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I remember that, and I also remember a lot of discussion/theorization as to whether or not she would accept or decline the offer. I guess we’re gonna find out.
The current suspicion is that it was for this semester and she already declined it to come back here.
Probably thinking she couldn’t run away in the wake all last semester’s trauma. Now she’s trying to overmanage to prove she really was needed.
Come on, Dorothy, you’re smarter than this. You know that, if Becky knew you taught Joyce to masturbate, Becky would be way too overcome with thinking about it to get up in your face about it all.
Becky sitting in the corner, face red constantly thinking of questions she wants to ask about it but also doesn’t because she’s in a committed relationship and it’s not her business. But she does really wanna know.
Actually, deflecting from that topic by getting into Dorothy’s face about something completely unrelated to Dorothy getting Joyce off seems EXACTLY like something Becky would do.
But The Flea is not wicked, rather one of the most innocent of the superchildren… while also being wiser in the ways of the world than a great many children. I think maybe all the bugs he talks to have different ideas about what is appropriate to talk about with someone The Flea’s age. (To be fair, to a lot of bugs, The Flea is a proper great old one by now.)
It was in the papers on her desk last we saw it, but she may have been reading it anxiously and left it on her desk. It doesn’t really take snooping to see paper with the word YALE typed on it, on the desk of a person who applied to Yale, to connect the dots.
She’s holding the letter. That kind of implies she read it, plus just reading “Yale” doesn’t mean Dorothy got accepted. It could’ve been a rejection letter. Becky snooped. Not marking her character for this, it’s just rude. Like purposefully leaving piles of dirty clothes or forcing a nickname on someone until they accept it. It tracks for Becky.
Yeah, it’s one of those “ehhh you shouldn’t really do this but also, realistically, most people are gonna do this, Becky’s just not pretending she didn’t” things.
Depends on whether she actually dug through papers looking for something or whether she just noticed it out on the desk and read it once it caught her eye. The first is more of a problem, the second is really a most people thing.
Dude, it’s a letter left in plain sight on her desk. All Becky has to do is notice the letterhead says Yale and the first word is welcome. It would not rocket science to guess from there and most people wouldn’t consider seeing that much in plain sight to be snooping.
I think your reasonable expectation of privacy takes a serious hit when you leave things in plain sight on your desk.
Different assumption though. We don’t actually know it was left in plain sight on her desk, do we?
If we think it was tucked away somewhere, it’s a lot more problematic.
Was it left in plain sight though? My desk at home is kind of a wreck and I leave all kinds of papers on it, you’d have to go through it to find something specific like a letter. Even in the link it looks like it was under stuff, and it’s been a minute since she got that letter.
Becky was almost definitely snooping through the papers. Although benefit of the doubt, maybe she needed to write something down and removed whatever was on top of it. Or maybe it got knocked onto the floor when Dorothy got all the stuff together to do laundry.
Back in the day, before personal phones, Yale might have called and left a message with Becky to give to Dorothy. Do dorm rooms even have landline phones these days?
What are those pictures on the board in the background? I see an oil rig (grey photo), a dog going up a snowy hill (blue photo), and in the bottom photos faces I can’t clearly make out to see if we know them.
Becky is holding the acceptance letter in her hand. We saw it on Dorothy’s desk right after the timeskip. Which was, uh, over 2 years ago. So I can’t really blame people for forgetting this neglected plot point.
Also it’s very telling to me that Dorothy’s feels so immediately guilty about the situation with Joyce.
You know there are poly relationships of several people that only have sex with one other member of the group, who doesn’t have sex with any others in the group, in this group JoyceXJoeXDorothyXBeckyXDina would still be a polycule even if nobody did anything with anyone in the group besides their partner indicated by the X.
Actually I don’t think I could compose a linear relationship chain with that group. Joe and Dina have to be on the ends, but would Joyce be the hinge between Joe and Dorothy, or Joe and Becky with Dorothy hanging off the side of Joyce or Becky? Also Joe could potentially be a hinge between all the het and bi women (are there any canon bi women in the list? There are some as “gay for” some other woman on the list but not in a bisexual way) who don’t want to be with any of the rest of the women on the list.
This feels like that show about the interracial ghost dinosaurs that was talked about in the commercial on the old Dinosaurs! show.
1.) Becky, you dumb fart. I love you—I am an OG Becky fan and if you come in this thread expecting to shit on Becky, no you didn’t please leave—but Jesus Our Redeemer you are a dumb fart sometimes. Just a stinker.
2.) God DAMMIT Keener, you cannot drop a dry ruler-straight Abraham Lincoln deadpan quip and then give me TERRIFIED SAPPHIC GUILT EYES in panel 4. I have whiplash. I’m fucking suing.
