iirc at one point Wellerman asked Bierce permission to help themselves to their hacked muzak, and they were like “sure be my guest”. other than that, you’re right Stephen takes his position as hacked muzak DJ very seriously. i think he explained his rules in a post a few months ago, feel free to ask him again or try and do a site-specific, maybe date-restricted google search for it.
but one thing i do remember is you don’t play tunes on the hacked muzak just anywhere. the hacked muzak = indoors, outside on campus = PA system and elsewhere well you gotta be creative (car FM stereo was one option he went with recently)
When Dina seems to suddenly appear from nowhere, it’s because the characters don’t realize they were paralyzed for the last minute or so, allowing her to enter and leave at her leisure.
I am now imagining a Garfield Minus Garfield-esque version of the comic where everything is exactly the same, except that Dina’s face is completely blank—with the effect that it always looks like the hat is talking.
I thought that was a “Smokey and the Bandit” reference.
“Don’t you take that hat off for anything?”
“Sure. I take it off for one thing, and one thing only.”
“If we were lost on a desert island together… ”
“Yes?”
“Do you think we’d get along and talk and… things?”
“Sure. Yeah, we’d get along. It’d never be boring, I can tell you that. It would never be boring.”
“Take your hat off.”
Dina and Becky are looking happy together in a released preview panel a few months from now, so I’m betting the patented Willis V-Day Tradition™ probably won’t be targeting them.
Huh. Low lights, concerned Dina, ambiguous color on that lower part… I’m gonna guess “Makeouts with shirt off but bra on, Dina checking in on Becky during”? Just a few weeks away, too.
damn you may be right. i guess Becky haven’t a bit of a freakout during or after sex is highly plausible. I’m sure Dina will be the absolute best at helping her through it, as usual.
To be fair, it’s been a few years since Willis has done a full-on Valentine’s Day shipwreck (I think the last real one was 2018). That could mean he’s lost his taste for blood, but it could also mean we’re due for a REALLY big one. Or he could next level us and have all the crazy, heartbreaking romantic drama happen on Valentine’s Day in-universe.
If this goes the way it seems to be going, then I imagine there will also be more drama(Who could have guessed that?/s) If Becky caves she is probably going to feel like she fucked up big time in front of god. If she doesn’t cave, she will start a fire in her pants later tonight.
An experiment fails when it fails to confirm or refute the hypothesis it was supposed to test.
An experiment that tests if a solution will burn when lit with a match does not fail if the solution doesn’t burn. It has successfully tested the hypothesis.
If you couldn’t light the match, then the experiment is a failure.
or say your experiment on staphilococcus cultures has been compromised by a fungal contamination, and you’re about to just disinfect everything and start again, when you notice that the bacteria doesn’t grow near the spots of fungus and it turns out you just discovered Penicillin.
Which is consistent with what Adam Savage said, because that test would not yield valid data.
I feel like people forget that one of the things Mythbusters did best was introduce basic scientific processes and thinking to the public at large. I expect this quote is referring to an experiment that produced results that were inconclusive or perhaps a bit vague, but which still yielded valid data.
listen, i saw this while still essentially asleep this morning (i was trying to wake myself up by browsing but then dozed off again anyway) and when i finally did get up for a while this was literaly canon per my brain
until i noticed this was happening and my normal brain was like “um tits on DOA?? i don’t think” and i remembered this was your doing
Okay, while I definitely approve of where Dina wants this to go…
….
Thing is, I think getting her new, momentarily-stable life once again put through the wringer is kinda something Becky’s cursed to do, since she spent most of Act I going on about how awesome her life is. And Dina was on her list of reasons it was awesome. So… this might lead to a breakup, on the grounds that Becky can’t be Dina’s girlfriend without being tempted away from Jesus or something like that.
(Seriously, if you’re more than a bit character and you’re in Act I of any sort of dramatic work, do NOT talk out loud about how awesome everything is at this moment. Save that talk until the denouement.)
Becky’s got a preview panel a couple months from now (so, like a day or two from now in-universe) where she’s smiling happily by Dina’s side–and Dina is also smiling–so I don’t think the Terrible Lizbians are due for an asteroid anytime soon. 😛
(I totally get the fear though, 14 February is fast approaching and Willis has a long-standing tradition with regards to that date of Terrible Things Happening In Relationships.)
If not Dina and Becky then who? Walky and Lucy? Danny’s mouth sabotages him with Sal? We have no investment in Jennifer and Junior Mafia Asher. A cut to Leslie’s romance would be abrupt.
I’m holding out for Spencer’s Danna and Sal reunion.
Yyyyeah this whole situation is something of a fuckin catch-22 for Becky, aint it.
She wants Dina to be attracted to her, but not to actually do anything with that. Dina is, presumably, trying to do something that will make Becky feel attractive to Dina–I don’t think she’s necessarily forcing it unnaturally, it’s very much a genuine desire to please Becky by ‘seducing’ her in this way, but how much of that is genuinely brought on by real sexual attraction…who knows, it could be none, could be a little, could be Dina experimenting with figuring out what does or does not actually turn her on. (Seems liker a very Dina thing to do.)
