i mean it’s a little bit awkward other than a specific celebration or so for someone but i can imagine a college aged person doing a toast/cheers, tho prolly something more walky-esque in word choice than whatever dorothy would talk aboutl ol
Yeah, like what the actual hell is she even on about right now? Is she drunk again? I’ve never once seen somebody Address The Room at a small get-together.
There’s a lot of humor that Dorothy is an incredibly nice girl and a really good, if someone overbearing, friend.
But her story becomes increasingly funnier the more you realize she’s got terrible social skills and couldn’t win RA in an election let alone a political office.
Yeah, that’s absolutely true. Honestly, Dorothy may know a lot about how the political system works, but actually BEING a politician… No. Not going to happen.
Her going in front of a crowd to try winning their vote would essentially start with “Greetings, fellow humans!”
Maybe. There are a lot of quite successful politicians who aren’t charismatic.
Her route is more likely the building a reputation, slow rise through the ranks approach rather than sweeping to victory out of nowhere. She’s also got time to build social skills – they are skills after all.
Or a man. Or some shade of Christian. At some point you gotta try.
…then again this is such a weird conversation. I’m sure even Dorothy herself, for all her unironic ambition, knows she’s likely not gonna end up prez. Girl wants to be in politics, and she’s a pretty decent person. How is that a bad thing? Why are people constantly pointing out how unfit for the job she is?
Unless everyone giving her a hard time is a committed anarchist or free-market fundamentalist (aka libertarian, don’t @ me) we all essentially accept political institutions are a fact of life. Wouldnt you have a few try-hard but sincere Dorothies amid the scores of cynical trust-fund jerkwads and slimy fascist ghouls???
The thing that’s weird to me about Dorothy is that she does always frame it in terms of being President, not about going into politics. Makes it seem a childish idea of ambition, rather than something more serious.
Yeah, I think the point is to portray her as kind of naive and conceited, and represent a certain kind of well-meaning white entitlement. but she’s also shown as extremely driven and determined and ultimately pretty grounded so i feel like she’d naturally grow out of it. (Especially as she learns enough history and geopolitics to realize how cringe its sounds to say you want to be “leader of the free world” LOL)
I guess we’ll see, maybe she’s like the Paul Dano character in Little Miss Sunshine and has a total meltdown when she realizes she’ll never become president
Because art imitates life imitating art imitating life? Fan reaction to Dorothy is basically a remix of the 2008 primary and the 2016 election seasons.
“Unofficial capacity” 😛 Because a Halloween party needs an official chair, you see. And treasurer, and secretary, and social media manager…
Oh yes, and I just read the last few strips. The whole “queer debauchery” set-up made me giggle. Some strong “No fighting in the war room” energy. Go queer debauchery!
Of course a good Halloween party needs all those things. But none of those positions are the “say a few words” position. THAT belongs to the Master of Ceremonies.
“Say a few words”? About what, ya little weirdo? Let people just hang out and do their thing, nobody needs a speech or eulogy right now. Why’s everything gotta be An Event with this girl?
You’re not wrong. Every time I see a politician doing basically anything that’s not fixing a problem that matters, I get very annoyed. Intellectually, I understand that they probably have working hours like any other job, but also screw ’em.
I love how that is not ever true in a Willis comment section normally, but in this case is even more desperate than usual because we know for a fact things *have* to go very wrong, very fast
I’m at a complete loss as to what she even wants a speech about. Even just “a few words” is baffling to me, unless those words are “Hey, I’m putting on a movie! Do we want Nightmare or Friday?”
That’s a kind of Questionable Content expression on Sarah’s face in the first panel, as when one of Jeph’s more tsundere characters like May is likewise called out on not being as antisocial as they pretend.
Hi this is your resident contrarian and I think giving speeches at random friendly gatherings is a fine idea! Speeches are weird to begin with, why would it be more appropriate to give a speech at a wedding or retirement event than at a halloween party?
Its good when stuff happens at parties. If Dorothy was a magician no one would make a fuss about her getting up and doing card tricks. Why not a speech? Maybe people will heckle you and you’ll decide to stop giving a speech. Heckling speech-givers is a fine idea also and will only contribute to the party being non-boring! Yay for speeches! And heckling! And magic tricks! I have spoken.