3.) You know, I’m honestly not shocked at all that Dorothy kind of loves the Dotty nickname and I don’t think there’s any weird “high road” complex here or anything, the key to Dorothy and Becky is very simple and I will bet you real American dollars.
Dorothy blames herself for Joyce’s kidnapping and near-death at the hands of Blaine. She has shown that she wants to enfold Joyce in giant swan wings and protect her from all wrong. So when Becky this semester started in with her stinker behavior, Dotty knew instantly: this means “I PROTECT Joyce. I LOVE Joyce. Interloper NOT HARM Joyce.”
And that’s like looking in a mirror. Dorothy’s heart must’ve folded like origami. How could she hate Becky, when Becky could be her?
Unrelated to anything here, I just watched a video about the Golden Girls and I was compelled to look it up, Dorothy and Rose only appear in one comic together, nearly 9 years ago.
God, yeah, where is the overdramatic self-centered twit going to find another vile, scheming manipulator executing Disney-villain plans (I understand it’s from trauma lol but she’s also actually evil and a witch)? God, she’d have to trouble the joyless, misanthropic asshole whose every kindness is false, or the local Mean Girl queen bee who deserves karmic retribution swiftly, or even the perpetually over-candied manchild and his bland girlfriend who’s a sabotage of her former character on Shortpacked!?
God, I swear, if it wasn’t for Joyce, my beautiful perfect child whom should trust only me, a person who exists in the comic, I’d drop this strip and cancel Willis publicly on Twitter.
Do you two have a history in the comments that explains you being this fucking rude? I mean, I like Becky and get tired of the slamming on her character and all, but Christ.
I’m making fun of like fifteen different extremely breathless posts in this vein from the past week and describing a whole bunch of characters in the most negative light possible. Calm down, please.
Well, I mean… without the “insider knowledge” that you’re apparently making fun of something, YOUR post was the one that looked less than “calm”, tbh, so the poster querying it is by no means unwarranted. Particularly given the number of posts of that sort made in earnest here.
I understand that you’re making fun of people; I agree that was obvious. I also feel it should have been obvious from my post that I understood that, since I referred to being tired of the character slamming myself.
I am saying you’re being a dick. The fact that you were mocking people was not in question.
Personally, I find you calling me in front of the proverbial class to chide me for being “a dick” way more fucking rude and personal than anything I was doing to shrub.
I think shrub’s probably fine as a person. I think their takes on a comic are stupid and worthy of mockery, but I don’t want to actually offend them, hence the reason I made a straw man the size of the fucking Wicker Man that I know they don’t subscribe to, in my bones. Is it a little rude, a little mean? Sure, but it’s meant in the spirit of making fun of shitty takes and overdramatic attitudes, not them as a person.
Anyhow, I’m gonna leave it there. Really not fond of how you decided, for the sake of sacred Tone, to go after me personally, again, but you do you.
I find the mocking comments in general more annoying than the exaggerated ones, but when they’re made on their own, I try to let them be. You made this in response to someone you don’t agree with, so yeah, it comes off rude and directed at them. The increase of your exaggeration doesn’t actually seem to diminish the amount you’re mocking someone.
You can call it “for the sake of sacred Tone” while also telling me to calm down, whatever. I was surprised to see your very rude comment this morning, and I responded as such.
I am genuinely sorry for the bad joke, then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It absolutely didn’t come out of nowhere, though, I saw a shitty take by someone who’s posted shitty takes a week and a half and pounced, let’s not play.
Oh calm down, people are constantly being over dramatic about these fictional teenagers and that earns a little mockery. It’s a natural consequence of the sheer overreaction we see in the comments all the time. You blowing up like this and calling someone out personally and publicly is way worse than a little sarcasm
I hardly see this as blowing up, but okay. People being overdramatic about fiction doesn’t earn mockery of real people to me. Mockery that occurred personally (as a direct reply to someone) and publicly.
Honestly I hope Dorothy goes to Yale. Her only actual friend is Joyce and it would be kinda silly to pass up something she’s wanted for so long for someone she’s starting to resent.
Not that your wrong, but I’ve known a few people who went to prestigious schools including Yale, and they’ve all hated it. Toxic atmosphere and the like. I certainly don’t want Dorthey to stay here for Joyce, but her previous goals probably could bare some scrutiny.
I’d argue Sarah is Dorothy’s friend too as one of the few people she admits to liking but I agree Joyce is Dorothy’s best friend and main source of socializing and it would be unfair to them both if Dorothy unknown to Joyce made her the reason she stayed.
I was struck by the fridge logic. If Dorothy wanted to be at Yale so much, how did she end up at this university and if Yale did not accept her for the first semester, what happened that they changed their mind in the second semester. Acceptance in the next school year makes more sense.
