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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Barbarous
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A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
Within
Verena Loisel
A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Cyanide & Happiness
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Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
The Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
Quick$ilver
Crypto
The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
This is Not Fiction
Nicole Mannino
What do you do when the person you're in-love with is an anonymous romance novelist? Get your best friend to hire your worst enemy for help!
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
Scape
Lauren
Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
The Last Diplomat
Cat Farris
Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
Aquapunk
Lo
In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
Missing Monday
Elle Skinner
Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
Ride or Die
Mars Heyward
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.
Gzhel Guardian
Atla Hrafney, nushanchel
The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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I don’t believe so, to my knowledge it has always been used in reference to birds specifically, usually around when they are nesting and laying eggs to keep people from taking them home.
With mammals the mother can reject her own children for seemingly no reason at all (farmers see this with things like horses, sheep, cows and goats) when sense of smell isn’t even how they recognise each other while others do use sense of smell but wouldn’t necessarily abandon their children because of their other senses used like hearing to recognise their voices.
There have been lionesses that kidnap or befriend baby antelope; wolves, cats, dogs and monkeys have adopted, protected and raised young children that have been abandoned or neglected severely in the very rare instances that feral children raised by animals actually do exist; other mammals can also be convinced to raise others as well – dogs can be convinced to raise pretty much anything.
So while a sense of smell may contribute, it definitely isn’t the end all be all for mammals either, but I have never seen it used for mammals, only birds.
With mammals the main problem with touching their babies is that they may not actually be in distress or abandoned at all even if they appear to be to us since several animals hide their children then go off hunting and you don’t know if the parents are actually nearby or not. More skittish individuals may abandon their babies if you touch them because it makes it seem like danger is nearby, but others may just go ahead and spend energy relocating them all.
Nature is never perfectly predictable but in general helping baby birds or eggs back into a nest is fine if the parents aren’t around but you shouldn’t go around touching every baby animal you see as you don’t know if they are actually in danger or not unless you actually monitor the situation over a period of time and look up signs on what might indicate they have been abandoned.
That is prime webcomic/YouTube animation material. You get all kinds with a premise like that, especially if our protagonist cat is also a gamer. Their favorite game could even be Mewtroid
Could easily go over 100% in my experience. But when I did that kind of thing I had a habit of making new friends at the party and trying to bring them back to hang out and play games.
Alas, BBCC, We knew him… Well, not that well, to be honest. I mean, We mostly thought the username was a misspelling of BBC that never got corrected. But We’re sure somebody will miss them.
No really this is so adorable I could cry. In a good way. ;~;
(IDK if I’m just overemotional because of the stress of being about to move or if this is really just that cute but… I’m gonna go with it’s just that cute because oH MY GOD I LOVE THESE TWO TOGETHER. ;w;)
I feel like this is a friendship moment, not that it excludes romance, but that it does not imply romantic intentions and would be the same regardless of what Eef felt.
As much as it has platonic friendship playing a powerful role in this, I think that the romantic overtones really play a strong part in what makes this moment powerful. Ethan has never had a relationship he could really invest himself in, and Danny is re-imagining his identity in part because Ethan’s positive presence in his life helped change his view of who he is and what he deserves, in regard to relationships in general and his sexuality in specific.
And yet, despite the strong chemistry and impact they have together, they’re barring themselves from being in a relationship. They’re both sacrificing their own desires and feelings in order to protect someone else who they both care about. They’re clearly good for each other, and they both know it, but they aren’t allowing themselves to experience what would be an incredibly positive experience in their life.
So this moment, where they’re comfortable and intimate and friendly, is a glimpse into what-could-be, and a fairly public one at that. It lets them almost experience something that they aren’t letting themselves have. And yeah, they are friends. And there’s nothing inherently romantic about falling asleep on your friend’s lap. But in this context, with these people? The underlying romance is too big of a factor to not be one of this moment’s defining features.
