But… I don’t know if I need a Slipshine, to be honest. Dina and Becky are cute together. If I get to see them interact like this, it’s nearly enough on its own.
Yeah, I can’t really see Becky getting to Slipshine level for a while. She still won’t swear and it hasn’t occurred to her to look up porn, which…um, yeah. The fundie is still pretty strong with this one. Premarital hanky panky’s gonna take some getting used to.
She’s at least outwardly very happy to buy a million tickets to heck with Dina, and I’ve known sexually active people who don’t swear. But yeah, snuggling is so new and exciting and wonderful, there’s no reason not to hang out in snuggle-land for a very long time!
You see, in college I used to brag about snuggling with two ladies, and my friends didn’t understand why this was brag-worthy, even though I pointed out that snuggling is way awesome! And there were two, woah!
Well, it doesn’t necessarily have to be a full-blown Slipshine comic…perhaps we could have a Slipshine of just Dina and Becky cuddling together and being all cutesy-wutesy for like a dozen or so uninterrupted pages. 😀
…and suddenly for no reason I wonder what Dina thinks of the Jurassic Park movies? And most Dinosaur movies in general, come to that…
Thank you, I did not recall that strip. 🙂 Same probably goes for other dinosaur-centric movies.
Know what I really wish? That “Terra Nova” hadn’t gotten cancelled after one freakin’ season! 🙁 Sure, it wasn’t particularly any more accurate regarding the dinosaurs it depicted than pretty much any other dinosaur-based work, but it was a great series, I loved it!
Also, the fact that Dina apparently finds the thought of Becky researching dinosaurs online to be rather a turn-on. WIIIIIN. 😀
One of my greatest college achievements was getting snuggled by 3-4 girls at a part after a comedy show I performed in. It was one on the lap, and one on each arm, with a 4th girl cycling into the lap at one point. I was being smothered by ladies and it was fabulous.
Not to mention both are very new to this kinda relationship (Hell, Dina’s still mastering basic Human interaction), so going to Slipshine-type-action too soon could completely destroy the relationship…
Yes, absolutely– and let’s be honest, who am I to talk about Slipshine when we all know that I’m going to melt into a giant blob the instant I see the two of them cuddling>
But would Dina be put off by the fact there’s space aliens & Humans firing lasers at each other? Sounds cool to me honestly tho, might have to chase it down…
Aliens and laser beams would make FAR more sense to her than Dimetrodon and T-Rex living at the same time period. I mean, T-Rex lived closer in time to US than to Dimetrodon.
I listen to this bad boy on repeat
Ive convinced them to play it at every school dance and disco ive ever gone to.
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
I narrowed it down to it updating at 12:02:11 – 12:02:12 Willis time.
By clearing your cache and having a comment prepared.
It’s completely possible for anyone to get to the first spot.
Yes, even you.
Times have changed though. It used to be anyone could get the first comment by getting here within the first five minutes. Now, there’s all these new fangled script readers, and updaters, and the constant cache clearing, plus all the Patreon users. It’s getting to the point where the average joe won’t be able to make it to first anymore.
And it might be we’re already past that point. But by gum, I’m not going down without a fight.
Oh good. I got here two hours late and the first thing I did when opening the comments was run a search for someone saying ‘lady boner’. I would have been very disappointed had it not been mentioned at least once.
It turns out dino pics and taking her statements seriously instead of just the babbling of the “weird girl” is her trigger for “perverse romantic lust”.
This was when the site was just catching on so maybe 60-70. Mind you, it wasn’t long before I started contributing myself, and I’ve added a couple of new pages.
I don’t know: I imagine the Beck that wanted to have her pre-outed life back would have.
I think the current Becky would leave the shared bathroom door open just for the opportunity to say something like: “Oh, hai! Don’t mind us. We are just TOTALLY bangin’ clams over here!!” specifically to get a BSOD out of Joyce.
“I feel dizzy, and my heart is fluttering. What does this mean?”
“That usually means, you’re in love.”
“I know nothing of this ‘love’. What do I do?”
“Well, it’s usually expressed through kissing…”
“Show me more of this ‘kissing’…”
(Yeah, I’m getting this from an old Star Trek episode, so what?)
Oh my goddddd this is so cute, I want to yell! BECKY’S BEEN READING ABOUT DINOSAURS BECAUSE DINA LOVES DINOSAURS AND DINA WAS TIRED BUT NOW THE PROSPECT OF TALKING TO BECKY ABOUT DINOSAURS MADE HER RECHARGE. I love everthing. I am so happy 😀
So much this. And it’s such a sweet gesture that Becky probably doesn’t realize the full importance of. Dina’s encounters with most people on dinosaurs is to kind of write her off as obsessed and ignore her. Becky actually went to the trouble to follow-up on everything she was saying. She took Dina seriously and wanted to learn more about what she was interested in and talking about.
And not only that, but that was the thing that was most distracting about unfettered internet access. That instead of getting lost in any of the trillion of possible things to get lost in, Becky was most driven to look up the dino stuff she was talking about last night. That that really was the most pressing and distracting thought she had while juggling all the stuff Becky needs to survive.
It’s so naively sweet that it makes so much sense that Dina would be recharged by it.
Yeah, I initially misunderstood that, too. In retrospect, it seems really obvious that Dina was referring to her “social battery,” not the laptop battery. As someone who requires ample “recharge time” after social interactions, I should have picked up on that.
Same, including the “I really should have gotten it” part. I was really confused, since the laptop’s power level was a meaningless thing to mention unless it meant Becky was lying, but Becky certainly wasn’t reacting like she’d been caught in a lie.
Then I reread the strip and everything made sense.
I think it’s the fact that I have a low powered social battery that kept me from getting it at first (though I didn’t think it was the laptop battery…I thought she was talking about Becky’s awesomeness). I can’t think of any situation that could move me from ‘need recharge’ to ‘fully charged’…but I’ve always had friends who were interested in the same things as me, so I can’t really say how I would respond if someone went out of their way to learn about something I was into in order to connect with me.
