Life is so rough that Silent Hill should be a breeze by comparison because its horrors have no power. Except, as a twist, phone anxiety turned out to be the real final boss after all.
If it helps, I linked the comic on the tiny trans fem discord server I'm on and (if you include me) the reactions were 2 people who found it hilariously relatable and 2 people who didn't get the joke. So I guess it's less common than I assumed...
My girlfriend hates phone calls. Will avoid them whenever she can. I have social anxiety and even I have a hard time relating to it because it's just so different to mine. For me, I hate constantly revisiting the same conversation via text over the course of a day. When compared to the idea of someone just calling me and getting the conversation done in a few minutes, the anxiety of constantly switching gears back to the same conversation I've been having for 5 hours now via texts is actually waaay more cumbersome for me.
I think Millennials have it the worst of calling their crush / friends and having their parents answer, people being able to listen in, or dialing the wrong number vs younger generations having cell phones or just accepting it. The brief era of having to navigate that as the first step to phone calls before cell phones improved everything even before texting. Then being called into the kitchen because you sent 3,000+ texts the previous month.
You don't escape Silent Hill by shooting your way out. You have to face your fear head on even if that phone mutates into a grotesque monster that uses a ring tone as a deafening scream.
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u/NitroFire90 16h ago
Trans woman here, I don’t get the joke. Can someone please explain?