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“then we can do the Ambster Dance”
“IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS YOU KNOW WHAT I DON’T CARE I WANT TO DO THAT ANYWAY”
Holding hands and looking at pictures of dinosaurs is a wonderful date idea. More people should do it.
Dina wins at romance.
Dina might just have the most stable romantic relationship in the entire series. Only Dotty/Walky can rival their normalcy.
Weird.
I can just imagine a couple in their twilight years sitting on the sofa and looking at a photo album filled with nothing but dinosaur pictures.
and by “a couple” I’m going to assume you mean Becky and Dina.
Any generic geriatric couple will do actually.
now I’m thinking of Up…
WITH DINOSAURS
(and subs)
We can if we want to, we can leave your friends behind. Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance Well they’re no friends of mine.
Does Danny even own a Hat?
Wow. Tim. I haven’t seen that card in awhile.
That is your loss. Tim(and his duplicates)+Curiosity+MoM is one of my fav casual deck from back in the day.
He owns a Danny hat, it looks like Dina’s dinosaur hat except it is a version that looks like Danny.
And SING!
Safety Dance? Fine, here. The Deus Ex version cuz reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y414Q7vVgYU
The Original in all its 80’s glory
Did someone say 80’s glory?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32FB-gYr49Y
Now is time for cake!
It is a crime they never made a figure of cake guy.
They’ll just have to keep on trying ’til they run out of cake.
It’s conversations like this I make sure to look down here too.
Reading the comic without looking at the comments? It’d be like the end of the world as we know it…
You forgot the colon after the https
Which is funny because the song came out in 1993.
14 January 1983 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Safety_Dance
Ivan’s explanation of the song’s meaning is very funny and seems to be in keeping with DoA.
That grenade at 2:20…
They got to play catch, that’s all. What, isn’t that how it’s done? that’s how they do it with me…
What…what have you done? I grew up under the rule of that song. And now, FINALLY, a long and arduous 15 years later, I’ve gotten it out of my head, and now…NOW…
DEEDADEEEDAPDIDDYDODODEEEEPADIDDYDOOOODEEDEEDLEDEEDEDEEDNDAYDAYDAYODEEDNDEEDNDAYDOOOOOOOOOOOO
YOU LOST THE GAME
I DON’T CAAAAAALLRIGHTEVERBODYNOWHEREWEGOIT’SABRANDNEWVERSIONOFTHEDOSIDO
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let me win the game now, that’ll 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 kill you.
Whoa there Liam, easy.
sorry, this is still the best take on that =D
You have no idea how much I want to see Amber, Danny, Ethan, and Amazi-Girl animated and doing that dance.
Muah ha ha ha… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhJXnXygmSU
I see you the latest version, & raise you the somewhat original…
Dik ka dee da doo to do do.. Dee dat doo doo do!
I maintain that this is the best version: http://youtu.be/SrYG7B4K_sc
Weirdest booty call ever…
He’s rapidly trying to figure out what “look at pictures of dinosaurs” is a euphemism for.
Netflix and chill?
Hey don’t knock it, Netflix and chill totally works
Beans or no beans? Onions or no? Cheese? Crackers? Chili is serious business!
Chill not chili.
Can I just point out that a freezer should a) know a thing or two about chill, and b) never come in contact with chili. Who puts chili into a freezer?
Okay, maybe you didn’t find that funny, but how ’bout the fact that Tacos are talking to the Freezer?
…I already know where the door is, I’ll see myself out.
We pastafarians believe dinosaurs had no bones and operated similar to having and erection, so theres some innuendo
Possibly Erotic pictures of Well this link explains it….
It’s Danny
He probably thinks it means exactly, “Hold hands and look at dinosaurs”
I’m sort of hearing Danny with Paul Rugg’s voice from Freakzoid now.
“Hey Freakazoid, wanna go see a bear riding a motorcycle?”
“DO I?!”
*Looks for “like/+1/thumbs up” button*
*Can’t find it*
Hey, you never know. Maybe Danny and Amazi-Girl will go out for a mint after.
This is exactly how I imagine it too
All I got from that was Amber impersonating Ed Asner
impersonating Bale’s Batmanon the phone.Even weirder if you read it using Freakazoid’s voice.
“Hey Freakazoid, wanna hold hands and look at dinosaur pictures?”
“DO I?!”
