Malaya might not have noticed Marcie’s reaction. Also, cuddling between female friends is something that is generally considered to be a okay, so since she’s busy studying, she might not have thought anything of it. Because she thought nothing of it, that leads me to believe she is straight.
If a girl leaned on me like that, and I didn’t know her sexuality, I would assume it was flirtatious.
Actually, I think in Shortpacked she was shown to go both ways, and then she entered a relationship with Ultra Car.
I think a lot of people are more likely to assume that it is platonic than flirtatious really because a lot of friends lean on each other just because they are tired without it meaning anything past ‘I am tired, you are now for resting against’.
She flirted briefly with going both ways, but realized she was 100% straight when Leslie kissed her. She is, however, totally into robots shaped like girls.
But what she says later is pretty clearly “I’m not into women OR men”. Shorter version of that is “asexual”. Malaya’s still interested in sex as a general concept, which puts her in the gray ace category.
(Robin also said she was straight, like, a lot of times, then “straight with an exception”, then “sorta undefinable queer”. People’s understandings of their sexualities change over time.)
Ah right! I didn’t remember her saying that, I just remembered her seeming to try relationships with both genders, but it does make sense for her to decide she was into neither – I know she still had a sex drive though, which is why it was lucky Ultra Car had that extra third arm for dealing with urges. >w>
@Raibean I’ve heard it both ways, I thought? But I’m not ace myself. (Well, maybe a little gray-ace.) So if I am in error I apologize. The thing I wanted to express was that she’s shown both sex-repulsion and strictly-Carla-related sex-positivity.
She HAS attraction, in other words. This is why I would tend to call her demisexual. In fact her interest in having sex specifically with Carla’s unique physiology seems to increase dramatically over the course of their relationship, from her stating that she’s glad they get to opt out of ridiculous kissing to her saying here that she feels a “need” for Carla.
I mean, of course it’s Willis’s comic, and we aren’t living inside Malaya’s head, so maybe she would never use any of these words to describe herself.
But it seems consistent with her previous incarnation, which definitely was not “straight”.
@thejeff: I think Malaya would know better than us outside observers. She agrees with Carla that all human parts are gross, and though she was literally rebounding with the Multiplex MC immediately after her failed relationship with Leslie (which kind of messes with your emotions a lot and sometimes makes you consider both sex and relationships you normally wouldn’t), they never actually had sex.
@timemonkey that was my memory too but she does actually say “guess I’m straight after all.” And then tries to go out with Ken before immediately ditching him for a misanthropic guy who she then fails to actually get it on with. Personality clash, as far as we can tell, but like I said linking the comic above Malaya later revised that to not interested in anyone but Carla.
IIRC she even specifically says she thinks genitals are gross, but I’m not there yet in my reread. She does agree with Carla that sex is generally icky, at least.
I think he mean “Spiderman and Deadpool rule separately on their own.”
But seriously, Spiderpool? That sounds like a nightmare.
Like, a in-ground pool filled with spiders, all crawling over eachother and such.
Ohh, and a bunch of webs at the bottom so you’re trapped if you ever fall in!
Lucy probably doesn’t like comic books in this universe either.
In SP! she liked Teen Titans, the cartoon, then tried to pick up comic books and found dead-eyed fresh-off-the-New ’52 Starfire in a genuinely terrible costume enjoying nothing of life.
Here too she is probably into the movies or one of the cartoons, not the comics.
OK I’m obviously not up enough on DC myself. She is completely a fan of Young Justice the cartoon. Not any of the movies, because… neither Robin nor Kid Flash has been in them yet. Lol.
Technically, menstrual fluid is not blood, nor does it arise from blood. Rather, it arises from the shedding of the endometrium, which is a hemoglobin-rich tissue layer inside the uterus.
So, no, in fact, women do *not* bleed internally on a monthly basis.
So it just looks like blood? Man, Biological creatures are weird man. I’m gonna stick to pokemon. They don’t excrete anything except fire and electricity.
Dogs have periods. Or at least, they bleed periodically. Weird thing is, IIRC, they have their sort-of menstruation at the same time they’re ovulating? Something like that?
All I know is our female dog every now and then has to wear a diaper-thing or there’s blood all over the house.
Menstrual blood IS blood. It is just mixed with … stuff. (I’m not going into details cause I don’t wanna think about it and especially don’t wanna look up vocabulary).
Just look it up on wikipedia or somewhere.
She said she didn’t understand half of what Lucy said, naturally the half she didn’t understand would the the half talking about characters she’s not familiar with.
Alternately, and much more likely, that was a turn of phrase to indicate that the previous conversation,a nd those like them, were completely incomprehensible, while other conversations are not, rather than “I understood exactly half of the words she just said, but not the other half that those words relied upon”.
Come on Lucy, know your audience. Talking DC comics to Malaya is like talking Serpentor to Malaya, it’s a bad idea from the start and you should know better by now.
Really just about anyone who isn’t in Sal’s clique and isn’t Mike would like her because she’s delightful and you have to be kind of a miserable person to dislike her.
Walky could go well. Ethan I could see going either way. No way would Amber appreciate someone who requires actual physical barriers in order to respect boundaries.
Huh? What boundaries? No boundaries have been put forth, just snide comments behind Lucy’s back and a double flip-off (which isn’t exactly the same thing as a boundary).
I don’t think Malaya has boundaries per se, as she’s all offense and no defense.
That’s not what a boundary is. A boundary is a limit on how you may interact with someone e.g. you’d be crossing a boundary if you touched their arm when they don’t like contact and they haven’t given you permission to do so or if you insulted their mother, that tends to cross a boundary on what people will let you say to them.
There is no boundary set here – Lucy was just trying to engage people lyng in her shared dorm room in a friendly conversation because they are both doing different things as Malaya is studying while Marcie is on her phone and she had something she wanted to share.
It is not a reasonable expectation that someone in the same room as you will never try to engage you in conversation.
If they were actually in the middle of a conversation then it would have been rude, but they weren’t, so Lucy didn’t actually cross any social lines at all and I don’t understand where you are getting that she has?
That’s not what a boundary is. A boundary is a limit on how you may interact with someone
What, engaging someone in conversation isn’t interacting with them?
Lucy didn’t actually cross any social lines at all
Yes, she fucking did.
This is Malaya’s private space. That is is coterminous with Lucy’s private space doesn’t suddenly remove their ability to have a real private space – it, in fact, makes respecting it fucking sacred.
‘Hey, you guys wanna see this cool pic?’ from her desk would be OK…walking over to Malaya’s space and starting in on an actual conversation with people who’ve shown no interest in being involved in a conversation for you is mindbogglingly rude.
I’d say the former, the latter would require to be extremely quick on the uptake without a shred of context. While the former is basic survival instinct.
I’m with you for the exact same reason. The next week (in universe) will be Lucy dying to ask Mayala how things are going with her and Marcie, and Malaya being all, “huh?”
I’m near certain it’s the latter. Immediately assuming two people who have even the slightest bit of skinship are into each other is what fangirls do. There’s no way Lucy didn’t make the connection imo.
I think the last panel is a pretty strong indicator that that’s not gonna happen. Malaya probably didn’t even hear the actual words coming out of Lucy’s mouth.
Thanks for answering that. I’m always looking for more ways to express my displeasure with you fleshlings. So, follow-up…do I use the middle finger before or after I shoot the fleshling with the fusion canon?
Also…do you think Rodimus knows this Earthling-specific gesture?
I don’t know if kid is the right word for Megsy, he’s kinda been fighting a war for a few million Earth years last count. Well, most the ones I’ve read about. Not sure if I’m that old really, stopped counting after a few thousand…
It depends on whether or not the gesture is intended to express your displeasure to the target, or whether it’s more for personal gratification or the amusement of anybody hanging out.
I find it really hard to believe Rodimus isn’t familiar with it.
