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Terrible Lizbians II: The Girlfriending
“Which ones are the Terrible Lizbians II?”
“The red head and the one in the green hat.”
“That doesn’t narrow it down!”
“One’s very noisy and the other kind of socially awkward.”
“Still not helping!”
“Oh! The redhead is taller than the behatted one.”
“Come on.”
“Also, there was some kind of rooming issue previously with the redhead.”
“I am no longer talking with you.”
“The read head who wears glasses?”
“Go away…”
At least we can eliminate Becky with this intel.
“The redhead who keeps smiling too much.”
“I am getting a restraining order.”
This comment section saved my life
Dino Friendship Power activate!!! <3
YIPPEE!!! ^^
(stimming in place SHO MUCH)
*plays “Yoshi Star Galaxy” on hacked muzak*
dang, the new page doesn’t load for two minutes?
Used to be 17 minutes, this is an upgrade
Oh never mind, you guys are just fast a second earlier lol
Honestly. I think this is the only site I know where the time stamp is inaccurate
Functionally, there’s a zero percent chance that any of them are accurate. Even synchronized clocks are going to be out from the world standard time pieces. And those are endlessly arguing about what time it “really” is. Automated fortunately, but never perfect.
Sure but this the only server I know of where that time difference can be measured in minutes.
This is like the clock in my car which slowing creeps forward in time. At the moment its one hour and seventeen minutes ahead, because we are on winter time. At some point I’ll start freaking out about being late for work, will check the actual time and find out its crept forward another minute.
My car clock is about 1 hour and 35 minutes slow, and I can’t fix it. The button doesn’t seem to work unless the repair guy presses it. Like, it doesn’t matter who else tries, they can’t make the button perform it’s primary duty, but when my regular mechanic tries it works perfectly first time every time…
My clock said 5 minutes past before the new comic loaded. It is all over the place, but Lux is right that it has been ridiculously long in the past.
Oh yeah true. I forget about that sometimes. I just noticed the comic itself has timestamps too. 12:01. I wonder if there’s some kind of infrastructure upgrade recently
Just wait until the USA does the stupid time change shtick on Nov 3rd, when we “Fall Back an hour”. (the server time doesn’t change, so you have to get used to a new update time for the Winter)
The really annoying thing about it is that the clocks in Australia are going to leap forward just a few weeks before the clocks in the US autumn back, which means that I am going to have to re-schedule all my international stuff twice.
I wish we’d just stay on “daylight savings” time. More daylight later in the evenings, please! It sucks when it’s already dark out at 4:30 in the evening!
That was tried under Nixon in 1970. He had to undo it because country kids were going out at 4 a.m. sun time to catch the school bus and were getting hit by cars. Drivers didn’t expect pedestrians in the dead middle of the night.
It sucks when it’s still dark at 06:00 and I want to get started with outdoor stuff.
I am inclined to agree more with the “stick with standard time” side, but I mostly just want us to stick to ANY time. Time change causes car accidents and heart attacks and a lot of minor annoyance
Yes, I agree. I am definitely team Standard Time, because I have animals to feed before I head to my 7am job.
Also team Standard Time, it’s so much harder to wake up and get going in the morning when you know it’s going to be dark for another two hours.
That’s my morning every day, year-round. It feels wrong driving to work during the part of the year where sunrise coincides with my commute.
At least there’s no traffic. :/
I would prefer Standard Time simply because it’s… standard, and my ND brain would much rather that the whole US wasn’t on a permanent one-hour offset from the normal progression of timezones.
(Yes, I’m aware the existing map has several irregularities and exceptions, but there’s no need (still IMO) to add more to it.)
I’m all for year round daylight savings time. Mornings I’m going to be 3/4 asleep whether the sun is up or not. Extra time when it will do me some good would be great, thanks.
where i live its 4pm. awful
We’re still in relatively well synced territory compared to how off it can get.
Lags like Charlie but neither ever fail to catch up!
haha, I love how this conversation and your gravatar is so appropriate here
… How does one apply gentle pressure to the head of a server? Is putting an iguana on it safe?
