It’s great that dina finds herself appealing but given how loud and boastful becky is about herself and her relationship i don’t think it would’ve crossed her mind anyways even if dina was bi or had a brief fling with walky (well i think there was romantic attraction in one other universe? but we’re not counting those)
My suspicion is that it’s more of a “Don’t de-sexualise the Autistic person”. Given that the whole Dina/Becky thing started with Dina getting pissed at people infantalising her, I suspect there is still a significant part of her that demands people recognise her as an adult with romantic and sexual agency.
might be more overall? as opposed to exclusive. or also inclusive of nonbinary ppl who call themselves sapphic/lesbians? like i can imagine dina’s ace would make her being more demi leaning/willing to be in relationships after knowing/bonding with someone regardless of gender while becky’s exclusively only attracted to other women
@gears:
Lesbian = a homosexual woman (of any type) ie – a female identifying person who is only into women
Sapphic = a female identifying person who is into women (but possibly other things as well)
As a bisexual but homoromantic woman who married a woman, I prefer the term Sapphic because it doesn’t erase my bisexuality while still indicating my preference for female partners such as my wife. That said, it isn’t as well known a term, so we still get called ‘lesbians’ sometimes.
that distinction always feels faintly terfy to me. like, both terms are references to sappho, the idea that one’s a gold star lesbian and the other isn’t is… mildly suspect.
Mrm. It comes more from the radfem side that the trans exclusionary side; the idea that sex between men and women is always abusive and exploitative, and that trans women are secretly men, and so cis women who sleep with trans men—or lesbians who sleep with gay men, or who have slept with cis straight men in the past—are being exploited and abused, and that talking about their own identification and sexual history somehow threatens the sexuality of lesbian terfs.
it’s also just historically inaccurate; lesbian was and is used to included women who sleep with women of all sexualities, not just women who do not and never have slept with men. insisting that it has an exclusionary definition rather than an inclusionary one is a common terf talking point, and gets invoked around arguments about trans men “stealing” butchness away from them.
What the hell are you talking about? 😵💫 How do you twist your mind into such a complex knot? “I’m a lesbian” “I’m sapphic in general.” “Oh, so you’re being molested?” What?
It’s not “lesbian only dates other lesbians while sapphic women also dates bi/pan/demi women”
It’s “while lesbians exclusively feel attraction to other women, sapphic is an umbrella term for all wlw”
So lesbians are still sapphic. So are bi women. And pan ones. And demi ones.
Yeah, I just refuse to acknowledge any TERF position because they’re all insane and hateful.
In fact, I’ll take it a step further. TERF lesbians aren’t real lesbians. I’m not even going to justify that statement because fuck TERFs.
TERFs impose restrictions of labels on other people according to their own prejudices. This is about calling somebody what THEY want to be called. If a lesbian wanted to insist that bisexual people shouldn’t get to call themselves a lesbian, and must use the term sapphic, then sure, but if a bisexual person feels the term lesbian is too restrictive for them and they want to use the term sapphic for themselves, that’s their label to define.
Excuse me?????
No dude, no. Lesbian just means exclusive ATTRACTION to women. Sapphic means attraction to women with a potential +, eg I like women and I’m asexual and I don’t want to erase my asexual identity, or I like women and men and it’s erasure to call bi/pan women lesbians.That’s not good star. It’s not excluding lesbians who’ve had sex with men because they probably weren’t significantly attracted to them. This is a complete misunderstanding of terms on your part.
Well, “I’m into women, and also into nonbinary people but only if they have ovaries” isn’t… great. It fits into a general tendency that some people have to treat nonbinary people, particularly nonbinary AFAB people, as Womon Lyte instead of a separate gender. And defining attraction around what genitals someone has is a TERF thing.
(Note that attraction and preferences can be different, i.e. you might have someone who finds all genders attractive, but only likes to have sex with partners who have vaginas, regardless of the gender of said partners. “I prefer to have sex with people who have vaginas” is different from “I’m attracted to women, and to nonbinary people who I consider basically women”. One is entirely reasonable, one is someone who needs to reexamine how they see nonbinary people.)
I think the whole trend of trying to label and pigeon-hole everything to the smallest detail is decidedly unproductive and unhealthy. Far better to simply recognize that people are all unique, and that there’s nothing wrong with that.
Here’s the problem: without detailed labels for the human experience, the power differential flows by default to the majority of any axis/trait, and those disadvantaged have no power to call it out.
So it’s all very well to WANT to “just let people be people”… but if you want that, in the world we actually live in, with its systemic oppression and pre-prepared prejudice, people need to be able to use labels so they can point out when their type of human is being oppressed and mistreated.
My point is that pigeon-holing 1) creates an in-group/out-group dynamic and 2) gives the illusion of discrete categories for what is, by all serious research and the stated experience of countless people, a (range of) continuum(s).
You’re not wrong in a way, though Kelibath also isn’t wrong that labels can also be used to defend oppressed groups.
But, in this case, “sapphic” is a more generic term that clearly applies to Dina, while “lesbian” is a more discrete term that arguably does not. Just because lesbian is a more familiar term, doesn’t mean sapphic is an attempt to pigeon-hole anyone.
I believe the issue is not with the word “sapphic”, but with a definition of lesbian that specifically names and excludes “nonbinary AMAB people”.
Sapphic generally means “likes girls”. Lesbian historically also meant “likes girls”, and is still used that way, but is now commonly used to mean “likes girls *exclusively*”. Whether you want to call yourself sapphic, lesbian, or both is a personal choice. But when you start defining *either* term according to a person’s AGAB, *that* is TERFy, because it implies that someone’s AGAB is their “real” gender for purposes of defining sexual attraction. In particular, specifying nonbinary AMAB people as “not girls” in an “attracted to girls exclusively” definition implies that you think AFAB nonbinary people are still girls.
If you’re attracted to nonbinary people (whose gender does not include “girl” in some fashion), regardless of their AGAB, you’re attracted to people who are not girls. What you choose to *do* with that fact is up to you, but it is a fact.
(As a personal aside: I’m AFAB nonbinary. I’ve been on T for five years, and I’ve had top surgery. I find the ability to grow a full beard now absolutely delightful, even if I don’t always want one. I promise you would not look at me on the street and go “ah, yes, that is An Woman What Is Attractive To Lesbeans”.)
Yes, this, exactly. sapphic is a perfectly fine term, with a long history. it’s the attempt to redefine “lesbian” to exclude bisexual women and nonbinary or trans lesbians that’s a bit dodgy. That redefinition to exclude is the terfy part.
Why is all our language for this stuff so relative? It’s always felt bonkers to me that we lump all this stuff under one umbrella and then changing the terms we use for it based on the gender of the person feeling things rather than outlining it like a set of spectrums.
You can be attracted to some set of genitals and bodies.
You can be attracted to some set of gender presentations.
You can be attracted to a personality such that the above two are irrelevant.
Feels like this person is attracted to x body and genital types regardless of gender presentation and this person is attracted to y gender presentation regardless of body and genital types both get termed similarly under the same framework, causing a lot of confusion. And then the words you use change again if the person feeling the attraction turns out to be trans at some point. Like why does you transitioning change the language everyone uses for your attraction when that hasn’t actually changed?
I dunno man, the language seems so arbitrary I don’t really get the point of gate keeping any of it or trying to get too detailed in describing what it means. If you’re a non-binary person attracted to non-binary people with female genitals and you want to call yourself a lesbian just do it. If you’re a woman and happy to date any configuration of person but happen to be in a relationship with a woman right now and want to call yourself a lesbian, just do it. For any of this stuff to be worth trying to gatekeep it would have to mean anything clear and specific in the first place and it just doesn’t. It’s all way wigglier than the internet discourse broadly wants to look at it as being. It’s all for anyone who it resonates with, and it’s more generally agreed upon set of themes than anything else.
I never heard or seen anyone say that the term lesbian excludes amab non binary people, it can exclude some, but that’s based on personal attraction and not whether or not the person is an amab enby
Unfortunately many of us here have seen it constantly, especially being flung at people on trans twitter – or transX, if you will, which I certainly won’t
Sweeping the very real threat TERFs pose under the rug unfortunately doesn’t actually help combat its spread through the rest of the populace. Lesbian SHOULD work the way you say, but some gatekeep trans women out of it.
I’m not in the scene, so this might by ignorant, but why would lesbian include non-binary people?
If lesbians are women attracted to women, do enbies consider themselves women? I guess it’s a spectrum, so some may find themselves close enough to the women end to fit under lesbian?
I guess the weirdness is that “lesbian” as a category assumes that gender is binary, so non-binary people kind of break the categorization.
Lesbian doesn’t mean women exclusively attracted to women. That definition was imposed externally and has never described lesbianism as defined in the community. Bi is historically a kind of lesbian and was used that way.
The findamental issue here is people who learned first that “lesbian means women exclusively attracted to women” refusing to be educated….and radfems who push that line as a political point.
What I’m getting from this discussion (with the caveat that, being aroace, I inherently struggle with understanding this stuff) is that some people use the term “lesbian” to refer to women (and maybe AFAB enbies) who are attracted to other women and AFAB enbies, but not men or AMAB enbies, meaning they’re implicitly regarding AFAB enbies as distinctly more woman-like than AMAB enbies.
This. They’re thus erasing the nonbinary identities involved while doing so. Reducing an entire spectrum of different gender identities and presentations back to an effective binary again, of “people who I assume are safe” and “people I assume are dangerous”, based either on AGAB for biological essentialists or on gender presentation for those who are open to the idea of transition but still unaware of the true diversities involved. Assuming anyone presenting even mildly femme is on the female side of a thin dividing line by default. When the spectrum of gender – like most spectra – is more of a three or four dimensional combination of a bunch of different axes and people can be anywhere, multiply often, along them or even move fluidly between different points over time.
Unrelated to anything but recently, apropos of nothing I looked up to see that the male equivalent of “Sapphic” is “Achillean” and I wanna hear that used way more, it sounds rad as hell.
I once saw someone freak out on the writer of Hades in the SGG Discord because “Achilles wasn’t gay, he was in love with a woman.” I’m for more usage of “Achillean”.
It’s a little weird to me. I don’t think there’s any particular such tradition attached to Achilles. It’s certainly not the first thing I think of hearing term.
You mean aside from the Illiad, the only ‘original’ source for Achilles, where his most significant, and explicitly sexual and romantic, attachment is to Ajax? His all-consuming passion for Ajax is literally the thing that drives him back to the fight, to battle Hector in revenge for Ajax’ killing, the one thing Achilles has been known for for centuries?
