A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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Sakana
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Blindsprings
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Dumbing of Age
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Goodbye to Halos
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Kochab
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A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
The Substitutes
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Lies Within
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Edison Rex
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Namesake
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Beeserker
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Stand Still, Stay Silent
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The Golden Boar
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Scape
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Monsterkind
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Guilded Age
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Astral Aves
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Darkling Bright
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Barbarous
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The Forgotten Order
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Headless Bliss
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Nigh Heaven & Hell
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Aquapunk
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i’ve heard that expensive gifts are a no-no early in a relationship. something about weight or obligation. but, heck, i confidently predict that these two will be a sweet, granulated pile of cuddles until the end of the comic! what could possibly go truck?
Yeah, and Becky is on some level aware of that because it was Dina’s offer of buying expensive dinner that led her to spending today obsessively job searching.
Which is probably making Becky feel even worse. She already has it in her head that she’s a burden on Joyce, so she’s trying to make up for that. Now Dina is trying to be helpful in perfectly normal, girlfriendy ways, and Becky’s pushing those attempts away too.
I had cheaper, but the service was irritating (non-muteable expiration alerts at 3a EST). I like to give averages vs. rock bottom, anyway, to better reflect a repeatable experience (no idea whose services are getting jacked)
Virgins not been bad. My original pLan was minimum $15 per 3 months. It gave enough minutes for calls and texts as I needed most months. I still have that phone and plan as a fallback, tho I think that you can’t get that plan anymore as a new option. The phone is probably 10 generations old.
Whoa…I did actually consider that when I first saw the comic. My conclusion was that they would collapse into an adorable pile, as neither of them looks too strong
fair, so do i. i just didn’t know that dorm rooms had them. i figured it would at most be a single phone in the hall that you wouldn’t take to your bed to lie around with. when i was in college, landlines were already largely outdated. and yet many forms still ask me for a home and cell number as mandatory.
Even before cell phones, teenagers were well known for spending hours on the phone. Installing only one phone for a hallway full of them would have been like installing only one toilet. That infrastructure remains in any dorm more than a decade old, which is most of them on most campuses. I’m a little younger than Willis, but my college had phone jacks in every room right next to the ethernet jack.
When I was in college (I’m a few years older than Willis), the dorms had one payphone per floor. That was it. When I was checking the place out the summer before my senior year of college, they were saying they were going to put network and phone drops into the rooms the next summer. They put the conduit in – my roommate, who was working and living on campus that summer, woke up one morning to a masonry bit coming through the wall six inches in front of his face – but they didn’t actually run the cables until the semester after I left. So for my entire college career, I was sharing one payphone with about 65 other guys.
On the bright side, that meant I never had to answer the phone. I hate answering phones.
Voip is not a landline, it is part of a computer digital setup.
Landline is a phone that is totally connected to the now nearly extinct separate phone system: which was not electrical or digital. You know, Thomas Edison’s invention
Oh god, did you actually ascribe the telephone to that shyster?
Alexander Graham Bell was the gentleman inventor to invented the telephone.
Also, in other news, the telephone was and still is an electrical device.
Also the copper based phone system is not dead except in the USofA where the local companies are pushing wireless to save the costs of new builds. Cell towers are still not mandated in all jurisdictions to have backup power and 100% up time like the old wired systems. This is an issue with and health and emergency monitoring systems.
In Canada the copper lines are still in uses in lots of places. Slowly replaced with Fiber Optic or wireless.
Also VoIP in most case still use copper cables internally, as in between the Phone system, IP Phones, VoIP box and the internet modem. Cat 5 and Cat 6 cables are made of copper.
An all Fiber Optic internal infrastructure is not yet cost effective for SMB and in most case it is implemented only for long distances between network hubs and between each switches in same rack to avoid bottleneck.
I have a VOIP phone and I can tell you now, it is no where near as reliable as a traditional landline and as for the term landline, I only started referring to traditional phones as landlines in the last few years, before that, they were just phones.
By the laws of the sliding timeline, the events of this comic will one day occur in an era where kids don’t know what landlines are. I’m not sure what this contributes to the conversation, but it disturbs me.
My sister’s dorm room and mine both had just outlets for any standard landline. While neither of us used them since we both had cell phones by that point, all either of us would have needed is to plug in a regular cordless phone and we would have had that kind of setup.
Becky never had a cellphone. According to Joyce, her parents wouldn’t allow it.
