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*plays “Pink” from FLCL on hacked muzak*
Close enough.
True. One annoying kid is pretty much like another.
first Sarah PFP appearance
possibly just a new PFP, I don’t have my notes handy for a couple of days.
Misinterpreted panel three at first as the background face being someone Roz had just had sex with, then processed it was Mary, then thought, “Oh god, Roz had sex with Mary?”
maybe it would help
you know full well that it would not
“Gay sex will not fix this situation. It actually might make it worse. But we should give it a try anyway”.
Please accept this totally imaginary upvote.
Fuck you. Fuck her. Fuck them. Fuck *someone*. Just shut up and take my money!
Maybe it would help who?
Everyone?
Seems worth a shot *shrug*
Nothing solves homophobia like a good ol’ fashioned lesbian hookup.
Usually.
Still, I’m reasonably confident that I’ve known homophobes that would have hooked up with a lesbian in an instant.
That would be the funniest possible outcome.
Is this what earthlings would call a “hate fuck”?
Wondering again about the time Mary was interrupted topless in her room in the middle of the day.
It’s what they say. If they’re flawless you can go braless.
That there’s a Slipshine I’m suddenly uncertain I want to see.
(eh who’m i kiddin’…)
If not yourself, it hardly seems worthwhile.
lol she does look scandalized but i feel like ppl would be used to seeing each other change (tho i guess there is a divider/might be too much of a pain to go to the bathroom/public showers to change). tho i suppose other than a ‘partner’ i wouldn’t necessarily want someone to see me put on a bra (not that i wear them mmuch nowadays) unless i was also asking for help lol
Roz isn’t changing. She’s in front of a blue screen. She’s camming.
My new headcanon: Roz hasn’t so much gotten used to Mary getting in the way of her work, as much as incorporated her whining into it. After all, there’s got to be a market for porn where a young woman’s voice is lambasting the sexy times going on.
whoah what
Is Roz doing Chaturbate/OnlyFans from her shared dorm room
Yup, she openly bragged about how well she is doing on it before.
Hold up, when did she brag about it? Did I miss something? I thought she just had the video with Joe that she was open about.
No, she actually runs a very classy and popular video essay channel where she discusses sexual themes in classic cinema through a postmodern feminist lens. She just happens to be recording on laundry day.
Mary is outraged because Roz is doing a series on the works of David Lean, and while obviously discussing the homoeroticism in Lawrence of Arabia, has failed to address its subversion gender roles, which Mary considers irresponsible.
Or, yeah, she’s doing Chaturbate/OnlyFans. Is it weird I like my idea better?
She can perfectly do both of those things. People are multi faceted.
Honestly, I could see that from Roz, but I have doubts about Mary’s role in my little scenario.
Like at the same time? Cos I’d be down for that
Roz has invented* the Topless Ted Talk.
*Okay, reinvented. I am sure it already existed.
In the interests of Science, https://twitter.com/Samantharhill/status/1649775770892419072
Some years ago, lo, in the Before Times (before the pandemic hit us), I saw a Vimeo series with a topless college student discussing both sides of various political issues. Sadly, I can’t find them anymore.
Yeah, the both sides thing is kind of out of date. It’s almost impossible to find someone who is willing to present both sides seriously without simultaneously presenting them as automatically equally valid in a way that’s become painfully cliched.
But topless college students, they’re still around.
Damn, millenials. Now even PORN needs a reaction track.
no more porn on the internet, just porn reaction videos on youtube. which I now realize many of which would also be porn.
“Toby Savage reacts to Heather Saint’s reaction to Ian Iron’s reaction to Roxy Swift’s reaction to Toby Savage’s reaction to Drake Hunter’s reaction to…”
I am now waiting in anticipation for the next slipshine of Roz soloing featuring Mary’s indignant voice over
but you a millennial too bru XD
why do folks say “millennial” when they really mean Gen-Z?
I mean, you’re probably right about there being a market for it, but including Mary in sexy videos without her consent sounds would be a kiiiiinda fucked up from an ethical standpoint. I’d like to think Roz has standards in that regard.
Surely if Mary knows Roz is filming, she knows her complaints will also be recorded. If she wants to avoid that she can easily just go hang out in the student union building for a bit.