Why would you use the middle finger at all? He just said it is a gesture meant to solicit sex. That seems like the opposite of what you would be going for. Unless fusion canon is a terrible metaphor, in which case its customary to ask the fleshling before shooting them up with your “fusion canon”.
It’s the double deuce. She’s giving Lucy the middle finger with both hands at once. Don’t think that’s official ASL but colloquially it translates as “Fuck You” spoken twice simultaneously.
I would strongly advise doing so, so long as they’ve got a friend around to video them doing so and the results so we can all laugh at then on YouTube during the months they’re recovering.
I would’ve liked to say that it was a subliminal message from a time when subtlety was a foreign concept, but I’m afraid it’s just a singing scene taken completely out of context.
That’s Mr. Rogers teaching counting. He used his thumb for 1, pointer finger for 2, and then realized he didn’t think it through as he continued that pattern…
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
Malaya doesn’t KNOW, or Marcie doesn’t KNOW, or- they’re still at the uncertainty stage of the relationship. Missed that. I thought they were more established, i dunno why.
I think Marcie is out of luck. Malaya was not positively reacting to the “lean” and did not pick up on the parallel between Lucy’s description and her own situation which, had she been interested in Marcie, would have lit a little bulb above her head.
I wonder: how much of that reaction would Marcie have given Lucy just for interrupting her attempted snuggle session again, and how much of it was because of how Lucy was inadvertently trying to blow her cover?
I agree. But it’s not out of character for either of them, so I’m not surprised. I feel bad for Lucy. She has no idea what’s going on with Marcie and Malaya so she happily starts talking about something that is exactly what’s going on with the two women, just with boys instead and gets yelled at in ASL. Kind of. The middle finger is pretty generic. xD
Seriously, I never can stomach just completely unprovoked meanness as an attempt at comedy it just makes me feel bad for the character on the receiving end.
Yeah, the more I read about this delightful pair the more I think about the college roomie who decided that my existence was a deliberate attempt to ruin her life because she’d had a double all to herself before I arrived. There was literally nothing* I could do that did not deserve a sneer, a nasty remark, or on one memorable occasion a literally and metaphorically stinking drunk homeless person crawling into bed with me because my roomie had gone outside and led her into the building and up the stairs and unlocked our dorm door for her. “Oh, Jenny, I thought she was your girlfriend!” That showed me for existing!
(She was shocked, SHOCKED, when The Man told her to find off-campus housing on her own nickel or transfer to another campus.)
*Nothing. Even sitting silently in my corner pretending that she and I didn’t exist. She would still walk in, snort, sigh, and grumble. There I was, all existing and stuff, like the bongo I was!
Lucy is describing Marcy right in front of Malaya, she just doesn’t realize it.
I’d be pretty pissed too if I’m just trying to talk up a guy and then some girl I barely know was all, “I know this FRIEND who gets super shy talking to guys so she starts talking about his sports team even though she’s not a fan! It’s adorbs.”
I love Lucy. Also, Malaya used to think Marcie was deaf. I wonder how that effects what Marcie thinks of her, stuff Malaya said without being aware anyone was listening, which given Malaya’s expression when it was brought to her attention Marcie WASN’T deaf, was probably a little embarrassing.
Yeah, Lucy, get away from people with your heretic preaching! Everybody knows the OTP is Robin/Kon El (Superboy). ALL OTHER PAIRINGS ARE A LIE, LUCY! A LIE! DO YOU HEAR ME, LUCY?! (This is best recited in John Oliver’s voice.)
Tim/Kon seems like more of a post-crisis thing, where Dick/Wally would be more of a Young Justice Animated thing. Different Robins and different continuities mean they don’t really have to compete with eachother.
Tho I mean, if I saw this going down I would probably say, “Hey, I’m going to go for a walk, I’ll text you when I’m coming back?”
…Malaya may not have her number tho. xD
But I mean, I feel like Marcie is being a bit obvious, to a outsider anyway. Or maybe it’s just obvious to me because a) I know her feelings and b) I’m queer, and it’s easier for me to tell. (I’ve found that a lot of straight people have a hard time sensing when two queer people are flirting. Not true for all! And also I dunno if Lucy is queer or not, I’m just assuming she’s straight)
Okay, Lucy needs to make some fangirl friends, either online or off. I feel that would be best for everyone. Fangirling is way more fun when people join in. I also expect having your quiet evening interrupted by having someone randomly fangirl all over you about something you don’t care about is probably also no fun.
Lucy! There is probably some sort of anime/comics fan association on your campus that you can join – seek them out!
I mean…would you “take what you want” in front of your roommate? I feel that if Malaya was planning anything, it kind of got ruined by the appearance of Lucy.
Plenty folks would, actually; the typical roommate gets flustered and leaves before one gets far enough for modesty to become relevant.
I rather doubt Malaya’s inclined that way, though.
A lot of people are assuming that Malaya would be sexually responsive to Marcie just because of how DMW portrayed her in Shortpacked. That isn’t guaranteed. It would be a shame if Marcie’s heart were broken (especially if this is her first shot at any kind of relationship beyond Sal) but it is a valid direction to take both women’s character arcs.
Hey, she’s only human. Don’t tell me you’ve never been in that situation where you’re desperately to have some intimacy with someone so you can make your move but people keep walking in on the two of you.
Yes, but her facial expression of maximum >:( is more than enough to get the “stop killing my game” message across there’s no need for what is the equivalent of screaming profanity.
No, see, you don’t understand. Marcie isn’t just hating Lucy for being a fangirl (That would be kind of 😐 but) Marcie is hating Lucy *FOR GIVING THE GAME AWAY*. Look back and tell me that Lucy isn’t also describing Marcy XD
Now you made me wonder if the “bongo” filter puts up the correct plural for the word bongo when encountering the Bongo word, so “bongoes” should read as bongos if it does, or bongoes if it doesn’t.
Willis please approve this, I’m doing science. And that totally feels like I should add “bongo” there.
Hopefully, Lucy forgives easily because if Malaya is non receptive to Marcie’s advances she will have alienated someone who did nothing to deserve it for nothing.
She lives with Malaya and is still this sunny and friendly towards her she has to be super forgiving because it’s impossible this is the first time Malaya has been a complete ass to her.
I don’t know if she realizes she’s describing Marcie’s situation perfectly though, or she might have just left the room and let Marcie get on with it.
I don’t think Lucy is oblivious to other people. But I do wonder if she has trouble telling when people aren’t interested in what she’s saying. It seems to me if Malaya never knew what she was talking about, she would possibly have picked up on that by now and just not talked to her about these kinds of things.
Making a lot of assumptions there… First off; there’s plenty yaoi-fangirls who also love yuri. Secondly, not all yaoi-fangirls are feminists. Unless Lucy is stated to be a feminist somewhere else and I just forgot and that’s what you’re referring to, that seems like a really strange assumption to make.
Maybe Lucy likes to ship people in congress with superheroes? I’m sure there’s a real tumblr blog or subreddit for that somewhere. If not, then someone needs to make that happen, right now.
Oh my goodness those rage goggles in panel three. Hahahaha. I’m hoping Lucy gets the hint and makes some excuse to leave and go find her other friends to hang out with. Oh Marcie
Don’t ask me why but I have a feeling that Lucy is going to decide to give her roomie space with her GF and hang out in the Quad. That’s when she gets in trouble with a bunch of upperclassmen jocks and Amazi-Girl and Got-Dumped Boy save the day.
I’m with Marcie, not Malaya. Lucy is both breaking the sacred rule of shared rooms (the ability to carve out private space within the shared space) and interrupting Marcie’s attempt to snuggle with her. Malaya’s just venting her nerd-contempt.
I like all three characters. Apparently that’s like, gonna create a singularity or something.
First of all Marcie’s reaction here is actually completely understandable. “Shut up shut up shut up you are literally describing me right this very second but you’re ruining my happy fanart moment” is just a human response, regardless of how polite it is to express that. Yesterday was uncalled for, today is called for, just maybe not quite like that.
