I’m still fascinated how your current grav propagates back through time, replacing your previous gravs, so its like your grav on all past days were always your grav on a particular day in the future. It’s like a great sci-fi story/movie.
She actually has a mental link with her hat so she’s aware of everything that is happening there. Coincidently she might be just off panel which makes her unnoticeable by anybody, even Willis.
Droid. I’ve tried disabling it, I’ve checked tutorials and FAQs on how to disable it, I’ve handed it off to people who I know are more tech-savvy than me and people who claim to be more tech-savvy than me.
It never works. If anything, it’s lately taken to correcting even perfectly valid words to similar words that I type more frequently, or capitalizing them as I more usually do.
Instead of auto-correct, the google keyboard gives you a choice of possible words as you type, if it’s one of those words, you just click on it, otherwise you just continue to type.
I have that, which is occasionally useful. I can turn it off, but autocorrect seems to be independent of it.
Eventually I’ll deal with it, but for now laziness reigns.
You really think she’d go for that? She’s not going to be comfortable bringing Ethan so close again (like in the hotel room after prom) and if she realizes Danny’s situation she’s going to get concerned *quick.*
Don’t need Tropes or Wikipedia. My brain does that on its own when I’m bored and start a train of thoughts.
I often end up in deep dark strange corner of my imagination and wonder how the hell I got there.
To amuse myself I try to retrace my “steps” and figure out what brought me there and I usually find the turning point.
Try that with Wikitropes, there goes another 4 hours and nowhere near where you started.
Yeah why don’t the guy who just announced he was gay and the other guy who isn’t even sure what bisexuality is and who’s already in a committed relationship just fuck already?
I guess I just don’t think casually dismissing Danny’s current relationship and his struggles with his sexuality and acting like his worth as a person is based on titillation is an okay thing to do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you’re going to ignore how painful struggling with your sexuality can be just because you want to see dudes kiss, then I am not the one with the problem.
And this is why you have to allow Walky-level obnoxiousness in meetings like this, because that give people like Danny – who legitimately are there for the meeting but don’t want to advertise it – an easy excuse for their presence.
Of course, I’m not sure Danny could say that he’s there for the free Gay Pizza without flustering himself…
But…Danny is currently dating someone. I mean. I want Ethan and Danny to make out, too, but only if Danny clears that with Amazi-Girl first. And something tells me Amazi-Girl is not into polyamory…
I’ve seen other people say ‘Ethanny’ I think. I want to ship them so hard, but there’s the whole Amber complication, and I don’t want to see her get hurt (again) – she has enough problems.
I know people toss up polyamory as a potential option but the characters in question all seem a bit nervous and inexperienced to me. I’d have figured you’d need a certain level of confidence to decide to enter into a polyamorous relationship. I could see Roz being all cool with being in a relationship where one or more parties involved have more than one partner, but Amber, Danny and Ethan all strike me as being a bit too skittish and uncertain in themselves and their sexualities to be ready for that sort of thing just yet. Maybe when they’re older, but not just now.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to seeing how it pans out.
Also there is a certain amount of life experience required to accept poly as a personal identification and not feel guilty. I couldn’t handle it until my kids were out of elementary school and I could start to deal with them as separate individuals instead of Kid 1, Kid 2, Kid 3, Cat 1… (whoops!)
Wait, doesn’t a slash indicate, yanno, SLASH? As opposed to just a romantic pairing?
…
Why is everyone looking at me like that? You can’t ALL have jumped straight to yaoi… right?
What do you mean Dina’s not in this one? I think she must be standing on a stool or something, though, because I don’t remember her being taller than Danny.
Danny’s danning it up by being oddly hostile in the tone of his questioning of Ethan as a result of Danny being oblivious to the obvious (and therefore shocked). He doesn’t mean to be judgmental, but he’s so insecure and scared what people think of him that he might come off as judgmental to someone who is a character and doesn’t get to see how consistently awkward Danny is. Seriously, he’s defensive and in denial despite being in a very safe place.
Of course, there’s nothing odd about it knowing what we know – he’s suddenly had his attention directed to the possibility that the person that he is attracted to (and that they loudly denied being gay to each other) might be gay or something.
Well actually, no, it’s a totally valid question, given the information. Ethan, per Danny’s last update, was wearing the Joyce beard, so Ethan suddenly being at a place for those who are gay or questioning is actually essentially normal.
100% no sparkles…. Except when he just had a workout.
How many movies is there anyway, 42 … 43 ?
Stopped counting after second one.
Started to look like a The Bold and the Beautiful episode with the love triangle, boring acting and endless “this is my intense face” looks….
It is a testament to a seriously delicious food that I can look at a simple drawing of a truncated wedge with circles drawn on it and OH MAN I WANT SOME PIZZA SO BAD NOW.
Oh, compulsive heterosexuality, so full of fail. Ah, oh no, judgement, actually super straight, extra hetero, able to blow down walls with the power of my Axe body spray, not queer at all-wait, did you say you were interested, oh, er, um… heh.
On a separate note, aww on Danny taking the advice about checking out the questioning space. Assuming he doesn’t go fleeing into the night right after this, this will be good for him so he can get the resources he needs and find some community that gets what he’s going through.
