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by David M Willis on July 6, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Saturday's All Right for Slighting
└ Tags: jennifer, joyce, sarah

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    July 6, 2012 at 12:01 am | #

    Pants? Why? =3

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 6, 2012 at 12:01 am | #

      Why not?

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        July 6, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

        She’s going shopping; she can BUY pants once she gets there!

        • Ancestral Hamster
          Ancestral Hamster
          July 6, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

          Besides, she needs no garment other than her beauty!

          I’m guessing I’ll get slapped (or worse) if I ever try that line on a woman…

          • Wonder Wig
            Wonder Wig
            July 6, 2012 at 12:57 am | #

            For some reason that sounds like something Walky would say in another universe…

            • Wonder Wig
              Wonder Wig
              July 6, 2012 at 12:58 am | #

              http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20090228.html

              • Khrene Cleaver
                Khrene Cleaver
                July 6, 2012 at 5:17 am | #

                Thank you Wonder Wig, my scalp may be bald, but my heart fells your warm wuggy goodness

                • Wonder Wig
                  Wonder Wig
                  July 8, 2012 at 10:17 pm | #

                  Just doin’ my duty citizen.

          • Jonathan Matthews
            Jonathan Matthews
            July 6, 2012 at 7:21 am | #

            Well, depending on where she goes, no shoes, no shirt, no
            service, but they say nothing about pants.

            • Kryss LaBryn
              Kryss LaBryn
              July 6, 2012 at 5:29 pm | #

              A convenient fact my roommate and I would exploit. We’d swim over to a nearby pub just down the beach in our swimsuits, flip flops, and a T-shirt, then drip our way inside and order. Never got kicked out for it. XD

              –Mind you, being female and in both our early twenties *and* bikinis may have helped, heh heh heh…

              • Shade
                Shade
                July 7, 2012 at 1:07 am | #

                Pretty sure that rule only applies to guys in most cases.

                • Raen
                  Raen
                  July 7, 2012 at 8:27 am | #

                  A man could probably get away with showing up to a seaside bar in only a t-shirt, swimsuit, and flip-flops, just as long as he didn’t have the same taste in swimwear as The Todd.

          • Shade
            Shade
            July 7, 2012 at 1:08 am | #

            It would probably depend on the level of your relationship, maybe save it for a significant other.

  2. Mister Mercy
    Mister Mercy
    July 6, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    This will obviously end well

  3. Gundi
    Gundi
    July 6, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Baseball bats, for all your accessorizing needs.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 6, 2012 at 12:49 am | #

      Goes great with your hat
      your shorts
      your drunken friends face.

      • Jacob
        Jacob
        July 6, 2012 at 1:09 am | #

        But wait! There’s more!

        Act now and get a free baseball with your purchase!

        Ever seen someone that you’d love to introduce to your wooden accessory, but are just out of range? Merely use the baseball, and you’ll find that no distance is too far!

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 6, 2012 at 1:12 am | #

          From the makers of
          Baseball Mit
          Tired of people pelting you with baseballs?
          Well throw that shit back and give them a taste of their own medicine

      • Shade
        Shade
        July 7, 2012 at 1:18 am | #

        Also good for beating up the forces of a disembodied evil alien attacking from ten years in the future.

        Man EarthBound sounds convoluted when you say it like that.

  4. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    July 6, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Sarah, you have saved our lives. We are eternally grateful.

    • Gundi
      Gundi
      July 6, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      So does this mean Joyce now has a life debt to Sarah and must now travel with her across the galaxy to help her? Or maybe I’m thinking of something else.

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        July 6, 2012 at 12:39 am | #

        Yes to both. And then be left hanging without a proper conclusion.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        July 6, 2012 at 1:45 am | #

        No, no. She’ll just have to save Sarah and a bunch of friends from certain death in an incinerator using a giant construction claw. Which she worships. Er… wait.

    • George
      George
      July 6, 2012 at 12:41 am | #

      THE BAAAAAT!

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 6, 2012 at 4:22 am | #

        The Bat decides who leaves and who stays.

