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Holy crap. I know that, being asexual, I don’t get sexuality, especially it being appeased by images thereof, especially simplistic art thereof..
But paying $30 for a month of that?
Can’t you find enough porn for free on the net?
That is just mind-blowingly expensive, which definitely emphasizes the point that people have different conceptions of the value of money..
Like those people that spend $8000+ on random flash games..
Well, some would argue that it’s worth it considering the high volume of content on the site, and that some of the stories up there aren’t just porn but actual, well, STORIES that are a good read and actually updating. I’m not really sure how Slipshine works when it comes to their authors/artists getting paid, but I’m assuming at the price for subscription that they would.
That being said, if you’re just wanting to read Willis’ stuff, then yeah you’re crazy for shelling out $50. Not that he’s bad, there’s just not that much from only him to justify it.
Becky should’ve kept annoying Billie and holding out for a bigger bribe to go away. Billie could’ve afforded it.
Also, the only porn that’s free on the internet has been pirated from elsewhere on the internet. In which case, you’re avoiding paying the creators of said porn what they’re due, and potentially stifling the porn industry.
I think the $20 is just there to create an obligation. As in “Here’s $20. Did you accept it? Good. Now, you’re contractually obligated to do as I tell you. And I’m telling you to GO AWAY.”
The two most important rules of negotiation:
– Always read the fine print.
– You’re never obligated to accept anything.
Depends on the porn. Lots is created for free. Erotic fiction and art, especially fanfiction and fanart. Teaser images or videos from porn sites, trying to lure you in. Teaser images from escorts, trying to lure you in. (Granted, those two categories probably aren’t free-as-in-speech, but copies would be violating copyright, not directly denying them money. And visiting their sites certainly isn’t piracy.) Possibly actual amateur sex videos, I dunno, never explored that.
So yeah, lots available legitimately for free, especially at the level of stories or still images. Full comics, or videos, probably less so.
Actually, you pay more for the first month only. The long-term subscription cost is much lower than that. They want to keep people from paying a tiny cost for one month, binging through the archives, then unsubscribing.
Yeah – I am also asexual, and the only thing that’s ever compelled me about the Slipshine was the thought of extra content about characters I’m interested in. But I’d rather not see them having sex, I guess. I’m glad that all of that content is off the site in a place I can’t see it.
But like, eugh. I checked out porn back in my early days of curiosity, and the free stuff is, for the most part, just awful. Really dang gross. I would imagine there’s a difference in quality with paid porn.
I totally agree.
I read some books with sex scenes and just gloss over them.
Which mikes it hard when I listen to the same series on audiobook … but while I don’t get the concept of sex as fun, also asexual, I can get that others seem to think it is. So I can logic it if it comes up in a side story, not that I’d pay for it
“Holy crap. I know that, being asexual, I don’t get sexuality, especially it being appeased by images thereof, especially simplistic art thereof..
But paying $30 for a month of that?”
Yeah . . . paying $30 for literally THOUSANDS of pages of original artwork and storylines. That’s just crazy talk! Why would I pay $30 for access to hundreds of webcomics not available anywhere else, and approximately 150 new pages of original material every month? What a foolish way to spend money! For $30 I could buy six, maybe seven Marvel comics, totaling perhaps 90 pages, if I’m lucky! Much better way to spend my money!
It’s a question of what you’re interested in. Most people here looking at slipshine are probably looking to see Willis’s stuff. In which case you’re paying 50 bucks for a half dozen short stories.
If you’re looking for porn in general, yeah it’s probably worth it. But I highly doubt that is where the complaint is coming from.
But why would you BUY food when there are soup kitchens?
Why drive when you can take a bike?
Why buy tickets to One Direction* when you can see a free concert in the park? Why pay artists when you can look at their stuff for free?
[I had (and still have) stuff to do or I would’ve answered sooner, but basically YES there are free alternatives–however, there’s a reason people will pay money for the not-free version]
Oh my god it doesn’t cost THAT much. The price drops significantly after the first month. (It’s to encourage prolonged membership, I think.)
And for me, a big part of the reason is that I don’t watch live action porn because you never know if the people in the video are fully consenting to the sex or to the video. It’s disturbing for me. With comic porn, I know that nobody in it is being exploited because they’re just drawings. And finding good comic porn, like actual erotic comics, is a bongo without paying for them. (Unless you can find free hentai, but hentai is super….. I just don’t like a lot of the stuff it focuses on. It can be incredibly misogynistic and is clearly intended for a male audience.)
Well, I don’t always have time and resources to experiment with the sauce or vary how soft I cook it. Pasta’s versatility is what makes it my staple, but I still require sweets to spice things up, and ‘Murrka has plenty to choose from.
Orgy initially was synonymous with revelry, then moved into ‘indulgence of an activity’, then became a reference to sexual orgies when no other topic was affixed to it.
Was it? Way nicer, I mean?
Because handing someone a twenty and telling them to go away could also be interpreted as “here’s some money, loser! Money which I have plenty of and you, loser, probably don’t.”
I can see it being mean, but not really for that reason. More of “you’re so insufferable/unlikable that I would literally pay money to get you the fuck away from me”
It’s not nice by any means, but it’s far NICER than explaining with angry finger gestures exactly how much higher she is on the social hierarchy than you, you dorky ginger-nerd loser, as Billie did frequently when she was introduced. It’s also better than Alice’s method of purposely forgetting your name and making transparent excuses to be uncivil.
Hey, if she wants to give me $20 to not be around her, I’ll take $20. Now I have $20 and I’m not around someone who thinks she’s $20 better than me. And if I’m not around her, what do I care what she thinks?
I love browsing fanfiction dot net for weird ships. It’s a triumph for human creativity, or something.
Like the whole section of march band stories where the first piccolo is in love with the second trombone, but their love is derailed by the handsome-but-jerkish bass drummer. (Poor piccolo).
Or the tetris story where purple piece found the whole formed by the green and blue pieces – and it fit just perfectly (and everyone disintegrated which was a bit of a bummer).
There’s a sentient planet crossover sex fanfic out there (Ego the Living Planet from Marvel, Mogo the Green Lantern planet from DC, Unicron from Transformers, and the sentient planet from the old Star Wars comics, whose name I forget, IIRC).
She offered one to the chick Sarah punched. I believe it was during the beach arc that she also mentioned having plenty of cash from her dad to throw around.
On iPhones nowadays, you can see the title text (not the alt text, dammit! the title text!) by pressing and holding the image. You’ll get the same pop-up menu that offers to save the image, but now, starting in iOS 7 I think, you’ll see the title text at the top of the menu.
Except on this site, it recognizes that you’re watching it on a smartphone, and instead of there being a title attribute on the img tag, there’s that thing where you should tap just below the comic but to the left or to the right of the navigation buttons. And the pressing-and-holding thing doesn’t work.
Argh. Sorry about that.
Listen to Lil Wa… Yeah I can’t even jokingly type that; Canibus and Illogic for life! Tupac and Techn9ne for life! Vinnie Paz and Immortal technique for life!
I’m going to miss Li’l Wayne. Someday it will be Guardians of the Galaxy that he went to see the fateful night his family was taken, but there won’t be a comic about it because of Soggies.
But with whom would she smoke it? I don’t think there have been too many active smokers of the pot so far in this friend group, barring Sarah’s (former-ish) enemies. (Question: was it ever established that Sarah’s old roommate’s friends ever smoked weed? I can’t remember right now.)
– THAT’S RIIIGHT!
– What’s right?
– THAT.
– …What?
– THAT IS RIIIGHT!
– What is right?
– THAAAAAT IS RIGHT, I AM INSANITY PRAWN GIRL, I’M SMOKING DE WEED.