The phone she had in her room at Anderson is probably a cheap cordless model ($10 or $15 at Wal-Mart) that connects to a base unit/charger that plugs into the wall jack elsewhere within the room.
Mmmmm, I dunno.
I get why people find this adorable, but this is kinda starting to smack of the same kind of jealous obsession that Dina showed in I.W. Not to the same extent as that, but in a similar vein, what with actively inconveniencing herself in order to try and keep a hold on the person she likes.
Though that could just be my terminal case of pessimism flaring up again.
thank you so much! i was having so much trouble getting there through the site. just got as far as dina getting mixed up with walky/joyce. it’s getting dark
Given how good they are at communication I don’t think they will have more trouble there than any other young couple figuring out dating for the first time. Probably less.
I strongly agree. Dina and Becky have had great romantic instincts so far. I feel this is basically just navigating narratives about how a relationship is “supposed” to look.
Yup, and since neither of them actually HAVE a good clue of the narrative they will just feel their way forward. Dina has some sort of vague middle-school-esque grip on the base metaphor. Becky has tons of the same ultra-romantic, heteronormative story as Joyce, but she also knows that most of it doesn’t apply to her situation. So they got a fresh start.
The problem with it is that breaking potentially destructive parts of the relationship – or breaking up alltogether – becomes much harder.
If your relationship goes sour and you need some time apart or to break up, nothing gets easier if you first have to figure out how to to divide your shared phone. (or your shared room, in case you – I don’t know – suddenly have to put some distances between yourself and your sexy lesbian suicide pact).
I dunno the other story you’re referencing, but it’s possible that she’s being a little possessive. But I think that’s a normal emotion that she can also learn to control. This is fairly new for both of them, so they’re kind of figuring it out as they go and gifts with the good intention that Dina has are not super likely to be used as manipulation tools. I also get the feeling Dina wouldn’t think of it that way due to being neurodivergent, possibly autistic. (I’m autistic, though, so me headcanoning her as autistic could be some projecting but DAMMIT IT FITS SO WELL and it’s probably the only autistic character i’ve ever seen done well by a presumably non-autistic creator.)
Dinosaurs aren’t great multitaskers, Dina. Perhaps you two could hand the ‘phone back and forth, making sure you stay close together. Like that’s a problem.
Huh, that puts yesterday’s comic in a whole new context. Becky sees Dina’s stuff as hers and that it’d be rude to borrow or use it. Whereas Joyce is her long time friend and as such they’ve built a lifetime out of loaning each other things and Joyce has been making a big deal about loaning her things like her phone or her computer.
So, the slight definitely wasn’t intentional, but may have not just been about being overfocused on the job search and missing signals. It may have also been that Becky is used to sharing (non-food) stuff with Joyce, but is relatively new to sharing with others and still worries about overly taking advantage of people.
Which is not to say that she’s taking advantage of Joyce, but rather that they have a long shared history where that has been cleared and established by their long friendship (see how casually Joyce lent her her laptop).
Becky’s boundaries with Joyce have been established, learned, bulldozed, rebuilt again, and built in the minds of the two girls with huge neon signs with accompanying astericks as long as an arm that both girls can recite by heart.
Becky and Dina, sweet as they are, still haven’t felt each other that way. they’re sweet and lovely but new to each other. For a while I can totally see Dina being jealous of that closeness and intimate knowledge of each other’s barriers, but sometimes a bit of jealousy is just something you need to deal with like a responsible adult.
It’s probably for the best. Dina is extremely direct and Becky’s bad at reading signals, like how the last two strips have had her unintentionally slighting Dina.
Are you really letting the landlines die out in the US? A real landline (no voice-over-IP-bullshit) is much more reliable, still works when your apartment is out of electricity (hell, it works without additional power on a daily basis) and is much more work to tap. Why let something like this go?
Cell phones also work fine when your apartment is out of electricity (in fact, they’re more likely to work then than a landline, because most of those these days use cordless handsets – which are, incidentally, dead easy to tap – with a base station that requires AC power, while a cell is good on battery for a good long while), plus they work fine when you’re not in your apartment at all (and many situations where you really, desperately need a telephone, you’re not in your apartment).
I still have a landline. It’s DSL-only. I haven’t had voice service on it in at least five years. I haven’t missed it.
There have, on the other hand, been quite a few times when I didn’t have a cell phone, and really, really wanted one. Particularly when I was driving a thirty-year-old car.
