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I always knew Dina would be the assertive half of Beckasaur.
I’ll bet a lot people can feel Dina right now. That second-guessing that comes out of not knowing if you’re reading someone right, and when you don’t know you jump to all the worst conclusions, immediately, no matter how little sense they make.
Now excuse me while I switch tabs and spam F5
I know the feeling, but realistically we have 23:48 left to go so that’s a lot of tapping f3 on my Chromebook (or f5 on a PC). Just set back and chill a few hours. 😉
Guessing Knightsbridge is a bavker and was spamming F5 on the patreon page.
I read “fapping”, not “tapping”, sorry I’ll go sit in my corner now.
Eh, we were all thinking it.
Mike certainly was.
Wait- where IS Mike right now?
Oh dear.
Oh, hey, you beat Ana.
…
BUT WHO CARES ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW HOLY SHIT
If this happened next Friday after dinner, I could die right then.
Game over. I quit. It doesn’t get any better.
–Who is the actor in your gravatar? He looks really familiar but I can’t place him and it’s driving me nuts.
It’s Peter Capaldi, the current Doctor on Doctor Who. also formerly Cardinal Richelieu on The Musketeers.
Also he played the father of a family that got saved by the Doctor in the Pompei episode. That is why he said his new face looked familiar when he first saw himself.
There’s a lot of that in Who (and in Star Trek also). Karen “Amy Pond” Gillan first appeared in that same episode as the red-cloaked soothsayer; and of course if you go further back, you get stuff like Romana regenerating into the princess from a couple of episodes prior (Lalla Ward).
Yup. This is a relationship problem she shares with about every single person on the planet – including Becky.
I’m just glad she found a good way of dealing with it!
That method may have ended less… successful with other people 🙂
If she had been right and Becky wasn’t into it then it would have been a bad way of handling it.
BUT SHE WAS SO WHO CARES
My method was to be awkward and stammer a lot.
It works better for Hugh Grant than for me.
this just reminds of that one sketch where hugh grant was temporarily the doctor. gosh that was old. way before he was prime minister
The Curse of Fatal Death!
(sorry, doctor who nerd. i’ll show myself out now.)
“Say hello to the sofa of reasonable comfort”
Gotta love that sketch 🙂
Jonathan Pryce actually made an excellent Master. I’d have liked to have seen him in the role for reals.
Yep was pretty good. I Kinda like the new incarnation we just saw in the last few episodes too. Can’t wait to see “Him” again soon 🙂
Don’t feel bad for being a nerdy Whovian.
There’s a lot of us about on the internet. ;D
(Was literally raised on Who from the age of like 4, in a family of Whovians) xD
WE… WILL… EXPLAIN… LATER!!!
Followed by Joanna Lumley. 🙂
“Ooh, it has three speeds!”
That was the BEST Dr Who sketch. Rowan Atkinson is now my favourite Doctor (right in front of Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee).
There are many who consider it canon. It’s that good.
Yeah i think it was written by Steven Moffat who later wrote a lot of episodes for the new series.
Would be nice if it was canon but kind of mess up the 12 regeneration thing just a tiny little bit.
Yep all she needed to do was tell her to kiss man relationships are easier then i thought
This isn’t a man relationship, it’s a woman relationship!
I’m sad the comic isn’t named “Lesbian Prayers”. Well, not sad – it just seems like an unfortunate missed opportunity.
‘Oh Good, God answers Lesbian Prayers’ would make an awesome title for the next book though.
Judy Blume’s next novel
Oh yes! That is a perfect book title! Excellent point!
then Dina inadvertently devoured Becky whole in her enthusiasm
but fortunately, becky was into that
I would have never guessed that Becky was into vore.
I mean, she’s probably into getting eaten. :3c
,,Vore:a fetish in which one fantasizes about being eaten alive or eating another creature alive ” ……How come i’ve never heard of this until now?
I don’t know. I’m apparently straight lace enough that the universe granted me freakin Jason as an icon, and yet I’d heard of vore.
Roommate of mine in college had dated a vore guy in high school. He was way into mantises, and wanted her to pretend to eat him from the feet up. It was apparently logistically too much for her, so it didn’t last, but – mon dieu! – to be so aware of your impossible kinks at 17!
The internet is a strange and terrible thing.
Not enough 4ch
Let’s keep it that way.
There really isn’t such a thing as enough. Only “not enough” and “too much.”
And ANY AMOUNT is simultaneously both.
You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!
…You’re lucky?