I mean, this step for Ethan and Danny might be the healthiest, most proactive step for genuine seeking of competent care that we’ve seen a character do yet.
The Doasauurs siegalensis is stunned to see another member of its genus in the vicinity. It is quickly idenified as the smaller, flightier, and slightly more dim-witted Doasaurus wilcoxii. The D. wilcoxii hoped to forage unseen in this area, but turns aggressive once recovering from being startled. What will become of this interaction? Whilst this is under debate, paleoecologists refer to this relatively common type of occurence as a Willis-Slipshine potential, named after the paleontologists that discovered these occurences.
I am not getting this ‘Danning it up’ thing. Danny shows up in the comic, he reacts like a human being to things, and people start making comments about how he’s ‘Danning it up’. Every time he shows up. Why are there no comments about Ethan ‘Ethaning it up’ or Joyce ‘Joycing it up’ or anyone else? He is a person, he reacts like a person, I quite like him, he’s an interesting character, yet everyone seems to be down on him every time he does or says anything. I don’t get it.
It’s specifically whenever Danny’s brand of incompetence counteracts his own best interests. Here, for example. his return to interrogate Ethan ruins his cover.
But this seems to me like a perfectly normal response, not any special brand of incompetence. He’s not being incompetent, he’s being human (arguably those are the same thing I guess).
Step 1. Attend gay info party to try to find out more information about your sexuality that you recently realised is more complicated than you’d thought.
Step 2. Run into guy you fancy who thinks you are straight.
Step 3. Panic slightly, say something stupid and leave.
Step 4. Brain kicks back in enough to realise that the guy you thought was straight is also at the gay info party.
Step 5. Return to find out why previously-assumed-to-be-straight-guy is at the gay party.
I’m pretty sure that exact scenario, or one very like it, has played out thousands of times in real life, maybe billions of times. He’s not being incompetent, he’s not counteracting his own best interests, he’s not even actually blowing his cover because that sort of panicked response is hardly convincing as an argument for his complete and total heterosexuality or his lack of knowledge that it’s a gay info party, and even a straight guy would come back to ask his assumed-to-be-straight friend why he’s at the gay party (I have officially used that phrase too many times in this comment). He’s being human, and reacting in a completely normal, realistic way, so I just don’t get why that’s remarkable.
But hey, you all have an in-joke that amuses you, so I’ll stop pissing on it, even though I don’t get it. Carry on.
I never really got all the Dan hate either, to be honest. I know it’s because of events in ‘Roomies!’ – but even in those comics I never hated him. *Shrug* He seems like a very believable, normal character, and he does have a certain charm to him. He’s a bit dumb sometimes…. maybe that’s why it’s called ‘Dumbing of Age’. 😉
“Danning” just sounds better. Sure, Joyce’s name is a monosyllable too, but here doesn’t end in that pleasingly hard consonant sound we ramp the -ing off of.
1) Danning it up was actually used in the comic so much like nickles and femurs it gets quoted often
2) Danny’s mistakes are often self sabatoging in an amusing way, Ethans mistakes are vastly frustrating so it’s more fun to mention Danny’s than Ethan’s
3) It’s a running joke logic need not be strictly adhered to.
So Ethan comes out to Danny and then Danny has to friend break up with him like he tried with Amber (because he can’t be around Ethan if Ethan;s an actual potential option even if he’s not a cheater this could all fall into emotional affair territory very quickly and Danny is extremely sexually attracted to Ethan) and Ethan thinks its out of homophobia until Danny comes out to him and then things just get more complicated?
All a very real possibility I wouldn’t put past Willis. Hopefully we can avoid this situation if Dan can get over his flusteredness long enough to be his mature self and be honest about himself.
Well, actually, that would be a mature response. Continuing to chill with someone you are extremely sexually attracted to while you’re dating someone else isn’t really all that mature. It would be different is, say, Ethan was attracted to Danny, and Danny didn’t return that attraction, but there’s clearly something there, and that makes hanging out on any regular basis while staying properly monogamous a big problem.
In panel 5 it appears that Danny dropped both the pizza and the Gay litachoor. I mean WTF? Dropping pizza? That’s a Class 3 Misdemeanor in fourteen states
Strangely people never make this objection when elementary school kids are presumed straight.
You have a different-gender friend in third grade? They’re now your boy/girlfriend, according to your teasing parents. Toddler smiling at girls? “My son is such a flirt!”
Only queer sexualities are codified as SEXUAL. Straight gets to be innocent and cheek-kissy and hands-holdy, but suggest that a child might be gay and APPARENTLY you’re assuming they’re having sex.
or, you know, he’s uncomfortable with his own sexuality and doesn’t want people to know about it. Were you not paying attention to his most recent character arc?
I can remember doing similar things as a uni student. I’m asexual but didn’t know the word back then, so I was trying to figure myself out, and just knew that I wasn’t really attracted to people or interested in dating, and I would get super pissed off at people assuming I was. So every time someone made a perfectly innocent enquiry about whether I was interested in a specific person or other I would respond with some terrible knee-jerk response like “No – she’s a girl” or “No – he’s fat!” and then my brain would catch up with what my mouth just said, and I would be appalled at myself.