Second of all people are expecting a lot of maturity from these characters. I know it’s been brought up plenty that Malaya’s “I hate everything” act should’ve stopped “being cool” when she was like 14. And come on, it was never actually cool, and these characters are 18-19, which is… not actually that much more emotionally mature than 14. Like, it’s just not.
Some of us were more mature at 18 than this. Some of us were more mature at five years old than this. But there’s no magical dividing line at 18 that actually makes you even remotely a grownup.
Usually people seem to hit 23-25 and then realize they were incredibly childish and foolish when they were 18 (but think they’re very mature now). Then they hit 26-28 and realize, nah, they were still foolish in their early twenties (but they’re more mature now).
Then you hit 30 and realize you’re probably going to keep doing this for the rest of your life, and try to stop thinking of yourself as super mature.
It’s a process. But expecting these people to just abruptly stop being kids because they’re 18 is probably not realistic.
(And you don’t have to be immature at 18 to be more mature at 23 — it’s gonna be relative. You can BE pretty mature right now, but still be more mature in a few more years.)
I think the Malaya hate comes a bit from carryon baggage of Shortpacked where she was considerably older than here and did a lot more to deserve hate with that attitude, and regardless got paired off with a character she didn’t at all deserve, and the audience expected to be happy for that. (Dumbing of Age Malaya is a saint compared with her Shortpacked counterpart.)
Yeah I know, I was there pfft. I liked Malaya then too.
I’m also a little confused. Are you saying she didn’t deserve Carla? …like their first interaction was back when Carla was still car-shaped and they bonded over how much they both hate everybody. Their attitudes were pretty much identical.
I mean that’s the one that makes sense, but it’s not how either of them ended up… so it seems weird to say the audience was expected to be happy??
Leslie and Malaya were wrong for each other. Leslie had some admiration for Malaya’s attitude, but by her own admission it was kind of mostly physical on her end. Malaya had kind of the opposite problem — she liked Leslie a lot, but wasn’t attracted to her, and in the end wasn’t able to make herself be attracted to her.
Malaya doesn’t actually react very strongly at all here. I don’t think this is an instance of her “I hate everything” act.
When Lucy is talking, Malaya looks at her with exactly the same expression she’d previously been directing at her book. Seemingly attentive.
Lucy walks away of her own volition, without getting any response from Malaya. Malaya at this point confides in Marcie that she didn’t really understand what Lucy was talking about, and often doesn’t.
This is a pretty reasonable response. Lucy just walked in and started rambling about some show Malaya probably doesn’t watch without first explaining context, abruptly left without even finishing her statement. I think most people’s reaction would be something along the lines of “Well that was weird and confusing”.
Personally I’ve had the same problem. Eventually my dad had to get me into the habit of opening up these sorts of statements with some basic “I’m talking about X, that show with the Y and Z that I like” type qualifier.
Agreed; Malaya wasn’t openly antagonistic to Lucy here. She actually tried to be polite but, ultimately, Lucy was talking in a completely foreign language. The terms Malaya then used to describe the situation was entirely in-character. If Malaya didn’t use insulting language to describe someone, I’d be worried whether she was alright.
Oh sure, that part of my comment was more about the reactions to the last strip, but I couldn’t at the time put my finger on why people expecting Malaya to already grow out of this needled at me :|a
Interestingly, Malaya in this ‘verse hates everything a lot less than her SP counterpart. She’s been described as having this ‘tude, but Carla already made a big distinction between Sal and Malaya that Malaya “isn’t sneering at anyone from a wall” and (implicitly) (like Marcie, whom Carla was specifically describing at this point)”likes doing stuff”. (She was visibly enjoying skating with Marcie.)
But yeah I had a general point to make about eighteen year olds vs fourteen year olds and the supposedly huge maturity gap we all had between those ages.
At eighteen I think I was pretty grumpy :|a I joked with friends that I was prematurely an old man yelling at those kids to get off my lawn. But despite my general pessimism and feeling like I kinda hated the world, there were still things and people I enjoyed.
I did eventually grow out of it, of course, but I don’t think I was under any delusion about looking cool. I assumed I wasn’t cool, and didn’t care. In my case I think I got ALL my trying to be cool done in seventh and eighth grade, when I went through a spate of trying different hair colors and even curling my hair once, trying to change who I was and become cool.
God I probably came off a lot like Sal though. I had buzzed hair and army fatigue pants that I wore everywhere, and I know some of my teachers assumed I got in trouble with the police regularly, whereas the truth is I had just wanted to start my hair over fresh after all the damage from dyed and perms, and really liked those pants because they were comfortable.
…to clarify, I don’t think anyone thought I was super hot, like they do Sal, but I bet lots of people thought I was scary/dangerous, and trying really really hard to look cool/tough.
I can’t find the particular QC comic I’m thinking of right now, but I think it said it best: “Maturity is knowing you were a fool in the past. Common sense is knowing you should try not to be a fool now. Wisdom is knowing you will be a fool in the future.”
I can completely understand Marcie here. How do you efficiently express your exasperation at Lucy’s complete situation blindness while not being way too obvious to your potential girlfriend who is RIGHT THERE AND YOU ARE RUINING MY GAME BY DESCRIBING IT EXACTLY OH MY GOD GO AWAY
It was probably and unfortunately her only quick option.
Sorry; that’s rage-face and her cheeks are flushed with anger. Look also at the way Marcie’s eyes are burning like lasers from behind her dark glasses.
Oh and more importantly, Willis has never used that type of blush for anger-flushed-face IIRC. It seems unlikely that he’d start now, in a strip where it would be ambiguous. :3
My wishlist: We now follow Lucy as she goes wherever she goes, doing whatever she’s doing next. Maybe she goes out and meets some people, or rides a bike or writes some fanfic or something!
I may or may not have just spent five minutes googling Robin and Kidflash fanart. I didn’t find anything that fits the description exactly but some pretty similar stuff, and it was all very cute and I think I’m a shipper now.
Poor Lucy. She’s just trying to be friendly, and this is the response she gets. I understand where Marcie is coming from, but her response still seems somewhat over-the-top.
Of course Malaya doesn’t understand what Lucy is talking about. I mean are we talking Dick/Wally, Tim/Bart or a crack pairing like Jason/Bart? We need clarification.
Lucy is adorable of course, and Malaya and Marcie are unnecessarily rude, but who just assumes the average person would be interested in Young Justice League fanart?
Loading ...
NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD
[/Scott McNeil]
Wow rude.
yeah, Marcie
(dang forgot the sarcasm quotes)
NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD
[/Tali Zorah]
Emergency Induction Port.
That’s a straw, Doctor_Who
Emerrrgenncy innnducttiion pooort.
Emergency Induction Straaaaw
NERRRRRDS!
Alpha Betas
NERRRRRRRRD
[/Doug Walker]
NERRRRRRRRRRD!
Hah, managed to eat the link, whoops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iO5-ic0Ug4
It makes me sad this is the last one…
Speaking of Doug Walker, this is a translation of what Marcie is saying to Lucy in panel 3, for those few who might need such.
+1 for Tali Zorah!
Tali is my favorite part of the Citadel DLC.
Omni Tat. Omni Too…
How do you get Scott McNeil from Lanipator?
Well, Scott was the voice for Piccolo in the actual dub, so it could just be a shoutout to him.
because even days later I can’t find a not-shit copy of this clip
I like how you managed to have that clip ready at 12:01, I mean you’d have to have scrubbed through all of dbz abridged episode 1
Wait, everyone doesn’t have that clip bookmarked there? O.o;
I have seperate videos ready, Also an “I am an adult” gif.
Lucy failed her Observation roll. 😛
Says the one who posts first on every DOA, haha.
