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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social ⋅ 19h
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Barb O. Saur 
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I’m not gonna ask how she did that. I accept that Dina has powers we cannot fully understand.
Well, we already know that Leslie doesn’t lock her windows…
But I’m crediting this one to Dino-fu
It turns out that the aliens do exist in this universe, but Dina was the only abductee and the aliens gave up early.
They quit after they couldn’t find subject #1 anymore
To the true master, all doors are as one door.
I am conviced she has two points of Obfuscate and rarely fumbles http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Obfuscate_(VTM)
Seems passive, and she reminds me more of a Mage than a Vampire. Few dots in Occultation maybe?
http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Occultation
She’s too well-known for that. You have to actively avoid any public attention for Occultation to not fail. But since we’re talking Mage, I think two dots in Mind, Prime, or Space should do the trick.
Mind yeah, I could see space, but Prime? How do you use Prime to do this?
Instead of just ripping your way between two places with Space, you warp the weave, creating a quantum superposition, then colapse the waveform and pop over utilizing Prime and Space.
or at least, that’s how I’d do it with oWoD.
My Tribe. <3
Well, Prime’s the “true illusion” one, isn’t it? Mind makes people think they see something, Prime actually lets you make it as a magical construct.
Or she is an aberrant character with warp (I am currently playing aberrant and took warp. With my build I only need to roll like 3 successes to get to the moon). To go from outside to behind the door would only take 1 success even in combat… http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Warp
No, she’s obviously one of the Sidereal Exalted.
she is such a mokole, using blur of the milky eye
Thinkshesaurus?
A+ comment.
“Clever girl..”
Dina can teleport at will to behind and open door
Dina’s like Roger Zelazny’s Shadowjack, except a bit more limited: she can manifest in any shadow formed by an open door.
It happened during the eyeroll. Teaching Dina to understand and predict facial expressions unleashed a great horror into the world.
and now im picturing a raptor doing the naruto run
Egoraptor?
Can their arms even rotate that way?
and then all of the cuddles happened
Cuddlesaurus incoming!
THEN EVERYBODY CUDDLED!
Party!
on thing i regret not doing when i was 20 and my family went on spring break was getting a keg of root beer *apparently thats a thing) and leaving it on the counter when they got home to see how they would react considering i am was stereotyped ((not wrongly really))) as a bland person who wouldn’t do much outside the norm. heck some of my friends as literally as possible had their jaws drop when i first time dyed my hair.
So what’s stopping you now?
(doing all the things I regretted not doing when I was 50.)
because im old enough to have beer now.
But you were…
Oh, right. American.
America: Where you can vote and die for your country before you can drink and own a gun, and renting a car doesn’t come for about a decade after you learn to drive. Our laws aren’t a total shambles, though, and if you think they are, you just hate Freedom.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to train as a surgeon, so I can get blamed when somebody’s family member dies of a self-inflicted bullet wound, which they acquired because they thought chugging Fireball and shooting fences were complimentary tasks.
I forgot where I was going with this.
It’s not clear from your post, but in most states you can own a gun at any age.
Federal law restricts handguns to under 18, but not rifles or shotguns.
Even handguns are years before you’re legal to drink. So you can have your first (legal) drink while carrying your gun.
(Of course, you’ve probably built up a good tolerance with all the illegal binge drinking, so it’s okay.)
Some time during dead week my first semester of college, some Air Force ROTC cadets got a keg of root beer to leave in the cadet lounge for the day. Kegs come in a bucket filled with ice (or at least that’s how that rental supplier did it…I don’t know if that’s done for all rental kegs). However, the keg rental place was out of innocuously branded buckets, and all they had left were Budweiser buckets. It was a bright sunny morning, and many people were walking or driving past that area when the cadets hauled the root beer keg in a Budweiser bucket up the front steps of the Military Science building.
I still feel sorry for the ROTC secretary…her phone was ringing off the hook all day with calls from horrified people who were convinced the cadets had unauthorized booze, and that they were giving alcohol to minors.
