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haHA, I e;fb-ed you, Amber!
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
You, uh… what?
???
I remember the first time I e;fb-ed someone. That was a fun night
Back in my day we used to Wine and Dine a girl before we’d do that, and not until at least the 3rd date.
Aren’t you usually supposed to introduce a key when you use a cipher?
Closest definition I could find was “Edit: Fuck Beat”ed which I guess means getting to somewhere before someone else…. maybe?
Prolly Urban Dictionary. Think posting ‘First!’ second, and then editing your post to strike it out, and adding ‘E:f,b’.
It’s a 4 leg race. The couples must remain penetrated the whole time.
Here a ship, there a ship, ev’rywhere a new ship.
I don’t know if I’d call this a new ship.
OH HAI JACOB
Refurbished, maybe.
I’d pull out that picture of a freighter carrying several other freighters, but I don’t think I can find it fast enough for me to care. 😐
meanwhile, in DANNY’S fanfic…
Slashfics EVERYWHERE!!!
Willis has built one hell of an impressive shipyard of a comic. Like, Utopia Planitia impressive.
Are you saying this is a star-ship?
Full speed ahead, Mr. Sulu! 😀
Oh my!
Ships? It’s a fraking armada!
You don’t want to read Ethan’s internal fanbook…
*fic
I’m tired; forgive me for stupid typos.
Spellchecker ‘thinks’ that “fanbook” is really Facebook …
Luckily I was using a computer without a spellchecker or you’d be so confused why I was talking about Facebook.
The proper term is friendfic.
I thought it was lemon.
Ya know I never see the term ‘lemon’ used much anymore. Why is that? I think it’s due a comeback :p
Agreed. I want some lemons here, too. XP
Lemon party!
Lemonfic? That’s perverse.
Old fart here – BECAUSE THESE DARN KIDS TODAY DON’T REMEMBER CREAM LEMON ANYMORE.
Not that I’m old and cranky and bongoy and GET OFF MY LAWN DAMNIT or nothing like that.
She does it out of love!
It’s also called “Creepy” by most sane people.
Erotic friendfic, for greater specificity.
Just as long as she keeps zombie basketball players out of it…
Amber is one of us, right? Own up, which of you in secretly Amber?
IS secretly Amber. Man, this is what after midnight typing does to me.
Danny’s the one secretly in Amber, if you wanted to know that too 😉
I knew it! Plasma Mongoose is Amber. It’s the only thing that makes sense!
I do sort of have the hair and the glasses and the crushes on unavailable people and a tendency to ship people with extreme ferocity hrmmm…
I do not usually dress up to perform vigilante justice, however. Also masks make my face itch. But even if I *was* secretly a superhero, I would probably not tell you, secret identities and whatnot 😉
While I may possess a cape, utility belt, parkour skills, hand-to-hand skills, and a deep well of rage and regret, all are inferior to Amber’s.
Come to think of it, the belt could do with replacing.
Hmm, were your parents killed in front of you?
Why do you think I compliment the Amazi-rack so much?
‘Cause you’re a heterosexual guy and it’s pretty amazing?
(Is it still the Amazi-Rack when she’s Amber? Or is it now the Hugs Bosom?)
It is I.
Nice try, Mike.
Dio?
Amazi-Girl: “You thought it was Amber, but it was me, Dio!”
Did I do that right?
We’re all writing that fanfic and a thousand others with Jacob as the star.
I got one I need a few more minutes on, then GLORY
Everyone fantasize about Jacob…everyone!
We all wrote that fanfic, Amber. We all did.
I didn’t! I did write a little with Joe though.
I’m sure many, many people beat Amber to the punch on that one.
Moving at the speed of the internet.
and a universe that moves orders of magnitude faster…
Well, where Jacob is concerned, methinks that folks are beating SOMETHING. [There are so many euphemisms for male masturbation, but i haven’t been treated to any uniquely female ones. Maybe I just don’t hang out with the right crowd]
There are many. ‘Schlick’ is the onomatopoetic equivalent to ‘fap,’ and then there’s the metaphors, like ‘flicking the bean,’ or something about… Was it clams or tacos?
There’s “walking the dog”, though I admit I don’t really understand the metaphor there.
DJ-ing. Wicka wicka wicka! (Its the similar hand motion)
Are…are you having sexy thoughts about your ex and Jacob, Miss Amber?
‘Sokay, we’re all doing the same. But with Ethan, not our own personal exes. Right?
To answer your first question: Yes.
Second question: I am currently ex-less and sex-less.
You can fantasize about your exes without writing it down and that won’t be creepy, right!? RIGHT!?
In imagining an ex in a lurid scene with Ethan, I realise that I used to go with someone who looked a bit like Danny. He had nice hair, anyway.
