I remember a country music song, female vocal, maybe the ’90s, about an assignation on a blanket on a balmy evening. She lauded him with a few phrases.
I mean… is it coming hard as “fuck” if in fact fucking is what is happening? Can you do a meaningful simile to the thing itself? “That car is like a car.” Would such a contemplation result in her being multi-orgasmic, or would it distract her into losing her focus and the moment evaporating?
Only if the “as fuck” in the phrase “cumming hard as fuck” is meant to refer to the act of fucking, which I doubt. Like if I said “he’s dumb as fuck” that doesn’t mean he is as stupid as the act of fucking. That would imply sex is inherently dumb. Which I don’t think is the intention. So in this context Fuck does not mean the act of fucking. Which raises the question, what does fuck mean in this context? If it can be used to justify most adjectives (ie. Ugly, hard, short tall,skinny, fat) maybe “fuck” stands for “an extreme” as in “He is dumb to the most extreme sense he could be perceived as dumb. Or in this case “she is cumming to the most extreme extent one is capable of cumming.”
There was, in the ancient epoch of before internet, a minitel “dating site” (google what minitel was, I can’t explain without loads and loads of text and mentioning I had to use an emulator of it for college inscription) named 3615cum. It was indeed pronounced latinwise, coom. And not frenchwise, bc you know, not only it means what it means in english, but the first phonem is the word we have for ass. Coincidence?
She’d never admit that she wants to but she might take advantage of a moment of weakness. Luckily Walky and Lucy’s relationship is going great and Walky isn’t having complicated feelings about Lucy’s strong romantic feelings towards him, tied to his poor self worth issues exacerbated by his relationships with Dorothy and Amber.
Dorothy isn’t garbage enough to try to get with Walky while he’s with Lucy.
Now Amber IS garbage enough and I’m all for it, only because I just rather have them together despite their variety of emotional issues.
Of course, if I’m wrong and she is garbage enough, I would also welcome a 3some with Walky being with both Dorothy and Amber, a pile of garbage if you would.
I don’t support cheating…but if Amber just jumped Walky’s bones in literally the next page I would root for them.
Also I would root for that threesome. Hell if Lucy’s game I would root for that foursome. But God, that just feels like a lotta people.
When you hit a foursome, as I understand it, you enter the polyamory territory where you have to make charts and shit, and it’s either the most stable iteration or the least, depending on anecdotes.
I’ve done threesomes, and for the FMF kind the M has to be considerate of both women to make sure everybody is happy. There may have been “performance issues” involved, to the disappointment of one of the women. There may have also been “high expectations” that contributed to the performance issues.. There may also have been some “strict definitions” that may have also led to some disappointment.
While it isn’t quite the same, a fmf threesome can include all 3. Going down on one of the ladies while the other rides on you is a solution. Even better if the ladies are attracted to each other as they can occupy both ends in theory.
Dorothy has in fact turned down multiple opportunities to get back with Walky, and has tried to bolster his relationship with Lucy to make sure that she can’t get back with him in good conscience.
Wait. We were issued Bingo cards? Nobody tells me anything.
Like for example, why is Dorothy justifying Indiana when Yale accepted her for next year. I want to see if Dorothy having turned it down is suspiciously printed on anyone’s Bingo card.
I’m so glad someone finally clarified. I was confused as to whether she’d been accepted to Yale for next year, or if she’d been accepted for *this semester* and had decided to stay because she’d found a place here. The latter doesn’t make sense for her character, but I’ve never transferred so I don’t know how far in advance those letters are sent out or if she might have kept it or something.
It wasn’t clear when we were shown the acceptance letter. It’s looking more and more like if was for this semester and she turned it down, probably feeling obligated after all the trauma last year.
The thing is, they don’t send out acceptance letters this early, because they are still taking applications. They also only accept new transfers for the fall semester. So either she was accepted but didn’t go last semester, or we have to take guesses at which of those two things Willis didn’t know.
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Is Dorothy for real the first character to say “cum”? Even including the slip shines? I’ll have to go check the Slip shines. You know. To be thorough
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There are four world-class automobile race tracks, so no. IMS, IRP,
Ft. Wayne and Terre Haute Action Track, 3 paved, one dirt, 3 outdoors and one indoors. Lots of important things.
I mean, at least be honest about why you did it.
There’s no reason you couldn’t have gone to Yale and then returned to run for politics in Indiana. Likely would have been your route either way.
But choosing to stay here is more than what she’s saying.
She wants to stay with her friends.
This whole last scene is way funnier if you imagine that all the dialogue that takes place on a washer is in that vibrating noise of people being shaken.
One of these days, one of these days I swear 3 characters in this story is going to stumble in to unintentional 3 way and we won’t see it coming because we won’t know when it happens or with who.
I still think that part of her rabid Joe hate is related to either her banging Joe, or Joe banging one of her friends, and that torpedoing a close friendship with Dotty.
There is no reason for her to be *this* pissed at him just because he’s a semi-ethical slut.
I kind of wonder if it’s more her being protective of Joyce than anything else. Joe was fine when he was banging people who weren’t under her aegis, not quite a “missing step” but still a problem for other people to deal with, but now it’s closer.
I do think if he DID hook up with a friend of hers in the past, though, that’d kind of make sense. I do not think Dorothy and Joe hooked up because it isn’t like either of them to do that behind Danny’s back.
Yeah, I…I don’t buy this theory. I think if any variant happened, Joe banged a friend and Dorothy lost her as a friend is more accurate, but really, like…Joe in S1 was really not a good dude. The ‘Do’ List and its RSS feed were gross, “upgrading” Joyce was an awful notion, etc.
And I wanna note, we as the audience know that even at his lowest, in his S1 down-low horndog shithead incarnation, that he had hidden depths. That he became Joyce’s friend before he ever fell in love. That he wouldn’t cross the consent boundary lines, ever.
But she doesn’t know that shit, and how would Dorothy find out? If I knew a guy who was a gym bro and I knew him to be expressing a lot of creepy sentiments, I would assume next I saw him that he was still a creepy dude and I might go further and assume he’s got some ugly political leanings, too! And in the background he could’ve turned his whole life around and I wouldn’t know!
I also think DailyBrad clinched it with the “not Joyce” limitation: she can’t stop him from hurting people who she barely knows, but not Joyce, by God. “Nothing bad will happen to Joyce while Dorothy watches ever again” is likely kind of a mantra at this point for her.
I do not think so, no. I do take her at her word that she’s straight, albeit maybe not *as* straight as previously thought. Like, she wants Walky to rail her right now.
…Y’know before the Abraham Lincolning of Joyce I would’ve said there’s no chance in Hell, and I still don’t think it’s likely, but I can’t discount it. Dorothy might see it as throwing herself on a grenade, and sell it to Joe by appealing (unknowingly) to his incredibly low sense of self-worth atm.
I hope it doesn’t happen because Jesus Christ how horrifying, but. I can’t say there’s no chance.
Only to decide not to go? Thus making the breakup pointless. Not only that but she served her ex on a silver platter to a girl he doesn’t love and now she regrets all of it. Plus she totally missed her chance to get off with her bestie without it being awkward. What a dummy. At least Walky and Lucy are doomed to fail cause she subconsciously sabotaged that, so in a month or two her issues will sort itself out.
I suspect we will find that Dorothy had decided that her mind was (mostly) made up to stay in Indiana, but she never officially turned Yale down, and the window to accept is still open for a while longer.
So it could be that what we’re watching is her reconsidering that choice, along with other choices too.
I suspect we’re going to eventually find out that she rejected it in the aftermath of last semester’s trauma, thinking that everyone here would fall apart without her and is now having a lot of trouble coping with that decision. Particularly since she doesn’t seem as needed as she thought she would be. And she’s overcompensating by pushing even harder to help and it’s backfiring.
That means we will never see her at Yale, at least not without another time skip. It took us until 2020 just to get to the end of the first semester with a time skip.
Technically, we do *not* know if Dotty is good or bad at sex. The people who have relation’ed with her have not really discussed her prowess in comparison with others.
Good for Walky at being better than a dryer, especially since Dorothy was his first.
I figure that means Dorothy’s a good teacher, Walky has some natural ability, and/or he pays attention to his partner.
Either way, he is noticeably better at providing orgasms to one particular woman than an appliance that wasn’t built for that purpose.
Huzzah.
I don’t think you have anything to worry about, Yoto. Do to biology, basic anatomy, the difference between the sexes (vive la différence!), and certain other (*ahem*) natural features, the real thing is ALWAYS better than an ersatz stand-in.
Wth Bill, are you reading the comic? Like half of the characters are queer and you’re out here extolling straight sex? Because it’s…”natural”?? Because “anatomy” somehow makes t it automatically the best sex there is to be had???
This is such a silly take, I’m baffled. Consider educating yourself before having an opinion about something.
I know this is harsh, but that is truly some high-grade heteronormative trash you’ve pressed “Post” under.
… I am pretty sure bill is mostly obliquely saying “figure out where the clit is and you’ll do, at least, better than a dryer when clitorii (clitorises?) are applicable”
joke> The plural of clitoris is nothing you will ever see. </joke Not trying to be mean, but that setup was like a big old hanging slowpitch softball, just waiting for a base hit.
I don’t think any of these characters are necessarily ‘queer’ – they are testing and exploring their sexual proclivities in all manners … straight, gay, solo, with or without mechanical aids (vibes or appliances) – we haven’t seen group sex yet, but it’s only a matter of time.
And don’t give me any of that “well, so-and-so was queer in Shortpacked or Roomies”… When I first came across this strip ten years or so ago, it seems to me that Willis stated that while the DoA cast had the same names and looks as characters from his previous works, this was a stand-alone comic and none of what had gone on before carried over.
And as for posting from a heteronormative viewpoint … sorry, but that’s the only viewpoint I’ve got personal experience with. Blame it on the fact that I am abso-posi-lutely straight; blame it on my Roman Catholic upbringing; hell, blame it on the fact that I’m on the far side of 65 and you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Willis did say that sexuality and gender ID carried over for the most part, though he didn’t leave out the possibility of them discovering they were LGBT+, like Danny did. Walkyverse Danny is bi too, we just didn’t get to see him discover it unlike Dumbiverse Danny. So yeah, actually, I will tell you when someone was queer in Walkyverse, because that still stands.