This is adorable.
A dorkable!
Well, for Dina.
Suddenly switching to Amazi-girl to call Danny for that is still hella creepy.
Well, Amber’s not his girlfriend. She can’t hold hands and look at pictures of dinosaurs with him.
Y’know ever since Amazi-Girl’s voice was compared to Christian Bale’s Batman, I’ve been reading all of her lines in that voice…
“What’s your favorite scary movie?”
I’ve always read em like that but I’ve never been sure if that’s how it’s supposed to sound.
Did Willis say that’s what the Amazi-Voice is like or someone else?
I…think it was Danny and Ethan who were talking about her Amazi-Girl habits and Danny said that she “did the whole Christian Bale voice bit”.
And lemme tell you, that made the line “Amazi-Girl does not cuddle” all the more hilarious.
Ah, I found the strip in question.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/short/
It’s good to have confirmation that’s how she’s supposed to sound even though I’ll probably forget again.
I imagined she *tried* to sound like Bale,
but is just doing a huskier version of her own voice.
So, I am just imagining that.
Although, I just notice (in link) that Danny’s impersonation
is only light blue, as opposed to her dark blue voice balloon.
He just can’t quite do it?
Danny’s impersonation being less masculine is adorable (or maybe I’m crazy)
Damn, I go to all the effort of digging up the strip where they describe Amazi-Girl’s voice, & someone’s already beaten me to it. DreamCrusher indeed…
*Runs off crying…*
*Walks back OK*
Eh, I’m over it…
Goddammit, now I’m gonna hear her voice like that from now on.
A rare example of a good Danning.
THE NEW SLIPSHINE
Danny Performs A Holding Hands And Looking At Dinosaur Pics With Amazi-Girl
…Goddamn it, I WANNA HOLD HANDS AND LOOK AT PICTURES OF DINOSAURS! Anyone care to join me?
Only if there’s going to be ramen.
Well, YEAH! That’s a given, right there.
Sure.
I’ll join you!
So we’ll all sit together, hold hands, look at dinosaurs, and enjoy Ramen.
And honestly now we sound like a demented cult trying to conjure the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
+1! Except the “demented” part.
Hungry, maybe.
…
Does it say something about me that my general response to “giant eldritch monster-thingamajigs” is “eat it”?
We are humans, widely know throughout the galaxy as a sentient species that will eat anything and survive most of the time. We are fucking terrifying to the other sentient species.
What the hell, count me in.
we get to eat sugary cereal and watch cartoons too, right?
A bowl of real ramen is about the size of my head. I’m half-Russian. My head is large. After I eat one of those, I’m not gonna have room for cereal.
Half? You have small bowls.
Sure, why not?
That’s for breakfast! Ramen and dinosaurs is a evening activity.
I misread “sugary cereal” as “surgery cereal”, and in the split second before I caught my mistake, I envisioned a brand of cereal shaped like spleens and kidneys and cut-off hands and whatnot, and it would turn the milk blood red, and I thought “Well, SURE, I guess that’s a thing then”, and then I was strangely disappointed that it wasn’t a thing.
that’s what a cereal killer eats
Brilliant. You win todays intertubes.
OK, yeah, that does sound nice.
cutest thing ever
AHA, and this foray into paleontology shall yield…boners!
Where the hell is the like/+1/heart icon I can click so you know how much I love your pun?
Heh, appropriate grav is appropriate.
DIG IT
Danny has been waiting his entire life for someone to ask him this.
who hasn’t?
Something tells me they hardly ever hold hands.
Maybe not hold hands, but I remember that they spent a night cuddling. I do think that Amber enjoys just close contact as a comfort and a stabiliser and Danny… Well, Danny just enjoys being with Amber.
Remember, Amazi-Girl does NOT cuddle – although, she can BE cuddled.
This one was adorable, and I don’t say that too often about broken-ish fictional college people.
You must be new here.
Nah, I’m just really stingy with a compliment.
Different strokes for different folks.
Danny is definitely under-cuddled
Aren’t we all ?
He really is! All he wanted was another dofus to be sicklingly sweet with, and before he knew it he was roped up with superheros and horrible dads and strange feels….
The moral of the story is to not wish is like a comic unless you mean it.
…not wish YOUR LIFE IS LIKE a comic…
I hope Willis does a Slipshine that is nothing but Dina and Becky looking at pictures of dinosaurs. (And I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one.)