I thought it meant the laptop battery was at 100% and that Dina caught on to Becky just looking up dinosaurs for two seconds and directing her to find it all disi genupus-style. Like, hey, yer fulla shit, you haven’t even looked at this for a few minutes even. But nope, glad to see it is less sly and circuitous than that.
I didn’t get it was referring to her social battery until I read this. I though it was just like, happiness level kinda thing. That make snore sense though! I hope Dina still takes a break though so she doesn’t get overwhelmed from too much social interaction and have a meltdown 😟
I personally don’t look at porn when I’m using someone else’s computer. Partly out of respect for the owner and partly because I would prefer not to damage someone’s property with any viruses or spyware that might be on the sites in question.
Years from now, an election season will begin before the prior one has ended. This event will mark the beginning of The Long Campaign. What great hero shall rise up and cast down this foolishness before the unceasing politicking renders us catatonic?
Torn between:
“At that moment, Becky shot from most favorite to most most most MOST favorite” and
“Only Becky can accidentally girlfriend better than most people intentionally boy/girlfriend” so WHY NOT BOTH
But seriously every comic with these guys is instadorable. Becky needs to enroll here in dinosaurs with Dina and they can study dinosaurs together as lesbian dinosaur scientists and it would be awesome
I suspect that Becky might be better at accidentally girlfriending than intentionally girlfriending as without effort she can be vulnerable and intimate and sweet, but as we’ve seen with her persona of friendship, her intentional self plays too hard to bury and mask those as she doesn’t want to look like a “sad sack”. So I’m hoping that Becky keeps stumbling and bumbling for a while longer because her and Dina are so adorable as FUCK right now.
Ten years from now, Ross McAbusivePants van der Toedad Asshole I’m-so-stuipd-son flips channels.
TV voice: “Next on dinosaur week, up an coming paleontologist Becky Saruyama present new evidence on why intelligent design is bullshit.”
Buddy: “…Isn’t that your daughter?”
Ross: “…I have no daughter.”
This. I would object to the necessity of taking someone else’s name, but Becky’s traditional background aside, she has good cause to just drop her family.
Yup. Most people who come from abusive families are only too happy to drop their names if there is an option, even if social expectations are to keep it (I’m thinking specifically of men marrying women who took their wife’s name because there relationship with their dads was pure poison).
I wonder how Joyce will react if she checks her browser history, and sees scientific articles about dinosaurs? Would we get another freaked out Joyce panel? I can imagine her horror at the thought that this research on dinosaurs might be the gateway to research on godless topics such as evolution. The horror!
In addition to all the other adorable and sweet aspects of this comic, lookit super-extrovert Becky getting over her disappointment and being extra considerate of Dina’s introversion in panel 3.
Yes, so much. As a massive introvert, I so identify with panel 3 and Becky’s handling of that is so beautiful. It’s like, oh right, that’s a thing for people. I’m initially disappointed, but I want to make a show of how much I respect that boundary…
Actually, I squee for everything to do with Becky’s respect for Dina’s boundaries at every point. It’s so clear that Sarah’s retelling of Joyce’s tale and her guilt about the surprise kiss is really having Becky double check on everything and it’s so super adorable and wonderful, because she so badly wants to do this right more than she wants to get exactly what she wants. It’s just so beautifully respectful at every point.
And that just makes Panels 5-6 so much sweeter, because Dina was drained and out, but the raw sweetness of something Becky did by accident made her feel refreshed and capable of handling a little more social activity (albeit probably by her rules, so I’m going to guess quiet cuddling while Dina does something else or something).
I just… this comic is basically cuteness overload with all the good relationship practices in it.
Or as I like to call it, Super Saiyan God Super Dee Dooper Saiyan. Lets face it, the way they seem to name things, its only a matter of time before that becomes a thing.
YES! SSGSS aside, I am pretty much in love with Dragon Ball Super. I even tolerated episode 5. (I know how the animation industry works there, and I remember the Cell Saga episodes that were clearly drawn during Bring Your Seven Year Old to Work Day, so no skin off my back. It’s a kids’ show.)
Man it feels like ages ago (a little over two months :p ) that the magic moment for them happened…everyone was at the party, Dina was hiding in Ethan’s sweatshirt and Becky was having a somewhat miserable time with Apples to Apples…
and then…
“I’unno. I just kinda like it when you talk to me.”
Yup; Dina’s officially an introvert, all right. Introverts get drained by social interaction and recharge by being alone. Being around one or two people is typically doable, but a large group can really be exhausting.
Nah, I think it’s still an introvert thing. It was just a really sweet gesture. I’ve been drained sometimes and someone does something really sweet for me and its like a snooze alarm on my internal clock and can keep me for crashing into self-care for a little longer. Though that’s only about 50/50 for whether or not it works… and it really sucks when it doesn’t. Aww, that’s so unbelievably sweet and I’m nonetheless still too drained to accept it… 🙁
In Willis’ site before the coming of the dawn
did a weary tabbed browser come upon
that daily internet ritual – of course –
the exhausted flogging of a deceased horse.
Yup, speaking from experience the right sort of interaction or stimulus can boost my energy level to full. It might not stay there as long as good and proper alone time but it’ll do in a pinch.
Depending on the University, she may not have had any private access to the internet. She probably wouldn’t have had an interest in dinosaurs, but not being able to do anything in private would have kept her from being free to use it in general.
Some places might also augment that with limited access.
I’ve got an acquaintance who goes to one– the access is not censored per se, but it is monitored in such a fashion that if someone looks up two people puttin’ their giblets together, that someone is in a load of doo-doo.
She didn’t have a cell phone or a computer. Only a landline.
It’s possible that the religious university’s library had internet, but it was probably heavily censored owing to the proclivities of the parents who send their kids there. But it definitely was the case that all studying and classwork that Becky was shown to be doing involved book work of some kind.
Multiple videos of it, as it happens. I didn’t think more than one video of it would exist, but, as I’ve seen with my own eyes, I’ve been proven wrong.
Ooooh! Lots of important relationship moments here.
Dina identifies and communicates her need for alone time.
Becky recognizes and affirms her need.
Becky (accidentally) confirms that the shared interested they first bonded around IS indeed a shared interest.