Fucking hell. What a shitty fucking take. Maybe you don’t understand how the term “queer” is often used? Your posts would still be a mess, but that’s the most charitable interpretation I can come up with.
Wow. This is seriously upsetting to see, and your excuses don’t help things.
Maybe I am out of touch. So far as I know, “queer” = “homosexual”, although I guess it might still carry a little baggage as being disparaging (although this statement from cnn.com – Once considered a demeaning slur for being gay, “queer” is being reclaimed by some as a self-affirming umbrella term – makes me think it’s losing that stigma). If it means something else nowadays – I never got the memo.
Dorothy, somehow I don’t think you’re gonna have the same appeal to Indiana voters as Mike Pence did. Which is far from a condemnation, given how fucking awful Mike Pence is both as a person and as a politician and given how utterly low the bar would have to be set for Pence to clear it, but I really think you’re not being honest with yourself here.
As I understand it, Mike Pence had a very strong appeal to Indiana voters when he ran for Vice President. Specifically, because it meant requiring him to step down as Governor of Indiana.
Pete Buttigieg is also from Indiana, so it depends.
Indiana is a very red state, but with pockets of blue in the large cities. The state legislature has a Republican supermajority right now, with the few Dems mainly coming from Indianapolis. Most of the city mayors are Democrats. IN has mostly sent R’s to US Senate except we had Donnelly for a term, who won because he went up against that guy that was caught saying r*pe was a “gift from God” and crap.
Pence was governor but his chances for reelection were hurt because of his shenanigans in office which included forcing RFRA through which pissed off a lot of business in the state. Running for VP looked like it was going to save his tail politically. The governor we got after him is still an R but not as much of an overt loon at times.
What I’ve seen of Indiana politics is that the overall trend seems to be conservative, but with some limits to the lunacy (although post Trump that’s seeming to be less and less the case). The Democratic political machine is weak to nonexistent unless you’re from Indy or South Bend.
Dorothy probably could make it as a mayor and maybe state rep if she ran from a big city. Governor would be harder and she’d probably have to come off as more of a moderate.
I’d count Dorothy first just since she’s being more literal, rather than figurative, sort of like how censors are much harsher on “Let’s fuck” than “fuck you”.
Lemme suss out what Patreon is saying — “I’m like the Abraham Lincoln of getting Joyce to cum” is not going to be book 13’s title, is it?
Sure, but do you think owning Connecticut is much grander than owning Indiana? You wanna be the next big name outta there that isn’t named Joe Lieberman??
Or do you wanna be the one that removes the space in La Porte?
*plays New Haven Heaven (Must Be There) by Eurogliders in the dryers*
Not necessarily. She always saw Yale as a stepping stone in her career path, but there are other avenues to the White House. Frankly Yale is more a credential unless Dorothy has some specific educational desire only Yale can offer. Although her being a woman probably means not having the Ivy League credit check marked would be used against her even if she was a college grad.
That may well be, but frankly, I think it’d be awful anyway. Giving up her current ambition (even if it’s not her Life Goal) for a relationship is not better just because it’s her friend group and not a romance.
I agree with that, it just doesn’t feel like that’s what she’s doing yet. It’s weird that’s she’s even talking like this when she’s been accepted into Yale. I don’t think she’s giving up on her dream. but maybe deciding whether Yale is how she wants to achieve it.
I’m not going to be happy if she gives up on Yale either, is what I’m saying. We’re never gonna see her become (or fail to become) President, but we can see her give up on that part of her ambition. And from a narrative perspective, it’s still the same ‘give up ambition for relationship’ trope that Dorothy herself hated early on. So I’m not gonna be happy if that’s what happens.
I’ve long said that even in terms of check marks and networking, it would be getting into Yale Law for graduate work school that would matter, not going to Yale as an undergrad.
Yeah. I think she’s teasing out her feelings on the matter but will ultimately go. Yale has been her defining goal since before the start of the comic, and I’ll be legit mad if she gives up on it.
Okay, Joyce on the dryer, she doesn’t own her own vibrator, it’s still weird but I guess I get it. But really? Dorothy’s riding the dryer too when she more than likely owns a tool of some kind? Alright… and the same dryer as Joyce too. Gross. Even if she wiped it down, just… pick somewhere else…
Dorothy, stop, no. No. Dorothy. You don’t know what you’re doing here.
A whole bunch of people are gonna read this as your Breaking Monologue or your Then Let Me Be Evil Speech or some other TVTropes fucking thing in the next couple days, and you have GOT to say cooler shit than this…!
So absolutely confirmed she rejected Yale and isn’t just waiting out until next semester to go. This weird storyline did have a point! Sort of.
Then again it kind of kills the idea she’s rushing to fix things before she leaves and thus is being weird about it as she tries to speed run this shit.
Instead she is desperately trying to make sure it wasn’t a mistake by fixing problems she perceives I guess?
I’m not sure; I read it that she’s convincing herself she wants to stay in preparation of turning down Yale’s offer. Although, the “my choice” line from yesterday’s comic could imply that she has, in fact, turned it down already.
For me the way she words not being in Yale this instant implies that this would have been her first semester at Yale if she accepted. Could be wrong but thus seems like s blowup waiting to happen with her friends.
Honestly, I find myself more and more finding that preferable to people who never give themselves credit for everything. Her and Amber should share their neurosis and split it, maybe that’ll even out.
Dorothy, if you hadn’t needlessly worked overtime emotionally manipulating to get walky to open up and attach himself to you to feed your ego, when you knew all along it was a just for fun…
Then he’d still be around to watch cartoons & bang once in a while.
…I’m not sure whether to respond to this bullshit with:
A.) a long and rambling bit where I take the strawman position that Dorothy did what she did to infect Walky with the woke mind virus, thus making him a slave to beta cuckery in time to ruin Amber’s true tradwife potential and ensuring he’ll be entrapped as a coomer (I don’t believe any of this, anyone who subscribes to an iota of this is a fucking embarrassment and also a tumor)
OR B.) I just deadpan about how Walky was cutting into her time needed to practice for eating that live baby we saw her eat at Becky’s party. We were all there. We all saw it. Dorothy unhinged her jaw and pythoned a human child. Willis wrote “Dorothy has eaten 17 human children to date” as the alt-text.
I have a pretty harsh read on Dorothy and even I don’t think she manipulated Walky. I think the worst you could say about it is she was kind of patronizing and overthought things.
Also this is the least gay thing anyone has ever said about getting their hot same-sex friend to cum and making her thank them for it, coupled with the least gay expression anyone has ever made about same. I cannot read a single bi vibe off Dorothy. I’m sorry, everyone. That Keener girl is STRAIGHT.
While I’m not against the Joyce/Dorothy ship in any way, I agree that this all read more like Dorothy projecting her own frustrations onto the already frustrated Joyce. She couldn’t help herself over her own hangups, so helping Joyce over one of hers was the next best thing.
Here’s a thought: Has Dorothy ever really addressed why she actually wants to become President? Does she want it because she earnestly believes that it’s the position where she can do the most good? Or is she just trying to prove that she can do it? And even if it is the former, how far does she think those good intentions will get her? How much is she willing to compromise her values to achieve her dream? How much will she sacrifice? I honestly think she hasn’t really thought about these questions seriously, and she’s maybe due for that reckoning.
Given how corrupt our politics is in the US, I feel like it’s pretty much impossible to become president without becoming corrupt. So maybe Dorothy should try for something else, if she genuinely wants to do good and help people.
This is a good point, it sort of feels like an “ambitious without an ambition” moment. She’s driven and smart and the presidency is prestigious. We’ve never heard her talk about any policies she’d want to implement or what her politics are in general.
Dorothy doesn’t strike me as the person who can play the game long enough to become president. Doesn’t feel like the person who can stand to see how the sausage gets made long enough to make the connections needed to even have the resources to make a presidential run let alone be the preferred choice of the voters of the party of her choice.
None of this is a negative necessarily if you figure it out early enough in your college career to do something else. And it’s all a crap shoot anyways. I did everything to become a criminal prosecutor in college and then ended up loving insurance and doing that.
I also wonder if Dorothy would ever do what Robin (sort of) did and admit her opponent could do the same things or better (against another progressive politician, of course. I’m not positighat she’d bow out to someone with opposite and dangerous politics)
So, you wonder if Dorothy would ever give up a political ambitions for a personal connection like Robin did for Becky, in a strip that strongly implies she turned down her dream of going to Yale to stay to support her friends here?
Despite her words, I can’t shake the feeling that this is a dark time for Dorothy. I mean, who waits in the laundry room for their clothes to get done?
the thing is, those aren’t the only options. it’s: go to yale and no longer live with these friends, or stay and maybe lose her dreams (she could also re-apply to Yale (or another more prestigious school of her choice) in another year).
but even though I argued you I think the line she is drawing for herself is basically what you said: go to yale and selfishly get the things that make her fulfilled, while causing Joyce to probably somehow die of naivetie, or stay and lose all her dreams
I do also sorta think… University tends to be the point in time when most people lose the super unrealistic dreams, and start considering ones that are closer to home.
Not saying it’s super unrealistic to be the first female President of the United States… But I think a lot more people enter university planning to be president, than who actually leave wanting/expecting that.
Huh. I think a lot depends on when that letter was dated, when she actually got it. It refers to ‘next se’ which I assume to mean ‘next semester’. If she got it far enough back in time… THIS could be the ‘next semester’ mentioned.
I suspect that decision was made in response to all the trauma of last semester. Not just “losing all friends”, but “they really need me after all that”. Which helps explain her pushy helping this semester.
As for Walky, getting a man isn’t the solution for everything, but it’s pretty decent solution for loving one and not having him. I don’t think people are suggesting as a random solution, but in response to her clearly still being interested in him. (Of course, now he’s involved with someone else, so it’s not a good solution at the moment.)
people (me included) were talking about why doesn’t Dorothy just get Joyce a toy, and now I’m starting to wonder if maybe Dorothy also doesn’t know (much) about sex toys, seeing as she’s continuing to try and use the dryer. even if the dryer sometimes/usually works, there are more, ahem, efficient things
I can see Dorothy being very much part of that ‘goodie two shoes’ demographic, where the more ‘illicit’ things in life have a sort of social barrier to them that she can’t comprehend gaining access to.