Been meaning to ask … just who or what is your avatar supposed to be? It bears a strong resemblance to Millie Tant, a British cartoon character from the 1980s as a satirical caricature of an outspoken radical feminist, but she was always shown with a closely-shaved head and wearing a version of a traditional Zulu basket hat.
my avatar is an artistic rendition of what i actually look like, courtesy of The Wellerman, based on a hand-drawn self-portrait =)
i looked up that character, aaand… ew. it doesn’t seem like my kind of comic anyway, but the couple strips i checked out featuring Millie Tant (as well as the summary of her character on wikipedia) make the artist sound like a total shitlord. ah, the 80’s, its saturated fashion, its sick club beats, its virulent antifeminist backlash…
i do kind of appreciate the idea that i might have tried to rehabilitate a feminist caricature, but no.
besides i think when comments are deleted the counter doesn’t go down, so that wouldn’t be the reason. the only way you’d notice is by checking the actual number of comments on the page. (say, by ctrl-F’ing something like “August 10, 2022”)
seems like “10” could appear in a comment, though… eg as a substring of “100%”, or even the time of day. you could get a general estimate, but it would be more accurate with a larger search phrase
I’ve actually found a Firefox extension that allows you to do regex searches, that way I can search only for comments posted after a certain time, the formula is just obscene it’s something like,
at ((([]|1[01])….am)|(([1-9]2?|[01])….pm))
Its been a while since I’ve used it, so i’m not sure I got it right.
…of COURSE this is the only place I’ve ever needed a regex search tool, because other websites have normal comment sections lol. DYW.
I mean.. will you? I don’t know that’s its super useful outside of, like, maybe copy-editing, and linguistic corpus research and a few idiosyncratic situations like this one. Also there really isn’t much to learn, there’s like 10 symbols which you just combine to make weirdly specific searches. I can’t even remember how I learned it, probably fooling around on excel as a teen (I had an excel obsession for a minute, listen)
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“UNOFFICIALLY… tell them I AM NOT ENJOYING THIS”
Yay, Dorothy gets the nerdy speech she so craves and Sarah doesn’t have to admit that she’s enjoying a social gathering! Win-win.
And we get to enjoy it. Win-win-win.
Dorothy/Sarah interactions are one of the unsung heroes of DoA comedy.
Honestly, I think that it’s slowly developing towards a real hostility/rivalry.
…everyone’s doing their things and having fun, why the hell do you want to call people’s attention to make a speech
Well, Dorothy wants to do it because she’s Dorothy, AKA Leslie Knope without the breakfast food obsession.
And Sarah wants her to do it because making everyone awkward and uncomfortable for a couple of minutes is hilarious.
i mean it’s a little bit awkward other than a specific celebration or so for someone but i can imagine a college aged person doing a toast/cheers, tho prolly something more walky-esque in word choice than whatever dorothy would talk aboutl ol
Do people really need to “say words” at a Halloween party? That feels like a more formal gathering type deal.
Dorothy doesn’t do informal anything
“Lend me your ears.”
“Like…our costume ears?”
Person who came as the dancer from Crimes of the Future:
“This might take a moment”
“It’s time for the costume judging contest!”
“Wait, now? We’ve BEEN judgey about everyone else’s costumes since we all got here!”
Yeah, like what the actual hell is she even on about right now? Is she drunk again? I’ve never once seen somebody Address The Room at a small get-together.
I think Dorothy’s just bored and socially awkward.
I haven’t been to a lot of Halloween parties, but I definitely feel like this event isn’t nearly formal enough for a speech.
Sarah’s really got Dorothy’s number.
…she should pass it along to Joyce.ROFL
it only took one panel
Not even leaving time for a silent panel. Amateur hour
Dorothy has been somewhat dislikeable for the past two arcs and I can’t put my tongue on why but I am enjoying that
idk i like this strip’s ability to bounce people around between ‘beloved blorbo’ and ‘Villain. Jail’ within the span of like two strips
There’s a lot of humor that Dorothy is an incredibly nice girl and a really good, if someone overbearing, friend.
But her story becomes increasingly funnier the more you realize she’s got terrible social skills and couldn’t win RA in an election let alone a political office.
We know someone else with as terrible social skills that somehow got elected, too. mostly thanks for her aides tho 😀
Yeah, that’s absolutely true. Honestly, Dorothy may know a lot about how the political system works, but actually BEING a politician… No. Not going to happen.
Her going in front of a crowd to try winning their vote would essentially start with “Greetings, fellow humans!”
I’m seeing her ending up a policy wonk in the background of someone more charismatic.