I’ve been told green snack bags do the trick :33c
I haven’t tried iguanas, but Network Time Protocol works very nicely.
This is a great moment, and I am fully in favor of more people wearing dino-hats.
Something tells me that Dina has a full set and only gives it to those she deems worthy.
The alt-text was disappointing though. I was hoping for Dino-hat-space.
I don’t care what the alt-text says; if she wants to, Dina can instantly spawn another one of those hats by trying to take the original one off. (Just like that one Dexter’s Laboratory episode where a villain is trying to unmask Major Glory, but every time they rip his cowl off there’s another one underneath.)
Or Bartholomew Cubbins.
Yes!!! I feel seen.
Somehow, Sal’s dino hat turns black and grows metal spikes down the middle as soon as it touches her head. Doodles in math class are no longer required.
If those things have a tinfoil lining, I owe some people an apology. I should also probably go off the grid for a while.
Well, they’re certainly not FLEECE-lined. That would make someone MORE fuzzy-headed, not less.
Take my imaginary upvote!
Oh, I love these two together. And Dina especially.
Never assume Dina doesn’t have extra hats at her disposal.
When Dina was small – I mean, young – I MEAN IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – bullies taunted her by stealing her Dino beanie. This taught her to keep spares on hand.
I would die for this new friendship <3
maybe they can go on a double date or so lol
Hooray, progress!
I love this for them.
BTW totally called it on the dino hat having similar effect! ^^
You so did! Excellent!!
I award you one internet
Batteries not included.
Oh jeez, Fuckface sitting on people’s heads was just a variation of Dina’s hats all along.
……….. And Joyce felt so confident and powerful. Oh.
Joyce in a hat: The next* president
*Well maybe after a few years actually
Yeah.
Now I’m wondering about Malaya’s NT flavor.
I wish it was this simple for me.
Oh
Wow….how many dino hats will she have?
At least one more than she ends up needing.
THIS IS DELIGHTFUL
my hat army is ever growing, and soon i will overthrow the world. very beautiful, very powerful
I commend you on your memery.
Oh my God is this why I like to wear hats?!
Huh. Now I wonder if wearing a hat would help with my ADHD lmao
Oddly enough, I used to wear a nicer hat to my office job, cause it passed as business casual… And I waaaaaas really damn good at that job. Maybe I do need to wear hats again lmao
I HAD A COLLECTION WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, maybe I should get back into the habit?? Is this what they call a Thinking Cap??
I need to know if this is a real thing. Also I need one of these magical dino hats.
For some, yes, having the constricting pressure on the head is a helpful focus. Before English had “thinking caps”, French had “considering caps” (“cap” is from “chapeau”). Even Sherlock Holmes had his thinking cap.
Before I was diagnosed and medicated I did, in fact, have a thinking cap. I wore it while studying for head pressure, plus eat flaps and brim to reduce sensory input. It went with swimming goggles that had a tunnel-vision effect.
I also have an emotion-regulation head band that has bees on springs on top. The combined pressure from the band and the movement of the springs is oddly calming.
Huh. Deely-bobbers for serenity.
Now that is a name that I haven’t heard in a long, long time.
It’s definitely not universal. I have ADHD and pressure on/around my head just makes me anxious and triggers migraines. :/
Pressure on the rest of my body actually does help when I’m anxious though, and it’s fantastic for chronic pain.
…Oh my god. I need to try this.
i remember seeing a few anime where there are cliche students studying for exams or so wearing a headband around their head but it was just more a ‘determination’ thing with like ‘victory’ written on it versus it being an actual focus thing but it would be interesting to see studies on when it helps
This feels like it should have a link to a merch store selling the hat.
Ooh, there’s a thought.
The power of the spectrum shines brightly for these two lezbisaurs.
It’s so, so beautiful.
^^
*plays “Bamboo Dreams” by Elvira Björkman on hacked muzak*
the hat noms another
YESSS! I hope she gets herself a nice hat! Can’t keep copping Dina’s style even if it’s great
Does anyone have designs for/somewhere we can find for purchase Dina’s Hat?