I’m very much in that demographic myself. I know that sex toys can be bought. I assume it’s probably very easy (there must be online stores for them now), but i can’t comprehend the steps or start the social procedure behind doing so.
I also imagine that she’s not fantastically driven to buy a sex toy in the past. Maybe that’ll change.
I meant to say but forgot to, I could also see her being like ‘the future president can’t be seen in a shop of ill repute’
I can see how that (what you said, not the president thing) would have an effect. I personally was interested in toys from pretty immediately (for partner play, mostly), and was in the store in my college town as soon as I moved there. And I might have in my home town if there wasn’t only one store, which I might’ve been recognized at because small town and newly outta school
I know you’re not asking, but it’s pretty much like any specialty store. Walk in, grab things, check out, or first ask questions to the staff if you need to (about like, if it’s well recommended. not about their toy use. just in case the wrong person reads this)
You can buy vibrators on Amazon. In the US, anyway, you can buy basic ones at many stores that have pharmacy departments, like Target, Walmart, Kroger. Many of these places also have self-checkout, though going the online route might still be more comfortable.
But yeah, I can see how it’d make sense that she hadn’t gotten one by her first year of college if she hadn’t really seen the need before.
There is no quality assurance, many of them are made with body-unsafe materials or materials that will not interact well with various lubricants and raise your chances of giving yourself a UTI.
Invest in body safe materials. Your cooter and/or pooter will thank you!
Oh, pish posh. People are such prudes and SJWs about this kind of thing. Just because I manufacture and distribute glass dildos made of unwashed used beer bottles, with luminous patterns on them made of radium, and at least 3 people have gotten poisoning from that, suddenly it’s “unsafe” and “inhumane”, and “made with child labor”? What, an autist can’t make a buck in this day and age? You’re being really ableist, Rabbit. Be better.
The real villain of this arc shows up in two strips when Joyce goes to buy one of Taffy’s Toys from the Radiation and Yeast Culture Pleasure Factory just off of Kirkwood.
Or just do your research. Figure out what reputable brands are, read reviews and buy accordingly.
Sure, if you just go for the cheapest knock-off on Amazon you’re asking for trouble, but that’s true at the skeevy local sex shop as well.
Idk, I’ve been satisfied with the sex toys I’ve bought off Amazon. I’m not saying they’re all perfect, but I wouldn’t say that about what’s in a sex shop either.
Now, “Don’t buy sex toys off Amazon because it’s better to support your local sex shops” might be more fair, but that’s part of a larger conversation.
Yeah. I mean, fuck amazon, haven’t bought anything via amazon in years, but it isn’t ‘amazon sex toys are bad,’ it’s ‘amazon is a marketplace with a million different sellers and suppliers, so there are both good and terrible things listed and you need to know which is which.’ This drives me crazy when people talk about ‘amazon clothes,’ or ‘amazon electronics. Amazon didn’t make or even list them.
that said I’d recommend somewhere like Come As You Are for safe toys and fairly honest policies, and Pink Cherry for affordability (Pink Cherry sells just about everything from $5 jelly dildos to $2000 sex machines, so you do have to verify who makes the toys and that they are made of real silicon or otherwise bodysafe, though at least this info is in their listings), if you don’t have a local and reputable store, or they have limited stock
They mail orders out in discreet unlabeled packaging and also have a lovely order-by-mail catalogue. I have only very rarely been dissatisfied with their products.
Hey! Hey Imogen! Hey! Listen! And everyone who believes we’re headed for a messy pile-up! I have
A NEW THEORY OF VALENTINE BAD TIMES
-So we’re here with Dorothy. We know that she executed this plan for dumb and almost certainly platonic reasons.
-But what if Joyce sees it instead as their first gay experience? That might be really comfortable for her; we know that homophobia was, ironically, one of her first hurdles overcome. And Billie, who she looks up to, said everyone does it at least once. It’s not that she’s gay, or bi, or a hussy; it’s just her and Dorothy experimenting.
-She has no idea Dorothy doesn’t see it this way. Dorothy has no idea Joyce does.
-Roundabout Valentine’s Day in real time, Joyce greets Dotty with a kiss. Dorothy is shocked, we get shades of Becky kissing Joyce but it’s Uno Reverse, and Joyce cheerfully explains that she’s interested in experimenting more with Dorothy, and don’t worry she’s gonna be totally quiet about this, and they’re just exploring each other’s bodies like Billie and Ruth but without the death pact or anything, oh this is so great
-Dorothy feels like absolute shit but she has to tell Joyce the truth—she isn’t into her—and it crushes Joyce. She just stutters “Okay” repeatedly and flees.
-Dorothy is left there feeling like the worst, then she realizes where Joyce might flee to, and sprints for Joe’s dorm.
-She gets there just in time to see Joe and Joyce kissing and it’s Joyce, in the end, who closes the door in her face.
-DISASTER IMPACT. Sobbing Dorothy. Heartbroken Joyce. “what do I fucking do?!?” Joe.
For all the people talking about Yale’s relevance to Dorothy’s presidential aspirations: that’s meaningless. Dorothy’s never getting elected POTUS. Not because she’s a woman (though that certainly makes it harder), not because of anything she might do in college, not because of how competent or not she’d be at it, but because she has less charisma than cardboard, and elections are literal popularity contests.
The qualifications that would make one a good president and those that make a good presidential CANDIDATE are not the same.
True—but let’s be real, her lack of charisma is a far bigger hurdle to the presidency for her than it would have been if she was a man. Like, Nixon and Carter and H.W. weren’t all that charismatic.
Not to mention, this is a classic case of “women have to work twice as hard.” Sometimes you can rise to such a selective office by filling a niche that people are looking for (usually the Republican tactic, but it worked out for Joe Biden when they were just looking for “normal white man to appeal to the middle”), but if you’re trying to get it through “qualifications,” then there’s a minimum baseline of education people tend to have. Top 3 undergrad to top 3 law school. It was the same for Obama—as a black man, he never would have been considered qualified without his educational background.
Dorothy will never be president, yeah. But choosing NOT to go to Yale is effectively closing that door. Maybe that’s healthier than false hope, but…I dunno, overall I think Yale would be a better environment for her.
I can’t speak to Nixon or Carter, but plenty of people were saying that HW was a dude they could have a beer with, and that’s a form of charisma.
Honestly, I think going to Yale is (would?) just going to exacerbate Dorothy’s issues – she’s already shown signs of nearing a breakdown, I can’t imagine Yale would make things better.
Maybe, Maybe not. W went to Yale after all, didn’t he?
That said, it certainly seems like most of those in the top echelons went to either Yale, Harvard, or Princeton. Connections seem to count more than actual ability.
W was the beer dude, not HW. I’ve never met W. But I have met a surprising number of politicians.
HW didn’t have huge charisma (just your standard tall white dude in a suit), though boy Dick Cheney sure does. It’s really frightening how much you want to like him in person even when he’s saying horrific things. But Cheney was never made president. Dan Quayle also seems way smarter in person than he was given credit for. Peter Orzag also has insane charisma.
Bill Clinton also has tons of charisma. My sister met Obama before he was president and he’s got charisma too. But I don’t think it’s required for the job.
Trump, much as I despise him and don’t understand the appeal, has something. Whether you call it charisma or not, he’s really good at working a certain kind of crowd.
Some politicians have the kind that works on crowds and some are better in person. Hillary couldn’t really play to a crowd, but she was apparently really effective in person. Doesn’t help a lot with campaigning for the big offices, but does with doing the job.
If presidential elections were popularity contests, don’t you think the person who gets the most votes would become President? Since that’s not the case in our world, it’s probably not the case in DoA world.
They’re not completely popularity contests (my forever stance is that the Electoral College is extreme bullshit), but they’re certainly closer to that than to qualification evaluations.
dorothy may have a therapist and all but I get the distinct feeling she hasn’t talked to anyone about the whole yale thing
maybe making “future X college student” a major part of your identity is a bad idea
it certainly didn’t go well for me
Willis, I know it would be difficult to title this compilation book “I’m like the Abraham Lincoln of getting Joyce to cum”, but sometimes the right choice isn’t the easy one.
I’m pretty sure at this point the lesbian fanbase is going to be disappointed. Dorothy is too level headed and progressive to not acknowledge if she’s into Joyce like that or not, and the last two pages have shown that being into Joyce is *not* the thing she’s struggling with. It’s her goals, and how the life she’s living is *not* conducive to reaching those goals.
Oh, go on ahead to Yale Dorothy. You’ll make new friends, and have a whole new bunch of other people’s problems you can solve and be an unappreciated hero
Am I wrong in thinking this mention of Jan 6th is the first explicit reference to a big news story from the 2020s to make it into the sliding timescale?
This, I believe, comes as close as we’ve gotten to a COVID reference, since this kind of implies that our crew’s high school experience was interrupted. It might be unfair, but I think this can be used to further characterize what Dorothy is going through.
She has lived through the failures of leadership both national/global and extremely local, seen it up close and personal as it messed up her plans, and then reinforced for her the importance of having plans and getting them done, preferably before the next global nerf. Still, things were disruptive and Danny was extra needy during this time, and she ended up not getting into her top choice school.
Then COVID winds down and she gets to college in-person… and instead of things getting less chaotic, they only get more. Violence occurs regularly on the campus, and keeps ramping up, until the point that she gets fucking kidnapped and sees a man murdered in front of her. She has every reason to believe she could have died that night. Again. Also, her social life is a mess, a dream opportunity went to someone who doesn’t want it but needs it more than her, and she literally hasn’t seen a single fucking mask since stepping foot in this school… except for all the goddamn superhero eye masks she is for some reason surrounded by.
I wouldn’t lean to much on that. It obviously wasn’t intended when her character was first developed and in a couple years of real time it’ll be too far in the past to have affected her much.
Even now: January 6 was half way through her junior year. Pretty early in her relationship with Danny, if it was 2 years as I seem to recall.
Very interesting dialogue. The fact that she’s saying that sitting on the same dryer where Joyce was sitting just a moment before make this even more interesting.
So ignoring that this comic started in 2010 and they haven’t finished a school year, eh Willis? And no, at least nothing in Wikipedia about a murder attempt while he was in the House of Representatives.
I believe it’s a sliding timescale, where the comic is simply taking place “now” and you’re not supposed to think too hard about it. It’s not meant to be 10+ years in the past.