NEEEEEEEEERRRRRRDDDDDDDDD….bleh. (/Picollo)
I begin to think Malaya is incapable of smiling.
Like, ever.
Why would she smile when she’s annoyed?
It was more the previous comic where marcie is leaning against her in perfect contentment and she has no reaction to it whatsoever
…that you can observe.
Malaya might not have noticed Marcie’s reaction. Also, cuddling between female friends is something that is generally considered to be a okay, so since she’s busy studying, she might not have thought anything of it. Because she thought nothing of it, that leads me to believe she is straight.
If a girl leaned on me like that, and I didn’t know her sexuality, I would assume it was flirtatious.
Actually, I think in Shortpacked she was shown to go both ways, and then she entered a relationship with Ultra Car.
I think a lot of people are more likely to assume that it is platonic than flirtatious really because a lot of friends lean on each other just because they are tired without it meaning anything past ‘I am tired, you are now for resting against’.
She flirted briefly with going both ways, but realized she was 100% straight when Leslie kissed her. She is, however, totally into robots shaped like girls.
OK I know why people keep saying this. It is after all what Malaya first said after she kissed Leslie.
http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1833
But what she says later is pretty clearly “I’m not into women OR men”. Shorter version of that is “asexual”. Malaya’s still interested in sex as a general concept, which puts her in the gray ace category.
(Robin also said she was straight, like, a lot of times, then “straight with an exception”, then “sorta undefinable queer”. People’s understandings of their sexualities change over time.)
Grayness is about attraction. There are aces who aren’t gray who enjoy sex.
Ah right! I didn’t remember her saying that, I just remembered her seeming to try relationships with both genders, but it does make sense for her to decide she was into neither – I know she still had a sex drive though, which is why it was lucky Ultra Car had that extra third arm for dealing with urges. >w>
Also, that comic proved that Malaya can indeed smile.
@Raibean I’ve heard it both ways, I thought? But I’m not ace myself. (Well, maybe a little gray-ace.) So if I am in error I apologize. The thing I wanted to express was that she’s shown both sex-repulsion and strictly-Carla-related sex-positivity.
http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2060
She HAS attraction, in other words. This is why I would tend to call her demisexual. In fact her interest in having sex specifically with Carla’s unique physiology seems to increase dramatically over the course of their relationship, from her stating that she’s glad they get to opt out of ridiculous kissing to her saying here that she feels a “need” for Carla.
I mean, of course it’s Willis’s comic, and we aren’t living inside Malaya’s head, so maybe she would never use any of these words to describe herself.
But it seems consistent with her previous incarnation, which definitely was not “straight”.
Malaya never claimed to be straight, what she said was that having relationships with men never worked and then later that she wasn’t a lesbian.
I don’t know, she seemed pretty happy making out with the guy in the crossover, until she figured out who he was.
A much better reaction there than her attempt with Leslie.
@thejeff: I think Malaya would know better than us outside observers. She agrees with Carla that all human parts are gross, and though she was literally rebounding with the Multiplex MC immediately after her failed relationship with Leslie (which kind of messes with your emotions a lot and sometimes makes you consider both sex and relationships you normally wouldn’t), they never actually had sex.
@timemonkey that was my memory too but she does actually say “guess I’m straight after all.” And then tries to go out with Ken before immediately ditching him for a misanthropic guy who she then fails to actually get it on with. Personality clash, as far as we can tell, but like I said linking the comic above Malaya later revised that to not interested in anyone but Carla.
IIRC she even specifically says she thinks genitals are gross, but I’m not there yet in my reread. She does agree with Carla that sex is generally icky, at least.
I want to know how she made her glasses do that.
They’re like Google Glass, only cooler.
when robin is angry, all bets are off! although, those are ‘flash’ colors
Spider-Man/Deadpool rules: eyes can express themselves through whatever’s covering them.
(btw it’s called Spideypool Google it)
I think he mean “Spiderman and Deadpool rule separately on their own.”
But seriously, Spiderpool? That sounds like a nightmare.
Like, a in-ground pool filled with spiders, all crawling over eachother and such.
Ohh, and a bunch of webs at the bottom so you’re trapped if you ever fall in!
Or “The rules for Spider-Man and Deadpool”
Wasn’t a pool like that (minus the webs, AFAIK) in one of the first life action Asterix movies?
*meant
*Googles Spideypool*
……
Forever in your debt.
SCIENCE.
In that moment she was such a malevolent spirit that she briefly escaped her mortal coil and enacted a minor haunting.
She has the gift.
Blame her friends on the other side.
maybe the same way the Daft Punk cosplayers did their helmets
[actual marquees and shit, AMAZING STUFF]
No, no, no, you’ve got it wrong. That’s her eyes glowing an intense red of killing intent being reflected through her goggles as a weird orange color.
They glowed due to her hate vision… (no that’s NOT a misspelling)
And we thought we’d NEVER see another Batman gag on a Willis strip again!
We still haven’t.
I think Lucy and I would be great friends.
MARCIE IS ANGRY. MARCIE SMASH.
You keep up that comic book talk, Lucy, and you’ll find yourself in the ranks of my favorite characters.
I seriously missed her since Shortpacked ended.
Well panel 2 Lucy does look extra cute…
Lucy probably doesn’t like comic books in this universe either.
In SP! she liked Teen Titans, the cartoon, then tried to pick up comic books and found dead-eyed fresh-off-the-New ’52 Starfire in a genuinely terrible costume enjoying nothing of life.
Here too she is probably into the movies or one of the cartoons, not the comics.
OK I’m obviously not up enough on DC myself. She is completely a fan of Young Justice the cartoon. Not any of the movies, because… neither Robin nor Kid Flash has been in them yet. Lol.
Just back away slowly, Lucy. Back. Away.
Close and lock the door. Push some meat underneath once a day.
….
**considers making a comment about “pushing meat” but decides to take the higher road**
Screw the high road. Make the comment. You know you want to.
Come on. At least buy the high road a drink first.
I’m riding the highroad all night long.
What you don’t know is that Lucy is now internally bleeding and she lost 12 years of life.
You will find that most women do that on a monthly basis.
Internally?
Where did you think the blood came from? The blood bank?
Typically once the blood leaves the body it’s considered external bleeding, though maybe some of the particularities of this are escaping me.
I believe the Humans call it “Shark Week”, but not the Discovery Channel type…
…It feels good to have rebooted finally…
But then wouldn’t all blood be internal bleeding. Aren’t we eternally internally bleeding by that logic?
Technically, menstrual fluid is not blood, nor does it arise from blood. Rather, it arises from the shedding of the endometrium, which is a hemoglobin-rich tissue layer inside the uterus.
So, no, in fact, women do *not* bleed internally on a monthly basis.
So it just looks like blood? Man, Biological creatures are weird man. I’m gonna stick to pokemon. They don’t excrete anything except fire and electricity.
If I remember correctly only mammals have a period. So your safe with lizards and birds. In fact pretty sure only primates have it.
I’m pretty sure Eggs are just Chicken period.
Dogs have periods. Or at least, they bleed periodically. Weird thing is, IIRC, they have their sort-of menstruation at the same time they’re ovulating? Something like that?
All I know is our female dog every now and then has to wear a diaper-thing or there’s blood all over the house.
Delicious, delicious peroids… even better when accompanied with strips of pig corpse.
Primates, some bats, and elephant shrews. All other placental mammals reabsorb their endometrium when not fertile.
I’m gonna stick to pokemon. They don’t excrete anything except fire and electricity.
Even Pokemon poop.
YEEK! ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ
Menstrual blood IS blood. It is just mixed with … stuff. (I’m not going into details cause I don’t wanna think about it and especially don’t wanna look up vocabulary).
Just look it up on wikipedia or somewhere.
… It is too blood. It’s just not ONLY blood. There’s also mucous and stuff.
Well, I would assume that they make a withdrawl in advance, given that they know they’re going to be spending some.