As Dina has just found out, there is a minimum distance below which walking together inevitably leads to getting your legs tangled up with the other person’s.
These two are so wonderfully goofy that I can feel my teeth rotting and breaking in my mouth from the sheer amount of sweetness. Oh, how I dread the inevitable destruction of their happiness.
I get the strange feeling that Dina will be the one to get married while still in university, while Joyce will ironically enough only get married in her thirties.
I don’t think so. They’re in the huggy, cuddly, first stages of a relationship. The only thing that seems a bit out of the ordinary is the phone thing, but the phone giving is a response to Becky’s abnormally difficult situation, and a good friend might do the same thing.
Oh that makes more sense than what I was thinking. I thought that cuz Dina is shorter than Becky, she was clinging onto Becky’s back piggy-back style and just lost her grip.
I`ve read through all of these in the matter of a week.
I regret nothing.
It has been quite a journey, going through the various issues one can run into when at College.
Alcoholism, overbearing parents, attempted drug-rape, trauma, figuring out ones own sexuality, getting to terms with the past, getting to terms with ones own social anxiety.
I am surprised you, the artist/writer, manage to go through all of these and still make this comic making people smile. It is quite a feat I say.
I don’t usually comment but for the sake of clarity everyone has a landline in the uk. we also all have smartphones, wireless and in most cases fibreoptics, but we still haven’t grown a generation of skypers yet. we also have strong stances on creationism, homophobia and racism though so it may be a paralell universe thing (as a public we outprotest right wing protesters, it’s great)
By that, I mean that she is insisting on being the one relied upon instead of allowing her girlfriend to rely on her long-term friend. I never figured Dina would be like that, though.
Apart from this being her first romantic relationship, Becky is the first person Dina’s felt romantic feelings toward at all. This is all completely new to Dina and she’s not going to process it all in a perfectly rational way.
Also she was there when Becky told Joyce she still wasn’t over her. She has reason to be concerned.
I have to smile whenever Dina is on. She has to be the most innocent, good hearted, cutest person there. Sad thing is that people like that often get burned by scummy ‘friends’ or others. Let’s hope that never happens here.
Multitasking is a myth. There is no multitasking – there is only rapid switching between tasks. I personally suck at focusing on more than one thing at a time. If I tried that, I would have lost my balance just like Dina.
More than that, multitasking means doing two or more tasks all at the same time much more poorly than you would do with one task at a time with your full concentration.
That’s how computers do it. Switch very rapidly from one to the other. Though that’s not quite true these days, with multiple multi-core processors in many machines. They really do multitask, at least on certain jobs.
I’m not sure it’s true of humans either. We’re not as simple as “one processor”. We do an awful lot of things basically on autopilot, not really using the thinking part of our brains at all. Like walk and chew gum, as the classic example goes. All sorts of common, repetitive stuff gets done without conscious thought.
Now if it’s a high cognitive function task, you’re definitely right. In this case though, it really isn’t. Dina can certainly walk and carry on a conversation at the same time. She can probably walk and check her phone for new dinosaur information at the same time. The biggest problem there is just not looking around.
She’s just not used to walking snuggled up to Becky yet. Give her a few months and that’ll become just as easy as walking normally and she’ll be able to check dinosaur facts to her heart’s content. I recommend lots of practice.
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or, ya know, a “stupid” phone only costs like $40 with $15/month time refill cards, since you have all that fancy dinner money
Come on Dina, give Becky the gift of her own phone.
Hell of a way to keep her.
Come to think of it, my girlfriend doesn’t have a phone either (fortunately not for the same reason.) Perhaps I should get her a dumbphone.
i’ve heard that expensive gifts are a no-no early in a relationship. something about weight or obligation. but, heck, i confidently predict that these two will be a sweet, granulated pile of cuddles until the end of the comic! what could possibly go truck?
“Go truck” should totally be this fandom’s term for disaster.
a freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean your mother for a nickel.
that joke works best when said aloud. please read it aloud
Preferably in public.
Yeah, and Becky is on some level aware of that because it was Dina’s offer of buying expensive dinner that led her to spending today obsessively job searching.
Which is probably making Becky feel even worse. She already has it in her head that she’s a burden on Joyce, so she’s trying to make up for that. Now Dina is trying to be helpful in perfectly normal, girlfriendy ways, and Becky’s pushing those attempts away too.