Dunno about that. Would not be surprised if she likes getting eaten in a different way, if you take my meaning.
NOW KISS
that’s direct.
This is actually one of the very nice things about being attracted solely to nerds, they are so happy when I am direct and say what I want.
Oh my god, THANK YOU! Finally, somebody who GETS it.
Nerds aren’t good with subtle. It’s not that we can’t read signals, it’s that we interpret them in every way imaginable, and then tie ourselves up guessing which one is the right one. Just tell us what you want, and we’ll respond authentically.
As opposed to men who, in general, just aren’t very good at getting signals at all. Just tell us what you mean! 😛
(I speak as both a man AND a nerd) xD
Just for that, you are a blessing to humanity.
Kiss!
Thanks, God, that was mighty decent of you. Of course, you owe Becky big time for This
He was on the toilet for the first one, but luckily he managed to get back to the control desk in time for this one.
I like to imagine that God spends a lot of time in a darkened room with a divine scotch and celestial aspirin muttering about how these psychotic hormonal apes keep blaming him for all their stupid hangups.
Truefact, God wishes he’d elevated the housecats instead.
For all we know, he did.
This.
Cats would most likely be even worth.
God did, he made us just intelligent enough to serve the cats, but not intelligent enough to realize we don’t own them, they own us.
God, we have an outlier here!
Mark Twain once postulated that “The Almighty created man because He was disappointed in the monkey”.
Mark Twain once said “Sometimes I wonder if the world is being ran by smart people having us on or by imbeciles who really mean it”
he also said “In the first place God made idiots. This was for
practice. Then He made school boards.”
Yeah, Becky needed a win. I consider 1 Joyce for 1 Dina a decent exchange.
I think god owes her more for this:http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/definitely/
He’s still in the red though, cus Toedad.
He’ll need to give Becky a girlfriend, home, job, education, unlimited friendship with Joyce and a magical pony named “Flufferbutter” to make up for that one.
–Just out of curiosity, do you know what a “fluffer” is? >.>
….noooooo?
I’m thinking that was a More innocent case of free association.
Ah, Union square Fluff festival. Happy memories.
He’s working on it, just give Becky and Dina some time.
Amber: “I LIVE in there.”
Joe: “The Sock says you don’t. Also, the door is locked.”
I need someone to draw this
Alternatively:
Becky: THIS time the door is locked.
Sal: I start to regret my window policy
*snort*
They’re in the Dina/Amber room tho.
This time, they are…
Well, technically, Sal’s Roommate Agreement was with Billie, who’s not her roommate anymore, so all deals are off. I say, climb away.
I thought it was implying that Sal had inadvertently ‘climbed in on something’, so to speak.
Damn! Secondary sexual characteristics just turned into PRIMARY sexual characteristics!
we are talking the horns, yes?
…You know, I was. But now that I think about it, that has connotations that I ABSOLUTELY didn’t intend to make.
And the damn breaks
Did you mean to do that?
I really hope he meant to do that
Dina reads signals about as well as I do.
(also Becky is totally sub for Dina)
other people read signals. dina writes them…in 72 point font…on your retinas
on your FAAAAAACE!
There we go.
<a href="http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/120081241307/jerrybear-dina-the-dominatrix-and-joyce" Dina's domme side is a cross universal standard.
There may be a day where I get these hyperlinks correct, but today is not that day.
This is literally how Asperger’s feels.
Like you’re completely socially blind, and have to rely on senses that aren’t reading people.
I having that can completely back you up…but where Dina is “YOU WILL KISS ME” I am not so direct….
I know, like, I don’t even try. It was one of the reasons me and my ex brokenup. She thought I was “afraid to touch h her” but no I just can’t read the situation.
Yep yep yep.
without showing the internal monologue, we’d have no way of distinguishing over-thinking from thoughtlessness. but surely this is something that many of us can relate to…right?
yes indeed
God ships it. Science fact.
God’s got a big lord-on for lesbians.
Especially if they’re redheads. Jehovah like!
Ooops, wrong link! Here’s the real one:
http://somethingpositive.net/sp04262010.shtml
And by God, you meant Willis right?
Nah, Willis likes transformers, butts, and the colour orange.
also, mac n’ cheese, and respecting women.
Someday Hasbro will create a plastic orange butt that transforms into a Maggie who is eating mac n’ cheese, and then Willis will respect the hell outta her and have no more dreams to dream.
…This Fanfic got really weird
You noticed?
Yes, it did. I blame Hasbro.