I have to wonder though; Dorothy’s having a psychotic break, she’s been known to watch a show called “Dexter and Monkey Master”… is this how Head Alien is finally going to show up in DoA?
Yeah, I feel like “psychotic break” here is just how someone with burnout and depression would interprete their burnout and depression. I spent weeks convinced my brain was fundamentally broken and couldn’t do anything, before learning no, I had anxiety issues and a problem with numbers and that was about it.
Like how spending a whole weekend not doing the hundred and one tasks she assigned herself makes her “a former honors student”.
Or she thinks this situation is so weird that her perception of reality has slipped.
… Or she thinks the situation is weird enough to warrant a little internally joking (but maybe slightly worried it’s not) at the fragility of her mental state.
She said her grades were slipping all around, but that was a strip from several (in-comic) months ago. Before the kidnapping, even before she had broken up with Walky.
She’s had time to course correct, and I think if she hadn’t, she would have stressed herself out by now.
Not handling nearly as well as Amber’s vehicles on Mario Kart where she’s perfectly balanced the tires, body and even the parachute for easy acceleration and good drifting on turns.
Aw, it’s so nice to be generous to a character like this.
It’s true, sometimes when we’re caught off-guard we need some time to collect ourselves so we don’t make a mess of things, just like Dorothy is trying to do here!
Technically I think it’s still a neurotic break right now… unless there is Some Shit that we are not seeing onscreen, which granted is for some reason an idea that’s making me want to pop an edible and write some bullshit right now.
Oh it’s her business. The business of kicking Walky’s ass. And let me just say. Business is booming. She’s open for business. The business of givin’ you the business.
i mean, i imagine not if they’re staying in playing games on the weekend because i assume other than a tank top/sports bra/bralette tehy wouldn’t put on one just to answer the door or sleep in one
we can’t rly see it from this angle but i assume she’s wearing a t-shirt and panties like amber is, tho plenty of ppl wear oversized shirts as pajamas, depending on how short you are or long the shirt is i’m sure some ppl would straight up go out on a snack run to like a convenience store without tights on depending on how less of a shit they give since technically it wouldn’t violate any public indecency laws or so
Amber had a laptop You can take a dock hook it up to the hdmi port in a laptop and switch on to TV mode that’s better then using it to play two player on the base screen,
It’s not one, as far as I know. I’m just insulting your computers’ cold weather survival capabilities. Without HDMI input, how will they gather grain or hunt deer?
The original quote is “If you like pineapple slices on pizza, I hope you like pineapple slices on your grave because you’re weak, your bloodline is weak, and you will not survive the winter”. A lot of people think the “Your bloodline is weak and you will not survive the winter” comes from Game of Thrones but it is not from GoT, it’s from a kid’s yearbook photo caption. At this point I do think it’s just a colloquialism though and people using it are not aware of original sourcing.
Yeah, I’m sure the first use of the phrase “won’t survive the winter” involved that stupid-ass pizza meme, some kid’s yearbook photo, or a TV series based on some books.
What hanky panky?! That’s the part that’s confusing to me. How is everyone reading some sort of sexual or romantic jealousy here? They’re playing video games, not grinding on each other. What does Dorothy have a compulsion to scold him for? I feel like this is just a pitfall of Walky not having any male friends.
I don’t think she’s assuming they fucked. It’s still too relationship adjacent considering their past together and the last conversation that Walky and Dorothy had.
I’m a little surprised so many people have apparently never experienced lingering feelings. I’m extremely surprised that so many people have apparently never heard of lingering feelings.
That’s why Dorothy didn’t include Dina in her not-scolding-scolding. If it had just been Walky and Dina. Or if Walky and Joyce were watching Dexter in their sleepwear/underwear, it would not have registered the same.
I think if Walky and Amber were completely different characters, the idea of ‘two exes spending time together, with one of them wearing a shirt and underwear’ would seem a little like cheating of some kind, but I feel like Amber and Walky, despite their previous situationship and clear chemistry… I agree, I don’t really view this as cheating.
I rather think that this is a slow burn to the eventual crumbling of the Lucy/Walky ship, very likely through Amber’s and Walky’s choices…
Walky was definitely encouraged by his dad to pursue Amber, and the interactions between Walky & Amber have contrasted on several occasions with the interactions between Walky & Lucy… this might yet border on cheating.
I think emotional cheating requires a pattern, and this is like the second step in forming a pattern. It’s not exactly there yet, but the shape of it is already recognizable.
The drama is real in Dorothy’s head. It doesn’t need to make sense to anyone but her. She saw them and literally said to herself “What the actual fuck”. Now she’s backing off, though not quite as much as she should.
Factor into the equation that the dinosaur smells noticeably of sex and that Dorothy has been feeling sexually frustrated. Also factor in that Dorothy is depressed, among other things, and might be skewed towards seeing anything in the worst possible way.
Walky is in a room with his ex girlfriend in his pajamas while she is in a shirt and underwear and has a girlfriend. If no one talked before reacting, it could be a whole fight.
If there’s a law against some activity, it’s because someone did it. If you have to loudly proclaim there’s not a racist bone in your body, you’re probably doing racism. If you have to state you’re not a mom friend, you might be one.
It reads perfectly logically to me. As in the proposed title is not for a book of comics, but rather a book on the topic of self-actualizing one’s own animal appeal.
Also don’t forget the whole thing back when she got together with Becky where everyone but Becky was infantalizing her and treating her as a sexless child not someone who’s just as much an adult and capable of sexual/romantic feelings and consent as the rest of the cast.
Amber being singled out when Dina is also in the room with Walky in her underwear probably feels like a continuation of that to her.
Walky and Amber had a fling together though (and just yesterday pretended to be dating to his parents and Amber voiced her attraction directly to him), and Dina is demonstrably not interested in Walky. While I applaud Dina asserting herself, there’s a big difference between her and Amber being pantsless around Walky.
i don’t think walky would be interested (“i am also in my pajamas” “this doesn’t register as interesting to me” or so when walky/amber were first starting to have fun with each other) tho it would be interesting to see him react to a flirting
Perhaps Dotty is just envious that as a “shorter, thiccer Dorothy” Amber has the ability to sit directly on the floor like that without getting uncomfortable.
I don’t think one having more or less cushion than the other necessarily/automatically has anything with being prettier, though there are plenty of opinions on whether or not someone would be better looking with a change in weight.
But speaking as someone who, over the last decade, lost about 100 pounds, I can definitely say I miss being able to sit without worrying about my butt hurting due to the loss of butt fat.
i mean eeven without walky there unless she’s used to it i feel like going commando and sitting down in a bedroom dorm room would not be that comfortable XD
Funnily enough, of the three people hanging out in the room right now I feel like Dina was the first one to connect the current situation to anything sexual.
I think the best way of looking at the current situation with Walky and Amber is that its a pile of oily rags resting on top of a decade-old pile of newspapers.
Like, there’s nothing catastrophic about it right now. Everything’s stable, if a bit messy. Nothing bad is happening. And hey, if you’re certain there’s not going to be any fire around it, then there really isn’t a big deal.
……but sometimes it does make sense to not create a potential fire hazard, ya know?
That’s a really good analogy for the current situation. There’s several ways it could blow up (actually far more than ways it can stay calm), but currently none of them are obviously occuring.
They might be next page, but only the Patron users know that for sure. XD
OT: maybe everyone already knows this, but better to make a bit of an ass out of oneself than assume someone else took shop or remembers what they were taught.
When oil dries, it oxidizes, which is exothermic. And heat is a catalyst for it oxidizing. In a confined space, the temperature can get to the spontaneous ignition point of the oil or of the rag / paper /whatever. Different oils have different spontaneous ignition points, so when in doubt, assume it’s dangerous.
That’s in addition to the danger of having fire or sparks around it.
well they did ask dina to watch over them once so they wouldn’t be tempted but even if she wasn’t there i don’t think there’d be that much tension anymore
Counting to ten to collect her thoughts and express concern seems like a very mom-friend-type of thing to do. Experience those messy emotions. Be frustrated and pissy. “what the actual fuck” was a better response than scolding by saying you’re not scolding. You are not your childhood dream future self’s “early life” section on wikipedia.
being the ‘mom’ friend would be exhausting if it’s expected/thrust upon you as opposed to going out of your way to help and naturally falling into that role, but i assume mom friends would only get involved in others relationships only if specifically asked for advice lol
He specifically asked her for advice. or is that your point. anyways, it was crappy advice, and these two should have a fight and during that fight Walky should say it was crappy advice.
oh right, he asked about lucy earlier but she doesn’t need to rly get involved in this situation even tho shes interpret this as a potential ‘situation’
even if walky were to be shirtless because of heat or a spill or so i’d still say it wouldn’t cross a line unless they were like, cuddling but i guess if you walked into seeing a shirtless guy in an ex’s room that’d look worse than the current situation
It’s none of her business yet she still feels its her place to state she’s concerned before conceding it’s none of her business
If she really thought it was none of her business she wouldn’t have said anything but she wanted Walky to know he was doing something she thought he shouldn’t
Dina called her out on it and good on her for doing so
“We get it. You’re stupid hot. Like, absolutely unfairly attractive. You’re not just a bombshell, you’re the London Blitz. An entire box of Rizz Bits Sandwiches With Cheese™. You put the ‘pump’ in ‘pumpkin patch’. We all accept this as a given, Dina.”
Also I gotta say, if Dorothy feels the need to look at this situation and think “oh man this might be weirdly sexual” (even though it isn’t but I digress) then she really needs to re-evaluate what her adventure with Joyce in the laundry room means for her and Joyce.
“I can’t believe you two are existing in the same room! And Amber has no pants on!”
“Well yeah, we got frisky in the past, but right now we’re just eating chips and playing video games.”
“Yeah it’s not like we’re holding hands while masturbating or something.”
I am sick of people making these excuses for Walky.
The entire friend group knows that he used to hook up with Amber. He brought her instead of his actual girlfriend to have dinner with his parents YESTERDAY. And YESTERDAY Amber admitted to still having feelings for him. And now today, instead of hanging out with Lucy (or even just explaining why he needed time to himself), he sought out Amber to hang out pantsless in her room.
Dorothy may have selfish, personal reasons to be particularly pissy about this, but it is absolutely already a bonehead move by Walky and could definitely cause grief for Lucy if she found out.
Also, every time he says that he “likes Lucy” I don’t notice sincerity in his words.
I clarify that I am not a fan of Lucy, but if the day comes when I finally open my eyes and see what Walky looks like, that will hurt a lot.
