#2919: Sitting in a Tree

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Three children are singing. A kid with a bowl cut and a young Hairy are pointing with their fingers, while Jill stands in the middle. A pair of connected eighth notes and a detached eighth note are shown.]

Kid with a bowl cut, Jill and Hairy: [Name] and [Name], sitting in a tree...

[Label above the panel:]

Normal

[Cueball and Megan are sitting on a tree branch holding hands and kissing, with a heart above them.]

R-E-A-D-I-N-G

S-I-N-G-I-N-G

P-L-A-Y-I-N-G

S-H-A-R-I-N-G

H-U-G-G-I-N-G

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

[Label above the panel:]

Slightly worrying

[Cueball and Megan are sitting on a tree branch each ironing a cloth on an ironing board, with steam arising from the irons.]

S-O-B-B-I-N-G

I-T-C-H-I-N-G

P-R-U-N-I-N-G

B-A-N-K-I-N-G

P-O-S-T-I-N-G

I-R-O-N-I-N-G

[Label above the panel:]

Very alarming

[Cueball and Megan, her hair being uncharacteristically wild, sitting on a tree branch smiting with glowing hands, with two falling fireballs and fire below them. Cueball's hands are raised up, while Megan has her left hand up and her right hand pointing to her right.]

M-O-L-T-I-N-G

W-H-A-L-I-N-G

E-F-I-L-I-N-G

M-E-L-T-I-N-G

X-R-A-Y-I-N-G

S-M-I-T-I-N-G

(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:First comes blood / Then we perish / Then comes Death in his Eternity Carriage.


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