you all seemed to enjoy my dream story, so here's one about real life, and me as a young child
korean children's science magazines were FUCKED UP!
ik this is weirdly specific but i just remembered the amount of disturbing shit on there and i just had to talk about it
so each volume had comic strips, and they were all ongoing series - most of them had some kind of storyline
but there was one in particular that was so unbelievably insane and im sure some of that shit scarred me for life
dont remember too much about it, but i recall that it was a surrealist slice-of-life type of thing for the most part
but for a few "special edition" volumes of the magazine (im pretty sure those were the ones released in December or something like that, like holiday editions) there was this separate plot that they used that was so fucking insane
all of it was, i'm pretty sure, based on the premise that the main character's mom has literally never shown up despite the dad and the grandmother being recurring characters
so a large chunk of that storyline is set several years in the past, where the main character's mom ends up in a car accident
she's fine for the most part, but they have to amputate her arm
so the grandmother (who, by the way, is some kind of scientific genius in the story) makes a cyborg arm
it works, and life is fine for a bit
but then it turns out that the arm was infected with a virus that causes her to send hate comments online wherever she can, against her own will
and these hate comments are so bad that it makes some big figure online in the story LITERALLY KILL HIMSELF BY JUMPING OFF A BUILDING
and in the story, IT LITERALLY ENDS UP ON NATIONAL NEWS
then the mom disappears or something i dont remember
and can i mention, this entire flashback scene is caused because the main character catches his dad hiding behind parked cars while drinking alcohol, smoking, and crying
HOW THE FUCK WAS THIS ALLOWED?????
and that entire fucking storyline ends with the main character posting something online, and i think either he posted something relating to his mom or his internal monologue has something to do with it, then he gets a hate comment that sends him into this insane rage, and then there's the last line in this entire fucking story:
"MOM, YOU PIECE OF SHIT"
(obviously not an exact translation, but thats about as similar to what i can remember)
(and can i mention that all of the hate comments had something to do with poop for some reason??? like, im pretty sure theres an entire scene where that famous online guy is trying to do relaxation techniques to deal with his anger, but the thought of that hate comment (which, may i mention again, was largely centered around poop) just continually invades his mind and he is sent into this state of just absolute psychological torment over a fecal hate comment)