…. if she fantasises about Ethan with a sex-god like Jacob, she could probably like the idea of Ethan+Danny… + her of course
YES! WE! CAN!
Hey Jacob actually has a chance with Amber in this universe. I vote him for her next boyfriend if/when she and Danny break up and she gets some much needed therapy.
oh hey yeah. Although tbh we don’t really know a lot about Jacob in this universe except that he’s pretty friendly and pretty
I don’t know how much personalities are going to differ from Shortpacked to her but since he”s an overall decent guy there I think it’s safe to say he’s probably equally overall decent here. And since it is very likely her current bf and ex bf are going to be hooking up at some point in the future Amber deserves one hell of a rebound and LOOK AT HIM.
LOOK.
I cannot argue with that!
Plus, he wants a real relationship, and I think Amber does, too…
Ship it, ship it good!
Was that a Devo song?
Whip it! Whip it good!
YES! I loved them together in Shortpacked~ Not that I was unhappy with how things turned out at all.
Shipping Amber and everyone in this universe:
Amber/Danny
Amber/Danny/Ethan
Amber/Mike, round 2
Amber/Jacob
Amber/Anyone is acceptable. It’s awful.
Amber/Amazi-girl.
Of course! Pretty sure it’s canon and everything.
And of course it’s a bit abusive and fucked-up, but what’s a ship without a little fucked-up-ed-ness?
Self-abusive?
Umm…
Poor Ethan. His roommate is totally hot and totally straight, and that’s got to feel unfair.
And poor Amber. Its hard when your ship isn’t meant to be.
Poor Amber. Her best friend is totally hot and gay, and that’s got to feel unfair.
Hey, it’s college. A little alcohol…. and Danny being there….
Rape is bad, m’kay?
Life is hard. Life is hard and no one understands.
Ship it, ship it all night long.
Now ship it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Try to detect it
It’s not too late
To ship it
Well, ship it good
Ship Happens.
http://youtu.be/8Tc7MH5ZXbg
(note: getting straight is not actually unnecessary.)
bah, I meant “not actually necessary”. Sleepy posting is the silent killer
This is the most relatable (to me) thing Amber has ever said in the entire time this comic has been existing lol.
Those are some seriously short shorts and a really short tanktop for a straight man. Way to be secure in your masculinity and hotness, Jacob!
Whoops, and secure in your sexuality!
If you have it, flaunt it! Especially if you have a closeted roomate you want to inadvertantly drive insane.
They fit a month ago but he’s been doing nothing but working out. He’s already 2 Jacobs bigger than he once was.
Yeah, he’s turning into the effin Juggernaut.
Oh, good. I thought I might be imagining things when I saw how MASSIVE he was.
It actually makes him less cute to me, but whatever. So long as he remembers to stretch to maintain flexibility, and keep those bulging muscles well-toned, I shan’t complain.
Yeah, makes me wish that panel was just a little more zoomed-out…
Now I’m just picturing a Danny/Ethan/Amber threesome where she is taking notes as it goes.
I don’t think I’ve ever shipped more characters in a work of fiction before.
even if Ethan wasn’t gay Joyce and Ethan don’t even seem to mix. That reminds me where are Joyce and Becky now I really want to see an encounter between Becky and Ethan.
Becky will take one look at Ethan and Joyce together and immediately know the score.
Man, I hope Becky catches on to that farce. Be the nail to the J+E coffin.
Dorothy would be the nail in the Joyce/Ethan coffin.
Ever since Becky showed up I’ve been dying for an encounter between her and Ethan. I have a feeling she’s immediately gonna know. I hope it happens sooooon.
I really want to like Ethan, but even in this (and last strip’s) tender moment with Amber he really comes off as a self-absorbed and unaware jerk in nice-guy clothing.
I just see him as being really terrible at knowing what’s good for him and really great at knowing what’s good for his friends. He has terrible judgement with anything involving himself, but he’s not exactly self-absorbed. He might even be something rather far from that.
His flirting with Danny?
Probably not deliberate.
See guys, Amber likes the idea of Ethan with other dudes.
I like the idea of Ethan with other dudes too, but less from a “It’s hot” standpoint and more of a It feels right.
It also feels hot.
They need not be mutually exclusive!
Things that feel right are the hottest things. All that ‘this is so wrong but so hot’ type of stuff in fiction was never my thing. People who are good for each other and happy and hot together FTW.
A navy of such ships would command my undivided allegiance.
HAHA…I can’t wait for Danny to meet Jacob.
…And Joyce.
Joyce to meet Danny I mean.
then wait no more! http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/piece/
Well that was anticlimactic.
And here’s Dan meeting Jacob for the first time. I thought they were both present for a cafeteria scene, too, but it looks like I thought wrong.