I’m sure it’d be uber-popular, but would enough people pay the Slipshine cost (if they weren’t already a member) for something that platonic?
I’m still saving up for a Slipshine sub, so…maybe? Depends on when it’s released and when I have enough saved up. ^^;
I’m with you on that.
Nothing post-Jurassic yet though, best not to move too fast too soon.
Sadly I’m not entirely sure the people running slip shine would be willing to pay for that.
There’s at least one on there that’s no nudity other than a single phone photo of a dude in women’s underwear
I say at least one because augh there’s so much to get through and sometimes I like to do things
Looking at porn is doing things
The snugly Dina face just totally makes this comment.
The snugly Dina face makes every comment
Mr. Willis could do that here without any problem. Unless Becky tried to push the limits on”handholding”.
Naked dinosaurs?
No, they would have feathers.
Depends what group we’re talking about. Dromeosaurs were generally feathered except near the snout and… Egh, nevermind, here’s someone who can explain things a lot better than I can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGAixpQcqdU.
Still hot.
There are worse ways to pass the time with a significant other.
if I ever find someone desperate enough to be my S.O. I’ll try it out.
But good for Becky/Dina.
….Kinda want a boyfriend to do this with.
Getting one is always an option.
Or you could call Frank N. Furter to make you one in just 7 days.
And 7 nights!
Is it really always an option? I’m jealous. I want a girlfriend to cuddle with and it’s definitely not an option, because that sort of thing doesn’t happen to me.
I’m available.
Using that line, right…
…NOW!
Let us know how it goes.
You’ve got to use that voice, too, or the line doesn’t work!
“I’m going on a date with Batman!!! But… why was he ‘phoning from Skizz’s number?”
Holding Hands! !?
I thought this was a wholesome comic, not that smut you find on 2 + 2 chan.
is that kind of like writing Beetlejuice’s name wrong on purpose so you don’t summon him by mistake, but for 1+1+1+1 Chan?
2³/2chan
you know 2chan’s a thing as well, right ?
Oh please. Handholding is hard to find thereabouts; not even /d/ will tolerate it!
Inner self: YUS. /d/ link. CLICK IT.
Other inner self: Godsdammit, don’t click /d/ links.
Inner self: YUS. CLICK IT.
Other inner self: *clicks*
-Hilarity ensues-
This went much better than the time I argued with myself about whether or not I should shake a can of Starbucks espresso before opening it. ^^;
So, dragons are Besties Eternal, and dinosaurs are romantic couples?
What other reptillian means of affection have I been missing out on?
Well if TMNT addresses the Casey/April/Donatello love triangle in favor of Donny, there’s another example there.
Just saying.
Lizards are cool bros. Snakes are just bros.
Kids these days have the strangest innuendos…
Where’s your avatar from?
Click his/her name, there’s a list of gravatars with sources and explanations.
Aaah, thanks.
Wait, Plasma… You say here that you haven’t watched Korra. WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE
Oh, good. I was beginning to worry I was the only one.
Dunno… I watched the whole first season, but apart from the fight scenes everything else was kinda boring and not particularly well written. The protagonists were kinda dumb and so easily manipulated by the bad guys, and I definitely didn’t care for the romance, so I just didn’t go on… Should I give it a second chance?
The first and second seasons of Korra were… eh… but it really hit its stride in the third season, which was pretty amazing and had a really interesting group of antagonists. I would watch season two just because events that occurred there influence the third season, but if you decide to skip that season, at least watch the Avatar Wan episodes. They tell the story of the very first Avatar, and the animation style was strongly influenced by Chinese brush painting and was extremely beautiful.
Thanks for the tip
I’ll give it a try!
The first season of Korra is a
<heavenly proclamation>
~*MASTERPIECE*~
</heavenly proclamation>
The second season is mostly horrible*, the third and fourth are great.
*Notable exceptions: the Avatar Origin Story and everything involving Varrick.
Uh, OK. I mean, who am I to argue agains a heavenly proclamation O.O
-Sentinel- You might be surprised by how many popular shows I haven’t got around to watching, heck I haven’t even watched Steve Universe or Gravity Falls.
*le GASP*
What makes everything funny?
2 characters from that franchise.
Hold up…is the “Ambster the Hamster” nickname a sly reference to Shortpacked’s Snkrs?