Either way, Becky cannot allow herself to be ‘seduced’ and must put a stop to things once they escalate to a point of no return. Which will probably not be a big deal to Dina, who would have expected that from the getgo, but then of course Becky will be horny as fuck and frustrated and ashamed of her desires. If she gives in and lets things escalate further, I mean. All the shit about sin and hell and everything.
Even if Dina literally does the thing Becky has stated she explicitly wants, which is be attracted to Becky (or at the very least, be able to make Becky feel attractive TO Dina) but have enough self-control to not act on it, there’s very much no way Becky comes out feeling good about herself and satisfied with the relationship. She may feel as if her misery at trying to remain celibate is righteous because Jesus, but realistically there HAS to be a tipping point to where the good feeling of doing right by Jesus gets usurped by the misery of repressing her sexuality.
Which is why all of this sexual purity bullshit is total and utter crap and Becky literally needs to throw it in the trash. Maybe for someone else who doesn’t struggle quite as much with sexual attraction, it could work out (maybe), but this shit just will not ever work for Becky.
My hope is that the storyline with Joyce’s atheism might lead Becky down the road of idk, actually seeing that Joyce maybe has a point on some things, maybe. Becky, you’re so able to so easily modify your faith to include whatever you want and not include whatever you don’t want, I hope THIS thing in particular isn’t somehow the hill you’re going to die on. This thing that WILL make you miserable.
I really hope it’s not actually any purity stuff that’s really holding Becky back.
Yes, I know that’s what she was raised to believe, but she as also raised to believe that she should get married and start squirting out brats for the next 20 years, obviously she’s willing to break with her upbringing in ways.
In the end, I just hope this is more like the whole hat thing that Becky went through a while back. Less “Becky honestly believes that she must remain pure and virginial until marriage” and more “Becky’s got a messed up set of hang-ups due to a whole lot of social baggage and she’s placed sex on this weird pedestal”.
It feels like a lot of commenters here forget how scary sex can feel if you’ve never done it before or if you’ve been dry for a long time. With the Hat thing, it wasn’t even that Becky had a scalp fetish, it was just weird social signals getting crossed and she started obsessing about it. It can work that way for sex too, and it really has nothing to do with purity…
I mean. It’s very much explicitly both? The idea of sexual purity INHERENTLY gives you a lot of social baggage and places sex on an extremely high pedestal. It’s almost certainly part of why Becky is so hesitant, I’m pretty sure she is genuinely nervous and hesitant to Do the Deed because of those hangups.
But that doesn’t change the fact that she also very, VERY plainly desires it anyway, and ANY degree of horniness that she experiences will come with either feelings of shame OR feelings of intense disappointment. There is no way for her to win in this scenario, short of, as she says in the strip I linked to, simply NOT having as much sexual desire. Which won’t happen, because that’s not who Becky is, and in fact repressing herself so intensely will only lead to those feelings getting WORSE and more intense. Leading to things like how she gets horny over something as simple as a hat, or fetishizes shoulders.
Maybe if Becky allowed herself to masturbate that could help relieve things a little, but I highly, highly doubt she will. Masturbation is a good way for women repressed like this to begin to untangle the complicated relationships they have with their bodies, but like…Becky has to make that step, and what with her beliefs that literally everything she does will be watched by her mother and also by god in heaven, like………
Becky’s got a messed up set of hang-ups due to a whole lot of social baggage and she’s placed sex on this weird pedestal BECAUSE Becky honestly believes that she must remain pure and virginial until marriage.
She’s also admitted that she’s changed and lost so much (when Dina first proposed the idea on her birthday) and wants to at least keep this part.
Well, as long as she defines pure and virginal as not inserting a penis into her vagina, she can do all the lesbian sex she wants and still meet that standard. Unfortunately, I don’t think she would allow herself to use that loophole.
I’d really like to see Becky take a moment, NOT in the heat of horny-for-Dina, to actually analyze her beliefs about no sex before marriage. Whether this is an idea that was pressed upon her, or whether it s something she honestly feels in her heart of hearts that God calls upon her to adhere to. And I don’t really mind which side of things she comes down on, I’d just like her to take a little time with the question.
In my experience with sexual frustration, it can be really hard to find a moment where that heat doesn’t exist. Especially when you want to explicitly think about things that will trigger that hear (sexy times).
Which is one of the reasons it can be really terrible to put yourself through what Becky is putting herself through – it can become a black hole of ugly feelings and repressed desire. Then honestly the relief isn’t always even that good because it’s mixed in with so much ugly. If you’re able to recognize this is just part of the process, then generally it gets better pretty soon (provided you have a willing partner), but if you don’t know that it’s easy to misinterpret disappointment.
Especially in this case where Becky is likely to freak the fuck out if sec isn’t 100% perfect – either break down that she isn’t good enough or see it as proof she violated god’s will or whatever.
She does still need to figure this out, I agree, and she’s a cartoon character so can be granted relief from this if Willis wills it.
Just pointing out that for real people – it’s not always possible to escape the heat of arousal AND evaluate their sexual desires at the same time.