I absolutely agree that Walky’s enthusiasm for Lucy has been lacking the entire time. I think they’d make great friends, but I don’t think they’re a good match and I don’t think they’re in the same chapter, much less the same page on what they are to each other and what they want out of this relationship.
Even though that kind of mismatch can end up working out, he’d have to communicate with her. To his partial credit, he did ask for advice on how to handle his situation. But only from one person, and it was Dorothy, and it became pretty apparent her advice was skewed by her own feelings.
As to Dorothy’s reasons, the most interesting thing to me about today’s comments is that she hasn’t actually articulated them but a bunch of people are absolutely positive what they are.
It’s absolutely possible that her reasons are “Why her and not me?” but it’s also possible that she recognized that Walky was right and is upset that he’s not living up to the standard they both have for him, which is being a good boyfriend.
I’d like to think it’s the latter, but I can’t be nearly as sure as several people seem to be that it’s the former.
The truth is that it took me by surprise that Dorothy would see Walky again, to the point of thinking that she would avoid him after the rejection. I’ll be honest, I loved Walky x Dorothy and I was hoping that maybe they could get back together, but after Raidah’s poison and the way he rejected the blonde in a single day, my hopes fell. but that whim has not gone away and at least I would like there to be no hate involved, I know that Dorothy has not done things well, but I hope that everything gets better for her, and that Sarah gives Raidah another blow
I think Dorothy is feeling her world fall apart around her and is grasping for what she has the happiest feelings for, which is what she had with Walky.
And it’s more painful for her when she is honest that maybe being president wasn’t her thing and Walky only told her that it would be fine for tomorrow, yes, it seemed like it was just something that Dorothy would easily forget, but the way he told her was very despicable and flaunting his “loyalty” to lucy
I think Walky was trying to express his faith in her in what he perceived was fleeting doubt. He was definitely wrong and caused her pain, but I have a hard time calling it despicable. I also wouldn’t say he was flaunting his loyalty to Lucy, I think him trying to act in a way that lives up to the idea of being a good boyfriend is just about all that’s keeping him and Lucy together right now. And unfortunately living up to that idea required him to reject Dorothy, even though I suspect the idea he’s trying to live up to is highly informed by the way Dorothy sees him.
Basically I think Walky and Dorothy would each very much like to be with each other, but the choices that have been made up to this point (by each of them) make that very much impossible at the moment. It’s very sad to me.
Wow. It’s nice to see consideration with the blonde, I’ve only seen in every comment I hate bringing hate, and as I said before the affection is not completely gone, I’m not saying that they’re coming back now, but that there is a healthy interaction, dreaming is free
I try to have compassion for as much of the cast as I can, especially the ones who have been shown to have reasons for their dysfunctions. (I think I fail the most with Jennifer, she pushes all of my buttons and not in a good way.) I take periodic breaks from even letting myself acknowledge that the comments section exists because of how vitriolic some folks are towards these characters who are trying their best and failing left and right which makes the entertainment we all come here for. And then sometimes I end those breaks and dive in headfirst and leave 20+ comments. Like tonight.
I too am a Dorothy/Walky dreamer. Thank goodness for the low low cost of dreaming.
It’s good to see that I’m not the only one who notices the unfair hatred towards Dorothy, I love the character and I really hope things work out for her.
We also don’t know whether she understands that Walky apparently still has no clue that he’s fallen into a compromising situation and will be surprised when someone points it out.
Emotions can be complicated. She can have a “you’re not being a great boyfriend” layer, and a layer of “which is why you said you rejected me” underneath. She’s trying to be what she imagines “mature” is.
The dinner thing was Lucy’s idea, not Walky’s. Please remember that.
He also didn’t seek her out to specifically hang out with Amber while pantsless. He sought out a video game, then tried to leave with it. She told him he can’t leave with her video game, which is understandable. She happens to be pantsless because it is her room and she’s still in her pjs.
I don’t condone cheating. If Walky was crossing a line, I would rake him across the coals for it. I don’t think he’s in the wrong for salvaging a friendship with an ex and just chilling. Walky has spent a lot of time with Lucy.
And I’m gonna end the post with this reminder, WALKY TAKING AMBER OUT TO DINNER WAS LUCY’S IDEA.
The theory was Lucy’s idea, it was Walky who chose Amber for the role. And I agree that he didn’t seek this result out, but he also decided that hanging out with his ex while she was in her underwear was the option to go with. He absolutely had the opportunity to decide that it was inappropriate and pass on the Switch. That wouldn’t have been in character for him, but it probably would have been the better decision. I’d be surprised if Lucy didn’t think this situation was inappropriate.
Honestly, the last time Walky and Amber were into each other they couldn’t be in each other’s vicinity without the urge to hump so I’d say the fact that they can just chill and eat food/play vidya without sex even really coming across for them does lend itself to a more platonic view of their relationship.
Doing the kinds of things Walky and Lucy did when Walky didn’t know they were almost dating. The kind of things that Walky has said at least twice where what he was looking for in a relationship. Except Walky feels more comfortable with Amber than with Lucy.
Walky might be ok with polyamory, it’s hard to tell because almost everything he says is couched in some dumbass joke. But Lucy is not. And even if she were, that’s something they should talk about first.
She’s not attracted to amber so it’d be fine for her to visit while in pajamas, i suppose (although personally i’d get dressed a little bit more if i was visiting someone i wasn’t particularly close to even in a dorm room, tho unless those are like ‘boyshorts’ panties, the shorts she’s wearing on in this art style looks like something that could be worn ‘publicly’ but maybe im just used to ppl around here showing off alot of skin)
And any argument Dorothy had is destroyed. This is people hanging out in their underwear. If you accept that this is sexual then you must accept that Dina is involved and must accept that into your evaluation of the situation. Any other interpretation inherently exhibits a lack of comprehension of the entire situation.
That is quite literally Dina’s stance here. Dorothy has brought up concerns of Amber being in her underwear. Dina is too. Thus Dorothy SHOULD consider Dina in her argument OR she is completely misinterpreting the situation. There is little room for argument, given what Dorothy knows at the moment.
Dorothy doesn’t consider Dina a part of the scandal because Dina has never fucked Walky.
Amber probably has.
Amber went on a fake-date with Walky yesterday.
Amber admitted to still liking Walky yesterday.
Dina has never demonstrated ANY sexual interest in Walky, nor has Walky demonstrated interest in Dina. So nobody (read: Lucy, or less justifiably Dorothy) has any reason to suspect anything untoward about the two of them being semi-naked in the same room.
Has she seen anything beyond frirndship from them? And is Dina really more separate, given their physical proximity? We have a pretty good group shot there. Just saying, she is reading a considerable amount more into this situation than should be reasonaby gleaned, given she took a moment to asess.
Dina is engaged in her own separate activity while Walky and Amber are engaged in two shared activities (MarioKart and eating from the same nachitos bag at the same time). There is a difference there, yes.
As for what Dorothy has seen, like I said it’s hard to say for sure, but I think it’s highly likely she was aware that Amber and Walky were doing some kind of relation-thing. (I guess to clarify yes I do mean other than friendship) Neither Walky nor Amber are known for their subtlety and Amber and Dorothy are very direct neighbors. We don’t have absolute proof of knowledge, but that’s far from proof of no knowledge.
I very much understand what you’re “just saying”, but I don’t think the situation is nearly as conclusive as you’re making it out to be, certainly not to someone who just walked in at that moment and didn’t see it develop.
Walky is completely clothed, the only things uncovered are his face and… part of his arms I guess? They are not both semi-naked. Amber I grant you has no pants on, but saying they’re both semi-naked is just a lie.
Yes, she SHOULD. But Dorothy’s logic circuits are currently 100% occupied with recomputing her self-image, leaving the emotional centers unsupervised and in full control of processing her observations.
As much as Dorothy needs to get pissy, it would have been really funny if this whole strip were her being “WTF, where is your bed Dina, there’s a giant dinosaur, when did that happen!?”
Jeez, Dorothy, you act like you’ve never hung out with a friend and played video games in your underwear. Are you even FRIENDS if you haven’t done that???
Yes, Dorothy’s social time (or rather lack thereof) is almost certainly both a symptom and a cause of the way her life seems to be falling apart around her.
No Dina, she really shouldn’t. The Sexual/Romantic geometric structure would get too weird and complicated especially if Becky joins in. Just be glad you are not part of this mess XD
I think most of the comments are ignoring that the room smells like sex and she walked in on the two karters with their hand in the nachito bag at the same time. That’s a sin.
I think “the room smells like sex” is taking it a little far. Walky didn’t say anything until he was right up on the plush, and even then he only said “kinda”. It was never mentioned in-comic that the entire room smelled that way, the comments are just acting up.
Someone needs to explain to me what an Honors student is.
Honours students at my university (in Australia) are doing the 4th year of what would otherwise be a 3-year Bachelor degree. I was planning to do Latin Honours, but for life reasons, I didn’t end up doing a fourth year, and graduated with an ordinary Bachelor of Arts.
So what does this first-year student mean when she describes herself as a “former Honors student”? It’s obviously not what I would mean!
(“My dinosaur killed your Honors student” sounds like a threat made to someone’s thesis supervisor.)
“Higher level education” is not exactly the words you used, but is what we in the US would typically say to generally mean “any education after high school”
It could either be high school related OR it could be a special track at university that gets some smaller classes and some additional required classes. If the latter I’m worried.
Sadly for Dina, society discourages recognizing people on the tail end of dinosaurs.
If Dorothy wants to take her mind off her problems, I think an underwear party would do the trick. And if she’s worried about Amber, best to fight fire with fire.
Her glasses may have slipped slightly as she peered downwards at Amber, and now her eyes appear above the lenses as she angles upwards to make eye contact with Dina.
I’m very surprised Dorothy says she’s having a “protracted psychotic break”. Of those 3 words, only “break” applies.
Admittedly it can be hard to tell from the outside. In “And Then I Thought I Was a Fish”, Peter Welch describes his protracted psychotic break – weeks where he was convinced he was on a Secret Mission to save humanity. Since it was a Secret, he didn’t tell anyone about this. And because there were Others who would try to stop him, he had to behave as normally as possible.
But we haven’t seen any evidence when Dorothy is talking to herself that she’s thinking anything like that.
saunas are unfortunately not a common facility in my part of the world, but my best friend lives in japan, and we went to an onsen together with her boyfriend, who I met in person for the first time for that visit
it was a private onsen so there weren’t any strangers, but having a masc, fem, and enby all chilling out and just talking while we cleaned was pretty freeing. I definitely will feel more comfortable doing that with a wider range after the first experience went so well
Someone else should walk in (Lucy) and ask Walky why he and three girls are hanging out in their underwear. Or maybe someone who’d congratulate him.