Eh, if you know someone’s streaming and you photobomb (streambomb?) their stream, you should kinda expect that you’ll be part of their stream.
OTOH, it’s pretty uncool to be doing that stuff in their shared room. Or really anything that infringes too much on your roommate’s right to use the shared space.
OTGH, it’s Mary and there’s no reasonable way to negotiate workable boundaries.
If Mary doesn’t want to be in the Livestream, she can go fuck her gay boyfriend.
Mary in the background has probably increased her following. Also we know Mary can get very perverted so she might performatively whine while secretly being okay with it in the hypocritical sort of way.
No, Sarah, no! DOn’t just label every annoying frost “that annoying kid”. Take their picture, and have a “that annoying kid” addressbook entry with their -picture-.
Thirty pictures is a lot to go through. And to be honest, I’m surprised that Sarah has only 30 entries for “That Annoying Kid.”
They’re all the first years she’s talked to since the comic started, I guess.
Mary looks horrified by Roz’s
camgirlinguse of a laptopThere’s what looks like a greenscreen behind Roz, suggesting she _is_ camgirling.
Yes, that’s what Intangible said, they just put it in joke format.
More like *enraged.* “Righteous” fury and all that.
i would think she wouldn’t do it anymore/got reprimanded about it the first time unless ‘solo’ counts as a loophole or like only fans as opposed to something where it’d be considered on the school campus (b/c mary would rat her out in an instnat)
I’m juuuust now realizing Roz and Mary were roomies, it’s pretty comical that Mary manages to still be shocked and appalled after all this time.
Is Roz using a green screen, is this some elaborate RP she’s shooting?
well the dean said they didn’t want the school to be recognized from her videos
Beat me to it while I was pulling up the source, but here it is anyway: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/obfuscate/
And they were roommates?
okay that’s pretty amazing xD
How and why Roz? That’s my question. I guess they have a class together. Is that the answer?
For a moment I thought you were referring to what Roz was doing in the panel and I was “Is it somehow unclear?” Lol.
It’s unclear to me, at least. Some people are suggesting it’s something to do with camgirl work, but I’m not as big of a coomer as probably most of the others here, so it’s not really a thing on my radar.
Yeah it is that. Roz has commented that she has an onlyfans before.
Gotcha gotcha. Don’t get me wrong, me and the boys* get together on Wednesday nights to charge our J.O. crystals** like any other group, but I don’t partake of the pay-per-view.
*not exclusively boys, it’s just catchier
**play Fabula Ultima, a really fun tabletop game created by a complete bastard Italian
Nah I was just wondering why she has her number. Walky and Malaya are close enough associated to her I get why they’d be in Sarah’s phone, but Roz seems kinda random at face value. They don’t hang or even have a shared friend group.
I am headcanoning that the existence of Roz’s contact info in Sarah’s phone has to do with the Dana backstory. It seems more likely that Roz knew Dana and plausible that she would’ve supported Sarah’s actions.
Is roz second year or first year? I can’t remember myself.
If she is second year she would have encountered roz during their shared first year. Plus, both of them probably have programs that probably overlap… Sarah because of her legal studies, roz because she seems interested in politics (and they do share one class together I believe… The politics class taught by Roz’s sister)
Roz is a first year. I’m not sure how she would have known Dana, a girl who left this college before Roz ever graduated high school.
Are we pretending that the whole Rachael, Roz, Ruth thing never happened?
The what
For a week or two in November, there was a trendy “text tag” game where everyone texted random people they knew. Easy to see why Sarah saved every new contact as “that annoying kid”.
Dammit. That Roz panel definitely feels like I’m being pandered to.
Fan service goes beyond all mediums not just anime, and tv.
Yeah. Good job, Willis.
She must be getting ready for the party.
I am… Not pandered to myself.
Ok it’s not that I don’t find certain drawings erotic. But roz is “not my type”. And it’s not just because she is “experienced”. I find her personality annoying, and that leaves me thinking “do not want…”. (Even if it is just a comic)
Why does she even *have* those numbers?! I can’t think of anyone other than Ruth (maybe Jacob) who would WANT Sarah to have their number.