Given her current situation, Becky is in no position to be disappointed when someone gives her $20. She could even spin this into a successful business!
Everyone’s a hero in their own way
Everyone’s got villains they must face
They’re not as cool as mine
But folks you know it’s fine to know your place (in bed)(With Becky)
Shezow A cartoon one season wonder about a boy who has inherited his late aunt’s role of hero by using a special ring which gives him super-powers but he has to dress as a super heroine while doing so.
… so… that’s a little weird… I think I’ll pass on that.
Plasma, have you ever thought of saving up all your gravitars and indexing them by date and character for new readers to reference when they see discussions like this one. (I have, and trust me – it gets a little confusing)
‘twould be appreciated; I wanna track down a few of the sources to watch/read. This one seems amusing too.
Oddly enough, I’ve taken to making similar gravatars, but don’t use them since my Inquisition one, while crappy, is good enough, and I don’t wanna mimic your schtick… Yet I can’t not make them when I see perfect images to crop.
Good god, twenty years ago $14 of ingredients kept us in home-made chow mein for a week!
Could probably still do it. The secret is to get the vegetables that are on sale (fresh, not frozen: way cheaper) and fill it out with lots of the cheapest bagged noodles. Also soya sauce. Soya sauce is a miracle.
Lived on rice with salt and pepper and soya sauce for a month. Literally. Nothing else but water and re-used tea bags.
Thank god my college days are over. That was bloody dire.
Not sure how it is on campus where this comic is taking place, but where I live, a lot of the food in dumpsters outside grocery stores is still perfectly edible. This is because customers are less inclined to buy wares near their expiration date or more likely to ask for a discount.
So to avoid bad publicity over having wares past their expiration date, many store owners throw the wares away while they still have a day or two left. Other times, it’s wares that they receive fresh supplies of every day, so what doesn’t get sold will get old in a day.
Either way, the food in the dumpster behind the grocery store isn’t necessarily in the dumspter because there’s anything wrong with it.
Though it’s worth noting that if what you’re looting isn’t air-tight, you shouldn’t loot it, since the contaminants in the dumpster itself can be very negative.
Also note that big-name chains like Wal-Mart almost never do this, adding discount tags to their food instead, and only throwing it out when it has become noticeably spoiled.
Since smaller markets [or higher end markets, at that] rely on providing better quality and selection (of fresh items), they’re the ones that’ll throw food out early.
A major jackpot is pizza places, since they’ll throw out leftover pizza at the end of the day [even ones that let employees take home pizza usually have a lot extra they dump out]. This is especially true for ones with buffets, especially buffets that last till closing.
They often’ll throw out pizza dough bags as well, if the dough gets even a little off [ie, the yeasts cause early rising and the quality isn’t considered adequate for use], so you can get a lot out of those.
:tilts head: Spend most of your life on the streets.. :X
Could’ve been worse. She hasn’t said anything completely unsalvageable after an “Oh my god I was such an idiot, sorry” later, plus she now has twenty dollars and depending on how much control she had over finances this is a pretty big deal. (Even if she has a functioning bank account, she’s in college, $20 is a big deal.)
True. She’s been KICKED OUT OF COLLEGE AND DISOWNED. Even worse. (Though I am hoping she can enroll or something so she’ll be in the dorm. If she gets a job outside she won’t necessarily appear less, but it’s a safer bet.)
Grab a boob and you’ll either get to touch the greatest rack in the dumbiverse or make $1,000. Or get arrested for sexual harassment. Or Ruth will break your legs.
I thought she just removed and weaponized femurs? Even so, they are one of the most prominent leg bones, so break them and the legs are broken.
I don’t see why they can’t all happen, anyway. Boob-touchery is bundled with the action, and the rest aren’t particularly improbable.
Yeah, you know, I don’t think that I’d mess with Ruth’s sweetheart. I don’t care how hard she and Billie are working to remain ‘inconspicuous,’ groping Billie would be A Bad Idea. (Never mind that Ruth…well, just never mind.)
I almost feel like I should feel bad for Becky for assuming ‘we both like girls’ to mean Billie would want to hang out with her. She’s lucky she’s Joyce’s friend though, gets her the polite blow off with cash rewards.
You say that, and the school of ‘it stands to reason’ dictates it should be true. Actual results in my experience are mixed (They are predominantly negative in my wife’s experience, so there’s that).
But it won’t go well for Becky regardless, because she, personally, is identifying so overwhelmingly hard with one aspect of herself that it’s obviously overshadowing things.
I don’t think Billy ran away from Joyce in search of a new best friend for all the wrong reasons”…one reason only.
Becky is getting pretty much fed up with the lessons – ‘Gay isn’t a major sin, just a sort of little one’ type thing’ and ‘sssshhh, don’t say IT out loud”.
I don’t think she is looking for just a sexual mentor either, drop the mentor.
But yeah, like someone said already…’hey i’m hetero, you’re hetero, let’s hook up!.”
Becky needs to put a lid on it, and sort of look around and listen for a change. Settle down and enjoy the new freedom, quietly for a bit.
I like Becky but if she charged me like she did Billy, yeah …well I wouldn’t pay her, but I would hide.
I hope Becky does find another place soon. Sarah doesn’t need roomie drama AGAIN, and with all the unrequited love tension between them, it’d be healthier for both Becky AND Joyce to part ways for a while.
I don’t get the feeling she’s ugly. I think she’d be kind of cute if she weren’t so annoyingly loud. She comes across more as “very average, heavily-controlled, Midwestern girl” to me.
Don’t think so… Remember in an earlier comic when she met Joe, and Joe referred to her as a “tasty redhead”. Joe may like his women-folk, but I figure even he has standards. So even if she’s not a “perfect 10” she is probably attractive to some degree.
I imagine that her features are fine and aesthetically pleasing. It’s her personality that’s off-putting and unattractive. But with luck and some hard work, she’ll grow into it.
Ethan/Becky/Joyce/Billie: Yes, ha-ha, very funny, Mike.
Mike: And for a quarter, she told me she loved me and supported me no matter what, so long as I was true to myself. I thought that’d be fifty cents, but it was only a quarter.
*silent horrified panel of fleeing*
Walky: Jesus Christ, Mike, did you level up in asshole or something?
This used to happen to me a lot. Let me tell you, 20 dollars a pop was never enough to pay for the therapy nor the amount of ice cream needed to make the pain go away. I would have traded it all for Joyce’s friends, who understand that the things she does are because she doesn’t know better and needs help.
So where’s Daisy when some girl really needs her now?
I’m gonna laugh a bit if in this whole Becky drama she won’t get involved, and when it wil be all over in some way and Becky won’t be here anymore, she will be added to the plot and will hear that was a lesbian christian girl here to hang out she missed.
It’d be kind of hilarious if Becky met Daisy and found, in fact, that she’s not her type and the fact lesbian relationships are every bit as much hard work as the other kind.
I think there is an very high risk that they don’t get along. We haven’t seen that much of Daisy except for pent up sexual frustration and a decent competence at her work, but I don’t see an immediate match for Becky’s flippant and kinda clueless in a cute way.
The reason I hope for them to meet has less to do with finding Becky a girlfriend (or even give her the chance to touch some giblets) and more to find a guide into the gay community.
Well, it’s not more of a hook-up guarantee than the heterosexual community (and we all know how there are never any sexually frustrated heterosexuals around), but it is a place to go to meet other you share experience with, and if you’re in it for the giblets it’s at least a place to start.
Not necessarily true. She could have been around the block a few times and not be interested in a casual hook-up, but not have found That One Special Person yet.
I was joking, but, seriously, Daisy doesn’t strike me as someone who’s looking for That One Special Person right now. She strikes me as someone who’s looking for Any Lady Whatsoever Who Might Want To Touch Her Giblets.