So yeah, I can understand trying to figure out your sexuality and blurting out stupid shit when unexpectedly pressed, because you panic and your higher brain functions shut down for a few crucial moments.
In my experience, most elementary schoolers know what homosexuality is. Its an insult to be thrown at those weaker, shyer, dumber or poorer than oneself.
Actually, Ethan, the hat is the second thing that Danny wants to talk to you about.
Wow! Danny must really be unobservant to have missed Ethan’s earlier rant! I’m guessing that he is so nervous that he isn’t really listening to anything but the argument going on in his head! That and the fact that he can be pretty dense…
I am shocked and offended by the lack of Dina in this otherwise excellent strip. I given certain expectations by the title of this chapter and I can’t help but feel that I have been bamboozled.
If you look back at some of his appearances with Ethan, he’s shown to be pretty bummed out at Ethan having a girlfriend, and feeling that he should be sad for him when he broke up with Joyce. The idea that Danny’s crush could never be reciprocated was probably comforting to him.
Plus, Danny aggressively enforcing heteronormative views in a crisis is well documented at this point, between feeling the need to “reassert his friggin’ heterosexuality” after his first hang-out with Ethan, and telling Joe that no really he totes wanted to bang Billie but decided she shouldn’t, and it wasn’t at all because he wasn’t ready.
Right. He feels he’s cheating on Amber by thinking about Ethan (since he literally just realized it and he doesn’t know how to deal with it because it’s new and confusing) and with Billie he wasn’t ready to move on after Dorothy, so he had to invent a bullshit excuse to Joe that allowed him to retain his masculinity cred. “No see, it’s not that I didn’t want to have sex, because I am a guy and therefore always want to have sex, it’s that she might regret it even though she’s shown enthusiastic consent. I had to protect her from herself, you see. I am totally a real man in this case.”
Wait, did Ethan not yell “I’m gay” as loud as I thought he did, or was Danny just too far away/engrossed in whatever to hear him? Cause I thought Ethan yelled pretty loudly.
Danny entered the moment after Ethan finished yelling because otherwise the universe would spare him this awkward moment. And the universe doesn’t spare Danny any awkward moments.
I’ve never been on the Danny hate bandwagon, but here he made me cringe. Stop behaving like this, Danny. Please.
I assume Dina is watching this whole interaction from just off-panel, perhaps she’s retreated behind the door for better unobtrusive viewing. I wonder what’s going through her mind right now.
He goes to a Questioning gathering that he feels safe and relaxed at.
He runs into the guy he is crushing on, who he assumes is straight.
Danny panics because now he can’t deal with his sexuality in a safe and relaxed environment and tries to flee.
Hey wait, why is the guy he’s crushing on at a Questioning meeting? Ethan is totes straight because he had a girlfriend.
So I don’t know where Danny is making mistakes, because his expectation that he’d be able to work through his confusion without outside drama has been shattered, and now he’s freaking the fuck out.
I wonder if there are any CIA recruiters on campus right now, because all these kids are amazing at lying to cover up their real intentions, and I’m sure the CIA would love them for espionage. I mean, Danny’s story here is totally believable…
When they say it’s a meeting for questioning individuals, I don’t think they meant you’re supposed to walk up to individuals and interrogate them as to why they’re there. That seems like something you’d want people to feel comfortable to volunteer.
Ethan was, anyway. Danny was correct when he told him he wasn’t gay (although the intent of that was very much “I am straight” since Danny wasn’t even aware of bisexuality until he talked with Dorothy).
Wait a minute…I thought Dan knew about Amber’s previous boyfriend difficulties? As in, why they broke up and all of that. Isn’t that why he talked to Dorothy about everything instead of Amber? And he knows who her ex is. Why didn’t he put this together sooner?
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Ethan: “Well OBVIOUSLY I’m here because pizza (but no subs).”
(Danny, asking why he’s there means you know what the gathering’s for, you CHUMP)
Why wouldn’t Ethan want a sub, unless you are suggesting that Ethan is the sub type eh…
because it’s not “FREE PIZZA (and subs)”
which sucks, because free subs are even better than free pizza
dammit now I really want a Galasso’s to exist
FOOL!
IIRC, Willis (damn you!) based Galasso’s on a real place
I like a good sub myself but have recently taken to wraps instead.
YOU ARE NOW ASHLEY FOREVER HENCEFORTH
He’s been Ashley before. The avatar I default to when thinking of PM is one of some burgundy-haired anime lass from before the tumblr record began.
That doesn’t narrow it too much, I have used hundreds of gravatars over the years.
I should keep track of how many EGS ladies Plasma impersonates. I think she has a helpful tumblr or something to make this easier.
Praying to Google found me the tumblr, and I was thus exposed to BugCat. Peruse tumblr at your own risk. http://plasma-mongoose.tumblr.com/
FYI, the answer is 7 EGS ladies, and Grace is not one of them.
I’m still fascinated how your current grav propagates back through time, replacing your previous gravs, so its like your grav on all past days were always your grav on a particular day in the future. It’s like a great sci-fi story/movie.
