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Remember it is illegal to use, produce or distribute love potions in most if not all cases. This includes every state, province and territory.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

Necromancy gets a bad rap, but these soulless husks weren't doing anything useful before I got here. Enchantment is the stuff of nightmares.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I wouldn't mind selling my future corpse to the Dusties. I need money now, and won't need my body then. Seems like a perfect deal.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

But my boy Sandal loves enchantment

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Ahahahahahaah! xD

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The Gods Are Bastards makes the same call-out!

“I’d be careful with that kind of joke, Professor,” Toby warned. “Sisters of Avei consider the use of love potions a form of rape. So does Imperial law, for that matter, but Imperial law doesn’t get quite as…worked up on the subject as they do."

Only Villains Do That, by the same author, has a similar reference - the protagonist receives a "starter bundle" of spells, one of which is Enamour. He's pretty skeeved that one of his few starter spells is a rape spell.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Dang, love potions are a dark art confirmed.

[-] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Only time I’ve seen an ethical love potion plot was a cute little comic featuring a couple looking to spice things up due to mutual boredom. They split a love potion, but neither changed their behavior. Both remained bored together, but with slight, visible smiles.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Honestly, one of the most scientifically plausible "love potions" we might actually be able to make someday would something that long term couples might actually be really interested in. You know that initial early head-over-heels "chemical love" that happens right at the start of a relationship? In principle that could be duplicated artificially. That would be something.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

So just an absolute rage of hormones and oxytocin? Sounds miserable to me, but I’m ace-aro so what do I know?

You can get an oxytocin nasal spray, right now, to enhance your bonding if you so choose.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  1. What if I use it on myself?

  2. Does the recipient have to love a person, or can we, say, make one for the environment and the wellbeing of all our fellow living things?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Can I introduce a dilute form of it into the water supply and then have an easy path to elected office?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Still illegal, as the person will feel a romantic love towards the environment. Some people who've done this little experiment have been caught doing unspeakable acts to forests and groves. And for some reason, fences.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

You're just describing shrooms, lol

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Big Depression won't allow it, it's a scheme to sell more sad

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

As for 1/. is concerned, you'll be ok as long as you can stay away from lakes and other deep still water reservoirs (Narcissus)

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

The Harry Potter series is so weird about this.

It’s like a joke that a girl essentially tries to roofie Harry and gets Ron instead. Voldemorts mom drugs a muggle into loving her.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Pretty wild

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

As it turns out the author of Harry Potter is a huge piece of shit

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Just interesting that for all the hysteria about trans women going into women’s restrooms to rape, she’s remarkably nonchalant about women raping men. (UK law defines rape in such a way that cis women can’t really commit it anyway.)

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Yes, she’s an awful awful person generally and it shows through her characters in her books.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

Giving a love potion to your parents so they'll stop abusing you

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Daaaannngggggg

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

What if it was a platonic love potion?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

That would be pretty solid.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

To make you fall in love with Plato, or to make Plato fall in love with you?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

like, with 12 sides?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

For even more warning, a child made through procreation via a love potion also loses their nose.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

And is also a sociopath, incapable of feeling or giving love.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Ok but what about placebo love potions?

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Third one of these comics I've seen in a short time. Are they supposed to be anti-jokes? None of them seem to have any sort of punchline..

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

I think they’re going for the kind of humor Li Chen or Poorly Drawn Lines does but … it’s a work in progress

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I think there should be another (perhaps hidden) panel where the guy on the left just chugs the entire cauldron in front of the witch, maintaining eye-contact.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Offers the police a refreshing drink when they arrive.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

But when I kissed the cop down at 34th and Vine

He broke my little bottle of

Love Potion No. 9

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

That life drain potion though? Totally ok :-)

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago
  1. Throw love potion on monster

  2. It stops attaching

  3. Kill it, it doesn't even fight back

  4. ???

  5. Profit!

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

More like

  1. It’s starts getting frisky with you
  2. Walk funny for 2 weeks
[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I'm not seeing any downsides here.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Only two weeks? I want my money back for that love potion.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

And the final ingredient, a dash of GHB...

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Perhaps what the potion really does is changes you when you make it so that you become the person that your object of desire will love.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Well that works until the person you're pining for is, unbeknownst to you, gay or lesbian. Now you're in for more changes than you bargained for!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

The beauty of such subtle magic is that you would be happy to be changed in such a way. :)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Using a love potion can also be dangerous. See: Sorry, but I'm Not Yuri for more details.

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