  5. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    July 6, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Bat no. Pants…also no. Who needs ’em?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 6, 2012 at 12:50 am | #

      anybody in 32 degree fehrinheit or below weather?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 6, 2012 at 4:17 am | #

      People who are not crazy?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      July 6, 2012 at 5:41 pm | #

      Neither of those two qualifications apply to the characters in this comic. Therefore, pants are not necessary.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 8, 2012 at 4:55 am | #

      Who needs pants when you have shorts.

  6. Aizat
    Aizat
    July 6, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Billie’s remark about how if she’s not using her credit card soon, she’ll go crazy reminded me of a story in my local comic.

  7. TacosForever
    TacosForever
    July 6, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

    GIRL BONDING TIME

    • dusk
      dusk
      July 6, 2012 at 12:44 pm | #

      Bondage? Where? Is Sarah finally showing her true colors?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 8, 2012 at 4:57 am | #

      No bonding can occur without superglue.

  8. Aydr
    Aydr
    July 6, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

    I know how you feel, Sarah. Girls never appreciate it enough when I follow them to parties with bats either.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 6, 2012 at 12:50 am | #

      clearly they are not prepared for pinatas like you

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 6, 2012 at 3:30 am | #

        The pinatas may look cute and innocent but when your back is turned, they will DESTROY US ALL!

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          July 7, 2012 at 10:31 pm | #

          Nah, they merely want to avenge their fallen comrades by doing to them as they did to pinatas before–beat the unholy shit out of them with bats.

  9. Luke
    Luke
    July 6, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

    … And back into the underpants the bat shall go, until the time comes that it is needed once again, when it is called into battle and it shall answer that call with great swiftness and mercilessness. For glory! The glory of baseball bats and underpants!

  10. J42
    J42
    July 6, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

    She brings a weapon when she goes shopping.. Best character confirmed.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 6, 2012 at 1:16 am | #

      for brawl?

      • Mister Mercy
        Mister Mercy
        July 6, 2012 at 7:38 am | #

        Dead Rising Obviously

        • Gargamel
          Gargamel
          July 6, 2012 at 10:44 am | #

          Oo another spin off!:)

  11. Resne
    Resne
    July 6, 2012 at 12:42 am | #

    That…is actually a good point.

    • Shadlyn Wolfe
      Shadlyn Wolfe
      July 6, 2012 at 9:11 am | #

      Yeah, I was really proud of Joyce there. It was a very “D’awww” comic on both sides today.

  12. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    July 6, 2012 at 12:49 am | #

    Wow. I’ve never been more impressed with Joyce than I am now. Great writing in this one.

    • tahrey
      tahrey
      July 6, 2012 at 4:14 am | #

      Never allow Joyce’s thin mask of small-town homeschooled ultrareligious naivety lull you into a false sense of her actually being -dumb- or emotionally retarded … She’s merely a little disadvantaged in the worldly-experience field 🙂

      • sreiches
        sreiches
        July 6, 2012 at 8:58 pm | #

        Hm… It’s interesting. The way she describes Sarah’s displays of affection/caring thus far, “… I wish you would show me you like me in small ways, too, not just only in some rare grand gesture,” fits pretty well as a description of how the Judeo-Christian God seems to work, no? Only appearing in rare, grand gestures.

        • Andiemus
          Andiemus
          July 7, 2012 at 2:30 am | #

          And mostly in over-the-top violence against enemies! Holy shit!

          • Hannover Fist
            Hannover Fist
            July 7, 2012 at 11:42 am | #

            Don’t forget the cruelty he directs at his own followers. The Judeo-Christian god always seemed like an unreasonable asshole to me.

        • Gargamel
          Gargamel
          July 7, 2012 at 3:23 pm | #

          So in your view Sarah: Yahweh?

          That actually makes a disturbing amount of sense…
          *shudder*

  13. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    July 6, 2012 at 12:53 am | #

    But Joyce…She’s not a social person. Yet she offered to take you shopping. Although it’s not to your face she has jumped through hoops to make sure you’re safe and happy and to be told that you think she hates you…is perhaps the most insulting thing you could say to someone who has spent the 2 weeks she’s known you looking out for you.