(yes, I’m aware of masturbating. At my darkest times I was able to go 5+ times a day with dildos and still feel frustrated because my body craved partner sex. Hormones can be the absolute worst.
Purely anecdotal but it seems like this frustration is worse when you have a partner – I haven’t been single since I was 17 so cannot speak from personal experience.)
I suspect she has, just not onscreen. We know she’s already put thought into her beliefs regarding things such as young earth creation, and coming to grips with being a Christian lesbian means she’s probably spent more than a little time thinking about what that means for her regarding sex and marriage and her faith.
I don’t think she has. She’s far too hung up on this ‘doing right by god’ and ‘no sex before marriage’ and she’s still fetishizing shoulders. She literally (and intensely!) believes that every single thing she does is being watched on a film reel in heaven by her mother, and of course also god.
Like maybe she can conveniently forget that when she’s doing stuff she wouldn’t want her mom to see, but…considering how intensely she represses her sexual desires, and how heavily she associates it with her faith, I don’t think she’s likely to.
As late as the last time this plot point came up, Becky came around to blaming her Sinful Horniness and that everything would be fine if she would just stop being horny for Dina.
Frankly Becky needs to sit down with her Bible and hammer out exactly what the parameters of “not before marriage” apply to lesbians.
She doesn’t necessarily have to go “all the way” (whatever she considers that) but *some* form of mutual sexual release is important here.
And seeing as the whole “no sex before marriage” thing is predominately related to “no bastards” – I mean, anything those two can do is safe.
Even if it’s something like writing erotic stories to each other, or sexting, or masturbating while the other watches, or whatever.
Sexuality is a great wide world to explore and there’s plenty you can do short of ripping your girlfriend’s hat off with your teeth and fisting her til she screams.
In not so fun news, my country australia is considering a religious discrimination bill that would allow queers to be discriminated against as well as disabled people. As an autistic transfem I’m definitely having many feelings about it.
We should all be free to express our unique stripes of gender and neurodivergence without getting swept into overgeneralizing labels like “autism” and shoved into the gender binary.
Given Florence seems pretty comfortable referring to themselves as autistic i don’t think that’s the point here, so much as the legalizing of discrimination. Ik you have bad history with the word but that’s not everyone
It should be noted that Eugen Bleuler, the guy who came up with the term “autism” (as well as “schizophrenia”) was a eugenicist (go figure) and sterilized his patients. But that’s the language and lexicon we’ve got at present, so until something better comes along and gets widely accepted, that’s what a lot of us are still going with.
@delicious taffy: I didn’t know the history but it isn’t surprising. I like the word but also neurodivergence has potential although maybe too general.also yea, conservative bigots gonna conservative bigot, ugh
@the wellerman: it’s a whole lotta urgh. I understand you don’t like the using the word autism, do you have a word you prefer? Always want to refer to people the way they feel comfy
@zee: thank you, although I respect anyones uncomfy feelings I do like the word when referring to myself. Although I’ve learnt I’m also adhd so past a certain point it may be more useful to refer to myself as neurodivergent for time hahaha
We’re witnessing the death throes of a generation longing for a “simpler” time where they were allowed to be assholes with no repercussions, attempting to cast their backwards ideology in stone before it dies with them.
Trying to legislate reality into a shape that the dim and faint of heart feel safe in has always worked out well,… ..
uh, wait, no. That has never worked. I hope the brave hearts of Australia prevail, and you are safe.
Honestly tired of these pampered fossils doing their best to kill people like me, so here’s hoping the Aussies can beat ’em down and set an example for the rest of us.
That can sometimes get a bit tricky with subs who are into “bratty” play. (That is, they WANT their Doms to manhandle or push them harder than they might feel comfortable with. They want that thrill of knowing their limits are going to be pushed.) That’s why most veterans of the BDSM scene recommend using a colour-code system (Green is all clear, Yellow means ease up a little, Red means complete stop), or having a very unambiguous word that the sub would be highly unlikely to use in the passion of the moment.
The caveat to this, of course, is that sometimes the sub themselves can freeze up or panic if things start moving too fast, so the onus is always on the Dom to frequently check with their sub to make sure they’re comfortable and amenable. Where exactly to draw the line between keeping the excitement going and playing it safe will depend entirely on the individual preferences and tastes of the couple (or more, if you’re into that sort of thing), but I always prefer to err on the side of caution.
Hmm, I’d forgotten about the brats, despite having experience in that department. I do like the traffic-light system, it’s pretty good. A really good safe word is tough to come up with, because if it’s too long or complex it’ll be hard to get out, and if it’s something super hot like “Megazord”, the dom might get mixed signals and misread, leading to a bad interaction.
I – I don’t believe it!
There she goes again!
She’s tidied up, and I can’t find anything!
All my tubes and wires
And careful notes
And antiquated notions
Are you referring to Finally, My Lesbian, or Keep It Clean? All very good, of course, although the second one contains 0% Ruth and therefore is inherently that little bit lesser.
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Dina used Baby-Doll Eyes!
Becky is paralyzed!
*plays “Paralyzer” by Finger Eleven on hacked muzak*
It’s time to establish some lore- Is it the same muzak every time? What do store shoppers think about this? How exactly DOES one hijack a muzak??
