Last time I had to bundle like that was a couple years ago on New Year’s Eve. Minus 20 wind chill is no fun. Normal winters usually just call for a heavy jacket and maybe a hat.
This is one of the few ships where even if they never end up getting romanticalli involved, I will still be happy if they get meaningful interactions together
Yeah, I can’t see this as a romantic relationship, since Danny’s such a doormat right now. He definitely needs to find himself before he could be a partner to someone as self-assured and mature as Sal. I mean, look at how the whole Dorothy went.
The may not when he started but I think he has shown some competency as he did his sessions with Sal. Remember, he was able to play backup when she sang.
Danny, you have to realize that you aren’t Steven Universe. In any case, yopu are the edgy Steven from the Future epilogue. Jegus, I have conflicted feelings about that show.
He’s an essentially goodhearted kid who occasionally makes huge mistakes, plays ukulele, makes questionable fashion choices, is a bit behind on the maturity scale in regards to his age, associates with girls who are way more badass than he is, and is mostly likable because of what a goofus he is.
I have to correct you there: Danny is a selfrighteous prick who makes many mistakes, he plays badly, Steven is more fashionable, Steven is good at making freinds (except when retconned by Future to make something depressing), Steven does become as badass as his adoptive moms, and Danny wishes to be as likeable as Steven.
Also, Sal isn’t a psychopath… in this universe at least… Walkyverse Sal and Jasper are crazy.
Steven was never really good at making friends. Mostly because he had a tendency to just ignore anything that didn’t line up with the world the way he saw it. Connie was the only non-gem he managed to bond with naturally.
Really? Steven got many “moms”, made friends with the cool kids, made friends with Onion, made friends with the adults of Beach City, made friends with his conservative uncle, etc.
He was a kid, so of course many things wouldn’t fit in his initial world view, but he was a really social being… That is until the stupid retcon of Future.
Future isn’t really a retcon. Steven’s got kind of a weird gifted kid vibe with social relationships. As a kid, he never had trouble eventually connecting to and relating to people. The cool kids liked him because he was refreshingly honest and relaxed, Onion liked him because he actually spent time with and paid attention to Onion, the adults liked him because he was a surprisingly good ear to listen to, Homeworld Gems like him because he’s kind in a way that they’re very unused to. But more importantly, he also has points of relation to all of them. He relates to Connie’s loneliness and spirit of adventure, he relates to most Beach City residents because he’s grown up around them, he relates to Gems because he *is* a Gem, because he also experiences the horrors of war, because he’s also experienced a lot of loss in his life.
Enter Future. Steven is meeting Connie’s friends for the first time, and he has *nothing* he can relate to them. They’re ordinary kids with ordinary lives, their life problems are fairly minor and not relevant, the only thing they all have in common is they’re all friends with Connie. And because Steven’s always connected with people so easily, now not only does he not have any idea how to make friends with these people, he has no idea how to even start trying, which leads to him being an awkward mess.
Honestly, it’s the closest someone like Steven who has no formal schooling is ever going to have to Gifted Kid Problems.
Also, this cannot be stated enough – STEVEN WAS NOT DOING OKAY IN FUTURE. He had a lot of unresolved trauma and felt like he was the only one who had stagnated and wasn’t sure where to go with his life. It was hard enough watching his friends move on (which kinda kicked his abandonment issues in the teeth) and Steven has a tendency to withdraw and bottle his problems up when he’s upset. It was no wonder to me that he was having a hard time making friends at the time.
I didn’t say people didn’t like him, but most of those relationships developed through trauma bonding or people just liking his positive attitude.
But if you look at his relationships with characters closer to his own age, with the exception of Connie, it’s largely him ignoring how the others actually feel and just projecting his own feelings onto them.
I mean steven wasn’t good at making friends his own age. It was just connie and that fryman kid that didn’t even like him. Everyone else was older teens or adults who thought he was a cute kid
I’m trying to figure it out. Chord progression goes V-IVI-IV assuming none of these are accidentals, which is… Not common, as far as I know. I have no clue what it could be.
Take it from a self-taught leftie guitarist: The chords are also drawn backwards.
If you’re right-handed (and chances are you are, it’s simply the odds), they look regular. If you’re a southpaw and you read guitar tabs, you’re already turning them around in your head.
Real talk, someone play a duet with me. I fucking LIVE for that shit. I have both a guitar and Ukulele too so I can be your Sal or I can be your Danny.
I would but I haven’t played my saxophone in years, so I’m sure I’d be very rusty. And I’m not sure how good I am at singing. And I have no experience using video chat services or whatever.