    • Raticate5
      Raticate5
      July 6, 2012 at 9:49 pm | #

      I’m pretty sure Joyce is completely oblivious to that. I bet she assumes that it’s impossible for Sarah’s feelings to be hurt.

  14. badmartialarts
    badmartialarts
    July 6, 2012 at 1:01 am | #

    After reading “I am eternally grateful” I now hear Joyce’s voice in Starfire’s voice. Which is good because it’s also Princess Bubblegum’s voice.

    • Jacob
      Jacob
      July 6, 2012 at 1:11 am | #

      Also Princess Nia from Gurren Lagann.

      • Bio D
        Bio D
        July 6, 2012 at 1:38 am | #

        That’s it, I’m watching the dub now.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          July 6, 2012 at 1:43 am | #

          And I’m watching Adventure Time now.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          July 6, 2012 at 2:59 pm | #

          I had to go check that out, at first I thought you were talking about Tara Strong. She did a reading of Star Wars doing Darth Vader using Bubbles voice. It was the highlight of my time at Calgary Comic-con this year.

          • Andiemus
            Andiemus
            July 7, 2012 at 2:23 am | #

            Pleasepleaseplease tell me you have a recording of that to share with the class.

            • Roborat
              Roborat
              July 9, 2012 at 2:39 pm | #

              There is probably a recording up somewhere, we were so busy enjoying the show (her and Billy West were really riffing on each other) that we forgot to record it.

          • Shade
            Shade
            July 7, 2012 at 4:48 am | #

            Couldn’t have been talking about Tara Strong she voiced Raven.

            • Andiemus
              Andiemus
              July 7, 2012 at 6:46 pm | #

              Voice actors pull double duty all the time.

              • Shade
                Shade
                July 8, 2012 at 8:21 pm | #

                Yes as referenced by the fact both Tara Strong and Hynden Walch voiced several characters in the show. But they delibrately didn’t repeat voice actors for the main five characters.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 6, 2012 at 3:23 am | #

      That’s odd. I hear it in the LGM’s voice.

    • Hannover Fist
      Hannover Fist
      July 7, 2012 at 11:47 am | #

      I always read her lines in Pinkie Pie’s voice.

  15. shadowMobster
    shadowMobster
    July 6, 2012 at 1:09 am | #

    This seems to be a complicated relationship.

  16. jake36x
    jake36x
    July 6, 2012 at 3:03 am | #

    Pants ha please you’ve got a bat who would honestly risk bringing up your lack of pants at the cost of their skull

    • vlademir1
      vlademir1
      July 6, 2012 at 4:32 am | #

      Looking at your grav… that sounds exactly like something a troll would say.

      • dusk
        dusk
        July 6, 2012 at 12:47 pm | #

        Nore like something Dave would say ironicly

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        July 7, 2012 at 2:29 am | #

        Topic unrelated is that a higurashi eye I spy Vlad?

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          July 7, 2012 at 5:24 pm | #

          If it isn’t, I will eat my awesome hat.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            July 8, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

            I just hope you ‘hat’ wasn’t used beforehand…

  17. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    July 6, 2012 at 4:17 am | #

    Hey guys, they discovered the Higgs Boson.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 6, 2012 at 4:20 am | #

      What’s that?

      • Wonder Wig
        Wonder Wig
        July 6, 2012 at 4:35 am | #

        It’s what makes things matter.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          July 6, 2012 at 4:37 am | #

          So, does it make things important or it creates things?

          • Zababcd
            Zababcd
            July 6, 2012 at 7:01 am | #

            For serious enquiries, just read the Wikipedia article. It should be fairly reliable, since apparently the higgs boson is a ‘current event’. Otherwise, refer to relevant jokes.

      • Zababcd
        Zababcd
        July 6, 2012 at 6:53 am | #

        It’s the most a-mass-ing particle of them all.