Dina and Becky finds a way to recharge together.
BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Oh, and there is a lip bite.
“I can save this one.”
YES YOU CAN AND YOU DO, DINA.
In every sense of the word… which makes me slightly worried that Dina is going to develop a savior complex about it or take it harshly if something bad does happen to Becky in the same way that she beat herself up about letting Amber’s dad into the room.(The hospital preview panels for next arc make me really nervous for a Toedad getting revenge against Dina storyline or a Becky getting hurt arc).
Man, it took me forever to get the joke. I thought Dina was talking about the power level of the laptop. Which would imply that Becky only pretended to have digged around for dinosaurs and in reality the laptop was barely on.
On an unrelated note: what kind of parental controls would lock out dinosaurs? Is that sort of a thing because they are not wearing feathers in most depictions? Shaved brontos and their horny tricerabottoms?
I’ve been reading DoA for years, this is the first time I’ve commented, just because as someone with some extent of high-functioning aspergers and no small degree of social anxiety, I COMPLETELY understand where Dina’s coming from in the second panel.
I’m in a wonderful relationship myself, and have friends I value greatly, but spending long stretches of time in a highly social context is exhausting on an emotional and mental level. As much as I enjoy my friends’ company, it would wear on me greatly to spend any longer than a weekend with them at once, and – depending on a series of factors as to ‘how often’ – I reasonably frequently just need some alone time. Reading, playing games, lying back and thinking, doing some creative work. Something quiet and some chance to regather my own energy.
I’m confused by this page. What is Dina’s point in the last panel? That the battery is still at 100%, so Becky must have lied about looking up dinosaurs? Or that there’s plenty of battery left for more research?
Totally unrelated to this strip but in TVtropes catalogue of Nice Guys (as in genuine nice dudes, not MRAs) Roomies!Danny is listed as, and I quote: “one of the best examples of this trope being played straight ever.”
Roomies-era Danny was way more than just a “pouty arsehole”, he was ridiculously stuck up, judgemental, moralizing, and totally blind to any of his own flaws before he accidentally got Ruth killed. Even though he eventually grew up and become a better person like he was in It’s Walky, the idea that he’s “one of the best examples” of a genuinely nice and friendly person is silly.
Danny is a moralizing ass
Joe is a creepy pervert
Ruth has so many issues (she still manages to be the best character though)
Billy is okay, but still a bit of an ass
Howard committed sexual harassment (probably got it from Joe)
Mary is Mary
All joking aside, I hope this doesn’t become a problem. Dina is a textbook introvert, and Becky an extrovert. Becky seemed a bit taken aback by Dina’s needing alone time, but that’s exactly how it works with us quiet ones. Regardless of how much she might enjoy it, it IS very tiring to interact with people for an entire day.
Becky sounded surprised, but not upset. Intro/extro pairings can, in my experience, work quite well, if the two can figure out how to interact with each other. Dina seems interested in social growth (at her own pace), and Becky seems willing to give her space – that’s a good starting place.
Becky seemed taken aback, but accepting. She doesn’t understand yet, but she respects it.
And Dina may find that Becky is one of the few people that don’t exhaust her to interact with them. So far they haven’t spent much time with just the two of them.
This. I think it wasn’t something she thought to look out for as Becky isn’t an introvert, but overall Becky handles it very well and moves out of the disappointment into making it clear her full no-judgment acceptance really fast, which is very healthy.
I wish I could be as straightforward as Dina about needing to be alone.
“It’s not that I don’t want to be around you, or that I don’t enjoy hanging out, I just want to be alone to recharge right now. I don’t want to say I’m tired because realistically once I’m alone I’m probably going to still stay up and fiddle around with stuff, so I don’t want to lie or anything, but can we just part ways for just a little bit?”
So much cute on this page, but one thing is just so slightly heartbreaking and that’s Becky’s apology for drifting off job searching. She’s already begun internalizing the “need to stay on the ball 100% of the time narrative and feeling bad when she drifts off it. She’s been through so much of late and has never had full access to the internet before, but still feels she needs to apologize to her girlfriend for not being “productive” enough after its been what a weekend and a day?
It’s really sad, but everything else is so sweet it so makes up for it.
Seriously, Beckysaurus is my favorite couple we’ve seen so far.
I don’t doubt that you are right about Becky internalizing guilt about her homeless status, but I read something else into this situation.
“yeah, sorry, I know this must be boring for you because you already know everything about dinosaurs but I’m new to this and I think it’s really cool and I know you must think I’m childish to have too look up the basics like this but…”
Basically, Becky feeling like an outsider and being a tiny bit shy about her homeschooled status in the face of her smart girlfriend. She doesn’t know that most people view Dina’s dinosaur interest as childish in itself, and how much it means to Dina that someone takes it seriously.
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HARNESS THE POWER
Dina-Rider
sIt’s all over but for the Slipshine.
But… I don’t know if I need a Slipshine, to be honest. Dina and Becky are cute together. If I get to see them interact like this, it’s nearly enough on its own.
I still want to see them snuggling/cuddling together, but as you said; it doesn’t need to be a Slipshine.
Yeah, I can’t really see Becky getting to Slipshine level for a while. She still won’t swear and it hasn’t occurred to her to look up porn, which…um, yeah. The fundie is still pretty strong with this one. Premarital hanky panky’s gonna take some getting used to.
She’s at least outwardly very happy to buy a million tickets to heck with Dina, and I’ve known sexually active people who don’t swear. But yeah, snuggling is so new and exciting and wonderful, there’s no reason not to hang out in snuggle-land for a very long time!
You see, in college I used to brag about snuggling with two ladies, and my friends didn’t understand why this was brag-worthy, even though I pointed out that snuggling is way awesome! And there were two, woah!
Daaaamn
Well, it doesn’t necessarily have to be a full-blown Slipshine comic…perhaps we could have a Slipshine of just Dina and Becky cuddling together and being all cutesy-wutesy for like a dozen or so uninterrupted pages. 😀
…and suddenly for no reason I wonder what Dina thinks of the Jurassic Park movies? And most Dinosaur movies in general, come to that…
Willis covered that here
Because I don’t know how to link: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/piano/
Thank you, I did not recall that strip. 🙂 Same probably goes for other dinosaur-centric movies.