Dina is going to get a job at Galasso’s Pizza (and Subs!)
Working with Conquest? That should be interesting.
That would make an amazing sitcom.
Connie and the Dino
“YOU WILL TIP ME.”
,,Throws nickel”
Mike? Is that you?
Doing your mom.
“Sorry, thought you were your Mom.”
I was half expecting that Becky would get a job at Galasso’s. It would help with her money problems, at least.
And it may help Galasso with his’
And so, the Slipshine begins. CUE THE MUSIC!
Dj reporting for duty:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXxV9g7lsFE
dang, now I’m tryna figure out who’s in the banner there… I recognize Joyce and TJ…?
I don’t read enough webcomics, do I
(gimme like fifty more hours per day and I can catch up)
I recognise the main char from Star Power
OH! Charlie from As the Crow Flies, too!
dang, now I need to go to this
I couldn’t find anything from Randy Milholland and I KNOW he’s going.
Bottom right is Gastro and Mania from Gastrophobia.
Richard from LFG is in there
…There is a Pamela avatar?
KISS KISS KISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS or you know whatever
Sadly, it’s not a purple bubble, so we cannot read the last panel in the voice of Batman.
tha flip we can’t! “swear to me!!!”
You see the Amazi-Girl speech bubbles as purple? I’d always thought of them as a dark blue. That’s neat.
God ships Beckasaur confirmed.
Dina lends herself really well to ship names, doesn’t she? Incidentally, what are the names of the other shipside? I know the Sarah ship is “Snark-o-suchus”, but what are the others?
Infernal autocorrect. It’s supposed to be “ship names”, not “shipside”.
Look man when a triceratops commands you to kiss them you fuckin’ do it
I believe fucking the triceratops comes later. She’s only demanding a kiss right now.
I wonder if Amber lef tthe room to join Danny somewhere already, or if she heard that last line XD
“Wow, it’s surprisingly comfortable behind this door. I can see why Dina likes it.”
I spent a significant portion of my first year of college lurking behind my roommate’s door. I was super skinny and could aaaaalmost have it completely open so it was really hard to tell I was there if you didn’t look into the crack by the hinge.
I just really super enjoyed scaring the crap out of her. 😀
Thus begins Dina’s transformation into Galasso
She’s going to forget how gender works?
Or just scream every word?
this would change little until she opened a biology textbook and found herself puzzled by her sudden inability to grasp the basics of reproduction
She understands how Gender works now?
Or try to take over the world?
The same thing we do every night.
FOOLS GALASSO IS EVERYONE WORLD DOMINATION IS ALMOST COMPLETE BOW BEFORE YOUR MASTER! BOW I SAY!
FOOL! I, GALASSO, HAVE NEARLY COMPLETED MY PLANS FOR WORLD DOMINATION! BOW BEFORE ME!
Perhaps this plan was not as foolproof as I thought.
FOOL GALASSO WILL….. WILL…. huh your right back to square one THE TOY STORE
Having recently finished Danny Phantom, I can see Galasso pulling a Vlad: thinking it’s time to reveal he’s the SUPER EVIL BIG BAD to the world-and his plan be one of the most inept ones ever.
What if he pulls another type of Vlad?https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Vlad_Tepes_002.jpg
Now I just want Dina to try and explain sexual dynamics to Galasso. “So you display your plumage and that attracts one of the ones but only extensive experimentation will dictate if it is the correct ones.”
For some reason I’m hearing Dina speaking with a german accent
Sie werden Kuß mich.
Aww almost, only you did the noun for ‘kiss’ 😉
It’s ‘Du wirst mich küssen!’ (‘sie’ is formal and these two are beyond formal, I think lol, but otherwise yours would be correct as well!)
I don’t speak German I just babelfished it.
I figured, it sounds google-translate-y.
But this German here apppreciates your effort! 🙂
One day they might invent a translator that fully takes in account things like grammar and other language eccentricities, but until then, online translators will have to do.
You don’t think that a German Dina would refer to everyone formally by default? If German Becky didn’t ask for “du”, she might never get it.
My brain started to figure out what a German DoA would be like, but it short-circuited when it got to Galasso. A German Galasso would literally rule the world, and all would be pizza.
I think that if Becky asked for ‘du’, she’d still get ‘Sie’.
Who knows? They might both get into that.
I have a hard time imagining anyone, even a German Dina, calling a fellow college-age kid ‘Sie’ lmao. But you never know 😉
It’s a mystery.
