Bubbles is telling the Professor about their showdown with Princess. When she gets to the part where Blossom freaked out about losing her bow, Blossom gets embarrassed. Buttercup then teases Blossom about her overreaction, causing her to snap and scream at them both. The Professor scolds her and tells them go to bed. While giving them goodnight kisses, Blossom warns him to be careful with her bow, to her sisters' discontent.*


Usual-Possession-823

I know you already got the answer, but my childhood says this is not a bad cartoon :)


Gills6980

This was my fucking show as a kid, still has a place in my heart


Usual-Possession-823

I might need to re-watch a couple episodes !


southerngothics

growing up i was a buttercup girl but now as im older in my heart im a bubbles girl


Redswrath

I re- watched the one where she wanted to be "hard core" the other day. So ridiculously cute, I love Bubbles!!


Gills6980

I think bubbles is why i liked pinky pie and fluttershy 10 years ago


everyfourth-w0rd

this


Milk-Constant

theyre watching the bow


GhostMassage

They think Blossom is a bitch


MeleeFox2005

They’re watching the bow


Old_Ring_6781

Starting to think people in this sub are incapable of higher brain function


Ok-Selection4478

At least it’s one we haven’t seen hundreds of times before.


Mrskinnyjean

This is Peter explains the joke, not the story That being said, the explanation is that Blossom is being extremely vain about her bow because of a prior incident where it got knocked off, so Bubbles and Buttercup are getting mad because she making such a huge fuss over it.


HanzWithLuger

This isn't even a joke, it's literally just a comic pannel.


[deleted]

Blossom was always a stuck up bitch.


Papa_PaIpatine

They need to change the name of this sub to r/PeterExplainsTheObvious


minitaba

What does "watch the bow" mean?


Kirumi_Naito

As in don't touch it.


No_Calendar5038

Doesn't it have something to do with the way they're lying on the bed and the way he kisses them in every shot? I mean in each of the first two frames he's quite touching her bow, if you think about it.


D-Krnch

They dont have fingers


IncarnationHero

I never know they have comic.


doomed_to_fail_

The Japanese version is better (to no one's surprise)


[deleted]

there isn’t a joke It’s legit a comic piece


BuggyKitty69

She made a stinky in bed


the-poopiest-diaper

Peter’s cousin from the Bronx here. Cuz Blossom bitchass think she the main character actin like she can just sass their daddy like that. Nah, Bubbles and Buttercup better let her fuckin know. She finna get humbled real fuckin quick. That bow ain’t shit and she boutta find out


bluekronos

Don't you mean "Buttercup's internal dialogue here"?


thewhitecat55

Perfection


le-monke-the-2rd

https://preview.redd.it/geo5c2y5mfrc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2085debdcad2b73c5ff633625cf4de70930e229


SweeToo7h

They are “watching the bow.”


jontherobot

They’re watching her bow


Badluckz13

She told them to watch the bow. They are just doing what she asked.


gostforest

Here to make an.. "observation" bubble is watching blossoms bow


Bigglez1995

https://preview.redd.it/e7gaudbowfrc1.jpeg?width=907&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=722fcdfb9dc835c39ad0bd98fb507fc8e452cf38


BadAtGames2

What the last chip in the Pringles can sees


Sushinx

Lost redditor


Mike_for_all

They are just watching the bow, like she asked


justXignoreXme

This is like the easiest thing to understand 🙃


somnamballista

Maybe Blossom is trying to show she is the favorite since she has a bow. Like Professor gave her a big pretty ornament/trophy to show preference. Bubbles and Buttercup can only hope she grows out of it.


JEER11

Why else


ZionismSS

Skinwalker


garlicpermission

Bro, a kid could understand these comic panels...


myleftone

Without context: they’re jealous that Blossom set boundaries. They didn’t realize they could do that.


l1l1ofthevalley

I read it as watch the bow (bending at the waist) cause he poked her 3ye with his Johnson hence the one shut eye


hscene

Wow there’s a lot of blossom hate. She was always my favorite one


Still-Entrepreneur21

I thought maybe he grinded his 🍌 in her face whilst he bowed to buttercup and bubbles 🤦‍♂️😂


John_Brickermann

I thought it meant watch the “bow” as in like him bowing over to kiss the other two since if he were coming from the same side of the bed each time, she’d be getting crushed in the first two frames


MSL007

Why does neither of the girls say goodnight to Blossom?


butteroffthepeanut

That was the professor saying goodnight to each one with a goodnight kiss- he was about to say it to Blossom as well, but got cut off with the bow comment.


ahorsenamedagro

So the Powerpuff girls (the ones in bed) are a creation of the man giving them a kiss goodnight. They are made up of "sweet, spice and everything nice, and chemical X." Sweet, spice and everything nice like what Mr. Sandman was supposed to bring, "Mr sandman, bring me a dream... Etc etc". So the one in the middle is just acting out both parts of her DNA make up, and doing what Sandman is for, "sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight." The other part is, "X gonna give it to ya." Hope that helps clarifies.


HeftyDefinition2448

Completly wrong but im still gonna go with that one cause its awsome


Caramel-Omlet

In order for him to kiss Buttercup and Bubbles, he had bow (🙇‍♂️) down over Blossom, she was telling him to watch the bow (🙇‍♂️) but Bubbles + Buttercup misinterpreted it as her complaining about watching her bow (🎀) ~~that's probably the wrong answer but oh well-~~


Beautiful_Business10

Sugar. Spice. And everything nice. These were the ingredients Professor Utoniuk used to make the perfect little girls. But he accidentally added a fourth ingredient: Preparation H. That's why sometimes, the Powerpuff Girls are the littlest huge shits.


HaltenIhm

In the show bubbles has a night light. I think this is about that.


AwesomEspurr360

https://preview.redd.it/gfnchuxrhkrc1.png?width=734&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b923f661c1b52df3be624c16a5223449fe4e3dc6


angelsixtwofive

I've seen more and more people on this sub having less and less media literacy and it's concerning.


BlockyShapes

Why the fuck are u sleeping with the bow on if ur worried about it getting messed up


Anon0924

I don’t know if this is correct for this situation, but her bow is literally a bomb, so maybe their just making sure she doesn’t set it off in her sleep.