Mostly so Dina can say “Thank you for recognising my sexual charisma” and go back to reading
At first, I pictured Joe doing this, and it made perfect sense.
Then I realized that it would be EVEN FUNNIER if Joe just walked by, said hi to everyone, and completely failed to make any innuendo about the situation, thus breaking Dorothy’s already-taxed brain beyond all hope of repair.
honestly i really dont see a problem with this?? i’m best friends with one of my exes, i’ve hung out in just pjs/undies before with her. and my gf is totally fine with it. hell we’ve *both* hung out with her like this before
but i am a good bit older than these kids and am very secure in my relationships
This is around the 10th day that Walky and Lucy have been dating, and he and Lucy are not on the same page at all. Not only do you feel very secure in your relationship, your relationship is undoubtedly more developed and in a better shape than Walky and Lucy’s. I’m guessing you do at least an iota of communication too. Like if your gf suggests you could fool around, and for whatever reason you don’t feel like it, do you run off to a pile of melting dirty snow to mourn your “fortress of solitude” or do you say something to the effect of you’re not in the mood? (rhetorical, not actually prying for an answer)
Like you said, it’s the 10th day of them dating. They’re going to take a little bit to sync up, and that’s not a sign of imminent failure or an ill omen of their future.
to be fair, its not like theyre DOING anything. also it seems as tho everyone walks around in their underwear in this dorm.
THAT BEING SAID, im sure what dorothy means is: is this something lucy would be uncomfortable with you doing ?
Dina you have no sexual charisma to Walky, and thus you are not a concern. From what I’ve seen, you only have sexual charisma to Becky and 90% of the commenters. Which makes me ask: Did Joe ever rate her? Ah well, too late. Does he rate known taken women? He didn’t put Dorothy on the list until she and Danny broke up.
We already know that Walky and Dorothy are virgins still, at least. Neither of them has had sex yet, although Walky famously rubbed his clothed genitals against Amber’s clothed genitals.
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“Senpai notice me… I don’t want you or anything, just I’d rather not be left out”
She said please.
She did. I recognize you, Dina-Senpai!
Dina’s got it going on! Rec’onize! 🤘
Grav checks out.
Your advances would be unwanted, but your lusting is appreciated.
The human condition, efficiently and simply put!
lets be real here, dinas the only person in this room whos got it all together. dorothy walky and amber should be taking NOTES
It’s great that dina finds herself appealing but given how loud and boastful becky is about herself and her relationship i don’t think it would’ve crossed her mind anyways even if dina was bi or had a brief fling with walky (well i think there was romantic attraction in one other universe? but we’re not counting those)
My suspicion is that it’s more of a “Don’t de-sexualise the Autistic person”. Given that the whole Dina/Becky thing started with Dina getting pissed at people infantalising her, I suspect there is still a significant part of her that demands people recognise her as an adult with romantic and sexual agency.
Yes Dina!!! Lure her in with your Lesbian Dinosaur Empress Powers!!! 🌈🦖 ✌️😈
*plays “Danger” from Sailor Moon Soundtrack CD*
Sapphic might be more accurate than lesbian.
Please explain the distinction.
might be more overall? as opposed to exclusive. or also inclusive of nonbinary ppl who call themselves sapphic/lesbians? like i can imagine dina’s ace would make her being more demi leaning/willing to be in relationships after knowing/bonding with someone regardless of gender while becky’s exclusively only attracted to other women
but dina is officially ‘unconcerned’ i suppose
I thought you meant lesbians wore more overalls.
This may also be true.
@gears:
Lesbian = a homosexual woman (of any type) ie – a female identifying person who is only into women
Sapphic = a female identifying person who is into women (but possibly other things as well)
As a bisexual but homoromantic woman who married a woman, I prefer the term Sapphic because it doesn’t erase my bisexuality while still indicating my preference for female partners such as my wife. That said, it isn’t as well known a term, so we still get called ‘lesbians’ sometimes.
Please enlighten me on the difference.
lesbian is exclusively homosexual excluding men (sometimes also nonbinary amab people), sapphic is more inclusive to bi/pan/demi-sexual women
that distinction always feels faintly terfy to me. like, both terms are references to sappho, the idea that one’s a gold star lesbian and the other isn’t is… mildly suspect.
I mean, if one is only into chicks and the other is sometimes into dudes too, I don’t see how that would necessarily be trans exclusive.
Mrm. It comes more from the radfem side that the trans exclusionary side; the idea that sex between men and women is always abusive and exploitative, and that trans women are secretly men, and so cis women who sleep with trans men—or lesbians who sleep with gay men, or who have slept with cis straight men in the past—are being exploited and abused, and that talking about their own identification and sexual history somehow threatens the sexuality of lesbian terfs.
it’s also just historically inaccurate; lesbian was and is used to included women who sleep with women of all sexualities, not just women who do not and never have slept with men. insisting that it has an exclusionary definition rather than an inclusionary one is a common terf talking point, and gets invoked around arguments about trans men “stealing” butchness away from them.
What the hell are you talking about? 😵💫 How do you twist your mind into such a complex knot? “I’m a lesbian” “I’m sapphic in general.” “Oh, so you’re being molested?” What?
I think you’re misreading Samuel’s explanation.
It’s not “lesbian only dates other lesbians while sapphic women also dates bi/pan/demi women”
It’s “while lesbians exclusively feel attraction to other women, sapphic is an umbrella term for all wlw”
So lesbians are still sapphic. So are bi women. And pan ones. And demi ones.
You lost me at Mrm.
…no.
Yeah, I just refuse to acknowledge any TERF position because they’re all insane and hateful.
In fact, I’ll take it a step further. TERF lesbians aren’t real lesbians. I’m not even going to justify that statement because fuck TERFs.
TERFs impose restrictions of labels on other people according to their own prejudices. This is about calling somebody what THEY want to be called. If a lesbian wanted to insist that bisexual people shouldn’t get to call themselves a lesbian, and must use the term sapphic, then sure, but if a bisexual person feels the term lesbian is too restrictive for them and they want to use the term sapphic for themselves, that’s their label to define.
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
Excuse me?????
No dude, no. Lesbian just means exclusive ATTRACTION to women. Sapphic means attraction to women with a potential +, eg I like women and I’m asexual and I don’t want to erase my asexual identity, or I like women and men and it’s erasure to call bi/pan women lesbians.That’s not good star. It’s not excluding lesbians who’ve had sex with men because they probably weren’t significantly attracted to them. This is a complete misunderstanding of terms on your part.
Heh, this is what I get for not using “sapphic”, huh?
To be clear I know the term, it just didn’t come to my mind when I wrote the comment
anyway DAAAAAMN CHILL BRUH
I feel like I need some sort of visual aid to understand this whole thing, honestly.
All I did was not take a few seconds to think of “sapphic”, and apparently this happens.
Awe well, back to coding a platformer about dinosaurs. Empress of Evolution needs power.
Well, “I’m into women, and also into nonbinary people but only if they have ovaries” isn’t… great. It fits into a general tendency that some people have to treat nonbinary people, particularly nonbinary AFAB people, as Womon Lyte instead of a separate gender. And defining attraction around what genitals someone has is a TERF thing.
(Note that attraction and preferences can be different, i.e. you might have someone who finds all genders attractive, but only likes to have sex with partners who have vaginas, regardless of the gender of said partners. “I prefer to have sex with people who have vaginas” is different from “I’m attracted to women, and to nonbinary people who I consider basically women”. One is entirely reasonable, one is someone who needs to reexamine how they see nonbinary people.)
This is why I don’t express attraction to anybody. It’s a fucking minefield.
I think the whole trend of trying to label and pigeon-hole everything to the smallest detail is decidedly unproductive and unhealthy. Far better to simply recognize that people are all unique, and that there’s nothing wrong with that.
I think you’re right. Also, I’m not making room in my memory for this discussion. Too nit-picky for me.
Yes.
Thank you.
What you said.
Life is fucking boring, let me edit my painstakingly specific wiki dedicated to real human beings’ sexualities.
no
Rats. A person in the Internet told me no. Now I have to delete my Gender dot Fandom dot com wiki.
If you don’t want it anymore, I’ll take it.
Sure, but also if someone likes a term to describe themselves, use that term.
Now you’re just defending TERFs somehow, I’m sure.
Here’s the problem: without detailed labels for the human experience, the power differential flows by default to the majority of any axis/trait, and those disadvantaged have no power to call it out.
So it’s all very well to WANT to “just let people be people”… but if you want that, in the world we actually live in, with its systemic oppression and pre-prepared prejudice, people need to be able to use labels so they can point out when their type of human is being oppressed and mistreated.
My point is that pigeon-holing 1) creates an in-group/out-group dynamic and 2) gives the illusion of discrete categories for what is, by all serious research and the stated experience of countless people, a (range of) continuum(s).
You’re not wrong in a way, though Kelibath also isn’t wrong that labels can also be used to defend oppressed groups.
But, in this case, “sapphic” is a more generic term that clearly applies to Dina, while “lesbian” is a more discrete term that arguably does not. Just because lesbian is a more familiar term, doesn’t mean sapphic is an attempt to pigeon-hole anyone.
Nah, bro, this isn’t it. Not even a little.
I believe the issue is not with the word “sapphic”, but with a definition of lesbian that specifically names and excludes “nonbinary AMAB people”.
Sapphic generally means “likes girls”. Lesbian historically also meant “likes girls”, and is still used that way, but is now commonly used to mean “likes girls *exclusively*”. Whether you want to call yourself sapphic, lesbian, or both is a personal choice. But when you start defining *either* term according to a person’s AGAB, *that* is TERFy, because it implies that someone’s AGAB is their “real” gender for purposes of defining sexual attraction. In particular, specifying nonbinary AMAB people as “not girls” in an “attracted to girls exclusively” definition implies that you think AFAB nonbinary people are still girls.
If you’re attracted to nonbinary people (whose gender does not include “girl” in some fashion), regardless of their AGAB, you’re attracted to people who are not girls. What you choose to *do* with that fact is up to you, but it is a fact.
(As a personal aside: I’m AFAB nonbinary. I’ve been on T for five years, and I’ve had top surgery. I find the ability to grow a full beard now absolutely delightful, even if I don’t always want one. I promise you would not look at me on the street and go “ah, yes, that is An Woman What Is Attractive To Lesbeans”.)
Yes, this, exactly. sapphic is a perfectly fine term, with a long history. it’s the attempt to redefine “lesbian” to exclude bisexual women and nonbinary or trans lesbians that’s a bit dodgy. That redefinition to exclude is the terfy part.