I hope not the same accent as this guy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlATOHGj9EY
I have the biggest, stupidest, and probably happiest grin on my face right now.
Aw, I’ll be in Austin one weekend before Webcomics Rampage to see Florence at ACL. Looks like I’ll miss you Mr. Willis!
Praised be God!
Dina wears the pants in this relationship, at least until the pants comes off. 😀
With each passing moment, Dina’s eyes get shimmier.
within 46.5 seconds, they will blind the universe
Within 50 seconds the universe will be remade in the shimmer of her eyes
I hadn’t even noticed her eyes getting progressively shinier. Wonder how long it’d take for her to get to Steven Universe territory in terms of shininess?
This makes me squee. Oh gods does this make me squee.
*cue “Kiss the Girl”*
I’m just picturing Jurassic Park dinos singing that and dancing around Alan and Ellie now.
The image of the JP T-Rex cosplaying Sebastian the crab off to one side singing is now stuck in my head.
That is the best thing.
Sing with me now
Rah-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra
My, oh, my
Look at the boy too shy
I should just eat his face!
*throws additional Fleetwood Mac on the Musak fire*
We are the Dina. There will be snogging. Resistance is futile.
“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you’re looking for romance, I can tell you I don’t have any experience. What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired by reading a lot about dinosaurs. Skills that make me a nightmare to people like you. A sexy nightmare.
If you walk away now, that will be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you. I will find you. And I WILL KISS YOU.”
Side-view Becky is adorable. Dina is always adorable. Everything is adorable, kissing is imminent, life is good.
“welp, this is the part where she kisses me!”
“‘ello! this is the part where i kiss you!”
CHAPTER __: THE PART WHERE SHE KISSES YOU
achievement unlocked: the part where she kisses you: this is that part
You didn’t 😀
They did.
Technically they haven’t yet either.
Petition to have “God answers lesbian prayers” the title of the next book. Line starts behind me!
Seconding this!
I’m mainly in it for the title. Why does that sound like the title to an actual book.
Perfect.
Thirded
Fourthed!
Yes, good.
+1^1,000,000,000
Which is just +1
I still prefer “Yes, everyone i gay, shut up”.
heck yeah
The pertinence of that title might depend on the future events.
There’s probably more guys praying for them to kiss than lesbians.
I seriously, *seriously* doubt that. Unless you mean in-comic? Because in this comment section, the queer girl force is very, very strong 😀
Why do you think that?
I’miss guessing because everyone ships them and the fact that, on average, there are more guys on the Internet than girls.
There aren’t, though. If you think that, you probably spend most of your time in parts of the internet that are hostile to women, where we still sometimes venture but never announce our genders or actively pretend to be guys.
TL;DR: spend slightly less time on Reddit
I never actually spend time on Reddit. I’m just quoting a statistic under the assumption that it was correct.
I was pretty up front with it, which wasn’t a mistake because it was a tiny subreddit attempting to be liberal. But it wsa still a bad experience because Reddit is kind of terrible.
Yeah but are there more guys than girls on this here website? Because I doubt that for some reason. Maybe the next DoA poll should be a demographics poll lol.
There were DOA reader demographic polls over the years. http://www.dumbingofage.com/pollsarchive/?poll_page=7
Back in 2012, 63% of respondents said they were male, 29% said they were female, and 8% said neither. Though not everyone who sees the comics clicks on the polls. (I didn’t realize they were there for quite some time. And there may have been shifts in the past three years. So take those results with a grain of salt I guess)
I’m a bi woman, where do I fall in your silly statement?
What a bizarre statement. Do you think Willis only writes this comic for hetero dudes, or that the only reason we could want to ship them is because it’s tantalizing?
Hoping you are just speaking statically, given that any/all sexualities of males probably outnumbers the relevant sexualities of females. Not sure why that matters, but I am male and I love this ship so hard.
Not gonna lie, I mostly just wanted to say that last part. All the love for this ship.
Yeah, everything’s for straight dudes, we know.
…Help. I’ve fallen for their cuteness, and I don’t want to get up. ;;;
Yeah there’s a lot of us sprawled on the floor from the diabeetus right now.
That’s ‘dino-beetus’.
this is why we show our work, children. because if you get it wrong and i can’t read your mind, then you just look like you’re shouting nonsense rather than the bright-eyed ceratopsid geniuses that you are
Does anyone else kind of want a book about God Answering Lesbian Prayers? I’m a man so I don’t think i am qualified to write it.