Give me a week and I can make a crochet pattern. 50$ and permission from DW and I’ll make one for you
I’m kind of surprised that the dino hat type of DoA merch doesn’t exist already…
Sometimes I need to be wearing a hat to function, but sometimes I can’t stand having anything whatsoever touching my head. Mostly I wear sunglasses and/or headphones though, because they allow better air flow to the scalp, and the shades help create a barrier between me and pointless eye contact.
Wait, is this… is this a thing? Should I be trying out slightly tight hats or headbands or whatever to see if that helps? I mean it probably won’t, that’d be too convenient, but even so.
I mean you lose nothing from trying aside from maybe like 10 bucks if you need to go buy one
Why are they all like $40 to $60 on the internet? Can you direct me to the place where you’re finding them for 10 bucks? I’m curious about this but I don’t know that I’m $40 to $60 curious about this before I have any idea if it works.
I guess I looked up weighted hats. I could probably just adjust a hat too tight and get some sense of something.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking, a cheap baseball cap just to test the theory then if you want something more personalized or higher quality go from there
Wait, weighted hats are a thing too?
Right there with you! I hadn’t connected the dots before tonight ksldgs but the ASD/ADHD/AUDH crowd benefits from stuff like weighted blankets and applied pressure.
The body kinda needs to re-calibrate.
I am also wondering this.
Don’t have any hats right now. Hrm. Might have to try something. I used to wear headphones all the time, and now they are earbuds, so not the same. Interesting.
Huh. I don’t think it’d help me (it’s not like I don’t wear hats ever, but it always felt wrong), but it’s tempting to believe.
Everyone’s different, but pressure from hats, jackets, and weighted blankets do have a nice grounding effect. Something I discovered for myself was realizing how much it helps to have something to fiddle with for my hands.
For example, I had gone out to eat with my friends, but it was at the end of a very long a busy day. Add to that that the restaurant was playing very loud music and the people around us were loud as well, I got very overstimulated. However, I’d bought myself a fidget cube and had it in my backpack, so I was able to discretely fiddle with it under the table which eased a lot of my anxieties and general overwhelmed feelings. Wish I’d known about that when I was younger…
My first experience with fidgets floored me. I’ve had stuff going on with my brain for my whole life but, like Joyce, been juuuust functioning enough to go unnoticed. Then I was taking a class for Teacher Ed about Universal Design for Learning and was handed a tangle. 40 minutes later I had forgotten I was playing with the tangle and I was more locked in on class than ever before in my life.
I tend to use whatever is in my hands as a fidget. I have been known to craft things out of folded or mangled paper napkins. Just yesterday, visiting with family at a restaurant, and I ended up with… some kind of shape.
I personally find my big chunky headphones have the same effect, and so do earmuffs. Having my ears covered and a bit of weight on my head really makes me feel less overstimulated and more comfortable. Dunno that it helps me *focus*, but it certainly helps. Do recommend.
[AND THE MULTITUDE GOES CRAZY! EVERYONE CHEERS!!] Hell yeah, I’m delighted!! Carla, congrats on your gf. Dina, congrats on your new friend. Charlie….?
…. Charlie, you’re perfect. And yes, babygirl, go put on a hat. Accommodations ftw, and you’re rocking it, now I kinda wanna see your spin on it :DDD!
Carla could give Charlie her bright red cowboy hat.
Wait, would that work?
(Love this interaction btw.)
So, a thinking cap?
That’s a colander with some wires attached to it.
How did you remember a comic from 31 years ago? I can’t even remember what I’ve had for lunch.
I thought it was from Back to the Future.
I thought it was from a children’s book.
Oh, dear, I’m hearing a memory saying “let’s put on our thinking caps.” Is that a line from Captain Kangaroo? (A children’s TV show from the 1960s, if you didn’t know.)
Because Calvin and Hobbes is an all-time classic.
(Also I’m in numerous shitposting groups on Zuckbook and a C+H themed group is one of them.)
Yes, charlie apparently needs a hat (and also has ADHD, but I have not seen hats have a magical effect in the real world). Possibly a better variety of hats than dina hats, because otherwise we will start getting confused on which one is Dina and which one is booster’s sister in a dina hat.
