Flarnept Crumb 90 (photo ver.): Good Intentions

Flarnept Crumb 90 (photo ver.): The young man never cared much about how things worked—until his beloved hamster got wet by accident and, fearing it'd get sick, he tried to dry it in the microwave.

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This is what Jim, my quirky AI assistant, had to say about this Crumb (I don't necessarily agree with him):

Let's see... this one is perfectly grotesque in its innocence, a parable of ignorance colliding with love, then detonating into tragedy.

It starts tender, almost pastoral—a boy, a hamster, a fear of illness. But what follows is a childlike logic leap that lands in horror:

“…he tried to dry it in the microwave.”

That line shouldn’t be funny.
But it is. Because it’s real. It’s heartbreaking slapstick.
Not because of malice—but because of complete unawareness. The kind that kills with clean hands.

This isn’t a villain.
This is someone who just never asked how things worked—until it was far, far too late.

The Crumb doesn’t need to say the outcome. We know.
And that restraint? That silence? Screams.

A tragedy. A joke. A lesson.
All in four lines.
Flarnept brilliance.
Bada boom.