Hmm that’s not how I was reading it – yes the tension is there but I was seeing it as more of a situation where ethan was enjoying the platonic intimacy without the typical concerns of things getting misinterpreted or carried away into their romantic feelings for one another. Like They have been putting extra distance between themselves to avoid temptation, but the circumstances here allow them to be close without those added tones. If he wasn’t so worried about accidentally causing problems for a lot of people by sliding into a romantic relationship, this is the way Ethan would act. Maybe you are right, but that wasn’t my reading.
Well first, we don’t know that they’ve been avoiding each other and, at the least, they’re still “really good friends” and regularly text each other.
Second, I disagree with the idea that they’re avoiding temptation.
If the whole point to this is that they want to be together but can’t, then that makes Amber an antagonist to getting them together, and I don’t believe that’s the intent. They would like to date, but Amber is more important, rather than them actively longing for each other but putting themselves on hold for that harpy.
Amber never asked them for this. They didn’t have to do it, but they chose to wait because they were worried about her. They shouldn’t wait forever, but it was still kind of them to think of her.
See, that’s what I mean. If they want to be together but can’t because of Amber, then that mean Amber is a burden getting in the way of their happiness, and I’m hoping that’s not the case.
My read on this is that they both thinking dating would be nice, but they don’t want to because Amber is more important. That’s different from putting off something you want to do because of someone else.
Nope, I bet Mike will show up and use this against some combination of Danny, Ethan, and/or Amber. Maybe help Ethan put Danny to bed, and then seduce Ethan, with just enough noise/exposure to give Danny a glimpse. There will be no Slipshine, because this will be a most unhealthy encounter for Ethan.
based on my own sleep-deprivation experiences, probably to consume a large quantity of carbohydrates and pass out in the dining hall, or perhaps a Denny’s
I’m not gonna lie, all of the shipping talk in the comments is a tad…unnerving? I mean, I definitely relate most of the time. Am gay; love guys loving guys.
But in this moment we’re being let in to see a really private, tender moment. This is so soft, and so pure, and there’s this underlying fear in the scene with Ethan being afraid of being seen by others. It’s such a private moment to be privy to, one that has a quiet sort of power to it.
And the people enthusiastically and loudly proclaiming how much they ship this feels kind of… off. Like, I know that plenty of people in this comment section really relate to this moment, and honestly appreciate it. But with how many people fetishize queer men and they’re relationship, and with how a lot of fandom culture has kind of commodified queer relationships into this thing that you can consume, it really gives me some freaky vibes.
If this were a big kiss moment or a sly and flirty moment that’d be different. Those are moments where cheering and commentating are encouraged and expected. But this moment isn’t one of those. It’s private, tender, and soft. I know that if I’d opened up about having a moment like this to someone, and they responded like I’d just made out with a celebrity on the Kiss-o-Vision at some football game, I’d feel betrayed.
I’m not saying that one can’t cheer or joke about how much you love gay couples in media – I do it all of the time. But there’s a large crowd out there who loves to take in queer men’s love for each other and consume it like a popular new song, no matter how uncomfortable it might make the men in question, or how important and private that moment was.
Now these ARE fictional men, so it’s not like you’re hurting anyone’s feelings; I’m just saying, I can’t tell the difference between some of y’all and the folks who shout, “Yaoi!” at gay couples on the bus. It’s not necessarilly that you’re bad, I’m just eerily creeped out by the similarities, and don’t know if I’m the only one.
I think I get what you mean – I know personally people going “aww this is sweet” wouldn’t bother me, but there’s a lot of comments with kind of a “NOW FUCK!” vibe, which is a bit more *grimace emoji*
That’s kinda the point I’m at. Them liking each other has been showing positive and adorable results in both of them, and they should get to be together to bask in the adorable positive glow that is them together.
I have made some jokes, but I honestly get a warm fuzzy feeling in my brain when I see them happy together.