Becky, you say.
I mean that would be pretty ideal as a pairing, I think.
🙂
Maybe. There are a lot of quite successful politicians who aren’t charismatic.
Her route is more likely the building a reputation, slow rise through the ranks approach rather than sweeping to victory out of nowhere. She’s also got time to build social skills – they are skills after all.
I’m not sure of any Presidents who haven’t been charismatic.
Guess it depends on what you mean – how charismatic you have to be?
Just for recent ones – Neither Bush was in the Obama/Clinton league. Biden isn’t particularly charismatic, from my pov.
Or a man. Or some shade of Christian. At some point you gotta try.
…then again this is such a weird conversation. I’m sure even Dorothy herself, for all her unironic ambition, knows she’s likely not gonna end up prez. Girl wants to be in politics, and she’s a pretty decent person. How is that a bad thing? Why are people constantly pointing out how unfit for the job she is?
Unless everyone giving her a hard time is a committed anarchist or free-market fundamentalist (aka libertarian, don’t @ me) we all essentially accept political institutions are a fact of life. Wouldnt you have a few try-hard but sincere Dorothies amid the scores of cynical trust-fund jerkwads and slimy fascist ghouls???
The thing that’s weird to me about Dorothy is that she does always frame it in terms of being President, not about going into politics. Makes it seem a childish idea of ambition, rather than something more serious.
Yeah, I think the point is to portray her as kind of naive and conceited, and represent a certain kind of well-meaning white entitlement. but she’s also shown as extremely driven and determined and ultimately pretty grounded so i feel like she’d naturally grow out of it. (Especially as she learns enough history and geopolitics to realize how cringe its sounds to say you want to be “leader of the free world” LOL)
I guess we’ll see, maybe she’s like the Paul Dano character in Little Miss Sunshine and has a total meltdown when she realizes she’ll never become president
Because art imitates life imitating art imitating life? Fan reaction to Dorothy is basically a remix of the 2008 primary and the 2016 election seasons.
So like Dorothy.
I sure hope she will be humbled as soon as possible.
Best to set off that sadness avalanche now before it does any serious damage.
More Than Words/Is all you have to do to make it real…
Sarah got caught having fun, and she would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for that meddling Dotty.
🥴😏🤣🤣🤣😏❗
Dorothy: Good news, everyone! I’VE GOT INTO YALE! I’m leaving next week!
Joyce: :stare of unmitigated horror:
“Do the thing.”
“Oh no, I’m too busy pretending to not have fun. You do the thing.”
“Oh no, I’m too busy pretending to not be an attention-seeker.”
Loopholes, loopholes everywhere
An essential political skill.
“Unofficial capacity” 😛 Because a Halloween party needs an official chair, you see. And treasurer, and secretary, and social media manager…
Oh yes, and I just read the last few strips. The whole “queer debauchery” set-up made me giggle. Some strong “No fighting in the war room” energy. Go queer debauchery!
Go queer debauchery!
Yes Ma’am!
**salutes**
**departs to partake in queer debauchery**
😊
Of course a good Halloween party needs all those things. But none of those positions are the “say a few words” position. THAT belongs to the Master of Ceremonies.
A good Halloween party also has an official misanthrope, a role that requires a lot of dedication. Thank Cthulu Sarah’s taking her position seriously.
Yeah I think Dorothy plays a hand in both breakups. Not on purpose or anything.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-12/05-this-was-halloween/deepdarkhole/ was completely on purpose.
I’m sorry — did you see Walky’s impression of Dexter? Did you see which hand he was making a claw with? what else could Dorothy even do, I ask you
Dorothy will make a perfect politician. She has exactly the right combination of well-meaning and arsehole.
Gotta say, I am loving these Halloween costumes. Willis is good to us.
I mean, this is all a set up to rip our hearts out so he can feast on our tears, but still.
“Here, twist my arm.”
Sarah barely touches it.
“Hold on there … you tryin’ to break it?”
Speaker of the
HouseDorm, Dorothy KeenerWell at least this is less likely to trigger a war with China
So she’s definitely going to have a breakdown during this speech, right?
Have or Cause?
¿Por qué no los dos?
“Say a few words”? About what, ya little weirdo? Let people just hang out and do their thing, nobody needs a speech or eulogy right now. Why’s everything gotta be An Event with this girl?
Gotta practice being annoying for that Presidential gig.
