yeah i didn’t mean to be away for so long, i had a minor freakout that other time and felt silly and confused about it, whatever i’m over it, and i also got distracted because i had some intense procrastinating to do before i leave to work at a festival in italy the day after tomorrow, i have loads of shit to get done before leaving and i have done basically nothing (which is my customary MO). i was extremely creative as a result haha. nothing like procrastination to get in that flow zone. and the reason that has anything to do with anything is because i refuse to acknowledge that playing music might count as wasting time. it’s axiomatic. but hanging here does (and i do spend A LOT of time here some days)
..anyway, Clif that sounded like something i would say because it’s something Joshua Barkman would say and they are my role model and secret crush and their comic is the best thing since sliced bread so i quote them all the time ^^
(oh yeah so, i will also most likely not be seen here a whole lot while i’m gone because for about 10 days i’ll be in a tiny village on a mountain and overworked, sleep-deprived and (probably, most days) hungover. also there’s no network up there and the only place with wifi is a 30′ walk lol)
….y’all don’t use ‘ and ” for minutes & seconds in like texts and such? i wonder where i picked that up. it’s not really a french thing either i don’t think. thanks for translating Demo
‘ and ” are used for feet and inches respectively in north america (mainly USA, with residual hold-over in Canada due to cross border trade in construction materials)
You will find ‘(minutes) and “(seconds) used here, but it’s less common to the general public and is more commonly associated with polar coordinates, (ergo my inclusion of degrees ° above) either in nautical/aeronautical navigation, or astronomy. But it’s is definitely not as familiar to the general public (speaking anecdotally)
I mean, I understood it (after a minute), so there is familiarity with it. I’d think it less popular in the US where we use feet and inches and use ‘ and ” for feet and inches.
Nah. Walky’s always talked like that. I don’t know what kind of accent it is but it ‘s more like slang and abbreviated words than what Sal’s more prounounced southern accent is. He also doesn’t say “dang” nearly as much.
Yes in that Walky clearly reckognised a certain type of behaviour in his sister that is not healthy.
I mean, either she is basically being a bit stalker-ish against a prospective friend/romantic/sexual interest…
…or this person already belongs in one of these categories, and Sal wants to see them, bur without appearing that she wants to see them, because aloof coolness must be maintained at all times.
Neither option is that good, and it’s probably a good idea to have her confronted with what she is doing…
But that brings us to the “and no” part.
Because it’s Walky doing the confrontation here, and having a sibling confronting you with your behaviour is often… less than ideal. Especially when, despite one’s best efforts, one cannot help but get some sibling ribbing in. Double especially when said sibling just ribbed one first, just minutes ago. Better persons than Walky have tried and failed that.
There are a few theories though. From the possibility she’s just choosing not to ride in snow (which I doubt since she misses it so much) to the far more likely theory she either sold it or got in legal trouble for violating traffic laws in multiple high speed chases.
What lead to the Halloween break-ups between Ruth and Billie/Jennifer, between Walky and Amber, and who or what is in the forbidden rooms at the end of the hall?
Honestly as someone who lived in a single at the end of the hall my last semester, it’s pretty straightforward to me. It is REALLY EASY to isolate yourself in the dorms when you’ve got a single that’s out of the way like that. You might see people in the halls or the bathroom, but you don’t have a roommate to share the space with who might, therefore, want that space to themselves (under circumstances that are hopefully equitably negotiated.) That means you’ve really got no reason to hang out in the common areas. Add exaggeration for joke, and voila, you have Joyce and Walky reacting to the end of the hall like it’s incredibly haunted, because they never really encounter these people.
I had a single in the middle of the hall, but before that, I shared with someone on the end unit. It sucked bc we were DIRECTLY above a loose pipe that intermittently banged VERY LOUDLY against the wall until I discovered this and filled in the gaps with insulating foam
Why me? …bc heck if I could bring myself to talk to anyone 🤷🏻♀️
I prefer to simply believe that Sal’s smart enough not to ride her (extremely fast) motorcycle when the weather is below freezing. It’s all fun and games until you find the puddle that froze and have to replace your pants due to street burn, or worse. I have and ride a small Harley to commute to/from work, and those are the rules I live by.