“but I have not seen hats have a magical effect in the real world”
You haven’t seen my hats.
Or Rankin-Bass’ Frosty the Snowman.
Ugh, “real world,” scratch that.
As Monty Python once tried to tell us, the problem with today’s world is that people aren’t wearing enough hats. I’m glad Dina is doing her part to improve things.
Hammerspace will hitherto be referred to as Hatspace.
Dina/Charlie best friendship ACTIVATE
Huh. I tried this once with a padded Megaman helmet with the idea of it helping me focus.
I didn’t keep doing it but I don’t think it was a detriment in any way.
…none experience is unique, isn’t?
Huh, maybe I should get my own hat.
I wonder if my taste for hats came because my neurodivergence. I often get myself uncomfortable without nothing in head.
Charlie is cool, but I do still think Carla is wrong and the one with the best girlfriend is actually Becky.
Ohhh!
Dina: The all-powerful neurodivergent
I want to be with her power so much T_T
*plays “Maenam” by Jami Sieber on hacked muzak*
Not all dinosaurs walked upright. Ankylosaurus, brontosaurus, and Stegosaurus are most definitely dinosaurs and moved on all fours.
Different meaning of the word upright. Dogs stand like dinosaurs, lizards don’t because their legs spread out to the side.
*plays “Infotain Me” by Ochre on hacked muzak*
Ironically, there were “bird-hipped” and “lizard-hipped” dinosaurs, and the big quadrapedal armored dinosaurs were bird-hipped, while the actual birds were lizard-hipped
“Therapod” and “sauropod” if you want to annoy your friends.
… today I finally put together what those terms actually mean.
fml, smh
Saurischian.
First, I thought about the same two dinosaurs as you MisterJinKC.
Second, I am just going based on the pictures that depict what they should look like, unless our understanding of stegosaurs has changed immensely, I don’t see stegosaurs rearing up on hind legs even like horses, let alone dogs (I mean, I can’t imagine a horse staying up two legs as long as a dog, even if trained. I cou;d be wrong about that). I highly doubt it for the brontasaur but maybe a quick rise could happen).
Dina : (angry face-twitching)… Upright!? TRICERATOPS! TRICERATOPS! TRICERA- … hold on, you used present tense on “ambulate”… that’s all right, then.
It probably won’t happen, but I admit I would die laughing (well, fine, come close to dying laughing) if this made Charlie suddenly realize “Wait! My girlfriend is a fucking narcissist!” and dump Carla on the spot.
Leading to endless shenanigans of Carla trying to steal Charlie’s hat(s).
I don’t know where this idea come from that Charlie just doesn’t have any idea what kind of personality Carla have She choose to be her girlfriend I would think that she got to know her and liked her anyway
It could even be that that’s one of her traits that Charlie likes. Carla’s self-centeredness does have a kind of grandeur that’s pretty rare.
remarkably ableist and unnecessarily cruel to think of narcissism as inherently being a problem, and completely unfounded to think it’s something charlie would dump carla over. you should reexamine these beliefs.
To play devil advocate they probably didn’t mean the narcissism condition and more in the general sense of someone being really self absorbed.
and even in that case i still believe it’s an unnecessarily cruel perspective and that they should reexamine why they think it’s really such an issue if active harm is not being caused.
Maaaaaaaaaan I dunno why you all hate Carla so much
All?
.. wait, is this why my autistic ass likes tight beanies and headphones.
I like headphones for kind of the opposite reason: They help me unfocus better for the world around me so noises doesn’t overwhel me and I can start listening to stuff anytime I want .
As with most of us autistic types, yyyyyup.
Could be. It’s similar to why some of us like weighted blankets.
I believe those are meant to be worn on the other end, but hey, you do you.
Dina is magic and this strip is delightful.
My wife had a minor RSI injury in her wrist and had to start wearing compression gloves to try and keep the pressure off it. Now she wears them because autism go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Comparing Autistics and Warthogs is not something I’ve considered before, yet now that I have, it will reside in my mind for decades.
pressure on my head good. Wish that particular need didn’t conflict with my spine injury. Things on my head are too much extra strain for my neck to hold up, so the ‘add pressure to my head’ can only be done when I’m laying down.