Why is all our language for this stuff so relative? It’s always felt bonkers to me that we lump all this stuff under one umbrella and then changing the terms we use for it based on the gender of the person feeling things rather than outlining it like a set of spectrums.
You can be attracted to some set of genitals and bodies.
You can be attracted to some set of gender presentations.
You can be attracted to a personality such that the above two are irrelevant.
Feels like this person is attracted to x body and genital types regardless of gender presentation and this person is attracted to y gender presentation regardless of body and genital types both get termed similarly under the same framework, causing a lot of confusion. And then the words you use change again if the person feeling the attraction turns out to be trans at some point. Like why does you transitioning change the language everyone uses for your attraction when that hasn’t actually changed?
I dunno man, the language seems so arbitrary I don’t really get the point of gate keeping any of it or trying to get too detailed in describing what it means. If you’re a non-binary person attracted to non-binary people with female genitals and you want to call yourself a lesbian just do it. If you’re a woman and happy to date any configuration of person but happen to be in a relationship with a woman right now and want to call yourself a lesbian, just do it. For any of this stuff to be worth trying to gatekeep it would have to mean anything clear and specific in the first place and it just doesn’t. It’s all way wigglier than the internet discourse broadly wants to look at it as being. It’s all for anyone who it resonates with, and it’s more generally agreed upon set of themes than anything else.
I never heard or seen anyone say that the term lesbian excludes amab non binary people, it can exclude some, but that’s based on personal attraction and not whether or not the person is an amab enby
keep your terf projections to yourself
Unfortunately many of us here have seen it constantly, especially being flung at people on trans twitter – or transX, if you will, which I certainly won’t
Sweeping the very real threat TERFs pose under the rug unfortunately doesn’t actually help combat its spread through the rest of the populace. Lesbian SHOULD work the way you say, but some gatekeep trans women out of it.
I’m not in the scene, so this might by ignorant, but why would lesbian include non-binary people?
If lesbians are women attracted to women, do enbies consider themselves women? I guess it’s a spectrum, so some may find themselves close enough to the women end to fit under lesbian?
I guess the weirdness is that “lesbian” as a category assumes that gender is binary, so non-binary people kind of break the categorization.
You’ve got it backwards.
Lesbian doesn’t mean women exclusively attracted to women. That definition was imposed externally and has never described lesbianism as defined in the community. Bi is historically a kind of lesbian and was used that way.
The findamental issue here is people who learned first that “lesbian means women exclusively attracted to women” refusing to be educated….and radfems who push that line as a political point.
What I’m getting from this discussion (with the caveat that, being aroace, I inherently struggle with understanding this stuff) is that some people use the term “lesbian” to refer to women (and maybe AFAB enbies) who are attracted to other women and AFAB enbies, but not men or AMAB enbies, meaning they’re implicitly regarding AFAB enbies as distinctly more woman-like than AMAB enbies.
This. They’re thus erasing the nonbinary identities involved while doing so. Reducing an entire spectrum of different gender identities and presentations back to an effective binary again, of “people who I assume are safe” and “people I assume are dangerous”, based either on AGAB for biological essentialists or on gender presentation for those who are open to the idea of transition but still unaware of the true diversities involved. Assuming anyone presenting even mildly femme is on the female side of a thin dividing line by default. When the spectrum of gender – like most spectra – is more of a three or four dimensional combination of a bunch of different axes and people can be anywhere, multiply often, along them or even move fluidly between different points over time.
Sapphic is more poetic?
You beat me to it.
Unrelated to anything but recently, apropos of nothing I looked up to see that the male equivalent of “Sapphic” is “Achillean” and I wanna hear that used way more, it sounds rad as hell.
I once saw someone freak out on the writer of Hades in the SGG Discord because “Achilles wasn’t gay, he was in love with a woman.” I’m for more usage of “Achillean”.
It’s a little weird to me. I don’t think there’s any particular such tradition attached to Achilles. It’s certainly not the first thing I think of hearing term.
You mean aside from the Illiad, the only ‘original’ source for Achilles, where his most significant, and explicitly sexual and romantic, attachment is to Ajax? His all-consuming passion for Ajax is literally the thing that drives him back to the fight, to battle Hector in revenge for Ajax’ killing, the one thing Achilles has been known for for centuries?
I really wish they used this theme more in the later seasons.
*begins humming the TMNT theme* Lesbian Dinosaur Empress Power…
This is now my most favorite strip of this whole ginormous series.
I think… Dorothy is… handling this well?
Dorothy could easily be handling this a lot worse, at least
For now.
I have to wonder though; Dorothy’s having a psychotic break, she’s been known to watch a show called “Dexter and Monkey Master”… is this how Head Alien is finally going to show up in DoA?
Despite her line here while Dorothy is suffering burnout and depression she is currently showing no evidence of a psychotic break.
Yeah, I feel like “psychotic break” here is just how someone with burnout and depression would interprete their burnout and depression. I spent weeks convinced my brain was fundamentally broken and couldn’t do anything, before learning no, I had anxiety issues and a problem with numbers and that was about it.
Like how spending a whole weekend not doing the hundred and one tasks she assigned herself makes her “a former honors student”.
(And this is where someone points me to a past strip that clearly shows her grades are slipping.)
She also might just not know quite what a psychotic break is, and thinks it’s sort for “psychological breakdown”.
Or she thinks this situation is so weird that her perception of reality has slipped.
… Or she thinks the situation is weird enough to warrant a little internally joking (but maybe slightly worried it’s not) at the fragility of her mental state.
Her psychotic break is that she thinks she’s not the future president, and just an ordinary 19 year old.
She said her grades were slipping all around, but that was a strip from several (in-comic) months ago. Before the kidnapping, even before she had broken up with Walky.
She’s had time to course correct, and I think if she hadn’t, she would have stressed herself out by now.
Hey, watch the late Walkyverse spoilers!
I’m watching them but they’re not doing anything.
Not handling nearly as well as Amber’s vehicles on Mario Kart where she’s perfectly balanced the tires, body and even the parachute for easy acceleration and good drifting on turns.
We all wish we could handle life that well.
Give her time.
Aw, it’s so nice to be generous to a character like this.
It’s true, sometimes when we’re caught off-guard we need some time to collect ourselves so we don’t make a mess of things, just like Dorothy is trying to do here!
She is, indeed, successfully making people think that!
Based on your secondary Patreon and your Slipshine stuff, I think most of us recognize Dina’s sexual charisma
Technically I think it’s still a neurotic break right now… unless there is Some Shit that we are not seeing onscreen, which granted is for some reason an idea that’s making me want to pop an edible and write some bullshit right now.
Yes Dorothy, it is not your business.
At least she didn’t overreact, that’s something.
Oh it’s her business. The business of kicking Walky’s ass. And let me just say. Business is booming. She’s open for business. The business of givin’ you the business.
…
He toss my salad
Like his name Romaine
-Nicki Minaj
Haha I was making an ATHF reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t_PVQrvybE
Yeah, I may have misread ‘kicking’ and ‘licking’ and posted accordingly….
Correct, it is not.
Scratch the Garbage surface and there’s more Garbage surface. (after a CAR & DRIVER review of a Chrysler performance sedan circa 1987)
Motorweek doesn’t even mention the rich Corinthian leather!
………you all have a very expansive definition of underwear, I think.
I think they’re referring to their bottoms, not their tops. They are wearing panties with no pants.
Technically everyone wearing clothes is “in their underwear”, provided they’re not going commando.
Technically true, too
Technically, Amber and Dina are not in their underwear, since there has to be overwear for it to be underworn.
That’s only true if neither is wearing a bra, which we cannot confirm nor deny.
But we can dream
i mean, i imagine not if they’re staying in playing games on the weekend because i assume other than a tank top/sports bra/bralette tehy wouldn’t put on one just to answer the door or sleep in one
we can’t rly see it from this angle but i assume she’s wearing a t-shirt and panties like amber is, tho plenty of ppl wear oversized shirts as pajamas, depending on how short you are or long the shirt is i’m sure some ppl would straight up go out on a snack run to like a convenience store without tights on depending on how less of a shit they give since technically it wouldn’t violate any public indecency laws or so
Dina remains best character
Is “Sexual Charisma” a good name for a band?
Not quite. I think it needs the “My” or even the “Recognize” to really sell it.
It sounds more like a name for a song.
I’d be shocked if it wasn’t already the name of like 8 bands.
better than some of the other stats, like Wisdom or Constitution.
They all have at least potential to work very well, although I think STR is probably the most situational.
Sexual Constitution “goes hard”, as the “kids” sa”y”.
“… right, hour five, make another Con check, this one’s at minus ten.“
Five hours? That’s a lotta chafing, but I imagine it’s worth the risk.
Might I suggest: “Sexual Charisma on a Dinosaur”.
“Love on an Utahraptor
Livin’ it up as we’re going aaaaagggghhhh!”
first result looking up gives you ‘darksexualcharisma’ lol https://soundcloud.com/darksexualcharisma
“Please Recognize My Sexual Charisma” is an even better name, though!
Dina has become my favorite character
become?
Recognize Dina’s autistic swag!!!
Yippee!!!
Scold for what exactly? I still don’t get the drama here.
Walky shot her down for sexy times because Lucy.
But here he is, with Amber, someone he ALSO had hanky panky with.
Dotty is doing the “So you went to HER for hanky panky but not me?!” card.
The only thing weird that’s going on is they are playing the switch on its mini screen and not dock mode.
They may not have a TV in their dorm
Amber had a laptop You can take a dock hook it up to the hdmi port in a laptop and switch on to TV mode that’s better then using it to play two player on the base screen,
None of my laptops have ever had HDMI input. Only output
None of your laptops will survive the fucking winter.
I don’t know what this is a reference to
It’s not one, as far as I know. I’m just insulting your computers’ cold weather survival capabilities. Without HDMI input, how will they gather grain or hunt deer?
I once had a ThinkPad with a desktop Pentium 4 inside. With that thing running, there was no winter.
@Prior Semblance
The original quote is “If you like pineapple slices on pizza, I hope you like pineapple slices on your grave because you’re weak, your bloodline is weak, and you will not survive the winter”. A lot of people think the “Your bloodline is weak and you will not survive the winter” comes from Game of Thrones but it is not from GoT, it’s from a kid’s yearbook photo caption. At this point I do think it’s just a colloquialism though and people using it are not aware of original sourcing.
Yeah, I’m sure the first use of the phrase “won’t survive the winter” involved that stupid-ass pizza meme, some kid’s yearbook photo, or a TV series based on some books.