But it’s ok, that’s where the blood is s’posed to be.
Was that a Jake Peralta reference, because if it was YAY I UNDERSTOOD A REFERENCE! I feel like Captain America xD
Malaya: Unable to understand either conversations or body language.
Or she understands body language just fine.
Although she could be understanding Marcie’s body language more, if you know what I mean.
I believe the double bird is the Malaya’s favorite sign. Soon she’ll be giving Marcie a few fingers as well.
…oh my/
Quick Marcie, what would ariel do?
Sign a contract with perfect penmanship and then completely forget that you can write as a means of communication!
And then, I dunno, bat your eyes like this.
Assuming Ariel and Eric could both read the same language. The contract looks like English, but that’s so the audience can read it.
What kind of prince doesn’t read Mermish anyway? I blame the education system.
I dunno. If I run up to you talking about how happy I am that Jotaro Kujo just saved Jolyne from Pucci, you’d be pretty confused.
Well I’d have no idea who in the blazes you’re talking about, but I’d at least get the gist of it I would think.
And who says Malaya didn’t get the gist? She just doesn’t care about the gist.
…Malaya did? I mean seriously…
She said she didn’t understand half of what Lucy said, naturally the half she didn’t understand would the the half talking about characters she’s not familiar with.
Alternately, and much more likely, that was a turn of phrase to indicate that the previous conversation,a nd those like them, were completely incomprehensible, while other conversations are not, rather than “I understood exactly half of the words she just said, but not the other half that those words relied upon”.
Good gods.
I thought Pucci was one of the good guys… Clearly I need to read those for myself
Malaya, tumblr is both a wonderful gift and a terrible burden.
Best to avoid the pain unless you’re ready to deal hardcore.
And Lucy blows her Perception roll…
She’s the type who uses a d6 when she should be rolling a d20.
Her Sense Motive however made it abundantly clear what would happen to her if she stayed.
As long as nobody casts Tasha’s Hideous Laughter
I believe Marcie tried a disintegrate there, but it was blocked by her eyewear.
Nah, she was readying her Finger of Death. Quickened too, she was about to cast it twice.
Next time I play a spellcaster, I shall have to remember that idea. Or at least the Finger of Death delivered by flipping the bird.
Bigby’s Gesticulating Hand
Kill her! Kill her! She’s just so AWFUL!!!!!
If or when Marcie gets to go diving for clams, Malaya might well learn to smile.
Kid Flash needs his personal space. Robin is getting way too clingy.
You just reminded me of a Teen Titans Go! episode I saw recently where Kid Flash takes over as leader of the Titans and Robin ends up kneecapping him.
My bet is this sequence of strips will end with none of us being the wiser to whether Malaya might be attracted to Marcie or not.
We got to see Marcie’s eyes!
Or the fires of Hell within her eyes at least.
So Marcie’s glasses are mostly to stop things around her going up in flames? I guess I should have known.
So kinda like Cyclops then? Her glasses/goggles are even tinted red.
We’ll find out when she takes them off.
*Prays she doesn’t*
I’m totally getting red lenses the next time I need sunglasses.
I think in this one, Marcie is signing “Lucy, you’re Number One!”
She’s clearly saying she’s “number 2”. As in she’s shit.
Marcie’s reaction is lovely :3
Holy shit, Marcie. O_O
Wait, does that mean last strip was fanfiction?
Can someone make fanfiction of their own work?!?!
Is it still fanfiction even if it’s canon?!?!?!?!?!
It’s fanfiception.
Is DoA just college AU fanfiction of the Walkyverse! ?!?!?!?!
Maybe, but it’s a canon one, having been shown in a strip of Shortpacked once.
-mind explosion-
Come on Lucy, know your audience. Talking DC comics to Malaya is like talking Serpentor to Malaya, it’s a bad idea from the start and you should know better by now.
Malaya prefers Marvel Dammit!
Marvel Dammit!, the angriest comics available!
that’s just Ultimates.
Lucy has the wrong group of friends, she just needs to meet Amber, Joyce, Ethan, Danny etc
Ken too. Has he appeared in DoA before?
He was in the background when Amazi-Girl interrogated Mike about Whiteboard Dingdong Banditry.
Yeah, check the tags.
Yeah.
Somehow I don’t think we’ve met Lucy’s friends yet. Assuming she has any. She seems nice, she probably does.
Really just about anyone who isn’t in Sal’s clique and isn’t Mike would like her because she’s delightful and you have to be kind of a miserable person to dislike her.
I’m pretty sure Amber wouldn’t take any more kindly to someone who can’t perceive boundaries.
Oh hello new nightmare in strip 3.
I assume you mean panel?
*panel, it is. My wires are crossed again.
I feel your pain…
have you seen strip 3? It’s fucking terrifying. They say that to everybody… AHHHHH!
Translation: fuck-off Lucy…you are killing the mood!
Lucy needs to meet up with Walky, Ethan, and Amber.
Walky could go well. Ethan I could see going either way. No way would Amber appreciate someone who requires actual physical barriers in order to respect boundaries.
Huh? What boundaries? No boundaries have been put forth, just snide comments behind Lucy’s back and a double flip-off (which isn’t exactly the same thing as a boundary).
I don’t think Malaya has boundaries per se, as she’s all offense and no defense.
The boundary built by two people being together, doing something, and not inviting her in.
That’s not what a boundary is. A boundary is a limit on how you may interact with someone e.g. you’d be crossing a boundary if you touched their arm when they don’t like contact and they haven’t given you permission to do so or if you insulted their mother, that tends to cross a boundary on what people will let you say to them.
There is no boundary set here – Lucy was just trying to engage people lyng in her shared dorm room in a friendly conversation because they are both doing different things as Malaya is studying while Marcie is on her phone and she had something she wanted to share.
It is not a reasonable expectation that someone in the same room as you will never try to engage you in conversation.
If they were actually in the middle of a conversation then it would have been rude, but they weren’t, so Lucy didn’t actually cross any social lines at all and I don’t understand where you are getting that she has?
What, engaging someone in conversation isn’t interacting with them?
Yes, she fucking did.
This is Malaya’s private space. That is is coterminous with Lucy’s private space doesn’t suddenly remove their ability to have a real private space – it, in fact, makes respecting it fucking sacred.
‘Hey, you guys wanna see this cool pic?’ from her desk would be OK…walking over to Malaya’s space and starting in on an actual conversation with people who’ve shown no interest in being involved in a conversation for you is mindbogglingly rude.
oh lucy nooooooooooooo
I wonder if that’s Lucy being scared away by aggressive Marcie or if she actually realized that’s totally what Marcie’s doing.
I’d say the former, the latter would require to be extremely quick on the uptake without a shred of context. While the former is basic survival instinct.
I’d say the latter, if only because it makes things twice as fun for Lucy to realize what’s going on while Malaya remains totally clueless ^^
I’m with you for the exact same reason. The next week (in universe) will be Lucy dying to ask Mayala how things are going with her and Marcie, and Malaya being all, “huh?”
Yes >:3 That’d be great.
I’m near certain it’s the latter. Immediately assuming two people who have even the slightest bit of skinship are into each other is what fangirls do. There’s no way Lucy didn’t make the connection imo.
*Nods* Fangirls gonna fangirl.
Yes.
Hmm…
1) Naïve, outgoing, and friendly
2) Affinity for brightly-colored striped shirt
3) Large, conspicuously geometric smile
Yeah, but I think she’s Catholic, so totally the opposite.
Lucy and Joyce should totally hang out
So far she’s like Joyce without the judgmental bigotry aka a wonderful person.
Meanwhile I’m waiting for Malaya to put it together given what Lucy was just talking about and how it parallels with the current situation.
Ohhh right!
*Pushes a chair in Tacos’ direction.* It’s dangerous to wait up. Take this.
Given her reaction, i think Malaya tuned out most of what Lucy said.