For the empire, Disloyal Subject?
My mental image of Plasma is a massive amalgamation of hundreds of ever-smiling vaguely anime-esque girls.
Post-haste, he now is Ashley. Wait, no, that would imply I want to date him. … … hmm…
I’m a really good sub. Wait, what color kerchief’s hanging from YOUR back pocket?
Can’t beat a good foot-long with extra hot sauce.
Actually you can–that’s how you get the hot sauce.
maybe he’d rather have DOMinos?
Yeah, but Ethan’s not going to notice that, he’s just going to add this to the “people I think think of me as Gay Ethan” column.
I have faith that it will dawn on him, eventually.
My god, Anita Bryant was right all along… They are recruiting!
And apparently all it takes is free pizza.
(For the humor impaired: That’s sarcasm)
Danning it up
Dammit danny!
If only his name was Ross instead…
Danny’s really Danning it up in this one.
see, he’s questioning! he gets it already
Dina is in this strip in spirit. And also her brain parasite is present and accounted for.
Nah she’s there. She’s just THAT good at hiding.
She’s obviously right behind Ethan, duh.
Dina’s so good at not being noticed, even Willis didn’t notice her this time.
*nod nod* was about to say that as well.
She actually has a mental link with her hat so she’s aware of everything that is happening there. Coincidently she might be just off panel which makes her unnoticeable by anybody, even Willis.
I note a consistent manner of speech.
The that’s power is manifesting.
The. Hat.
I want autocorrect to STAY GONE when I disable it. Mumble grumble hat is a perfectly valid word anyway grumble.
I have never had any issues with my smartphone autocorrect, is it because you’re using iPhone??
Droid. I’ve tried disabling it, I’ve checked tutorials and FAQs on how to disable it, I’ve handed it off to people who I know are more tech-savvy than me and people who claim to be more tech-savvy than me.
It never works. If anything, it’s lately taken to correcting even perfectly valid words to similar words that I type more frequently, or capitalizing them as I more usually do.
I got droid too but it uses a Google keyboard and I haven’t had any real issues with it.
The worst is my Amazon Fire–it’s spellcorrect is by Sirius Cybernetics.
Instead of auto-correct, the google keyboard gives you a choice of possible words as you type, if it’s one of those words, you just click on it, otherwise you just continue to type.
I have that, which is occasionally useful. I can turn it off, but autocorrect seems to be independent of it.
Eventually I’ll deal with it, but for now laziness reigns.
this will all end in tears. i just know it
EthDan! (!!!) *squees uncontrollably*
Dathan?
Yes, EthDan sounds like a killing word.
I don’t care what you call it, just make it happen already!
Oh shit… Amber still exists. What to do?
EthAmbDan. DanAmbEth? That sounds better. Either way, if Amber’s in the middle, she’ll be happy. 😉
Dambeth? Heck, that almost sounds legit…
You really think she’d go for that? She’s not going to be comfortable bringing Ethan so close again (like in the hotel room after prom) and if she realizes Danny’s situation she’s going to get concerned *quick.*
The best part of that is that you’re maKing a valid point…while quoting Mike
EthAmberanny
AmbEth-anny
threesome
I think Amber would approve of Dan x Ethan
Having a gay dude and a straight lady in a threesome would probably be pretty awkward.
It needs a lot of work from the second dude. But it’s kinda doable, like a devil’s threesome.
Sandwitch.
I never did see Danny as the meat of a sandwich, but I suppose one could try.
“Amber still exists. What to do?”
Split the timeline!
Or you could mix their last names. I mean, Siecox seems like a good name for this ship….
*sigh* Cocks…
I made that name pun ages ago. XD
Yes, “see cocks” is definitely the best name for this. Second is Damn Beth. Because either of these things is totally okay and makes perfect sense.
Seriously, I don’t even care how much stuff it’s going to screw up, I NEED this ship to happen. And I NEVER get that way about ships.
The hat is so infused with Dina’s essence that she’s present in spirit, or something along those lines.
Yeah, Dina’s hat here so it counts.
Yes yes, gayngst and stuff, NOW KISS! KISS DAMMIT! THING NEEDS HIS YAOI!
Gayngst? Is that even a word?
… if it’s not, good job. It should be.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Gayngst
Enjoy your next 4 hours.
haha funny I almost put *four hours later* but that would be two links and requiring moderation
Don’t need Tropes or Wikipedia. My brain does that on its own when I’m bored and start a train of thoughts.
I often end up in deep dark strange corner of my imagination and wonder how the hell I got there.
To amuse myself I try to retrace my “steps” and figure out what brought me there and I usually find the turning point.
Try that with Wikitropes, there goes another 4 hours and nowhere near where you started.
Don’t use the back button that’s cheating!! There is no back button in my brain.
Really? I’d get an add-on for that; it makes life much easier. 😛
Yeah but where is the fun in that. I like figuring out how I got to think of something
You. Are. Evil. 😀
Tropes is a time sinkhole, isn’t it? Still fun though.
…You’re welcome.