I don’t necessarily mind the people cheering them on as a couple, even if unreasonably. Because that’s pretty normal for ships, regardless of gender. The thing about this one that’s bothering me is just that the cheers don’t sync up with the context.
Normally, this moment would make people say, “Aww…” But instead it’s more of a, “FUCK HIM NOW” kinda vibe. Whether or not that’s weird in response to normal flirting, it at least is somewhat the same across sexualities. Taking private, tender moments and fervently turning them into sexytime fuel is mostly exclusive to mlm moments.
when i was young, on Sundays, my dad would get bagels, cream cheese, and lox ends and pieces from Snider's Grocery and when we got back from the near-useless Sunday School at temple, that was lunch and I'd read the comics while eating and during those moments I knew I'd become a bagel
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Seriously, I'm getting kinda pissed off that "sassy biting comment" is so far the only form of punishment these judges will ever give these utter bastards
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I guess we do know what their names are: Light Long (giraffe), Hydrophant (elephant), Captain Volca (T-rex), Leafback (triceratops)
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They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Danny makes a good cat
I kinda want to name a cat Danny now
I kinda want to name a cat “Eef”.
Hard to do when Eef is the name of your favorite pillow.
Danny the song and daaaaaance cat!
(Man I hope someone gets the reference, that film needs more love..)
Only thing I really remember about that movie is the villain and her butler. They were amazing.
That they were. I especially liked Max’s dynamic exit after his first appearance, disappearing flawlessly thru the him-shaped hole in the wall.
Would it make things wierd if Danny started purring?
His mousing skills are sub-par, but he doesn’t scratch the furniture and he’s housetrained.
Hopefully he doesn’t spray.
“In that case, I should probably get you to MY room.”
This is the correct answer
Obviously the best choice.
No Eef, if you touch it the mother won’t take it back
Isn’t that a myth?
It is a myth, yes. Birds don’t have a good sense of smell at all so can’t smell that you have touched their eggs, nest or babies.
I thought it was about baby mammals, too.
I don’t believe so, to my knowledge it has always been used in reference to birds specifically, usually around when they are nesting and laying eggs to keep people from taking them home.
With mammals the mother can reject her own children for seemingly no reason at all (farmers see this with things like horses, sheep, cows and goats) when sense of smell isn’t even how they recognise each other while others do use sense of smell but wouldn’t necessarily abandon their children because of their other senses used like hearing to recognise their voices.
There have been lionesses that kidnap or befriend baby antelope; wolves, cats, dogs and monkeys have adopted, protected and raised young children that have been abandoned or neglected severely in the very rare instances that feral children raised by animals actually do exist; other mammals can also be convinced to raise others as well – dogs can be convinced to raise pretty much anything.
So while a sense of smell may contribute, it definitely isn’t the end all be all for mammals either, but I have never seen it used for mammals, only birds.
With mammals the main problem with touching their babies is that they may not actually be in distress or abandoned at all even if they appear to be to us since several animals hide their children then go off hunting and you don’t know if the parents are actually nearby or not. More skittish individuals may abandon their babies if you touch them because it makes it seem like danger is nearby, but others may just go ahead and spend energy relocating them all.
Nature is never perfectly predictable but in general helping baby birds or eggs back into a nest is fine if the parents aren’t around but you shouldn’t go around touching every baby animal you see as you don’t know if they are actually in danger or not unless you actually monitor the situation over a period of time and look up signs on what might indicate they have been abandoned.
Yeah, it’s just a way to keep kids from handling them, because they’re less likely to be gentle in ways that won’t do harm to the bird.
But, but, that’s what Daniel the Human told me…
You could have saved that bird when you were nine.
And you would have caught a bird virus fatal to humans.
I was gonna say, he’s gone and imprinted on you now.
Having seen Danny’s mother I think that’s for the best
Agreed. Eef can keep Danny and Danny’s mother can just eff off.
ITYM ‘Eef’ off.
adorable
adanable.
howdoi buyed one eef
Well, they ARE practically secretly dating. Well, secret for teens.