She’s made no secret of the fact that she thinks Billie’s an obnoxious idiot, but she was totally down with Billie inadvertently putting the moves on her, and then she was all, “Hey, that RA who harassed and abused you? She sounds like a winner! Got her phone number?”
Becky doesn’t seem like she’s necessarily looking for That One Special Person either. She seems like she just wants to be, you know, rollin’ in it.
That said, I am a little worried by how fast Becky seems to have bounced back from getting her hopes with Joyce crushed, on top of getting alienated from her family and Anderson. It’s a lot of emotional trauma. I’m worried that Becky isn’t over that stuff yet, and that she’s not being honest with herself.
You’re sweet, Becky, but you’re making the same mistake a lot of young people coming to terms with their sexuality are doing. Don’t define yourself SOLELY by your sexuality, and definitely don’t choose your social circle based solely on your sexuality. Someone can share your orientation and still be a massive jerk/a-hole who’s better off not being in your life at all. Don’t make that mistake. :/
Technically, it’s TWO things. I think the interesting thing is Becky is kind of the “Joe” of the group but isn’t quite as well trained at spotting probable SSC hook-ups.
True for all sorts of things. “You’re sweet, [nerd], but you’re making the same mistake a lot of young people coming to terms with their [nerdiness] are doing. Don’t define yourself SOLELY by your [fandom], and definitely don’t choose your social circle based solely on your [fandom]. Someone can share your [fandom] and still be a massive jerk/a-hole who’s better off not being in your life at all. Don’t make that mistake. :/”
That’s our Becky
(Well, that’s our Duming of Age -cast)
Also, this is the third instance of lone character delivering heart-breaking punchline in the last panel this chapter. If this is keeping up I’ll really need more kleenex.
It’s a good thing Billie isn’t doing this all the time with her cash or I’d hate her for it. On the other hand, Becky can probably use some, being cut off by her family & all that. Is this Billie’s totally passive-aggressive way of doing a kindness? Depends on how much she understands of what’s going on.
Also, given the very real risk for Billie that the source of Becky’s interest is rumors about RA indecency put on the grapevine by Mary I’d say she handles this situation like a saint.
Well I’m trying to blend in better, so I’m crashing a Daniel the Human’s place. Just gotta figure out how to hide the magnets without getting them stuck to myself…
1. Use near 0 temperatures on your magnetic parts. That will exclude magnetic fields and allow you to even glide on magnets
2. get less magnetic circuitry.
3. Rub magnets across main processors.
4. use an electromagnet to attract all magnets away from your magnetic parts, then drop them in a small bin or bag. Place bag in a box, and put the box under your bed.
Can I just say I’m really happy Becky can be openly gay and still happily be a Christian and not letting the homophobic, repressive bullshit of her father keep her down. The last Shortpacked with Leslie’s ex really crushed me, so it’s nice to see that Becky has no problem reconciling her sexuality and her faith with her identity.
Hey I know this is a tiny bit off topic but it’s so nice to be able to find a webcomic (or anything, really) that doesn’t completely exclude and/or look down on Christianity. I’m a lot like Joyce, and it’s nice to know that I’m not the only person trying to compromise my faith with my life experiences!
I really feel for Becky. When you first come out of the closet and you grew up in an environment where you didn’t know a lot of LGBT people (in her case, a very repressive environment), of course you want to make friends who are going to understand you better. Its kind of weird how everyone is like “Becky is so annoying for talking about her sexuality a lot” when she LITERALLY CAME OUT YESTERDAY and her best friend of many many years is still trying to get her to repress her sexuality a bit and literally needed to research gayness ion the bible to be ok with it.
Like, of COURSE Becky is going to talk about her sexuality a lot when she was previously never allowed to, and of COURSE she wants fellow women-loving friends because they aren’t going to be judging her or trying to make her repress her sexuality. Man if anything is getting obnoxious here it’s the “Becky is so obnoxious” comments
Agreed. We’re also seeing the other side of an outgoing, direct talking, kinda obnoxious personality in a really stressful situation. (Becky’s persona is no different than when she was trading fart jokes w Walky at lunch.) I’m enjoying watching this version of coming out versus the standard doom-gloom-tragicQueer take that lots of writers portray.
I was just gonna make the same remark. I mean, this is the character that everybody’s been going “bestcharacterEVAR” over? I was expecting her to be cool and have some amount of charm, but this? This…just isn’t smart. Let me put it in perspective: beginning-of-Dumbing-of-Age Danny was more subtle than this. The Danny that’s been turned into a verb meaning to socially screw up royally was more socially apt than this. This is the equivalent of a guy going up to a woman and saying, “Hey! I’m straight and I’ve got a penis. You’re straight and you’ve got a vagina. Let’s make this happen.” Even taking into consideration exploration of sexuality, what would you expect from either gender or orientation?
Becky is trying to build a queer community, which is actually not a bad idea.I knew that when I was realizing my sexuality/gender, it was really helpful to have others around me that were like me. It made me feel less strange and alone – they understood me in ways that my well-intentioned straight friends could not.
She is being really pushy and awkward about it, though.
Oooooh Becky you are making such a common mistake in gay/bi/lesbian community.
She assumes that because someone shares the same sexuality (yes i know billy is bi but Becky seems a little ignorant on the existance of bisexuals) they must either
A) be guaranteed friends or sexual partners.
B) equally as willing to discuss there sexuality.
I feel becky is kind of rushing herself into a community she doesn’t fully understand, sure she gets the liking same sex thing but she seems to have this idea that lesbians will instantly want to talk with or be with her, or are as comfortable in there sexuality as she is.
Which, hey common thing for people just coming out or coming to terms with themselves so it’s by no means a bad thing, i think it’ll be a learning experience.
Billie is mainly annoyed with Becky because she wants to sneak away and hurry back to Ruth, I guess. Becky just picked a really bad time to intercept her.
I wonder if Becky is going to go back to see Joyce, or if she’s just going to wander around aimlessly. I kinda figured Billie would tell her to get lost, since she’s probably been thinking about Ruth the whole time.
Wander around aimlessly might be the plan. That would be the first time we got to see Becky alone for a bit. Might give us a chance to see under the facade.
Because this is all a facade. Just like the happy fart jokes act was a facade. It’s all “Becky’s fine. All happy-fun Becky, just like normal. Where are some lesbians!” Pure defense mechanism. Can’t let anyone see anything’s wrong.
What scares me a little is that she’s always been like this. Or at least was in her brief earlier appearance and Joyce didn’t seem to think anything was weird before she dropped the lesbian bomb. Makes me wonder if it’s been a facade all along. If so, what else has she been covering?
I don’t think she’s hiding anything else. It’s surprisingly easy to put on a happy face and act like everything is perfect. But I would like to see Becky on her own, doing some introspection.
DAMN YOU WILLIS!!!!
Just reached the end of Shortpacked! after a years long journey with the characters, so I thought: ‘I know I’ll check out some other stuff he’s done. It’s now 4a.m. and I’ve just caught up with this. I start a new job at 6…..
Also, even though I just posted this. I actually typed it some (many?) hours ago. Just didn’t hit post. Got home from work to see it sitting here. Blame sleep deprivation, I guess…
if you're ever sad alone silently, consider this:
- i hold a copyright on being like that
- you are encroaching on my intellectual property
- i will send you a cease & desist
- i will possibly take you to court
so please make yourself legally distinct by talking to someone about it
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That's a thing I gotta do.
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“But… I need $30 more just for the initial month of Slipshine!”
“Ugh! Here, just use my login.”
“Your CC expired!”
“DAMNIT IT WAS ACTIVE YESTERDAY”
Holy crap. I know that, being asexual, I don’t get sexuality, especially it being appeased by images thereof, especially simplistic art thereof..