By Ruth, I mean she might be required to have the RA’s number, IDK. Also, I forgot Joyce. Joyce would definitely want Sarah to have her number. (cell phones didn’t exist when I was that age, so I can’t relate to the idea of just collecting numbers, especially from people you don’t like)
Maybe Sarah got everyone’s number post-kidnapping for safety reasons
Knowing Sarah, yeah, this is a good likelihood.
Maybe Ruthless did a group text threatening everyone if they didn’t show up to the floor meeting?
Can you do Bcc: on text messages?
sounds likely. I had a couple of unknown numbers that were nieces/nephews in a family group text.
Walky makes sense. Kidnapping trauma aside he’s associated to her like 3 different ways at this point. Malaya is Sal’s roommate and Sal is solidly within her friend group. Roz seems kinda odd to me, but sure I guess?
Maybe it’s on all her advertising.
Why wouldn’t everyone want Sarah to have their number? She’s going to responsible in an emergency, and up until now she’d have absolutely never bothered you otherwise.
I’m honestly surprised Sarah has Malaya’s number. Have they even had a conversation?
They share a half-bath
C’mon Becky, don’t give out other people’s numbers without consent
Lucy canonically wants to jump Sarah’s bones on sight, it’s literally fine. Don’t invent problems to complain about.
I didn’t realize I needed a Sarah/Lucy/Jacob polycule (unless I did and I forgot) but I definitely do.
Is it a polycule when there’s only 3? I’ve been calling that a triad, because it sounds more sinister.
I don’t know if there’s a hard-and-fast rule, it’s definitely a triad as well if they’re all banging each other (and I hope they are in this situation), but I love the science-geek feeling of the word polycule so I’ll use it at the least provocation.
Polycule is three or more, yep. Triad is generally when all three people are dating each other. If it’s a V then it’s usually considered a polycule but not a triad, though some people may still call it a triad out of personal preference
Yep, I just meant I don’t know if anyone really minds if you get it a little wrong. Many of the terms overlap.
But Lucy is the opposite of Joyce (ie Joyce is bisexual her). Unless Lucy meant that she’s pan or Omni, I’m not sure she’s into Sarah.
I can (and often do) want things not supported in-comic. I didn’t grow up reading fan-fiction for nothing!
When did Lucy indicate any sexual attraction towards Sarah? I thought Lucy’s feelings towards Sarah mostly amounted to, “Sarah is mean and I no longer care about being her friend.”
Wishful thinking doesn’t require receipts, don’t be such a cop.
I think “don’t be a cop” might be my new favorite shipping defense.
Imma gonna steal it.
It’s like no one’s ever heard of enemies-to-lovers.
In my heart, that’s where.
I don’t think Lucy would mind, honestly, she’s tried to be buds with Sarah for a while now, so it’s probably fine.
Dude, not everything has to be problematic. Giving an acquaintance another acquaintance’s phone number is a normal thing to do. And it’s implied Sarah was already given Lucy’s number, but doesn’t remember which one it is.
^
Malaya is probably very offended about being confused with “The Devil” and they call her.
MARY JUMPSCARE
Marcie looking sharp
we love to see her
When you start a text conversation with a person, call them by their name. That way you can search for their name later and know if it’s them. C’mon, I didn’t even grow up with this stuff, Sarah.
Okay but have you consider that she has not wanted to actively talk to people until very recently? Which is honestly very understandable in my honest opinion.
Of course. Sarah not connecting with people is the punchline. And it underscores the growing pains of her wanting to connect with people now after not wanting to do it for so long.
If DoA characters here engaged with life optimally, they wouldn’t be funny or relatable.
I like Sarah’s method better. If they’re not Lucy, they can just send her a selfie with “Yes.” as a caption.
If they’re not Lucy, they can just send her with a reply that says, “Yes, this is me.” — Fixed that for you.
* send her a reply …
It’s more fun if there’s visual evidence of smartassery.
You didn’t really fix it. You kinda broke it. Taffy’s original joke was better snark.
yee, the bonafide Taffy Recipe there, accept no substitute ^^
Wait. Was the “Yes as a caption” always there?
I’m going to plead 75 year old brain. It has nothing to do with it, but it’s a damn convenient excuse.
MARY THE WITNESS TO SIN
We’re all assuming that Mary is reacting to Roz. It’s possible this is a reaction to being called Lucy.