Yeah why don’t the guy who just announced he was gay and the other guy who isn’t even sure what bisexuality is and who’s already in a committed relationship just fuck already?
What Dina there said.
Oh thank god you’re here, Captain Killjoy! I heard someone having fun over there! You have to stop it!
I guess I just don’t think casually dismissing Danny’s current relationship and his struggles with his sexuality and acting like his worth as a person is based on titillation is an okay thing to do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Calm down, they’re just cartoon characters.
If you’re going to ignore how painful struggling with your sexuality can be just because you want to see dudes kiss, then I am not the one with the problem.
Bro, calm down.
Oh, Danny.
But hey, now Ethan is out, maybe he can give Danny a reason to accept this piece of himself. A *sexy* reason.
also I swear that ‘piece of himself’ was unintentional.
Sure it was…
Don’t you mean “I meant to say that!”
And this is why you have to allow Walky-level obnoxiousness in meetings like this, because that give people like Danny – who legitimately are there for the meeting but don’t want to advertise it – an easy excuse for their presence.
Of course, I’m not sure Danny could say that he’s there for the free Gay Pizza without flustering himself…
Also, Walky’s bluster could easily be a cover for other reasons for him to be there.
Absolutely!
Considering his reaction to Jacob was basically “Everyone wants to hit that, right?”, I think he’s bi but doesn’t know it.
But…Danny is currently dating someone. I mean. I want Ethan and Danny to make out, too, but only if Danny clears that with Amazi-Girl first. And something tells me Amazi-Girl is not into polyamory…
She is only into justice! However, she can be spooned
Spooooooonnnnn-ed!
Doesn’t have the same ring, does it?
The hat is already working
And it’s not even Haturday.
“You like meat-lovers, I like meat-overs, lets love meat together”.
This is terrible. I want to find an excuse to say it to someone.
That’s the spirit. ^_^
We don’t eat pigs
You don’t eat pigs
It seems it’s been that way forever
So if you don’t eat pigs
And we don’t eat pigs
Why not not eat pigs together?
— Tim Minchin, Peace Anthem for Palestine
I remember that song. 😀
“DON’T SLIP ON THE PI-”
*danny face plants*
“Never mind…”
What is this ship called anyway? I’ve been calling it ‘Ethann(y)” in my head.
I love Amber, but I love this duo and storyline more *__*
I’ve seen other people say ‘Ethanny’ I think. I want to ship them so hard, but there’s the whole Amber complication, and I don’t want to see her get hurt (again) – she has enough problems.
I know people toss up polyamory as a potential option but the characters in question all seem a bit nervous and inexperienced to me. I’d have figured you’d need a certain level of confidence to decide to enter into a polyamorous relationship. I could see Roz being all cool with being in a relationship where one or more parties involved have more than one partner, but Amber, Danny and Ethan all strike me as being a bit too skittish and uncertain in themselves and their sexualities to be ready for that sort of thing just yet. Maybe when they’re older, but not just now.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to seeing how it pans out.
Also there is a certain amount of life experience required to accept poly as a personal identification and not feel guilty. I couldn’t handle it until my kids were out of elementary school and I could start to deal with them as separate individuals instead of Kid 1, Kid 2, Kid 3, Cat 1… (whoops!)
I entered into a polyamorous relationship with practically no experience whatsoever.
I quickly learned polyamory was not for me, but I did try it.
“Ethan and Danny.” Or, if you must, “Ethan/Danny.”
Cutesy smushed ship names can DIAF.
Wait, doesn’t a slash indicate, yanno, SLASH? As opposed to just a romantic pairing?
…
Why is everyone looking at me like that? You can’t ALL have jumped straight to yaoi… right?
Oh, right. Shippers gotta ship.
*Carefully wraps and taps the package, applies a label, hands it to parcel service…*
What do you mean Dina’s not in this one? I think she must be standing on a stool or something, though, because I don’t remember her being taller than Danny.
Some of the fans are really starting to stretch what counts as Dannying something up.
How dare Danny and Ethan not instantly fuck for our enjoyment!
(sarcasm by the way, hard to tell over the internet)
I’m more curious to see what will happen between Malaya and Marcie, but that’s probably off the table for a while.
Danny’s danning it up by being oddly hostile in the tone of his questioning of Ethan as a result of Danny being oblivious to the obvious (and therefore shocked). He doesn’t mean to be judgmental, but he’s so insecure and scared what people think of him that he might come off as judgmental to someone who is a character and doesn’t get to see how consistently awkward Danny is. Seriously, he’s defensive and in denial despite being in a very safe place.
Of course, there’s nothing odd about it knowing what we know – he’s suddenly had his attention directed to the possibility that the person that he is attracted to (and that they loudly denied being gay to each other) might be gay or something.
Well actually, no, it’s a totally valid question, given the information. Ethan, per Danny’s last update, was wearing the Joyce beard, so Ethan suddenly being at a place for those who are gay or questioning is actually essentially normal.
The snark/sarcasm tag is your friend /s
And omg Jacob literally has a 7 vote lead over Ethan. I voted for both, but I really want Jacob to win this one!! Team Jacob-not-the-wolf!
100% no sparkles…. Except when he just had a workout.