I see Dina is being adoorable again …
…. again?
…. when did she stop?
Every so often she exchanges adorable for awesome. See: taking on Toedad.
But she was adorable even when she was being awesome.
She always has been durn cute…
A wild Dina appears!
Or rather, the soon to be wild Dina.
She is Rock. So try to use grass or water moves on her.
Becky would throw a wild party in the house of a nice person who is letting her stay rent-free.
If by “wild party” you mean “reading about dinosaurs with her girlfriend”
I think Becky probably does
Whoa now! That’s too wild.
Do you not do that at your parties?
I may be cool but I’m not THAT cool.
Clearly I have been attending the wrong parties.
Well, maybe you’re just too much of a dinosaur to be hanging around the cool modern parties.
..hang on..
I bet your parties are bananas.
Who’s?
wait people actually have parties? I thought that was tv fakeness.
In another universe, Dina cuddling ruined a big laboratory.
This date is going to be so messed up.
I’m looking forward to it!
Yeah, but with Dina back at home I’ll be too distracted by the prospect of a train wreck at home to pay attention to the train wreck on the date.
WIIGII! I was just thinking of Leslie/Mindy earlier when filling out my KS survey!
Becky, that vest is great on you, but I’d recommend something other than a plaid shirt with it.
Especially with plaid tie. Double plaid is terrible. I would recommend avoiding multiple patterned pieces in one outfit as a general rule, really.
Don’t shame the girl for tartan herself up.
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Well perhaps dina will fix the problem of becky wearing all that plaid ^.^
I like the plaid. Kinda makes her look like Barb from Stranger Things.
And Barb was awesome.
The plaid shirt would be fine if not for the plaid tie. Plaid on plaid is kind of hard to look at for me.
But if you don’t have enough plaid, boys might think you’re straight.
That’s…something? I don’t know the actual word. I’ve used ‘racist’ in the past, as a reference to CinemaSins, but the reference was missed, and I got yelled at.
My ears just popped from Bagge squeeing all the way over in Sweden.
Whatever do you me… *reads last panel* SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
….Somebody owes me a new pair or eardrums.
I don’t know if science has found out a way to transplant those yet, my liege.
Queen of Squeeee-den.
You know what, just leave them popped for now. There will be more reasons to squee before the night is over…
Squeee-den? I LIKE it. We should use it for a con or something.
Some of my favorite creators are Squeee-dish. The accent is super fun.
Are you sure it’s not Saskatchsqueewan? Because compressing and storing that much volume into that small of a volume sounds like a case of Can-a-din.
Bit of a stretch, that.
*re-broadcasts Bagge’s squee here in California, making it the Squee Heard ‘Round the World*
Dina you’re supposed to use your powers for good not evil!….Or more accurately potential mischief with your girlfriend.
If making out with someone you care about/love is evil, I think most people here don’t wanna be good.
I am maths% sure Leslie would be okay with this if Becky just asked, but this is more fun.
Bratty teenage daughters don’t ASK to bring their girlfriends over. Becky is working hard on establishing the mother/daughter dynamics (and God, the-bratty-and-confident-teenage-daughter supporting her slightly nervous mom on date night is SO CUTE!)
She’s getting caught up on years of mild teenage rebellion that she missed out on.
So is Leslie going out with Mindy or Anna?
I want to say Mindy, but Leslie looks nervous in a way I’m not sure she would be by getting asked out by Mindy.
Mindy AND Anna. Go big or go home!
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I’ve been waiting for more Becky and Dina
They then spent the next two hours doing nothing but prepare and eat *all* the mac and cheese Leslie bought. Pacing is for the weak.
Okay. Thank you Willis for making me smile in spite of my own demons and depression.
Hearty agreement here. My thought process on the last panel went something like:
1. What is Becky planning?
2. Oh look, Dina’s here.
3. Awwwwwww…
4. Bow chicka rawr rawr.
5. Clever girl.
6. Oh, wait…how did she get here?
Adorable Dina is adorable. Also I wonder who’s Leslie going on a date with? Mindy or Anna?