But paying $30 for a month of that?
Can’t you find enough porn for free on the net?
That is just mind-blowingly expensive, which definitely emphasizes the point that people have different conceptions of the value of money..
Like those people that spend $8000+ on random flash games..
*Fifty dollars, ‘thirty MORE’.
D:
Well, some would argue that it’s worth it considering the high volume of content on the site, and that some of the stories up there aren’t just porn but actual, well, STORIES that are a good read and actually updating. I’m not really sure how Slipshine works when it comes to their authors/artists getting paid, but I’m assuming at the price for subscription that they would.
That being said, if you’re just wanting to read Willis’ stuff, then yeah you’re crazy for shelling out $50. Not that he’s bad, there’s just not that much from only him to justify it.
Becky should’ve kept annoying Billie and holding out for a bigger bribe to go away. Billie could’ve afforded it.
Also, the only porn that’s free on the internet has been pirated from elsewhere on the internet. In which case, you’re avoiding paying the creators of said porn what they’re due, and potentially stifling the porn industry.
I think the $20 is just there to create an obligation. As in “Here’s $20. Did you accept it? Good. Now, you’re contractually obligated to do as I tell you. And I’m telling you to GO AWAY.”
The two most important rules of negotiation:
– Always read the fine print.
– You’re never obligated to accept anything.
Depends on the porn. Lots is created for free. Erotic fiction and art, especially fanfiction and fanart. Teaser images or videos from porn sites, trying to lure you in. Teaser images from escorts, trying to lure you in. (Granted, those two categories probably aren’t free-as-in-speech, but copies would be violating copyright, not directly denying them money. And visiting their sites certainly isn’t piracy.) Possibly actual amateur sex videos, I dunno, never explored that.
So yeah, lots available legitimately for free, especially at the level of stories or still images. Full comics, or videos, probably less so.
Actually, you pay more for the first month only. The long-term subscription cost is much lower than that. They want to keep people from paying a tiny cost for one month, binging through the archives, then unsubscribing.
Yeah – I am also asexual, and the only thing that’s ever compelled me about the Slipshine was the thought of extra content about characters I’m interested in. But I’d rather not see them having sex, I guess. I’m glad that all of that content is off the site in a place I can’t see it.
But like, eugh. I checked out porn back in my early days of curiosity, and the free stuff is, for the most part, just awful. Really dang gross. I would imagine there’s a difference in quality with paid porn.
I totally agree.
I read some books with sex scenes and just gloss over them.
Which mikes it hard when I listen to the same series on audiobook … but while I don’t get the concept of sex as fun, also asexual, I can get that others seem to think it is. So I can logic it if it comes up in a side story, not that I’d pay for it
The start up cost is higher than the recurring subscription fees. Also it only renews every 3 months as I recall.
Also I don’t remember paying $50 for the startup, pretty sure it was less than that
Scratch that, I should really keep better track of how much I pay or stuff…
“Holy crap. I know that, being asexual, I don’t get sexuality, especially it being appeased by images thereof, especially simplistic art thereof..
But paying $30 for a month of that?”
Yeah . . . paying $30 for literally THOUSANDS of pages of original artwork and storylines. That’s just crazy talk! Why would I pay $30 for access to hundreds of webcomics not available anywhere else, and approximately 150 new pages of original material every month? What a foolish way to spend money! For $30 I could buy six, maybe seven Marvel comics, totaling perhaps 90 pages, if I’m lucky! Much better way to spend my money!
It’s a question of what you’re interested in. Most people here looking at slipshine are probably looking to see Willis’s stuff. In which case you’re paying 50 bucks for a half dozen short stories.
If you’re looking for porn in general, yeah it’s probably worth it. But I highly doubt that is where the complaint is coming from.
“But paying $30 for a month of that?
Can’t you find enough porn for free on the net?”
But why would you BUY food when there are soup kitchens?
Why drive when you can take a bike?
Why buy tickets to One Direction* when you can see a free concert in the park?
Why pay artists when you can look at their stuff for free?
[I had (and still have) stuff to do or I would’ve answered sooner, but basically YES there are free alternatives–however, there’s a reason people will pay money for the not-free version]
*or whoever’s in style these days
Oh my god it doesn’t cost THAT much. The price drops significantly after the first month. (It’s to encourage prolonged membership, I think.)
And for me, a big part of the reason is that I don’t watch live action porn because you never know if the people in the video are fully consenting to the sex or to the video. It’s disturbing for me. With comic porn, I know that nobody in it is being exploited because they’re just drawings. And finding good comic porn, like actual erotic comics, is a bongo without paying for them. (Unless you can find free hentai, but hentai is super….. I just don’t like a lot of the stuff it focuses on. It can be incredibly misogynistic and is clearly intended for a male audience.)
It’s okay Billie, Becky’s been taught everything about your secret satanic lesbian fondue orgies. She’s not going to judge.
Poutine is not fondue!
Is Ruth a poutine eater?
who isn’t?
People who don’t live in Canada?
I pity you for your sad empty lives.
I can buy Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in bulk. I’ll be fine.
They ease the monotony of eating pasta all the time.
Monotony! Pasta! The nerve! Oh, sorry bit much there…
Well, I don’t always have time and resources to experiment with the sauce or vary how soft I cook it. Pasta’s versatility is what makes it my staple, but I still require sweets to spice things up, and ‘Murrka has plenty to choose from.
You’re supposed to put sauce or something on your pasta.
Is Canada even a real place?
We are the secret rulers of the world.
Insert HIMYM Canada jokes here
That’s actually Billie’s pet name for her.
Billie thinks “poutine” is Canadianese for “giblets”.
Do you… fondue?
I fondued your mom for a nickel, but I’m not sure that counts.
Fonduing a person sounds pretty grisly, actually.
I think Noah meant to write fondled.
Whatever he meant, when he did it, he was pretty cheesy about it.
Well, it certainly made your MOM melt.
We don’t talk about fondue.
That’s the first rule of Fondue Club.
“Secret satanic lesbian fondue orgies”
Orgy initially was synonymous with revelry, then moved into ‘indulgence of an activity’, then became a reference to sexual orgies when no other topic was affixed to it.
You affixed fondue to it.
Ergo, it is an excessive indulgence of fondue.
Secret Satanic Lesbians So-Very-Much-Fondue-Everywhere Party?
So, is there a secret handshake to get in, or do you just have to love burying yourself into fountains of melty joy?
“Fondue orgy” reminds me of Asterix in Switzerland
“Le fouet! Le fouet!”
“Le bâton! Le bâton!”
Abr si isch nonig trochä …
Disappoint Becky is disappoint.
Hey, if every girl to ever shoot me down gave me $20 to soften the blow, eventually I’d have enough money to be attractive to them.
I wish that was less accurate so I could laugh more than I cringed.
The hell you talking about, Doc? I’ve seen your show. Girls are practically lining up around the block for a piece of you.
If only one shot him down for each 100 that didn’t that would still be a lot.
Yeah, don’t feel too bad, Becky: you just doubled your current savings.
And that was WAY nicer than most of the methods Billie and Alice have employed to get rid of people in the past.
Was it? Way nicer, I mean?
Because handing someone a twenty and telling them to go away could also be interpreted as “here’s some money, loser! Money which I have plenty of and you, loser, probably don’t.”
I can see it being mean, but not really for that reason. More of “you’re so insufferable/unlikable that I would literally pay money to get you the fuck away from me”
It’s not nice by any means, but it’s far NICER than explaining with angry finger gestures exactly how much higher she is on the social hierarchy than you, you dorky ginger-nerd loser, as Billie did frequently when she was introduced. It’s also better than Alice’s method of purposely forgetting your name and making transparent excuses to be uncivil.