Yeah. And Dorothy only sees herself being excluded, when in reality joining them in pantslessness is clearly being offered to all
What hanky panky?! That’s the part that’s confusing to me. How is everyone reading some sort of sexual or romantic jealousy here? They’re playing video games, not grinding on each other. What does Dorothy have a compulsion to scold him for? I feel like this is just a pitfall of Walky not having any male friends.
It’s because they’re hanging out in their underwear, an activity that is often reserved for couples who are dating.
The assumption being that they *did* have hanky panky. We know they did not, but Dottie obviously assumes that they did.
I don’t think she’s assuming they fucked. It’s still too relationship adjacent considering their past together and the last conversation that Walky and Dorothy had.
I’m a little surprised so many people have apparently never experienced lingering feelings. I’m extremely surprised that so many people have apparently never heard of lingering feelings.
That’s why Dorothy didn’t include Dina in her not-scolding-scolding. If it had just been Walky and Dina. Or if Walky and Joyce were watching Dexter in their sleepwear/underwear, it would not have registered the same.
Dorothy simply didn’t notice Dina was there. Hardly anyone ever does, as you may have noticed – it’s a running gag.
I think if Walky and Amber were completely different characters, the idea of ‘two exes spending time together, with one of them wearing a shirt and underwear’ would seem a little like cheating of some kind, but I feel like Amber and Walky, despite their previous situationship and clear chemistry… I agree, I don’t really view this as cheating.
I rather think that this is a slow burn to the eventual crumbling of the Lucy/Walky ship, very likely through Amber’s and Walky’s choices…
Walky was definitely encouraged by his dad to pursue Amber, and the interactions between Walky & Amber have contrasted on several occasions with the interactions between Walky & Lucy… this might yet border on cheating.
Be cooler if it made like a bottle of hot sauce and crossed the border.
I think emotional cheating requires a pattern, and this is like the second step in forming a pattern. It’s not exactly there yet, but the shape of it is already recognizable.
The drama is real in Dorothy’s head. It doesn’t need to make sense to anyone but her. She saw them and literally said to herself “What the actual fuck”. Now she’s backing off, though not quite as much as she should.
I don’t see them as hanky panky, but DOTTY would, because she’s got banging walky on the brain.
There’s also the fact that Walky kicked off his pants to join the underwear gang. A pair of pants just sitting to the floor like that is…suggestive.
Wait, did I hallucinate that? Weird, really thought that’s a thing that happened, and yet there are pyjama pants on Walky.
You might be thinking about all the other times Walky goes without pj pants, or the time Walky’s no-pants inspired Joyce to also kick her pants off.
Hanging out in your underwear is something that you usually do after sex.
Factor into the equation that the dinosaur smells noticeably of sex and that Dorothy has been feeling sexually frustrated. Also factor in that Dorothy is depressed, among other things, and might be skewed towards seeing anything in the worst possible way.
Bc allosexuals are fucking weird
Walky is in a room with his ex girlfriend in his pajamas while she is in a shirt and underwear and has a girlfriend. If no one talked before reacting, it could be a whole fight.
Scolding is what Dorothy does. She doesn’t know how else to relate to other people.
there shouldn’t be that its just dorothy being dorothy
there would only be a need for ‘scolding’ if walky was specifically blowing off like lucy’s b-day or some anniversary/important event
Instead he’s blowing off spending the entire day with Lucy and nobody else because she owns him and his time, apparently.
Be careful Dotty, you’ll get eviscerated for calling yourself the mom friend.
Heehee hoohoo….
I mean dying is the only way to be Mike at this point
..that should read “be with Mike.” Argh.
At this point in this comments section, Dotty will get eviscerated for breathing in the same room as another character.
Those oxygen particles didn’t consent to being breathes by Dorothy. She coerced them by inhaling.
Yeah, but I got gassed for calling her the mom friend, and I’m enjoying this moment.
At this point in this comments section, you could get gassed for breathing.
I mean, I can hold my breath basically forever, so. 😏
The comments section is angry at Dorothy because they are the scolds who get in the faces of other people’s business.
We’re the voices in her head, filling her mind and thoughts with dread.
She specifically said she is not the mom friend.
Ha! That’s what she wants us to think!
If there’s a law against some activity, it’s because someone did it. If you have to loudly proclaim there’s not a racist bone in your body, you’re probably doing racism. If you have to state you’re not a mom friend, you might be one.
Not the mom friend *right now*
Dumbing of Age Book 14: Please Recognize My Sexual Charisma
Not actually comics. This one is all about self actualizing ones own animal appeal.
Especially when the animal in question is a dinosaur.
What was this in reply to?
It reads perfectly logically to me. As in the proposed title is not for a book of comics, but rather a book on the topic of self-actualizing one’s own animal appeal.
Recognize the crackle of my raw SEXUAL ENERGY
Dina is the best! I don’t have anything else to say.
She is sort of the anti-Joe. When she thinks you’re interesting, that is very very special.
Dina is a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus
The Predator got nothing on Dina
Tyrannosaurus sex
Internet points for you.
That joke is easily as old as the Internet.
from the time of Quetzalcoaxlus
Originality is not required for the granting of Internet Points.
“I’m appalled that nobody is worried that I might seduce Walky. I mean I wouldn’t but that’s not the same as “I couldn’t”.”
This comes up in my life more than I care to admit. I don’t want you, but you should be paying attention to me and why aren’t you?
It’s a dumb brain thing
Also don’t forget the whole thing back when she got together with Becky where everyone but Becky was infantalizing her and treating her as a sexless child not someone who’s just as much an adult and capable of sexual/romantic feelings and consent as the rest of the cast.
Amber being singled out when Dina is also in the room with Walky in her underwear probably feels like a continuation of that to her.
Walky and Amber had a fling together though (and just yesterday pretended to be dating to his parents and Amber voiced her attraction directly to him), and Dina is demonstrably not interested in Walky. While I applaud Dina asserting herself, there’s a big difference between her and Amber being pantsless around Walky.
It can be both.
Dina is the type that might miss that kind of context and just focus on the literal situation in front of her.
She was one go-ahead-from-Becky away from turning Joe into a withered husk begging for her touch. They are right to fear her.
I forgot about that.
There’s definitely an angle for a drawing for THAT scenario.
45° X, 87° Y, -15°Z
(blank space is a 3 page long pedantic diatribe about those coordinates)
Yeah, I’d prefer the polar system for this use case.
The camera is diagonal from them, almost top-down.
So it’s angle and … orientation.
Yeah, the camera is bisexual.
i don’t think walky would be interested (“i am also in my pajamas” “this doesn’t register as interesting to me” or so when walky/amber were first starting to have fun with each other) tho it would be interesting to see him react to a flirting
I also love that Amber is still mid-chew from the chew she had in yesterday’s strip.
Perhaps Dotty is just envious that as a “shorter, thiccer Dorothy” Amber has the ability to sit directly on the floor like that without getting uncomfortable.
At least for me, Dorothy is already pretty as she looks.
I don’t think one having more or less cushion than the other necessarily/automatically has anything with being prettier, though there are plenty of opinions on whether or not someone would be better looking with a change in weight.
But speaking as someone who, over the last decade, lost about 100 pounds, I can definitely say I miss being able to sit without worrying about my butt hurting due to the loss of butt fat.
Yes, each head is different and I’m just clarifying that I am aware of the importance of body fat, just comment that I think Dorothy is pretty,
…but nobody else was talking about whether they find Dorothy pretty. ~:-|
Sounds like Coatl is the only one with their priorities in order.
ok
dorothy I am here for all of this but why are you doing it out loud
INTERNAL monologue, dear, INTERNAL
Oh sure like you’ve never accidentally unmuted yourself at the wrong time. She just did it with her brain instead of on Zoom/Discord.
I mean, she explained. She is going through a protracted psychotic break. It’s right there in the monologue.
This would be a good time for Amber to announce that she isn’t wearing any underwear.
“Well, I’m not wearing a bra right now.”
i mean eeven without walky there unless she’s used to it i feel like going commando and sitting down in a bedroom dorm room would not be that comfortable XD
Funnily enough, of the three people hanging out in the room right now I feel like Dina was the first one to connect the current situation to anything sexual.
To do so explicitly. Dorothy jumped to conclusions, and Amber caught her.
I think the best way of looking at the current situation with Walky and Amber is that its a pile of oily rags resting on top of a decade-old pile of newspapers.
Like, there’s nothing catastrophic about it right now. Everything’s stable, if a bit messy. Nothing bad is happening. And hey, if you’re certain there’s not going to be any fire around it, then there really isn’t a big deal.
……but sometimes it does make sense to not create a potential fire hazard, ya know?
That’s a really good analogy for the current situation. There’s several ways it could blow up (actually far more than ways it can stay calm), but currently none of them are obviously occuring.
They might be next page, but only the Patron users know that for sure. XD
Exactly. You haven’t started any fires yet, but maybe don’t put those oily rags on top of those newspapers.
nothing quite like coming home to the fire department in the apartment, after someone left oily rags all bunched up.
OT: maybe everyone already knows this, but better to make a bit of an ass out of oneself than assume someone else took shop or remembers what they were taught.
When oil dries, it oxidizes, which is exothermic. And heat is a catalyst for it oxidizing. In a confined space, the temperature can get to the spontaneous ignition point of the oil or of the rag / paper /whatever. Different oils have different spontaneous ignition points, so when in doubt, assume it’s dangerous.
That’s in addition to the danger of having fire or sparks around it.
Good point. Wish I could thumbs up comments like this
“Dottie, do you really think I have THAT much game to do this non-platonically?”
well they did ask dina to watch over them once so they wouldn’t be tempted but even if she wasn’t there i don’t think there’d be that much tension anymore
Can confirm, when Dina’s hair is mussed like that she becomes even more powerful.
Counting to ten to collect her thoughts and express concern seems like a very mom-friend-type of thing to do. Experience those messy emotions. Be frustrated and pissy. “what the actual fuck” was a better response than scolding by saying you’re not scolding. You are not your childhood dream future self’s “early life” section on wikipedia.
being the ‘mom’ friend would be exhausting if it’s expected/thrust upon you as opposed to going out of your way to help and naturally falling into that role, but i assume mom friends would only get involved in others relationships only if specifically asked for advice lol
He specifically asked her for advice. or is that your point. anyways, it was crappy advice, and these two should have a fight and during that fight Walky should say it was crappy advice.
oh right, he asked about lucy earlier but she doesn’t need to rly get involved in this situation even tho shes interpret this as a potential ‘situation’
To me it sounded more like the voice of Dorothy’s mom, firmly installed in Dorothy’s head.