Know what I really wish? That “Terra Nova” hadn’t gotten cancelled after one freakin’ season! 🙁 Sure, it wasn’t particularly any more accurate regarding the dinosaurs it depicted than pretty much any other dinosaur-based work, but it was a great series, I loved it!
Also, the fact that Dina apparently finds the thought of Becky researching dinosaurs online to be rather a turn-on. WIIIIIN. 😀
Now, I request a Slipshine that is all about the adorkable DinaBecky snugglies! :3
SNUGGLOSAURS? 😉
One of my greatest college achievements was getting snuggled by 3-4 girls at a part after a comedy show I performed in. It was one on the lap, and one on each arm, with a 4th girl cycling into the lap at one point. I was being smothered by ladies and it was fabulous.
Not to mention both are very new to this kinda relationship (Hell, Dina’s still mastering basic Human interaction), so going to Slipshine-type-action too soon could completely destroy the relationship…
Yes, absolutely– and let’s be honest, who am I to talk about Slipshine when we all know that I’m going to melt into a giant blob the instant I see the two of them cuddling>
I’d just like to see a Slipshine that’s all about them cuddling up like two little lovebugs together. ;-3
I think Dina would disagree with you about the porn lookup thing.
As far as Dina is concerned, Becky was just looking at porn.
D: What are you doing?
B: Lookin’ at dinosaurs.
D: … I wish to learn more about this ‘making out’ now. Teach me!
Maybe she was actually looking at dinosaur-themed porn? Double-sexy for Dina! ;D
This exactly. This is the way I am. If Dina were more experienced this might have led to a Slipshine comic.
What about that flashback montage with beckys college roommate? Wasnt there some heavily implied hankypanky?
Based on the blue flashbacks:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/definitely/
It’s unclear if it went past making out or not.
Willis confirmed they just got caught kissing. No sex.
I…it fills me with shame, but I do have that need. I blame the adorable chemistry at play here. I can’t even deal.
You know what they say: shame is just lust caught with its pants down.
I don’t know that anybody actually says that, but they really should.
Watching Dino-Riders would probably drive Dina nuts. So many species shown together who lived in vastly different periods and regions.
hey, if it’s Aaron Diaz’s favourite show
(also mine)
I can imagine that you’d be okay with mixing dinosaurs from different periods, Ms. Chronistic.
But would Dina be put off by the fact there’s space aliens & Humans firing lasers at each other? Sounds cool to me honestly tho, might have to chase it down…
Aliens and laser beams would make FAR more sense to her than Dimetrodon and T-Rex living at the same time period. I mean, T-Rex lived closer in time to US than to Dimetrodon.
He’s not even a dinosaur.
Why…WHY ARE THERE NO WAYS TO UPVOTE ON THIS SYSTEM.
It’s something that’s frustrated me for a while too
Even a girl who is pure at heart/and says her prayers by night/may become a paleontologist/when the wolfsbane blooms/and the autumn moon is bright.
I thought I could host a skype call and still load as quickly. Mine is the face of hubris.
If it means you sacrificed it for Dina’s face in panel four, that seems like a fair trade. Look at those eyes and the lip bite. It’s adorable!
Maximally adorable.
Those lithium adorable batteries always perform better when moistened first!
+1
I was wrong, Sal’s not on this page 🙁
I don’t want to be an ass and say I told you so….but I’m going to be a an ass
Damn you, henryvolt.
You’re missing the theme, this strip is about dinosaurs, not mammals!
You better be an Arsetanosaurus!
Come on, Becky & Dina aren’t THAT old !
But Birds!
Competing over who gets first, night after night.
Ya’ll need jesus
http://goo.gl/u2jBpW
I’ll be back in 3:33.
You just had to go there….
The funniest thing about that is I love the song, so it’s like, is there a joke….?
I listen to this bad boy on repeat
Ive convinced them to play it at every school dance and disco ive ever gone to.
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
I…I actually have several Rick Astley songs on my computer. >.>
also, I’ve gone over this, but I’ll add that it’s just super funny when the first post is super-long and manages to beat out a “FIRST” or equivalent
It all lies in the preparation, anyway.
I narrowed it down to it updating at 12:02:11 – 12:02:12 Willis time.
By clearing your cache and having a comment prepared.
It’s completely possible for anyone to get to the first spot.
Yes, even you.
Well, yeah. Wouldn’t exactly be a first lol.
Times have changed though. It used to be anyone could get the first comment by getting here within the first five minutes. Now, there’s all these new fangled script readers, and updaters, and the constant cache clearing, plus all the Patreon users. It’s getting to the point where the average joe won’t be able to make it to first anymore.
And it might be we’re already past that point. But by gum, I’m not going down without a fight.
I would suggest not trying to be first.
Yeah, that’s probably for the best.
Am i proudnof myself?
Of course
always coming to take you down
I like this version much better,
Heretic
the DMCA takedown version?
S’not a DMC takedown. It’s just not available in the USA.
This one is my jam. B)
It kind of loses the effect when there’s an ad in front of it.
Gotta agree. Many sads.
Ads are mood killers.
Ads are the little death that brings total botheration.
I will “Faaaaaaaace!” my ads …
I will allow them to pass over my head, and past my ear canals,
And when they are past, only content shall remain.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand lady boner for Dina.
Oh good. I got here two hours late and the first thing I did when opening the comments was run a search for someone saying ‘lady boner’. I would have been very disappointed had it not been mentioned at least once.
We are nothing if not predictable.
Would you have searched for “sploosh” if you had found none?
It turns out dino pics and taking her statements seriously instead of just the babbling of the “weird girl” is her trigger for “perverse romantic lust”.
Just wait until she finds TV Tropes.
A newbie in TVTropes? She wont be seen again for a few days.
More like weeks. I had to look up like every movie and show I’d ever watched.
Which may not have been much in Becky’s case, all things considered.
