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Gratuity Nudity [[Naked drawing of Athena.]] / Narration: This is roughly what I look like naked.
Ah Ah Ah...You Didn't Say the Magic Word Tyrannosaurus Rex / Utahraptor / Stegosaurus / Triceratops / Pterodactyl / Dennis Nedry / Brachiosaurus / Dromiceiomimus
 
Smack Madness 1 Did You Know: Young users break into cars or garages and steal to feed habits costing as much as $800 a day!* / Just Another Example of: Northfield's Smack Madness** / * Katherine Kersten, a fair and balanced Star Tribune news source! / ** A slang word for heroin!
Would You Like To Meet Nate Nate Wootters Has a Saturday / Off Screen: NATE! / [[Nate is wearing a tie. He combs his hair.]] / Nate: And-the-and one thing I remember is-I think that- / Nate (thought): I wish someone would spike the punch. / Old Woman: Is that little Nate? / [[Nate contentedly plays video games.]] / Nate (thought): I wish someone would spike the milk. / Old Woman 1: College! / Old Woman 2: College! / Old Woman 3: College! / Nate's Dad: ...it's been a nice visit...nice to see you...hope you didn't forget anything. / [[Nate arrives at his dorm room door. He realizes he has forgotten his key.]] / [[Nate and his dad drive back home again.]] / [[Nate lies in his bed, one eye open.]]
PhoebeSpeak Phoebe: Hey dumb fuck, why you gotta be such a stupid cunt, huh? Jesus fucking christ, everybody's such an ugly fuck!
Carrying a Torch? An Invisible Love? Invisible Woman. Human Torch.
Los Bros Hernandez [[Two Locas-esque characters in conversation.]] / (Style stolen from Jaime Hernandez.)
 
Sarah G SARAH GOLDFEATHER'S FACE!
Ladies Who Make Choices [[A poster. Many naked women with wild hair stand atop pillars made of coat hangers.]] / Woman 1: Abortion / Woman 2: Speak / Woman 3: Out
Happy Holidays from the Curriers [[Sarah Currier and Phoebe Currier gesture angrily at one another, each holding a different Christmas tree. Sarah Currier clutches a fake white tree. Phoebe Currier clutches a short-needle fir tree.]]
Athena is from Mars Two nerdy little girls. Both have shorts and T-shirts. One has glasses.
My Uterus is FULL of Eggs. Two little girls. Both have T-shirts. One has shorts; the other has a pleated skirts. That one also has a headband.
 
In Honor of Rosie Two lanky tweens in summer clothes. One has her arms up, gesturing and grinning.
In Honor of Rosie Two lanky tweens in summer clothes. One has her arms up, gesturing and grinning.
Old Enough to Start Rebelling THE OMEN / Four sheep run in terror toward the viewer.
Life is Short, and Hampshire Long ART / A girl with long hair and bare feet and a pencil in hand sits on a wooden stool and gestures toward a canvas that is off screen. A second girl, with short hair and an eyebrow piercing, observes.
Hells Yes, Boobies BOOBIES. / [[The two "o"s in the word "boobies" are actually the breasts of a disinterested-looking naked woman with devil horns.]]
I Hope You Had a Happy Sunday HAPPY ROBOT / A happy robot skips along happily.
 
My Sexual Peak Lies Ahead A badass (albeit emaciated) woman in a tank top and ripped jeans flips off the viewer with both hands.
Tonight at Midnight! Casey D.V.A. and Mickey M. In aviators.
mr. movies A nerdy girl in glasses wearing her official mr. movies polo shirt.
Hipsters A hipster boy holds a guitar. He stares happily at it, a small heart floating above his head.
An Unfixable Hard Drive and Other Adventures TAKE IT OFF--IT FEELS GOOD. / Burlesque Lady: phew! / Fire & Ice Burlesque 8:30 Thursday May 8th Red Barn
 
Best Laid Schemes A large drawing of four superhero teens. One of them doesn't have his feet drawn yet.
Juxtaposed Images in a Deliberate Sequence Athena looks upward. / Athena looks straight ahead, frowning and flinching. / Athena slips down, out of frame, only one hand visible, waving weakly.
Juxtaposed Images in a Deliberate Sequence Athena looks upward. / Athena looks straight ahead, frowning and flinching. / Athena slips down, out of frame, only one hand visible, waving weakly.
Party Pooper A boy in goggles and a pilot's cap straightens out a bedspread. straighten straighten, pat pat. / He spies a party popper lying on the bed. / Boy: OOH! A party popper? What could be inside?? There's no party... Aw, I'm gonna open it anyway. (SNATCH!) / POOSH! Confetti flies everywhere. / The boy holds the two halves of the shattered party popper in his hands. He does not look pleased. / Boy: grumble, grumble. He begins to scoop up the bits of confetti.
Thank Goodness for Ira Glass Narrator: I remember how it felt to be here last year, when everything was new. / [[Athena wanders away from the library. A large sign that says "Hampshire College" is in the foreground.]] / Narrator: There was, to be completely cliche about it, infinite possibility. Every person, every meal, every minute... ...all filled with opportunity. / [[Athena shakes hands with another student sitting on the wall near Dakin.]] / Narrator: I loved being able to walk to the post office or through upper classmen housing without knowing anyone yet--without being known. / [[Athena marches triumphantly underneath the Bridge.]] / Narrator: Time passed, and groups formed--a comfort on the one hand, but on the other, it marked the end of that certain openness. / [[Athena holds a meal tray in SAGA. Friends wave her toward their table.]] / Narrator: As the newness has worn off and the space has become familiar it feels oddly scarier as well. / [[Athena nervously observes two hipsters talking.]] / Narrator: And the limits continue to close in. / [[Bald Athena sits in her small Merrill dorm room working on a comic.]]

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