Okay let me restate: I can’t wait for Danny to remeet Jacob knowing he’s into guys now and meet Joyce knowing he’s into her “boyfriend” and is someone she’ll potentially see as a threat.
I doubt his reaction will be different, he’s attracted to Ethan, and that’s why he’s had that reaction, it doesn’t necessarily follow he’ll be attracted to Jacob as well.
Amber is the straight version of me. *suddenly isn’t sure if that’s been confirmed* Well, the not-extremely-gay version of me, at any rate.
I was thinking the same thing. I literally even have glasses and similar hair. I am Amber. We are all Amber. Everything is Amber.
Wait no. What was I saying. Yes. Non-straight version of Amber, party of two 😉 (at least two, lbr, there are more of us here lol)
We need t-shirts, with all the different kinds of Ambers we are. I call ‘nonbinary Amber’.
I’m Danny if Danny was questioning his own gender to a troubling extent… :\
okay, are responses working, or is it the solitary link I’m trying to post
n/m question answered
so yeah, the hover text, this strip, this video needs to show up somewhere, might as well be me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tc7MH5ZXbg&list=WL&index=16
Plz play this song at my funeral thx.
new DoA themesong. right here.
I clicked on this link and suddenly thirty minutes of my life had mysteriously disappeared and I’m humming some tune under my breath.
Really like it when Not Literally actually did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCDgJiPBxfI
Amber is sequencing that genome as we speak.
Erotic friend-fiction!
Next slipshine: all in Amber’s head
That’s right, I’m doing it again. This time seems more appropriate anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDgvdijP2qY
Son of a…somebody beat me to it, I guess. Sorry for the redundant link. Still an awesome song, however.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCDgJiPBxfI
We know how Jacob affect Ethan, just scroll back thru the archives a bit.
As to Joyce doing a fanfic for Ethan, she should be doing it for herself…good greif girl, Jacob is gorgeous (and from what little we know-nice), what’s the matter with you.
Ethan has his good moments, but he is strictly self-involved. He has treated Amber pretty shabby: back in HS when he waited till they were in a motel bed on prom night to tell her he was gay.
Then recently when he rubbed her nose in his relationship with Joyce…he was brutal. Plain and simple not Mr. Nice Guy.
I think it was more when they got to the motel room was the point where he realised consciously he was gay.
And if anything his current dive back in to the closet is about living up to external pressures, familial and societal to not be the way he is. While his current actions are cowardly sure, calling him self involved for it is drawing a bit of long bow.
So, Amber should fantasize about cheating on her secret boyfriend, rather than about hooking up her desperate friend?
Technically Amber doesn’t have a boyfriend.
That very technicality is wrecking my brain.
My interpretation is that she does, but she wants it to stay secret, so she pretends she doesn’t. Is that better or worse?
Probably better, the whole thing with keeping secret initially was Danny wanting to keep some mystery as to who Amazi-girl was, so as to not go to fast and Dan it up like he did with Dorothy.
Jacob sure showers a lot
Working out is sweaty.
Lookin’ ship-shape, Jacob.
I like the cut of his jib.
“If that were a woman, I’d marry it.”
“And I’d jeopardize our friendship by nailin’ your hot wife.”
That’s a quote from something. …Is it QC?
VENTURE another guess!
I’d be on the lookout for what else he might harbour.
I like the cut of his everything.
Can we ship it?
YES WE CAN!
“In my fanfic Jacob is your husbando and likes to do butt stuff and lets me watch.”
You and a thousand other fleshlings.
you know, now that this ship has the official Willis seal of approval, it’s just not fun anymore…
DAMN YOU WILLIS!!!!!!!!
The face that launched a thousand ships.
The M, revealed. It was obvious, of course, but still.
Huggs Bosun.
amber sexual erasure is RUDE >:[
“You didn’t…” Didn’t what? Hurt her? Flip tables at her? Yell at her?
That’s REALLY not the first thing that should come into your head when your best friend has talked to your partner.
Two of those things have precedent, though.
That’s the problem.
True, but the first conclusion I jumped to as to what he could be implying was still lesbian shenanigans. I’ve been in the comments too long; all hope of recovery is lost.
I’ll admit: My first thought was “What? Why would he assume that?”
Well, in my defense, I at least thought it was strange. -.-
Somewhere there was a scene transition from Glasso’s Pizza (and Subs) to the dorm, and I didn’t notice it.
Amber makes a fanfic, presented by Slipshine.
At this point I feel obliged to advertise my http://www.fanficmaker.com website to help with all your shipping needs 😉
(what? its ontopic! And I’ve bought everything Willis has stuck on kickstarter…I’m not a spammer honest :x)
i just realized ambers shirt said hugs bosom.