According to Yale’s website, she can’t actually be accepted right now at all. They only accept transfers for their fall semester, and they don’t start sending acceptance letters for that until May. So unless Dorothy actually got accepted before the comic even started but decided to go here for some reason, then we need to start taking bets on which of these things Willis didn’t look into before writing in the acceptance letter.
Eh, sometimes Willis changes things for the sake of the story. Like the size of the beds to fit the characters better, or the number of washing machines, or Covid not existing. In this universe, Yale can accept transfer students this semester in order to begin in the Fall.
Most likely she just wasnt accepted at first possibly needed to up some grades or needed some extra credits and was accepted for the next semester (next school year)
Random thought .. (more related to yesterday’s comic)…
I wonder if, in her eagerness to “do laundry” that Joyce will work on Becky’s “pile of lesbos” (stack of clothes).
And moree importantly if she does and Becky finds out why, will it melt her brain when she finds out she is responsible for giving Joyce orgasms.
The problem isn’t that Becky read that letter, but that Dorothy seems to have decided not to go to the university of her dreams because she feels some kind of obligation to stay and help Joyce and finally someone who could wake her up has found out about this. It seems to me one of those situations where one points to the moon and the others look at the finger.
I’m hoping for once this will result in Becky pointing out to Dorothy that everyone Joyce included would survive without her. Or maybe more likey Dorothy finally blows up at Becky for going through her things. Seems the broken dryer incident is a hint that Dorothy could be on the verge of snapping at someone.
Even if neatfreak Dorothy somehow just left the letter on top of her desk and uncovered, have you seen how the desk is positioned? There’s absolutely no way to see it unless you’re deliberately rummaging through her stuff.
Okay, I’m still on board for this finally being brought up – but Becky finding out about this means she was rooting around Dorothy’s desk and into her personal stuff, which just smacks of pure rudeness.
I mean, it’s Becky, but… I’m hoping she only found out because Dorothy dropped it or something.
It’ll probably never get addressed, but I hope Dorothy was looking at it and left it on the desk where Becky noticed it, rather than actually rooting through her stuff.
I can forgive her looking at the letter with Yale letterhead more easily than going through everything.
Oh yeah, i was having an issue with that a few weeks ago. I was able to workshop something by directly uploading my profile picture through wordpress instead of gravatar. Doing that should save the transparent version of your image to your gravatar picture library.
This means that Dorothy knows what she did with Joyce was a little tiny bit weird and messed up. interesting… I wonder what she’ll do when going back to the laundry she will find Joyce there again.
It could also mean she thinks Becky knows and disapproves, and is reacting in a guilty way on pure reflex, since Becky did come in kinda hot. Whether she theoretically agrees that it was a problem remains to be seen, I think.
Or it just means she wasn’t prepared for Becky to already know she was the cause of Joyce’s first orgasm. Since Becky will probably always be a little bit in love with and sexually frustrated by Joyce.
Simple game. The question is: “What music are you listening to right now?”
I can go first.
Right now, I’m listening to “December 4th,” on “The Grey Album” (Beatles and Jay-Z, remixed by DJ Danger Mouse).
Thinking about moms and losing parents and teenage rebellion and painful career choices (apropos of the strip):
i’m listening to the carrion child, by vylet pony! her new album came out last friday, and it’s been almost all of my music consumption since then; it’s very rare that an album clicks with me quite as well as this one
that and the Son of a Preacher Man cover, and the Blame the Bible/Neighbours of the Beast single keep being the ones I go back to when I start my music (and I just woke up so that’s where I started)
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“oh I guess that was a thing that happened, yeah… huh”
She did ?
One of the end-of-book montages showed her reading an acceptance letter. It hasn’t been directly mentioned otherwise.
Obligatory link.
and the actual promise made was three days before that: http://www.dumbingofage.com/bff/
*two days
thank you
Two days for us, a few hours at most for them. She already had gotten her acceptance letter when she made that speech.
God I just wish these pages had systematic urls so I could easily just jump back say, 100 pages.
I remember that, and I also remember a lot of discussion/theorization as to whether or not she would accept or decline the offer. I guess we’re gonna find out.
The current suspicion is that it was for this semester and she already declined it to come back here.
Probably thinking she couldn’t run away in the wake all last semester’s trauma. Now she’s trying to overmanage to prove she really was needed.
If it makes you feel better, Becky, you are indeed the first to know.
When did she promise that, tho ?
I think when Becky moved in.
She promised here:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/bff/
By first to know she means before Dorothy even knows. This is really on Yale actually. They should’ve mailed Becky the letter.
But even then Becky would at best be the second to know, since the Yale administrator who decides who is accepted was the first.
Dorothy should not have promised to get Becky a job working for Yale if she wasn’t sure she could deliver.