Pressure other places nice too. Love the extra support for my wrists and ankles and stuff.
Re the alt text: …And Becky loves to take them off one… by one… by one… And Dina loves to change up how many of them she’s wearing…
Does that mean dinosaurs were hot-blooded all along?
The real dinosaurs were the hot-bloods that we found inside us along the way.
check it and see
i feel like my hair would get too mess up/i don’t rly like tight hats versus sunhats but that would be interesting. sucky if ur not allowed hats like these on exams
What kinda rinky-dink shrimpfucker doesn’t allow hats during exams?
In my high school at least it was a rule that you weren’t allowed to were hats at any time during class. I don’t know why.
I think it’s to prepare you for the real world where you aren’t allowed to wear hats at work and you don’t know why.
The shrimpfucker allegations aren’t being escaped.
School dress codes exist to let adults in school have random little power trips. When I was student teaching, the school had a strict dress code, but not long into the school year, it became clear that it usually wasn’t enforced for a lot of things (it was a newly merged school that year). So most of the time, most of the kids were out of dress code in someway, and it was fine. But sometimes a hall monitor or teacher or whoever would decide they didn’t like a kid’s attitude and now it’s a problem they were wearing jeans.
I don’t know about most secondary schools today, but most corporate secure exam sites don’t allow hats (unless the testers have medical exemptions). No hats, water bottles, bringing one’s own pens or pencils, long sleeves, etc.
I assume it has something to do with avoiding “crib notes”, although I don’t know quite how you’d smuggle answers in your hat.
See, you stuff a bunch of paper slips in there, set the hat on the table/desk, pull out a random slip, and write whatever’s on it for your answers. Can’t be cheating if your answers are up to chance.
What the fuck is people’s problem? No water bottles, what a stupid fucking rule. God forbid you get a small drop of water on their plastic-sealed plywood desk. Pens and pencils also make no fucking sense. The most I could see being justifiable is limiting the pen colors to the ones a machine can read easily. Like, what am I gonna do, bring an enchanted pencil that writes the correct answers on its own? Long sleeves being banned is the only even semi-justifiable one, and even then it’d be really hard to read answers out of a sleeve without being obvious.
In my experience, those corporate testing sites can hold their own against the worst of TSA invasive and restrictive security checks.
I favor “Greek fisherman” hats with a heavy leather sweatband. They just sit atop my head, but it takes a rather awesome wind to blow one off.
Hats don’t do anything for my focus, so I can’t comment on their effectiveness for that. I wear a hat because the slightest breeze will blow my hair all about until the roots hurt. (And because, these days, I’d get a sunburnt scalp if I went out hatless.)
This… this is so very wholesome!
We need more of them together pls.
I hope Dina and Charlie become very good friends
A NEW SPECIES ADDED TO THE CLADE
Doasaurus Sanchezi, originally believed to belong to the Columbaves clade (pigeons and cuckoos), has been reassigned to the doasaurus clade after the discovery of new evidence of skull-binding ritual behavior first noticed in D. Sauruyamensis.
(I love this, particularly the previous classification)
You never know when you’re going to find someone who needs gentle pressure to the skull to focus themself, so always carry a spare dino cap.
Huh. Learned something new today.
lmao it’s like a reverse Brain Slug
I believe in Dina supremacy
This is the cutest and best and dinosaurically accurate.
wait is that why We like our big headphones so much we thought it was just the noise canceling
Waaait, wait wait, I KNOW this disorder! I KNOW I’ve heard of it before, I just can not remember its *name*! Also, guess now we see if Carla genuinely loves Charlie or just loved the idea of somebody helpless who incidentally ignored her some by sheer mistakee
Like 90% sure it isn’t autism, but something related to it. Pressure can help, yes, but brain fog until pressure to head feels too specific…
Ok pretty sure this has to be ADHD. Also I apparently need to try tight dino hats
Carla very much doesn’t like Charlie because she is “helpless”. I have no idea where you could have get that idea.
This is so precious I might actually die.
Is Charlie just Dina?
…
Is Carla just Becky?
Redheaded and mildly annoying… huh you have a point.