My position is the hacked muzak was originated here by Bierce and others should respect that.
But that’s me. ymmv
iirc at one point Wellerman asked Bierce permission to help themselves to their hacked muzak, and they were like “sure be my guest”. other than that, you’re right Stephen takes his position as hacked muzak DJ very seriously. i think he explained his rules in a post a few months ago, feel free to ask him again or try and do a site-specific, maybe date-restricted google search for it.
but one thing i do remember is you don’t play tunes on the hacked muzak just anywhere. the hacked muzak = indoors, outside on campus = PA system and elsewhere well you gotta be creative (car FM stereo was one option he went with recently)
What other reply could be given?
I remember the Muzak was unhacked around when Wagstaff ran rampant over the concept.
Dina has an advantage because her hat gives her an extra set of eyes to seduce with.
If she pastes a couple of big flirty eyes up there too, she’ll be unstoppable.
If only the hat could copy her facial expressions, like Wade the duck’s life preserver from Garfield and Friends.
Also, check out Zeetha’s medallions in Girl Genius.
Oh, someone else is a Girl Genius fan! I was completely bowled over by Zeetha’s exuberant expression when she saw Skifander again! https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220202
Lots of us are GG fans! 🙂
Baby doll eyes just lowers stats though. GLARE paralyzes you.
simple: Dina used baby-doll eyes and her hat used Glare
Dina’s hat is always using Glare.
When Dina seems to suddenly appear from nowhere, it’s because the characters don’t realize they were paralyzed for the last minute or so, allowing her to enter and leave at her leisure.
I am now imagining a Garfield Minus Garfield-esque version of the comic where everything is exactly the same, except that Dina’s face is completely blank—with the effect that it always looks like the hat is talking.
Hrrm. Now I kind of want to try my hand at this.
I don’t see any evidence of paralysis.
Looks more like ‘Attract’ to me.
She looks pretty stunned in 4 and 5!
Man thats the worst they can’t do anything when in love.
Yup.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/askout/
Dina: You want the hat on or off?
Becky: Off, please.
Dina: …Too bad.
(Dating myself with that one)
The Hat stayed on.
I get it~!
RIP, Harry Goz.
holy hellcats, was that a Sealab 2021 reference??
That show is now officially set in the past. Man, I feel old.
What do you mean you feel old? You ARE old, like 900 years old.
Yes, but those are Gallifreyian years.
When 900 years YOU reach, look as good you will not!
I thought that was a “Smokey and the Bandit” reference.
“Don’t you take that hat off for anything?”
“Sure. I take it off for one thing, and one thing only.”
“If we were lost on a desert island together… ”
“Yes?”
“Do you think we’d get along and talk and… things?”
“Sure. Yeah, we’d get along. It’d never be boring, I can tell you that. It would never be boring.”
“Take your hat off.”
God I loved Sealab 2021
I wish mc chris had a better time making that show. 🙁 Hesh was hilarious!
citizenkaneapplause dot gif
The classics.
hahahahahahahahahahaha XD
finally someone says it
Dina more powerful than god has yet to be confirmed but it’s not looking good for the G-man.
[Gman starts to speak but gets herded away by a gang of velociraptors]
“We shall… see… about that…”
Dina Tests a Hypothesis: A Dumbing of Age Pornographique
Can’t wait to comment “called it” on this in a few weeks/days
we may be closer to this than I initially thought
probably due for a Valentine’s Day setback first…
Dina and Becky are looking happy together in a released preview panel a few months from now, so I’m betting the patented Willis V-Day Tradition™ probably won’t be targeting them.
What about that one preview panel in April that showed a worried Dina one month from one month before?
…the only released preview panel from April shows Walky, Lucy, Sarah, and Sal walking presumably to class?
I SWORE I saw one from April on Willis’s Twitter with a worried Dina face!
Someone PLEASE back me up and prove to everyone that I’m not crazy, including myself I guess…
Good news: you’re not crazy!
And here’s the one King D was referring to.
coincidentally worried Dina appears on Willis’ birthday i think
Huh. Low lights, concerned Dina, ambiguous color on that lower part… I’m gonna guess “Makeouts with shirt off but bra on, Dina checking in on Becky during”? Just a few weeks away, too.
damn you may be right. i guess Becky haven’t a bit of a freakout during or after sex is highly plausible. I’m sure Dina will be the absolute best at helping her through it, as usual.
If Liz’s sex freakout was a cap pistol going off, Joyce’s will be a firecracker, and Becky’s will dwarf the Tsar Bomba.
Eh, just looks like her shirt to me. A bra wouldn’t go that high up her neck like that.
it might be her skin, is what Taffy is saying
To be fair, it’s been a few years since Willis has done a full-on Valentine’s Day shipwreck (I think the last real one was 2018). That could mean he’s lost his taste for blood, but it could also mean we’re due for a REALLY big one. Or he could next level us and have all the crazy, heartbreaking romantic drama happen on Valentine’s Day in-universe.
Is it that or Becky Studies Biology? 😀
I’m infinitely into this
Assuming Becky’s fundie Christian-based hangups about sex don’t override her horniness, yes.