How many movies is there anyway, 42 … 43 ?
Stopped counting after second one.
Started to look like a The Bold and the Beautiful episode with the love triangle, boring acting and endless “this is my intense face” looks….
Did… did he drop the pizza?
Only the soap
Facepalm
Classy.
5 second rule!
It is a testament to a seriously delicious food that I can look at a simple drawing of a truncated wedge with circles drawn on it and OH MAN I WANT SOME PIZZA SO BAD NOW.
…and subs
Why do I feel that the subs are treated like Zoidberg?
I dunno, sandwiches don’t seem like they would be very good boiled and buttered.
(After the pizza is eaten). You lost the pizza of your dreams, but you still have subs. You all still have subs!
I’m glas this is happening because if theres one thing this comics lacking it’d have to be conflict
That’s the dark side talking.
Gotta get some cookies after the supply of pizza (and subs) is exhausted. The dark side provides!
Oh, compulsive heterosexuality, so full of fail. Ah, oh no, judgement, actually super straight, extra hetero, able to blow down walls with the power of my Axe body spray, not queer at all-wait, did you say you were interested, oh, er, um… heh.
I think you mean heteronormative.
Shoot, yeah, I did.
On a separate note, aww on Danny taking the advice about checking out the questioning space. Assuming he doesn’t go fleeing into the night right after this, this will be good for him so he can get the resources he needs and find some community that gets what he’s going through.
I mean, this step for Ethan and Danny might be the healthiest, most proactive step for genuine seeking of competent care that we’ve seen a character do yet.
Oh, this is gonna be good.
Danny why did you throw that pizza away it was still good.
Oh also we got a good look at Danny stealing Walky’s panic face:
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Hey there, red shouty word!
Danny you’re so adorably stupid. Still stupid. But adorably so.
The Doasauurs siegalensis is stunned to see another member of its genus in the vicinity. It is quickly idenified as the smaller, flightier, and slightly more dim-witted Doasaurus wilcoxii. The D. wilcoxii hoped to forage unseen in this area, but turns aggressive once recovering from being startled. What will become of this interaction? Whilst this is under debate, paleoecologists refer to this relatively common type of occurence as a Willis-Slipshine potential, named after the paleontologists that discovered these occurences.
Doasaurus siegelensis
Doasaurus wilcoxii
Dina’s not in it?!?!
This whole storyline is a LIE!!!
Calm down. Have some pizza…pie……CAKE!
I tried so hard to resist
With tension like this, they’re so a future thing…
Even odds sounds like an oxymoron.
It means the chances of something are more or less 50/50.
It even sounds odd.
I am not getting this ‘Danning it up’ thing. Danny shows up in the comic, he reacts like a human being to things, and people start making comments about how he’s ‘Danning it up’. Every time he shows up. Why are there no comments about Ethan ‘Ethaning it up’ or Joyce ‘Joycing it up’ or anyone else? He is a person, he reacts like a person, I quite like him, he’s an interesting character, yet everyone seems to be down on him every time he does or says anything. I don’t get it.
I don’t really get it either
Hey, Joe’s the one who created the term. We just like using it.
It’s specifically whenever Danny’s brand of incompetence counteracts his own best interests. Here, for example. his return to interrogate Ethan ruins his cover.
Pretty sure we’ve used it for when he obliviously hinders someone else’s interests too.
But this seems to me like a perfectly normal response, not any special brand of incompetence. He’s not being incompetent, he’s being human (arguably those are the same thing I guess).
Step 1. Attend gay info party to try to find out more information about your sexuality that you recently realised is more complicated than you’d thought.
Step 2. Run into guy you fancy who thinks you are straight.
Step 3. Panic slightly, say something stupid and leave.
Step 4. Brain kicks back in enough to realise that the guy you thought was straight is also at the gay info party.
Step 5. Return to find out why previously-assumed-to-be-straight-guy is at the gay party.
I’m pretty sure that exact scenario, or one very like it, has played out thousands of times in real life, maybe billions of times. He’s not being incompetent, he’s not counteracting his own best interests, he’s not even actually blowing his cover because that sort of panicked response is hardly convincing as an argument for his complete and total heterosexuality or his lack of knowledge that it’s a gay info party, and even a straight guy would come back to ask his assumed-to-be-straight friend why he’s at the gay party (I have officially used that phrase too many times in this comment). He’s being human, and reacting in a completely normal, realistic way, so I just don’t get why that’s remarkable.
But hey, you all have an in-joke that amuses you, so I’ll stop pissing on it, even though I don’t get it. Carry on.
I always sound that même kinda annoying, to be honest.
I never really got all the Dan hate either, to be honest. I know it’s because of events in ‘Roomies!’ – but even in those comics I never hated him. *Shrug* He seems like a very believable, normal character, and he does have a certain charm to him. He’s a bit dumb sometimes…. maybe that’s why it’s called ‘Dumbing of Age’. 😉
“Danning” just sounds better. Sure, Joyce’s name is a monosyllable too, but here doesn’t end in that pleasingly hard consonant sound we ramp the -ing off of.