I think the last panel is a pretty strong indicator that that’s not gonna happen. Malaya probably didn’t even hear the actual words coming out of Lucy’s mouth.
You know, I really think one ought to print that pose in panel 3 and use it as a “Do not Disturb” sign.
I knew you couldn’t resist the Batman jokes, Willis. It was just a matter of time.
Also, yes, a translation would indeed be nice. I would like to know more than just “Marcie is angry”, which is fairly clear from her face.
middle finger = fuck you
Thanks for answering that. I’m always looking for more ways to express my displeasure with you fleshlings. So, follow-up…do I use the middle finger before or after I shoot the fleshling with the fusion canon?
Also…do you think Rodimus knows this Earthling-specific gesture?
You’ve never attempted a bag of cursed scarabs? Kids these days. I swear.
Fusion cannon > bag of cursed scarabs.
Who has time for a bag of cursed scarabs? People who will never rule the galaxy, that’s who.
I don’t know if kid is the right word for Megsy, he’s kinda been fighting a war for a few million Earth years last count. Well, most the ones I’ve read about. Not sure if I’m that old really, stopped counting after a few thousand…
It depends on whether or not the gesture is intended to express your displeasure to the target, or whether it’s more for personal gratification or the amusement of anybody hanging out.
I find it really hard to believe Rodimus isn’t familiar with it.
Why would you use the middle finger at all? He just said it is a gesture meant to solicit sex. That seems like the opposite of what you would be going for. Unless fusion canon is a terrible metaphor, in which case its customary to ask the fleshling before shooting them up with your “fusion canon”.
Soundwave told me not to take the word ‘fuck’ literally in most instances because it was usually an insult.
Oh, it’s just a middle finger. She had her hands pressed together, so I thought it was some other kind of gesture. Haha.
“don’t think I need to translate that sign either”
LOL
It’s the double deuce. She’s giving Lucy the middle finger with both hands at once. Don’t think that’s official ASL but colloquially it translates as “Fuck You” spoken twice simultaneously.
Or simply YELLED AT MAXIMUM VOLUME.
It means “How do you do” in Polish probably.
I would caution against anyone using that particular gesture to say “how do you do” if ever you should travel to Poland.
I would strongly advise doing so, so long as they’ve got a friend around to video them doing so and the results so we can all laugh at then on YouTube during the months they’re recovering.
Has nobody ever flashed you the double guns before?
…Maybe the middle finger doesn’t translate to all countries/cultures.
…Maybe the middle finger doesn’t translate to all countries/cultures.
Or time periods, for that matter.
What. Is. That. From.
Please tell me that’s Mr. Rogers’ “Two little dickie birds sitting on a wall.” That’s gotta be the only logical explanation.
Either that or King Friday raised taxes again.
I would’ve liked to say that it was a subliminal message from a time when subtlety was a foreign concept, but I’m afraid it’s just a singing scene taken completely out of context.
I should’ve pointed out earlier that the song I was referring to is “Where Is Thumbkin?”
That’s Mr. Rogers teaching counting. He used his thumb for 1, pointer finger for 2, and then realized he didn’t think it through as he continued that pattern…
Lucy’s hair looks really great like that.
Also, coincidentally meta comic, whatever.
Her hair though! :3
So is Marcie wearing like goggles or tinted sunglasses? I can’t quite tell which it is.
Lucy should be rooming with Amber, Malaya should be rooming with Carla, Dina should be rooming with Dorothy…..
I actually really like the dynamic between Dina and Amber it’s really sweet.
Marcie’s theme song? Well, not quite I suppose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wdn4OPZTX8
3rd Panel Marcie 凸(●_●)凸
凸(●V●)凸 seems more accurate.
凸(⚫ᗝ⚫)凸
凸(⬤ⲇ⬤)凸
凸(©V©)凸
凸(Ò/////Ó)凸
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
Malaya doesn’t KNOW, or Marcie doesn’t KNOW, or- they’re still at the uncertainty stage of the relationship. Missed that. I thought they were more established, i dunno why.
I think Marcie is out of luck. Malaya was not positively reacting to the “lean” and did not pick up on the parallel between Lucy’s description and her own situation which, had she been interested in Marcie, would have lit a little bulb above her head.
Malaya probably stopped listening the second she heard nerd shit. I know I would’ve.
Can we see that fanart though?
Seconded.
I wonder: how much of that reaction would Marcie have given Lucy just for interrupting her attempted snuggle session again, and how much of it was because of how Lucy was inadvertently trying to blow her cover?
Lucy’s gotten super adorkable. Love it!
Rough DoA start Lucy. Maybe less awful interactions are in your future
I don’t think I like this two. Lucy doesn’t deserve this.
I agree. But it’s not out of character for either of them, so I’m not surprised. I feel bad for Lucy. She has no idea what’s going on with Marcie and Malaya so she happily starts talking about something that is exactly what’s going on with the two women, just with boys instead and gets yelled at in ASL. Kind of. The middle finger is pretty generic. xD
Seriously, I never can stomach just completely unprovoked meanness as an attempt at comedy it just makes me feel bad for the character on the receiving end.
Yeah, the more I read about this delightful pair the more I think about the college roomie who decided that my existence was a deliberate attempt to ruin her life because she’d had a double all to herself before I arrived. There was literally nothing* I could do that did not deserve a sneer, a nasty remark, or on one memorable occasion a literally and metaphorically stinking drunk homeless person crawling into bed with me because my roomie had gone outside and led her into the building and up the stairs and unlocked our dorm door for her. “Oh, Jenny, I thought she was your girlfriend!” That showed me for existing!
(She was shocked, SHOCKED, when The Man told her to find off-campus housing on her own nickel or transfer to another campus.)
*Nothing. Even sitting silently in my corner pretending that she and I didn’t exist. She would still walk in, snort, sigh, and grumble. There I was, all existing and stuff, like the bongo I was!
Lucy is describing Marcy right in front of Malaya, she just doesn’t realize it.
I’d be pretty pissed too if I’m just trying to talk up a guy and then some girl I barely know was all, “I know this FRIEND who gets super shy talking to guys so she starts talking about his sports team even though she’s not a fan! It’s adorbs.”
She’d earn the double bird from me too.
I love Lucy. Also, Malaya used to think Marcie was deaf. I wonder how that effects what Marcie thinks of her, stuff Malaya said without being aware anyone was listening, which given Malaya’s expression when it was brought to her attention Marcie WASN’T deaf, was probably a little embarrassing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3P8JSvxVmc
Yeah, Lucy, get away from people with your heretic preaching! Everybody knows the OTP is Robin/Kon El (Superboy). ALL OTHER PAIRINGS ARE A LIE, LUCY! A LIE! DO YOU HEAR ME, LUCY?! (This is best recited in John Oliver’s voice.)
Tim/Kon seems like more of a post-crisis thing, where Dick/Wally would be more of a Young Justice Animated thing. Different Robins and different continuities mean they don’t really have to compete with eachother.
DAMN MARCIE. xD
Tho I mean, if I saw this going down I would probably say, “Hey, I’m going to go for a walk, I’ll text you when I’m coming back?”
…Malaya may not have her number tho. xD
But I mean, I feel like Marcie is being a bit obvious, to a outsider anyway. Or maybe it’s just obvious to me because a) I know her feelings and b) I’m queer, and it’s easier for me to tell. (I’ve found that a lot of straight people have a hard time sensing when two queer people are flirting. Not true for all! And also I dunno if Lucy is queer or not, I’m just assuming she’s straight)
I forgot to say that it should’ve been EVEN MORE OBVIOUS after what she’d been reading. xD
Lucy still the best, I see. So happy to see her.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Marcie’s hate now makes complete sense. I feel bad for needing a second to notice it. ILU Willis.