… Well, I’m aroused. >_>
Hey in the big man’s defense, he’s answered more of my gay prayers than he hasn’t.
Cue toedad walkin in just before the moment of truth.
If that actually happens I will melt ALL of the soft serve! ALL of it!
Sweet merch, SHE’S GONE MAD! MAD I TELL YOU!
Don’t do it Meg! Think of the children! Do you know how awkward a birthday party is without good soft serve?!
Well I didn’t say I’d do it for all generations, it’s just a one time deal, I’m not God geez!
Also I’ve not gone mad! Saying I’ve gone mad implies I was never not mad!
Oh… well still, think of that soft serve, all of it going to waste! Do you really want another soft serve based incident on your record? You get caught, you get sent to stew in the Goulash! (I really hope people get that…)
It’s too late, for I have spoken and I am a woman of my word.
Think about this DreamCrusher (least you stopped eating worlds) Once you’re sent to the Goulash, there’s no comin back! They’ll do to you what Riot did to Lucian! What Simon Cowell’s departure did to American Idol! What Stannis did to his daughter on a much lower scale! … So like… tying you to a flag pole and vigorous tickling I guess…
Stopped eating worlds? You clearly underestimate my powers, I can do both of those and escape Goulash.
Damn. Now I want goulash.
What kind? Hungarian goulash or the kind called porkolt in Hungary?
Hungarian, I guess? As made by my British mother for my German dad? 😀
Damn. I am starving and dinner is not goulash. I will probably have to rectify that soon.
Hello, Satan.
Curses! My identity is revealed!
(Wait… is it curses or blessings? I figure a guy like Satan would do things backwards.)
Not the inevitable horrible, not YET!
…Dina would just loose the Raptor on his ass.
I just pictured Dina in Neeson-as-Zeus’ armor saying “release the kraken” in Starfire’s voice. Thank you.
“Mr. McIntire, YOU WILL WAIT in the lobby. Your daughter and I will speak to you when we are ready. I currently estimate your wait to be approximately one hour.”
Toedad waves and meekly backs away.
Your call is very important to us. All calls are handled in the order in which they came in; please wait for our next customer service agent.
In the meantime, here is a musical selection for your enjoyment…
I am fully aware that the crux of my posts recently (which hailed my return to posting anything at all) have pretty much boiled down to “holy crap Dina is cute” and “I approve of this ship” but… holy crap, Dina is cute and I approve of this ship. ~<3
and so say we all
i’m with u there
Yeah, reading signals is hard. I totally relate to Dina’s thought process here. I basically don’t know what I’m supposed to do in any situation, ever. Props to Dina for taking charge of the situation. I’ve always been more inclined to wait for the other person to do something, and that’s a problem. My failure to be proactive with others has cost me more than one romantic relationship.
It’s cool, though. I’m fine with remaining indefinitely single, and I’m not being sarcastic. I’m pretty sure I’m heteroromantic demisexual (why are neither of those recognized as words? GET WITH THE TIMES SPELLCHECK!) so I’m fine with not getting any. Being single is NOT a problem to be corrected. Better to be single than in a relationship just for the sake of being in one. Having a few meaningful friendships and doing work that matters to me? Those things are important to me? Romantic/ sexual relationships? Meh, whatevs. We’re all different in what we want and need out of life, and I’ve come to realize that certain things aren’t important to *me.*
How did I veer so far from the topic at hand? Sometimes, these comics bring up all kinds of things for me, and I can’t quite say how I ended up going from point A to point B (or maybe point Z? Point 42? The place where I end up mentally doesn’t really logically follow point A).
In any case, Dina does seem to care for Becky and feel a connection. For all my ranting about relationships, I don’t deny that a relationship can be a wonderful thing when one meets someone, and it feels right. Of course, when one considers the creator of this comic, and hints dropped about future storylines, there is likely plenty of drama and angst ahead. Even so, as I said yesterday, it’s nice to see the way these two characters are connecting right now.
I’m not sure why I put a question mark after “Those things are important to me” I was *stating* that those things are important to me, not *asking* if they are. Gah, I wish it was possible to edit these comments.
I can relate, both because I, too, have trouble with signals, and because I am probably either panromantic asexual or panromatic demisexual.
I am happy you recognize that being single is a not a problem waiting to be solved, and I am happy you prioritize meaningful friendships.
I’m half expecting tomorrow’s strip to be Becky saying “Yes, we’re totally going to kiss.” And then the too of them just staring at each other for 3 panels with Dina getting increasingly frustrated.