I can believe that if Mary’s number was in Sarah’s phone, she would also be “that annoying kid”, but why would it be?
Eh, Mary could witness sin in a sensory deprivation tank.
Mary is so a project 2025 supporter.
I see that Roz took the necessary lesson from her sex tape with Joe and started using a chroma key screen, so as to not feature the campus dorm in-frame.
And then forgot to turn off her phone before going On The Air. Strange.
Mary is mad because she can sense our world through the fourth wall and realises how long it’s been since she last appeared. Almost 2 years.
Maybe if she hadn’t insisted in being a sex pest, she’d get more screen time.
I wonder how often Robin gets messages to the effect of “I’ve seen your sister’s nipples, you scumbag”? Probably at least once, right?
What I’ve learned from this strip is that Mary and Sarah are both fakey as fuck.
I admit don’t quite know what is going on…
Sarah is looking for Lucy for some reason(I figure we will learn why in a later strip), but why is Sarah texting numbers seemingly at random? Does her phone contact list just have no names, just numbers? Is she texting people at random?
So, if you read yesterday’s strip, Sarah just has everyone listed under identical names and isn’t sure which one (if any) is Lucy.
Ok weird. I read the strip every day, but for some strange reason I didn’t read yesterday’s strip. Which is why I was confused.
Anyways thanks. That explains things.
As in my last email (yesterday’s comic):
Sarah is going to invite Lucy to the “keg” party.
Sarah has saved Lucy’s number under “that annoying kid”.
Sarah has also saved many other numbers under that name.
Sarah is texting them all in the hopes of eliciting a response.
And Sarah wants to invite Lucy a) to demonstrate she has friends and b) so Lucy can organise it coz it’s a party and they’re all socially awkward.
Like, this has the vibe of when you watch a movie with a boomer and they’re like “WHO’S THAT LADY?” and you’re like “Grandma, that’s the main character, what the hell have you been watching?”
It’s not an exact match, but the vibe is there.
Grandma’s been watching the two other women in the movie who have the same hair, same clothes, same voice, same build, same makeup, all behaving similarly, and trying to figure out if there’s more than one of them.
Sarah wants to invite Lucy to the party, and does have her number, but she has thirty numbers labeled that annoying kid. Check yesterday’s strip and maybe the day before.
Sometimes it is hard to appreciate how big an asshole Sarah is. This is an easy time to see how much of an asshole she is.
Yeah, how dare she invite somebody to a party.
I think Rocket Boy was referring to the fact that she has multiple people’s contacts listed as “that annoying kid” and can’t differentiate between them
If that’s “how much of an asshole she is” on full display, she’s not that big of one. It’s not like she’s doing anything to anybody, or anything that would affect them outside of this extremely specific and harmlessly mild circumstance.
A joke someone pulls on themself is the biggest an asshole move a person cane make. Next to reaching out to make amends with someone you’ve both been abrasive to each other. That’s even worse.
It’s the rudest thing you can do
Comic strip characters are required to do silly things that don’t make any sense “at reasonable intervals.” It’s in Article Six of the United Nations Convention on Humor.
While I don’t think that the United Nations has such a convention, I think they have been a partial sponsor of the International Society for Humor Studies. Instead of articles, they ask the hard questions.
How can courts deal with the complex intertextuality of internet memes, where the same template could take on different cultural or political meanings depending on the forum in which it circulates?
How is it possible to distinguish between outright disparaging humor and satirical criticism of hate speech, within digital environments dominated by “comic confusion” and “ironic ambiguity?”
Who is the “reasonable audience” of a given controversial joke, in a time of viral circulation and growing fragmentation between “irony-laden subcultures?”
Just kidding. Article Six is just a statement that there is no Article Six.
It makes perfect sense.
Shouldn’t the character tags be: “marcie, sarah, that annoying kid, that annoying kid, that annoying kid, that annoying kid”
omg that would be amazing
A missed opportunity by Willis.
That seems a fair point.
This is why I don’t get fancy and goof around with names in my phone, everyone is as their actual names.
Also, Becky and Lucy are coworkers and go to church together, but I wonder if they otherwise would want to hang out. They get on fine, but I guess Becky is more apt to spend time with Dina if she has the free time.