Just curious, was that always included. Even if it wasn’t, my fault for never having reading that (I missed it, as a very smart person I have known would say, “a reason, not an excuse”). I had it in my mind that earlier in the comic you had reminded us that time had not moved far.
But again, clearly mea culpa. Apologies for not checking out those rules before.
Again, sorry. I did make a point about reading every rule, though I followed would follow all of them and/or knew most of the rest, such as the Joyceyou part, though that fleshed out some autobiography more.
So when we saw the Yale letter about “next semester” I thought it meant spring semester and she had declined the offer. Most commenters seemed to think it meant fall semester of sophomore year. What do people think now?
I suspect you’re right, though I don’t know how many elite colleges actually have Spring freshman transfers. I did not check, but I doubt Yale does.
Curiosity: seems like no: https://admissions.yale.edu/transfer-details
Plus she could have deferred a semester for “exceptional circumstances” according to the FAQ. The whole Toedad thing would count as that, I assume.
Reality doesn’t always match up with a comic book universe, I guess. Even if the art does.
Yeah, I thought the letter mean that it was for sophomore year because the other way… doesn’t make sense. But now it seems more likely that is the case, that it was for this current semester.
Actually, this storyline was so weird, completely invalidating Joyce’s earlier outbursts about sex stuff; Dorothy’s judgement somehow so bad she’s pressuring Joyce to commit crimes, giving up on Yale for no real given except an apparent need to control her friends…I’ve felt less and less connected to this comic starting a few years back with the bad dad arc, but I think I’m just out now.
I honestly was considering stopping with the comic over this arc. Truly hated it. But I’ve decided to stick with it tor now. If you’re out now, I wish you well.
I’m staying around, but the handling of this storyline as it continues is definitely what might have me leave. I just want to see if it rights itself before then.
If Dorothy gave up her dreams to go to her favourite top university so she could keep tabs on her friends in Bumblefuck, Indiana; then she truly is the dumbest in this Dumbing comic
So this is totally random and idk how many ppl will even see since it’s late but, i have a migraine en which reminded me that we were talking about migraine solutions a while back, i forgot one neat trick.
If you have RGBs or some other color changing light, set them to green. Green light therapy has been found to help with migraines. It’s not the exact same as the lights they used in the studies but i find it helpful.
Also weirdly, pinching my ear where you’d get a daith piercing, on the side that hurts. The piercing is supposed to help with migraines (anecdotally) and it’s probably placebo but hey, that’s good enough for me
As a migraine sufferer, I did not know about the green light trick, thank you!
Tbh I’ve always been afraid to get a Daith piercing because sometimes ear pressure *causes* migraines for me. I think mine are due to vascular issues though (pots due to EDS so my veins are bad at getting blood to my brain) and I know triggers can differ for different people. I also find spasms/tension headaches sometimes turn into migraines which is super annoying as someone prone to those.
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“the Abraham Lincoln” because… you broke up Joyce’s civil war with her urges? 🤔 Emancipated her from the slavery of her lonely?
Emancipated from one of her remaining Chains of Faith?
four scores and seven fingers ago…
87 fingers, because AI art.
I remember a country music song, female vocal, maybe the ’90s, about an assignation on a blanket on a balmy evening. She lauded him with a few phrases.
“He was a man with a hundred hands.”
The bar has been raised for AI pron.
The Emancipation Masturbation.
Brilliant.
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Does this mean that from now on, Dorothy is Joyce’s ‘cum’-panion?
The Great Emansturbator
Someone is certainly getting their “cumuppance”!
worrisome implications for Ford’s Theater
Did someone say “Ford’s Theater”??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJOvQYu6K7k
She felled Joyce’s cherry tree.
Mary.that was George Washington, I thought?
Why was the word Mary in there? Ignore it please.
Or is it because she bangs?
Dorothy needs to get laid BAD.
I think she’d rather get laid GOOD.
I think she’d prefer to get laid WELL.
Dorothy probably would correct it to “well” too. If only because she can’t help herself.
Correcting it to “well” would be the push that finally got her to cum.
That’s why she dated Walky. Whenever he’d make a grammatical error during sex she would cum hard as fuck, correcting him.
I mean… is it coming hard as “fuck” if in fact fucking is what is happening? Can you do a meaningful simile to the thing itself? “That car is like a car.” Would such a contemplation result in her being multi-orgasmic, or would it distract her into losing her focus and the moment evaporating?
Only if the “as fuck” in the phrase “cumming hard as fuck” is meant to refer to the act of fucking, which I doubt. Like if I said “he’s dumb as fuck” that doesn’t mean he is as stupid as the act of fucking. That would imply sex is inherently dumb. Which I don’t think is the intention. So in this context Fuck does not mean the act of fucking. Which raises the question, what does fuck mean in this context? If it can be used to justify most adjectives (ie. Ugly, hard, short tall,skinny, fat) maybe “fuck” stands for “an extreme” as in “He is dumb to the most extreme sense he could be perceived as dumb. Or in this case “she is cumming to the most extreme extent one is capable of cumming.”
As you say Sheldon… (American media reference)
Ah yes, the crystalized form of funny teenagers saying whalecum instead of welcome, right here in this comment i’m replying to!
Puts a new spin on this Disney favorite:
https://youtu.be/r4KTqce-9Z0
I think she’s unaware that she’d prefer to get laid well by JOYCE. xD
um i think you mean “Dorothy needs to get laid goodlyable”
Look sometimes you can’t be picky about these things.
Sure you can. as they say, there’s plenty of dryers in the laundry room.
I’d settle for her getting a decent vibrator and not making things awkward for anyone trying to do their laundry.
surprised ‘cum’ isn’t the title of the strip
Probably because that would get less clicks from Google. Search engines don’t like certain words; cum is definitely on that list.
that, tho i wonder if advertisers care about context, because ‘magna cum laude’ is a term after all lol
There was, in the ancient epoch of before internet, a minitel “dating site” (google what minitel was, I can’t explain without loads and loads of text and mentioning I had to use an emulator of it for college inscription) named 3615cum. It was indeed pronounced latinwise, coom. And not frenchwise, bc you know, not only it means what it means in english, but the first phonem is the word we have for ass. Coincidence?
Ah, Minitel, the most wrong-headed idea since the Tangut script and competition in science.
It’s taken longer than 48 real world hours for Dorothy to get off. Pour some out for the girl cause that is tough.
It’s always “Coming”. It’s never “Arrived”.
That’s la petit mort.
Don’t feel bad for her, she’s just in an “Orgy for One” (NSP – 2018) with her “Imaginary Lover “(Atlanta Rhythm Section – 1978).
I’m not sure if this says great things about Walky’s dick or bad things about the dryer.
Someone misses her ex and is regretting breaking up right now. If only for that caramel body of his.
Dorothy wouldn’t suddenly try to take Walky back, right?
She’d never admit that she wants to but she might take advantage of a moment of weakness. Luckily Walky and Lucy’s relationship is going great and Walky isn’t having complicated feelings about Lucy’s strong romantic feelings towards him, tied to his poor self worth issues exacerbated by his relationships with Dorothy and Amber.
Dorothy isn’t garbage enough to try to get with Walky while he’s with Lucy.
Now Amber IS garbage enough and I’m all for it, only because I just rather have them together despite their variety of emotional issues.
Of course, if I’m wrong and she is garbage enough, I would also welcome a 3some with Walky being with both Dorothy and Amber, a pile of garbage if you would.
I don’t support cheating…but if Amber just jumped Walky’s bones in literally the next page I would root for them.
Also I would root for that threesome. Hell if Lucy’s game I would root for that foursome. But God, that just feels like a lotta people.
Foursomes are nice in theory but in practice I’d prefer the standard threesome.
When you hit a foursome, as I understand it, you enter the polyamory territory where you have to make charts and shit, and it’s either the most stable iteration or the least, depending on anecdotes.
I’ve done threesomes, and for the FMF kind the M has to be considerate of both women to make sure everybody is happy. There may have been “performance issues” involved, to the disappointment of one of the women. There may have also been “high expectations” that contributed to the performance issues.. There may also have been some “strict definitions” that may have also led to some disappointment.
Foursomes are easier because you can always just be two pairs.
Threesomes have the difficulty of a pair leaving someone out.
While it isn’t quite the same, a fmf threesome can include all 3. Going down on one of the ladies while the other rides on you is a solution. Even better if the ladies are attracted to each other as they can occupy both ends in theory.
I think even Walky has more self respect then that.
So you’re saying Dorothy needs to convince Amber to steal Walky back from Lucy, so she can steal him back from Amber?
There are worse plans even if success is unlikely. Still…She got accepted into Yale after being rejected. Just saying.
Dorothy has in fact turned down multiple opportunities to get back with Walky, and has tried to bolster his relationship with Lucy to make sure that she can’t get back with him in good conscience.
Check your bingo cards, people.
Wait. We were issued Bingo cards? Nobody tells me anything.
Like for example, why is Dorothy justifying Indiana when Yale accepted her for next year. I want to see if Dorothy having turned it down is suspiciously printed on anyone’s Bingo card.
I’m so glad someone finally clarified. I was confused as to whether she’d been accepted to Yale for next year, or if she’d been accepted for *this semester* and had decided to stay because she’d found a place here. The latter doesn’t make sense for her character, but I’ve never transferred so I don’t know how far in advance those letters are sent out or if she might have kept it or something.
It wasn’t clear when we were shown the acceptance letter. It’s looking more and more like if was for this semester and she turned it down, probably feeling obligated after all the trauma last year.
The thing is, they don’t send out acceptance letters this early, because they are still taking applications. They also only accept new transfers for the fall semester. So either she was accepted but didn’t go last semester, or we have to take guesses at which of those two things Willis didn’t know.
Dorothy you’re a weirdo.
Was that sarcasm?
Was that?
No 😅
Tooting her own horn is pretty much what she taught Joyce to do
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Is Dorothy for real the first character to say “cum”? Even including the slip shines? I’ll have to go check the Slip shines. You know. To be thorough
Dorothy is the Keanu Reeves of Dumbing of Age.
Dumbing of Age Book 12: I’m Like the Abraham Lincoln of Getting Joyce to Cum
God, and what a book title it would be
We’re actually on Book 13 now, but that would still be hilarious.
I’m pretty sure the patreon preview title was “this will not be the next book title”
Did she turn Yale DOWN for this nonsense??