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        July 6, 2012 at 3:57 pm | #

        It is the theoretical fundamental particle that mediates the Higgs field. The Higgs field gives rest mass to most other fundamental particles, which is the mass that a particle has at rest (i.e. the potion of their mass that does not come from energy, via e=mc^2).

        Photons and gluons do not interact with the Higgs field and do not have rest mass. (They do have mass coming from their energy, though.) This is why photons can (and always do) travel at the speed of light. All other particles experience a form of “drag” from the Higgs field that makes reaching light speed impossible.

        The Higgs boson is a BIG DEAL for particle physics, but it’s by no means the end of the line for physics research or even for super-collider research. We’ve got a lot left to explain, like why neutrinos have mass (since the Standard Model predicts that they don’t), the nature of dark matter & dark energy, why there’s more matter than antimatter, etc., etc.

        • jake36x
          jake36x
          July 7, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

          i skimmed, saw particle physics, and just gave up so you are now the post master.

        • Amaziboy
          Amaziboy
          July 8, 2012 at 6:27 am | #

          It’s not theoretical anymore!

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      July 6, 2012 at 3:00 pm | #

      I thought the discovery of the Hugs Bison was more interesting.

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        July 8, 2012 at 7:25 am | #

        I want to know when they’re going to find the USS Higg’s bosun. He’s been AWOL for a long time.

  18. Steven
    Steven
    July 6, 2012 at 6:31 am | #

    “I was worried about you so I followed you places with a bat.”
    Awww.

    • jake36x
      jake36x
      July 7, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

      you just had to have the mike gravatar for that…i now understand how he shows affection

  19. James Rye
    James Rye
    July 6, 2012 at 7:42 am | #

    …..I can´t help but think that this conversation sounded right outta some shoujo manga between a tsunder boy and his bit airhead girlfriend.
    Or is that just me and my shipping goggles? But why are goggles affecting my hearings?

  20. Ryan Balis
    Ryan Balis
    July 6, 2012 at 10:25 am | #

    Is it weird to say I like Sarah, JUST for these two last strips?

    • artemi71
      artemi71
      July 6, 2012 at 11:55 am | #

      Well, frankly, it’s been a required two strips. She WAS quite unlikable before. Now I just pity her a little, as it appears that she really doesn’t understand why people don’t like her.

      • Ryan Balis
        Ryan Balis
        July 6, 2012 at 11:12 pm | #

        well, to be fair, she is kind of aknowledging the fact that she’s not exactly the likeable type, so it’s a starter opening for change.

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        July 8, 2012 at 7:24 am | #

        Oh, she knows why most of the people there don’t like her. It’s just a stupid and rotten reason, so she just says “screw it” to the social aspects of college and focuses on her studies.
        And even though it’s been a long time IRL, in comic-time, it hasn’t taken her very long at all to start opening up, at least to Joyce.

    • Chupi
      Chupi
      July 8, 2012 at 5:54 pm | #

      I’ve always found her rather likable. I mean, I kind of hope that her last roommate was either doing hard drugs or was such an obsessive stoner that it was interfering with Sarah’s ability to study, but in general she’s never said or done anything I can’t be all “cool lady,” to.

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        July 8, 2012 at 9:44 pm | #

        As I recall, the problem was that she was smoking pot in their room, which would have gotten them both expelled, had she not been the one to report it.

        • Rex Hondo
          Rex Hondo
          July 8, 2012 at 9:46 pm | #

          Shit, need to start re-reading my posts before posting…
          To disambiguate: Roommate was pothead smoking in room.
          Sarah reported it, not wanting to be expelled and lose academic scholarship (as I recall).
          Dorm full of party-tards shun Sarah for “narcing” on one of the cool kids.

  21. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    July 6, 2012 at 1:18 pm | #

    Hey guys, Sarah only said she’d get her pants. She never said where she’d put them.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 8, 2012 at 4:53 am | #

      “PANTS? Where we’re going, we don’t need pants!”

  22. Roborat
    Roborat
    July 6, 2012 at 3:01 pm | #

    Nooo, more talking in underwear please.