Living in Northern Virginia, I get more ride time than further North and West, but still, temps hovering about 32 degrees F and I drive. Even going slow, having the bike slide out from under you is not fun, and picking it back up solo in the slippery is worse.
Although, this is Fuck You Willis and all of that ^ is real life and not very popcorn-ish enough….
It’s the part where Sal doesn’t want to talk about it and is noticeably sad about it that makes a lot of us think it isn’t the practical, non-permanent reason. That implies a lot more drama than even ‘I learned the hard way you don’t do this in the winter.’
I’m “the baby” (who, by now, can LARP as an anorexic ogre if he wants, which I find hilarious for some reason), and we’re fraternal (two girls, one boy).
“You’ve Always Been Way Too Cool Fer That, What With Bein’ a Dispassionate Motorcycle Outlaw or Whatever” seems like a good choice for one of those sentence-length book titles; bonus points for being less precious than some of them
It might have been the winner if “My Code Also Demands I Adhere Strictly To Renamings, Even When Corporate Acquisition-Based” didn’t already have it locked up.
I may or may not have done that on my motorcycle in High School.
On my stylin’ Honda CL 180.
(like this, but a 2-cylinder) https://www.smartcycleguide.com/L50055154
I really like that space ship design too (I might just borrow from its form), but I was originally referring to the motorbike, like the kind Haruko had in FLCL.
But your link clearly says its got “a “P!” sticker on the front wing” but the drawing clearly has no wings. Why would they name a moterbike after a sentry drone anyway?
It might also normally depend on if I’m typing on my tablet, my laptop, or my desktop.
After the last avatar roulette change I went through and located every character with changes in the case of my email and made a list. The idea was that for each separate comment I would use an appropriate avatar just for that comment. It took awhile to compile. Then I promptly lost the list.
I love the Walkerton twins♡. Walky is finally showing his telepathic power to Sal and she’s afraid of the truth. On the other hand, Sal might really just want to ride the bike around the campus and Walky might be REALLY annoying with his suspicions.
Walky is actually half-right. I don’t think that Sal is still crushing on Asher. Instead, she’s hoping to ‘accidentally’ run into him so she can have an argument with his without looking as if she’s crushing him and this is just an excuse.
The fact is that Sal doesn’t trust Asher, thinks that he’ll hurt Jennifer and is calmly ignoring her surrogate sister’s agency because she’s the sort of personality who thinks she has to protect everyone else from this big bad world of ours. Whether or not they want or need her protection.
Yeah, this is why my own usual strategy is to watch the people I care about make horrible decisions because it’s not my place to interfere, and then feel guilty about it basically forever.
A friend was getting in with the wrong people so I put it like this, “your health and well-being are more important to me than our friendship, which is why I must say…” then after saying my bit as concisely as possible, “regardless of what you chose to do, know that I love you, you are worthy of love and deserve to feel loved. If things go wrong, I’ll be there and you will never hear me say I told you so.”
While the convention is to not interfere in peoples relationships, I went through some wrecks and had enough self doubt that I was looking to those around me to say something reassuring but everyone was so hung up on not saying something that I stayed for /way/ too long. While I never blamed my friends and family for not speaking up, I promised myself that I wouldn’t make the same choice.
According to Google Maps, there are a couple big empty fields across the street from McNutt. Sal’s loop is probably only a couple miles around the block.
You’re not wrong, which is why my cradar is straight up screaming at a gender-swapped Asher… so yeah, wrap it in plastic or get it laminated or something.
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Sal is in fact just practicing her bird calls
*Gob’s “chicken” dance* “Fuck OFF! Fuck OFF! Fuck OFF!”
Technically it could be a bird call.
Technically a tomato is a marsupial. Which sounds like something that milu would say.
You know, speaking of milu, it’s been over a week since we heard from them here. I hope they’re okay.