Very. Some stores can have well over 100 guitars and zero lefty. In nearly 50 years (yikes) I’ve only met one, just one, salesguy at a store who was a lefty. I’m a righty and my only relative who showed any desires to play guitar was my nephew, who picked up my guitar and immediately flipped it over lefty style. I felt so sorry for him. He’s in for a world of hurt. I even bought a lefty guitar and for 2 years tried to learn how to play it that way. Just. Couldn’t. Do. It. I can’t help him find a good guitar because I can’t olay it to judge it like I can a righty.
This is a weird moment where Comic Time actually works the way opposite that it normally does. Danny, here, is three months removed from irrevocably Doing The Asshole Maneuver but it’s still fresh in all of our minds.
Also, we can see that he’s taking precautions now to make sure he doesn’t say anything untowards. We’ll just have to hope he doesn’t forget and take it off.
When I express resentment toward assholes who generally earned karmic punishment, I normally don’t do so to their childhood friends while they’re on their deathbed. That’s, like, collateral karmic punishment? Not my jam. Anyway, here’s me responding to a previous day’s comic because reasons I guess.
I think that Sal is still in two minds about whether she wants Danny to hang out with her. It will be interesting to see if she ever does come to a final conclusion or if, like most people, she decides that it’s simpler to just let things roll along on their own momentum.
She probably appreciates how he doesn’t put her on a pedestal or make her live up to an image, but it’s countered by his blandness and tendency to put his foot in his mouth.
Danny is also one of the few people in the strip who’s relatively drama-free. He doesn’t really have a dark past, hidden agendas, half-healed resentments, or toxic behaviours other than the afore-mentioned tendency to put his foot in his mouth. For somebody who’s tired of having to deal with life’s sh*t (directed at themselves or others), sometimes having a friend or partner who’s just calm, serene, and blessedly free of drama (basically, just “normal”) can feel like a lifesaver.
Yeah, he’s got a tendency to be a bit self-centered in his romantic interactions, in a rather romcom way (yes Danny, outside his comatose friend’s hospital room is the best time to confess your feelings to someone, just in general,) though not exclusively given the Joe List situation, and the aforementioned foot-in-mouth syndrome usually spawns out of that… but given he’s an 18-19-year-old, that’s basically standard. They’re all little shits. Walky had basically the same ‘dude, wtf’ moment with Dorothy the day before, and Joyce did way worse in the pursuit of a crush via Hijinks with Jacob. By the standards of this cast, he barely rates on the Trauma and Drama Scale.
Wait… if Sal is of two minds now also, could Amber’s problems actually have nothing to do with Blaine? If being around Danny is causing people to have mental health distress to the point of exhibiting severe D.I.D. should he be looked at further, or locked away further?
Sal doing the rhythmn section and Danny doing the lad for REM’s Losing My Religion. There could be no song more guaranteed to finally tip Joyce over the edge into a full blown panic episode.
I can’t decide if Danny looks like the little brother in “A Christmas Story;” (“I can’t put my arms down!”) or like “The Kid,” in Gahann Wilson’s comic strip; “Nuts!”
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looking forward to these kinds of interactions in pandemic winter
to be fair, that ukulele will do a good job of keeping people at least six feet away
The hat was more effective. No one wanted to be within ten feet.
Hey, I’m just impressed the uke froze and turned blue.
The uke was always blue. My gravatar can is proof.
Shhh!
Danny has acquired a new hat, which has grown to consume his entire face (insert FAAAAAACE comments here). He can now only communicate by ukelele.
Only while he is playing it will that work, otherwise people will just see a harmless dork.
So is Danny from the south or something or is Sal just too cool to feel cold?
Complicated familial relationship, complicated relationship with gloves…Sal is Elsa.
The coldn’t didn’t bother her anyway.
But Danny has to let go of that ukelele.
laaaaay awaaaay laaaaay awaaaay laaaay away that ukelele.
Walky does make a suitable Anna.
Since Sal is definitely from the South, I’m going to just say that she’s too naturally cool to be bothered by weather.
I’m gonna go with “Danny is a dork who bundles up far more than necessary for a little snow.”
Danny is a good potato!
…wait its supposed to be “egg” isn’t it?
no, he’s definitely a potato
*plays Olaf’s Potato song from Odd Squad on a mislaid cell phone’s speaker*
“Well, how are YOU holding up? Because I’M a POTATO!”
Egg, potato, either way he is a good something. Most of the time anyway, occasionally he manages to lodge an entire foot down his throat.
Being able to swallow a foot could be useful later in his life.
