Conversations with my Younger Self: Part 1

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by on October 26, 2025 at 12:43 pm

A 12 panel comic, rendered in full color. In the first panel, we see the outside of an apartment building at night. Light glows from a set of windows, and from those windows lilts singing; a bastardized, romanji version of "Umapyoi Legend" from the game Umamusume Pretty Derby: "Uuuuuuu, umadachi!" In the second panel, we hands holding a cross stitch hoop and sewing stitches, a cozy apartment interior in the background. The singing continues, "uuuuu, umapyoi, umapyoi!" In the third panel, we see who the hands sewing belong to: Emily, a woman with glasses, short hair, and wearing a goldenrod colored sweater. She focuses on her stitching as she continues singing to herself, "uuuuu sukidacchi! Uuuu, umapyoi!" In the forth panel, she gives into singing, slowly lowering her hoop as she leans back and finishes the verse, "uma uma umya umya san ni ichi fight!" On the "fight," a "FWOOM" sound effect bursts from off panel. In the fifth panel, Emily leans forward, stunned, looking at whatever has just occurred off panel with a simple "uh." In the sixth panel, we see what she's looking at: a portal that has opened up over her floor with a young girl stepping through it, who looks quite similar to Emily in appearance, though she has long hair and bangs and is much smaller. Emily asks with clear confusion, "who are you?" The seventh, eight, ninth and tenth panels are all arranged in a square, and the speech bubbles weave through each one. In the center of all of them stand the young girl, who shifts from her original young appearance to an appearance much similar to the current Emily as she delivers her observation: "Um, I think I'm every previous version of you all at the same time?" In the eleventh panel, we return to seeing the current Emily seated on the couch, staring in bewilderment. In the twelfth panel, she leans back onto the couch and simply says, "Well. Shit." to which her youngest self of the versions shown yells "hey we can't say that!" Below this is the title treatment of the series in lowercase letters: "Conversations with my Younger Self"

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