I swear if Becky breaks our little Dina’s heart, even accidentally, she shall face a wrath with the intensity of a thousand, thousand suns.
Well I think the idea here if more that this is what they have available NOW, so Dina’s giving her what she has NOW.
There are even phones for half that and less for minutes (if you don’t use many).
I had cheaper, but the service was irritating (non-muteable expiration alerts at 3a EST). I like to give averages vs. rock bottom, anyway, to better reflect a repeatable experience (no idea whose services are getting jacked)
Well actually:
http://m.virginmobileusa.com/mt/www.virginmobileusa.com/shop/cell-phones/kyocera-rise-phone/features/
And t mobile, straight talk and Wal-Mart family mobile have comparable pricing
Virgins not been bad. My original pLan was minimum $15 per 3 months. It gave enough minutes for calls and texts as I needed most months. I still have that phone and plan as a fallback, tho I think that you can’t get that plan anymore as a new option. The phone is probably 10 generations old.
i was gonna cry about how becky’s can-do attitude is kicking my ass, but dina cuteness made me forget
I know right. “You go gir… OH MY GOSH THIS IS ADORABLE”
This is so cute it hurts
Oh my god those last three panels are adorable.
Cuddlewalking is a task one should not undertake without practice.
too much of a good thing, too much of a good thing!
seriously, though…tried it, very hard. doubly so if there’s a height discrepancy. like an ultimate 3-legged race
Indeed. Easier to just take turns carrying each other, and that’s not the easiest either.
Whoa…I did actually consider that when I first saw the comic. My conclusion was that they would collapse into an adorable pile, as neither of them looks too strong
1. Practice is fun
2. Cuddlewalking is my new favorite word
I know a phone plan costs a lot for a person at this stage, but she really needs one.
The best value prepaid phone I can find is a $15 refurbished Android phone, which costs $20 for every 180 minutes of talk time.
Or maybe Dina can add a cheap refurb phone to her plan. Most carriers don’t charge much to add a voice line.
In her own way, Dina’s one of the most romantic women who ever lived!
I’m confused, was she looking at her boobs?
Headcanon accepted.
Well she may have been looking at her tush in that last panel
Boobs are as distracting as phones. Put them next to each other and anyone is bound to trip up.
There are some exceptions as well.
Ah! Edit ‘boobs’ to ‘chests’ and I think we’re good. Folks can appreciate some good pecs, right?
Good thing she wasn’t chewing gum too. Could have been a trip to the emergency room.
THESE TWO
At first glance, I thought Dina was freaking over the hidden dinosaur porn revealed in her phone.
Adorkableness: restored.
Didn’t she have a phone?Or did her bigot dad confiscate it?
She never had one…i think
i think she did. they chatted with joyce on occasion. she may have just left it when she fled her campus
I think she used a home phone for that
It was a landline. They used to exist!
oof. if only i had seen your comment before responding. now i feel a fool, a fool am i!
Thats what I meant by home phone. And to gkheyf wireless land lines do exist. I own one
fair, so do i. i just didn’t know that dorm rooms had them. i figured it would at most be a single phone in the hall that you wouldn’t take to your bed to lie around with. when i was in college, landlines were already largely outdated. and yet many forms still ask me for a home and cell number as mandatory.
I’ve never had problems come from giving the same number for both, or just writing N/A for Home Phone #.
Even before cell phones, teenagers were well known for spending hours on the phone. Installing only one phone for a hallway full of them would have been like installing only one toilet. That infrastructure remains in any dorm more than a decade old, which is most of them on most campuses. I’m a little younger than Willis, but my college had phone jacks in every room right next to the ethernet jack.
When I was in college (I’m a few years older than Willis), the dorms had one payphone per floor. That was it. When I was checking the place out the summer before my senior year of college, they were saying they were going to put network and phone drops into the rooms the next summer. They put the conduit in – my roommate, who was working and living on campus that summer, woke up one morning to a masonry bit coming through the wall six inches in front of his face – but they didn’t actually run the cables until the semester after I left. So for my entire college career, I was sharing one payphone with about 65 other guys.
On the bright side, that meant I never had to answer the phone. I hate answering phones.
s/senior year of college/senior year of high school/
So did the Nokia ,,bricks”. Back then it was a big deal if you dropped the phone…or throw it.
Landlines still exist, especially in the commercial sector, home landlines are mostly found in old peoples homes these days.