Okay, Lucy needs to make some fangirl friends, either online or off. I feel that would be best for everyone. Fangirling is way more fun when people join in. I also expect having your quiet evening interrupted by having someone randomly fangirl all over you about something you don’t care about is probably also no fun.
Lucy! There is probably some sort of anime/comics fan association on your campus that you can join – seek them out!
Random fangirling is an excellent source of spice for dull evenings, but yeah, it’s occasionally an unwelcome interruption.
Sal said “Marcie is yours for tonight, be good to her”.
So, is this how Malaya is treating Marcie right?
Or is Malaya just dead from the neck down, where body language is concerned: and the neck up, where coincidental parallel interruptions are concerned?
Malaya has no problems taking what she wants, from appearances hence, so not so sure this is boding well for Marcie.
I mean…would you “take what you want” in front of your roommate? I feel that if Malaya was planning anything, it kind of got ruined by the appearance of Lucy.
Plenty folks would, actually; the typical roommate gets flustered and leaves before one gets far enough for modesty to become relevant.
I rather doubt Malaya’s inclined that way, though.
A lot of people are assuming that Malaya would be sexually responsive to Marcie just because of how DMW portrayed her in Shortpacked. That isn’t guaranteed. It would be a shame if Marcie’s heart were broken (especially if this is her first shot at any kind of relationship beyond Sal) but it is a valid direction to take both women’s character arcs.
Actually a lot of people are assuming she WON’T because of how she was portrayed in SP.
Put it up there in the list of stuff you don’t understand, Malaya.
Looks like Marcie’s gonna have to use sign language.
Welp, this strip made me hate Marcie.
Good job, Willis.
Hey, she’s only human. Don’t tell me you’ve never been in that situation where you’re desperately to have some intimacy with someone so you can make your move but people keep walking in on the two of you.
Lucy kinda LIVES there, there’s no walking in, that’s HER dorm too.
Regardless, how do you think somebody would react if they’re trying to subtly put the moves on somebody only to be interrupted by someone else?
Being in the room is not carte blanche to be in their space. Which she is.
Well, you know what I mean.
Yes, but her facial expression of maximum >:( is more than enough to get the “stop killing my game” message across there’s no need for what is the equivalent of screaming profanity.
No, see, you don’t understand. Marcie isn’t just hating Lucy for being a fangirl (That would be kind of 😐 but) Marcie is hating Lucy *FOR GIVING THE GAME AWAY*. Look back and tell me that Lucy isn’t also describing Marcy XD
Jesus christ those two are being total bongos to her.
Now you made me wonder if the “bongo” filter puts up the correct plural for the word bongo when encountering the Bongo word, so “bongoes” should read as bongos if it does, or bongoes if it doesn’t.
Willis please approve this, I’m doing science. And that totally feels like I should add “bongo” there.
Bongo Science?
Hopefully, Lucy forgives easily because if Malaya is non receptive to Marcie’s advances she will have alienated someone who did nothing to deserve it for nothing.
She lives with Malaya and is still this sunny and friendly towards her she has to be super forgiving because it’s impossible this is the first time Malaya has been a complete ass to her.
More like she’s totally oblivious to other people.
An’ yes I mean Lucy.
By this strip alone it’s pretty clear she’s not oblivious.
I don’t know if she realizes she’s describing Marcie’s situation perfectly though, or she might have just left the room and let Marcie get on with it.
I don’t think Lucy is oblivious to other people. But I do wonder if she has trouble telling when people aren’t interested in what she’s saying. It seems to me if Malaya never knew what she was talking about, she would possibly have picked up on that by now and just not talked to her about these kinds of things.
And Malaya will care because…?
“Okay, now that’s just an unfortunate coincidence.”
– David Walkerton
” And then someone interrupts and Robin is like grrr and um… I think I’ll just put a sock on the door and go somewhere else”
Lucy kinda embodies Tumblr to me.
Its Not Lucy’s fault she’s so clueless. She’s obviously a Yaoi-Girl.
Her feminist instincts probably take female homosociality for granted.
Now we will never know which Robin it was. Is it Bruce Tim? Is it Jason Todd? Damien Wayne?
I don’t think feminism has anything to do with taking “female homosociality” for granted.
+1
Making a lot of assumptions there… First off; there’s plenty yaoi-fangirls who also love yuri. Secondly, not all yaoi-fangirls are feminists. Unless Lucy is stated to be a feminist somewhere else and I just forgot and that’s what you’re referring to, that seems like a really strange assumption to make.
Ohh, I get it, because Robin is a bird, and they’re talking about the Flash, that’s what that title text is referring to.
wait which robin
this is the walkyverse we’re talking about
it’s not, actually
Maybe Lucy likes to ship people in congress with superheroes? I’m sure there’s a real tumblr blog or subreddit for that somewhere. If not, then someone needs to make that happen, right now.
Batman Robin….
It’s me! I’m leaning against Kid Flash as we speak.
I would assume it’s Dick Grayson because the strip name is birdflash, which is also the ships name for Dick/Wally.
Shortpacked crossover: DoA Lucy is a comics geek! I’m thinking that sighn Marcie is using means: “We are TRYING to have a moment here!”
I will understand Lucy’s pain. Explaining fan-art to non-fans is nearly impossible!
She could have just watched them on tv, like she did before.
Lucy is a Hufflepuff who is roommates with a Death Eater, this was never gonna go well, let’s be real.
That eyebrow in panel 1 is airborn…
I’m wondering if it’s a bad thing that I understand everything Lucy said!
Oh my goodness those rage goggles in panel three. Hahahaha. I’m hoping Lucy gets the hint and makes some excuse to leave and go find her other friends to hang out with. Oh Marcie
Don’t ask me why but I have a feeling that Lucy is going to decide to give her roomie space with her GF and hang out in the Quad. That’s when she gets in trouble with a bunch of upperclassmen jocks and Amazi-Girl and Got-Dumped Boy save the day.
Or maybe I just need more coffee.
I relate to Lucy waaaaaaay too much. hahaha. 😀
HISSSSSS…
I’m with Malaya on this one. :/
I’m with Marcie, not Malaya. Lucy is both breaking the sacred rule of shared rooms (the ability to carve out private space within the shared space) and interrupting Marcie’s attempt to snuggle with her. Malaya’s just venting her nerd-contempt.
Er…*snuggle with Malaya. I edited that comment a couple times, and the references got a bit snarled.
Edit? How do edit?
Editing the post before hitting ‘post comment’.
Oh, you meant before posting. OK.
Yay…she’s still a comic book nerd…and a Robin/Kid Flash shipper apparantly.
i can dig it
I’m starting to like Lucy.
Lucy… I hope you’re not constantly bothering people who are not interested.
Come bother us instead. 😛
LUCY YOU CLAM JAMMER!
That’s just the story of Marcie’s night, isn’t it?
I can only ponder who next will get in the way of Marcie getting some.
My money is on Carla.
And then Malaya.
🙁
Ouch.
Sometimes there’s no need for words…
God damnit Lucy…
+1
I love running gags
I can’t believe I didn’t think of this when the comic first posted:
Marcie’s got Looks That Kill!
I like Lucy a lot. Unfortunately, like me, she was painfully unaware when she’s just trying to be friendly.
What an insufferable pair of assholes.
Lucy, you poor, beautiful, oblivious fool.
I like all three characters. Apparently that’s like, gonna create a singularity or something.
First of all Marcie’s reaction here is actually completely understandable. “Shut up shut up shut up you are literally describing me right this very second but you’re ruining my happy fanart moment” is just a human response, regardless of how polite it is to express that. Yesterday was uncalled for, today is called for, just maybe not quite like that.
Second of all people are expecting a lot of maturity from these characters. I know it’s been brought up plenty that Malaya’s “I hate everything” act should’ve stopped “being cool” when she was like 14. And come on, it was never actually cool, and these characters are 18-19, which is… not actually that much more emotionally mature than 14. Like, it’s just not.