Hey, if she wants to give me $20 to not be around her, I’ll take $20. Now I have $20 and I’m not around someone who thinks she’s $20 better than me. And if I’m not around her, what do I care what she thinks?
Because if she’s not around to think you’re worth $20 to get rid of, you don’t get $20?
Ooh, wait, do I get to be the first aboard the Becky/Alice ship?
We could call it “Alky” except that really describes Billie/Ruth, hmm…
Becy?
Belicky?
Ooh, Billie gives away money to leave her alone? I’m gonna start bugging her immediately!
We’ve seen her give money to people she wants to befriend too. I think just being around Billie is a profitable venture.
Sign me up! I’m opening an account with the Bank of Billie!
She’s a little Rusty at telling who it to give money to. She once tried to bribe the Dean cuz she had a Hankering for a new room. (who gets my joke?)
It didn’t work, though; it was like talking to a Brock wall.
Hold up, are you even allowed to be arching right now? I thought the Guild suspended you.
Money talks, bullshit walks I guess…
Run to Becky, join her in Gender Studies.
Yea, Becky will regret not going.
Becky will run to Becky.
I ship it.
Sorry, it takes two or more compatible people to make a ship.
But can you just imagine the self-cest Slipshines?!
No. I don’t do Slipshine. Too much porn. (Not willing to get THAT close to it.)
Tell that to tumblr
Don’t tell anything to tumblr. They’re awful.
People say that about 4chan, but I find them pleasant enough.
Also, selfcest is bestcest, and not just because others are gross.
Everyone on 4chan is awful too. That’s why I’m on there 14 hours a day.
@Yotomoe, Sounds about right…
“Compatible”? Pretty sure it only requires two people (compatibility be damned), and I’m not even 100% sure it requires two.
I love browsing fanfiction dot net for weird ships. It’s a triumph for human creativity, or something.
Like the whole section of march band stories where the first piccolo is in love with the second trombone, but their love is derailed by the handsome-but-jerkish bass drummer. (Poor piccolo).
Or the tetris story where purple piece found the whole formed by the green and blue pieces – and it fit just perfectly (and everyone disintegrated which was a bit of a bummer).
*hole.
Kinda ruined my punchline there.
O.O What on earth? A TETRIS ship? Wierdos. (how long did that one last?)
There’s a sentient planet crossover sex fanfic out there (Ego the Living Planet from Marvel, Mogo the Green Lantern planet from DC, Unicron from Transformers, and the sentient planet from the old Star Wars comics, whose name I forget, IIRC).
Sentinet planet fic? Sounds about right! I’d be very disappointed if it doesn’t orbit equations.
The tetris fic was just a page, otherwise it would have been too silly.
Okay, I’m sold. What was the Tetris Fic called? (Links also accepted)
Can’t remember, I’ll just pop over and check. Nothing bad can come from browsing fanfiction dot net late at night, right?
Humdumdum. Games… Filter “T”… Tetris, can’t be more than a handful… HOLY WOW – there are more than a hundred tetris fics now???
I didn’t find the one I talked about, which is a shame because it was a thing of beauty, but knock yourself out I guess…
What if you typed “Tetris” into your navigation bar (Correct term chose now to escape me! <..>
Would it show up in your history?
Nina/Table-kun.
Yay for Joyce I guess.
Comparatively speaking to 5 minutes ago, you’re definitely rolling in it, Becky.
I’d take it.
Checkhov’s 20
What? Where did we see the twenty before? *furiously clicks through previous comics*
She offered one to the chick Sarah punched. I believe it was during the beach arc that she also mentioned having plenty of cash from her dad to throw around.
She also gave Joyce a $20 for saying something nice the day they went shopping.
Pavlov’s archive binge.
“And people wonder why I drink so much.”
Because she can afford it? * 20s everywhere *
oh my god
That icon is perfect for that, btw
Like I said, Becky you’re an idiot.
Give her a break. She’s like a kid in a candy store. But instead of candy, it’s hot women.
Why would I do a thing like that?
I would love to be in that Candy store. Assuming the women are hot figuratively and not tempurature wise.
Now that would depend on what the outdoor temperature is where you are. If its below 0 C (or especially F) then hot women would sound really nice…
*makes Frozen joke*
Disney’s Frozen, right?
Never mind, I DESPERATELY don’t want to know if it isn’t.
But, hot women might melt all the candy…
*makes Oglaf succubi joke*
Good news! So’s Joyce! They can be idiots together!
Oh dear, I quite like you.
I’m more disappointed that actually worked!
Am I the only one not getting the alt text? :c
Strip club reference, via hip hop culture.
….I was actually about to go into how mainstream rap, doesn’t really represent the hip hop culture anymore, but fuck it.
Making it rain refers to throwing money at strippers.
And here I thought it involved artillery strikes.
Wow, that actually kind of changes that one Transformers scene a lot.
“Making it rain” = “making money.” Specifically lots of money.
Unless you meant you couldn’t see the alt text, in which case I forget what the work around is.
On iPhones nowadays, you can see the title text (not the alt text, dammit! the title text!) by pressing and holding the image. You’ll get the same pop-up menu that offers to save the image, but now, starting in iOS 7 I think, you’ll see the title text at the top of the menu.
Except on this site, it recognizes that you’re watching it on a smartphone, and instead of there being a title attribute on the img tag, there’s that thing where you should tap just below the comic but to the left or to the right of the navigation buttons. And the pressing-and-holding thing doesn’t work.
Argh. Sorry about that.
Not exactly, it refers to tossing a handful of dolla dolla bills over a stripper.
Listen to more li’l wayne. And then fight back the urge to rip your ears off.
Listen to Lil Wa… Yeah I can’t even jokingly type that; Canibus and Illogic for life! Tupac and Techn9ne for life! Vinnie Paz and Immortal technique for life!
I’m going to miss Li’l Wayne. Someday it will be Guardians of the Galaxy that he went to see the fateful night his family was taken, but there won’t be a comic about it because of Soggies.
No guys, I didn’t mean it figuratively, I mean literally not having the alt text show up :/
Oh, then maybe you are. The text: “Makin’ it rain” (or some variation. I’m lazy.)
Wait, are you saying you don’t ‘get’ the alt-text, or that you can’t SEE it?
Nevermind, Crazy Dina got it..
On the other hand, you just made 20 bucks…
Becky:” Sweet ! maybe I can try some pot for the first time.”
But with whom would she smoke it? I don’t think there have been too many active smokers of the pot so far in this friend group, barring Sarah’s (former-ish) enemies. (Question: was it ever established that Sarah’s old roommate’s friends ever smoked weed? I can’t remember right now.)
Yes, weed smoking was the big problem that spiraled out of control with her depression.
I’m imagining Sarah’s reaction to Becky showing up with weed.
Probably something like “AW HELL NO.”
Probably less horrified than Joyce’s.
*imagines it*
‘PREMARITAL SMOKEY-TOKEY!’
‘… I don’t think marriage has anything to do wi–‘
‘THAT IS CORRECT!’
‘… Why are you yelling?’
‘WHY AREN’T YOU?’
… Yeah, that kinda got away from me a bit…
– THAT’S RIIIGHT!
– What’s right?
– THAT.
– …What?
– THAT IS RIIIGHT!
– What is right?
– THAAAAAT IS RIGHT, I AM INSANITY PRAWN GIRL, I’M SMOKING DE WEED.
Becky will find out that weed really is a gateway drug.
How many moms can she buy with that much money?
400 if they’re yours.
You need a lot more than this to make that happen, also some poon to go with that money.
Success is all in how you spin it.
Given her current situation, Becky is in no position to be disappointed when someone gives her $20. She could even spin this into a successful business!
Its not like she’s homeless.
Well Home is where the heart is.