VOIP as part of ISP bundle packages surely isn’t that uncommon, and totally counts :p
Voip is not a landline, it is part of a computer digital setup.
Landline is a phone that is totally connected to the now nearly extinct separate phone system: which was not electrical or digital. You know, Thomas Edison’s invention
Oh god, did you actually ascribe the telephone to that shyster?
Alexander Graham Bell was the gentleman inventor to invented the telephone.
Also, in other news, the telephone was and still is an electrical device.
Also the copper based phone system is not dead except in the USofA where the local companies are pushing wireless to save the costs of new builds. Cell towers are still not mandated in all jurisdictions to have backup power and 100% up time like the old wired systems. This is an issue with and health and emergency monitoring systems.
In Canada the copper lines are still in uses in lots of places. Slowly replaced with Fiber Optic or wireless.
Also VoIP in most case still use copper cables internally, as in between the Phone system, IP Phones, VoIP box and the internet modem. Cat 5 and Cat 6 cables are made of copper.
An all Fiber Optic internal infrastructure is not yet cost effective for SMB and in most case it is implemented only for long distances between network hubs and between each switches in same rack to avoid bottleneck.
I have a VOIP phone and I can tell you now, it is no where near as reliable as a traditional landline and as for the term landline, I only started referring to traditional phones as landlines in the last few years, before that, they were just phones.
all DSL lines are land lines ; for example “cable internet” isn’t common in France.
By the laws of the sliding timeline, the events of this comic will one day occur in an era where kids don’t know what landlines are. I’m not sure what this contributes to the conversation, but it disturbs me.
There’s already plenty of those, actually. Welcome to the grimdark future where only mobile phones count!
You are right, at the university I go to, when people ask for my phone number I specify that it’s a landline, and I’ve had “what do you mean”s.
Ah! Someone else who remembers the stone age! I actually get shocked looks when I give my home land-line as a contact number!
Some of us are reading this comic through a landline (w/DSL)
I had a landline in college! But, uh, that was 2000-2004.
dunno, it was definitely wireless and she was lazing about with it. not sure campus rooms were ever that well-equipped
Perhaps it was borrowed.
My sister’s dorm room and mine both had just outlets for any standard landline. While neither of us used them since we both had cell phones by that point, all either of us would have needed is to plug in a regular cordless phone and we would have had that kind of setup.
Becky never had a cellphone. According to Joyce, her parents wouldn’t allow it.
The phone she had in her room at Anderson is probably a cheap cordless model ($10 or $15 at Wal-Mart) that connects to a base unit/charger that plugs into the wall jack elsewhere within the room.
daaa’w! jealous dina is possessive, yet still overtly logical!
she does however fail adorkably when the opportunity arises
…that time, i cut myself off by accident
Mmmmm, I dunno.
I get why people find this adorable, but this is kinda starting to smack of the same kind of jealous obsession that Dina showed in I.W. Not to the same extent as that, but in a similar vein, what with actively inconveniencing herself in order to try and keep a hold on the person she likes.
Though that could just be my terminal case of pessimism flaring up again.
Now Dina do not take your hat off and hold it solemnly.
in this comic, that would carry far, far more weight.
i do say this not having read all of the old comics
in a couple years prepare to bawl prepare to bawl like you have never bawled before
Or just read the rest of the old comics heres a link
http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20010225.html
picking up where the reruns left of
thank you so much! i was having so much trouble getting there through the site. just got as far as dina getting mixed up with walky/joyce. it’s getting dark
She’s new to dating and hasn’t yet realized that codependent is not how one relationships.
Given how good they are at communication I don’t think they will have more trouble there than any other young couple figuring out dating for the first time. Probably less.
I strongly agree. Dina and Becky have had great romantic instincts so far. I feel this is basically just navigating narratives about how a relationship is “supposed” to look.
Yup, and since neither of them actually HAVE a good clue of the narrative they will just feel their way forward. Dina has some sort of vague middle-school-esque grip on the base metaphor. Becky has tons of the same ultra-romantic, heteronormative story as Joyce, but she also knows that most of it doesn’t apply to her situation. So they got a fresh start.
There’s nothing inherently bad about codepency, it’s not for everyone but it works for a lot of people.
The problem with it is that breaking potentially destructive parts of the relationship – or breaking up alltogether – becomes much harder.