That’s probably a layer of it, for old fans. On the surface, though, it is a callback to when Becky first saw Amber move before the party, Let’s see if I can get a hang of links NOW.
TEACH ME YOUR LINKING SECRET.
Seriously, I have no idea how to do that, but I’ve always wanted to.
When you comment there’s some instructions at the bottom, yeah? Including html tags you can use? You wanna use the one with ‘a href’ and ‘title’
‘a href’ seems to mean the url. ‘title’ should be the text you want to turn into a link. I think?
…Well, blow me down and punch me in the face. I never noticed that before. I always thought it was just remnant code from a faulty system.
You are quite correct.
title= is typically going to be displayed as a tooltip (hovertext). The text that you want to be a link goes between the <a> and the </a>
I have found the wizard!
Let me see. Testing:
This will ruin your life.
Wait, what did I do wrong with the link?
Looks like the actual url just got pasted wrong somewhere along the line:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/ambster/tvtropes.org
Sort of have that tvtropes link at the end messing things up.
I was actually trying to link to tvtropes. Let me try again:
This will ruin your life.
It’s still adding in the title of this comic in before the link, even when I type it out by hand.
Are you just putting in ‘tvtropes.org’? It may assume that’s a link off the current page. Try putting in a full URL, like ‘http://www.tvtropes.org’.
For example: This will ruin your life.
You could use all that, or do like I do & drag & drop it from a bookmarked website in another tab. Then just gotta swap the code for what you want, same with the text, & Bob’s you’re Uncle…
…Or your Aunty. Never know these days…
She might just be being zany with nicknames but I believe Becky had previously compared Amber to a hamster because of her size the alacrity with which she zoomed off to confirm with Ethan that he was no longer dating Joyce. Anyone care to dig up a link? Was while Becky was inviting folk to the dorm party.
*her size and the alacrity with which etc
See Nightsbridge’s comment above yours for the link.
…Or find someone with some free time…
Don’t forget Ani!
… Everybody always forgets Ani.
Who?
Amber’s other hamster, Anakin.
S*P’s Amber – I don’t think DoA’s Amber has any pets.
i don’t think something*positive has an amber
What, you’ve never done a guest comic for Randy?
(YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT)
New euphemism? New euphemism!
…Yeah, I’d use it. Don’t know what for, but I’d USE it.
For starters, to confuse eavesdroppers and/or your enemies.
Nope – ‘holding hands and looking at pictures of dinosaurs’ is it’s own sexy thing. No need for euphemizing.
Hmm. Becky doesn’t know Amazi-Girl’s secret identity. (I don’t think she knows Amazi-Girl’s non-secret identity, for that matter…) This could complicate things if she’s going to be spending a lot of time in the Amazi-Room with the Amazi-Roommate.
I can just see Dina explaining it to her now…
“She dresses up as a superhero to put her anger to good use. Please do not tell anyone.”
“Oh, sure. I can keep a secret. Heck, I’m keepin’ me a secret right now.”
“Also she uses the costume to facilitate numerous improvements upon her libido and sexual techniques.”
“Hot dang, does she have extras!?”
On the flip side of that, Amber might be the next to find out about Becky’s situation since as far as she knows, Becky is just Joyce’s friend who’s visiting over the weekend yet Dina just said she’s now her girlfriend.
So watch Jurassic World and then go to the back of their car?
So, the back of Toedad’s car ?
oh wait.
Oh, God, I’m picturing Toedad’s opinion of the Jurassic Park franchise.
“Those scientists are playing God. Those dinosaurs are of the devil. I’ll pray for them, AND the people who made the films and book.”
Huh. I never suspected that I could agree with Toedad on anything. But the Jurassic Park franchise being horrible is such a thing.
Just to clarify: I do not agree with the Toedad reasoning. Just with the conclusion (JP isn’t a good thing).
SILENCE, HEATHEN HERETIC!
JURASSIC PARK IS ALL THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN GOOD AND ALL THAT WILL BE!
Alfred Hitchcock made a better movie about angry dinosaurs 30 years before Jurassic Park. One of my main complaints about Jurassic Park, from a movie-only perspective, is that it has a plot driven almost entirely by stupidity (why use electric fences when very thick panes of highly translucent bulletproof glass would do?).
