I must not be cool. Cool is the dweeb-killer. Cool is the little-awesome that brings total aprobation. I will face my cool. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the cool has gone there will be nothing. Only dweebiness will remain.
I tried that once.
Took ages to get all the quills out afterwards – ouchies.
Note to others – if your inner self is prickly or a porcupine – do not hug
Deep studies in Dweeb Theory.
That was me back in the college days.
Of course, I won’t lie & say it was deliberate.
I was just a huge spaz as a young’n.
(So’s Danny!)
He would fail or be part of a fringe party.
Political success requires zero conscience, a whole lot of self importance, lizard like cunning aka street smarts aka pretend smarts and a godlike ability to be oblivious to the obvious.
I don’t think the derogatory version of spaz means what you think it means. While Danny does / has spaz’d in the past (namely in going off about Mike), nothing in the current narrational arc is connected with said spaz-ness.
That said, I think we are seeing here what some (including Sal) might find attractive about Danny, and that is his confidence in proceeding to explore and express his full dweebitude. Confidence and coolness are often co-occurent, so it’s possible he is baffling her sensors by being dorkily confident in his dweebness.
Aside: Are dweebness and dorkocity separate metrics, or just different scales of the same metric? i.e. can one be expressed as the other adjusted by a scale factor)
I’m all for Sal/Danny in any form it takes but uh I don’t think it would be tuning up Danny for Ethan. I think that would be a bit unfair to all 3 of them.
I was more Nerd than Dweeb, but I did once decide that if people were going to treat me like a nerd, I was going to be the most impressive nerd they’d ever seen. I succeeded.
Yeah, she hasn’t used a nickname this whole scene. It’s cute. I’m glad their friendship’s developing.
I know it came up yesterday how Danny/Sal happened in the Walkyverse, but honestly their dynamic’s so functionally different here given how and when they met. But I’m also super happy if they stay platonic, because honestly, this is just sweet.
I’m still hoping for romance but either way I hope Danny and Sal stay on good terms forever. Their relationship is so sweet, regardless of how platonic it is.
I’m definitely liking Sal and Danny’s platonic relationship dynamic in DoA better than what their Walkyverse counterparts had, and I’m starting to ship them.
A definitive one as in. “Oh no! I’ve been completely called out on my dweebishness! Better play this off with a cool look as best I can because I have no counter to his statement.” No amount of smoking or vaguely criminal pasts will make up for her regularly playing Mario Kart or knowing what a pachycephalosaurus is. She probably also reads comic books and watches cartoons! Her whole “I’m cool and hot” thing is a mix of puberty and being comfortable with herself and not being defined by societal cliches. Which is all coolness really is.
I’m not sure a sub-annum time-skip qualifies past behaviour as that of a previous-incarnation. Not without a significantly altering factor in play. I’m happy to debate if Mike’s passing qualifies as such a factor. Maybe it does, but Mike and Danny were not close and i don’t believe we saw enough of them interact to make that determination.
I mostly hate him for his absolutely despicable hospital etiquette. The way he talked about Mike in front of Ethan was completely disgusting and I have yet to see anything approaching remorse for it.
I guess that’s not true, I could kidnap Willis and force him to make them bang. But that sounds like a lot of work and Willis might be a better fighter. He did write all those fight scenes after all.
Danny, take the advice from Sal, being a dweeb is who you are and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sal certainly finds you charming, your dweebness appeals to her because opposites attract.
So who all wants to hear a ukelele and guitar duo?
And there can be a synergy, since both tools and dweebs are useful. Hmm.. actually, since both dweebs and cools can be inadvertent tools, is tools for dweebs the convergent to cools? Is there a co-factor, or a different attractor, allowing a dweeb to be cool without becoming a tool? Perhaps there’s a pill, or a different hill that a dweeb can ascend, to find a new kind of chill?
They have already discussed this. Danny is concerned but Sal just seems to think that she wants isolation for contentment, even if it may impact on her physical as well as mental health.
Panel 2’s not a bad point, honestly, and I like that her look she gives him in panel 3 recognizes that.
Seriously, though, it’s not bad to explore yourself at his age. Even Sal’s doing it a bit. No way would Sal have joined the roller derby team at the beginning of the year, but here we are now.
Tried to suggest Dan-ally without the hyphen having it sound like the Alaska park, but it looked really dirty, and worst of all, the spell check kept changing it to Donald and offering Trump as the next word. There’s a message there somehow.
Wierd, thats why I want to suggest dropping the ly. But even if Danny goes fully into the dweeb singularity, I don’t think he would eclipse Sal’s presence. And since Dan and Sal both often have double consonant-y suffixes, I propose we should explore a different construct for naming the S.S. SalDanna.