I’ve found that being able to swallow your words is a useful life skill. I’m not sure that generalizes to feet.
The ability to swallow large and long things can be very useful in the right circumstances.
Given how many layers he’s wrapped up in, I think he’s an onion.
And before long he’ll be an entire breakfast burrito.
Peel back layer after stinky layer until you’re left with nothing but tears?
Sounds about right.
Oh, Danny’s an egg alright
Just a little trans humor for y’all
As a lifelong Californian, I really, really feel Danny here…
Haha, as a lifelong mountain Californian, I really, really feel Sal here!
[Laughs in New England]
Last time I had to bundle like that was a couple years ago on New Year’s Eve. Minus 20 wind chill is no fun. Normal winters usually just call for a heavy jacket and maybe a hat.
[Laughs in Minnesota]
It’s not winter until you can toss a glass of hot water into the air and the water crystalizes instantly.
Reminds me (also a Californian) of visiting my dad’s family.
In Vermont.
I love these two beautiful babies so I say FULL SPEED AHEAD. <3
We can only hope this ship will sail smoothly, I wish them the best.
We are speaking about Willis.
I’m happy for any interaction, be it platonic or romantic.
This is one of the few ships where even if they never end up getting romanticalli involved, I will still be happy if they get meaningful interactions together
Yeah, I can’t see this as a romantic relationship, since Danny’s such a doormat right now. He definitely needs to find himself before he could be a partner to someone as self-assured and mature as Sal. I mean, look at how the whole Dorothy went.
Oh Danny.
You kept the ukulele.
It’s like you WANT to be bullied…
Ukeleles can be cool. The problem is that Danny has no musical talent.
He didn’t when he first picked the thing up… let’s see what a few months of practice have done for him.
Actual practice, or just occasional dabbling that may or may not be reinforcing bad habits?
The may not when he started but I think he has shown some competency as he did his sessions with Sal. Remember, he was able to play backup when she sang.
Don’t kink shame
Hello, Danny’s new hat.
I feel Sal right here, I love sitting out in the cold and it always bemuses me that people get so wrapped up that they are unrecognizable.
Either way, happy to see Sal and Danny hanging out, with their respective instruments of choice.
His new hat is a big improvement!
Jam session time!
Danny, you have to realize that you aren’t Steven Universe. In any case, yopu are the edgy Steven from the Future epilogue. Jegus, I have conflicted feelings about that show.
He’s an essentially goodhearted kid who occasionally makes huge mistakes, plays ukulele, makes questionable fashion choices, is a bit behind on the maturity scale in regards to his age, associates with girls who are way more badass than he is, and is mostly likable because of what a goofus he is.
Also, him hanging out with Sal is basically this.
I support this
I have to correct you there: Danny is a selfrighteous prick who makes many mistakes, he plays badly, Steven is more fashionable, Steven is good at making freinds (except when retconned by Future to make something depressing), Steven does become as badass as his adoptive moms, and Danny wishes to be as likeable as Steven.
Also, Sal isn’t a psychopath… in this universe at least… Walkyverse Sal and Jasper are crazy.
Danny was able to play a ukelele rendition of Hurt and that’s rad.
Steven was never really good at making friends. Mostly because he had a tendency to just ignore anything that didn’t line up with the world the way he saw it. Connie was the only non-gem he managed to bond with naturally.
Really? Steven got many “moms”, made friends with the cool kids, made friends with Onion, made friends with the adults of Beach City, made friends with his conservative uncle, etc.
He was a kid, so of course many things wouldn’t fit in his initial world view, but he was a really social being… That is until the stupid retcon of Future.
Future isn’t really a retcon. Steven’s got kind of a weird gifted kid vibe with social relationships. As a kid, he never had trouble eventually connecting to and relating to people. The cool kids liked him because he was refreshingly honest and relaxed, Onion liked him because he actually spent time with and paid attention to Onion, the adults liked him because he was a surprisingly good ear to listen to, Homeworld Gems like him because he’s kind in a way that they’re very unused to. But more importantly, he also has points of relation to all of them. He relates to Connie’s loneliness and spirit of adventure, he relates to most Beach City residents because he’s grown up around them, he relates to Gems because he *is* a Gem, because he also experiences the horrors of war, because he’s also experienced a lot of loss in his life.
Enter Future. Steven is meeting Connie’s friends for the first time, and he has *nothing* he can relate to them. They’re ordinary kids with ordinary lives, their life problems are fairly minor and not relevant, the only thing they all have in common is they’re all friends with Connie. And because Steven’s always connected with people so easily, now not only does he not have any idea how to make friends with these people, he has no idea how to even start trying, which leads to him being an awkward mess.