Me too. I wonder what they’re doing right now….
awww you cuties are thinking about me? ^,_^
yeah i didn’t mean to be away for so long, i had a minor freakout that other time and felt silly and confused about it, whatever i’m over it, and i also got distracted because i had some intense procrastinating to do before i leave to work at a festival in italy the day after tomorrow, i have loads of shit to get done before leaving and i have done basically nothing (which is my customary MO). i was extremely creative as a result haha. nothing like procrastination to get in that flow zone. and the reason that has anything to do with anything is because i refuse to acknowledge that playing music might count as wasting time. it’s axiomatic. but hanging here does (and i do spend A LOT of time here some days)
..anyway, Clif that sounded like something i would say because it’s something Joshua Barkman would say and they are my role model and secret crush and their comic is the best thing since sliced bread so i quote them all the time ^^
(oh yeah so, i will also most likely not be seen here a whole lot while i’m gone because for about 10 days i’ll be in a tiny village on a mountain and overworked, sleep-deprived and (probably, most days) hungover. also there’s no network up there and the only place with wifi is a 30′ walk lol)
I was really over here reading that as “a thirty foot walk” and thinking, “That’s really close?”
Anyway, I get it now.
To any still missing it (I stared at this too long too). 30′ =30 minutes
(like degrees,minutes,seconds °,’,”)
….y’all don’t use ‘ and ” for minutes & seconds in like texts and such? i wonder where i picked that up. it’s not really a french thing either i don’t think. thanks for translating Demo
‘ and ” are used for feet and inches respectively in north america (mainly USA, with residual hold-over in Canada due to cross border trade in construction materials)
You will find ‘(minutes) and “(seconds) used here, but it’s less common to the general public and is more commonly associated with polar coordinates, (ergo my inclusion of degrees ° above) either in nautical/aeronautical navigation, or astronomy. But it’s is definitely not as familiar to the general public (speaking anecdotally)
I mean, I understood it (after a minute), so there is familiarity with it. I’d think it less popular in the US where we use feet and inches and use ‘ and ” for feet and inches.
Yeah, using those symbols for minutes and seconds is something done most often internationally, especially in the European Union.
Hopefully when the time comes to use it, we won’t misidentify light-years as a measurement of time.
Sal….so cool…..and yet so fakey.
Oh god…middle school flashbacks…
is Walky developing a Sal-therner accent?
Nah. Walky’s always talked like that. I don’t know what kind of accent it is but it ‘s more like slang and abbreviated words than what Sal’s more prounounced southern accent is. He also doesn’t say “dang” nearly as much.
Yeah, there are some differences. Walky probably speaks more like Becky than he does Sal.
Just not nearly as loud.
Walky and Sal are from Evansville, literally just across the river from Kentucky. So not southern but maybe southern-influenced
*plays “My White Bicycle” by Tomorrow on Voxola PR-76*
“Driver’s License” only with a bike and Sal is surprisingly Olivia.
Ahh… the best and worst part of having siblings.
Indeed. It is both wholesome and terrible. Good job, Walky.
Ah yes, such productive dialogue between siblings.
Not that I can say much considering my own sibling issues.
I mean, yes and no.
Yes in that Walky clearly reckognised a certain type of behaviour in his sister that is not healthy.
I mean, either she is basically being a bit stalker-ish against a prospective friend/romantic/sexual interest…
…or this person already belongs in one of these categories, and Sal wants to see them, bur without appearing that she wants to see them, because aloof coolness must be maintained at all times.
Neither option is that good, and it’s probably a good idea to have her confronted with what she is doing…
But that brings us to the “and no” part.
Because it’s Walky doing the confrontation here, and having a sibling confronting you with your behaviour is often… less than ideal. Especially when, despite one’s best efforts, one cannot help but get some sibling ribbing in. Double especially when said sibling just ribbed one first, just minutes ago. Better persons than Walky have tried and failed that.
Also having this done in a semi-public area.
From the sound of it, your sibling issues would allow you to say a great deal.
What happened to he motorcycle? I missed something…
* her
I don’t think anyone is really clear on that yet, so you didn’t miss anything.
I miss the motorcycle.
Thank you.
There are a few theories though. From the possibility she’s just choosing not to ride in snow (which I doubt since she misses it so much) to the far more likely theory she either sold it or got in legal trouble for violating traffic laws in multiple high speed chases.
Who knows? We might just get our answers to our Halloween questions AND the mystery of the missing motorcycle all at the same time!
It was a Ghost Rider situation.
What lead to the Halloween break-ups between Ruth and Billie/Jennifer, between Walky and Amber, and who or what is in the forbidden rooms at the end of the hall?