If this goes the way it seems to be going, then I imagine there will also be more drama(Who could have guessed that?/s) If Becky caves she is probably going to feel like she fucked up big time in front of god. If she doesn’t cave, she will start a fire in her pants later tonight.
But the previous strip established that if Dina succeeds, she’s more powerful than God, and possibly Goku.
Therefore Becky should just start worshiping her instead.
Becky developing a worship fetish of Dina? I see no downsides here.
I’m still holding out on her having a Chastity fetish.
All she’s missing is the belt LOL 🤪
I believe you mean “going to feel like she fucked
upbig time.”Because she will have.
Behold the power of science!!!
Behold the POWER OF DINA!!!
😆😆😆😆😆😆
*plays “Empress of Light”*
lady-boners abound
Dina sexy.
ADAM SAVAGE: In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
… so, an experiment fails when its data is spoiled?
… like, if Dina’s trying to experiment whether doing science with Becky causes her physical arousal, and Joe barges in, the experiment fails?
“An experiment fails when its data is spoiled?”
Well, if the outcome of a certain infamous experiment 36 years ago this April is any indication…
What happened in 1986?
The USSR nuked Ukraine.
….
YES THAT IS SO WHAT HAPPENED evenifIphraseditweird…
Nonsense. It was something so common, the Germans even have a word for it. Someone upgefückt.
I’m thinking he’s referring to Chernobyl, 26 April 1986.
it wasn’t so much an experiment as a routine test.
though i think you could say it did yield a whole lot of data.
engineering != science.
An experiment fails when it fails to confirm or refute the hypothesis it was supposed to test.
An experiment that tests if a solution will burn when lit with a match does not fail if the solution doesn’t burn. It has successfully tested the hypothesis.
If you couldn’t light the match, then the experiment is a failure.
Unless in doing so you discover some new flame retardant solution in which case the failure is a success.
or say your experiment on staphilococcus cultures has been compromised by a fungal contamination, and you’re about to just disinfect everything and start again, when you notice that the bacteria doesn’t grow near the spots of fungus and it turns out you just discovered Penicillin.
We didn’t start the fire, it’s been burning since the world’s been turning, …
Which is consistent with what Adam Savage said, because that test would not yield valid data.
I feel like people forget that one of the things Mythbusters did best was introduce basic scientific processes and thinking to the public at large. I expect this quote is referring to an experiment that produced results that were inconclusive or perhaps a bit vague, but which still yielded valid data.
As an Entrapdak shipper, I’m getting an odd sense of deja vu.
I think Becky is more of a Catra person
Nah, Becky’s too outgoing and not openly moody enough to be a Catra IMO.
It’s not a perfect match, but there’s a lot of similarities
I guess they do both have Gay Angst™️ of a sort LOL
Maynard?
Ditto!
Heeheehee
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/kiss-2/
Panel 2 Dina there is still quite possibly my favorite Dina face.
Yes.
This Dina face and this one are simply horrifying, on the other hand…since we’re on the subject of Dina faces.
They both still crack me up though.
heeheeheeheehee
[RHPS’ Don’t Dream It plays on hacked Bluetooth speakers]
Damn, Dina turned on the seduction.
She caucused me with science.
“good heavens miss sakamoto you’re beautiful”
What kind of hypothesis? *insert eyes emoji here*
“what kind of hypothesis Dina”
👁👄👁
“if i told you, i’d have to collect my data from other sources”
As long as I’m not in the control group.
the control group is people not seeing Dina’s smile right now.
so, you got lucky!
The Slip has just SHINED.
Their eyes are… so… shiny…
All aboard the Slipshine Train!
oh how is this one gonna screw up?
https://i.imgur.com/lg9zXXG.png (NSFW)
I had to do it.
Damn…I think Becky might melt if that happens, lol.
Wouldn’t it be funny if that actually happened….
I wonder if Dina can do that stealth appear/disappear thing with just her clothes?
perfect
listen, i saw this while still essentially asleep this morning (i was trying to wake myself up by browsing but then dozed off again anyway) and when i finally did get up for a while this was literaly canon per my brain
until i noticed this was happening and my normal brain was like “um tits on DOA?? i don’t think” and i remembered this was your doing
haha!!!
How’d she get her arms out of the straps to hold them like that?
You pull the straps up and wiggle-pull your arms through. Then the cloth pasta is at your mercy.
Oh my
Very nice.
Oh, Becky.
Simple Becky.
Simply, horny Becky.
I’m intrigued by this .gay mirror domain.
are we about to find that this is a queer webcomic?????
Clever girl.
Time for Becky to… study biology.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! *guitar riff*
Oh lordy, she’s doin’ the eye thing. Becky’s in severe danger.
⭐⭐FUCK YEAH!!!! SHE HAS THE POWER!!!!⭐⭐
😆😆 BREAK THOSE CHAINS DINA!!!! 😆😆
*plays “Chou Super Dragon Soul” by Christopher Bullock*
Okay, while I definitely approve of where Dina wants this to go…
….