1) Danning it up was actually used in the comic so much like nickles and femurs it gets quoted often
2) Danny’s mistakes are often self sabatoging in an amusing way, Ethans mistakes are vastly frustrating so it’s more fun to mention Danny’s than Ethan’s
3) It’s a running joke logic need not be strictly adhered to.
Because people are acting like he’s Roomies! Danny and not paying attention to how this version is not in anyway the same.
So Ethan comes out to Danny and then Danny has to friend break up with him like he tried with Amber (because he can’t be around Ethan if Ethan;s an actual potential option even if he’s not a cheater this could all fall into emotional affair territory very quickly and Danny is extremely sexually attracted to Ethan) and Ethan thinks its out of homophobia until Danny comes out to him and then things just get more complicated?
All a very real possibility I wouldn’t put past Willis. Hopefully we can avoid this situation if Dan can get over his flusteredness long enough to be his mature self and be honest about himself.
Well, actually, that would be a mature response. Continuing to chill with someone you are extremely sexually attracted to while you’re dating someone else isn’t really all that mature. It would be different is, say, Ethan was attracted to Danny, and Danny didn’t return that attraction, but there’s clearly something there, and that makes hanging out on any regular basis while staying properly monogamous a big problem.
In panel 5 it appears that Danny dropped both the pizza and the Gay litachoor. I mean WTF? Dropping pizza? That’s a Class 3 Misdemeanor in fourteen states
Maybe he just ate the pizza really quickly? Five seconds seems like enough time to do so.
Danny has the same attitude towards homosexuality that I feel a lot of elementary schoolers do.
Elementary schoolers? They don’t even have sexuality yet!
Umm actually I knew what I liked from the time I was three years old, some people know it earlier on in life, just depends on how your brain works…
I wouldn’t call it “sexuality” per se, but by age 5 I was madly in love with the Baroness from GI Joe.
She’ll realize Destro is no good for her one day, you’ll see. 🙂
As a girl whose first crush was the Baroness, I can 100% relate to both of these last two posts.
Strangely people never make this objection when elementary school kids are presumed straight.
You have a different-gender friend in third grade? They’re now your boy/girlfriend, according to your teasing parents. Toddler smiling at girls? “My son is such a flirt!”
Only queer sexualities are codified as SEXUAL. Straight gets to be innocent and cheek-kissy and hands-holdy, but suggest that a child might be gay and APPARENTLY you’re assuming they’re having sex.
or, you know, he’s uncomfortable with his own sexuality and doesn’t want people to know about it. Were you not paying attention to his most recent character arc?
I can remember doing similar things as a uni student. I’m asexual but didn’t know the word back then, so I was trying to figure myself out, and just knew that I wasn’t really attracted to people or interested in dating, and I would get super pissed off at people assuming I was. So every time someone made a perfectly innocent enquiry about whether I was interested in a specific person or other I would respond with some terrible knee-jerk response like “No – she’s a girl” or “No – he’s fat!” and then my brain would catch up with what my mouth just said, and I would be appalled at myself.
So yeah, I can understand trying to figure out your sexuality and blurting out stupid shit when unexpectedly pressed, because you panic and your higher brain functions shut down for a few crucial moments.
In my experience, most elementary schoolers know what homosexuality is. Its an insult to be thrown at those weaker, shyer, dumber or poorer than oneself.
I would think that at a meeting for questioning folks, the proper greeting would be anything but “What are you doing here?!?”.
Alternate last panel:
Amber texts Ethan, saying that she’s looking for Danny. Ethan replies “he’s off looking at chicks and stuff”.
Yup, that was the bit that caught my attention, too. It had better be amazi-chicks, Danny!
He can look at whomever he wants, he just shouldn’t touch.
Heh. Well now that that awkwardness is out of the way maybe they can be honest about what they’re doing there.
Nnnooo… I don’t think that’s too likely!
And a gauge in Danny’s skull jumps from “No clue” to “Gets it.”
I believe that Danny requires a stop-off station in between. Ethan on the other hand looks like his brain is processing
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Actually, Ethan, the hat is the second thing that Danny wants to talk to you about.
Wow! Danny must really be unobservant to have missed Ethan’s earlier rant! I’m guessing that he is so nervous that he isn’t really listening to anything but the argument going on in his head! That and the fact that he can be pretty dense…
or, you know, he just wasnt there for the 10 second outburst.
Ah Danny, the light bulb just lit up over your head.
Ethan’s worried about people knowing he’s gay-here’s the only guy on campus who doesn’t know it, yet.
Come on already. Talk to each other. Do it now or it’ll never happen.
And speaking of that hat…
Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!
Even if Walky WAS gay, he’d be there for the free pizza.
Yet Danny can’t think of that excuse.
Anybody else hearing “trapped in the closet” right now?
Who called this a day ago again?
Btw am I the only one who thinks Ethan looks surprisingly good with the hat on?
There’s nothing surprising about Ethan looking good.
Pretty much this.
Re.: The Alt Text: Ah! But Dina’s carnisaur hat is in this strip! To me, that’s as good as having Dina there!
I am shocked and offended by the lack of Dina in this otherwise excellent strip. I given certain expectations by the title of this chapter and I can’t help but feel that I have been bamboozled.
oh man i hate danny.