Daniel the Human here. I had a rather nice week when Screwball found TV Tropes. Pretty much 7 days of 24 hour Trope surfing. It was a niiiice week… 🙂
Can you estimate what percentage of them had pages?
This was when the site was just catching on so maybe 60-70. Mind you, it wasn’t long before I started contributing myself, and I’ve added a couple of new pages.
Well that was fast.
(inb4 twss)
I wanna be inappropriate and joke about energy to power a slipshine, but I also just want them to cuddle.
Sal’s in the room…
Sal wouldn’t notice. For one, no one usually notices when Dina is there.
So we get a slipshine of them, the usual stuff happens….
Sal pokes her head in and merely asks if Becky’s been masturbating.
(Nobody notices Dina.)
The entirety of it is just Becky laying there by herself doing nothing. On the last page, she suddenly climaxes. Dina is nowhere to be seen.
Becky: “*hhhhRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNGGGGGHhhhhhh!!!”
*door eases closed
Dina (quietly peeking from behind door:) “rrrarrr…”
….that made me fluster a bit
That’s so unrealistic…
But only because Becky would never let there be sexual activity without closing and locking the door: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/definitely/
Everything else: 100% headcanon
I don’t know: I imagine the Beck that wanted to have her pre-outed life back would have.
I think the current Becky would leave the shared bathroom door open just for the opportunity to say something like: “Oh, hai! Don’t mind us. We are just TOTALLY bangin’ clams over here!!” specifically to get a BSOD out of Joyce.
That makes a lot of sense.
Did Dina just go “hnnng” in the 5th panel ? 😀
(y’know, the lip biting)
*hnnnghs internally*
Internal hnnnngorrhaging sounds serious.
Only when it’s done well.
And in that exact moment, you could hear Dina’s affection for Becky shoot from an 8 to a 10.
“I feel dizzy, and my heart is fluttering. What does this mean?”
“That usually means, you’re in love.”
“I know nothing of this ‘love’. What do I do?”
“Well, it’s usually expressed through kissing…”
“Show me more of this ‘kissing’…”
(Yeah, I’m getting this from an old Star Trek episode, so what?)
This is the closest we will ever get to dina getting aroused
The closest we’ve gotten at present, you mean.
(Okay, you’re trying to look at this realistically and I’m a fluff-headed shipper 🙂 )
Oh dont worry im sure 90% of us are fluff headed shippers, HAVE YOU SEEN MY ICON FOR FLUFFS SAKE??!
Oh yes, I have seen it.
And I’ve just reread all of the Ruth/Billie buildup and relationship stuff earlier today.
Including the “Finally” comic.
Dina’s arousal meter has fully charged.
Commence PSL.
Becky is looking forward to unfetter some more no doubt!
Oh my goddddd this is so cute, I want to yell! BECKY’S BEEN READING ABOUT DINOSAURS BECAUSE DINA LOVES DINOSAURS AND DINA WAS TIRED BUT NOW THE PROSPECT OF TALKING TO BECKY ABOUT DINOSAURS MADE HER RECHARGE. I love everthing. I am so happy 😀
I know, right
So much this. And it’s such a sweet gesture that Becky probably doesn’t realize the full importance of. Dina’s encounters with most people on dinosaurs is to kind of write her off as obsessed and ignore her. Becky actually went to the trouble to follow-up on everything she was saying. She took Dina seriously and wanted to learn more about what she was interested in and talking about.
And not only that, but that was the thing that was most distracting about unfettered internet access. That instead of getting lost in any of the trillion of possible things to get lost in, Becky was most driven to look up the dino stuff she was talking about last night. That that really was the most pressing and distracting thought she had while juggling all the stuff Becky needs to survive.
It’s so naively sweet that it makes so much sense that Dina would be recharged by it.
I can see it now.
They’re in bed together, basking in the afterglow…Becky’s ready for another dozen rounds, but Dina’s slowly nodding off…
…and Becky whips out a smartphone with a picture of Opisthocoelicaudia.
This… would be really adorable honestly <3333
Her lady-boner has given her new strength.
The first few moments after reading today’s strip, I thought Dina was referring to the laptop when she said “power level’s at 100%”.
Yeah, I initially misunderstood that, too. In retrospect, it seems really obvious that Dina was referring to her “social battery,” not the laptop battery. As someone who requires ample “recharge time” after social interactions, I should have picked up on that.
Same, including the “I really should have gotten it” part. I was really confused, since the laptop’s power level was a meaningless thing to mention unless it meant Becky was lying, but Becky certainly wasn’t reacting like she’d been caught in a lie.
Then I reread the strip and everything made sense.
I think it’s the fact that I have a low powered social battery that kept me from getting it at first (though I didn’t think it was the laptop battery…I thought she was talking about Becky’s awesomeness). I can’t think of any situation that could move me from ‘need recharge’ to ‘fully charged’…but I’ve always had friends who were interested in the same things as me, so I can’t really say how I would respond if someone went out of their way to learn about something I was into in order to connect with me.
Ohhhhhhhghhgh
I thought it meant the laptop battery was at 100% and that Dina caught on to Becky just looking up dinosaurs for two seconds and directing her to find it all disi genupus-style. Like, hey, yer fulla shit, you haven’t even looked at this for a few minutes even. But nope, glad to see it is less sly and circuitous than that.
I didn’t get it was referring to her social battery until I read this. I though it was just like, happiness level kinda thing. That make snore sense though! I hope Dina still takes a break though so she doesn’t get overwhelmed from too much social interaction and have a meltdown 😟
She has unfettered internet access for the first time, and she looks up dinosaurs because Dina… damn is she smitten.
I would look at porn
We’d all look at porn
I wasn’t aware there was anything else on the web.
Sing-a-long! The internet is for ____
Grab you ____ and double click for ___ ___ __oooor_
There is porn.
And there is also Willis.
And sometimes there is Porn by Willis.
The Internet is 50% porn and 50% cat videos.
The overlap of those is a very strange place.
I almost made that joke but I felt like it crossed a certain line. Now you’re gonna get credit for my joke. -_-
…I don’t want to know.