You’re not wrong. Every time I see a politician doing basically anything that’s not fixing a problem that matters, I get very annoyed. Intellectually, I understand that they probably have working hours like any other job, but also screw ’em.
Wait politicians solve problems and not just create them to justify their existence O_o ?
Is “Halloween” gonna turn out to be code for “Dorothy Had a breakdown and spilled everyones secrets in public”
What secrets?
I’m gonna praise how Sarah’s draw are more and more cutie. Nice job, Willis!
This is going to end well. There will be no drama and zero tears.
I love how that is not ever true in a Willis comment section normally, but in this case is even more desperate than usual because we know for a fact things *have* to go very wrong, very fast
I’m glad to see that I’m not the only reader whose reaction was “Why do you need to give a speech at a Halloween party?”
I’m at a complete loss as to what she even wants a speech about. Even just “a few words” is baffling to me, unless those words are “Hey, I’m putting on a movie! Do we want Nightmare or Friday?”
Possibly it’s related to the kidnapping that took place recently?
Yeah I’m sure that’s exactly what these kids wanna think about right now.
Please no hahaha
is this the only way dorothy knows how to get attention, or
That’s a kind of Questionable Content expression on Sarah’s face in the first panel, as when one of Jeph’s more tsundere characters like May is likewise called out on not being as antisocial as they pretend.
Ahahaha I love Sarah.
who the hell gives a speech at a Halloween party??
Dorothy, apparently.
Truly, the scariest thing about Halloween.
This isn’t Sarah’s 111th birthday party, nobody needs to give a speech.
She would probably have a thing or two to say about knowing some people more than she would like to.
Hi this is your resident contrarian and I think giving speeches at random friendly gatherings is a fine idea! Speeches are weird to begin with, why would it be more appropriate to give a speech at a wedding or retirement event than at a halloween party?
Its good when stuff happens at parties. If Dorothy was a magician no one would make a fuss about her getting up and doing card tricks. Why not a speech? Maybe people will heckle you and you’ll decide to stop giving a speech. Heckling speech-givers is a fine idea also and will only contribute to the party being non-boring! Yay for speeches! And heckling! And magic tricks! I have spoken.
Been meaning to ask … just who or what is your avatar supposed to be? It bears a strong resemblance to Millie Tant, a British cartoon character from the 1980s as a satirical caricature of an outspoken radical feminist, but she was always shown with a closely-shaved head and wearing a version of a traditional Zulu basket hat.
my avatar is an artistic rendition of what i actually look like, courtesy of The Wellerman, based on a hand-drawn self-portrait =)
i looked up that character, aaand… ew. it doesn’t seem like my kind of comic anyway, but the couple strips i checked out featuring Millie Tant (as well as the summary of her character on wikipedia) make the artist sound like a total shitlord. ah, the 80’s, its saturated fashion, its sick club beats, its virulent antifeminist backlash…
i do kind of appreciate the idea that i might have tried to rehabilitate a feminist caricature, but no.
only 72 comments on a comic?
Did I miss out on an argument blowup or something?
eh, i think people are just on holiday ^^
besides i think when comments are deleted the counter doesn’t go down, so that wouldn’t be the reason. the only way you’d notice is by checking the actual number of comments on the page. (say, by ctrl-F’ing something like “August 10, 2022”)
i just ctrl-F “10,” in this case
and i though i was the only one that did that
seems like “10” could appear in a comment, though… eg as a substring of “100%”, or even the time of day. you could get a general estimate, but it would be more accurate with a larger search phrase
Now why would you think that ^^
I’ve actually found a Firefox extension that allows you to do regex searches, that way I can search only for comments posted after a certain time, the formula is just obscene it’s something like,
at ((([]|1[01])….am)|(([1-9]2?|[01])….pm))
Its been a while since I’ve used it, so i’m not sure I got it right.
…of COURSE this is the only place I’ve ever needed a regex search tool, because other websites have normal comment sections lol. DYW.
welp, if im ever gonna get far as a programmer, imma need to learn Regex eventually. :0
I mean.. will you? I don’t know that’s its super useful outside of, like, maybe copy-editing, and linguistic corpus research and a few idiosyncratic situations like this one. Also there really isn’t much to learn, there’s like 10 symbols which you just combine to make weirdly specific searches. I can’t even remember how I learned it, probably fooling around on excel as a teen (I had an excel obsession for a minute, listen)
Hey now, Regex can save the day 🙂
https://xkcd.com/208/