Unclear, she could still decide to go to Yale at the start of the next fall semester.
Why is my avatar actually a picture of me now? I don’t know how I did it and I don’t know how to remove it D: help
Oh the site is powered by WordPress, that’s what I get for uploading a profile picture to WordPress. Off to remove…
I’m sure that was a shock to suddenly see your own picture. Glad you know how to fix it.
Is that the reason or is this merely the beginning of the machine uprising subtly flexing its power before commencing the all out assault?
Pretty sure that’s ChatGPT.
It was actually Dall-E. bejouled must have had a long, wordy email with lots of information for the neural net to work with.
You can also go to gravatar and change your picture there!
Yes. I’d like to use something cartoonish here and something realistic on WordPress. Settled for a realistic cartoon.
This happened to me. I logged into wordpress with my google account and it started using my google avatar. I had to go into my profile settings on the website and remove my avatar to get it to turn back into a random gravitar
I’m not sure if today is her justifying the decision not to, or if she’s still undecided and putting her thumb on the scale for IU.
I think she’s -attempting- to put her thumb on the scale, but has accidentally put the rest of her fingers on the other side of the scale
I suspect that she hasn’t decided yet, and is letting that acceptance letter smolder at the bottom of a pile of papers while she avoids the decision.
Dumbing of Age Book 13: There’s LOTS of Important Things in Indiana
this is the title that gets you sued for false advertising, though
There are four world-class automobile race tracks, so no. IMS, IRP,
Ft. Wayne and Terre Haute Action Track, 3 paved, one dirt, 3 outdoors and one indoors. Lots of important things.
Sorry to say this Dorothy but all you did was point her in the direction of an organization, Joyce still got there on her own
Not to mention the big contradiction in saying she did what nobody else could…while rushing Joyce into it before she went to Joe.
I just realized that Dorothy doesn’t *actually* want to be president. She just wants to fix things.
I mean, at least be honest about why you did it.
There’s no reason you couldn’t have gone to Yale and then returned to run for politics in Indiana. Likely would have been your route either way.
But choosing to stay here is more than what she’s saying.
She wants to stay with her friends.
is she choosing though*, or is she just feeling an even bigger obligation to stay with her friends?
*I mean yes, she literally is, but is it her preference?
This whole last scene is way funnier if you imagine that all the dialogue that takes place on a washer is in that vibrating noise of people being shaken.
Would…
Would Dorothy try to have sex with Joe just to make sure Joyce doesn’t? No, right?
…Right? Like she wouldn’t answer her itch and try to destroy Joe and Joyce’s closeness and write it off as multiple birds with one stone?
One of these days, one of these days I swear 3 characters in this story is going to stumble in to unintentional 3 way and we won’t see it coming because we won’t know when it happens or with who.
There’s a like…probably 10 3-person polyships I ship the hell out of off the top of my head.
No she wouldn’t.
But that does sound kinda hot.I still think that part of her rabid Joe hate is related to either her banging Joe, or Joe banging one of her friends, and that torpedoing a close friendship with Dotty.
There is no reason for her to be *this* pissed at him just because he’s a semi-ethical slut.
I kind of wonder if it’s more her being protective of Joyce than anything else. Joe was fine when he was banging people who weren’t under her aegis, not quite a “missing step” but still a problem for other people to deal with, but now it’s closer.
I do think if he DID hook up with a friend of hers in the past, though, that’d kind of make sense. I do not think Dorothy and Joe hooked up because it isn’t like either of them to do that behind Danny’s back.
Yeah, I…I don’t buy this theory. I think if any variant happened, Joe banged a friend and Dorothy lost her as a friend is more accurate, but really, like…Joe in S1 was really not a good dude. The ‘Do’ List and its RSS feed were gross, “upgrading” Joyce was an awful notion, etc.
And I wanna note, we as the audience know that even at his lowest, in his S1 down-low horndog shithead incarnation, that he had hidden depths. That he became Joyce’s friend before he ever fell in love. That he wouldn’t cross the consent boundary lines, ever.
But she doesn’t know that shit, and how would Dorothy find out? If I knew a guy who was a gym bro and I knew him to be expressing a lot of creepy sentiments, I would assume next I saw him that he was still a creepy dude and I might go further and assume he’s got some ugly political leanings, too! And in the background he could’ve turned his whole life around and I wouldn’t know!
I also think DailyBrad clinched it with the “not Joyce” limitation: she can’t stop him from hurting people who she barely knows, but not Joyce, by God. “Nothing bad will happen to Joyce while Dorothy watches ever again” is likely kind of a mantra at this point for her.
I do not think so, no. I do take her at her word that she’s straight, albeit maybe not *as* straight as previously thought. Like, she wants Walky to rail her right now.
Maybe that’s the ship to bring Joyce and Danny together
…Y’know before the Abraham Lincolning of Joyce I would’ve said there’s no chance in Hell, and I still don’t think it’s likely, but I can’t discount it. Dorothy might see it as throwing herself on a grenade, and sell it to Joe by appealing (unknowingly) to his incredibly low sense of self-worth atm.
I hope it doesn’t happen because Jesus Christ how horrifying, but. I can’t say there’s no chance.
This was literally my thought as well.
I don’t think so. She really doesn’t like Joe.
No, I had Carla.
So, if I’m understanding this Dorothy essentially broke up with Walky to prioritize getting her admission into Yale, which worked.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/letter/
Only to decide not to go? Thus making the breakup pointless. Not only that but she served her ex on a silver platter to a girl he doesn’t love and now she regrets all of it. Plus she totally missed her chance to get off with her bestie without it being awkward. What a dummy. At least Walky and Lucy are doomed to fail cause she subconsciously sabotaged that, so in a month or two her issues will sort itself out.
I assumed she still has to finish this semester before heading off to Yale.
Yeah, probably so.
That was my assumption previously, but this here reads like regret about having decided against going…
It does. Which is strange.
I suspect we will find that Dorothy had decided that her mind was (mostly) made up to stay in Indiana, but she never officially turned Yale down, and the window to accept is still open for a while longer.
So it could be that what we’re watching is her reconsidering that choice, along with other choices too.
I suspect we’re going to eventually find out that she rejected it in the aftermath of last semester’s trauma, thinking that everyone here would fall apart without her and is now having a lot of trouble coping with that decision. Particularly since she doesn’t seem as needed as she thought she would be. And she’s overcompensating by pushing even harder to help and it’s backfiring.
Oooh, that’s also a good one!
That means we will never see her at Yale, at least not without another time skip. It took us until 2020 just to get to the end of the first semester with a time skip.
Dorothy Is Bad At Sex: A Dumbing of Age Retrospective
Correction: Dorothy Is Bad at Relationships: A Dumbing of Age Retrospective & Pornographique
Technically, we do *not* know if Dotty is good or bad at sex. The people who have relation’ed with her have not really discussed her prowess in comparison with others.
A Schrödinger’s Coochie, if you will.
Good for Walky at being better than a dryer, especially since Dorothy was his first.
I figure that means Dorothy’s a good teacher, Walky has some natural ability, and/or he pays attention to his partner.
Either way, he is noticeably better at providing orgasms to one particular woman than an appliance that wasn’t built for that purpose.
Huzzah.
I hope one day I’m considered better than a Dryer.
I don’t think you have anything to worry about, Yoto. Do to biology, basic anatomy, the difference between the sexes (vive la différence!), and certain other (*ahem*) natural features, the real thing is ALWAYS better than an ersatz stand-in.
Wth Bill, are you reading the comic? Like half of the characters are queer and you’re out here extolling straight sex? Because it’s…”natural”?? Because “anatomy” somehow makes t it automatically the best sex there is to be had???
This is such a silly take, I’m baffled. Consider educating yourself before having an opinion about something.
I know this is harsh, but that is truly some high-grade heteronormative trash you’ve pressed “Post” under.
… I am pretty sure bill is mostly obliquely saying “figure out where the clit is and you’ll do, at least, better than a dryer when clitorii (clitorises?) are applicable”
Not–
Not whatever that was?
.
I didn’t comment on Bill’s intent. I commented on what they actually wrote.
Clitorides.
No, I’m serious. You’re welcome.
O.O
I never would have guessed. Thank you.
Clitorides and octopodes, united in pedantry!
(… The descriptivist reality is that “clitorises” is way more common, and both are correct)
joke> The plural of clitoris is nothing you will ever see. </joke Not trying to be mean, but that setup was like a big old hanging slowpitch softball, just waiting for a base hit.
@Felgraf: More a leap to get there than where milu got, honestly.
I don’t think any of these characters are necessarily ‘queer’ – they are testing and exploring their sexual proclivities in all manners … straight, gay, solo, with or without mechanical aids (vibes or appliances) – we haven’t seen group sex yet, but it’s only a matter of time.
And don’t give me any of that “well, so-and-so was queer in Shortpacked or Roomies”… When I first came across this strip ten years or so ago, it seems to me that Willis stated that while the DoA cast had the same names and looks as characters from his previous works, this was a stand-alone comic and none of what had gone on before carried over.
And as for posting from a heteronormative viewpoint … sorry, but that’s the only viewpoint I’ve got personal experience with. Blame it on the fact that I am abso-posi-lutely straight; blame it on my Roman Catholic upbringing; hell, blame it on the fact that I’m on the far side of 65 and you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Ok boomer.
Willis did say that sexuality and gender ID carried over for the most part, though he didn’t leave out the possibility of them discovering they were LGBT+, like Danny did. Walkyverse Danny is bi too, we just didn’t get to see him discover it unlike Dumbiverse Danny. So yeah, actually, I will tell you when someone was queer in Walkyverse, because that still stands.
Fucking hell. What a shitty fucking take. Maybe you don’t understand how the term “queer” is often used? Your posts would still be a mess, but that’s the most charitable interpretation I can come up with.
Wow. This is seriously upsetting to see, and your excuses don’t help things.
Maybe I am out of touch. So far as I know, “queer” = “homosexual”, although I guess it might still carry a little baggage as being disparaging (although this statement from cnn.com – Once considered a demeaning slur for being gay, “queer” is being reclaimed by some as a self-affirming umbrella term – makes me think it’s losing that stigma). If it means something else nowadays – I never got the memo.
Yeah, but can he dry loads of clothes varying from delicate to heavy in less than 45 minutes? I don’t think so.
Now, Now, we haven’t even given him a chance.