  23. Raticate5
    Raticate5
    July 6, 2012 at 7:09 pm | #

    Sarah should be grateful for what she has. Look at this poor Slowking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loaeCbPXT6k

  24. TheEqualizer
    TheEqualizer
    July 6, 2012 at 11:54 pm | #

    I finally gave DoA a chance after being a fan of Shortpacked for a few years. I started at comic number 1 yesterday, and I caught up today. Damnit.

  25. Ryan
    Ryan
    July 7, 2012 at 12:47 am | #

    “You saved me from being raped. Thanks for the gesture. But it’s like totally not enough.”

    • Andiemus
      Andiemus
      July 7, 2012 at 2:27 am | #

      “I want you to give me credit and act like I’m your bestow and you to never question my judgment and only hang out with people I approve of because I did what any decent human being would have done and didn’t stand by and let you get raped.”
      Now that I put it like that she sounds like some kind of lesbian non sparkly Edward Cullen.

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        July 7, 2012 at 2:28 am | #

        Damn autocorrect, that’s supposed to say “bestie”.

  26. Tunasammich
    Tunasammich
    July 7, 2012 at 12:23 pm | #

    I guess Joyce doesn’t remember being hauled up to bed, or friendly buttslaps >.>

    • Resne
      Resne
      July 7, 2012 at 2:55 pm | #

      No, she doesn’t. She was drugged and/or half-asleep at the time.

  27. silos
    silos
    July 7, 2012 at 7:46 pm | #

    Why does this strip made me keep imagining Joyce’s voice and inflections as Starfire, from the Teen Titans cartoon?…. Now I can’t get it out of my head…

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      July 8, 2012 at 4:33 am | #

      And now I can’t stop thinking about her talking about no longer giving Joe “the boner.”

      • silos
        silos
        July 8, 2012 at 3:47 pm | #

        Lol, You sir, just made my day.

  28. Rex Hondo
    Rex Hondo
    July 8, 2012 at 4:35 am | #

    As I’ve said for quite some time about relationships. Grand gestures are easy. It’s the little day-to-day stuff that’s hard.
    Or maybe I stole that from somewhere and don’t remember.
    eh

  29. Chupi
    Chupi
    July 8, 2012 at 5:51 pm | #

    Four strips in a row of Sarah in her underwear. I can’t help but feel like I’ve just been rewarded for something, but I don’t know what.

  30. Joseph Harner
    Joseph Harner
    July 11, 2012 at 9:31 am | #

    …SARAH is amazi-girl!?

  31. Archtus
    Archtus
    July 19, 2012 at 1:27 am | #

    And nobody has commented on Joyce looking rather villainous in the last panel? I am disappoint.

  32. BrokenEye, True False Prophet
    BrokenEye, True False Prophet
    September 18, 2015 at 9:00 pm | #

    Yeah, because nobody ever secretly followed someone with a bat out of hate

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social ⋅ 42min
I am DONE making comics out of a CULTURE of FEAR. from NOW on I am ONLY making comics that are TRANSGRESSIVE and BRAVE where WALDO from WHERE’S WALDO is DIVORCED and BURNT OUT and WANTS TO DIE
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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social ⋅ 9h
choose your fighter
Simply drawn comic in black and white with blue-gray spot color.

Panel 1: A rabbit looks at a book. 
Rabbit: this comic is very popular, but i don't like it!

Panel 2: The rabbit flips through the book.
Rabbit: that's cool! i wonder what about it is resonating with people
SFX: flip

Panel 3: White text on black background spans the width of the page.
Caption: why don't i like it?
Caption: what would i do differently?
Caption: what can i learn from this?

Panel 4: Borderless panel. Sequential drawings of the rabbit reading the book.
Rabbit 1: flip
Rabbit 2: hm!
Rabbit 3: huh
Rabbit 4, looking up from the book: comics are neat!
Two panel comic drawn simply with black lines and blue-gray spot color.