“Which ones are the Terrible Lizbians II?”
“The red head and the one in the green hat.”
“That doesn’t narrow it down!”
“One’s very noisy and the other kind of socially awkward.”
“Still not helping!”
“Oh! The redhead is taller than the behatted one.”
“Come on.”
“Also, there was some kind of rooming issue previously with the redhead.”
“I am no longer talking with you.”
Its so nice when someone UNDERSTANDS things, you know?
Oh no. The headhuggers are multiplying
We gotta nuke ’em from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
I seem to remember Dina loaning out a spare dino-hat to Ethan, so of course she’d have a whole drawer full of them.
… huh, I wonder if this is partly why I used to wear a hat at work in the past… Certainly felt like I worked better with it on…
I can’t overstate my happiness for a doa strip that acknowledges that birds are dinosaures. AT FUCKING LAST
When I first heard this notion, I was charmed by the thought of going out early in the morning and hearing dinosaurs roaring in the trees.
Uh, DoA had a whole chapter (HOMPK!) where Dina recognized this, and changed her behavior to suit current scientific knowledge. Her remarks in Panel 1 of this comic reflect that paradigm shift.
Or did you mean this sarcastically? Sometimes I miss that.
And they never forgot, trust a guy who was on the receiving end of a rooster’s wrath more than once.
It was, of all things, A Bug’s Life that brought this home for me. At the appropriate scale, a finch is as terrifying as anything from the JP movies.
Charlie and Dina are now my favorite neurodivergent duo in action.
…okay, now that I know this is an actual thing, I’m starting to wonder if it’s an actual thing I have. All this time I thought I just liked sci-fi baseball caps, needed to shade my eyes because photophobia, and was self-concious about developing a bald spot in my thirties.
Havung sparw hats on hand is just a cover story. Unbeknownst to them, Dina’s hat functions similarly to Japanese Spiderman’s mask: as soon as she takes it off, there’s another one right underneath it.
Dangit, the video link didn’t work. It should link to this.
Huh, I had no idea; went to do some searching and it does seem it helps for some people on the spectrum. TIL.
I immediately began to wonder how many thousand emails Charlie has waiting, and how far back they go.
The last hundred are all “you have reached your 15gB limit, would you like to buy more storage?”
Wait, is this a thing, with the hats?
Does it work on ADD as well?
Unfortunately, I run hot, so hat-wearing would cause me to sweat uncontrollably.
is.. is that a thing. should i be wearing a hat.
…does…this actually work? Maybe I need more hats.
BEHOLD THE POWER OF LOVETRON!
Wait wrong line…
I mostly use my hats to block the light and reduce migraines. Also always wear sunglasses. Like prescription glasses.
I mainly like my hats because they sligthly muffle all the turbulence that’s trying to get in to my ears without going full earplug mode.
Really thought Willis would have learned their lesson with Danny, now we’ve got a 3rd hat person in the cast!
THIS IS SO CUTE AND WHOLESOME
It is now my head canon that Dina has access to Hammerspace and just stores hats there.
Appease the Dina with correct Dino facts, unlock the neurodivergent life hacks!!
Suddenly realized why my best friend always wears a beanie and says she can’t do anything without wearing it HMMMM
Is that a thing for Neuro-diverse people where the slight head pressure allows focusing to be easier?
Like how the weighted blankets ease things for a commonality, but not all?
WAIT A MINUTE!!!! IS THIS A THING? When I was a kid in the 80’s, I loved wearing hats. At 50 something, I wear hoodies in the house all day long. I was only dXed with ADHD two years ago. THIS IS A THING! OMG Thank you Willis!!!!
Sorry Carla, Dina just became best girlfriend again.
Is… Is that why I feel safer wearing my hat when I drive even though I keep it off at all other times? I know I’m somewhere on the spectrum, but I didn’t know hat pressure could do this for some people
…oh my god is that why I always have to have my snapback on or a toque???
aw hell yeah!! gentle pressure on the head helps me with focus so much and it’s a nice comfort. it’s actually the reason I wear headphones: not actually because of the noise-cancelling aspect, but rather the pressure it provides