Now wait. I’m confused. Are we talking about Walky or Yotomoe?
Has to be Yotomoe, we already know that Walky doesn’t do laundry
Dorothy, somehow I don’t think you’re gonna have the same appeal to Indiana voters as Mike Pence did. Which is far from a condemnation, given how fucking awful Mike Pence is both as a person and as a politician and given how utterly low the bar would have to be set for Pence to clear it, but I really think you’re not being honest with yourself here.
As I understand it, Mike Pence had a very strong appeal to Indiana voters when he ran for Vice President. Specifically, because it meant requiring him to step down as Governor of Indiana.
Pete Buttigieg is also from Indiana, so it depends.
Indiana is a very red state, but with pockets of blue in the large cities. The state legislature has a Republican supermajority right now, with the few Dems mainly coming from Indianapolis. Most of the city mayors are Democrats. IN has mostly sent R’s to US Senate except we had Donnelly for a term, who won because he went up against that guy that was caught saying r*pe was a “gift from God” and crap.
Pence was governor but his chances for reelection were hurt because of his shenanigans in office which included forcing RFRA through which pissed off a lot of business in the state. Running for VP looked like it was going to save his tail politically. The governor we got after him is still an R but not as much of an overt loon at times.
What I’ve seen of Indiana politics is that the overall trend seems to be conservative, but with some limits to the lunacy (although post Trump that’s seeming to be less and less the case). The Democratic political machine is weak to nonexistent unless you’re from Indy or South Bend.
Dorothy probably could make it as a mayor and maybe state rep if she ran from a big city. Governor would be harder and she’d probably have to come off as more of a moderate.
Sal says “cumstain” in a strip, does that count?
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/stain-2/
I’d count Dorothy first just since she’s being more literal, rather than figurative, sort of like how censors are much harsher on “Let’s fuck” than “fuck you”.
Still, good catch.
Man I forgot about Malaya and what a wonderful it was
You accidentally a word
Dumbing of Age Book 13: Walky Would Be Better At This Than This Dryer
Overconfident and unsure about your life this a recipe for good things!
Lemme suss out what Patreon is saying — “I’m like the Abraham Lincoln of getting Joyce to cum” is not going to be book 13’s title, is it?
Sure, but do you think owning Connecticut is much grander than owning Indiana? You wanna be the next big name outta there that isn’t named Joe Lieberman??
Or do you wanna be the one that removes the space in La Porte?
*plays
New HavenHeaven (Must Be There) by Eurogliders in the dryers*I mean, I DO suspect Dorothy would rather own a purple state?
Pink tank top, blue shorts… yeah she’d much rather own a more purple state.
Might as well jump ship to Penn or Dartmouth
Okay, if this keeps going SOMEONE has to find out about it. I just need any other character’s reaction.
“Yo why do these dryers always smell funny?”
Roz comes in and smells the dryers like a Nazghul looking for hobbits.
Please for the love of god don’t tell me Dorothy is giving up on Yale. That would just be awful.
Not necessarily. She always saw Yale as a stepping stone in her career path, but there are other avenues to the White House. Frankly Yale is more a credential unless Dorothy has some specific educational desire only Yale can offer. Although her being a woman probably means not having the Ivy League credit check marked would be used against her even if she was a college grad.
That may well be, but frankly, I think it’d be awful anyway. Giving up her current ambition (even if it’s not her Life Goal) for a relationship is not better just because it’s her friend group and not a romance.
I agree with that, it just doesn’t feel like that’s what she’s doing yet. It’s weird that’s she’s even talking like this when she’s been accepted into Yale. I don’t think she’s giving up on her dream. but maybe deciding whether Yale is how she wants to achieve it.
I’m not going to be happy if she gives up on Yale either, is what I’m saying. We’re never gonna see her become (or fail to become) President, but we can see her give up on that part of her ambition. And from a narrative perspective, it’s still the same ‘give up ambition for relationship’ trope that Dorothy herself hated early on. So I’m not gonna be happy if that’s what happens.
I’ve long said that even in terms of check marks and networking, it would be getting into Yale Law for graduate work school that would matter, not going to Yale as an undergrad.
Yeah. I think she’s teasing out her feelings on the matter but will ultimately go. Yale has been her defining goal since before the start of the comic, and I’ll be legit mad if she gives up on it.
But it’d be mad content tho
Okay, Joyce on the dryer, she doesn’t own her own vibrator, it’s still weird but I guess I get it. But really? Dorothy’s riding the dryer too when she more than likely owns a tool of some kind? Alright… and the same dryer as Joyce too. Gross. Even if she wiped it down, just… pick somewhere else…
I mean, she’s sitting on a dryer, but she doesn’t really seem like she’s getting anywhere or even really trying to.
“Walky was better at this” Kind of implies something about at least attempting, even halfheartedly.
Dorothy, stop, no. No. Dorothy. You don’t know what you’re doing here.
A whole bunch of people are gonna read this as your Breaking Monologue or your Then Let Me Be Evil Speech or some other TVTropes fucking thing in the next couple days, and you have GOT to say cooler shit than this…!
Did she actually decide not to go to Yale? Or is that next year?
So absolutely confirmed she rejected Yale and isn’t just waiting out until next semester to go. This weird storyline did have a point! Sort of.
Then again it kind of kills the idea she’s rushing to fix things before she leaves and thus is being weird about it as she tries to speed run this shit.
Instead she is desperately trying to make sure it wasn’t a mistake by fixing problems she perceives I guess?
I’m not sure; I read it that she’s convincing herself she wants to stay in preparation of turning down Yale’s offer. Although, the “my choice” line from yesterday’s comic could imply that she has, in fact, turned it down already.
For me the way she words not being in Yale this instant implies that this would have been her first semester at Yale if she accepted. Could be wrong but thus seems like s blowup waiting to happen with her friends.
Oh, Dorothy. They’ll be okay if you go to Yale next year.
I call bull-hockey on panel 5, Dorothy. You’re more than happy to toot your own horn, I fear.
Honestly, I find myself more and more finding that preferable to people who never give themselves credit for everything. Her and Amber should share their neurosis and split it, maybe that’ll even out.
Absolutely; a healthy dose of self-assuredness is a good thing and it should be encouraged and celebrated /gen
Bull hockey? Is the bull one of the players? Or is it the puck?
George “Bull” Hockey, the famous goalie from Auburn.
I think this Qualifies their friendship as “Friends with benefits”, im sure Joyce will be very happy lol.
Dorothy, if you hadn’t needlessly worked overtime emotionally manipulating to get walky to open up and attach himself to you to feed your ego, when you knew all along it was a just for fun…
Then he’d still be around to watch cartoons & bang once in a while.
??? She fell in love?
…I’m not sure whether to respond to this bullshit with:
A.) a long and rambling bit where I take the strawman position that Dorothy did what she did to infect Walky with the woke mind virus, thus making him a slave to beta cuckery in time to ruin Amber’s true tradwife potential and ensuring he’ll be entrapped as a coomer (I don’t believe any of this, anyone who subscribes to an iota of this is a fucking embarrassment and also a tumor)
OR B.) I just deadpan about how Walky was cutting into her time needed to practice for eating that live baby we saw her eat at Becky’s party. We were all there. We all saw it. Dorothy unhinged her jaw and pythoned a human child. Willis wrote “Dorothy has eaten 17 human children to date” as the alt-text.
Here. Reply to this comment with what bit I should commit to. It’s like a live poll.
B for Babies eaten
A for alpha b o n g o
C for *Chef’s kiss*
Honestly, that was hilarious as a multiple choice. I needed that giggle, thank you. If you want to expand option B, I’ll happily read that too.
*plays “Think” from Jeopardy on hacked muzak*
Yeah, I’m not a Dotty fan and that’s a bit much. At worst, she just has a superiority kink.
I have a pretty harsh read on Dorothy and even I don’t think she manipulated Walky. I think the worst you could say about it is she was kind of patronizing and overthought things.
Oh, Dotty. You’ve really made “become the president of the country” your identity, haven’t you?
I really feel bad for her, she seems to have so little sense of self worth outside working towards her ultimate goal. 🥺
Wonder if Willis really is heading towards making her Joker, what with this “sympathy for the villian” kinda stuff.
*cries over best sunket ship*
It’s not sunken yet! It’s… It’s pining for the fjords
Pining for the Fjords? What kind of talk is that?
Book 12 Title: “I’m like the Abraham Lincoln of getting Joyce to cum”
I mean… it has to be.
Just get yourself an other Walky, Dorothy
I’m sure you can even find a caramel-coloured one, Dorothy
Also this is the least gay thing anyone has ever said about getting their hot same-sex friend to cum and making her thank them for it, coupled with the least gay expression anyone has ever made about same. I cannot read a single bi vibe off Dorothy. I’m sorry, everyone. That Keener girl is STRAIGHT.
While I’m not against the Joyce/Dorothy ship in any way, I agree that this all read more like Dorothy projecting her own frustrations onto the already frustrated Joyce. She couldn’t help herself over her own hangups, so helping Joyce over one of hers was the next best thing.
Here’s a thought: Has Dorothy ever really addressed why she actually wants to become President? Does she want it because she earnestly believes that it’s the position where she can do the most good? Or is she just trying to prove that she can do it? And even if it is the former, how far does she think those good intentions will get her? How much is she willing to compromise her values to achieve her dream? How much will she sacrifice? I honestly think she hasn’t really thought about these questions seriously, and she’s maybe due for that reckoning.
It’s reckonings all the way down.
Given how corrupt our politics is in the US, I feel like it’s pretty much impossible to become president without becoming corrupt. So maybe Dorothy should try for something else, if she genuinely wants to do good and help people.
This is a good point, it sort of feels like an “ambitious without an ambition” moment. She’s driven and smart and the presidency is prestigious. We’ve never heard her talk about any policies she’d want to implement or what her politics are in general.
Dorothy doesn’t strike me as the person who can play the game long enough to become president. Doesn’t feel like the person who can stand to see how the sausage gets made long enough to make the connections needed to even have the resources to make a presidential run let alone be the preferred choice of the voters of the party of her choice.
None of this is a negative necessarily if you figure it out early enough in your college career to do something else. And it’s all a crap shoot anyways. I did everything to become a criminal prosecutor in college and then ended up loving insurance and doing that.