For my own amusement I’m going to just assume you specified the glass should be bulletproof because the dinosaurs are secretly all packing heat.
Cause of wind load, makes building tall walls very expensive.
I’m not sure why but I love this one.
Well, it IS unforgivably adorable.
Also, the Amazi-Room seems very beige and void-like today.
If she were a political event she’d be the New Ambster Primary.
LMAO. I can hear Danny’s voice in my head so clearly, inflections and all. And it cracks me up. Very funny this one, a++++
Well Amber does look like a hamster without her glasses and going by the tags, does this mean that Amber and Amazi-girl will always appear together from now on?
How come she didn’t get this nickname back in shortpacks?
I think the call to Danny was made as Amazi-Girl, judging by the color of the speech bubble.
The Amazi-girl tag may be there because she’s using the voice on the phone with Danny at the end. (Which I didn’t even notice until the comments pointed it out)
That makes sense, thanks.
Why am I disappointed right now?
Well we heard it would be “the best DoA ever”.
It is adorable, but expectations were set too high.
Hooray! I forgot about that, so I didn’t have any expectations.
Most odd, and yet rather endearing for some unknown reason.
Heh hamster
Damnit, now I want to go do that.
Dina basically just described my ideal relationship.
The ideal relationship…
Dina and Becky have done enough to establish a baseball metaphor.
1st base: kiss.
2nd base: light physical contact.
3rd base: heavy physical contact.
Home run: hold hands and look at pictures of dinosaurs.
Home plate comes after third base. A home run is a run made around all three bases and the home plate on one hit.
Not that that’s incompatible with your metaphor; holding hands & looking at pictures of dinosaurs could easily accomplish all 3 bases and whatever home plate is.
The base system has gotten pretty complicated over time.
Did Dina and Becky just start a new dating trend? How long will it be before we start seeing online communities for hand-holding dinosaur viewing enthusiasts?
Well,since this is the internet we are talking about,so….maybe soon enough?
Tuesday.
There are already dating sites for rural dwellers (“Farmers Only”); Christians (“Christian Mingle”); people who have been around the block a few times (“Senior Match”); and people who are just looking to hook-up (“Ashley Madison” et al). So why not a site for budding paleontologists called, perhaps, “Them Bones, Them Bones, Them Dry Bones”?
Get those bones some lube first, geez…..
Hmm,i might use that phrase for…scientific purposes.
Awwww~~
Now I want someone to hold hands and look at dinosaurs with.
New objective unlocked.
I love that Danny is totally down for that. Truth be told, I’d think that was the cutest goddamn thing if a significant other wanted to do that with me.
talk nerdy to me
Worst Slipshine edition ever.
You misspelled ‘best.’
“Worst Slipshine edition best”? That doesn’t make any sense!
YOU don’t make any sense
But dinosaurs are cool! They even have some sick moves:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEeDbvLrzKU
Normally I might be worried about Amber starting to ask questions about Dina and Becky being an item since I don’t believe she’s fully aware of Becky’s situation…
…But at the same time even if she does become aware, I’m pretty sure she’ll sympathize, on account of the whole dickbag-dad situation.
Is Danny reading the material on bisexuality from the meeting?
Looks like a hardbound book, not a pamphlet, so I doubt it.
Holding hands? This is really heart-warming.
Danny: I have no idea. I already like dudes, so who knows? Maybe I’m into dino pics, maybe I’m into everything.
Maybe I like BOTH waffels and pancakes.
There are people who feel the need to choose between pancakes and waffles?
It seems like an issue on which it should be okay to waffle.
Or pancake.
But what if I like French toast?
Well then you probably can’t wait to get a mouthfull.
Ha !
He just spent a good portion of the afternoon with Ethan wearing a dinosaur hat.
: D
I have nothing to say to that – I’m just going to sit here, basking in the awesomeness that is that observation.
Danny to himself: “I have to tell you something. I am in love with your ex and best friend and I’m kinda bisexual (which is a thing according to this pamphlet I have here). Please don’t be mad…”
“I have to tell you someth…” *phone rings*
Amber: “Hand holding and dinosaurs”
Danny: “YES” *hangs up*
Danny: Stupid, stupid, stupid…
Yep.
Damn, I’d forgotten where we left off in his story! SMH…
Amber: Ohhh, look at this bipedal one.