If your relationship goes sour and you need some time apart or to break up, nothing gets easier if you first have to figure out how to to divide your shared phone. (or your shared room, in case you – I don’t know – suddenly have to put some distances between yourself and your sexy lesbian suicide pact).
I dunno the other story you’re referencing, but it’s possible that she’s being a little possessive. But I think that’s a normal emotion that she can also learn to control. This is fairly new for both of them, so they’re kind of figuring it out as they go and gifts with the good intention that Dina has are not super likely to be used as manipulation tools. I also get the feeling Dina wouldn’t think of it that way due to being neurodivergent, possibly autistic. (I’m autistic, though, so me headcanoning her as autistic could be some projecting but DAMMIT IT FITS SO WELL and it’s probably the only autistic character i’ve ever seen done well by a presumably non-autistic creator.)
Dinosaurs aren’t great multitaskers, Dina. Perhaps you two could hand the ‘phone back and forth, making sure you stay close together. Like that’s a problem.
Tyrannosaurs couldn’t even use phones, because of their tiny arms. And no external ear to attach a bluetooth device.
“Multitasking is difficult.”
More so than most people are willing to admit, Dina.
Huh, that puts yesterday’s comic in a whole new context. Becky sees Dina’s stuff as hers and that it’d be rude to borrow or use it. Whereas Joyce is her long time friend and as such they’ve built a lifetime out of loaning each other things and Joyce has been making a big deal about loaning her things like her phone or her computer.
So, the slight definitely wasn’t intentional, but may have not just been about being overfocused on the job search and missing signals. It may have also been that Becky is used to sharing (non-food) stuff with Joyce, but is relatively new to sharing with others and still worries about overly taking advantage of people.
Which is not to say that she’s taking advantage of Joyce, but rather that they have a long shared history where that has been cleared and established by their long friendship (see how casually Joyce lent her her laptop).
Becky’s boundaries with Joyce have been established, learned, bulldozed, rebuilt again, and built in the minds of the two girls with huge neon signs with accompanying astericks as long as an arm that both girls can recite by heart.
Becky and Dina, sweet as they are, still haven’t felt each other that way. they’re sweet and lovely but new to each other. For a while I can totally see Dina being jealous of that closeness and intimate knowledge of each other’s barriers, but sometimes a bit of jealousy is just something you need to deal with like a responsible adult.
Well put.
I have faith Dina will manage.
I totally thought this said “Dina will marriage,” and I was like whoa whoa whoa slow down now
Like any young couple they have A LOT to figure out. I’m sure they will manage. They talk a lot and got a good start.
Yes, they assume very little, and that will work in their favor.
It’s probably for the best. Dina is extremely direct and Becky’s bad at reading signals, like how the last two strips have had her unintentionally slighting Dina.
I’m sure they’ll get to feeling each other before too long.
flew too close to the sun
*plays Lionel Richie’s “Stuck On You” on the hacked Muzak*
Yay for more awkward virgin lesbian shenanigans.
Now there’s a book title.
I really hope there will be an awkward discussion between Amber and Dina down the line when they compare notes about relationships.
“Multitasking, it turns out, is difficult”
“TELL ME about it.”
The adorableness… it hurts the black pit that I’m told houses my heart.
Wait, wait, wait….
Did Becky just say the “c” word?
She’s growing up fast!
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/angry-2/
That was on purpose. This is not.
Are you really letting the landlines die out in the US? A real landline (no voice-over-IP-bullshit) is much more reliable, still works when your apartment is out of electricity (hell, it works without additional power on a daily basis) and is much more work to tap. Why let something like this go?
Cell phones also work fine when your apartment is out of electricity (in fact, they’re more likely to work then than a landline, because most of those these days use cordless handsets – which are, incidentally, dead easy to tap – with a base station that requires AC power, while a cell is good on battery for a good long while), plus they work fine when you’re not in your apartment at all (and many situations where you really, desperately need a telephone, you’re not in your apartment).
I still have a landline. It’s DSL-only. I haven’t had voice service on it in at least five years. I haven’t missed it.
There have, on the other hand, been quite a few times when I didn’t have a cell phone, and really, really wanted one. Particularly when I was driving a thirty-year-old car.
Also, I’ve found over the years that in a lot of situations where the power is down, so is the phone service, because the wires are on the same poles.
MAKE OUTS!!!
(too soon? …. yeah probably…)
As Dina has just found out, there is a minimum distance below which walking together inevitably leads to getting your legs tangled up with the other person’s.