I also wonder if Dorothy would ever do what Robin (sort of) did and admit her opponent could do the same things or better (against another progressive politician, of course. I’m not positighat she’d bow out to someone with opposite and dangerous politics)
So, you wonder if Dorothy would ever give up a political ambitions for a personal connection like Robin did for Becky, in a strip that strongly implies she turned down her dream of going to Yale to stay to support her friends here?
I think it’s more “Would Dotty ever think *someone else* was better then her at fixing a problem, and bow out to LET them fix it, instead of her?”
Yeah this. It’s also why I used “sort of” to describe Robin’s actions.
*positing that
Despite her words, I can’t shake the feeling that this is a dark time for Dorothy. I mean, who waits in the laundry room for their clothes to get done?
She has to guard both her clothes and Dorothy’s.
Who wouldn’t?
If it wasn’t for disappointment, I wouldn’t have any appointments!
You need to have a serious talk with the appointmentor.
Dorothy sounds like these things are just happening to her rather than her doing it to herself
She’s trying to, yeah.
I just don’t know how the best thing Dorothy could do: if she finally go to Yale, but losing all friends.
Or decide to stay and kinda lose her dreams.
Poor Dorothy. It’s hard to be a person that care too much. For some people, it’s a crushing decision.
And people should stop to tell her to get Walky back. Getting a man is not a solution for everything.
the thing is, those aren’t the only options. it’s: go to yale and no longer live with these friends, or stay and maybe lose her dreams (she could also re-apply to Yale (or another more prestigious school of her choice) in another year).
but even though I argued you I think the line she is drawing for herself is basically what you said: go to yale and selfishly get the things that make her fulfilled, while causing Joyce to probably somehow die of naivetie, or stay and lose all her dreams
I do also sorta think… University tends to be the point in time when most people lose the super unrealistic dreams, and start considering ones that are closer to home.
Not saying it’s super unrealistic to be the first female President of the United States… But I think a lot more people enter university planning to be president, than who actually leave wanting/expecting that.
Her grades already didn’t get her into Yale once.
Her grades did get her into Yale at least once though
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/letter/
(also I’ll say it’s unrealistic. Not as an eventual goal, but as one’s main goal in starting college yeah)
Huh. I think a lot depends on when that letter was dated, when she actually got it. It refers to ‘next se’ which I assume to mean ‘next semester’. If she got it far enough back in time… THIS could be the ‘next semester’ mentioned.
We don’t know why she was rejected the first time. She’s never said anything about her grades.
(there are also many other options I guess, but those are the more realistic relevant ones)
I suspect that decision was made in response to all the trauma of last semester. Not just “losing all friends”, but “they really need me after all that”. Which helps explain her pushy helping this semester.
As for Walky, getting a man isn’t the solution for everything, but it’s pretty decent solution for loving one and not having him. I don’t think people are suggesting as a random solution, but in response to her clearly still being interested in him. (Of course, now he’s involved with someone else, so it’s not a good solution at the moment.)
people (me included) were talking about why doesn’t Dorothy just get Joyce a toy, and now I’m starting to wonder if maybe Dorothy also doesn’t know (much) about sex toys, seeing as she’s continuing to try and use the dryer. even if the dryer sometimes/usually works, there are more, ahem, efficient things
I can see Dorothy being very much part of that ‘goodie two shoes’ demographic, where the more ‘illicit’ things in life have a sort of social barrier to them that she can’t comprehend gaining access to.
I’m very much in that demographic myself. I know that sex toys can be bought. I assume it’s probably very easy (there must be online stores for them now), but i can’t comprehend the steps or start the social procedure behind doing so.
I also imagine that she’s not fantastically driven to buy a sex toy in the past. Maybe that’ll change.
I meant to say but forgot to, I could also see her being like ‘the future president can’t be seen in a shop of ill repute’
I can see how that (what you said, not the president thing) would have an effect. I personally was interested in toys from pretty immediately (for partner play, mostly), and was in the store in my college town as soon as I moved there. And I might have in my home town if there wasn’t only one store, which I might’ve been recognized at because small town and newly outta school
I know you’re not asking, but it’s pretty much like any specialty store. Walk in, grab things, check out, or first ask questions to the staff if you need to (about like, if it’s well recommended. not about their toy use. just in case the wrong person reads this)
You can buy vibrators on Amazon. In the US, anyway, you can buy basic ones at many stores that have pharmacy departments, like Target, Walmart, Kroger. Many of these places also have self-checkout, though going the online route might still be more comfortable.
But yeah, I can see how it’d make sense that she hadn’t gotten one by her first year of college if she hadn’t really seen the need before.
DO NOT BUY SEX TOYS ON AMAZON.
There is no quality assurance, many of them are made with body-unsafe materials or materials that will not interact well with various lubricants and raise your chances of giving yourself a UTI.
Invest in body safe materials. Your cooter and/or pooter will thank you!
Oh, pish posh. People are such prudes and SJWs about this kind of thing. Just because I manufacture and distribute glass dildos made of unwashed used beer bottles, with luminous patterns on them made of radium, and at least 3 people have gotten poisoning from that, suddenly it’s “unsafe” and “inhumane”, and “made with child labor”? What, an autist can’t make a buck in this day and age? You’re being really ableist, Rabbit. Be better.
The real villain of this arc shows up in two strips when Joyce goes to buy one of Taffy’s Toys from the Radiation and Yeast Culture Pleasure Factory just off of Kirkwood.
LMAO, oh god I needed that laugh.
I mean. There’s not much quality assurance in general when you’re buying these. I got one that doesn’t turn on, and that was from a legit shop.
Or just do your research. Figure out what reputable brands are, read reviews and buy accordingly.
Sure, if you just go for the cheapest knock-off on Amazon you’re asking for trouble, but that’s true at the skeevy local sex shop as well.
Yeah, seems a bit of an overreaction.
Idk, I’ve been satisfied with the sex toys I’ve bought off Amazon. I’m not saying they’re all perfect, but I wouldn’t say that about what’s in a sex shop either.
Now, “Don’t buy sex toys off Amazon because it’s better to support your local sex shops” might be more fair, but that’s part of a larger conversation.
I mean, its your body. Porous materials are much harder to clean and It’s generally better to try to get them from the supplier.
I’m not gonna lecture you if you wanna buy em from there but I’ve said my piece.
Yeah, I’m with you on basic shit like porous materials. Just seems like a big generalization.
Yeah. I mean, fuck amazon, haven’t bought anything via amazon in years, but it isn’t ‘amazon sex toys are bad,’ it’s ‘amazon is a marketplace with a million different sellers and suppliers, so there are both good and terrible things listed and you need to know which is which.’ This drives me crazy when people talk about ‘amazon clothes,’ or ‘amazon electronics. Amazon didn’t make or even list them.
that said I’d recommend somewhere like Come As You Are for safe toys and fairly honest policies, and Pink Cherry for affordability (Pink Cherry sells just about everything from $5 jelly dildos to $2000 sex machines, so you do have to verify who makes the toys and that they are made of real silicon or otherwise bodysafe, though at least this info is in their listings), if you don’t have a local and reputable store, or they have limited stock
Or if you’re too nervous to go in person.
Thanks for sharing these recommendations!
Noooow the name makes sense…
Might I suggest:
https://www.goodvibes.com/
They mail orders out in discreet unlabeled packaging and also have a lovely order-by-mail catalogue. I have only very rarely been dissatisfied with their products.
And then there’s the review and sex ed blog:
https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/best-of-2022/
Do you really think she’s trying to use the dryer to get off here, rather than just sitting there and generally moping about her problems?
I didn’t until her final speech bubble.
Maybe Sarah’s grandmother can help her find what she’s looking for.
I had assumed Dorothy was given the opportunity to attend Yale next semester, but now it looks like she was invited this semester and turned it down.
Next poll should ask if Dorothy is really bad at decision-making or she’s good but she doesn’t know.
Hey! Hey Imogen! Hey! Listen! And everyone who believes we’re headed for a messy pile-up! I have
A NEW THEORY OF VALENTINE BAD TIMES
-So we’re here with Dorothy. We know that she executed this plan for dumb and almost certainly platonic reasons.
-But what if Joyce sees it instead as their first gay experience? That might be really comfortable for her; we know that homophobia was, ironically, one of her first hurdles overcome. And Billie, who she looks up to, said everyone does it at least once. It’s not that she’s gay, or bi, or a hussy; it’s just her and Dorothy experimenting.
-She has no idea Dorothy doesn’t see it this way. Dorothy has no idea Joyce does.
-Roundabout Valentine’s Day in real time, Joyce greets Dotty with a kiss. Dorothy is shocked, we get shades of Becky kissing Joyce but it’s Uno Reverse, and Joyce cheerfully explains that she’s interested in experimenting more with Dorothy, and don’t worry she’s gonna be totally quiet about this, and they’re just exploring each other’s bodies like Billie and Ruth but without the death pact or anything, oh this is so great
-Dorothy feels like absolute shit but she has to tell Joyce the truth—she isn’t into her—and it crushes Joyce. She just stutters “Okay” repeatedly and flees.
-Dorothy is left there feeling like the worst, then she realizes where Joyce might flee to, and sprints for Joe’s dorm.
-She gets there just in time to see Joe and Joyce kissing and it’s Joyce, in the end, who closes the door in her face.
-DISASTER IMPACT. Sobbing Dorothy. Heartbroken Joyce. “what do I fucking do?!?” Joe.
This … is marvelous!
oooh complete with character motivations and all! I love it!
For all the people talking about Yale’s relevance to Dorothy’s presidential aspirations: that’s meaningless. Dorothy’s never getting elected POTUS. Not because she’s a woman (though that certainly makes it harder), not because of anything she might do in college, not because of how competent or not she’d be at it, but because she has less charisma than cardboard, and elections are literal popularity contests.
The qualifications that would make one a good president and those that make a good presidential CANDIDATE are not the same.
True—but let’s be real, her lack of charisma is a far bigger hurdle to the presidency for her than it would have been if she was a man. Like, Nixon and Carter and H.W. weren’t all that charismatic.
Not to mention, this is a classic case of “women have to work twice as hard.” Sometimes you can rise to such a selective office by filling a niche that people are looking for (usually the Republican tactic, but it worked out for Joe Biden when they were just looking for “normal white man to appeal to the middle”), but if you’re trying to get it through “qualifications,” then there’s a minimum baseline of education people tend to have. Top 3 undergrad to top 3 law school. It was the same for Obama—as a black man, he never would have been considered qualified without his educational background.