@ alt-text
http://somethingpositive.net/sp04262010.shtml
OMG…my life’s mission is now to find a way to get my girlfriend to wear a shirt like that.
Aw… the link to Boobquake at the bottom doesn’t work any more. The website’s gone. 🙁
Aaah, I was hoping someone would mention that! Especially since Becky is in fact a redhead.
My first reaction was fairly typical cute-aggression, cos AAAAAAAUUUUUUGH WHYGODDAMNALLITSSOFECKINCUTEHOLYSHIT
but… but like… is this the first red flag? Dina, feeling out of her dpeth and out of control, becomes overly controlling of becky, particularly while Becky is in such a precarious position?
I’m going to go back to dying over the cuteness, but……. I think I’ve started the hear the jaws theme
Becky has shown the ability to push back when people are doing things she doesn’t like, so I think if Dina does start to take things too far, she will say something.
(Plus at least here she seems relieved that Dina’s taking some initiative.)
I don’t know, it seems to me the more likely candidate for that is Becky. We’ve already seen she got super jelly over Joyce and Dorothy’s friendship, and her old roommate/lover at Anderson betrayed her, so…
knock on petrified wood and hope for the best.
P.S. Also, I’m not sure Dina has a jealous bone in her body.
I have similar concerns, mostly because Becky has a history of being the abused in an abusive familial relationship. I’m not saying that Dina would do anything abusive deliberately, just the opposite in fact: Because both girls are inexperienced, I think that Dina will get the wrong feedback from the fact Becky is automatically submissive to an aggressive and/or domineering approach. This will lead Dina to misunderstand what is appropriate behaviour until someone (likely Sarah but possibly Joyce) calls her out on it.
I wouldn’t normally expect to see something like that but DMW does go down dark paths sometimes and he often is quite realistic in how he portrays first-time relationships and the hidden pitfalls therein.
So Willis is so famous now we can just start using his three initials and everyone will know who we’re talking about like JMS?
That I don’t know but I do no that calling him ‘Willis’ makes me feel like I’m dismissing him in some way and calling him ‘David’ is unjustifiably familiar.
why is everyone always looking so hard for red flags when it’s a w/w relationship… yeah becky’s a survivor & dina’s prob asd but there’s literally 0 reason to suspect either of them of abusive behavior
It’s more just the idea that Dina’s freaking out and inexperience with relationships could lead to poor decisions down the line.
It’s clearly just meant to be a joke, but it’s hypothetically possible to be a sign of worse behaviour.
Besides, it’s a Willis comic. The last time Dina was in a relationship she painted the walls with herself.
After forcing someone to date her through drugging them with alcohol… She got desperate and attempted to get what she wanted with zero cares to who she hurt in the process.
That being said, there’s enough of a differende between walkyverse Dina and DOA Dina, this isn’t something I’m worried about happening in this relationship. I seriously have trouble associating the two versions as the same person.
I would have felt bad if it wasn’t Mike.
And she did care. She was trying to assert herself and failed miserably. That was kind of the whole point to her.
Dina could be a Domme for all we know. And if they were both comfortable with a D/S relationship, there would be absolutely no problem. Becky being submissive is absolutely not a red flag per se.
It’s certainly possible that Dina’s a dom and Becky’s a sub. But if so then (a) Dina’s handled the establishment of the mistress/servant relationship in about the worst way possible, and (b) even if she’d handled it perfectly, I would worry terribly about this merely reflecting Becky’s previous experience of ‘affection,’ which I think most of us would consider somewhat less than healthy.
Dina you are precious, take a chill pill and snog her
I second this motion
Hm, this reminds me of Harry Potter. Even when I learned that in British English “snog” means “kiss” or maybe “make out”, every time I read it, I still had to stop and think before I could get the image of characters having sex out of my head.
In HP several times characters where “snogging” in the hall… that is hard to move past if you misinterpret it, let me tell you.
Eh, just start reading fanfic and the terminology will be appropriate
I always wondered how most americans handled the British slang in Harry Potter. Growing up through university I might have watched a bit too much British (sit)coms (Are You Being Served?, Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Who’s Line, etc) as well as Doctor Who reruns and was never certain how much slang I just knew from those programs…
10/10, would squeee again.
“אני לשלוח אותו.”
I don’t think Historical Jesus works at Galasso’s, in the DoA universe.
Indeed. Historical jesus is dead.
lol i guess u were trying to say ‘i ship it’, but u got ‘i to send him’ fyi
Dina the Ferocious!