There are Youtubes of mating cats, so yeah =B
[I know because THANK YOU SPIKE TROTMAN for linking turtle masturbation]
Do you mean this hilariously adorable one?
Dude…I love my Crocs, too, but not like that. O_O (LOL Poor tortoise. ^^; )
The Internet is 30% porn, 30% cat gifs and videos, and everything else goes into that 40% of the bandwidth.
There is Dinosaur porn… CURSE YOU GEORGE LUCAS
“Aww, that’s a sexy dinosa- GOD-DAMMIT!!!”
And here I was sure you were going to link to this instead. ^^;
The reviews people write about it are amazing.
I personally don’t look at porn when I’m using someone else’s computer. Partly out of respect for the owner and partly because I would prefer not to damage someone’s property with any viruses or spyware that might be on the sites in question.
It’s not a problem if the comp’s on linux tho
*looks around for another good reptile song*
*is forced to play the Lewis Grizzard sketch about his neighbor’s Reptile Farm on the Muzak*
*cracks open another PBR and cranks up Big Lizard by the Dead Milkmen*
Open the door
Get on the floor
Becky’s gonna do the Dinasaur~~
Surely, surely, it must be “close the door”
…but you can leave your hat on ; 3
Here you go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DZo3cdxdK4
Dinosaurs:powering mankind since the 1800’s.
…
what you did there. I see it.
(except it’s mostly biomass)
(to which I mean mostly plankton and algae)
Yeah,but the oil also has biomass from the extinct prehistoric aquatic creatures.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/101/
For all questions, there is a “What if?”…:D
Aah, thanks. I was wondering where I had read that.
Bets on how long before Becky begins to regret having unfettered access to the internet?
Bearing in mind it is temporarily an election period right now. I almost said election year, but the US doesn’t do election “years” anymore.
so… lemon party ?
“two girls, one cup? I like two girls!”
Years from now, an election season will begin before the prior one has ended. This event will mark the beginning of The Long Campaign. What great hero shall rise up and cast down this foolishness before the unceasing politicking renders us catatonic?
It will come down to the presidential race between Dotty and Robin.
I think by the time Dorothy’s old enough to run, Robin will have had a presidential campaign or two, and retired to become a media pundit.
Let me have this
First time someone links her to /b/.
Torn between:
“At that moment, Becky shot from most favorite to most most most MOST favorite” and
“Only Becky can accidentally girlfriend better than most people intentionally boy/girlfriend” so WHY NOT BOTH
But seriously every comic with these guys is instadorable. Becky needs to enroll here in dinosaurs with Dina and they can study dinosaurs together as lesbian dinosaur scientists and it would be awesome
Lesbian-dinosaur scientists it’s a very niche field, both of study and of movie. It’s pretty much just Jurassic Park, right?
I suspect that Becky might be better at accidentally girlfriending than intentionally girlfriending as without effort she can be vulnerable and intimate and sweet, but as we’ve seen with her persona of friendship, her intentional self plays too hard to bury and mask those as she doesn’t want to look like a “sad sack”. So I’m hoping that Becky keeps stumbling and bumbling for a while longer because her and Dina are so adorable as FUCK right now.
Becky McIntyre, paleontologist. I like that idea.
Ten years from now, Ross McAbusivePants van der Toedad Asshole I’m-so-stuipd-son flips channels.
TV voice: “Next on dinosaur week, up an coming paleontologist Becky Saruyama present new evidence on why intelligent design is bullshit.”
Buddy: “…Isn’t that your daughter?”
Ross: “…I have no daughter.”
Glory!
That’s going to be Willis’ next poll:
“Several years from now, will it be Becky Saruyama or Dina MacIntyre?”
I think that Becky will be happy to put more distance between herself and her father’s name.
This. I would object to the necessity of taking someone else’s name, but Becky’s traditional background aside, she has good cause to just drop her family.
Mhm, kind of like how Leslie, in the walkyverse, destroyed a perfectly good pun name.
Yup. Most people who come from abusive families are only too happy to drop their names if there is an option, even if social expectations are to keep it (I’m thinking specifically of men marrying women who took their wife’s name because there relationship with their dads was pure poison).
Well I doubt Becky would like to continue to associate with
the MacIntryes after all this mess.
Fuck recharging, because dinosaurs.
Yup. that idea would be worth a a billion dollars. with or without the dinosaurs.
Recharge fucking, because dinosaurs.
Patience, young Gamaran
Wouldn’t it be great if we could recharge our devices during sex? Maybe some sort of biomechanical harness…
I think this would be less … cumbersome … unless, of course, cumbering is your thing 😉
There’s a SMBC for that.
I wonder how Joyce will react if she checks her browser history, and sees scientific articles about dinosaurs? Would we get another freaked out Joyce panel? I can imagine her horror at the thought that this research on dinosaurs might be the gateway to research on godless topics such as evolution. The horror!
She will make that face again.
In addition to all the other adorable and sweet aspects of this comic, lookit super-extrovert Becky getting over her disappointment and being extra considerate of Dina’s introversion in panel 3.
Yes, so much. As a massive introvert, I so identify with panel 3 and Becky’s handling of that is so beautiful. It’s like, oh right, that’s a thing for people. I’m initially disappointed, but I want to make a show of how much I respect that boundary…
Actually, I squee for everything to do with Becky’s respect for Dina’s boundaries at every point. It’s so clear that Sarah’s retelling of Joyce’s tale and her guilt about the surprise kiss is really having Becky double check on everything and it’s so super adorable and wonderful, because she so badly wants to do this right more than she wants to get exactly what she wants. It’s just so beautifully respectful at every point.
And that just makes Panels 5-6 so much sweeter, because Dina was drained and out, but the raw sweetness of something Becky did by accident made her feel refreshed and capable of handling a little more social activity (albeit probably by her rules, so I’m going to guess quiet cuddling while Dina does something else or something).
I just… this comic is basically cuteness overload with all the good relationship practices in it.
Has Dina achieved Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan!?
No she’s at SSGSSj2 now
Or as I like to call it, Super Saiyan God Super Dee Dooper Saiyan. Lets face it, the way they seem to name things, its only a matter of time before that becomes a thing.