Her home is inside her chest? Talk about cramped.
Not THAT cramped…
[self censored comments about chest sizes]
Billie’s home is roomy as hell.
Homosexuality may not be a sin, but Billie has plenty else to answer for?
Home-o sexuality.
Everyone’s a hero in their own way
Everyone’s got villains they must face
They’re not as cool as mine
But folks you know it’s fine to know your place (in bed)(With Becky)
Really? Somebody should tell the angst-ridden teenagers to get canopic jars, otherwise they’ll never get away from home!
I can picture Wade attempting to market those on this logic. Or Tupperware.
Becky is a turtle.
Billie, you can’t just give her twenty bucks and let her go off to join the cast of “It’s Walky!”
Is that a handy new euphemism for “disappear into nonexistence”? Because if so, I like it.
*sees all the $100 billing falling from the sky* “It’s raining Ben, Hallejulah!”
…..OK In stumped, who’s your avatar this time?
Shezow! The boy who must dress like a lady to fight crime.
Shezow A cartoon one season wonder about a boy who has inherited his late aunt’s role of hero by using a special ring which gives him super-powers but he has to dress as a super heroine while doing so.
… so… that’s a little weird… I think I’ll pass on that.
Plasma, have you ever thought of saving up all your gravitars and indexing them by date and character for new readers to reference when they see discussions like this one. (I have, and trust me – it gets a little confusing)
I have had people telling this before, who knows, I might feel in the mood needed to do this one day.
‘twould be appreciated; I wanna track down a few of the sources to watch/read. This one seems amusing too.
Oddly enough, I’ve taken to making similar gravatars, but don’t use them since my Inquisition one, while crappy, is good enough, and I don’t wanna mimic your schtick… Yet I can’t not make them when I see perfect images to crop.
Here is my first Tumblr about my gravatar. http://tmblr.co/ZucXQt1bDER8k
Start today?
Yup http://tmblr.co/ZucXQt1bDER8k
Not that weird, a significant amount of the manga/anime I have run across revolves around boys turning into girls for various reasons.
I really need to somehow get my hands on that. The original short was entertaining.
I have been able to watch Shezow episodes on YouTube.
SheZow episode 1
Yes, but the question is, does he like it?
Not at first but since becoming Shezow give him all sorts of awesome powers, he quickly gets used to it.
Happens all the time.
Ha!
Sorry, this was funny. Snorted my Dr. Pepper.
You got soft drink through your nose? I haven’t done that in years. ^_^
Damn, I haven’t heard that song in a while.
First you get the money
Then you get the power
Then you get the women
Billie understands this and is helping Becky achieve the first step
Conversely
First you get the Women
Then you get the power
and then you get the money.
Works both ways. Just like Billie.
Isn’t that what you get when you play a country song backwards?
Wow, 20 bucks to a college student is like 20 bucks to people from 50 years ago.
Well, between cheap ramen and vegetables to add for actual nutrition, $20 should cover at least 3 nights’ worth of dinners.
Good god, twenty years ago $14 of ingredients kept us in home-made chow mein for a week!
Could probably still do it. The secret is to get the vegetables that are on sale (fresh, not frozen: way cheaper) and fill it out with lots of the cheapest bagged noodles. Also soya sauce. Soya sauce is a miracle.
Lived on rice with salt and pepper and soya sauce for a month. Literally. Nothing else but water and re-used tea bags.
Thank god my college days are over. That was bloody dire.
Not sure how it is on campus where this comic is taking place, but where I live, a lot of the food in dumpsters outside grocery stores is still perfectly edible. This is because customers are less inclined to buy wares near their expiration date or more likely to ask for a discount.
So to avoid bad publicity over having wares past their expiration date, many store owners throw the wares away while they still have a day or two left. Other times, it’s wares that they receive fresh supplies of every day, so what doesn’t get sold will get old in a day.
Either way, the food in the dumpster behind the grocery store isn’t necessarily in the dumspter because there’s anything wrong with it.
Though it’s worth noting that if what you’re looting isn’t air-tight, you shouldn’t loot it, since the contaminants in the dumpster itself can be very negative.
Also note that big-name chains like Wal-Mart almost never do this, adding discount tags to their food instead, and only throwing it out when it has become noticeably spoiled.
Since smaller markets [or higher end markets, at that] rely on providing better quality and selection (of fresh items), they’re the ones that’ll throw food out early.
A major jackpot is pizza places, since they’ll throw out leftover pizza at the end of the day [even ones that let employees take home pizza usually have a lot extra they dump out]. This is especially true for ones with buffets, especially buffets that last till closing.
They often’ll throw out pizza dough bags as well, if the dough gets even a little off [ie, the yeasts cause early rising and the quality isn’t considered adequate for use], so you can get a lot out of those.
:tilts head: Spend most of your life on the streets.. :X
Oh just roll with it Becky.
Could’ve been worse. She hasn’t said anything completely unsalvageable after an “Oh my god I was such an idiot, sorry” later, plus she now has twenty dollars and depending on how much control she had over finances this is a pretty big deal. (Even if she has a functioning bank account, she’s in college, $20 is a big deal.)
She’s not in college, she’s at a college. There’s a slight difference.
True. She’s been KICKED OUT OF COLLEGE AND DISOWNED. Even worse. (Though I am hoping she can enroll or something so she’ll be in the dorm. If she gets a job outside she won’t necessarily appear less, but it’s a safer bet.)
Becky, you coulda kept pestering. Seen if you could get up to $50
Maybe you can swear in front of Joe.
Why stop there? Maybe she can hit on her and she’ll pay her to not talk to her
Grab a boob and you’ll either get to touch the greatest rack in the dumbiverse or make $1,000. Or get arrested for sexual harassment. Or Ruth will break your legs.
Last one seems most likely… though she’ll go for the femurs instead of the legs.
I thought she just removed and weaponized femurs? Even so, they are one of the most prominent leg bones, so break them and the legs are broken.
I don’t see why they can’t all happen, anyway. Boob-touchery is bundled with the action, and the rest aren’t particularly improbable.
Where do you think one’s femurs are located?
In Faz’s hands, as he steps out of the lion pit to strikingly pose, the sun providing a blazing backdrop behind him.
Obviously.
Wait, wait, I got this one!
They’re in the clitoris!
*beams with pride*
same place as the lower intestines, but a little to the side? *v.v* (I don’t think My blushy face worked)
Yeah, you know, I don’t think that I’d mess with Ruth’s sweetheart. I don’t care how hard she and Billie are working to remain ‘inconspicuous,’ groping Billie would be A Bad Idea. (Never mind that Ruth…well, just never mind.)
C’mon Becky turn that into singles and make it rain!
Or quarters, then make it hail!
Or nickels, that way she can go lezzo on a whole heap of mums.
Or nickels and make it rain moms.
All of those splatted mothers… OH THE HUMANITY!
So something like this then.
Pretty much but with more blood and guts everywhere.
Take the money, girl, you need it. In fact, probably should look for a job like… Now:(
That does seem like a problem. I don’t think the other cast members have jobs, but they also have supportive parents, so…
I almost feel like I should feel bad for Becky for assuming ‘we both like girls’ to mean Billie would want to hang out with her. She’s lucky she’s Joyce’s friend though, gets her the polite blow off with cash rewards.
Hey, I’m heterosexual, YOU’RE heterosexual, let’s hang out!
WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!?
But yeah, it sounds stupid no matter how you say it.
You say that, and the school of ‘it stands to reason’ dictates it should be true. Actual results in my experience are mixed (They are predominantly negative in my wife’s experience, so there’s that).
But it won’t go well for Becky regardless, because she, personally, is identifying so overwhelmingly hard with one aspect of herself that it’s obviously overshadowing things.