Thing is, I think getting her new, momentarily-stable life once again put through the wringer is kinda something Becky’s cursed to do, since she spent most of Act I going on about how awesome her life is. And Dina was on her list of reasons it was awesome. So… this might lead to a breakup, on the grounds that Becky can’t be Dina’s girlfriend without being tempted away from Jesus or something like that.
(Seriously, if you’re more than a bit character and you’re in Act I of any sort of dramatic work, do NOT talk out loud about how awesome everything is at this moment. Save that talk until the denouement.)
*Act 1 of Season 2.
Becky’s got a preview panel a couple months from now (so, like a day or two from now in-universe) where she’s smiling happily by Dina’s side–and Dina is also smiling–so I don’t think the Terrible Lizbians are due for an asteroid anytime soon. 😛
(I totally get the fear though, 14 February is fast approaching and Willis has a long-standing tradition with regards to that date of Terrible Things Happening In Relationships.)
(1) preview panels can be previews of flashback panels and (2) Yes, we are due for another Valentine’s Day Relationship massacre.
If not Dina and Becky then who? Walky and Lucy? Danny’s mouth sabotages him with Sal? We have no investment in Jennifer and Junior Mafia Asher. A cut to Leslie’s romance would be abrupt.
I’m holding out for Spencer’s Danna and Sal reunion.
Robin/Lamp.
noooooooo my OTP
Sal and Danny getting the Valentine’s Day Massacre would be the kind of thing that would happen to kill me, specifically.
I would be more worried about that truck….
Please, Dina is too powerful! My gay heart can’t take it!
Let’s sex-periment!
“Renounce magical thinking and embrace the empirical evidence of my breasts”
Yyyyeah this whole situation is something of a fuckin catch-22 for Becky, aint it.
She wants Dina to be attracted to her, but not to actually do anything with that. Dina is, presumably, trying to do something that will make Becky feel attractive to Dina–I don’t think she’s necessarily forcing it unnaturally, it’s very much a genuine desire to please Becky by ‘seducing’ her in this way, but how much of that is genuinely brought on by real sexual attraction…who knows, it could be none, could be a little, could be Dina experimenting with figuring out what does or does not actually turn her on. (Seems liker a very Dina thing to do.)
Either way, Becky cannot allow herself to be ‘seduced’ and must put a stop to things once they escalate to a point of no return. Which will probably not be a big deal to Dina, who would have expected that from the getgo, but then of course Becky will be horny as fuck and frustrated and ashamed of her desires. If she gives in and lets things escalate further, I mean. All the shit about sin and hell and everything.
Even if Dina literally does the thing Becky has stated she explicitly wants, which is be attracted to Becky (or at the very least, be able to make Becky feel attractive TO Dina) but have enough self-control to not act on it, there’s very much no way Becky comes out feeling good about herself and satisfied with the relationship. She may feel as if her misery at trying to remain celibate is righteous because Jesus, but realistically there HAS to be a tipping point to where the good feeling of doing right by Jesus gets usurped by the misery of repressing her sexuality.
Which is why all of this sexual purity bullshit is total and utter crap and Becky literally needs to throw it in the trash. Maybe for someone else who doesn’t struggle quite as much with sexual attraction, it could work out (maybe), but this shit just will not ever work for Becky.
My hope is that the storyline with Joyce’s atheism might lead Becky down the road of idk, actually seeing that Joyce maybe has a point on some things, maybe. Becky, you’re so able to so easily modify your faith to include whatever you want and not include whatever you don’t want, I hope THIS thing in particular isn’t somehow the hill you’re going to die on. This thing that WILL make you miserable.
I really hope it’s not actually any purity stuff that’s really holding Becky back.
Yes, I know that’s what she was raised to believe, but she as also raised to believe that she should get married and start squirting out brats for the next 20 years, obviously she’s willing to break with her upbringing in ways.
In the end, I just hope this is more like the whole hat thing that Becky went through a while back. Less “Becky honestly believes that she must remain pure and virginial until marriage” and more “Becky’s got a messed up set of hang-ups due to a whole lot of social baggage and she’s placed sex on this weird pedestal”.
It feels like a lot of commenters here forget how scary sex can feel if you’ve never done it before or if you’ve been dry for a long time. With the Hat thing, it wasn’t even that Becky had a scalp fetish, it was just weird social signals getting crossed and she started obsessing about it. It can work that way for sex too, and it really has nothing to do with purity…
I mean. It’s very much explicitly both? The idea of sexual purity INHERENTLY gives you a lot of social baggage and places sex on an extremely high pedestal. It’s almost certainly part of why Becky is so hesitant, I’m pretty sure she is genuinely nervous and hesitant to Do the Deed because of those hangups.
But that doesn’t change the fact that she also very, VERY plainly desires it anyway, and ANY degree of horniness that she experiences will come with either feelings of shame OR feelings of intense disappointment. There is no way for her to win in this scenario, short of, as she says in the strip I linked to, simply NOT having as much sexual desire. Which won’t happen, because that’s not who Becky is, and in fact repressing herself so intensely will only lead to those feelings getting WORSE and more intense. Leading to things like how she gets horny over something as simple as a hat, or fetishizes shoulders.
