I remember going to a convention the year after The Dark Knight came out and there were so many dudes dressed up as Nurse Joker and I can't help but think that many of them were just aching for the opportunity to do a little cross-dressing.

Which is just extra ironic

between that and the women idolizing Harley.

Are we sure there's even gonna be a chin?

Have to admit, before I wanted a partner, I needed to build a proper "nest" to impress any potential mates. Got a home theater setup. All the right accoutrements and candles. Nice dishes, furniture, the works. I had designs to slay so much after I was done with the place. The only person I ever brought home ended up marrying me.

Before that? Mattress on the floor. One desk and chair for the computer. Didn't even have a TV.

Furniture-wise, what are we even looking at, though?

I think I see a dresser on the left and a green couch on the bottom right that appears to be pointed at a randomly placed refrigerator. Maybe it's a bed, but I think the shape is more like a couch. So, that's furniture from a bedroom, a living room, and a kitchen, all in one room.

Even for a studio apartment, this would be a very weird arrangement of furniture.

"Come, sit on this couch so we can stare at my refrigerator."

My mother filled my apartment with furniture and nice pictures. Made me look normal. I never understood why until my eventual wife came over and then moved in. The space is very important

If they didn't care about home décor and just wanted to get laid, and the lack of home décor didn't prevent them from getting laid, it sounds like they had things figured out pretty well.

It's not that we were content, it's simply what we could afford.

That's the reality of late stage capitalism, it can take years until you can save enough money for the basics. I couldn't afford a couch until I was 30! Until then I had to put up with lawn chairs and bean bags. My credit card limit was only $500 when I was young, and we didn't have Affirm yet because it was the early 2010s; if I didn't have the cash, I couldn't buy it! So needless to say, decorations aren't exactly the priority when you can't even afford furniture!

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I had an ex-girlfriend who had grown up in her father's antique shop and inherited all his shit when he died. Watching Antiques Roadshow with her was a trip because she knew the value of everything almost to the exact dollar. However, this had greatly distorted her perception of the acceptability of some things. She had an authentic "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer" poster from the 1930s and I had to convince her that she couldn't just put that shit up over her mantelpiece and expect to have friends.

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It’s a reference to the artist KAWS, and this specific Mickey Mouse with X instead of each eye, is called Companion.

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Artist is named KAWS. The artist is a contemporary artist that uses brand icons, like the Mickey Mouse looking statue on the desk. It’s all very cheap and empty art that I guess some people eat up. He basically just slaps the stupid skull on everything and calls it “art”. Tons of merchandising, very capitalistic.

Kaws... Who is an artist. I don't get it either.