Yikes. Even Joyce didn’t get that level of dismissiveness. Can’t blame her though.
Becky runs away from her real best friends in search for a new best friend for all the wrong reasons.
Maybe what she is looking for is a sexual mentor, if so she really should have gone to Gender Studies with Joyce.
And after that she can go see Daisy for some… visual diagrams.
Interactive ones.
Guys, it’s because she said totes
I don’t think Billy ran away from Joyce in search of a new best friend for all the wrong reasons”…one reason only.
Becky is getting pretty much fed up with the lessons – ‘Gay isn’t a major sin, just a sort of little one’ type thing’ and ‘sssshhh, don’t say IT out loud”.
I don’t think she is looking for just a sexual mentor either, drop the mentor.
But yeah, like someone said already…’hey i’m hetero, you’re hetero, let’s hook up!.”
Becky needs to put a lid on it, and sort of look around and listen for a change. Settle down and enjoy the new freedom, quietly for a bit.
I like Becky but if she charged me like she did Billy, yeah …well I wouldn’t pay her, but I would hide.
If she’s fed up with Joyce, maybe she should go find somewhere else to live! (Hmmm . . . maybe that’s what she was doing . . .)
I hope Becky does find another place soon. Sarah doesn’t need roomie drama AGAIN, and with all the unrequited love tension between them, it’d be healthier for both Becky AND Joyce to part ways for a while.
Am I the only one who somehow gets the feeling that Becky is ugly even though these comics don’t have such detailed facial features?
Something to do with that massive, pointy chin…
I know, right?
I don’t get the feeling she’s ugly. I think she’d be kind of cute if she weren’t so annoyingly loud. She comes across more as “very average, heavily-controlled, Midwestern girl” to me.
Don’t think so… Remember in an earlier comic when she met Joe, and Joe referred to her as a “tasty redhead”. Joe may like his women-folk, but I figure even he has standards. So even if she’s not a “perfect 10” she is probably attractive to some degree.
I imagine that her features are fine and aesthetically pleasing. It’s her personality that’s off-putting and unattractive. But with luck and some hard work, she’ll grow into it.
Mike: Your mom had sex with me for a nickel.
Ethan/Becky/Joyce/Billie: Yes, ha-ha, very funny, Mike.
Mike: And for a quarter, she told me she loved me and supported me no matter what, so long as I was true to myself. I thought that’d be fifty cents, but it was only a quarter.
*silent horrified panel of fleeing*
Walky: Jesus Christ, Mike, did you level up in asshole or something?
Mike: I think I may have.
This used to happen to me a lot. Let me tell you, 20 dollars a pop was never enough to pay for the therapy nor the amount of ice cream needed to make the pain go away. I would have traded it all for Joyce’s friends, who understand that the things she does are because she doesn’t know better and needs help.
There’s still time, Becky
So where’s Daisy when some girl really needs her now?
I’m gonna laugh a bit if in this whole Becky drama she won’t get involved, and when it wil be all over in some way and Becky won’t be here anymore, she will be added to the plot and will hear that was a lesbian christian girl here to hang out she missed.
It’d be kind of hilarious if Becky met Daisy and found, in fact, that she’s not her type and the fact lesbian relationships are every bit as much hard work as the other kind.
I think there is an very high risk that they don’t get along. We haven’t seen that much of Daisy except for pent up sexual frustration and a decent competence at her work, but I don’t see an immediate match for Becky’s flippant and kinda clueless in a cute way.
The reason I hope for them to meet has less to do with finding Becky a girlfriend (or even give her the chance to touch some giblets) and more to find a guide into the gay community.
I’m thinking if Daisy had any good ins with the local gay community, she wouldn’t have quite so much pent up sexual frustration.
Well, it’s not more of a hook-up guarantee than the heterosexual community (and we all know how there are never any sexually frustrated heterosexuals around), but it is a place to go to meet other you share experience with, and if you’re in it for the giblets it’s at least a place to start.
‘in it for the giblets’ may be my new favorite euphemism.
I love Becky’s slang. I started to worry that I’d ground the giblet-joke down in the ground, but thanks to you I found the strength to keep it up.
Giblets, giblets, giblets. Thanks
Hey, the cis-hets have it totally soft! I mean, there are a lot more of them than there are of us, so they should just be rolling in it.
Not necessarily true. She could have been around the block a few times and not be interested in a casual hook-up, but not have found That One Special Person yet.
I was joking, but, seriously, Daisy doesn’t strike me as someone who’s looking for That One Special Person right now. She strikes me as someone who’s looking for Any Lady Whatsoever Who Might Want To Touch Her Giblets.
She’s made no secret of the fact that she thinks Billie’s an obnoxious idiot, but she was totally down with Billie inadvertently putting the moves on her, and then she was all, “Hey, that RA who harassed and abused you? She sounds like a winner! Got her phone number?”
So you think Daisy will tell Becky just to shut up and go to a secluded area with her?
Becky doesn’t seem like she’s necessarily looking for That One Special Person either. She seems like she just wants to be, you know, rollin’ in it.
That said, I am a little worried by how fast Becky seems to have bounced back from getting her hopes with Joyce crushed, on top of getting alienated from her family and Anderson. It’s a lot of emotional trauma. I’m worried that Becky isn’t over that stuff yet, and that she’s not being honest with herself.
You’re sweet, Becky, but you’re making the same mistake a lot of young people coming to terms with their sexuality are doing. Don’t define yourself SOLELY by your sexuality, and definitely don’t choose your social circle based solely on your sexuality. Someone can share your orientation and still be a massive jerk/a-hole who’s better off not being in your life at all. Don’t make that mistake. :/
Technically, it’s TWO things. I think the interesting thing is Becky is kind of the “Joe” of the group but isn’t quite as well trained at spotting probable SSC hook-ups.
Joyce bestsest friend who she missed like crazy. Day 1, she’s kinda like Walky. Day 2, she’s kinda like Joe.
Fudge.
Any bet takers on Day 3?
“Day 3 she’s kinda like Mike” is somehow what I’m expecting…
If we’re cycling through guys Joyce has been into, in this universe or the other, we’ve got Danny and Ethan to go.
True for all sorts of things. “You’re sweet, [nerd], but you’re making the same mistake a lot of young people coming to terms with their [nerdiness] are doing. Don’t define yourself SOLELY by your [fandom], and definitely don’t choose your social circle based solely on your [fandom]. Someone can share your [fandom] and still be a massive jerk/a-hole who’s better off not being in your life at all. Don’t make that mistake. :/”
Now that’s how a Billingsworth deals with situations.
No experience is embarrassing, humiliating or depressing enough to stop you from delivering the punchline!
That’s our Becky
(Well, that’s our Duming of Age -cast)
Also, this is the third instance of lone character delivering heart-breaking punchline in the last panel this chapter. If this is keeping up I’ll really need more kleenex.
Cast of Dumbing of Age
Amber
Amazi Girl
Becky
Billie
Carla
Daisy
Danny
Dina
Dorothy
Ethan
Jacob
Joe
Joyce
Ruth
Roz
Sal
Sarah
Marcie
Mike
Walky
Thank you for using Random Access Terminal commands!
It’s a good thing Billie isn’t doing this all the time with her cash or I’d hate her for it. On the other hand, Becky can probably use some, being cut off by her family & all that. Is this Billie’s totally passive-aggressive way of doing a kindness? Depends on how much she understands of what’s going on.
I think she just dislikes anyone that says totes or jelly or other such nonsense
Good thing she didn’t get to giblets
How does it feel, Becky? To be a lesbian prostitute, paid to go away?
She can be in the club with Cpl. C.W. St. J. Nobbs. Though he was a cross-dressing stripper paid not to ever dance or take any clothing off.