Yes.
Mindy told her to pick her up at seven, earlier this storyline.
She could have said ‘no’ and gone with Anna.
I’m pretty sure we’re meant to be surprised when it turns out to be Anna.
I’m pretty sure whoever it is, the other will show up.
This date will be messy… maybe even in a good way!
Damn it all.
True! That sounds like the kind of twist Willis would pull.
Off-panel, amounts to a decision made, with no inkling? I dunno if Willis would do that. If so I’d expect more of a hint at the deli line scene.
The “Becky shows up unannounced” was setup by several throwaway panels sprinkled around of Joyce calling Becky and no reply.
I hope not, I’ve had more than my fill of watching Leslie fawn all over a woman while they treat her like shit.
DORM PARTY!
If Leslie’s house is inside its radius, that is going to be one massive dorm party.
I said, a-hey, little girl, what do you do?
I’ve been a-waiting all week for something like you
Because it’s Friday night, and everybody’s in the streets
I say, come on, come on, come on with me
Hey
It’s a Party Weekend
Gonna be some rock and rollin’
Everybody’s gonna get you
It’s a party, a party, Party Weekend
I predict shenanigans and/or hijinks.
If you leave Becky alone for ANY amount of time there WILL be shenanigans. No exceptions.
It’s a scientific constant.
But she’s not alone. Dina is with her, clearly to stop any shenanigans from happening.
Becky WAS alone for about a nanosecond, hence: Shenanigans in the form of an adorable dinosaur chick.
As for Dina stopping the shenanigans…. yeah…
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/04-it-all-returns/superglue/
Yeah, a girl weighing only three atrociraptors ain’t gonna be stopping any of Becky’s hijinks.
But what about challenging malarky? Will no one accept that could happen too?
I’m suddenly reminded of that bit in IW! where Dina and Walkerton wrecked the lab with EXTREEM MAKEOUTS.
I wonder how long Dina’s been behind that door. She seems to be ridiculously good at hiding behind doors.
She wasn’t there in panel two…
I’m assuming she snuck in through the gutter between panel three and four.
The universe suddenly realized there wasn’t a Dina there, and corrected the error
No Dina just has the ability to manifest behind doors.
She apprenticed with Miho.
Ah, this was the endgame to ‘Dina unnoticed behind a door’ all along, wasn’t it?
They can get as frisky as they want for a couple of hours.
You know I completely forgot about this arc, the last one was so good.
Anyway, since I’m pretty sure sooner or later the comments are gonna go to complete nonsense I’m gonna appreciate how cute Becky and Dina are because they are adorable. I hope they have fun. And I hope Leslie has a good time however this works out.
OH MY GOD! You’re from the future! You’ve seen how it all ends, don’t you?
Tell me……in the future……are there…..butts?
…..butts???? butts butts butts. BUTT!
…….Butts…..disease……:(
I predict hawt no-hat action,
Hey, this is a non-kinky comment section, thank you very much!
…Oh, who am I kidding.
Since WHEN?
Since it being forbidden makes it even more fun.
Fair enough! You’re the Emperor, mine is not to question why.
No, yours is to question when.
Sweet, I have a job in this administration!
Not yet.
Oops, never mind.
But how are they supposed to do that?
Are you trying to get the “Yours is to question how” position?
Can I have the “Yours is to question when” position?
If so, when?
thejeff: Not yet.
So long as no one is applying for the sycophant position, I’m good.
Though I must admit, are you wondering if you’ll see any ankles, or do you consider yourself to be a more modern Emperor?
I have dibs on the role of rebel leader.
Now give me a moment while I write some Becky/Dina erotica in rebellion.
At last, Becky’s dastardly ulterior motive is revealed!
On the one hand, they can probably be trusted not to be too irresponsible. On the other hand, Dina being a student and Leslie being faculty does put a degree of responsibility on Leslie, though visiting’s probably fine. (If either of them struck me as the type to break into alcohol that would be a different story) And on my third hand, while I’m certain Amber says she wants to be left alone now, I’m not convinced it’s safe for her to be alone. (And then we have all the issues of introversion versus mental illness in a dorm setting, oh boy.)