Where do you record the numbers of people whose names you don’t remember?
I only really disagree with one of those judgments.
Okay, here’s some more:
“That annoying kid who doesn’t talk”
“That annoying kid with the iguana”
“That annoying kid with the sex video”
(Mary’s number likely isn’t in her phone, or anyone else’s for that matter)
What an incredible image of Roz’s room !! She put up a screen to separate the space between her seemingly prudish roomate and her shenanigans, BUT said roomate isn’t actually prudish, she’s judgmental and will peek through the margins of the screen in order to complain that she can still see from this incredibly impractical angle ! It’s genious. Congrats Willis.
And someone else mentionned that it is actually a blue screen in order for her to do sexy videos without featuring the university dorms, whoops, my bad, ignore previous comment lol
I thought the same thing, until reminded of Roz’ run-in with the administration regarding her video activities.
I think one of the most amusing things about this is that if Sarah had ever bothered to learn peoples names she’d probably have to do a hell of a lot less social interaction, at least in this very moment.
She knows people’s names! She’s not Carla.
She just has a very poor contact organization scheme.
lol grumpy Mary face in the background
Grumpy is Mary’s normal expression. That is outrage, probably chiefly at being ignored.
Does not seem like a productive way of saving phone numbers.
Yeah, and it’s also strange that Sarah’s apparently the type to gather the phone numbers of everyone she meets: you’d think she’d just roll her eyes at the prospect of exchanging numbers if she’s just gonna plug them in as “That Annoying Kid”
Goddammit Sarah
Mary’s indignant D:< face is perfect.
I feel like Roz wouldn’t be able to keep getting away with doing these cam shows with Mary being exactly the type to raise hell about them.
Maybe Mary is raising a very specific and contained hell about them where she complains to Roz, her boyfriend and like three similarly minded mirror mouth pieces over tea and scones.
If she gets it shut down then she loses all that socialising.
And she’d have to find something new to complain about!
Mary is the Conservative Scold who cried wolf too many times. If, with all the other freaking out she does, she tried to convince you her roomate was a camgirl living off the profits of vice you’d probably just roll your eyes and ignore her
If Roz was a main character, we might get a plot about Mary trying to blackmail her for it, only to find Roz has compromising material on her to, so any attempt would be mutual destruction.
So, does this mean Roz isn’t invited to the shirtless party? She’s already (un)dressed for it.
Sarah’s phone pic is likely the most happy she’s looked in a photo.
I can relate: anti social people often takes serious face for pics.
Great work, Sarah. Now you have to do the Jesus and to multiple that keg to almost 20 people
Not a keg
Joe, is that you?
Oh my gosh none of us saw that could happen! What a total surprising development that turned out to be!
Re-reading the arc of Joe and Roz and came across Joe saying that s drunk Joyce would have sex with him. That was a very smug Joe. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/frequency/
Damage control time, Sarah. You can make it up to Becky by changing her contact entry to That Annoying Lesbian.
I only just realized, even after the patreon early update, that Roz is camming.
Good for you girl! Get that bread!
MARCIE! I’m all giddy!
And ahhhh Roz. I don’t think the blue screen doubled as a privacy sheet will help with Mary.
Dang it, Sarah, why could you have not waited, like, 2 seconds, to text Roz? She would have had her bra off, for her OnlyFans.
How insulting, she didn’t even get saved in the phone as the lesbian annoying person
I only agree with 1/2 of Sarah’s assessments, but on the other hand, Walky and Becky ARE the only characters to have farted “on camera” so I suppose I get where she’s coming from.
Farted? Saource?
afaik they burped on camera?
Walky farting off camera, but his fart is on camera.
“Well, okay really there’s only ONE fart joke, but it’s a really funny one.” https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/straightforward/
To be honest, if anyone texts her back saying who it is and she doesn’t delete the texts, she could just check the texts next time.
i’m surprised she would even have malaya or roz added unless it’s something joyce did with syncing or they had some kinda class group project together or so
I mean…
She’s at least taking what the Dean said to heart.
She’s not using the dorm as a backdrop.
I bet Malaya LOVES that she’s listed as “That Annoying Kid”… but kind of weird she would have gotten their contact info at some point. I don’t recall them interacting on-screen… or on-panel, as the case may be.