Panel 1: Rabbit looks at a book.
Rabbit: this comic is very popular, but i don't like it!

Panel 2: The rabbit closes the book with a peaceful smile.
Rabbit: well, good for them!
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Olivia Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social ⋅ 1h
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Excerpt from a Comicsbeat article by E.B. Hutchins about Alex Graham's racist ass comic:  

Is there somewhere in this article where I could talk about the very real feeling of jealousy and how it can make even the nicest people into assholes? No, that’s not this article. It’s not this article because we’ve let appealing to white people’s comfort get in the way of progress to the point where our culture, democracy, and future is at stake. Appealing to white people’s comfort is how we got to where BIPOC and LGBT people are being erased from history all together because the dark history of this country makes white people uncomfortable.
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It's Bigger Than Alex Graham's Comic: An Instagram post has stirred up a hornet's next of controversy by suggesting that comics by marginalized groups are overrated
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An Instagram post by Alex Graham has stirred up a hornet's next of controversy
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social ⋅ 3h
And only Luigi is being charged with murder
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UPDATE: UnitedHealth deliberately changed patients to "do not resuscitate' so that they would be left to die in any medical emergency as they considered especially critically ill patients to be 'a waste of money' regardless of patient's desire to live.
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If you’re lost, in a nutshell, artist Alex Graham posted a whiny little comic about how comics she thinks are bad win acclaim because of the white guilt of comic readers bsky.app/profile/jesn...
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Finally I created a perfect blend of Popeye and Donald Duck:
A blend of Popeye and Donald Duck with Popeye's face and skin colour and Donald Duck's body shape and clothing.  He looks great.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social ⋅ 8h
"Calarts Style" is the "woke" of shitty cartoonists Doesn't really mean anything other than "I don't like it, but I'm going to pretend my objection is moral/cultural to make it feel important"
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i wake up everything's calarts style this rug is calarts style your face is calarts style the sky is calarts style the increasing crescendo of calarts style from beneath the floorboards, i can hear its symphony whispering to me its awful refrain: "get something real to hate"
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 5h
This shirt where the inked Marvel profile character arts are recolored in cartoon colors is an abomination.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 10h
tfw you see a round cartoon mouth
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social ⋅ 11h
A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 10h
I won the Think of a Decepticon challenge by thinking of Predacon Scorponok, AMA
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 11h
i wake up everything's calarts style this rug is calarts style your face is calarts style the sky is calarts style the increasing crescendo of calarts style from beneath the floorboards, i can hear its symphony whispering to me its awful refrain: "get something real to hate"
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 11h
www.ebay.com/itm/23610614... 9 hours left on this weirdo
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I wrote in to Reddit about my addiction. Ok, now back to having AI call me gay.
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Having left wing beliefs is hard because you have to listen to different types of people and give up saying slurs and read articles all the way through, wouldn’t you rather just watch youtube shorts of bald podcasters and believe any old bullshit
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Take the fictional character quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... What this should tell you is that I'm always down to cause chaos and good trouble
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Lilo from the animated Lilo and Stitch
Westley from The Princess Bride
Robin Hood the hot anthro fox from the animated Robin Hood
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Would you like to take a survey? Do you like to eat beans? Do you like George Wendt? Would you like to eat beans with George Wendt? Would you like to watch a movie about George Wendt eating beans?
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
thirty different editorial cartoons about St Peter greeting him with NORM!, coming right up
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
today in #9chickweedlane i learned FUCK YOU, INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE, WE COULD JUST BE FUCKING OUR DOGS INSTEAD, AND WITH LESS CAKE I GUESS wait what
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
I didn't know my mum was writing promotional emails for Nintendo now
Nintendo marketing email reading
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I just got fired from Star Wars because my prequel idea was the exact same as the existing prequels except that Palpatine was going to be bishonen hot
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
so i'm thinking, okay, i took some extra photos of this set of doors this year so i could draw some other angles, it's an important set of doors, so let's pull up my new reference photos... ....and do you see a problem, do you see an issue
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
i agree! let's all celebrate the weeniejob
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