Yeah: da, da dah, da dah…..
Dinaperator Furiosa? OMG NEW SPECIES NAME DISCOVERED
(someone needs to draw this)
These two are so adorable together. Seriously, their first voyage of exploration and discovery would make an excellent Slipshine story.
And in the next comic they kiss right? Right? Plz show them kissing or I will fond you.
Thank you, Willis.
Roar! Kiss me now!
oh my god i love how her eyes get more and more sparkley!
https://33.media.tumblr.com/e4233e20a0cde802eb1b41ee6dfb05fe/tumblr_ncc7n9zlCB1qm5nqro1_500.gif
Please, someone, make one with Dina.
It’s easy to misunderstand and underestimate Dina. Because of her social awkwardness, she rarely draws attention to herself. However, on occasion, there is a strip that reminds us that she is assertive and aggressive when she wants to be. Fortunately, it looks like Becky likes the thought of being in a relationship with a strong, take-charge woman.
In some ways, Dina’s inner monologue is the most interesting part of this strip. It’s a wonderful capturing of the rapid out-of-control spiral of thoughts anyone in a fresh relationship tends to have when they’re desperately trying to guess what the other party is thinking or wants. I’m pretty sure that Becky was having the same internal anxiety babble!
Actually, talk radio has taught me that God works on a kind of zero-sum system. Every time he answers a lesbian (lgbtqetc.) prayer, he also has to send a hurricane at the Gulf coast.
I see you stormtrooper joyce
I want someone to make new lyrics for “God Help the Outcasts” but for the adorable-ness here.
One, because the song is absolutely beautiful.
And two, because “God helped this Becky, and this Dina.” sounds adorable.
Mainly I’m having trouble with syllable counts.
Just when I thought this couldn’t get any more adorable! >< I can't stop fangirling!
I also keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. I mean, it's Willis. You know shoes are gonna be dropped. The question is when and whose.
DAMN IT BECKY IF YOU DON’T KISS HER EVERYONE WHO EVER EXISTED WILL!
Uh… I know you’re not a Catholic, Becky, buuut it’s actually the Virgin Mary who answers lesbian prayers. Just saying.
Really?
…at least if you believe the animes.
Marimite is a straight manga for straight women.
If you get the reference, you should get the joke ;3
. . . ? That may be true for Catholicism. However, generally speaking, protestant sects don’t actually revere the Virgin Mary at all, or pray to them. You pray to god. Praying to the Virgin Mary or any saints is usually spun as worshiping false idols.
Yeah, that’s why I assumed Becky wouldn’t be familiar with the concept.
This comic just made my day.
Now I want to hear Becky’s inner monologue during this.
No, no, no. You’ve all misunderstood:
Dina: “YOU WILL KISS ME.”
Becky (mesmerized monotone:) “i will kiss you.”
Clearly, Dina’s first horn has hypnotized Becky.
I see that Dina has taken relationship advice from Galasso.
I used this joke before but now it’s really gonna happen:
*Reboot impression*
WARNING: INCOMING SMOOCH
WARNING: INCOMING SMOOCH
Dina is measured in megakyoots.
It’s official.
Funny though, this is rather normal for a first relationship 😀
WAIT! That is how that works? Goddamnit, 22 years been doing it wrong.
The correct response to that order is “YES MISTRESS!”
The correct answer is “I’m sorry, Mistress. I am a bad girl. Please punish me for failing to anticipate your command.”
Even better. 😀
Speaking as someone with an autistic diagnosis I’m finding Dina’s behaviour very familiar. Issues with people’s faces, feeling overwhelmed at crowded social gatherings, unsure of the rules of social interaction, and now difficulty picking up on people’s facial expressions. Her willingness to take social risks with Becky isn’t something I can manage, but people are people, even with autism; wonderful, varied, horrible, surprising people. I’m pretty sure Dina has no specific diagnosis, but if she isn’t high functioning autistic then I will eat my hat.
Willis has stated that she is on the spectrum! She is undiagnosed, but on the spectrum.
that’s cool
Ah, I see. My mistake.
Still, undiagnosed? That could, either be good or bad, I’m not sure. I was diagnosed quite young, but I live in the UK, so there was support there (in theory, in practise my mother has to browbeat my school in providing appropriate support for me). I’m unaware how the situation is in the US, but there’s downsides to a positive diagnosis. In my case it was my school’s headmaster and a number of staff actively trying to get me expelled or making my time at the school unpleasant so I’d leave.
