#exactly!!!!!!!

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"Good Ol' Charlie Brown. How I hate him!"

Now, how could anyone hate Charlie Brown? But the choice is brilliant. From the beginning, Charles Schulz made it clear that Peanuts, while about children, was not going to be childish or simple or simply for children. It was going to be funny and sad and, best of all, funny about being sad. Or as Charlie Brown might say, "Good Grief." For 50 years, Peanuts was king of the comics page, and people of all ages read it every day, because Schulz knew that our inner lives as adults are rooted in our childhood wants and fears-emotions that we never fully leave behind. So, we recognize ourselves in the little victories and defeats of these l'il Folks. No matter how old we are, the tree will eat our kite. The little red-haired girl may never notice us. We get no Valentine's mail or Halloween candy. Our dog is more popular than we are. The football gets pulled away at the last minute, again. And again. But we know we will never give up trying. Every spring, we think this will be the winning season-blockheads to the end.

But in all this, Schulz, a man of deep faith, never points us toward despair. In that first strip, Charlie Brown strolls by the boy who hates him, as happy and oblivious as the Fool. Maybe he doesn't hear what Shermy says, or maybe he is just pretending he doesn't hear it. Either way, from the first strip to the last, Charlie Brown keeps walking on, forever a hero of hope."

OH MY GOD. okay well first of all the answer is sode, he is very much Guy That Has A Little Too Much Wine at the Art and Wine Festival.......and he gets separated from the rest when he veers off to pee and is wandering through the various booths with vague confusion wonder and fear. he ends up at the stall of some guy with the most mediocre oil pastel landscapes known to man but he has such a profound [to him] conversation with the former deadhead at the booth that he buys three landscapes made while the guy was on various hallucinogenics bc they MIGHT be the gateways to a transcendent experience for HIM too....[i am basing this on that vid of him saying in the most monotone voice 'it was electric, for sure' while discussing game of thrones]...zack doesn't have the heart to give him shit about it but law ABSOLUTELY does

“I wonder if he’s as well-practiced at looking after himself as well as he is looking out for others.” 

it’s the way that when he’s going through any kind of physical or emotional pain,  he is always looking around himself for the person who is going through worse pain or any other kind of pain and he tries to focus all his energy on that / them to take care of them so he never actually focuses on his own,  he convinces himself he’s fine and that someone else needs help more.  because he’s good at that, and that’s his way of coping.

see:  never allowing himself to mourn tammy because his father just lost his wife and he’s the one who needs to be taken care of;  he’s the one who shouldn’t have to worry about anything else because alden is there and he can take care of it and that’s what alden would prefer.

see also:  literally bleeding out yet checking in on m/aggie,  making sure she’s mentally okay given all that she has gone through.  she was literally the only support he had holding him up to be able to stand/walk yet he’s the one asking her if he’s okay,  he’s the one trying to make jokes just to keep things light hearted so that she won’t worry too much and she won’t panic.