Maybe if Becky allowed herself to masturbate that could help relieve things a little, but I highly, highly doubt she will. Masturbation is a good way for women repressed like this to begin to untangle the complicated relationships they have with their bodies, but like…Becky has to make that step, and what with her beliefs that literally everything she does will be watched by her mother and also by god in heaven, like………
Yeah.
Becky’s got a messed up set of hang-ups due to a whole lot of social baggage and she’s placed sex on this weird pedestal BECAUSE Becky honestly believes that she must remain pure and virginial until marriage.
She’s also admitted that she’s changed and lost so much (when Dina first proposed the idea on her birthday) and wants to at least keep this part.
Well, as long as she defines pure and virginal as not inserting a penis into her vagina, she can do all the lesbian sex she wants and still meet that standard. Unfortunately, I don’t think she would allow herself to use that loophole.
I’d really like to see Becky take a moment, NOT in the heat of horny-for-Dina, to actually analyze her beliefs about no sex before marriage. Whether this is an idea that was pressed upon her, or whether it s something she honestly feels in her heart of hearts that God calls upon her to adhere to. And I don’t really mind which side of things she comes down on, I’d just like her to take a little time with the question.
In my experience with sexual frustration, it can be really hard to find a moment where that heat doesn’t exist. Especially when you want to explicitly think about things that will trigger that hear (sexy times).
Which is one of the reasons it can be really terrible to put yourself through what Becky is putting herself through – it can become a black hole of ugly feelings and repressed desire. Then honestly the relief isn’t always even that good because it’s mixed in with so much ugly. If you’re able to recognize this is just part of the process, then generally it gets better pretty soon (provided you have a willing partner), but if you don’t know that it’s easy to misinterpret disappointment.
Especially in this case where Becky is likely to freak the fuck out if sec isn’t 100% perfect – either break down that she isn’t good enough or see it as proof she violated god’s will or whatever.
She does still need to figure this out, I agree, and she’s a cartoon character so can be granted relief from this if Willis wills it.
Just pointing out that for real people – it’s not always possible to escape the heat of arousal AND evaluate their sexual desires at the same time.
(yes, I’m aware of masturbating. At my darkest times I was able to go 5+ times a day with dildos and still feel frustrated because my body craved partner sex. Hormones can be the absolute worst.
Purely anecdotal but it seems like this frustration is worse when you have a partner – I haven’t been single since I was 17 so cannot speak from personal experience.)
The Willis chooses, The Willis decides!
I suspect she has, just not onscreen. We know she’s already put thought into her beliefs regarding things such as young earth creation, and coming to grips with being a Christian lesbian means she’s probably spent more than a little time thinking about what that means for her regarding sex and marriage and her faith.
I don’t think she has. She’s far too hung up on this ‘doing right by god’ and ‘no sex before marriage’ and she’s still fetishizing shoulders. She literally (and intensely!) believes that every single thing she does is being watched on a film reel in heaven by her mother, and of course also god.
Like maybe she can conveniently forget that when she’s doing stuff she wouldn’t want her mom to see, but…considering how intensely she represses her sexual desires, and how heavily she associates it with her faith, I don’t think she’s likely to.
Yeah.
As late as the last time this plot point came up, Becky came around to blaming her Sinful Horniness and that everything would be fine if she would just stop being horny for Dina.
Frankly Becky needs to sit down with her Bible and hammer out exactly what the parameters of “not before marriage” apply to lesbians.
She doesn’t necessarily have to go “all the way” (whatever she considers that) but *some* form of mutual sexual release is important here.
And seeing as the whole “no sex before marriage” thing is predominately related to “no bastards” – I mean, anything those two can do is safe.
Even if it’s something like writing erotic stories to each other, or sexting, or masturbating while the other watches, or whatever.
Sexuality is a great wide world to explore and there’s plenty you can do short of ripping your girlfriend’s hat off with your teeth and fisting her til she screams.
Dina knows what to do to see if her hypothesis is correct… Awwwww. This is adorable ♡!!!
I like how many people (me included) expect drama from this
This gonna be good
In not so fun news, my country australia is considering a religious discrimination bill that would allow queers to be discriminated against as well as disabled people. As an autistic transfem I’m definitely having many feelings about it.
It’s ridiculous how far backward the world is going.
That’s awful!
We should all be free to express our unique stripes of gender and neurodivergence without getting swept into overgeneralizing labels like “autism” and shoved into the gender binary.
Given Florence seems pretty comfortable referring to themselves as autistic i don’t think that’s the point here, so much as the legalizing of discrimination. Ik you have bad history with the word but that’s not everyone
It should be noted that Eugen Bleuler, the guy who came up with the term “autism” (as well as “schizophrenia”) was a eugenicist (go figure) and sterilized his patients. But that’s the language and lexicon we’ve got at present, so until something better comes along and gets widely accepted, that’s what a lot of us are still going with.
