All my main pieces from the Sunny Valentine Zine @its-always-ziney-in-philadelphia <3 go check out everyone else's amazing work!! 💕 (I also did The Waiter on the front page). Whuagh everyone is so talented.
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The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore is giving me feelings about Dee and Dennis. Yeah, shit still sucks: According to the twins, Frank ruined their vacations by complaining constantly, and I bet they learned the sunblock-flask trick from Barbara. But also,, Dennis literally says “these are, like, the happiest days of our lives”!!
Like,, fun beach times??? The boardwalk is a place for “rides, and games, and opportunities to win stuffed toys”?? Dee gestured to Dennis when she mentioned the stuffed toys. We know Dennis loved Mr Tibbs. How much do want to bet he was ridiculously invested in the boardwalk stuffed animals? I 100% believe that he (at least once) spent all of his money at a claw machine and went off the rails when he didn’t win anything
I also believe that Dee would hunker down at a competitive game and win as many prizes as possible until she could trade them in for a huge trophy she could parade around. Tiny Dee, basking in the power of beating grown adults trying to win toys for their children...and also shoving her victory in their faces afterwards.
Personally, I have no doubt that Dennis would suck at winning toys in comparison. Being two wild kiddos, they’d definitely fight about who gets which toy...but also...if Dee sometimes let her brother keep some of the stuffed animals she won, because she didn’t care about the little ones, anyway...and maybe also because Dennis would be happier than she usually ever saw him be...that’s neither here nor there...
idk just. Going on vacations while in a toxic family can be horrible. But sometimes the change in environment allows people to forget and escape the miserable norm for a little while. And for two kids who never got gifts on Christmas, the opportunity to win things for themselves must’ve been at least a little cathartic