These two are so wonderfully goofy that I can feel my teeth rotting and breaking in my mouth from the sheer amount of sweetness. Oh, how I dread the inevitable destruction of their happiness.
I could about about stand the last couple of panels.
They are totally adorable,,,,,
Just breaks my heart…..what with the current poll…. that we are gonna be so blind-sided.
Joking aside, the fact that these two are the most…. ‘partner-y’ of relationships gives me intense feels.
This is the softening up? AMIRITE?
I am predicting that Becky runs into her dad while distracted by Dina’s phone.
I get the strange feeling that Dina will be the one to get married while still in university, while Joyce will ironically enough only get married in her thirties.
They are, perhaps, going a BIT fast.
I don’t think so. They’re in the huggy, cuddly, first stages of a relationship. The only thing that seems a bit out of the ordinary is the phone thing, but the phone giving is a response to Becky’s abnormally difficult situation, and a good friend might do the same thing.
I can’t tell what happened. Were they walking and she tripped? Or something else?
Oh that makes more sense than what I was thinking. I thought that cuz Dina is shorter than Becky, she was clinging onto Becky’s back piggy-back style and just lost her grip.
I`ve read through all of these in the matter of a week.
I regret nothing.
It has been quite a journey, going through the various issues one can run into when at College.
Alcoholism, overbearing parents, attempted drug-rape, trauma, figuring out ones own sexuality, getting to terms with the past, getting to terms with ones own social anxiety.
I am surprised you, the artist/writer, manage to go through all of these and still make this comic making people smile. It is quite a feat I say.
Wow, you have had quite the week! I can’t decide if I envy or pity you.
Now you just have to get through roomies itswalky shortpacked and its pregnancy that’s about 15 years of strips
I don’t usually comment but for the sake of clarity everyone has a landline in the uk. we also all have smartphones, wireless and in most cases fibreoptics, but we still haven’t grown a generation of skypers yet. we also have strong stances on creationism, homophobia and racism though so it may be a paralell universe thing (as a public we outprotest right wing protesters, it’s great)
Huh. So, Dina is a controller, then. Interesting.
By that, I mean that she is insisting on being the one relied upon instead of allowing her girlfriend to rely on her long-term friend. I never figured Dina would be like that, though.
At least she’s not using rope traps on the competition this time.
Describing Dina as a controller is pretty harsh.
Apart from this being her first romantic relationship, Becky is the first person Dina’s felt romantic feelings toward at all. This is all completely new to Dina and she’s not going to process it all in a perfectly rational way.
Also she was there when Becky told Joyce she still wasn’t over her. She has reason to be concerned.
It sounds less like controlling and more like she sees a problem and thinks of the most logical solution
Although I guess the most logical solution would be to buy Becky a cheap, pre-paid phone for herself
Yeah, one of those burner phones is pretty cheap. Though I doubt either party has experience with that
I have to smile whenever Dina is on. She has to be the most innocent, good hearted, cutest person there. Sad thing is that people like that often get burned by scummy ‘friends’ or others. Let’s hope that never happens here.
Multitasking is a myth. There is no multitasking – there is only rapid switching between tasks. I personally suck at focusing on more than one thing at a time. If I tried that, I would have lost my balance just like Dina.
More than that, multitasking means doing two or more tasks all at the same time much more poorly than you would do with one task at a time with your full concentration.
That’s how computers do it. Switch very rapidly from one to the other. Though that’s not quite true these days, with multiple multi-core processors in many machines. They really do multitask, at least on certain jobs.
I’m not sure it’s true of humans either. We’re not as simple as “one processor”. We do an awful lot of things basically on autopilot, not really using the thinking part of our brains at all. Like walk and chew gum, as the classic example goes. All sorts of common, repetitive stuff gets done without conscious thought.
Now if it’s a high cognitive function task, you’re definitely right. In this case though, it really isn’t. Dina can certainly walk and carry on a conversation at the same time. She can probably walk and check her phone for new dinosaur information at the same time. The biggest problem there is just not looking around.
She’s just not used to walking snuggled up to Becky yet. Give her a few months and that’ll become just as easy as walking normally and she’ll be able to check dinosaur facts to her heart’s content. I recommend lots of practice.
“new dinosaur: in my new favorite oxymoron.
Be glad she didn’t get ahold of your pants instead of your top.