Becky’s eye though.
Dina: “Using my powers of near invisibility to sneak into a house is much more fun than I anticipated.”
Becky: “I’m impressed by the fact that you came into the house literally right behind us after we came back from the grocery store and wander around inside for a couple hours without Leslie noticing.”
After replaying the Thieves Guild quests in Skyrim today, this comment made me imagine Dina as Karliah. Until she willingly reveals herself, not even a full-power Aura Whisper will alert you to her presence.
whoah sorry is that you in ur picture? you look exactlylike a friend of mine
It is. Though, if my username wasn’t what you recognised first, your friend is probably just handsome.
not gonna say his actual name but do your friends usually call you JJ irl? and do you do tattoo related stuff?
I am crying tears of joy I love these girls
“bajo amenaza no hay sorpresa”
@Delicious Taffy, who has yet to post but hopefully sees this: Hey, you posted something a bit concerning on here a couple days ago, but I was on vacation then so I didn’t see your comments day of. So…how are you doing?
Wait, what did I post that was concerning?
I don’t remember, but I do remember feeling concern.
That doesn’t sound like me.
“One more incident and I will be in prison.”
And
“Only tangentially related: Had a genuine flashback nd fury not 20 minutes ago. Guess I have actual real PTSD.”
Oh, that.
Well fuck.
On the bright side, r/PTSD and r/CPTSD seem nice. I’m still learning what PTSD actually is.
i wonder if there’s a c-ptsd reddit… it might still be a while before i get back into therapy
Er, you mean that one I mentioned in the comment directly above yours?
The door gag never gets old.
I’m guessing Leslie’s date is going to be the standard final episode of The Bachelorette.
*Bachelor(ette).
Oh wow my daily desktop background picture being the “Double Rawr” poster was a good lead into today’s strip!
Plays Joe Cocker’s “You Can Leave Your Hat On” on the hacked Muzak.
This was exactly what we needed after that feels punch.
On a less chipper note, the fact that Becky reflexively is hiding that Dina is visiting from Leslie might spell some not great echoes of her habits of living under toedad.
‘So me and my girlfriend are gonna cuddle while you’re gone.’ Would have probably gotten a ‘sure!’ But, I think maybe she’s gotten so used to hiding that she kinda . . . has to?
This is certainly possible.
Another possibility is that maybe Becky knows she’ll get permission, but prefers to do it this way because it’s more fun*. And she is then confident that if she’s caught, she’ll at worst get a mild lecture about the appropriateness of asking first.
*And I think we can all agree that using Dina’s “SEP”** field powers for mischief and harmless shenanigans -is- fun.
**Hey, Douglas Adams’ Somebody Else’s Problem is probably one of the more plausible explanations for why Dina can do what she does.
I think it is a bit of both.
Or to elaborate the “fun” half of the coin, Becky is establishing herself as the bratty teenage daughter, and that means being “kind of a troublemaker” by setting “mom” up for dates in the grocery store and bringing her girlfriend over for late-night-snuggles without permission.
But at the same time she doesn’t want to be TOO much of a troublemaker since she – for all her bravado – is still very insecure in her relationship to Leslie. She knows all too well that the sofa she is sleeping on is not her own. So she tries to make her shenanigans as benevolent as she can and she clearly addresses them beforehand to give Leslie the chance to put down the foot if need be. (How effective it will be if Leslie actually DOES put down her foot remains to be seen. Becky can be just about as clueless as Joyce, after all, and Leslie is bad at asserting herself).
Becky lost her mom, she lost her home, she lost the place where she belonged. The only thing left of her entire life up until now is chipmunks and Carols poison darts and a church that turned its back to her… and Joyce (and now also: Jocelyne and Hank). She has built a new life for herself with friends, a job, a future and the most adorable dinosaur chicks, but she doesn’t have a home. She doesn’t have a mom. And Leslie can give her both of those, at least for a little while.