Dorothy will never be president, yeah. But choosing NOT to go to Yale is effectively closing that door. Maybe that’s healthier than false hope, but…I dunno, overall I think Yale would be a better environment for her.
I can’t speak to Nixon or Carter, but plenty of people were saying that HW was a dude they could have a beer with, and that’s a form of charisma.
Honestly, I think going to Yale is (would?) just going to exacerbate Dorothy’s issues – she’s already shown signs of nearing a breakdown, I can’t imagine Yale would make things better.
Maybe, Maybe not. W went to Yale after all, didn’t he?
That said, it certainly seems like most of those in the top echelons went to either Yale, Harvard, or Princeton. Connections seem to count more than actual ability.
W was the beer dude, not HW. I’ve never met W. But I have met a surprising number of politicians.
HW didn’t have huge charisma (just your standard tall white dude in a suit), though boy Dick Cheney sure does. It’s really frightening how much you want to like him in person even when he’s saying horrific things. But Cheney was never made president. Dan Quayle also seems way smarter in person than he was given credit for. Peter Orzag also has insane charisma.
Bill Clinton also has tons of charisma. My sister met Obama before he was president and he’s got charisma too. But I don’t think it’s required for the job.
Trump, much as I despise him and don’t understand the appeal, has something. Whether you call it charisma or not, he’s really good at working a certain kind of crowd.
Some politicians have the kind that works on crowds and some are better in person. Hillary couldn’t really play to a crowd, but she was apparently really effective in person. Doesn’t help a lot with campaigning for the big offices, but does with doing the job.
Nixon had the mob, and Carter had Nixon. Hell, Kennedy had the mob too.
Really All Dotty needs to do is cultivate Asher at this point.
I think you might be applying too much reality to your fiction.
If presidential elections were popularity contests, don’t you think the person who gets the most votes would become President? Since that’s not the case in our world, it’s probably not the case in DoA world.
They’re not completely popularity contests (my forever stance is that the Electoral College is extreme bullshit), but they’re certainly closer to that than to qualification evaluations.
Interestingly I think that Elizabeth Warren would have beaten Trump in 2016 so luck also plays a big part in it
Walky said cum here, https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/02-look-straight-ahead/soundlike/
But it’s not standalone so maybe it doesn’t count
I’d forgotten this one! Thanks for reminding me what “pee juice” is, as Joyce’s use is a bit counterintuitive.
dorothy may have a therapist and all but I get the distinct feeling she hasn’t talked to anyone about the whole yale thing
maybe making “future X college student” a major part of your identity is a bad idea
it certainly didn’t go well for me
Does this mean Dotty isn’t going to Yale after all, or that she’s trying to talk herself out of it?
Hey Abe… if that’s how you see yourself, then you should have gotten her off at the Wells-Metz theater instead of the laundry room.
She’ll soon discover that the Reconstruction Era of cumming is going to be just as rocky the real one was.
Pick a Character that is the Donald Trump of getting Joyce to Cum.
Ryan.
So, an affirmative answer to the question “Is our Walky learning?”
That’s almost up there with Dotty’s use of “cum”.
Willis, I know it would be difficult to title this compilation book “I’m like the Abraham Lincoln of getting Joyce to cum”, but sometimes the right choice isn’t the easy one.
just put the “I’m like the Abraham Lincoln of getting Joyce to” Bit above a “welcome to whatever college this is!” sign.
To be fair, if I can remember the old universe, walky would be better at getting joyce to do that too.
Oh no Dorothy! Get in touch with admissions. Tell them you changed your mind back! Ask if anything can be done.
I’m pretty sure at this point the lesbian fanbase is going to be disappointed. Dorothy is too level headed and progressive to not acknowledge if she’s into Joyce like that or not, and the last two pages have shown that being into Joyce is *not* the thing she’s struggling with. It’s her goals, and how the life she’s living is *not* conducive to reaching those goals.
dorothy no 🙁
also please get yourself a vibrator and stop using the dryers for this
This Is Very Sad.
So, so very self-inflicted. And Sad.
Oh, go on ahead to Yale Dorothy. You’ll make new friends, and have a whole new bunch of other people’s problems you can solve and be an unappreciated hero
This.
Dorothy’s issues will follow her wherever she goes
Each new friend will be markedly similar visual-wise, maybe with more pronounced lips and a taste for monochrome photos.
Am I wrong in thinking this mention of Jan 6th is the first explicit reference to a big news story from the 2020s to make it into the sliding timescale?
This, I believe, comes as close as we’ve gotten to a COVID reference, since this kind of implies that our crew’s high school experience was interrupted. It might be unfair, but I think this can be used to further characterize what Dorothy is going through.
She has lived through the failures of leadership both national/global and extremely local, seen it up close and personal as it messed up her plans, and then reinforced for her the importance of having plans and getting them done, preferably before the next global nerf. Still, things were disruptive and Danny was extra needy during this time, and she ended up not getting into her top choice school.
Then COVID winds down and she gets to college in-person… and instead of things getting less chaotic, they only get more. Violence occurs regularly on the campus, and keeps ramping up, until the point that she gets fucking kidnapped and sees a man murdered in front of her. She has every reason to believe she could have died that night. Again. Also, her social life is a mess, a dream opportunity went to someone who doesn’t want it but needs it more than her, and she literally hasn’t seen a single fucking mask since stepping foot in this school… except for all the goddamn superhero eye masks she is for some reason surrounded by.
That’s a lot for a teen to deal with!
I wouldn’t lean to much on that. It obviously wasn’t intended when her character was first developed and in a couple years of real time it’ll be too far in the past to have affected her much.
Even now: January 6 was half way through her junior year. Pretty early in her relationship with Danny, if it was 2 years as I seem to recall.
It was 3, so more like halfway through? Even so.
Very interesting dialogue. The fact that she’s saying that sitting on the same dryer where Joyce was sitting just a moment before make this even more interesting.
Well of course you’re going to pick the machine that’s had the most recent field test…
I mean, those things cost money to run and it probably isn’t done from Joyce using it.
So ignoring that this comic started in 2010 and they haven’t finished a school year, eh Willis? And no, at least nothing in Wikipedia about a murder attempt while he was in the House of Representatives.
I believe it’s a sliding timescale, where the comic is simply taking place “now” and you’re not supposed to think too hard about it. It’s not meant to be 10+ years in the past.
Yeah, since that happened a few years ago now it happened a few years ago in comic now
Let’s not accused Willis of ignoring something just because we don’t understand how a sliding timescale works.
well apparently you ignored the “read this before posting” link in the menu at the top of the page
check out #6
Mea culpa, clearly.
Just curious, was that always included. Even if it wasn’t, my fault for never having reading that (I missed it, as a very smart person I have known would say, “a reason, not an excuse”). I had it in my mind that earlier in the comic you had reminded us that time had not moved far.
But again, clearly mea culpa. Apologies for not checking out those rules before.
It’s been there for 11 years! (though it started out as #4)
Again, sorry. I did make a point about reading every rule, though I followed would follow all of them and/or knew most of the rest, such as the Joyceyou part, though that fleshed out some autobiography more.
The comic from three days earlier had a joke about being deliberately vague specifically for the sliding timescale.
So when we saw the Yale letter about “next semester” I thought it meant spring semester and she had declined the offer. Most commenters seemed to think it meant fall semester of sophomore year. What do people think now?
I suspect you’re right, though I don’t know how many elite colleges actually have Spring freshman transfers. I did not check, but I doubt Yale does.
Curiosity: seems like no: https://admissions.yale.edu/transfer-details
Plus she could have deferred a semester for “exceptional circumstances” according to the FAQ. The whole Toedad thing would count as that, I assume.
Reality doesn’t always match up with a comic book universe, I guess. Even if the art does.
Yeah, I thought the letter mean that it was for sophomore year because the other way… doesn’t make sense. But now it seems more likely that is the case, that it was for this current semester.
Sitting here all alone
On a dryer
In a college that i happen to own
Wait no
Aw omg. Dorothy is funny and endearing.
Actually, this storyline was so weird, completely invalidating Joyce’s earlier outbursts about sex stuff; Dorothy’s judgement somehow so bad she’s pressuring Joyce to commit crimes, giving up on Yale for no real given except an apparent need to control her friends…I’ve felt less and less connected to this comic starting a few years back with the bad dad arc, but I think I’m just out now.
Damn you willis, and not in the meme funny way.
I honestly was considering stopping with the comic over this arc. Truly hated it. But I’ve decided to stick with it tor now. If you’re out now, I wish you well.
I’m staying around, but the handling of this storyline as it continues is definitely what might have me leave. I just want to see if it rights itself before then.
I dunno if you’ll see this but definitely hang on. I think there’s a plan here.
If Dorothy gave up her dreams to go to her favourite top university so she could keep tabs on her friends in Bumblefuck, Indiana; then she truly is the dumbest in this Dumbing comic
So this is totally random and idk how many ppl will even see since it’s late but, i have a migraine en which reminded me that we were talking about migraine solutions a while back, i forgot one neat trick.
If you have RGBs or some other color changing light, set them to green. Green light therapy has been found to help with migraines. It’s not the exact same as the lights they used in the studies but i find it helpful.
Also weirdly, pinching my ear where you’d get a daith piercing, on the side that hurts. The piercing is supposed to help with migraines (anecdotally) and it’s probably placebo but hey, that’s good enough for me
Hope this can help someone
Thanks!
As a migraine sufferer, I did not know about the green light trick, thank you!
Tbh I’ve always been afraid to get a Daith piercing because sometimes ear pressure *causes* migraines for me. I think mine are due to vascular issues though (pots due to EDS so my veins are bad at getting blood to my brain) and I know triggers can differ for different people. I also find spasms/tension headaches sometimes turn into migraines which is super annoying as someone prone to those.
It’s almost as if Dotty protected her own sexual frustrations upon Joyce.
proJected*
damnit. It’s 5AM
She may have to an extent, but Joyce has also been very… obvious about her own frustrations sometimes. She did still definitely need release.
Why is she on Joyce’s dryer now?
When was Dorothy almost murdered at home?
When she was kidnapped by toe dad and Blaine. Collage is what she is referring to as “home”.