Not necessarily a bad thing, or a good thing; it’s a useful tool in the right situations.
Walky has too many clothes on for this to be a problem
Amber is in a long shirt
Just calm down, Dottie, and steal the nachitos
even if walky were to be shirtless because of heat or a spill or so i’d still say it wouldn’t cross a line unless they were like, cuddling but i guess if you walked into seeing a shirtless guy in an ex’s room that’d look worse than the current situation
You’re right. It’s really not.
Do Amber and Dina not own a TV?
I mean, no need to in this day and age
…to play video games.
“Please Recognize My Sexual Charisma” – title of Book 12
“You are so sexually attractive as to be beyond suspicion?”
I know I recognize Dina’s sexual charisma.
Dina. You are a treasure
Laugh Tale has a secret tunnel leading to her dorm…
It’s not your business so STFU
Well aren’t you just a treat to have around.
More of a treat than Dorothy is
Congrats on exceeding a fictional character.
I’m not even sure about that. I’d definitely rather have Dorothy around.
Good for you
At least Dorothy looks smokin’ hot in a bright pink shirt.
That is true
LMFAO
Thank you
I mean. She is. That’s what this strip is. She just verbally conceded that it’s not her business. Dorothy sounds like more of a chill hang than you
You are wrong.
It’s none of her business yet she still feels its her place to state she’s concerned before conceding it’s none of her business
If she really thought it was none of her business she wouldn’t have said anything but she wanted Walky to know he was doing something she thought he shouldn’t
Dina called her out on it and good on her for doing so
“We get it. You’re stupid hot. Like, absolutely unfairly attractive. You’re not just a bombshell, you’re the London Blitz. An entire box of Rizz Bits Sandwiches With Cheese™. You put the ‘pump’ in ‘pumpkin patch’. We all accept this as a given, Dina.”
As hot as the chicxulub crater moments after impact
os, too soon.
You’d probably hate what Google does when you look up ‘chicxulub’ then, huh?
Also I gotta say, if Dorothy feels the need to look at this situation and think “oh man this might be weirdly sexual” (even though it isn’t but I digress) then she really needs to re-evaluate what her adventure with Joyce in the laundry room means for her and Joyce.
“I can’t believe you two are existing in the same room! And Amber has no pants on!”
“Well yeah, we got frisky in the past, but right now we’re just eating chips and playing video games.”
“Yeah it’s not like we’re holding hands while masturbating or something.”
“…”
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen commentary claiming holding hands while masturbating is also purely platonic.
What, you don’t hold hands with your bro while you’re chargin’ yer J.O. crystals?
I am sick of people making these excuses for Walky.
The entire friend group knows that he used to hook up with Amber. He brought her instead of his actual girlfriend to have dinner with his parents YESTERDAY. And YESTERDAY Amber admitted to still having feelings for him. And now today, instead of hanging out with Lucy (or even just explaining why he needed time to himself), he sought out Amber to hang out pantsless in her room.
Dorothy may have selfish, personal reasons to be particularly pissy about this, but it is absolutely already a bonehead move by Walky and could definitely cause grief for Lucy if she found out.
Also, every time he says that he “likes Lucy” I don’t notice sincerity in his words.
I clarify that I am not a fan of Lucy, but if the day comes when I finally open my eyes and see what Walky looks like, that will hurt a lot.
I absolutely agree that Walky’s enthusiasm for Lucy has been lacking the entire time. I think they’d make great friends, but I don’t think they’re a good match and I don’t think they’re in the same chapter, much less the same page on what they are to each other and what they want out of this relationship.
im agreed
Even though that kind of mismatch can end up working out, he’d have to communicate with her. To his partial credit, he did ask for advice on how to handle his situation. But only from one person, and it was Dorothy, and it became pretty apparent her advice was skewed by her own feelings.
As to Dorothy’s reasons, the most interesting thing to me about today’s comments is that she hasn’t actually articulated them but a bunch of people are absolutely positive what they are.
It’s absolutely possible that her reasons are “Why her and not me?” but it’s also possible that she recognized that Walky was right and is upset that he’s not living up to the standard they both have for him, which is being a good boyfriend.
I’d like to think it’s the latter, but I can’t be nearly as sure as several people seem to be that it’s the former.
The truth is that it took me by surprise that Dorothy would see Walky again, to the point of thinking that she would avoid him after the rejection. I’ll be honest, I loved Walky x Dorothy and I was hoping that maybe they could get back together, but after Raidah’s poison and the way he rejected the blonde in a single day, my hopes fell. but that whim has not gone away and at least I would like there to be no hate involved, I know that Dorothy has not done things well, but I hope that everything gets better for her, and that Sarah gives Raidah another blow
I think Dorothy is feeling her world fall apart around her and is grasping for what she has the happiest feelings for, which is what she had with Walky.
And it’s more painful for her when she is honest that maybe being president wasn’t her thing and Walky only told her that it would be fine for tomorrow, yes, it seemed like it was just something that Dorothy would easily forget, but the way he told her was very despicable and flaunting his “loyalty” to lucy
I think Walky was trying to express his faith in her in what he perceived was fleeting doubt. He was definitely wrong and caused her pain, but I have a hard time calling it despicable. I also wouldn’t say he was flaunting his loyalty to Lucy, I think him trying to act in a way that lives up to the idea of being a good boyfriend is just about all that’s keeping him and Lucy together right now. And unfortunately living up to that idea required him to reject Dorothy, even though I suspect the idea he’s trying to live up to is highly informed by the way Dorothy sees him.
Basically I think Walky and Dorothy would each very much like to be with each other, but the choices that have been made up to this point (by each of them) make that very much impossible at the moment. It’s very sad to me.
Wow. It’s nice to see consideration with the blonde, I’ve only seen in every comment I hate bringing hate, and as I said before the affection is not completely gone, I’m not saying that they’re coming back now, but that there is a healthy interaction, dreaming is free
I try to have compassion for as much of the cast as I can, especially the ones who have been shown to have reasons for their dysfunctions. (I think I fail the most with Jennifer, she pushes all of my buttons and not in a good way.) I take periodic breaks from even letting myself acknowledge that the comments section exists because of how vitriolic some folks are towards these characters who are trying their best and failing left and right which makes the entertainment we all come here for. And then sometimes I end those breaks and dive in headfirst and leave 20+ comments. Like tonight.
I too am a Dorothy/Walky dreamer. Thank goodness for the low low cost of dreaming.
It’s good to see that I’m not the only one who notices the unfair hatred towards Dorothy, I love the character and I really hope things work out for her.
We also don’t know whether she understands that Walky apparently still has no clue that he’s fallen into a compromising situation and will be surprised when someone points it out.
Emotions can be complicated. She can have a “you’re not being a great boyfriend” layer, and a layer of “which is why you said you rejected me” underneath. She’s trying to be what she imagines “mature” is.
The dinner thing was Lucy’s idea, not Walky’s. Please remember that.
He also didn’t seek her out to specifically hang out with Amber while pantsless. He sought out a video game, then tried to leave with it. She told him he can’t leave with her video game, which is understandable. She happens to be pantsless because it is her room and she’s still in her pjs.
I don’t condone cheating. If Walky was crossing a line, I would rake him across the coals for it. I don’t think he’s in the wrong for salvaging a friendship with an ex and just chilling. Walky has spent a lot of time with Lucy.
And I’m gonna end the post with this reminder, WALKY TAKING AMBER OUT TO DINNER WAS LUCY’S IDEA.
The theory was Lucy’s idea, it was Walky who chose Amber for the role. And I agree that he didn’t seek this result out, but he also decided that hanging out with his ex while she was in her underwear was the option to go with. He absolutely had the opportunity to decide that it was inappropriate and pass on the Switch. That wouldn’t have been in character for him, but it probably would have been the better decision. I’d be surprised if Lucy didn’t think this situation was inappropriate.
Honestly, the last time Walky and Amber were into each other they couldn’t be in each other’s vicinity without the urge to hump so I’d say the fact that they can just chill and eat food/play vidya without sex even really coming across for them does lend itself to a more platonic view of their relationship.
I think the potential is definitely there, but this was a very poor way to go about exploring it.
Doing the kinds of things Walky and Lucy did when Walky didn’t know they were almost dating. The kind of things that Walky has said at least twice where what he was looking for in a relationship. Except Walky feels more comfortable with Amber than with Lucy.
Walky might be ok with polyamory, it’s hard to tell because almost everything he says is couched in some dumbass joke. But Lucy is not. And even if she were, that’s something they should talk about first.
Isn’t Dorothy…also…in her sleepware?
She’s not attracted to amber so it’d be fine for her to visit while in pajamas, i suppose (although personally i’d get dressed a little bit more if i was visiting someone i wasn’t particularly close to even in a dorm room, tho unless those are like ‘boyshorts’ panties, the shorts she’s wearing on in this art style looks like something that could be worn ‘publicly’ but maybe im just used to ppl around here showing off alot of skin)
And any argument Dorothy had is destroyed. This is people hanging out in their underwear. If you accept that this is sexual then you must accept that Dina is involved and must accept that into your evaluation of the situation. Any other interpretation inherently exhibits a lack of comprehension of the entire situation.
“Dorothy’s argument DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC” come on, really now.
Amber and Walky used to date (or at least dry-hump). There’s romantic & sexual history there that Walky doesn’t have with Dina.
That is quite literally Dina’s stance here. Dorothy has brought up concerns of Amber being in her underwear. Dina is too. Thus Dorothy SHOULD consider Dina in her argument OR she is completely misinterpreting the situation. There is little room for argument, given what Dorothy knows at the moment.
Dorothy doesn’t consider Dina a part of the scandal because Dina has never fucked Walky.
Amber probably has.
Amber went on a fake-date with Walky yesterday.
Amber admitted to still liking Walky yesterday.
Dina has never demonstrated ANY sexual interest in Walky, nor has Walky demonstrated interest in Dina. So nobody (read: Lucy, or less justifiably Dorothy) has any reason to suspect anything untoward about the two of them being semi-naked in the same room.
Does Dorothy know this? Genuine question, im not sure what Dorothy is currently privy to. And it is relevent.
It’s hard to say for sure, but I would say it’s highly likely she was aware that Amber and Walky were doing some kind of relation-thing.
And that alone would be a very reasonable basis for reading this situation as she did.
It’s also noteworthy that Dina is there but separate, while Walky and Amber are directly interacting.