Danny: Speaking of ‘bi’…
He still loves Amber.
Likes.
I think “In love with” is a bit strong for a description of his feelings for Ethan. “Your ex gives me pants feelings” might be more accurate.
gives me pants feelings…
is fun to hang out with…
have interests in common with me…
makes my heart go all pitty pat when he touches my hair…
*singing* what is this straaaange feeeeeeeling in my paaaaaaaants?
Next best thing to riding a dragon together, clearly.
Also, Amber looks oddly large when drawn as if she were — well, not short, let’s say.
It’s because next to Dina she looks tall. Compared to the door frame, the three of them are short even for females.
Amaziegirl knows what she wants from a relationship
I’ll show you my diplodocus!
Well I never!
Pervert
Such blatant vulgarity!
Hey….I’m willing to bet Danny’s going to show Amazi-Girl his Oviraptor.
Okay, that’s slightly psychadelic! Of course, Danny is so completely under Amber’s spell that dressing in sackcloth and meditating for twelve hours with her would probably be a positive and arousing experience!
FWIW, I suspect that Dina nad Becky alike are both not likely to go much beyond the ‘high school sweethearts’ behaviour track for a long while just because neither of them are emotionally ready to do anything else.
I’ve heard it said that pictures of large bones gets many females excited. Is that true?
I see what you did there
It’s the new foreplay. Dinorotic!
What a coincidence…. my girlfriend and I also recently had a date watching Jurassic World. ó . ò It involved us holding hands and being happy. The similarities are overwhelming!
I know where you got your handle
http://www.gogetaroomie.com/comic/why-the-hell-not
Caught me! :3 You thus win a reliable webcomic reader award~
Going on a date to museum while holding hands is a good date option in my opinion.
I just hope Dina won’t make every DoA cast dinosexual as next stage of some evil world take over plan.
I for one welcome our adorable dinosaur overlord
Lulu’s right about museum dates! I took my girlfriend to a natural history museum because she likes T-Rexes and had never seen an actual T-Rex skeleton. She loved it.
Relationship goal attained.
(On a side note, one of the first gifts she ever got me was a Firefly t-shirt with dinosaurs on it, and her favorite character from my own webcomic is a dinosaur-themed superheroine. Yup… I gots me a dino-lover, and I couldn’t be happier!)
Museum dates are nice !
Did a wing of the Louvres like that, once.
Are you actually just future becky?
Nope; I’m a dude.
Honestly, if these two get much cuter I may explode…
“Hold hands and look at pictures of dinosaurs”
There may very well be some kissing involved too.
So something that’s gone uncommented is Amber’s reaction to Dina telling her she has a girlfriend; specifically, the line “and to you, that means…?”
I think Amber has a little bit of that “Dina is strange and needs to be helped” mentality in her, stemming from her own experiences with social anxiety.
I don’t think it’s that she thinks Dina needs to be helped. It seems to me more that Amber hasn’t seen Dina really show much emotion at all nor much interest in being around other people and has a much different view of things. So, while Amber knows what most people would mean if they said they had a girlfriend, Dina could mean something else which is why she asked.
Also Dina does not always pay attention to social norms, and “girlfriend” actually has both a romantic and a platonic meaning that might be needed to sort through even with someone who does, anyway.
I read it the complete opposite way, as in AMBER being socially awkward and asking just what it means that Becky is Dina’s girlfriend because she doesn’t trust herself to pick up the social cues that would tell her.
“I don’t make the rules, I just live in constant fear of them”
That makes sense! Since a ‘girlfriend’ can be interpreted as either a platonic friend who or a romantic partner, and Ambster has made it clear in-strip before that she enjoys not thinking of Dina as a sexual being.
I suspect it will be somewhere in the middle:
Amber, like Joyce, is very much in love with and having to get over Ethan.
A component of that relationship was Amber, like Ethan, having a not-so-platonic attraction to particular Transformers and other media common to their generation.
Personally, I see it as the equivalent to Gen-Xers having the Slave-Leia image filed away in the mental shoe box of “things that unexpectedly assist arousal.”
(I observe this Amber, similar to the Shortpacked.Amber as being very in touch with her libido AND perversion but, this one has more separated libido from violent urges but, less integrated libido with her regular persona.)