But they did – she has been sitting on that letter since I think last book.
The first to know who did not already know at the time that the promise was made
Oh this is happening now.
I’ve been waiting for this! I’m excited to see where this goes
Valentines Day is approaching. Careful what you wish for.
I like how each panel zooms in a bit more. It feels very claustrophobic, like tightening chest.
Ooh, good eye; I hadn’t noticed that!
Becky might murder Dorothy if she finds out about bestie masturbation time.
Come on, Dorothy, you’re smarter than this. You know that, if Becky knew you taught Joyce to masturbate, Becky would be way too overcome with thinking about it to get up in your face about it all.
Becky sitting in the corner, face red constantly thinking of questions she wants to ask about it but also doesn’t because she’s in a committed relationship and it’s not her business. But she does really wanna know.
It’s not a concept Becky is unfamiliar with, by her own admission.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/goandsinnomore/
Actually, deflecting from that topic by getting into Dorothy’s face about something completely unrelated to Dorothy getting Joyce off seems EXACTLY like something Becky would do.
…oooh, yeah, she would do exactly that…
Still don’t think she knows, though :).
California tumbles into the sea
That’ll be the day I go back to Annandale…
Dorothy, why this face? ( 3rd and 4th panel)
the guilty needs no accusator
The wicked flee when no man pursueth
Who you calling a wicked flea?
I thought that was what the hot dryer was for! (All the wicked fleas in the blankets.)
Awe sho cute!
And wicked space bugs like me too! 
Sounds nice. I too would like a blanket made of sweat-wicking fleece.
Oooooh fleece LOL XD
still yeah, very warm
But The Flea is not wicked, rather one of the most innocent of the superchildren… while also being wiser in the ways of the world than a great many children. I think maybe all the bugs he talks to have different ideas about what is appropriate to talk about with someone The Flea’s age. (To be fair, to a lot of bugs, The Flea is a proper great old one by now.)
Yep, he’s one of the more sympathetic characters in PS238. The current arc he’s more on-the-ball than either of the adults in the party.
I think that’s a horny face.
Her inner dork seeping out.
So was the letter left open in plain sight, or was Becky snooping?
Yeah I was just about to ask this. Even if it was left out, unless it was on the floor or in the trash or something, Becky was still snooping.
It was in the papers on her desk last we saw it, but she may have been reading it anxiously and left it on her desk. It doesn’t really take snooping to see paper with the word YALE typed on it, on the desk of a person who applied to Yale, to connect the dots.
She’s holding the letter. That kind of implies she read it, plus just reading “Yale” doesn’t mean Dorothy got accepted. It could’ve been a rejection letter. Becky snooped. Not marking her character for this, it’s just rude. Like purposefully leaving piles of dirty clothes or forcing a nickname on someone until they accept it. It tracks for Becky.
Yeah, it’s one of those “ehhh you shouldn’t really do this but also, realistically, most people are gonna do this, Becky’s just not pretending she didn’t” things.
I dunno if “most people” would go through the papers on another person’s desk without explicit permission, but it’s definitely in character for Becky.
Depends on whether she actually dug through papers looking for something or whether she just noticed it out on the desk and read it once it caught her eye. The first is more of a problem, the second is really a most people thing.
Dude, it’s a letter left in plain sight on her desk. All Becky has to do is notice the letterhead says Yale and the first word is welcome. It would not rocket science to guess from there and most people wouldn’t consider seeing that much in plain sight to be snooping.
I think your reasonable expectation of privacy takes a serious hit when you leave things in plain sight on your desk.
Hehe. Once more, reasonable expectations of privacy and Becky are brought up next to each other. I dig it.
Different assumption though. We don’t actually know it was left in plain sight on her desk, do we?
If we think it was tucked away somewhere, it’s a lot more problematic.
Was it left in plain sight though? My desk at home is kind of a wreck and I leave all kinds of papers on it, you’d have to go through it to find something specific like a letter. Even in the link it looks like it was under stuff, and it’s been a minute since she got that letter.
Becky was almost definitely snooping through the papers. Although benefit of the doubt, maybe she needed to write something down and removed whatever was on top of it. Or maybe it got knocked onto the floor when Dorothy got all the stuff together to do laundry.
Back in the day, before personal phones, Yale might have called and left a message with Becky to give to Dorothy. Do dorm rooms even have landline phones these days?
Man, Dorothy was super concerned Becky already figured out what she and Joyce did, like Becky’s superpower was Joyce-Masturbation Sense or something…
To be fair, I think Becky might actually be the first to know.
yeah who else is Dorothy going to tell? her parents maybe
What are those pictures on the board in the background? I see an oil rig (grey photo), a dog going up a snowy hill (blue photo), and in the bottom photos faces I can’t clearly make out to see if we know them.
