Love to put lines, nude photos, Google Tools people: a collection of world-weary love illustrations that you and I have encountered

Text: Womany Jiaqi

"The ambiguous object suddenly disappeared and came back without explanation", "I am asked by a boy every time what a girl is thinking, when I am Google", "After a stable relationship, they treat me as a potted plant". The contemporary love scene is always full of questions that we can't answer, and we stumble in love, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing. Samantha Rothenberg, an illustrator from New York, uses her humorous American style to draw these endless love voices, with a bit of world-weariness, collecting these illustrated books of men and women in the city, and hitting your love problems with a pinpoint to the point.

莫名奇妙的地鐵人：「常常無預警關閉，事後再給出超爛的解釋」

Many people have this experience: "My date often disappears, suddenly pretends to be mysterious, doesn't reply to messages, doesn't tell me about his troubles, and then things change and give a super bad explanation." This kind of object, like the New York subway, is often inexplicably mistaken or closed, and then given an official explanation afterwards, causing distress to passengers. Lovers can't guess the heart, is the subway timetable in New York, you never know when the next train will come. (Gaying in the same scene: Why don't you make it clear when you are ambiguous?) Psychology explains the "spare tire relationship")

交往後，我變成盆栽人：「我總覺得自己像盆栽，被放置好幾周，快枯死了」

After dating for a period of time, many people's unspeakable annoyance is that the cohabitation life that was expected to be sweet and sweet is dull and boring. You become the background of the family, and he often seems to be unable to figure out if you are at home or not. The murmur in the illustration is, "I always feel like your potted plant, which has been left for weeks and I'm dying."

Google 工具人:什麼都要問我,我才不是你的知識家

"Every time I get asked by my boys, 'What are girls thinking?' as if I were an intellectual." I am often asked by my favorite person what to eat for dinner, what is fun in the summer vacation, and even used as a love counselor to ask boys/girls what is going on in their hearts. If this happens, be brave enough to say, "I'm not your Google!" like the girl in the picture. (Read more: Why do "tool man" supermarket advertisements make you angry?) In everyone's heart, there may be a Xiao Bojun living in it)

愛傳生殖器照的人：拜託，別再未經同意傳你的照片來了

Sometimes, we have received photos of genitals from strangers. If both parties agree, it's a lovely pleasure. But if it comes without consent, it's an uncomfortable form of sexual harassment. Samantha collected comments from netizens and drew this picture in a mocking tone, "It's like some cats, for reasons they don't know, they always get some bird carcasses." Maybe it's to win favor, (but usually, it's all in vain.) ）

迴紋針人：明明沒有很喜歡，還是愛放線

"I don't like you very much, but I still like to tease you when I jump out." Paperback needle people who love to put threads are this type. The reason for its name is that it is like a small helper in the office series, which is not only unhelpful but also loves to brush up on its presence. (In the same scene, add a screening: "An An, what are you doing, have you eaten enough" Have you also encountered the relentless Paperclipping?) ）

硬要當朋友人：「幹嘛不跟我當朋友，我明明是個好人」

was rejected, but said, "Why don't you be friends with me, I'm obviously a good person." We must all be sad to be rejected, but there are many kind and kind people in the world, and the other party does not necessarily have to be friends with you. It's better to let go of yourself slowly and make friends with other people.

情緒勞動人：「我解釋情緒勞動給你，拜託給我注意聽」

There are also some people who always pay for love without asking for anything in return, making them physically and mentally exhausted. One party often invests a lot of emotions and spirit to comfort, care, support, and make the other party happy. This is called "emotional labor", and the girl in the picture is trying to explain to the boy why caring for others is also a kind of labor.

Samanshan's illustrated book comes from her own experience and that of netizens, which is appropriate and has black humor. Of course, you don't have to completely agree with the gender roles in her drawings and whether they replicate real-life stereotypes. But her hit the nail on the head, but it pierced the hearts of countless men and women in the city - just want love, why is it so difficult. (Read more: The Poor Love Imagination Exposed by Single Ads: Not Everyone's Love Is a Love Cultivation Game)

Will I really be loved?

Her paintings also allow us to get the comfort of being said in each picture. In any case, our generation is fighting with love again and again, and slowly finding itself.