If they’re dating, then I don’t know how dating works. I thought they were just friends who found each other sexy.
The best kind.
EEF indeed!
Aww. Danny is like a cat.
A cute bisexual hipster cat with a ukulele…
If that’s not marketable I don’t know what is.
That is prime webcomic/YouTube animation material. You get all kinds with a premise like that, especially if our protagonist cat is also a gamer.
Their favorite game could even be MewtroidThis is so sweet I expect mike to appear aaaaaany second now. Please let me be wrong. ‹.‹
It’s been too long since a mike appeared. Miss that dude.
Though I’m not sure what he would do about this.
Probably make Ethan feel uncomfortable about the situation.
I’ve missed Mike, so I’d rather you be right! He’s an ass, sure, but there’s usually reasoning behind it, which is fun
Wasn’t Mike attempting to seduce Ethan via knowing stuff about Transformers? He kinda brings it up with Amber here: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/labels/
*plays the Molly Hatchet version of “Dreams I’ll Never See” on the hacked Muzak*
I know it’s a miscount, but what about “Two Sleepy People”?
It works for all the shippers out there.
D’awww this is adorable and I ship it like fedex.
That one is *gold,* right there.
Eh, this was never my ship.
I’m a UPS’er, all the way
Lol I actually work at UPS.
Because this was your ship!.
Aargh! Another link.
You mean you want it stepped on and delivered to the wrong address?
Re: Alt-text, that’s a very conservative guess for a Sunday morning. At least 60% of the halls occupants are passed out in the hallway.
You’re giving college kids a lot of credit that they could make it that far.
Could easily go over 100% in my experience. But when I did that kind of thing I had a habit of making new friends at the party and trying to bring them back to hang out and play games.
But probably not in someone else’s lap.
D’aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw.
This is??? adorable???
Eef – It’s a crazy word
too cute
iz ded.
Alas, BBCC, We knew him… Well, not that well, to be honest. I mean, We mostly thought the username was a misspelling of BBC that never got corrected. But We’re sure somebody will miss them.
o7 RIP in peace
*Her.
Too… adorable… brain can’t handle… sjwixlkdjfejjjdksk
fLAILS AROUND
AAAAAAAA
No really this is so adorable I could cry. In a good way. ;~;
(IDK if I’m just overemotional because of the stress of being about to move or if this is really just that cute but… I’m gonna go with it’s just that cute because oH MY GOD I LOVE THESE TWO TOGETHER. ;w;)
So is an Eef anything like an Eaton?
More like a covfefe. The product of a sleep deprived mind.
And is there a second Eef, as foretold in the Tome of Eons?
Haaaairy baby!
this makes me hapoy and warm.
Happy*
Also, what’s going to go wrong in the next couple strips? Happy hasn’t been known to last very long….
Saaaaaame aaaaaaaaa
(Also I just wanted to say your icon is super cute. ;w; I love Lurantis OMG)
So, who/what will ruin this tender moment?
Danny smashing his forehead into Ethan’s crotch.
And then vomiting.
and then they’re roommates for life, and Danny will eventually get super buff and adopt an ex-millitary Palkyrie?
Mike. It interferes with his plans.
awwwww!
This is so. Sweet. I need them to cuddle forever
I don’t see Danny waking up anytime soon
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
LIGHT CUDDLE!
That’s so cute. ^^
Who knew that Dan Danning it up could be so adorable.
Ethan. Ethan knew.
Side by side in silence
They pass away the day
So comfortable
So habitual
And so nothing left to say
Awwwww
Ethan’s hand in panel six will not make Danny anything but sleepier and cuddlier.
As this board’s biggest Beckyologist, I want you opinion: Will this surpass the dawwww quotient of Joyce and Becky seen previously?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/cheating/
I MIGHT be seen as biased… but, no. Danny-and-Ethan-cuddles are not yet as dawww-worthy as Joyce-and-Becky-cuddles.