Who else knows Dorothy got accepted to Yale, and how did Becky find out they know?
(People at Yale know about it, obviously.)
(Anyone got a link for where this promise was made?)
Becky is holding the acceptance letter in her hand. We saw it on Dorothy’s desk right after the timeskip. Which was, uh, over 2 years ago. So I can’t really blame people for forgetting this neglected plot point.
Also it’s very telling to me that Dorothy’s feels so immediately guilty about the situation with Joyce.
Maybe not necessarily guilty, just aware that this is likely a sore spot for Becky.
And the shoe drops! This is going to be interesting.
Don’t kiss, because one of you has a girlfriend and that’d be a huge misplacement of trust.
But Kiss.
Always good to see you supporting the better parts of our lives.
One of those parts being DorothyxBecky.
Y’know if things were gonna get poly around here, as well as wlw
I would watch Dotty x Becky (x Dina, x possibly Joyce and even x Joe) very…respectfully
You know there are poly relationships of several people that only have sex with one other member of the group, who doesn’t have sex with any others in the group, in this group JoyceXJoeXDorothyXBeckyXDina would still be a polycule even if nobody did anything with anyone in the group besides their partner indicated by the X.
Actually I don’t think I could compose a linear relationship chain with that group. Joe and Dina have to be on the ends, but would Joyce be the hinge between Joe and Dorothy, or Joe and Becky with Dorothy hanging off the side of Joyce or Becky? Also Joe could potentially be a hinge between all the het and bi women (are there any canon bi women in the list? There are some as “gay for” some other woman on the list but not in a bisexual way) who don’t want to be with any of the rest of the women on the list.
This feels like that show about the interracial ghost dinosaurs that was talked about in the commercial on the old Dinosaurs! show.
Shit that other secret I’ve been waiting to bring is rearing it’s ugly head.
Oh great Becky’s back and she’s being over the top dramatic and making it all about her again
oh, we’re reading people’s mail now, huh? Not enough to leave your stuff on the floor; ya gotta rifle through other people’s stuff, too?
I sound miffed but really I wanna see where this goes.
Well, she does come from a career in politics…
Touché.
Last we saw it, Dorothy had left it like right on top of her desk or something, it’s how we even know about it.
Reading it is uncouth, but we don’t really have any evidence Becky went through her stuff beyond that.
TRIPARTITE RESPONSE:
1.) Becky, you dumb fart. I love you—I am an OG Becky fan and if you come in this thread expecting to shit on Becky, no you didn’t please leave—but Jesus Our Redeemer you are a dumb fart sometimes. Just a stinker.
2.) God DAMMIT Keener, you cannot drop a dry ruler-straight Abraham Lincoln deadpan quip and then give me TERRIFIED SAPPHIC GUILT EYES in panel 4. I have whiplash. I’m fucking suing.
3.) You know, I’m honestly not shocked at all that Dorothy kind of loves the Dotty nickname and I don’t think there’s any weird “high road” complex here or anything, the key to Dorothy and Becky is very simple and I will bet you real American dollars.
Dorothy blames herself for Joyce’s kidnapping and near-death at the hands of Blaine. She has shown that she wants to enfold Joyce in giant swan wings and protect her from all wrong. So when Becky this semester started in with her stinker behavior, Dotty knew instantly: this means “I PROTECT Joyce. I LOVE Joyce. Interloper NOT HARM Joyce.”
And that’s like looking in a mirror. Dorothy’s heart must’ve folded like origami. How could she hate Becky, when Becky could be her?
Also Dotty is a cute nickname
I like this interpretation of Dotty.
Unrelated to anything here, I just watched a video about the Golden Girls and I was compelled to look it up, Dorothy and Rose only appear in one comic together, nearly 9 years ago.
why on earth would Dorothy promise that? I feel that Becky is making this up
i feel like she might’ve said it half jokingly? or becky offered it up because she wanted to be ‘rid’ of dorothy asap
Dorothy promised here. Granted, it was part of a playful back-and-forth, but Becky’s not fabricating things.
Becky may have been interpreting it as Dorothy saying “I’ll tell you as soon as I know” rather than “I’ll tell you before I tell anyone else.”
It’s a reply to “You’ll tell me first thing?” so that strikes me as a reasonable interpretation.
I do wonder where this is going. I don’t think Becky wants to be rid of Dorothy any more than most of them would, despite her claims to the contrary.
Of course, then she’s have to find a NEW worthy nemesis!