Que Sarah and Ethan fighting to the death over someone who ultimately doesn’t want either of them to begin with.
I hadn’t noticed Amber biting her lip until now. Evidently, his DNA has heretofore undiscovered nucleases which help spell out “fuck me”.
Or at least he has that effect on women.
Are you kidding. He has that effect on everyone, and everything. Even inanimate objects feel PSL for Jacob.
The strip that launched a thousand ships…
I love how Ethan is sortof the inverse of his character in Shortpacked! In Shortpacked!, he struggled to accept his nerdy personality and had to work to get over being ashamed of his toy hobby, but he accepted his sexuality pretty much instantly. In Dumbing of Age, he struggles with his sexuality but is really open with his love of toys and comic books (and, indeed, feels like his sexuality keeps him from enjoying that lifestyle to its fullest).
I feel it’s a question of time and place. By the time Ethan realized his orientation in Shortpacked!, everybody else had already noticed; that, and living in San Francisco I figure pretty much eliminated the struggle of coming out for him. Coming out sometime around 17 in Indiana to people who tend to assume he’s straight would be a completely different experience (other than Sarah, who’s straight up guessed he’s gay? Contrast to Shortpacked! where he sets off everybody’s gaydar basically upon breathing)
Hey guys, did you know that if you order from the Shortpacked/DoA store, you get Willis’ phone number?
I feel like we should maybe not be sharing this info
erotic friend fiction?
It’s weird, but I think Willis’s previews of intertwined hands for his next Slipshine are more titillating than would be anything more explicit (like, say, a bare breast). Maybe I have a hand fetish.
Fanfics saved Amber’s sanity.
Do they even MAKE manshorts that short anymore?
Danny, Ethan, Jacob and Amber; I approve.
Okay now that we’ve all drooled about Jacob, am I the only one who is sad that Amber is ok with Ethan/Joyce? I totally feel for Joyce too, but the appropriate response is friends and therapy, and in Joyce’s case maybe also prayer — not a gay fake boyfriend whom she hopes to marry. Why can’t she just pal around with Ethan to classes, why do they have to be romantically entangled? I’ll have to read the AG and Joyce scene again.
Yeah, that was my thought, too. 🙁
Mostly because Joyce doesn’t want a guy to pal around with (a la Walky). She wants somebody to be romantic with. At first she was looking for somebody real to be romantic with, but Joyce got burned hard when Ryan attempted date rape. So, instead, she intentionally found somebody who would be an outlet for her romantic and sexual feelings, but who there was very little chance that anything serious actually happening with. In principle, it’s not that different from teens who get crushes on movie stars or their hs teachers. It’s an unthreatening object for feelings they are still not completely comfortable with and don’t fully understand yet, who are realistically going to neither act cruelly, nor reciprocate (so long as the teacher isn’t a creep). In practice it’s different from that, because Joyce is horny and Ethan is right there and could realistically reciprocate, if only he fell into what Joyce considered social norms. And Ethan goes along with this because he wants to feel normal and needed.
It’s not very healthy, but mostly because they don’t have healthy attitudes about themselves, rather than about each other. (Joyce thinks Ethan should resist his gayness, and should try making out with her for selfish reasons, but she has never tried to deny that Ethan was gay in the first place, or said that it was a choice.)
I don’t think Amber is really okay with it. But she is now sympathetic to Joyce’s situation, understands Joyce is not trying to shame or hurt Ethan, and knows that her motivations for trying to break them up were were more about her own issues than theirs.
She’s not happy about the relationship but knowing that Joyce sees Ethan as someone who would protect her rather than something she needs to cleanse of sin takes most of the rage out of it. It’s still stupi but not as harmful as what she’d been protecting him against all summer, and it’s ultimately his choice who he dates.
*reads hovertext*
I have a sinking feeling that Willis is making fun of us here…
Perhaps.
But we have naught to be ashamed of and, since Willis ships too, he would be poking fun at himself as well.
(have to add this because I just became aware of the pun *I* stealthed in)
“Naut” to be ashamed of, even.
Only if you’re unaware of my convention merchandise!: http://itswalky.deviantart.com/art/We-Can-SHIP-It-463264750
Or that XD
i just got the reference on her shirt
Oh crap that was yesterday incomic time…. How many comics ago was that?….. How slowly does time pass in this comic? I swear in 2087 if this comic is still being made they’ll all just have gotten past the first year
If one month takes about four years to get through (this is without actually checking, but I think that’s roughly correct), then we’d get through the first year, which is about 8 months of school, in 32 years… So what I’m saying is, you’re a bit off, but really not that much, as hyperboles go.
ALT text missed a perfect chance to quote Bob the Builder.