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/forbidden/
I fear the mysteries of the Forbidden Zone will remain unsolved
Honestly I’m more curious about Hunter x Hunter’s Dark Continent myself.
Honestly as someone who lived in a single at the end of the hall my last semester, it’s pretty straightforward to me. It is REALLY EASY to isolate yourself in the dorms when you’ve got a single that’s out of the way like that. You might see people in the halls or the bathroom, but you don’t have a roommate to share the space with who might, therefore, want that space to themselves (under circumstances that are hopefully equitably negotiated.) That means you’ve really got no reason to hang out in the common areas. Add exaggeration for joke, and voila, you have Joyce and Walky reacting to the end of the hall like it’s incredibly haunted, because they never really encounter these people.
I had a single in the middle of the hall, but before that, I shared with someone on the end unit. It sucked bc we were DIRECTLY above a loose pipe that intermittently banged VERY LOUDLY against the wall until I discovered this and filled in the gaps with insulating foam
Why me? …bc heck if I could bring myself to talk to anyone 🤷🏻♀️
Pipe, not neighbors? (Just keeping it clear.)
I prefer to simply believe that Sal’s smart enough not to ride her (extremely fast) motorcycle when the weather is below freezing. It’s all fun and games until you find the puddle that froze and have to replace your pants due to street burn, or worse. I have and ride a small Harley to commute to/from work, and those are the rules I live by.
Living in Northern Virginia, I get more ride time than further North and West, but still, temps hovering about 32 degrees F and I drive. Even going slow, having the bike slide out from under you is not fun, and picking it back up solo in the slippery is worse.
Although, this is Fuck You Willis and all of that ^ is real life and not very popcorn-ish enough….
Get a Kawasaki KLR650 with studded winter tires, laugh in Mother Nature’s stupid face.
It’s the part where Sal doesn’t want to talk about it and is noticeably sad about it that makes a lot of us think it isn’t the practical, non-permanent reason. That implies a lot more drama than even ‘I learned the hard way you don’t do this in the winter.’
Dannys Hat stole it.
Knows each other the way only siblings can.
The more you say “F off” the more suspicious you look.
Why, I could say the same about you just for such a bold claim…..
Foff , Foff, foff, FOFF.
It makes me laugh when Walky reads her like a book.
Twin powers will do that.
Am a triplet, can confirm.
Which one are you? And identical or fraternal?
I’m “the baby” (who, by now, can LARP as an anorexic ogre if he wants, which I find hilarious for some reason), and we’re fraternal (two girls, one boy).
That is awesome! Thank you for sharing.
Really? Whose attention at McNutt is she trying to get? Not Asher’s, so who?
Why not Asher’s?
As if she would even notice Asher.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/laps/
Billie’s?
Billie stays at Forest Quad.
When she isn’t staying with Asher, that is.
Look, Walky, either get her to spill about the motorcycle or stop teasing me by bringing it up.
Poor Sal, she will never escape the gaze of the Mount Mcnutt king. He can see as far as the blowjob Cat.
He could see further, but his attention stops there.
On account of it makes him think of pizza.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/jim/
In Walky’s defense, I find that pizza easily derails my attention, too.
A Patreon strip revealed that Sal rejects indie comics for the MCU.
Which is to say that she is and always has been a Giant Fucking Poser.
Alternatively she just doesn’t have anything stronger than a casual interest in comics or movies.
“You’ve Always Been Way Too Cool Fer That, What With Bein’ a Dispassionate Motorcycle Outlaw or Whatever” seems like a good choice for one of those sentence-length book titles; bonus points for being less precious than some of them
It might have been the winner if “My Code Also Demands I Adhere Strictly To Renamings, Even When Corporate Acquisition-Based” didn’t already have it locked up.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/sip/
She just wants to talk with her goof brother that has somehow got hot.
It’s a time-honoured trope that in every great SAGA there’s a history in which a one or more characters get stuck in a time loop.
Since “we don’t do that here” (Ei, T’Challa!) (“that” meaning sci-fi hijinks), that is as close as we’ll get to having a “time loop adventure”!
I may or may not have done that on my motorcycle in High School.