That or someone willing to put up with her bullshit which is unlikely
God, yeah, where is the overdramatic self-centered twit going to find another vile, scheming manipulator executing Disney-villain plans (I understand it’s from trauma lol but she’s also actually evil and a witch)? God, she’d have to trouble the joyless, misanthropic asshole whose every kindness is false, or the local Mean Girl queen bee who deserves karmic retribution swiftly, or even the perpetually over-candied manchild and his bland girlfriend who’s a sabotage of her former character on Shortpacked!?
God, I swear, if it wasn’t for Joyce, my beautiful perfect child whom should trust only me, a person who exists in the comic, I’d drop this strip and cancel Willis publicly on Twitter.
Do you two have a history in the comments that explains you being this fucking rude? I mean, I like Becky and get tired of the slamming on her character and all, but Christ.
I’m making fun of like fifteen different extremely breathless posts in this vein from the past week and describing a whole bunch of characters in the most negative light possible. Calm down, please.
Well, I mean… without the “insider knowledge” that you’re apparently making fun of something, YOUR post was the one that looked less than “calm”, tbh, so the poster querying it is by no means unwarranted. Particularly given the number of posts of that sort made in earnest here.
I thought the obvious exaggeration would be a big honking clue, but sure, in the spirit of clarity of purpose: This Is Satire. I am doing a bit.
Please tell me it’s a coincidence that people with hyphens for names and default Joe icons keep popping up to comment on people’s tones.
Poe’s Law applies. Obvious exaggeration isn’t always as obvious as you think. Someone will come along and seriously agree.
To be fair, I absolutely did find this exaggeration obvious, and that was kinda central to my point.
I understand that you’re making fun of people; I agree that was obvious. I also feel it should have been obvious from my post that I understood that, since I referred to being tired of the character slamming myself.
I am saying you’re being a dick. The fact that you were mocking people was not in question.
Personally, I find you calling me in front of the proverbial class to chide me for being “a dick” way more fucking rude and personal than anything I was doing to shrub.
I think shrub’s probably fine as a person. I think their takes on a comic are stupid and worthy of mockery, but I don’t want to actually offend them, hence the reason I made a straw man the size of the fucking Wicker Man that I know they don’t subscribe to, in my bones. Is it a little rude, a little mean? Sure, but it’s meant in the spirit of making fun of shitty takes and overdramatic attitudes, not them as a person.
Anyhow, I’m gonna leave it there. Really not fond of how you decided, for the sake of sacred Tone, to go after me personally, again, but you do you.
I find the mocking comments in general more annoying than the exaggerated ones, but when they’re made on their own, I try to let them be. You made this in response to someone you don’t agree with, so yeah, it comes off rude and directed at them. The increase of your exaggeration doesn’t actually seem to diminish the amount you’re mocking someone.
You can call it “for the sake of sacred Tone” while also telling me to calm down, whatever. I was surprised to see your very rude comment this morning, and I responded as such.
Isn’t making fun of someone supposed to be, I dunno, fun or funny? And not just weirdly aggro from nowhere?
I am genuinely sorry for the bad joke, then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It absolutely didn’t come out of nowhere, though, I saw a shitty take by someone who’s posted shitty takes a week and a half and pounced, let’s not play.
It was pretty funny tho so idk what to tell you
Humor itself is objective
Oh calm down, people are constantly being over dramatic about these fictional teenagers and that earns a little mockery. It’s a natural consequence of the sheer overreaction we see in the comments all the time. You blowing up like this and calling someone out personally and publicly is way worse than a little sarcasm
I hardly see this as blowing up, but okay. People being overdramatic about fiction doesn’t earn mockery of real people to me. Mockery that occurred personally (as a direct reply to someone) and publicly.
It was very blatantly blowing up
Technically she didn’t tell anyone so she would be the first if no one else has snooped through her room lol
okay I found the strip where we see the yale acceptance letter. anybody else wanna do the rest of the work and tell me how many days ago this was in comic time https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/letter/
Maybe a couple of weeks?
The Timeline isn’t up to date, but that was the first day of the new semester – a Sunday. This is Wednesday, 10 days later.
One day per chapter (and Halloween doesn’t count, since it was all flashback.)
Found the comic where Dorothy promised:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/bff/
No one’s posted it yet so here’s the strip where Dorothy promises Becky will be the first to know about Yale her acceptance.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/bff/
Missed it by that much
OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN SKDALJGHASFKJGSDKJGSIUDFIUSDVGIUSVDGSDIAUFIUDSAI
Honestly I hope Dorothy goes to Yale. Her only actual friend is Joyce and it would be kinda silly to pass up something she’s wanted for so long for someone she’s starting to resent.
if she stays, she’ll be just as dumb as Danny who followed her to that university
Not that your wrong, but I’ve known a few people who went to prestigious schools including Yale, and they’ve all hated it. Toxic atmosphere and the like. I certainly don’t want Dorthey to stay here for Joyce, but her previous goals probably could bare some scrutiny.