So Becky plays her part. She is not just a houseguest. She is a DAUGHTER. A lesbian daughter to a lesbian mother in a lesbian household. And OF COURSE Becky is a daughter the same way she is everything. By being wacky and funny and goofy and loud and silly and just a bit of a brat and most certainly not a Debby Downer. Smuggling Dina in for snuggling is part of that role.
They’re gonna hold hands and look at pictures of dinosaurs on Leslie’s couch. It’s gonna need thoroughly scrubbed.
Lewd
Dat grin. and DAT grin.
Ah, I don’t think that Leslie can seriously be mad. Becky didn’t really lie, after all, she and Dina can hardly be considered a ‘wild party’ for a variety of reasons. Hell, I don’t think that this is even a breach of “don’t do anything that I wouldn’t do”!
That said, I wonder if Becky and Dina are really ready for this?
If Leslie comes home to find these two cuddling on her couch, more she’s likely to squee herself into a coma than anything else
Leslie and Mindy come through the door in a clinch, tumble onto the couch, there’s an “Oof!” “Ow!”, and they realize they just landed on Becky and Dina.
For a night of watching Steven Universe ? Hmm. I think they’ll manage.
Hey, that show gets heavy.
Alright, that’s it. Dina is the Lady of Worlds, who can travel between alternate Earths. There’s no other explanation.
…It just occured to me Robin will likely knock on the door during this arc, while Leslie’s not there.
… that, or hijack Leslie’s date …
Or both: She knocks on the door, Dinah or Becky let slip that Leslie’s on a date, and HIJACKING SHENANIGANS ENSUE.
The date will go horribly/hilariously wrong, it’s just a matter of how and when.
Also how well said date responds to hijinks.
THIS HAS BEEN UP FOR ALMOST TWO HOURS, AND NOT ONE “CLEVER GIRL” JOKE AS YET.
SON, I AM DISAPPOINT.
(Also, good heavens, Willis. Wardrobe design is seriously on point for everyone in today’s strip.)
We were too excited about girlfriends grinning at each other.
We left them for you
Too Much ‘Clever Girl’ Jokes?
Sexy times are afoot!
I don’t think either of them has that particular fetish.
Sexy times are ahead?
The perks of Dinosaur Girlfriend.
Close the door
Get on the floor
Becky’s gonna do a dinosaur!
Lewd
DATING SCENE X2, GO
What about you, Becky? Do YOU want to ride “the (velociraptor) Bone Train”?
*Plays “Crazy Train” on the muzaks*
Very good song and mostly a very appropriate response to recent world events*… less so to to this.
*Mostly, mind, because the song’s about Ozzy’s generation as of the early ’80s inheriting the reigns of power and stuck with a cold war they didn’t want nor even have a hand in creating yet also had no real means of making just go away. Outside the particular small part of the lyrics referring to that fact specifically however it’s a good match for how many of us feel about the stupid shit going on this year.
I largely chose that song title because I just liked the song and it related to Gwydion’s comment. But then thought about the modern state of things in the world, and now feel a great sadness, as though millions of voices sighed out in reason and sensibility and were suddenly silenced by hate and anger.
On the one hand, I really want to try the plaid-tie plaid-shirt combo. On the other hand, there is no way I pull it off.
Cuteness overload on the last panel.
So hang on, what’s up with the door in panel two? The doorknob seems to be on the wrong side, or something.
Okay, so it’s closed in the second panel, and there’s just a weird gray space (a window?) to the right of it. Got it.
Hoho, Dina and Becky will get down and dirty, they’ll be doing stuff that would make the preacher at Becky’s community rage and denounce them as sinners.
Like watching documentaries about dinosaurs and evolution while cuddling on the sofa.
…. so “get down and dirty” means “paleontology”?
…. I dig it.
“dig”…
FINE, it was kinda funny. You rock.
It was plenty funny, don’t be such a stone face XD
Maybe I just need to start off with a gneiss, clean slate.
Just goes to show, we can never take good comedy for granite.