I think that may be why Sal gets along with him. He’s not afraid to speak his mind around her, even if he keeps tripping his own feet and landing head first in a dumpster every three sentences
Even if the ship is sinking, it hasn’t sunk and Danny can still apologize.
I have permanently trashed/do not call people in my family. And I’m not too proud to recognize that I could reach out to them just as well as they could to rebuild that link. I choose not to, but could. I recognize and think about it regularly, and my time-span is decades. I choose not to for mental health reasons.
Danny and Ethan are not nearly so far sunk, and either of them could reach out. (yes the shoe is in Danny’s court, but even if he flubs the volley, the engine could turn over a new leaf. And/or Ethan could be an even bigger man about it all.)
To me, this strip is the moment when Sal realised that, yeah, she quite liked Danny when he is in this somewhat ironic self-deprecating mode. Most of all, she found that she quite liked bickering with him too.
SAL (singing): “I guess a part of me wants to; who knew? I guess a part of me likes to talk to you; I guess a part of me likes to, who knew? I guess a part of me likes to hang with you; I guess a part of me likes to, who knew? I guess a part of me likes to sit with you; I guess a part of me likes to, who knew? I guess a part of me…” (sudden stop, just as she’s about to touch shoulders with Danny)
You ARE a dweeb, Danny. But that’s OK. We (or I, at least) like you anyway. 😉 So many people in life hide their true nature behind masks. Honesty goes a long way with me now.
Nice to see that finally Danny has an own goal, and not just follow his parents goals about him. And I love more and more the relationship of friendship and mutual respect between Danny and Sal♡.
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AIM FOR THE DWEEB
Even if you fail, you’ll land among the dorks!
Feel the Dweeb in you, let it envelop your whole self, only then, with the pure clarity of Dweebdom, will you find the REAL Danny within!
I must not be cool. Cool is the dweeb-killer. Cool is the little-awesome that brings total aprobation. I will face my cool. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the cool has gone there will be nothing. Only dweebiness will remain.
Thank you.
We are not worthy.
You are the wind beneath my wings.
and beneath my chair.
What?
You fly your way and I’ll fly natchoair
Danny Muad’dweeb?
+1000
Don’t forget the units: +1000 MD
I prefer to embrace my inner geek. Or nerd. xD
Dweebitude is for, well…dweebs. xD
I tried that once.
Took ages to get all the quills out afterwards – ouchies.
Note to others – if your inner self is prickly or a porcupine – do not hug
Deep studies in Dweeb Theory.
That was me back in the college days.
Of course, I won’t lie & say it was deliberate.
I was just a huge spaz as a young’n.
(So’s Danny!)
Danny’s majoring in Dweebology, with a minor in Dorkonomics.
Preparing for a career in politics.
He would fail or be part of a fringe party.
Political success requires zero conscience, a whole lot of self importance, lizard like cunning aka street smarts aka pretend smarts and a godlike ability to be oblivious to the obvious.
‘Dorkonomics’! Brilliant!
I don’t think the derogatory version of spaz means what you think it means. While Danny does / has spaz’d in the past (namely in going off about Mike), nothing in the current narrational arc is connected with said spaz-ness.
That said, I think we are seeing here what some (including Sal) might find attractive about Danny, and that is his confidence in proceeding to explore and express his full dweebitude. Confidence and coolness are often co-occurent, so it’s possible he is baffling her sensors by being dorkily confident in his dweebness.
Aside: Are dweebness and dorkocity separate metrics, or just different scales of the same metric? i.e. can one be expressed as the other adjusted by a scale factor)
The dweeb out standing in his field playing air guitar with a rake.
Sal/Danny!
Ethan deserves better but Sal can shape him up.
Marge: Some women say you can’t change a man but those women are quitters!
I’m all for Sal/Danny in any form it takes but uh I don’t think it would be tuning up Danny for Ethan. I think that would be a bit unfair to all 3 of them.
But if it’s unfair for all three of them then wouldn’t it still be fair?
Life is not a zero sum game.
So no.
Oh yeah, of course, I’m just joking around.
Okay, but hear me out: Imagine a world where Danny pursues ethical polyamory while Joe becomes a nineteen-year-old Girlfriend Guy
But Sal’s the best at tuning things, from ukeleles to motorcycles! (At least I somehow assume she tunes up her motorcycle herself.)
At the end of the day shippers are going to ship I guess.
I was more Nerd than Dweeb, but I did once decide that if people were going to treat me like a nerd, I was going to be the most impressive nerd they’d ever seen. I succeeded.
Sal calling him by his real name is quite sweet actually.
Yeah, she hasn’t used a nickname this whole scene. It’s cute. I’m glad their friendship’s developing.
I know it came up yesterday how Danny/Sal happened in the Walkyverse, but honestly their dynamic’s so functionally different here given how and when they met. But I’m also super happy if they stay platonic, because honestly, this is just sweet.
