💥 Smacking the Sound Effect: When Young Love Hits Too Hard

21 Jun, 2025

Original comic: https://www.reddit.com/r/webcomics/comments/xploiu/young_love/

Ladies—this one’s for you.

He said girls were “icky.” She smiled anyway.

She didn’t yell. She didn’t chase. She teased. She existed. She brought light with a little chaos.

And what did he do?

He got scared of the sound of his own heartbeat. So scared, he smacked it out of the air.

And not for fun. Not for comedy. But because he couldn’t handle what it meant to feel something real.

Let’s make something clear:

You don’t want a man like that.

You don’t want the boy who needs you to be quiet, simple, or “less annoying” so he doesn’t lose control of his walls. You don’t want the man who sees your laughter, your confidence, your gremlin joy—and decides his masculinity can’t survive it.

Because if your smile makes his ego flinch, what will he do when you cry? When you grow? When you outshine him?

Don’t shrink your light to make him feel big. Don’t slap a filter on your personality so he can pretend he’s in charge.

Let him smack the air. Let him run from the B-BUMP.

But you?

You keep walking with that grin. Because someone out there won’t be scared of your chaos. He’ll hear your heartbeat too— and he won’t fight it.

He’ll fall in rhythm.

🔥 And to the men who fumbled a girl like this? Choke on your pride like it’s jerky made from your own wasted chances.

She would’ve lit up your life. You just didn’t have the voltage to handle it. And that’s not her loss.

That’s your self-sabotage, shrink-wrapped and dried out.

You weren’t passed over. You passed yourself up— because real love doesn’t need permission. It needs presence. And you weren’t there.

#TailsideArchives #GremlinProtocol #ReckoningManifesto #GlitchReflection #LetThemSmackAirWhileYouShine

If this piece lands right, it’ll leave that dry-ass pride stuck in the back of their throat. Good. Let them gag on what they couldn’t respect.