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Brotherin’

by David M Willis on July 19, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Vote for Robin
└ Tags: amber, sal, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    July 19, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

    solid brotherin’

    (more like Solid Snake-in’)

    [should have used more cardboard boxes tho]

    • Chaucer59
      Chaucer59
      July 19, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

      Meh. Once she finds out why he smacked Asher, I think Sal will come around.

    • HeySo
      HeySo
      July 19, 2019 at 7:35 am | #

      I dunno. Running around in a cardboard box and smackin’ people with your solid snake sounds like a quick way to get arrested. It does ALSO sound very Walky, however. At least, it does if the cardboard box is taco themed in design, and the snake is a toy.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    July 19, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

    Okay, so the brotherin’ wasn’t so much solid. Maybe gelatinous brotherin’. Somewhat viscous brotherin’.

    Still a step up over Walky’s usually gaseous brotherin’. Especially when he’s been at the McNuggets.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      July 19, 2019 at 12:29 am | #

      Quick clay brotherin’? Plasma brotherin’?

    • Dean
      Dean
      July 19, 2019 at 12:31 am | #

      Yield stress fluid brotherin’.

    • brionl
      brionl
      July 19, 2019 at 1:06 am | #

      Non-newtonian fluid brotherin’.
      It’s fluid and runny, until you smack it, then it firms up. 😉

      https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oobleck-bring-science-home/

      • Bryan Langley
        Bryan Langley
        July 22, 2019 at 9:17 pm | #

        OMG, you people are going to make me giggle myself into and early grave….

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      July 19, 2019 at 5:28 pm | #

      Is the word we are lookin’ for:thixatropy?

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        July 19, 2019 at 5:29 pm | #

        Or are we looking for the opposit of that?

  3. ian livs
    ian livs
    July 19, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    Aw, and Sal looked so happy, too…

  4. Regalli
    Regalli
    July 19, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    … I was about to comment on their lack of stealth skills, but frankly I’m not sure there’s a single competent rogue in the cast.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      July 19, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

      Dina.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        July 19, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

        Ah, right! We do have Dina.

        • Sunny
          Sunny
          July 19, 2019 at 4:09 am | #

          She’s so competent even us commenters forget about her at times.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            July 19, 2019 at 12:43 pm | #

            Despite being our favorite character, beating the runner up by over 14%.

      • Suitora
        Suitora
        July 19, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

        Joyce, Becky, and Jocelyne broke into their own house, so that’s gotta count for something.

        • Suitora
          Suitora
          July 19, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

          Oh, and Danny has been becoming irrelevant to the point that I forgot he existed for a second.

          • StClair
            StClair
            July 19, 2019 at 12:13 am | #

            That actually happens fairly often.

          • John
            John
            July 19, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

            That’s not the same thing as being stealthy.

            • Zach
              Zach
              July 19, 2019 at 12:51 am | #

              There are plenty of stories of people loosing interest while being arrested and just walking off.

              Being forgettable is a talent!

          • Diner Kinetic
            Diner Kinetic
            July 19, 2019 at 12:51 am | #

            He’s excellent at misdirection everyone just sees his hat

          • Touchfuzzy
            Touchfuzzy
            July 19, 2019 at 1:24 am | #

            Danny is clearly the bard. With the Ukelele and the hat and everyone generally being exasperated at his actions.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            July 19, 2019 at 2:00 am | #

            That’s not stealth, that’s just being inert.

      • Zach
        Zach
        July 19, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

        Who?

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      July 19, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

      WITH CATLIKE TREAD!

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        July 19, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

        [Enter Ruth] “Tarantara, Tarantara!”

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        July 19, 2019 at 12:34 am | #

        Upon our prey we steal!

        • Sunny
          Sunny
          July 19, 2019 at 4:11 am | #

          IN SILENCE DREAD
          OUR CAUTIOUS WAY WE FEEL

          • kdmw
            kdmw
            July 19, 2019 at 9:42 pm | #

            NO SOUND AT ALL!
            WE NEVER SPEAK A WORD

            • Roborat
              Roborat
              July 23, 2019 at 3:55 pm | #

              A FLY’S FOOT-ALL
              WOULD BE DISTINCTLY HEARD

              -dammit people, at least finish the verse.

    • AeromechanicalAce
      AeromechanicalAce
      July 19, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      There’s always Mike, But he uses his powers for Evil.

      Or at least Asshole-ness

      • JetstreamGW
        JetstreamGW
        July 19, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

        Rogues are pretty evil.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        July 19, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

        I’d argue that Mike is an Evil Bard.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          July 19, 2019 at 12:44 pm | #

          Jack of all trades, uses words, ultimately without any real use?

          …. yeah, checks out.

    • Nono
      Nono
      July 19, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

      Joyce is pretty darn sneaky.