@delicious taffy: I didn’t know the history but it isn’t surprising. I like the word but also neurodivergence has potential although maybe too general.also yea, conservative bigots gonna conservative bigot, ugh
@the wellerman: it’s a whole lotta urgh. I understand you don’t like the using the word autism, do you have a word you prefer? Always want to refer to people the way they feel comfy
@zee: thank you, although I respect anyones uncomfy feelings I do like the word when referring to myself. Although I’ve learnt I’m also adhd so past a certain point it may be more useful to refer to myself as neurodivergent for time hahaha
For now I guess I prefer “socially challenged neurodivergent”, and thanks for being considerate!!! 🙃
No worries, Thank you for telling me
Also thank you for the info taffy 💜
We’re witnessing the death throes of a generation longing for a “simpler” time where they were allowed to be assholes with no repercussions, attempting to cast their backwards ideology in stone before it dies with them.
Yeah, well. Maybe they could skip the throes and get to the death a bit faster, give the rest of us a turn at the fucking wheel for a change.
It’s funny because I remember back in the early 90s recession joking about waiting for the Boomers to die so we could get their jobs.
well fuck. the backlash is everywhere lately, it’s scary. here’s hoping this law doesn’t pass. wishing you strength ✊
There’s protests this week so definitely not being quiet about it
Thank you 💜
Trying to legislate reality into a shape that the dim and faint of heart feel safe in has always worked out well,… ..
uh, wait, no. That has never worked. I hope the brave hearts of Australia prevail, and you are safe.
+1 to this!
Honestly tired of these pampered fossils doing their best to kill people like me, so here’s hoping the Aussies can beat ’em down and set an example for the rest of us.
@all of you: It’s been an awful while watching it play out, thank you all for the kind words 💜 we will fight ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
I wish I could heart comments cause you would all be annoyed by my notifications 😄
Let’s hope no Beckys are harmed in the making of this experiment.
Well, no more harmed than she asks for specifically.
What “safe word”will be?
I’ve always been fond of “stop” or “wait” as a safe word.
That can sometimes get a bit tricky with subs who are into “bratty” play. (That is, they WANT their Doms to manhandle or push them harder than they might feel comfortable with. They want that thrill of knowing their limits are going to be pushed.) That’s why most veterans of the BDSM scene recommend using a colour-code system (Green is all clear, Yellow means ease up a little, Red means complete stop), or having a very unambiguous word that the sub would be highly unlikely to use in the passion of the moment.
The caveat to this, of course, is that sometimes the sub themselves can freeze up or panic if things start moving too fast, so the onus is always on the Dom to frequently check with their sub to make sure they’re comfortable and amenable. Where exactly to draw the line between keeping the excitement going and playing it safe will depend entirely on the individual preferences and tastes of the couple (or more, if you’re into that sort of thing), but I always prefer to err on the side of caution.
Hmm, I’d forgotten about the brats, despite having experience in that department. I do like the traffic-light system, it’s pretty good. A really good safe word is tough to come up with, because if it’s too long or complex it’ll be hard to get out, and if it’s something super hot like “Megazord”, the dom might get mixed signals and misread, leading to a bad interaction.
If you don’t need a “yellow” equivalent, I’ve always liked just “safeword”.
Guinea pig.
as for dina, maybe her safeword could be “oh my god”.
You mean “oh me god”, right?
i don’t think Dina would ever invoke any kind of supernatural entity accidentally.
which is why it works as a safeword =P
GO GET HER TIGER
yes the dromeiosaurs were absolutely the cat equivalent of the Cretaceous.
cute, fluffy, elegant, but actually made of knives and springs.
And they got laid!!! 😀
LOL
Dina looks very pretty here.
Dina is beautiful.
I hit panel 3 and my brain completely shorted out.
I’d be wary, shippers.
Valentine’s Day approaches.
The hour of demise approaches. Soon, we will see the horrid wastelands of the beyond and tremble at their desolation.
That or some college kids could have an interpersonal conflict. Same level of severity, really.
“Heavens, Miss Saruyama, you’re beautiful!”
I – I don’t believe it!
There she goes again!
She’s tidied up, and I can’t find anything!
All my tubes and wires
And careful notes
And antiquated notions
It’s poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
A++ !!!
Clever girl
Heart: Ok, you all know why we’re meeting. There’s some things I need to get off my chest! Who’s with me?
Loins: I agree we must interact with Dina ON MANY LEVELS
Mouth: Aww yiss Get me IN DAR
Clavicle: By my prominent shadow, I support this initiative.
Omphalos: Dunno why you’re asking me, I’m just an upjumped surgical scar, but yes, I’m in.
Throat: Um…?
Brain: Quiet, you. We’re doing this.
Brain: honestly we don’t really need you much for this
Slipshine Presents An awkward lesbian encounter.
Are you referring to Finally, My Lesbian, or Keep It Clean? All very good, of course, although the second one contains 0% Ruth and therefore is inherently that little bit lesser.
Bold of you to presume there are other types of lesbian encounter.
Becky will not escape unless Dina allows it.
Looks like Dina finally knows her sexy powers. Or at least, she’s started to know them.
Dina uses sexy on Becky – it’s super effective!
gosh, Dina has beautiful eyes
‘Say you have beautiful eyes!’
“I have beautiful eyes!”
This is a really good set of expression panel, Willis.
Wow, that even got me flustered