On my stylin’ Honda CL 180.
(like this, but a 2-cylinder)
https://www.smartcycleguide.com/L50055154
Woah!!!
The design on that kind of looks like a bicycle on the tires and their supports. Why does it somehow remind me of a Vespa?
That’s not what a Vespa looks like. https://www.eveonlineships.com/eve-ship-database.php?es=Vespa+I&ids=15508
I really like that space ship design too (I might just borrow from its form), but I was originally referring to the motorbike, like the kind Haruko had in FLCL.
But your link clearly says its got “a “P!” sticker on the front wing” but the drawing clearly has no wings. Why would they name a moterbike after a sentry drone anyway?
He says as he does AFK mining protected only by 5 Vespa II drones somewhere in Minmatar Republic space.
Wait a minute…. why do you have two avatars on the same page? Or is that a different Clif?
I don’t know what your talking about. I’ve always had this avatar.
A third one? Or am I just loopy from lack of sleep?
It might also normally depend on if I’m typing on my tablet, my laptop, or my desktop.
After the last avatar roulette change I went through and located every character with changes in the case of my email and made a list. The idea was that for each separate comment I would use an appropriate avatar just for that comment. It took awhile to compile. Then I promptly lost the list.
He’s just joking with you. There’s really seven of us.
At least I’m not going cliff jumping with you; that would just be too many Clifs!
Panel 3: Oh NOW I see the attractive Walky hair.
Sal-dere.
B-baka.
How’s she gonna get a Peter Gabriel-playing boombox on that bike anyway
The 21st century equivalent is one of those waterproof Bluetooth speakers that straps to the handlebars.
I love the Walkerton twins♡. Walky is finally showing his telepathic power to Sal and she’s afraid of the truth. On the other hand, Sal might really just want to ride the bike around the campus and Walky might be REALLY annoying with his suspicions.
Walky is actually half-right. I don’t think that Sal is still crushing on Asher. Instead, she’s hoping to ‘accidentally’ run into him so she can have an argument with his without looking as if she’s crushing him and this is just an excuse.
The fact is that Sal doesn’t trust Asher, thinks that he’ll hurt Jennifer and is calmly ignoring her surrogate sister’s agency because she’s the sort of personality who thinks she has to protect everyone else from this big bad world of ours. Whether or not they want or need her protection.
Yeah, this is why my own usual strategy is to watch the people I care about make horrible decisions because it’s not my place to interfere, and then feel guilty about it basically forever.
A friend was getting in with the wrong people so I put it like this, “your health and well-being are more important to me than our friendship, which is why I must say…” then after saying my bit as concisely as possible, “regardless of what you chose to do, know that I love you, you are worthy of love and deserve to feel loved. If things go wrong, I’ll be there and you will never hear me say I told you so.”
While the convention is to not interfere in peoples relationships, I went through some wrecks and had enough self doubt that I was looking to those around me to say something reassuring but everyone was so hung up on not saying something that I stayed for /way/ too long. While I never blamed my friends and family for not speaking up, I promised myself that I wouldn’t make the same choice.
Sounds like she needs new business cards now, then! “Very impassioned biker”?
Walky, maybe Sal wants to ride a bicycle. And, what’s more, wants to ride it where she likes?
I wonder how big the entire campus is and how long it took Sal to bike around it.
Big Ten campus? It would be huge. Riding around the snow pile? Not too bad. A loop next to the snow pile that goes past a dorm? More likely.
According to Google Maps, there are a couple big empty fields across the street from McNutt. Sal’s loop is probably only a couple miles around the block.
…Walky… even if you think she’s doing that to bump into Ashley… some things are better kept in your heart lolz
Now I’m imagining a gender-swapper version of Asher and it’s quite appealing.
You’re not wrong, which is why my cradar is straight up screaming at a gender-swapped Asher… so yeah, wrap it in plastic or get it laminated or something.
I’m guessing she’d look a lot like Alice.
oh dang. I blame autocorrect. My brain’s autocorrect
He is stuck up there that is why he was in the same spot even after she went all the way around campus
Oh man, I’ve caught up again. :\
You know, it’s not very often, but sometimes I wonder if DoA!Walky is as secretly smart as IW!Walky is.