I don’t know about Yale but Harvard and Brown students seem pretty happy on average.
Becky is an actual friend.
I’d argue Sarah is Dorothy’s friend too as one of the few people she admits to liking but I agree Joyce is Dorothy’s best friend and main source of socializing and it would be unfair to them both if Dorothy unknown to Joyce made her the reason she stayed.
I was struck by the fridge logic. If Dorothy wanted to be at Yale so much, how did she end up at this university and if Yale did not accept her for the first semester, what happened that they changed their mind in the second semester. Acceptance in the next school year makes more sense.
I don’t think we know the details of when she can start at Yale. it might be for next September, and contingent on her maintaining a good GPA at IU.
All the details we have are here, I believe:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/letter/
According to Yale’s website, she can’t actually be accepted right now at all. They only accept transfers for their fall semester, and they don’t start sending acceptance letters for that until May. So unless Dorothy actually got accepted before the comic even started but decided to go here for some reason, then we need to start taking bets on which of these things Willis didn’t look into before writing in the acceptance letter.
Eh, sometimes Willis changes things for the sake of the story. Like the size of the beds to fit the characters better, or the number of washing machines, or Covid not existing. In this universe, Yale can accept transfer students this semester in order to begin in the Fall.
Most likely she just wasnt accepted at first possibly needed to up some grades or needed some extra credits and was accepted for the next semester (next school year)
Also she probably has a much more compelling personal essay this time around.
I thought it was mentioned in-comic that it’s easier to transfer in than be accepted as a freshman.
Calm down, Becky. There’s no point in getting in her face and Yaleing at her.
Ooh!! X-D
I think she still will be the first to be told
If Dotty still fesses up about Joyce, I am drop-kicking the dented dryer into next year.
What else could it possibly be?
Now that I think about it, Becky is a real Drama Queen, isn’t she?
So Dotty *is* thinking about ditching Yale for the super good reason of *checks notes* fixing other people.
But she has to go to Yale to become President and fix *everybody*!
Because that’s how it works! Right?
… Because that’s how it works, right?
Maybe part of her is hopefully smart enough to realize that Presidents do very little of the actual fixing — if any.
Well yeah. Who else is gonna do it?
I suspect she already has, but I don’t see anything in this strip confirming it.
Random thought .. (more related to yesterday’s comic)…
I wonder if, in her eagerness to “do laundry” that Joyce will work on Becky’s “pile of lesbos” (stack of clothes).
And moree importantly if she does and Becky finds out why, will it melt her brain when she finds out she is responsible for giving Joyce orgasms.
That would be a great opportunity to bring back the “It hurts itself in its confusion!” joke X)
Can’t wait to see how this isn’t Becky going through Dorothy’s stuff!
Now I want a Slipshine about “Becky going through Dorothy’s stuff!”
Interesting how this storyline about Joyce’s sexual frustration is also about Dorothy’s lack of fulfilment.
Maybe Becky will try and push Dorothy past her issues here the way Dorothy just tried to push Joyce through her issues.
It could end up with Dorothy yelling “I’M TOTES GOING TO FUCKING YALE!” in the hallway X)
Betrayal!!! Becky is the second to know!! This will teach Dorothy not to make impossible promises.
Betrayal! Disgrace!
Evil as plain as the glasses on her face!
At least third, by my count.
Has Dorothy always had that much of an overbite, and I never paid attention? Or is she sucking her bottom lip in?
This is the real question. I saw it and it’s kinda cute but also jarring??
She’s sucking it in bc she’s stressed, common thing in Willis’s style
I think i lost track. Why was Becky calling Dorothy by her full name because Joyce didn’t know about Becky and Dina having sex?
Was it because she was being overly cautious with her words and didn’t want to slip up, or something else?
Be very careful when naming your children, because one day you will be scolding them by that name. Pick a name that has rhythm, cadence.
It was a bribe. One that Dorothy probably didn’t really care about.
I forgot about the first half of that strip because the second half was so funny.
JFC, we going through other people’s mail now, Becky? This girl is so many “I’m requesting a new roommate” events that I’ve lost count.
Agreed.
Becky has tiresome “mani(a)c pixie dream girl” vibes.
The problem isn’t that Becky read that letter, but that Dorothy seems to have decided not to go to the university of her dreams because she feels some kind of obligation to stay and help Joyce and finally someone who could wake her up has found out about this. It seems to me one of those situations where one points to the moon and the others look at the finger.
That’s a DIFFERENT issue.
I’m hoping for once this will result in Becky pointing out to Dorothy that everyone Joyce included would survive without her. Or maybe more likey Dorothy finally blows up at Becky for going through her things. Seems the broken dryer incident is a hint that Dorothy could be on the verge of snapping at someone.