Poor Danny.
If you look back at some of his appearances with Ethan, he’s shown to be pretty bummed out at Ethan having a girlfriend, and feeling that he should be sad for him when he broke up with Joyce. The idea that Danny’s crush could never be reciprocated was probably comforting to him.
Plus, Danny aggressively enforcing heteronormative views in a crisis is well documented at this point, between feeling the need to “reassert his friggin’ heterosexuality” after his first hang-out with Ethan, and telling Joe that no really he totes wanted to bang Billie but decided she shouldn’t, and it wasn’t at all because he wasn’t ready.
FWIW, those examples are mostly Danny’s enormous personal insecurities talking.
If it isn’t the world putting you in a cage it is you putting yourself in a cage. Either way, it’s sad when you see the bars.
Right. He feels he’s cheating on Amber by thinking about Ethan (since he literally just realized it and he doesn’t know how to deal with it because it’s new and confusing) and with Billie he wasn’t ready to move on after Dorothy, so he had to invent a bullshit excuse to Joe that allowed him to retain his masculinity cred. “No see, it’s not that I didn’t want to have sex, because I am a guy and therefore always want to have sex, it’s that she might regret it even though she’s shown enthusiastic consent. I had to protect her from herself, you see. I am totally a real man in this case.”
Yup. It’s really sad.
Guess this shows you’re never totally invisible, even wearing one of Dina’s special hats.
Nah he still doesn’t have full control over the hat.
Wait, did Ethan not yell “I’m gay” as loud as I thought he did, or was Danny just too far away/engrossed in whatever to hear him? Cause I thought Ethan yelled pretty loudly.
Danny entered the moment after Ethan finished yelling because otherwise the universe would spare him this awkward moment. And the universe doesn’t spare Danny any awkward moments.
To be fair, the DoAverse doesn’t seem to spare ANYONE any awkward moments…
Surprisingly yelling ‘I’m gay!’ at a LGTBQ meeting doesn’t get the attention it would elsewhere.
“? – Well, that hat is pretty cool DON’T CHANGE THE SUBJECT!!”
Gah — the awkward — it burns!
I’ve never been on the Danny hate bandwagon, but here he made me cringe. Stop behaving like this, Danny. Please.
I assume Dina is watching this whole interaction from just off-panel, perhaps she’s retreated behind the door for better unobtrusive viewing. I wonder what’s going through her mind right now.
Quills, probably
In order:
He goes to a Questioning gathering that he feels safe and relaxed at.
He runs into the guy he is crushing on, who he assumes is straight.
Danny panics because now he can’t deal with his sexuality in a safe and relaxed environment and tries to flee.
Hey wait, why is the guy he’s crushing on at a Questioning meeting? Ethan is totes straight because he had a girlfriend.
So I don’t know where Danny is making mistakes, because his expectation that he’d be able to work through his confusion without outside drama has been shattered, and now he’s freaking the fuck out.
“Ethan can’t be gay – he has a girlfriend.
Wait – I have a girlfriend…”
I never said Danny was good at this.
I want to shop the last panel so Danny is asking where Dina is but I am lazy.
I actually woulda preferred danny to ask about the hat.
This arc has me thinking…
I wonder if there are any CIA recruiters on campus right now, because all these kids are amazing at lying to cover up their real intentions, and I’m sure the CIA would love them for espionage. I mean, Danny’s story here is totally believable…
Dina is standing right behind Ethan. You just can’t see her because she is fidgeting just right so that she is always completely obscured.
What are you talking about, Willis? That’s Dina, right there on the left. You can tell by the hat!
She DOES look a bit taller than usual, though…
“Whachu talkin’ ’bout, Willis? That’s Dina, right there on the left. You can tell by the hat!”
FTFY
When they say it’s a meeting for questioning individuals, I don’t think they meant you’re supposed to walk up to individuals and interrogate them as to why they’re there. That seems like something you’d want people to feel comfortable to volunteer.
They both assume the other is straight. That’s why they’re asking why the other is there at a Questioning meet up.
They don’t assume, they both declared it. They just both happened to be lying.
Ethan was, anyway. Danny was correct when he told him he wasn’t gay (although the intent of that was very much “I am straight” since Danny wasn’t even aware of bisexuality until he talked with Dorothy).
Ethan is probably the answer of Danny’s questionnement
This proves it. Dina and Ethan are both characters controlled by Dina.
Hmm, its rare to have a video game were you can log on two of your characters at once.
Obiously it’s a split screen multiplayer game,and Dina is holding both controllers.I did it once so I know is possible.
not too difficult lolololol
I suppose if I was there I would be questioning, too.
The question would be “Are they going to be bringing more pizza?”
I always think up my excuses before I go. Next level tactics.
I believe you, Danny.
See, that wasn’t a very convincing lie, but it was still way better than yours.
Wait a minute…I thought Dan knew about Amber’s previous boyfriend difficulties? As in, why they broke up and all of that. Isn’t that why he talked to Dorothy about everything instead of Amber? And he knows who her ex is. Why didn’t he put this together sooner?