I’m still hoping for romance but either way I hope Danny and Sal stay on good terms forever. Their relationship is so sweet, regardless of how platonic it is.
I’m definitely liking Sal and Danny’s platonic relationship dynamic in DoA better than what their Walkyverse counterparts had, and I’m starting to ship them.
Sal got UNO reversed there and had no answer for it. Danny read her like a book and she knows it.
I assure that look in panel 3 is absolutely an answer and a definitive one at that.
A definitive one as in. “Oh no! I’ve been completely called out on my dweebishness! Better play this off with a cool look as best I can because I have no counter to his statement.” No amount of smoking or vaguely criminal pasts will make up for her regularly playing Mario Kart or knowing what a pachycephalosaurus is. She probably also reads comic books and watches cartoons! Her whole “I’m cool and hot” thing is a mix of puberty and being comfortable with herself and not being defined by societal cliches. Which is all coolness really is.
It’s moments like these that make me remember why I like Danny
I don’t see how anyone can dislike Danny.
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Previous incarnation splash damage, I guess.
I’m not sure a sub-annum time-skip qualifies past behaviour as that of a previous-incarnation. Not without a significantly altering factor in play. I’m happy to debate if Mike’s passing qualifies as such a factor. Maybe it does, but Mike and Danny were not close and i don’t believe we saw enough of them interact to make that determination.
tl;dr “Maaaay-be”
splash damage from the Roomies! incarnation of Danny, I believe.
Oh. Maybe. I read it more like a call-back to the pre-skip comment-rage against Danny when he was choking on his foot in front of Ethan.
Bingo.
I mostly hate him for his absolutely despicable hospital etiquette. The way he talked about Mike in front of Ethan was completely disgusting and I have yet to see anything approaching remorse for it.
I mean yeah, but to be fair we have not seen any interactions between him and Ethan since then. For all we know Ethan’s been fridged for now.
Even without the hat.
*cues up some Tom Lehrer for the hacked Muzak*
Poisoning pigeons?
He was just in the news because he’s releasing all the lyrics to his songs to public domain. Tom Lehrer still making headlines in his 90s!
Sal and Danny are gonna fuck, aren’t they?
I can only hope so.
I guess that’s not true, I could kidnap Willis and force him to make them bang. But that sounds like a lot of work and Willis might be a better fighter. He did write all those fight scenes after all.
You two having the same gravitar makes this seem like an internal monologue by Sarah that she will never publically admit to.
It turns out Sarah is actually the biggest shipper of them all.
Then a certain someone will call Sal a poser.
Danny, trust us. You’ve achieved Platonic Dweebitude. You can stop now.
Danny, take the advice from Sal, being a dweeb is who you are and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sal certainly finds you charming, your dweebness appeals to her because opposites attract.
So who all wants to hear a ukelele and guitar duo?
It appears he has taken the advice. His consideration is how far down that road he is going to go. Does the road end in a rabbit hole?
Awwwww, such sweet dweebs. 😛
So…
How did that conversation with Ethan end, Danny?
Imagine if 2020 was a conversation.
Danny wishes it went that well.
The less of a dweeb he looks, the more of a dweeb it makes him.
It’s the “un-dweeby valley.”
Dweebitude is my favorite Ozric Tentacles album.
By the time Danny is thirty, he’ll be the premier expert on dweebology, teaching courses at Indiana U.
I guess that’s one way to get tenure.
Well, Danny is certainly out standing by the stairs, even if it’s not considered a field.
You’re an inspiration to dweeb-kind. Your research in the field of being a fucking tool will inform generations of dweebs the world round.
Whoa whoa whoa, being a tool and being a dweeb are not the same thing. And I resent that on behalf of dweebs everywhere.
Yeah, being a tool is a bad thing, while being a dweeb is usually ok.
This must be some strange new usage of the word “dweeb” of which I wasn’t previously aware. I have never heard it used in a non-pejorative sense.
Being a dweeb while also being a tool though is not an unorthodox method.
And there can be a synergy, since both tools and dweebs are useful. Hmm.. actually, since both dweebs and cools can be inadvertent tools, is tools for dweebs the convergent to cools? Is there a co-factor, or a different attractor, allowing a dweeb to be cool without becoming a tool? Perhaps there’s a pill, or a different hill that a dweeb can ascend, to find a new kind of chill?
Isn’t it a bit cold to be out standing in a field?
They have already discussed this. Danny is concerned but Sal just seems to think that she wants isolation for contentment, even if it may impact on her physical as well as mental health.
Oof, I thought that plane was too low, but it safely went over-head. Unless your complaint is that it was too derivative of Rognik’s work.
But no, Chaucer, it isn’t, because Danny has his mittens.