Honestly, it’s the closest someone like Steven who has no formal schooling is ever going to have to Gifted Kid Problems.
Also, this cannot be stated enough – STEVEN WAS NOT DOING OKAY IN FUTURE. He had a lot of unresolved trauma and felt like he was the only one who had stagnated and wasn’t sure where to go with his life. It was hard enough watching his friends move on (which kinda kicked his abandonment issues in the teeth) and Steven has a tendency to withdraw and bottle his problems up when he’s upset. It was no wonder to me that he was having a hard time making friends at the time.
Also this.
I didn’t say people didn’t like him, but most of those relationships developed through trauma bonding or people just liking his positive attitude.
But if you look at his relationships with characters closer to his own age, with the exception of Connie, it’s largely him ignoring how the others actually feel and just projecting his own feelings onto them.
I mean steven wasn’t good at making friends his own age. It was just connie and that fryman kid that didn’t even like him. Everyone else was older teens or adults who thought he was a cute kid
So all his friendships mean nothing if they aren’t kids of his age? That is stupid.
It made me think of Buffy and Xander.
Which one played the guitar and which played the uke?
Aw, c’mon. I don’t think Danny deserves to be compared to something like Buffy. That’s just unnecessarily cruel.
… Sal’s almost as cool and badass as Xander though, that’s fair.
That sure is A Take.
At least you still have the ukelele, Danny. You haven’t forgotten your roots.
Chords are G, C, Am and F if anyone is curious. I tried playing it on guitar, and I’m not sure what song she’s playing though.
Although it matches the chords, Sal is probably not playing “no woman no cry”.
I think that would be C, G, Am, F.
Yeah. I’m going to go with Don’t Stop Believing.
Oh god please no
Would the chords lie?
Look, when you’re busking on the Staircase Outside Read Hall of Doom, you have to go with the popular options. Appease the crowd. And the Wonderbread.
What’s wrong with Journey? Would you rather have some Great White?
Steel Panther
Hold on to that feeling.
I’m trying to figure it out. Chord progression goes V-IVI-IV assuming none of these are accidentals, which is… Not common, as far as I know. I have no clue what it could be.
Could be the chorus of Hurt, if Danny walked in a couple of bars into it?
Take it from a self-taught leftie guitarist: The chords are also drawn backwards.
If you’re right-handed (and chances are you are, it’s simply the odds), they look regular. If you’re a southpaw and you read guitar tabs, you’re already turning them around in your head.
At a guess, it’s likely a reference to very many songs. But I’m not a music perp, so /shrugs/.
Maybe she is just warming up, running chords?
blukes clukes
Ol’ Bluey’s still kickin… er, strumming?
I have no clue how he plans on playing a ukulele in mittens
Badly.
I suppose it’s logically possible it could be an improvement.
I’m hoping he’s gonna take the mittens off before trying to play it.
He’s got a pick sewn into the right glove.
Don’t be silly. Danny wouldn’t put the Ukelele in the mittens.
Blukelele
New hat. Very dapper.
i guess danny and sal reconciled over winter break?
They didn’t break their friendship… Ethan on the other hand…
… died over the time skip.
He had to go. His planet needed him.
*reads comic*
*runs to grab guitar*
Real talk, someone play a duet with me. I fucking LIVE for that shit. I have both a guitar and Ukulele too so I can be your Sal or I can be your Danny.
And you can call me “Al”.
You can call me Danny,
And baby when I call you I can call you Sal
I can call you Sal
*whistles into the distance*
Can’t sing or play a musical instrument, so I’ll just hum background lyrics…
Shoo Doop Doop Do, Shoo Doop Doop Do
Yeah, yeah. But do you have a hat?
Well, he’s got that baseball cap with a bow on it…
Zoom is laggy and terrible for duets.
I would but I haven’t played my saxophone in years, so I’m sure I’d be very rusty. And I’m not sure how good I am at singing. And I have no experience using video chat services or whatever.
Sal is left-handed? It is hard to find a leftie guitar!
I wonder if it has anything to do with her injury… A knife through the hand is bound to affect motor skills (like chord fingering)
Very. Some stores can have well over 100 guitars and zero lefty. In nearly 50 years (yikes) I’ve only met one, just one, salesguy at a store who was a lefty. I’m a righty and my only relative who showed any desires to play guitar was my nephew, who picked up my guitar and immediately flipped it over lefty style. I felt so sorry for him. He’s in for a world of hurt. I even bought a lefty guitar and for 2 years tried to learn how to play it that way. Just. Couldn’t. Do. It. I can’t help him find a good guitar because I can’t olay it to judge it like I can a righty.