University was nice though. They gave me, and my older brother when he got his diagnosis, free laptops and a bunch of stuff to help with studies. I take it there’s nothing similar in the US?
There are, but it’s complicated. The university is required to make education accessible for people with disabilities, but the actual resources available at disabled students services differ GREATLY between universities.
For me, the space they provided for students who were on the spectrum was actually more stressful than the space for ordinary students, with less help and I could never manage to talk them out of putting me there. Though that was mostly an issue of funding than ability than active staff discrimination unless I misread the situation ENTIRELY.
Well it’s easy to misread. I didn’t know any of it was going on at the time. I’ve just had cause to go over all the old paperwork from back then and just how badly they handled everything kind of crystallised from what I read and what I remember. They were required to provide an LSA to disabled students; rather than anyone trained they got someone’s mother to do it, and she was dreadful. She kept insisting I maintained eye contact with people I was speaking to, and for anyone not familiar with typical symptoms of autism, that’s really stressful. Looking at faces freaked me out, and I was too young to deal with it properly.
Just kiss already!
it’s a good thing becky’s so easy going tbh. they work so well together <3
Haha holy shit Dina. For a moment I thought she went Sith.
I love Dina. In social interactions she’s kind of a hero. 😀
So for anyone in the know, would Becky be able to enroll in IU before the end of September? They’re only at the end of week four, so that should put them at about mid/late September. Would she have time to get herself into some classes?
I think the main issue is she wouldn’t be able to afford to finance a place, before questions about admissions are raised.
Well there’s loans for financing, and she could probably stay with Jocelyne or maybe Dina or Dorothy’s parents while she does her paperwork.
We know Becky will be sticking around, so I’d guess the biggest problem would be paying for food and clothing after she enrolls.
Remember as far as Becky knows, Jocelyne is Joshua, the Brown’s model and dutiful son who thinks and acts just like Joyce’s parents. Not an ally.
I don’t know what help SLS (Student Legal Services) could give her. Parental abuse is cause for emancipation, and, since Reparative Therapy is considered abuse in Indiana, I think that Becky would have a really strong case for emancipation.
Reparative therapy is actually 100% legal in Indiana.
I don’t know IU’s policies, but it woudn’t work here (I teach at a university in a neighboring state). If she had already been a student, you can usually late add up to 2 weeks into the semester, but enrollment is a whole different thing. She would need to get on top of stuff to be eligible to apply for a spring transfer.
Well, I guess there’s only one possibility.
Crisis on Indiana University, where all of time collapses and Becky is retconned in as an established student at IU.
I guess we just need to have Amazi-girl punch spacetime then.
Oh noes. One Retcon Punch was enough.
Crisis on Infinite Indiana Universities?
*pictures amazi-girl, carrying danny, crying to the heavens…
Every panel, Dina’s eyes get shinier. That’s cuteness overkill.
“God answers lesbian prayers.”
I chuckled, this will be my new favourite panel.
Let’s all sing, together now! “Sometimes I thank God, for lesbian prayers….”
Oh, Dina’s surprisingly kinky! Even though she probably doesn’t know what that means XD
I always thought Dina sounded like Fluttershy to me, and now even more so in her “You’re gonna love me!” voice
I think that, if these two hadn’t kissed, they would have exploded.
That said, I’m really glad that Dina is learning about her own sexuality with a very non-threatening person. Go Becky.
Ok seriously, am I the only one who thinks the title “God Answers Lesbian Prayers” actually sounds likethe title to a book?
I could write that book, considering my life! XD (Seriously, I’m pretty much in Becky’s situation, but I’m majorly blessed with an amazing host family who has taken me in when my own parents didn’t want me for being a lesbo…)
This has seriously been one of my favorite storylines yet! ♥
Next comic:
Panel 1: Leaning in
Panel 2: Closer
Panel 3: Almost
Panel 4: ENTER TOEDAD
You know what would be a good twist? If her dad was upset because Becky became a Decepticon. (Specifically, a lesbian Decepticon.) That way you could reveal that all the main characters like Becky, Dina, Joyce, Ethan, etc… are really robots pretending to be dumb fleshlings so that they can overthrow your governments and your world can be
enslaveda part of the Decepticon Empire.But you’ll never do that. You’re afraid of the truth. You should see Rung to help you with your fear of success.
Oh, my.
Yes.
Huh, maybe there is a God.
“ONE CUTS,
THE OTHER IS WILLING TO BE CUT”
–Actually me riffing on a Chinese idiom, I lied before