      And… Mike?

    • etherealdesiign
      etherealdesiign
      July 19, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

      shame, they could really use the extra sneak attack damage for when blaine comes back

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        July 19, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

        Right? Dina has poor damage output.

        • Miri
          Miri
          July 19, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

          Did you miss the bit where she roared, jumped out at the dude stalking her with a gun, and started trying to bite his face?? She’s a fierce dinosaur and utterly delightful!

          • Regalli
            Regalli
            July 19, 2019 at 12:53 am | #

            Sadly, it did not do much to actually deter him.

            Though that may be because gun just beats dinosaur. She may fare better against Blaine, who while probably a mob stooge seems to emphasize the ‘stooge’ more than mob.

      • lightsabermario
        lightsabermario
        July 19, 2019 at 12:34 am | #

        Ooooh, Dumbing of Age characters in D&D classes! Fun! Ok, let’s see. Dina’s obviously the Rogue. Danny is clearly the Bard, but not the jack-of-all-trades type, just one solely dedicated to buffing others, and built like a porcelain statue. Despite her recent beginnings of a departure from faith, Joyce is still our best bet for a cleric. Dorothy, with her intelligence, needs to be our wizard. Amazigirl should be the Ranger, seeing as her acrobatics are off the scale, she’s good at tracking, and she’s got a fairly high DPS. That being said, as Amber she is more of a barbarian, when she goes into feral rages. Ethan is our tanky Paladin. Sal’s role is tricky, she’s too cool to simply be a fighter, but I don’t know if Monk suits her. Maybe she’s another Ranger. Walky can be the plucky comic relief.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          July 19, 2019 at 12:59 am | #

          Like I said, Mike’s an evil Bard – instead of inspiring his allies he goads his enemies (and we are all his enemies.) Sarah I think is a Warlock whose patron is the Great Pumpkin. Billie is definitely a Fighter. We could still use a barbarian for extra damage output but the best bet on that is Amber and it is not healthy for her.

          • Zach
            Zach
            July 19, 2019 at 2:09 am | #

            But we know Sara’s preferred weapon is a club, and she carries I think a taser?

            Who uses maces?

        • lightsabermario
          lightsabermario
          July 19, 2019 at 1:05 am | #

          Back with more roles for characters. Billie is pretty well suited to be our armored-up, booze-fueled Fighter, the kind that’s the center of attention in taverns with a tankard in one hand and a wench in the other. Actually, the same goes for Joe. Sierra, always barefoot, is a natural Druid. Ruth is currently seeking a sort of enlightenment, and she has excellent hand-to-hand skills, so she can be our Monk. Jacob can be another tanky Paladin, with more faith-based abilities than Ethan. Finally, a Warlock is “a wielder of magic that is derived from a bargain with an extraplanar entity.” If anybody’d do that, it’d be Mike.

          • lightsabermario
            lightsabermario
            July 19, 2019 at 1:08 am | #

            Ooh, I like that idea for Sarah. And now that I think about it, the bard ability “Vicious Mockery” does perfectly suit Mike, so Chaotic Evil Bard it is. Also, glad we came to the same conclusion for Billie.

        • Zach
          Zach
          July 19, 2019 at 1:55 am | #

          Sal rides a steed and hits things. And she’s crazy about her code, and is on an atonement ark. And dulls out sage advice about feelings. She’s a fighter-knight
          Strength>Wis>Cha>Int>Con>Dex

          Dorothy is trying for persuasion and has successfully bluffed many times. She’s a wizard that wants to be a bard SO Bad. She’s multiclassed wizard/bard. Probably illusionist?

          Ruth is a barbarian of some kind.

          Carla… Does D&D have mechanists? If not, sorcerer. Draws power from rich family. And has diabolical machinations.

          Mike is a warlock. He heard they have dark bindings.

          • McBogue
            McBogue
            July 19, 2019 at 2:43 am | #

            Carla… Does D&D have mechanists?

            Artificer.

        • Lokitsu
          Lokitsu
          July 19, 2019 at 4:24 am | #

          Sal could be a dual-classed Fighter/Rogue

    • Deathjavu
      Deathjavu
      July 19, 2019 at 10:56 am | #

      Look, no one competent would have agreed to these hijinks anyway!

  5. Cheesy1
    Cheesy1
    July 19, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    “But in our defense, he admitted to setting you up to get arrested for shits and giggles, so he deserved it!”

    • Lexi
      Lexi
      July 19, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

      I still stick with solid bothering, he even punched Asher so Sal wouldn’t have to when she learned he was an irredeemable shit.

      I mean, Asher may have claimed to be a good guy and turned over a new leaf, but in Sal’s eyes, he’s probably unforgivable. Good to know he won’t cause new trouble, but I wouldn’t really want to go out for brunch with him.