Panel 2’s not a bad point, honestly, and I like that her look she gives him in panel 3 recognizes that.
Seriously, though, it’s not bad to explore yourself at his age. Even Sal’s doing it a bit. No way would Sal have joined the roller derby team at the beginning of the year, but here we are now.
Gonna suggest Surname track: “Whole Lotta Love” by the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra.
** Soundtrack
Ugh, 1:15am
If trying not to act like a dweeb makes you even more of a dweeb, you might as well give up and just embrace your dweebness.
you know what. I ship it. Salanny? Dannal? idk but it’s cute.
Tried to suggest Dan-ally without the hyphen having it sound like the Alaska park, but it looked really dirty, and worst of all, the spell check kept changing it to Donald and offering Trump as the next word. There’s a message there somehow.
that’s exactly why I added the second n from Danny lmaoooo
Wierd, thats why I want to suggest dropping the ly. But even if Danny goes fully into the dweeb singularity, I don’t think he would eclipse Sal’s presence. And since Dan and Sal both often have double consonant-y suffixes, I propose we should explore a different construct for naming the S.S. SalDanna.
Bierce, would you please queue up some Santanna?
“I know I am a dweeb, but am I enough of a dweeb or am I just an imposter pretending to be a dweeb?”
I’ve heard of nerd imposter syndrome (as it relates to nich fandoms), but dweb imposter syndrome is a new one on me.
Trust Danny to push the edge
I think that may be why Sal gets along with him. He’s not afraid to speak his mind around her, even if he keeps tripping his own feet and landing head first in a dumpster every three sentences
Danny, you’re a good dweeb. Now go patch things up with Ethan.
That boat may have already sailed. Or to be more to the point, that bus may have already left town.
Ethan may have already died over the time skip.
Even if the ship is sinking, it hasn’t sunk and Danny can still apologize.
I have permanently trashed/do not call people in my family. And I’m not too proud to recognize that I could reach out to them just as well as they could to rebuild that link. I choose not to, but could. I recognize and think about it regularly, and my time-span is decades. I choose not to for mental health reasons.
Danny and Ethan are not nearly so far sunk, and either of them could reach out. (yes the shoe is in Danny’s court, but even if he flubs the volley, the engine could turn over a new leaf. And/or Ethan could be an even bigger man about it all.)
The Dweeb abides.
(Best of luck to you, Jeff Bridges. Do what the doc tells you!)
Thank you for sharing. The Dude reports, : “As the Dude would say.. New S**T has come to light.” but that the “prognosis is good.”
To me, this strip is the moment when Sal realised that, yeah, she quite liked Danny when he is in this somewhat ironic self-deprecating mode. Most of all, she found that she quite liked bickering with him too.
She’ll leave it at that for now!
“with you next to me I don’t need no scarf’
DANNY: “What…?”
SAL: “It means that you warm me up plenty. Dweeb.”
DANNY: “Uuuhhh…?”
SAL: “It’s also implicit permission to hug me.”
Today’s rules for physical contact do NOT allow for implied consent. And I’m not talking about covid.
Danny, Duke of Dweebdom dares to delve into the depths of dorkiness.
I hear you, David Willis, and I see you.
And now, let’s play the Dweeb Anthem on the ukulele!
“Thud – thud – thud – thud – thud…”
Oh wait, my mittens are still on…
No, no, that’s how it’s played.
SAL (singing): “I guess a part of me wants to; who knew? I guess a part of me likes to talk to you; I guess a part of me likes to, who knew? I guess a part of me likes to hang with you; I guess a part of me likes to, who knew? I guess a part of me likes to sit with you; I guess a part of me likes to, who knew? I guess a part of me…” (sudden stop, just as she’s about to touch shoulders with Danny)
You ARE a dweeb, Danny. But that’s OK. We (or I, at least) like you anyway. 😉 So many people in life hide their true nature behind masks. Honesty goes a long way with me now.
Gravatar?
Nice to see that finally Danny has an own goal, and not just follow his parents goals about him. And I love more and more the relationship of friendship and mutual respect between Danny and Sal♡.
Dear Danny,
How do you play the ukulele with mittens on?
Sincerely, MyaApplesauce
That look in the 3rd panel is fire. Sal used Piercing Gaze, but it wasn’t very effective.
n.b. the offset eyebrow. That’s no piercing gaze. Sal is looking askance at Danny, like I am looking askance at reading it as a piercing gaze.
Danny, I’m sure you can be substandard. I mean, look at your musical talents and fashion choices.
Anybody else feel like they can -feel- the third panel?
Danny is a good egg.
Is Sal just dropping cigarette ash all over her guitar?
Sal, you are the best egg. It’s you.
So, Danny is going for a Doctorate in Dweebology then.
The ukulele is his dissertation.