Not yet, that is.
There’s also mega poignancy points which the Becky/Joyce sleepovers have gained, which will be difficult to top.
Now the geek in me wants to make a 3D graph and plot points as this storyline continues.
That undertone of “Becky-has-nothing-and-no-one-in-the-entire-world-but-she-has-her-Joyce.-She-will-always-have-her-Joyce” is hard to top.
It’s from a The Cure song, so the whole of the song isn’t that uplifting…
…Though it’s still less depressing than most of their songs.
If he starts purring he will go full cat
That’s a clear posibility
I can’t help but wonder what kind of horrors Willis will smash into us next considering he gifted us this sweet scene…
I feel like this is a friendship moment, not that it excludes romance, but that it does not imply romantic intentions and would be the same regardless of what Eef felt.
As much as it has platonic friendship playing a powerful role in this, I think that the romantic overtones really play a strong part in what makes this moment powerful. Ethan has never had a relationship he could really invest himself in, and Danny is re-imagining his identity in part because Ethan’s positive presence in his life helped change his view of who he is and what he deserves, in regard to relationships in general and his sexuality in specific.
And yet, despite the strong chemistry and impact they have together, they’re barring themselves from being in a relationship. They’re both sacrificing their own desires and feelings in order to protect someone else who they both care about. They’re clearly good for each other, and they both know it, but they aren’t allowing themselves to experience what would be an incredibly positive experience in their life.
So this moment, where they’re comfortable and intimate and friendly, is a glimpse into what-could-be, and a fairly public one at that. It lets them almost experience something that they aren’t letting themselves have. And yeah, they are friends. And there’s nothing inherently romantic about falling asleep on your friend’s lap. But in this context, with these people? The underlying romance is too big of a factor to not be one of this moment’s defining features.
Hmm that’s not how I was reading it – yes the tension is there but I was seeing it as more of a situation where ethan was enjoying the platonic intimacy without the typical concerns of things getting misinterpreted or carried away into their romantic feelings for one another. Like They have been putting extra distance between themselves to avoid temptation, but the circumstances here allow them to be close without those added tones. If he wasn’t so worried about accidentally causing problems for a lot of people by sliding into a romantic relationship, this is the way Ethan would act. Maybe you are right, but that wasn’t my reading.
Well first, we don’t know that they’ve been avoiding each other and, at the least, they’re still “really good friends” and regularly text each other.
Second, I disagree with the idea that they’re avoiding temptation.
If the whole point to this is that they want to be together but can’t, then that makes Amber an antagonist to getting them together, and I don’t believe that’s the intent. They would like to date, but Amber is more important, rather than them actively longing for each other but putting themselves on hold for that harpy.
Amber never asked them for this. They didn’t have to do it, but they chose to wait because they were worried about her. They shouldn’t wait forever, but it was still kind of them to think of her.
See, that’s what I mean. If they want to be together but can’t because of Amber, then that mean Amber is a burden getting in the way of their happiness, and I’m hoping that’s not the case.
My read on this is that they both thinking dating would be nice, but they don’t want to because Amber is more important. That’s different from putting off something you want to do because of someone else.
Ah, I gotcha.
Eef you ?
Omg, yes, this is officially my ship, thank yoooou. <3
so how long until amber shows up??? ahhhh something’s gonna happen why can’t these boys just be happyyy…
Nope, I bet Mike will show up and use this against some combination of Danny, Ethan, and/or Amber. Maybe help Ethan put Danny to bed, and then seduce Ethan, with just enough noise/exposure to give Danny a glimpse. There will be no Slipshine, because this will be a most unhealthy encounter for Ethan.
It’s too early for that. Screwing Ethan now wouldn’t accomplish anything.
Eef is the new meow
Am I the only one who, every time Danny calls him “Eef” suddenly forgets what his actual name is for a few seconds?
Nah, I blanked out completely when he did it the first time.
<3 <3 <3
sympathy by light physical contact.