Ah yes, knobby Nobbs. Breaker of the trope that all men appear extremely attractive when they dress up like women.
To be fair, his boots are pretty awesome, and I wouldn’t trade them for heels either.
Thinking of Becky as the Nobbs of this cast…actually makes a lot more sense. Thank you a thousand times for the Pratchett reference!
Do you think that Becky needs a signed certificate verifying that it is more likely than not that she’s human?
Oddly cute. in a strange strange way
Billie doesn’t always give a fuck… but when she does she only gives it to Ruth.
I have a feeling she’s going to start beating herself up over all this.
Problem solved, head cheer-leader style.
Seriously, Billie has gone soft. I kinda doubt this would have ended well for Becky during Billie’s high school days…
Also, given the very real risk for Billie that the source of Becky’s interest is rumors about RA indecency put on the grapevine by Mary I’d say she handles this situation like a saint.
…or like you do a tag-along kid. Which is hilarious in its own right.
The friendship is off to a good start
…actually I think this is the best start Billie has got with anyone at college so far. If nothing else because the money trick FINALLY worked.
it is a better kind of rollin’ in it.
who needs other humans when you got money?
…Billie?
Well I’m trying to blend in better, so I’m crashing a Daniel the Human’s place. Just gotta figure out how to hide the magnets without getting them stuck to myself…
1. Use near 0 temperatures on your magnetic parts. That will exclude magnetic fields and allow you to even glide on magnets
2. get less magnetic circuitry.
3. Rub magnets across main processors.
4. use an electromagnet to attract all magnets away from your magnetic parts, then drop them in a small bin or bag. Place bag in a box, and put the box under your bed.
You are beautiful.
I will not allow you in my house though for fear that you may, in fact, be a “clever girl”.
Gawd… she’s getting more obnoxious by the second…
my words exactly. look at how gay i am, and you are too! make out with me!
Can I just say I’m really happy Becky can be openly gay and still happily be a Christian and not letting the homophobic, repressive bullshit of her father keep her down. The last Shortpacked with Leslie’s ex really crushed me, so it’s nice to see that Becky has no problem reconciling her sexuality and her faith with her identity.
Hey I know this is a tiny bit off topic but it’s so nice to be able to find a webcomic (or anything, really) that doesn’t completely exclude and/or look down on Christianity. I’m a lot like Joyce, and it’s nice to know that I’m not the only person trying to compromise my faith with my life experiences!
I really feel for Becky. When you first come out of the closet and you grew up in an environment where you didn’t know a lot of LGBT people (in her case, a very repressive environment), of course you want to make friends who are going to understand you better. Its kind of weird how everyone is like “Becky is so annoying for talking about her sexuality a lot” when she LITERALLY CAME OUT YESTERDAY and her best friend of many many years is still trying to get her to repress her sexuality a bit and literally needed to research gayness ion the bible to be ok with it.
Like, of COURSE Becky is going to talk about her sexuality a lot when she was previously never allowed to, and of COURSE she wants fellow women-loving friends because they aren’t going to be judging her or trying to make her repress her sexuality. Man if anything is getting obnoxious here it’s the “Becky is so obnoxious” comments
Agreed.
Agreed. We’re also seeing the other side of an outgoing, direct talking, kinda obnoxious personality in a really stressful situation. (Becky’s persona is no different than when she was trading fart jokes w Walky at lunch.) I’m enjoying watching this version of coming out versus the standard doom-gloom-tragicQueer take that lots of writers portray.
I REALLY hate to say this…seriously….but Becky is rapidly burning through all the good will I owe her for being awesome in her introduction.
Agreed.
I was just gonna make the same remark. I mean, this is the character that everybody’s been going “bestcharacterEVAR” over? I was expecting her to be cool and have some amount of charm, but this? This…just isn’t smart. Let me put it in perspective: beginning-of-Dumbing-of-Age Danny was more subtle than this. The Danny that’s been turned into a verb meaning to socially screw up royally was more socially apt than this. This is the equivalent of a guy going up to a woman and saying, “Hey! I’m straight and I’ve got a penis. You’re straight and you’ve got a vagina. Let’s make this happen.” Even taking into consideration exploration of sexuality, what would you expect from either gender or orientation?
What do you know? Choosing who you befriend based on their sexuality isn’t a good idea. I am so surprised and she should be as well.
Becky is trying to build a queer community, which is actually not a bad idea.I knew that when I was realizing my sexuality/gender, it was really helpful to have others around me that were like me. It made me feel less strange and alone – they understood me in ways that my well-intentioned straight friends could not.
She is being really pushy and awkward about it, though.
Oooooh Becky you are making such a common mistake in gay/bi/lesbian community.
She assumes that because someone shares the same sexuality (yes i know billy is bi but Becky seems a little ignorant on the existance of bisexuals) they must either
A) be guaranteed friends or sexual partners.
B) equally as willing to discuss there sexuality.
I feel becky is kind of rushing herself into a community she doesn’t fully understand, sure she gets the liking same sex thing but she seems to have this idea that lesbians will instantly want to talk with or be with her, or are as comfortable in there sexuality as she is.
Which, hey common thing for people just coming out or coming to terms with themselves so it’s by no means a bad thing, i think it’ll be a learning experience.
Billie is mainly annoyed with Becky because she wants to sneak away and hurry back to Ruth, I guess. Becky just picked a really bad time to intercept her.
Maybe Billies also not impressed with having a virtual stranger come up to her and start talking about a very personal situation
Maybe, but I don’t know if there’s any way Becky could have approached Billie that would have resulted in Billie acting any differently.
She would have found some way to ditch Becky so she could go back to Ruth.
I wonder if Becky is going to go back to see Joyce, or if she’s just going to wander around aimlessly. I kinda figured Billie would tell her to get lost, since she’s probably been thinking about Ruth the whole time.
Wander around aimlessly might be the plan. That would be the first time we got to see Becky alone for a bit. Might give us a chance to see under the facade.
Because this is all a facade. Just like the happy fart jokes act was a facade. It’s all “Becky’s fine. All happy-fun Becky, just like normal. Where are some lesbians!” Pure defense mechanism. Can’t let anyone see anything’s wrong.
What scares me a little is that she’s always been like this. Or at least was in her brief earlier appearance and Joyce didn’t seem to think anything was weird before she dropped the lesbian bomb. Makes me wonder if it’s been a facade all along. If so, what else has she been covering?
I don’t think she’s hiding anything else. It’s surprisingly easy to put on a happy face and act like everything is perfect. But I would like to see Becky on her own, doing some introspection.
Yeah. Well, not only an act. But only presenting a well chosen part of herself to the world, including to herself.
Joyce on the other hand is completely open with her feelings all the time, include to herself.
The best kind of “rolling in it”.
And that is your cue to turn around and go get yourself some gender studies, girl!
Becky hitting on Leslie would be awesome. “You can do that in college!”
i annoy people on a constant basis where is my money
ooookay becky that’s enough let’s move onto some satisfying character development now
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PREMARTIAL HANKY-SPANKY
It could only be better if Joyce’s eyebrow beasts were properly levitating over her head.
DAMN YOU WILLIS!!!!
Just reached the end of Shortpacked! after a years long journey with the characters, so I thought: ‘I know I’ll check out some other stuff he’s done. It’s now 4a.m. and I’ve just caught up with this. I start a new job at 6…..
Hawii? Nice.
No wait, wrong direction! GAH!
New Zealand. Close, though. real close
Also, even though I just posted this. I actually typed it some (many?) hours ago. Just didn’t hit post. Got home from work to see it sitting here. Blame sleep deprivation, I guess…
I was figuring it out based on midnight. and my head is spinning now as I can’t read a simple mental map.
Billie, the only person that has the ability to say no to Becky.