Seeing something left blatantly on a desk in your room ≠ going through peoples mail
Even if neatfreak Dorothy somehow just left the letter on top of her desk and uncovered, have you seen how the desk is positioned? There’s absolutely no way to see it unless you’re deliberately rummaging through her stuff.
Eh. I didn’t hear “Dorothy Margot Keener!”, so Becky can’t be that mad.
I hereby call this, the 104th daily meeting of the Order of People Who Don’t Understand Boundaries, to … order?
It’s the 105th we had another one in your room last night while you were asleep
I missed that one! Don’t worry–I can still make the one convening tomorrow morning in the bathroom while Big Z is showering.
Dorothy’s acceptance letter says she will join their community next se…..
Fifteen minutes – just about enough time for Joyce to not notice when Dorothy (and possibly Becky) walk in
Okay, I’m still on board for this finally being brought up – but Becky finding out about this means she was rooting around Dorothy’s desk and into her personal stuff, which just smacks of pure rudeness.
I mean, it’s Becky, but… I’m hoping she only found out because Dorothy dropped it or something.
It’ll probably never get addressed, but I hope Dorothy was looking at it and left it on the desk where Becky noticed it, rather than actually rooting through her stuff.
I can forgive her looking at the letter with Yale letterhead more easily than going through everything.
Uh-oh, Dotty. Ya messed up and broke your promise. What are ya gonna do now?
Also, is anyone else having issues getting gravatars to be transparent? It keeps auto-filling a blank white background on mine.
Oh yeah, i was having an issue with that a few weeks ago. I was able to workshop something by directly uploading my profile picture through wordpress instead of gravatar. Doing that should save the transparent version of your image to your gravatar picture library.
Hey, it worked! Thanks, internet stranger!
Who else did she tell? Did she actually tell anybody?
I think that’s Becky’s gripe. Dorothy didn’t tell anyone, especially Becky.
I’ll fess up. It was me. She told me. We have a special bond, Dorothy and I.
She told all of us by leaving the letter withing view of the 4th wall we observe their universe through
Who betrayed whom? Who read whose personal mail? Becky is close to gaslighting, coming all aggressive to put Dorothy on the defensive.
She’s sasslighting at worst. Besides, betrayal is relative anyhow.
I’m sure Dorothy will have her opinion as to Becky’s violation of her privacy.
Becky why were you going through Dorothy’s stuff?
Why wouldn’t she?
I’d forgotten that she got accepted.
This means that Dorothy knows what she did with Joyce was a little tiny bit weird and messed up. interesting… I wonder what she’ll do when going back to the laundry she will find Joyce there again.
It could also mean she thinks Becky knows and disapproves, and is reacting in a guilty way on pure reflex, since Becky did come in kinda hot. Whether she theoretically agrees that it was a problem remains to be seen, I think.
Or it just means she wasn’t prepared for Becky to already know she was the cause of Joyce’s first orgasm. Since Becky will probably always be a little bit in love with and sexually frustrated by Joyce.
…OK, anyone up for a game?
Simple game. The question is: “What music are you listening to right now?”
I can go first.
Right now, I’m listening to “December 4th,” on “The Grey Album” (Beatles and Jay-Z, remixed by DJ Danger Mouse).
Thinking about moms and losing parents and teenage rebellion and painful career choices (apropos of the strip):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNiwW0FKWWw
i’m listening to the carrion child, by vylet pony! her new album came out last friday, and it’s been almost all of my music consumption since then; it’s very rare that an album clicks with me quite as well as this one
https://vyletpony.bandcamp.com/track/the-carrion-child-ft-calamarispider
I’m listening to some music from Doctor Who and Attack on Titan to help me vent my frustrations with Hogwarts New Legacy.
Despite that, I’ve been working on a lot of code for Dumbing of Age fan games that are gonna have actual inclusion of LGBTQ+ folk.
Pansy Division, Vicious Beauty (live 7″ version)
https://pansydivision.bandcamp.com/track/vicious-beauty-live-7-version
that and the Son of a Preacher Man cover, and the Blame the Bible/Neighbours of the Beast single keep being the ones I go back to when I start my music (and I just woke up so that’s where I started)
One of my extra queer Final Fantasy XIV friends introduced me to Spiritbox a few months ago, and when I’m not listening to Close in the Distance on loop while stoned off my ass, I’ve been revisiting that a lot. Well, that and Caramelldansen in Spanish.
Weyes Blood ‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow’.
Deal auto is stuck in my head. As you can see, I am deep.
DESPACITO, autocorrect, DESPACITO
Within Temptation’s Covered By Roses. (I’ve been exploring symphonic metal / operatic rock lately.)
Cool, me too!
FAKEit by Hiroyuki Sawano and Laco