It puzzles me a bit that “righty” guitars (and indeed fiddles) are the way round that they are: the left hand has to be /more/ agile than the right!
Their romance begins here.
Either a romance or Danny’s new role as the dorky and profoundly trusted best friend that puts her coolness in sharper relief!
Not with that hat it won’t.
The hat makes it *better*
This is a weird moment where Comic Time actually works the way opposite that it normally does. Danny, here, is three months removed from irrevocably Doing The Asshole Maneuver but it’s still fresh in all of our minds.
It’s, like, we all get he’s still got friends he hasn’t burned but nobody’s in the mood for it.
Danny’s a good egg.
Also, we can see that he’s taking precautions now to make sure he doesn’t say anything untowards. We’ll just have to hope he doesn’t forget and take it off.
I think we all know what Danny sounds like now.
Fortunately, he doesn’t have to worry about getting killed since Mike seemed to have taken that bullet.
Nah I’m fine with it. Fuck Mike and the horse he rode in on.
He road into town on your mom? … Oh… *horse*.
Your momma’s so equine Mike bought her for a nickel so he could ride her into town?
Also, are you using Fuck as an adjective, or a verb?
You usually add “in'” when using ‘fuck’ as an adjective.
Fuckin’ Mike
When I express resentment toward assholes who generally earned karmic punishment, I normally don’t do so to their childhood friends while they’re on their deathbed. That’s, like, collateral karmic punishment? Not my jam. Anyway, here’s me responding to a previous day’s comic because reasons I guess.
I think that Sal is still in two minds about whether she wants Danny to hang out with her. It will be interesting to see if she ever does come to a final conclusion or if, like most people, she decides that it’s simpler to just let things roll along on their own momentum.
She probably appreciates how he doesn’t put her on a pedestal or make her live up to an image, but it’s countered by his blandness and tendency to put his foot in his mouth.
Danny is also one of the few people in the strip who’s relatively drama-free. He doesn’t really have a dark past, hidden agendas, half-healed resentments, or toxic behaviours other than the afore-mentioned tendency to put his foot in his mouth. For somebody who’s tired of having to deal with life’s sh*t (directed at themselves or others), sometimes having a friend or partner who’s just calm, serene, and blessedly free of drama (basically, just “normal”) can feel like a lifesaver.
Yeah, he’s got a tendency to be a bit self-centered in his romantic interactions, in a rather romcom way (yes Danny, outside his comatose friend’s hospital room is the best time to confess your feelings to someone, just in general,) though not exclusively given the Joe List situation, and the aforementioned foot-in-mouth syndrome usually spawns out of that… but given he’s an 18-19-year-old, that’s basically standard. They’re all little shits. Walky had basically the same ‘dude, wtf’ moment with Dorothy the day before, and Joyce did way worse in the pursuit of a crush via Hijinks with Jacob. By the standards of this cast, he barely rates on the Trauma and Drama Scale.
I think it’s pretty well established by now that Sal values Danny’s companionship rather than being of two minds about it.
Wait… if Sal is of two minds now also, could Amber’s problems actually have nothing to do with Blaine? If being around Danny is causing people to have mental health distress to the point of exhibiting severe D.I.D. should he be looked at further, or locked away further?
Is Danny and SCP?
I read this as him suggesting the song should be played on Ukulele which hints to me that it might be Hey, Soul Sister.
Those ARE the infamous four chords so it could be almost any popular song of the last 70 years.
Sal doing the rhythmn section and Danny doing the lad for REM’s Losing My Religion. There could be no song more guaranteed to finally tip Joyce over the edge into a full blown panic episode.
Huh. Well, Hey, Soul Sister always sounded to me as if it was about a painfully dorky white dude who has a crush on a cool Black woman, so…maybe?
SO, the Ukulele is become Danny’s symbol… IT GOT WORSE!!!!!!!
Huh.
Just this morning, for no apparent reason, I kept dreaming of Johnny Cash singing Hurt.
Meh I ship it
Nobody else noticed that Sal called him by name instead of whitebread?
Danny’s got a new hat!
You can’t play guitar in gloves, and you DEFINITELY can’t play in mittens. What is this?
I think this hat is an improvement over the last one.
I can’t decide if Danny looks like the little brother in “A Christmas Story;” (“I can’t put my arms down!”) or like “The Kid,” in Gahann Wilson’s comic strip; “Nuts!”