‘Eef’ translates to: “I’m fine right where I am, thank you very much”
(where would we be without the Universal Translator?)
Where was Danny going TO? He was already in his bedroom.
based on my own sleep-deprivation experiences, probably to consume a large quantity of carbohydrates and pass out in the dining hall, or perhaps a Denny’s
He was gonna go Den it up.
thank you for giving me a new term for my 3am “lord help me i’m back on my bullshit” denny’s trips
Ethan drags Danny to Danny’s room, tries to put him in bed.
Danny awakens and kisses him passionately and fun times ensue.
WE CAN SHIP IT
<3
I’m not gonna lie, all of the shipping talk in the comments is a tad…unnerving? I mean, I definitely relate most of the time. Am gay; love guys loving guys.
But in this moment we’re being let in to see a really private, tender moment. This is so soft, and so pure, and there’s this underlying fear in the scene with Ethan being afraid of being seen by others. It’s such a private moment to be privy to, one that has a quiet sort of power to it.
And the people enthusiastically and loudly proclaiming how much they ship this feels kind of… off. Like, I know that plenty of people in this comment section really relate to this moment, and honestly appreciate it. But with how many people fetishize queer men and they’re relationship, and with how a lot of fandom culture has kind of commodified queer relationships into this thing that you can consume, it really gives me some freaky vibes.
If this were a big kiss moment or a sly and flirty moment that’d be different. Those are moments where cheering and commentating are encouraged and expected. But this moment isn’t one of those. It’s private, tender, and soft. I know that if I’d opened up about having a moment like this to someone, and they responded like I’d just made out with a celebrity on the Kiss-o-Vision at some football game, I’d feel betrayed.
I’m not saying that one can’t cheer or joke about how much you love gay couples in media – I do it all of the time. But there’s a large crowd out there who loves to take in queer men’s love for each other and consume it like a popular new song, no matter how uncomfortable it might make the men in question, or how important and private that moment was.
Now these ARE fictional men, so it’s not like you’re hurting anyone’s feelings; I’m just saying, I can’t tell the difference between some of y’all and the folks who shout, “Yaoi!” at gay couples on the bus. It’s not necessarilly that you’re bad, I’m just eerily creeped out by the similarities, and don’t know if I’m the only one.
Damn, I made waaaay too many typos in this post. I should have read it over first.
I just see that as their cry for a Tumblr fanpic to happen, since, you know, not everybody can draw the characters that identically well.
It’s like a #stancest tag. Do I know that the writer will not create such content? Of course. Am I hoping someone else can start the fuel? Heck yeah.
That’s been de rigeuer for this place since we found out Danny was bisexual.
There were people begging for him to cheat on Amber. This is nothing new.
I think I get what you mean – I know personally people going “aww this is sweet” wouldn’t bother me, but there’s a lot of comments with kind of a “NOW FUCK!” vibe, which is a bit more *grimace emoji*
I just found it incredibly charming. I want to build a fence around them and let a little bit of love in the world go unchallenged for once.
That’s kinda the point I’m at. Them liking each other has been showing positive and adorable results in both of them, and they should get to be together to bask in the adorable positive glow that is them together.
I have made some jokes, but I honestly get a warm fuzzy feeling in my brain when I see them happy together.
I don’t necessarily mind the people cheering them on as a couple, even if unreasonably. Because that’s pretty normal for ships, regardless of gender. The thing about this one that’s bothering me is just that the cheers don’t sync up with the context.
Normally, this moment would make people say, “Aww…” But instead it’s more of a, “FUCK HIM NOW” kinda vibe. Whether or not that’s weird in response to normal flirting, it at least is somewhat the same across sexualities. Taking private, tender moments and fervently turning them into sexytime fuel is mostly exclusive to mlm moments.
awwww, this is so cute ^^
Aaaaa I love you for this I am living there is so much fluff here my ship has sailed twice around the world on the fuel provided