I’m lavaing on the inside, for one.
Hands up, who believes Robin is gonna crash this date?
Hobo looking Robin… maybe with a fake beard for dramatic effect and to earn extra sympathy points with Leslie.
it always works in the wacky romcoms!
Mildly irritating that those were like my only exposure to romance. Kinda messes up what one thinks is acceptable for romance and what is, in fact, romantic. Made getting dates/dating challenging.
Whooo whoo, Dina time!
Ooooh! You lied to her with the truth! Can I do that?
Schrödinger’s Door:
The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, a Cretaceous Humanoid is simultaneously behind and not behind any given door.
That’s gonna make animating a Scooby Doo Doors chase a lot more work.
True, but it will also increase the number of “Mysteries” exponentially!
WIN!
No, as there is one reason for the caretaker to scare people away from the old barn / amusement park / school.
Multiple Caretakers!
Think outside the box… (door?)
I shoulda seen it coming.
In what panel does Becky know.Dina is there?
Party of two. In bed. wink wink nudge nudge
Wotcher gotcher, mate, know what I mean, wink’s as good as a nod, say no more say more SAY NO MORE!
Yes yes, quite right. Very good.
Noiiiiice!
Ninja Dinosaur Girl! New superhero!
That last panel. <3
It looks like Dina has learned to Apparate behind doors.
Yer a wizard Dina
Can’t say Becky didn’t warn her…
2 hours later, “raucous party” consists of lightly spooning while looking over paleontology articles.
What other interpretation of the phrase is there?
The one where Dina has removed her hat.
woah how lewd
That was legit teleportation. It was in a comic strip, but still, there’s no other way Dina coulda gotten there.
She sneaks between panels.
She hides behind speech bubbles
The second panel is from Leslie’s perspective. To Leslie, Dina is “invisible” because Dina is putting on her Somebody Else’s Problem Field.
Potential premarital hanky-panky!
Lovely to think that with all the pain and conflict in the world, there are still pockets of pure adorable joy.
Cracked it!
Dina ninja’d in while Lesley was doing her “HA HA!” eye-roll in panel 4 !
“How did Dina get in there?”
“Wasn’t easy!”
Dina’s grandfather is Egg Shen from Big Trouble in Little China. Called it here.
I wanna live in the DoA verse, where girls get girlfriends………………………..
Daisy: “I wish…”
Party of two!
(brown chicken brown cow)
Now someone give them beer and chips so we could watch it closely.
Next and most adorable slipshine? Yep
Dina reminds me so much of Igor from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Series. No matter what the circumstances or the geographical layout of where you are, he always has the ability to appear behind you and startle you.
Except here her main ability is appearing and making Becky happy.
And herself! Look at that dino-grin!
Time for HOT HOT CUDDLES!!!
At the recommendation of this comic, I just watched all of Steven Universe in like three days, and now whenever Leslie talks to Becky I just hear Pearl. Thanks, Willis.
This comic led me to Stephen Universe, which wasn’t my thing, but that led me to Gravity Falls so I owe Willis his beverage of choice whenever we meet in person.
*huge Mabel and Dipper*
In case I ever lead you to something good, my preffered beverage is Ginger Ale.
lol, now my brain’s casting Robin in the role of Sugilite. ‘Strong in the real way’ is a good song for Leslie and Becky.
I want to inspire you
I want to be your rock
and when I talk
it lights a fire in you!
Same here to SU.
But three days? Crash course! I wandered around and digested a lot of things, maybe over four months.
Best part: My wife likes YA stuff, and musicalness, and I was able to draw her into it, a bit at a time.
That’s super great, I loved watching su with an so
Oh good, a version of Dora who isn’t currently engaged in morally reprehensible behavior.
dora
The explorer.
…Dina.
So to summon The Willis one must insult Dina. I think the heat death of the universe (DoAvesre at that) will happen first (well, done on purpose).
CUDDLE PARTY
Right after Becky slammed that door “This is How We do it” by Montell Jordan started playing.
Waistline isn’t high enough.