Has she seen anything beyond frirndship from them? And is Dina really more separate, given their physical proximity? We have a pretty good group shot there. Just saying, she is reading a considerable amount more into this situation than should be reasonaby gleaned, given she took a moment to asess.
Dina is engaged in her own separate activity while Walky and Amber are engaged in two shared activities (MarioKart and eating from the same nachitos bag at the same time). There is a difference there, yes.
As for what Dorothy has seen, like I said it’s hard to say for sure, but I think it’s highly likely she was aware that Amber and Walky were doing some kind of relation-thing. (I guess to clarify yes I do mean other than friendship) Neither Walky nor Amber are known for their subtlety and Amber and Dorothy are very direct neighbors. We don’t have absolute proof of knowledge, but that’s far from proof of no knowledge.
I very much understand what you’re “just saying”, but I don’t think the situation is nearly as conclusive as you’re making it out to be, certainly not to someone who just walked in at that moment and didn’t see it develop.
She said she saw them flirting on Twitter. At the time she was supportive, but things have changed.
Good remembery Bash!
The last three panels are a joke. Dina’s saying something true but actually irrelevant, not “destroying” an argument.
Walky is completely clothed, the only things uncovered are his face and… part of his arms I guess? They are not both semi-naked. Amber I grant you has no pants on, but saying they’re both semi-naked is just a lie.
Yes, she SHOULD. But Dorothy’s logic circuits are currently 100% occupied with recomputing her self-image, leaving the emotional centers unsupervised and in full control of processing her observations.
I don’t think we should forget that the dinosaur they’re hanging out on smells distinctly of sex. A small but important detail to remember.
DOROTHY: [points at dinosaur] Homewrecker!
As much as Dorothy needs to get pissy, it would have been really funny if this whole strip were her being “WTF, where is your bed Dina, there’s a giant dinosaur, when did that happen!?”
Save that for as-she’s-leaving. Assuming the situation is defused and she’s able to notice such things.
this is the closest ive seen to a non-religious “prayer for strength”
Jeez, Dorothy, you act like you’ve never hung out with a friend and played video games in your underwear. Are you even FRIENDS if you haven’t done that???
Like actually though. I used to do it constantly.
Honestly, when is the last time Dorothy has actually hung out with friends in settings that don’t involve a visit to pick up pills/get glasses…
Yes, Dorothy’s social time (or rather lack thereof) is almost certainly both a symptom and a cause of the way her life seems to be falling apart around her.
I mean last time they hung out with joyce in the laundry room it wasn’t exactly…typical lol
wonder if she’ll bump into sarah or lucy first after this
That was a very common thing they did in that laundry room. It’s stupid that anyone would find it even remarkable, let alone controversial.
I definitely play pokemon with my roommate while wearing only a robe.
Yeah, you’re in fact the third pantless person in the room, Dorothy
No Dina, she really shouldn’t. The Sexual/Romantic geometric structure would get too weird and complicated especially if Becky joins in. Just be glad you are not part of this mess XD
She’s got shorts on!
Dina’s response is killing me in a good way lmao
lol yeah mood, tho i’d be 50/50 on saying something similar/snarky if not just dipping out of the situation
Dina’s helping
“And also, my dino plushie totally smells like sex”
I think most of the comments are ignoring that the room smells like sex and she walked in on the two karters with their hand in the nachito bag at the same time. That’s a sin.
I think “the room smells like sex” is taking it a little far. Walky didn’t say anything until he was right up on the plush, and even then he only said “kinda”. It was never mentioned in-comic that the entire room smelled that way, the comments are just acting up.
If they didn’t notice it walking into the room, then it’s time to get some sex-scented incense.
Insex
To be conscious of yourself having a breakdown is scary. It’s not like a possession or some other issue that make you “wake up next day”.
You feel and know that your mind is breaking. You brain can process it’s our failure.
At least, it’s all very crazy.
hopefully she won’t get drunk with ruth again, but i’d think she’d hopefully taking steps towards it if she’s admitting/aware of it
Dina’s come a long way, socially, to even recognize that sexual charisma is part of the issue here.
She doesn’t recognise that, she’s just hitting on Dorothy.
Trying out some new small talk.
(Jarvis Cocker voice)
Just you, sat there, Karting in your underwear
Excellent reference, have an internet.
Someone needs to explain to me what an Honors student is.
Honours students at my university (in Australia) are doing the 4th year of what would otherwise be a 3-year Bachelor degree. I was planning to do Latin Honours, but for life reasons, I didn’t end up doing a fourth year, and graduated with an ordinary Bachelor of Arts.
So what does this first-year student mean when she describes herself as a “former Honors student”? It’s obviously not what I would mean!
(“My dinosaur killed your Honors student” sounds like a threat made to someone’s thesis supervisor.)
It’s just advanced-level classes. She’s saying she got extremely good grades at a high level of education.
She’s saying she got extremely good grades back in high school.
That’s what I said.
“Higher level education” is not exactly the words you used, but is what we in the US would typically say to generally mean “any education after high school”
It could either be high school related OR it could be a special track at university that gets some smaller classes and some additional required classes. If the latter I’m worried.
I think she’s referencing her single missed day and maybe class as having immediately dropped her from the Honours roll.
I read it as a National Honors Society student in high school not transitioning to college well.
They are one Tyrannosaur Snout apart, the legal minimum distance to make this a non-sexual encounter.
Sadly for Dina, society discourages recognizing people on the tail end of dinosaurs.
If Dorothy wants to take her mind off her problems, I think an underwear party would do the trick. And if she’s worried about Amber, best to fight fire with fire.
In panel 5, is Dorothy’s right eye completely displaced from the socket?
Her glasses may have slipped slightly as she peered downwards at Amber, and now her eyes appear above the lenses as she angles upwards to make eye contact with Dina.
You wish.
I’m very surprised Dorothy says she’s having a “protracted psychotic break”. Of those 3 words, only “break” applies.
Admittedly it can be hard to tell from the outside. In “And Then I Thought I Was a Fish”, Peter Welch describes his protracted psychotic break – weeks where he was convinced he was on a Secret Mission to save humanity. Since it was a Secret, he didn’t tell anyone about this. And because there were Others who would try to stop him, he had to behave as normally as possible.
But we haven’t seen any evidence when Dorothy is talking to herself that she’s thinking anything like that.
Dina’s getting laid more than anyone else in the room, pretty sure she wins for sexual charisma.
The entire room is simply awash in sexual authority, charisma, and tension.
Unfortunately, self-awareness does not help
Dina, quietly, next page: “… i hear the kids call that ‘rizz’…”
honestly, society would be a lot better off if we were all comfortable just hanging out in our underwear, weather permitting
As one of those wild and free Nordics, I agree. Also being comfortable to go to the sauna with your friends, and even with strangers.
saunas are unfortunately not a common facility in my part of the world, but my best friend lives in japan, and we went to an onsen together with her boyfriend, who I met in person for the first time for that visit
it was a private onsen so there weren’t any strangers, but having a masc, fem, and enby all chilling out and just talking while we cleaned was pretty freeing. I definitely will feel more comfortable doing that with a wider range after the first experience went so well
Wonderful. That’s exactly what I meant.
Nobody has $300 to go bathe in public.
“Please recognize my sexual charisma” is definitely what the book should be titled.
Someone else should walk in (Lucy) and ask Walky why he and three girls are hanging out in their underwear. Or maybe someone who’d congratulate him.
Mostly so Dina can say “Thank you for recognising my sexual charisma” and go back to reading
At first, I pictured Joe doing this, and it made perfect sense.
Then I realized that it would be EVEN FUNNIER if Joe just walked by, said hi to everyone, and completely failed to make any innuendo about the situation, thus breaking Dorothy’s already-taxed brain beyond all hope of repair.
He gives Walky pointers on dealing with Amber in Mario Kart (not beating her, just losing by a slimmer margin).
honestly i really dont see a problem with this?? i’m best friends with one of my exes, i’ve hung out in just pjs/undies before with her. and my gf is totally fine with it. hell we’ve *both* hung out with her like this before
but i am a good bit older than these kids and am very secure in my relationships
This is around the 10th day that Walky and Lucy have been dating, and he and Lucy are not on the same page at all. Not only do you feel very secure in your relationship, your relationship is undoubtedly more developed and in a better shape than Walky and Lucy’s. I’m guessing you do at least an iota of communication too. Like if your gf suggests you could fool around, and for whatever reason you don’t feel like it, do you run off to a pile of melting dirty snow to mourn your “
fortress ofsolitude” or do you say something to the effect of you’re not in the mood? (rhetorical, not actually prying for an answer)Like you said, it’s the 10th day of them dating. They’re going to take a little bit to sync up, and that’s not a sign of imminent failure or an ill omen of their future.
Tries to not be the mom friend.
Bes the mom friend.
to be fair, its not like theyre DOING anything. also it seems as tho everyone walks around in their underwear in this dorm.
THAT BEING SAID, im sure what dorothy means is: is this something lucy would be uncomfortable with you doing ?
I’m hoping all of this leads to Walky and Lucy breaking up. Idk where Walky ends up, but Lucy is all sorts of too much for him
You’ve been acknowledged Dina. Your sexual charisma is at an all time high.
Dorothy, please continue.
Even though I will not reciprocate this, please see me as someone you want to smash.
I’m tired of being a pass.
mood 🙁
They’re pyjamas, not underwear Dorothy.
Amber is wearing a t-shirt and, presumably, undershorts.
Dina you have no sexual charisma to Walky, and thus you are not a concern. From what I’ve seen, you only have sexual charisma to Becky and 90% of the commenters. Which makes me ask: Did Joe ever rate her? Ah well, too late. Does he rate known taken women? He didn’t put Dorothy on the list until she and Danny broke up.
I’m thinking about this too much.
two of the people in this room are virgins, not the ones you’d expect
I don’t think the kart racers in the video game count as people.
We already know that Walky and Dorothy are virgins still, at least. Neither of them has had sex yet, although Walky famously rubbed his clothed genitals against Amber’s clothed genitals.
Walky and Dorothy had sex with each other during their relationship, and Dorothy mentioned that she had sex previously with Danny.
There…There’s explicitly a Slipshine about Walky and Dorothy fucking. Like not only did it happen, you can *see it happen* for the right price.
It’s funny too cuz it’s literally the first one.
P in V doesn’t count if you say “no hetero” right after.
None of them?
“Recognize my sexual charisma” is the first thing I’ll say at my 15 year high school reunion after I introduce my three boyfriends
Recognize the sexual charisma.
I’m just waiting on Amber to finish chewing her nachito and ask, “And… you just barged into our room uninvited… why, again?”