Some of us were more mature at 18 than this. Some of us were more mature at five years old than this. But there’s no magical dividing line at 18 that actually makes you even remotely a grownup.
Usually people seem to hit 23-25 and then realize they were incredibly childish and foolish when they were 18 (but think they’re very mature now). Then they hit 26-28 and realize, nah, they were still foolish in their early twenties (but they’re more mature now).
Then you hit 30 and realize you’re probably going to keep doing this for the rest of your life, and try to stop thinking of yourself as super mature.
It’s a process. But expecting these people to just abruptly stop being kids because they’re 18 is probably not realistic.
(And you don’t have to be immature at 18 to be more mature at 23 — it’s gonna be relative. You can BE pretty mature right now, but still be more mature in a few more years.)
I think the Malaya hate comes a bit from carryon baggage of Shortpacked where she was considerably older than here and did a lot more to deserve hate with that attitude, and regardless got paired off with a character she didn’t at all deserve, and the audience expected to be happy for that. (Dumbing of Age Malaya is a saint compared with her Shortpacked counterpart.)
Yeah I know, I was there pfft. I liked Malaya then too.
I’m also a little confused. Are you saying she didn’t deserve Carla? …like their first interaction was back when Carla was still car-shaped and they bonded over how much they both hate everybody. Their attitudes were pretty much identical.
By “character she didn’t at all deserve”, did you mean Leslie?
I mean that’s the one that makes sense, but it’s not how either of them ended up… so it seems weird to say the audience was expected to be happy??
Leslie and Malaya were wrong for each other. Leslie had some admiration for Malaya’s attitude, but by her own admission it was kind of mostly physical on her end. Malaya had kind of the opposite problem — she liked Leslie a lot, but wasn’t attracted to her, and in the end wasn’t able to make herself be attracted to her.
They were a bad couple, and they broke up.
Malaya doesn’t actually react very strongly at all here. I don’t think this is an instance of her “I hate everything” act.
When Lucy is talking, Malaya looks at her with exactly the same expression she’d previously been directing at her book. Seemingly attentive.
Lucy walks away of her own volition, without getting any response from Malaya. Malaya at this point confides in Marcie that she didn’t really understand what Lucy was talking about, and often doesn’t.
This is a pretty reasonable response. Lucy just walked in and started rambling about some show Malaya probably doesn’t watch without first explaining context, abruptly left without even finishing her statement. I think most people’s reaction would be something along the lines of “Well that was weird and confusing”.
Personally I’ve had the same problem. Eventually my dad had to get me into the habit of opening up these sorts of statements with some basic “I’m talking about X, that show with the Y and Z that I like” type qualifier.
Agreed; Malaya wasn’t openly antagonistic to Lucy here. She actually tried to be polite but, ultimately, Lucy was talking in a completely foreign language. The terms Malaya then used to describe the situation was entirely in-character. If Malaya didn’t use insulting language to describe someone, I’d be worried whether she was alright.
Oh sure, that part of my comment was more about the reactions to the last strip, but I couldn’t at the time put my finger on why people expecting Malaya to already grow out of this needled at me :|a
Interestingly, Malaya in this ‘verse hates everything a lot less than her SP counterpart. She’s been described as having this ‘tude, but Carla already made a big distinction between Sal and Malaya that Malaya “isn’t sneering at anyone from a wall” and (implicitly) (like Marcie, whom Carla was specifically describing at this point)”likes doing stuff”. (She was visibly enjoying skating with Marcie.)
But yeah I had a general point to make about eighteen year olds vs fourteen year olds and the supposedly huge maturity gap we all had between those ages.
At eighteen I think I was pretty grumpy :|a I joked with friends that I was prematurely an old man yelling at those kids to get off my lawn. But despite my general pessimism and feeling like I kinda hated the world, there were still things and people I enjoyed.
I did eventually grow out of it, of course, but I don’t think I was under any delusion about looking cool. I assumed I wasn’t cool, and didn’t care. In my case I think I got ALL my trying to be cool done in seventh and eighth grade, when I went through a spate of trying different hair colors and even curling my hair once, trying to change who I was and become cool.
God I probably came off a lot like Sal though. I had buzzed hair and army fatigue pants that I wore everywhere, and I know some of my teachers assumed I got in trouble with the police regularly, whereas the truth is I had just wanted to start my hair over fresh after all the damage from dyed and perms, and really liked those pants because they were comfortable.
…to clarify, I don’t think anyone thought I was super hot, like they do Sal, but I bet lots of people thought I was scary/dangerous, and trying really really hard to look cool/tough.
I can’t find the particular QC comic I’m thinking of right now, but I think it said it best: “Maturity is knowing you were a fool in the past. Common sense is knowing you should try not to be a fool now. Wisdom is knowing you will be a fool in the future.”
So, what you’re saying is that Malaya has neither maturity, nor wisdom, nor common sense? Yes, that sounds like her all right.
Shorter Arianod: you said something positive I can twist into an insult against a character you probably like, score!
I’ll take that as a compliment.
Heh. Yeah that’s the shape of it!
I can completely understand Marcie here. How do you efficiently express your exasperation at Lucy’s complete situation blindness while not being way too obvious to your potential girlfriend who is RIGHT THERE AND YOU ARE RUINING MY GAME BY DESCRIBING IT EXACTLY OH MY GOD GO AWAY
It was probably and unfortunately her only quick option.
This +1.
I feel bad for Lucy. 🙁 However, it’s their alone time. However, Lucy doesn’t know that.
Pretty sure that means Marcie wants one of those double popsicles. I bet she’ll give half to Malaya.
Also Marcie is totally blushing in the middle panel.
That could just be rage face.
Looks like blushing to me. http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/122743759017/could-we-have-a-blown-up-version-of-the-panel-with
Sorry; that’s rage-face and her cheeks are flushed with anger. Look also at the way Marcie’s eyes are burning like lasers from behind her dark glasses.
One can make
laser-eyesan angry face and blush at the same time, you know. 🙂Oh and more importantly, Willis has never used that type of blush for anger-flushed-face IIRC. It seems unlikely that he’d start now, in a strip where it would be ambiguous. :3
My wishlist: We now follow Lucy as she goes wherever she goes, doing whatever she’s doing next. Maybe she goes out and meets some people, or rides a bike or writes some fanfic or something!
What probably will happen: Slipshineage.
Lucy is the cutest ever and I need her to be my best friend right now. 😀
Also, does that fanart actually exist? Because…I may need to see that. You know, for reasons.
I may or may not have just spent five minutes googling Robin and Kidflash fanart. I didn’t find anything that fits the description exactly but some pretty similar stuff, and it was all very cute and I think I’m a shipper now.
FINALLY!!! Marcie signs something that even I can understand!!
I mean, everybody knows that the bird is the word.
I’ve heard about it, yeah.
Poor Lucy. She’s just trying to be friendly, and this is the response she gets. I understand where Marcie is coming from, but her response still seems somewhat over-the-top.
Of course Malaya doesn’t understand what Lucy is talking about. I mean are we talking Dick/Wally, Tim/Bart or a crack pairing like Jason/Bart? We need clarification.
Oh look, a mild anti-social girl wants to get with a majorly anti-social (borderline sociopath) girl and is having all kinds of trouble along the way.
But enough about Ruth and Billie.
Lucy is adorable of course, and Malaya and Marcie are unnecessarily rude, but who just assumes the average person would be interested in Young Justice League fanart?
What’s on the phone…
(Text message:)”Malaya, I like you. Do you like me? Check this box:” *Marcie’s explicit selfie*
*…Marcie deletes draft…*
did Willis change Marcie’s smile in the last panel to look like more of a frown? ~<3
I am starting to love Lucy!
Damn it, Willis-
Where is that Robin/Kid Flash fan art, I need to see it :X
*facepalm* I just now got the fact that what Lucy is describing is exactly what Marcie was doing to Malaya in the last strip.