Eh I stopped paying attention since the end of the Buu arc. What Dragon Ball GT? There’s no such thing. No sirree.
And now the new cartoon, with Toriyama back at the helm, is ignoring GT too!
YES! SSGSS aside, I am pretty much in love with Dragon Ball Super. I even tolerated episode 5. (I know how the animation industry works there, and I remember the Cell Saga episodes that were clearly drawn during Bring Your Seven Year Old to Work Day, so no skin off my back. It’s a kids’ show.)
see the benefit of not having time to watch things is that I get to wait till they fix the animations and stuff, not by choice, but still, benefits XD
Faster than a lightning charger…
What does the laptop’s charge have to do…
Ohhhhh.
OHHHHH.
I se the first reading was confusing for a lot of us 🙂
“Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and um… screaming.”
Becky can only hope.
Dina’s lip bite. I feel like I’ve always liked Dina, but since the party, she’s quickly climbed my list of favorites.
I’m impressed by how this chapter changed our general idea of Dina from AWESOME to AWESOMER
Man it feels like ages ago (a little over two months :p ) that the magic moment for them happened…everyone was at the party, Dina was hiding in Ethan’s sweatshirt and Becky was having a somewhat miserable time with Apples to Apples…
and then…
“I’unno. I just kinda like it when you talk to me.”
AND THEN THE SMILES
AND THEN THE FEELS
Yup; Dina’s officially an introvert, all right. Introverts get drained by social interaction and recharge by being alone. Being around one or two people is typically doable, but a large group can really be exhausting.
I’d say she’s more ambivert, considering how Becky bringing up dinosaurs recharged her social energy.
Nah, I think it’s still an introvert thing. It was just a really sweet gesture. I’ve been drained sometimes and someone does something really sweet for me and its like a snooze alarm on my internal clock and can keep me for crashing into self-care for a little longer. Though that’s only about 50/50 for whether or not it works… and it really sucks when it doesn’t. Aww, that’s so unbelievably sweet and I’m nonetheless still too drained to accept it… 🙁
“comment on tomorrow’s strip over at Patreon: “best doa yet””??????
what are you planning/were planning several months ago
Wait so what does the laptop charge have to do with anything?
You know, that’s going to have a completely different meaning once they get some privacy…
Dina means her social interaction batteries.
Dina power level, not laptop power level.
Dina’s power level seriously… -sighs- > 9000
And that isn’t even her final form.
In Willis’ site before the coming of the dawn
did a weary tabbed browser come upon
that daily internet ritual – of course –
the exhausted flogging of a deceased horse.
Memes are more like zombie horses that refuse to die.
So, whip them all you want! *wh-psh* *wh-psh*
Whip it! Whip it good! Whip it! Whip it real good!
Dina was referring to her introvert-self needing to recharge after a busy day, around people. Becky’s dino-search brought Dina’s levels back up.
Yup, speaking from experience the right sort of interaction or stimulus can boost my energy level to full. It might not stay there as long as good and proper alone time but it’ll do in a pinch.
And a good proper internet search is good for that, too!
I still have no idea.
Don’t be too hard on yourself, Becky. You could’ve inadvertently infested that computer with viruses instead.
Wow, not even out for an hour, & already 105 comments. This 1 could be active…
The Beckasaur continues its ascent; we shall continue to be quite active 🙂
The ship gathers speed by the day.
Perhaps this is a painfully ignorant question…
Do religious universities normally have censored internet access?
Depending on the University, she may not have had any private access to the internet. She probably wouldn’t have had an interest in dinosaurs, but not being able to do anything in private would have kept her from being free to use it in general.
Some places might also augment that with limited access.
Possibly Becky’s computer did? Maybe Toedad owned it and censored it? Or the school Internet was limited like how China limits their Internet.
I’ve got an acquaintance who goes to one– the access is not censored per se, but it is monitored in such a fashion that if someone looks up two people puttin’ their giblets together, that someone is in a load of doo-doo.
She didn’t have a cell phone or a computer. Only a landline.
It’s possible that the religious university’s library had internet, but it was probably heavily censored owing to the proclivities of the parents who send their kids there. But it definitely was the case that all studying and classwork that Becky was shown to be doing involved book work of some kind.
Is it bad that my first thought was to traumatize Becky with some good old weird fetish sites? Is goatse still a thing?
It is, but mostly among 12-year-olds. Everyone else is bored by it, now. :/
pterodactyl porn exists….that is all
Multiple videos of it, as it happens. I didn’t think more than one video of it would exist, but, as I’ve seen with my own eyes, I’ve been proven wrong.
Ooooh! Lots of important relationship moments here.
Dina identifies and communicates her need for alone time.
Becky recognizes and affirms her need.
Becky (accidentally) confirms that the shared interested they first bonded around IS indeed a shared interest.
Dina and Becky finds a way to recharge together.
BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Oh, and there is a lip bite.
“I can save this one.”
YES YOU CAN AND YOU DO, DINA.
In every sense of the word… which makes me slightly worried that Dina is going to develop a savior complex about it or take it harshly if something bad does happen to Becky in the same way that she beat herself up about letting Amber’s dad into the room.(The hospital preview panels for next arc make me really nervous for a Toedad getting revenge against Dina storyline or a Becky getting hurt arc).
Go get some tomatoes, Becky, because it’s time to play ketchup.
Is it weird that in my head I hear Becky’s, “Hooray!” in the voice of that Red Stripe guy from those beer commercials >.>
It looks like Becky really knows how to get Dina interested in further interaction! Does talking about paleontology turn her on? 😉
Who wouldn’t be turned on?
Now, some fossils degrade more slowly…baby…
More bonding. The web unfettered is a wonderous thing.
Help, Dina is too adorable. Can’t cope. Can’t even X_x
This will be the first recorded victim in a few decades when the discovery channel looks back on the extinction of the Dina-fans
Something something over nine-thousand.
I thought it was one-thousand-and-six.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2F70lZInBc
Man, it took me forever to get the joke. I thought Dina was talking about the power level of the laptop. Which would imply that Becky only pretended to have digged around for dinosaurs and in reality the laptop was barely on.