Anywho, I think it was just: “Dina seems to have found some who can combine that particular hobby and arousal and it does not seem so bad so, I wonder: Does my f-buddy likes that hobby, that way, too? I should check because this will help me to be even more interesting…”
but dina wants help, sometimes. she just doesnt want to be invalidated for it. she and amber have already opened up about their respective differences and amber was the one who showed dina how to show sympathy via light physical contact. i dont think it was out of line in their friendship for amber to say this.
plus, dina has previously told amber about A) not having had sexual feelings for anyone before & B) wanting to not be seen as abnormal, which are two dots that plenty of people would probably guess are connected and be worried about, even though theyre not.
So this means Danny is Amazi-girl’s girlfriend now?
has been for a while
I’m probably wrong, but I think Lone Wolf basically went with the idea that a romantic relationship is now based on holding hands and watching dinosaur pictures together; everything else before that (including sex and marriage) is just casual hanging together.
It would be a softer world.
Sorry, that is a different webcomic.
You can’t imagine that as a Softer World strip?
I remember reading IW! when I was 19 and thinking that Walky and Joyce watching morning cartoons together was romantic as sh#t.
I didn’t want to to go bars and get pissed and have casual sex. I just wanted someone understand the importance of round eyes and stories with a message and proper character design.
Of course these days there are many blogs who deliver geek romance fantasies to the world but I think there still isn’t enough. The world has to know.
This is so fantastically wonderful because it speaks to someone like myself, married for 28+ years. Thanks, Mr. Willis.
Social : The disciple has become the master.
First Dorothy and now Amber. Is it just me, or does anyone else find Becky’s habit of not calling people by their correct names REALLY annoying? It’s not like she’s using their current nicknames either. That just strikes me as completely thoughtless and uncaring. What if everyone started calling her “Beckerly” or “Rebeccalodon”?
Well, let us wait until some of the cast does.
Well, those are crappy nicknames, but all things considered, I don’t think that Becky would mind at all. She seems like the sort of person that would create personal nicknames for everyone she knows. There are many people like that.
I feel it serves as mnemonic to help remember them
Well as someone who picks up a lot of weird nicknames, I don’t think it’s that annoying. And the people I know who make up nicknames for everyone seem to be pretty chill about getting nicknames in return. It only gets annoying when you ask people not to call you something, or express dislike with a nickname and they refuse to acknowledge your request.
As for how everyone likes Becky’s nicknames nobody in comic has seemed to complain. And according to earlier this chapter, Dina seems to be pretty fine with being known as Dino Girl.
She is fun and loud and is trying to hard to be fun and loud. Not at all uncommon among self-proclaimed class clowns.
I think I see what you’re saying here (but please correct me if I’m wrong), a few years back I worked with a guy who kept calling me “smiler” (at the time life wasn’t working out quite as well as it could have been to say the lest) and it really ticked me off, I asked him to stop calling me that and he wouldn’t and it wasn’t until I dropped my shoulder into him (I was taller and heavier then he was) and knocked him on his back that he got the idea I really didn’t like it.
I didn’t like it because when he called me that it reminded me of what was happening in my life, he was trying to label me something I wasn’t, the utter disrespect of the guy to completely disregard what I was saying and that he thought it was just a big joke
The thing with nicknames is how they’re used, Becky use of nicknames towards Dorothy seems a little on the mean side to me( but then I’m probably over-sensitive it) whereas towards Amber it seems like its more on the fun side, trying to establish a personal connection with Amber?
You’d probably not like living in Australia then. They can hand out a few nicknames. Becky could be Beckster, Ambs for Amber, etc…
Now see THAT is the truest form of a relationship. Chilling by holding hands and looking at pictures of dinosaurs or watching tv. Maybe bump it up a notch to snuggling. Dina’s rockin’ the field of relationships dammit.
Or just doing homework together
Will he end up shampooing the cat?
Wow their moving fast. It took like a month before my girlfriend and I started looking at dinosaur pictures while holding hands.
And what did you do in the meantime?
“hold hands and look at pictures of dinosaurs*
HOLY FUCK IS THIS WRONG!!!
But holy hell is it erotic!
*”
This is the cutest relationship in the series so far!!! I was friends with a couple like them in college and they made my heart melt whenever I was around them!!! They were heterosexual, but both couples are equally cute!
I just want Danny and Amazi-girl to make up and hold hands and look at pictures of Dinosaurs.