On an unrelated note: what kind of parental controls would lock out dinosaurs? Is that sort of a thing because they are not wearing feathers in most depictions? Shaved brontos and their horny tricerabottoms?
I assumed it was a matter of time, but ‘ones set by people who think the Earth is only ~6000 years old’ would not want most dinosaur sites.
Now, Becky, let me tell you about [I was going to say Rule 34, but basically anything that’s on the internet works]…
I’ve been reading DoA for years, this is the first time I’ve commented, just because as someone with some extent of high-functioning aspergers and no small degree of social anxiety, I COMPLETELY understand where Dina’s coming from in the second panel.
I’m in a wonderful relationship myself, and have friends I value greatly, but spending long stretches of time in a highly social context is exhausting on an emotional and mental level. As much as I enjoy my friends’ company, it would wear on me greatly to spend any longer than a weekend with them at once, and – depending on a series of factors as to ‘how often’ – I reasonably frequently just need some alone time. Reading, playing games, lying back and thinking, doing some creative work. Something quiet and some chance to regather my own energy.
So how long till Becky finds the first Lesbian porno?
Actual lesbian porn or one made by straight dudes to entertain themselves? There’s a big difference.
[insert dragon ball z joke here]
She has discovered Dina’s on switch. Achievement unlocked?
What will happen to Dina and Becky relationship if Becky will discover the free lesbian porn section of the internet?
They will have an interesting time figuring out the difference between porn and reality… like most young couples.
I have nothing funny to say so I’ll just comment on how adorable these two are.
squee
Squee indeed.
Three things today that made Dina lose her cool.
– He looks like a toe
– THAT’S first base???
– Becky was reading about dinosaurs.
I’m confused by this page. What is Dina’s point in the last panel? That the battery is still at 100%, so Becky must have lied about looking up dinosaurs? Or that there’s plenty of battery left for more research?
Ah, reading it again I think Dina was talking about herself. Got thrown off by her holding a laptop and them using batteries and all
Dina runs on fossil fuel.
That lady-bone: she can dig it
The power of boners is strong in her.
Totally unrelated to this strip but in TVtropes catalogue of Nice Guys (as in genuine nice dudes, not MRAs) Roomies!Danny is listed as, and I quote: “one of the best examples of this trope being played straight ever.”
That is amazing.
Fantastic!! 😀
Eh, he can be kind of a pouty-arsehole sometimes.
Roomies-era Danny was way more than just a “pouty arsehole”, he was ridiculously stuck up, judgemental, moralizing, and totally blind to any of his own flaws before he accidentally got Ruth killed. Even though he eventually grew up and become a better person like he was in It’s Walky, the idea that he’s “one of the best examples” of a genuinely nice and friendly person is silly.
Yeah but that was roomies. everyone was an asshole in that strip.
Danny is a moralizing ass
Joe is a creepy pervert
Ruth has so many issues (she still manages to be the best character though)
Billy is okay, but still a bit of an ass
Howard committed sexual harassment (probably got it from Joe)
Mary is Mary
Who am i supposed to root for?
Roomies is unmitigated garbage but at least it lead to It’s Walky!, one of the best webcomics ever.
> straight
hmm …
All joking aside, I hope this doesn’t become a problem. Dina is a textbook introvert, and Becky an extrovert. Becky seemed a bit taken aback by Dina’s needing alone time, but that’s exactly how it works with us quiet ones. Regardless of how much she might enjoy it, it IS very tiring to interact with people for an entire day.
Becky sounded surprised, but not upset. Intro/extro pairings can, in my experience, work quite well, if the two can figure out how to interact with each other. Dina seems interested in social growth (at her own pace), and Becky seems willing to give her space – that’s a good starting place.
Becky seemed taken aback, but accepting. She doesn’t understand yet, but she respects it.
And Dina may find that Becky is one of the few people that don’t exhaust her to interact with them. So far they haven’t spent much time with just the two of them.
Ah, but there are various ways to exhaust someone.
This. I think it wasn’t something she thought to look out for as Becky isn’t an introvert, but overall Becky handles it very well and moves out of the disappointment into making it clear her full no-judgment acceptance really fast, which is very healthy.
Took me a second to get this one. Sense of humor level up!
Becky is learning the internet in chronological order. She’s already up to dinosaurs, so that’s almost done, right? Not much happened after that
Not much of interest.
If IW Walky had known about this he could have saved himself an ironing.
I wish I could be as straightforward as Dina about needing to be alone.
“It’s not that I don’t want to be around you, or that I don’t enjoy hanging out, I just want to be alone to recharge right now. I don’t want to say I’m tired because realistically once I’m alone I’m probably going to still stay up and fiddle around with stuff, so I don’t want to lie or anything, but can we just part ways for just a little bit?”
So much cute on this page, but one thing is just so slightly heartbreaking and that’s Becky’s apology for drifting off job searching. She’s already begun internalizing the “need to stay on the ball 100% of the time narrative and feeling bad when she drifts off it. She’s been through so much of late and has never had full access to the internet before, but still feels she needs to apologize to her girlfriend for not being “productive” enough after its been what a weekend and a day?
It’s really sad, but everything else is so sweet it so makes up for it.
Seriously, Beckysaurus is my favorite couple we’ve seen so far.
I don’t doubt that you are right about Becky internalizing guilt about her homeless status, but I read something else into this situation.
“yeah, sorry, I know this must be boring for you because you already know everything about dinosaurs but I’m new to this and I think it’s really cool and I know you must think I’m childish to have too look up the basics like this but…”
Basically, Becky feeling like an outsider and being a tiny bit shy about her homeschooled status in the face of her smart girlfriend. She doesn’t know that most people view Dina’s dinosaur interest as childish in itself, and how much it means to Dina that someone takes it seriously.
Dina may be an introvert, but the power of lady-boners is stronger.
late one: anyone else imagine a little battery in the lip bite panel being charged?
How long will it take before she gets to Roomies! comic? No, wait– «FOOM!» (Universe implodes from recursion)