      And hey, now Sal doesn’t get in trouble for the punch that Asher clearly deserved!

      • Blanche Quizno
        Blanche Quizno
        July 19, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

        Solid bothering, or solid *brothering*??

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          July 19, 2019 at 2:05 am | #

          Are they really that different?

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            July 19, 2019 at 12:46 pm | #

            Given that this is a LITTLE brother? Nope.

        • Lexi
          Lexi
          July 19, 2019 at 2:43 pm | #

          Little of Column A, little of Column B, little of Column “Oops, that was a typo”

  6. Questionor
    Questionor
    July 19, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    Walky never did get in trouble as a kid, did he. He clearly has never had to spin why the dog’s the back has a smiley face shaved into the fur.

  7. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    July 19, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    I love how happy Sal looked for that brief moment, but knew that wasn’t going to last when she found out about the punch. But really, if we were in Walky’s shoes, wouldn’t you have done the same thing?

    • Reaver
      Reaver
      July 19, 2019 at 3:35 pm | #

      Naw, I don’t like going to the slammer for assault personally.

  8. etherealdesiign
    etherealdesiign
    July 19, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    i’ve decided that in five years when the asher-sal ship is confirmed, this will be the strip i look back to and say ‘i told you so,’ because amber isn’t the only one who can write terrible slash about people in her head

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      July 19, 2019 at 12:40 am | #

      Sal herself:

      “Is there a movie where a boy and a girl sublimate their wayward horniness through endless bickerin’?”

  9. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    July 19, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    A C for keeping your cool.

  10. BBCC
    BBCC
    July 19, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    He MEANS well, Sal, give him partial credit. He’s new to this.

    And what’s this ‘we’ shit, Amber? You didn’t punch jack shit. 😛

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      July 19, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

      Yeah, Amber, it was, like, a whole thing for you to not be the punchy one.

      • AbelUndercity
        AbelUndercity
        July 19, 2019 at 6:12 am | #

        Amber was being punch-supportive.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      July 19, 2019 at 3:45 am | #

      Yeah, for once it was not Amber doing the punching.

  11. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    July 19, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    “We started a Family Feud.”

    “But Amber’s not family!”

    “Not YET.”

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 19, 2019 at 2:12 am | #

      Which feud? Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Richard Karn, Louie Anderson, John O’Hurley, or Steve Harvey?

      • Ferret
        Ferret
        July 19, 2019 at 12:35 pm | #

        Steve Harvey. Gotta have that look of disbelief.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          July 19, 2019 at 7:07 pm | #

          I don’t think so, Tim. Richard Karn gets my vote. Dawson’s second, but he tended to get kinda grabby with the contestants.

  12. Kern Wallace
    Kern Wallace
    July 19, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

    More like solid botherin’.

  13. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    July 19, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

    Sal realises any fears about Walky taking the Family Badass trophy from her were…okay, Sal was never afraid of that.

  14. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    July 19, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    Go team!

  15. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    July 19, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    Awww, Sal’s happy face is so cute!!

  16. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    July 19, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    “That punch was for vengeance.”

  17. Dave
    Dave
    July 19, 2019 at 12:13 am | #

    Now give Sal the context on the punching.

    And when did they jump Asher? I didn’t think they jumped him, he busted them spying on him.

  18. Questionor
    Questionor
    July 19, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

    Do you think this occurs before or after the make out session?

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      July 19, 2019 at 1:30 am | #

      What about during?

  19. Alex Boston
    Alex Boston
    July 19, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

    Is Amber trying to cover for Walky by implying that she was involved in the punch and allowing Sal to infer that it was not Walky?

    • Zero
      Zero
      July 19, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

      She’s jealous, so she’s taking half credit.

  20. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    July 19, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

    Brother of the year! Which isn’t that hard to achieve considering there are like maybe 3 brothers in this comic we know of and non of them are really setting the bar too high.

    • Mra
      Mra
      July 19, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

      Let’s see Joyce’s Older Brother, Ruth’s Howie, and there aren’t many sisters either. A lot of only childs

      • Nono
        Nono
        July 19, 2019 at 12:37 am | #

        Danny’s older brother who’s in Afghanistan and… Faz.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        July 19, 2019 at 12:49 am | #

        Siblings in the main cast – Joyce, Walky (and Sal obviously), Amber (step siblings count), Danny, Sarah, Roz, Ruth, and Jacob.

        I don’t think we’ve got confirmation on any of the others.

        • Liquid Len
          Liquid Len
          July 19, 2019 at 10:48 am | #

          Lucy has a brother a year older in McNutt

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            July 19, 2019 at 2:52 pm | #

            Knew I forgot someone.

    • TemperaryObsessor
      TemperaryObsessor
      July 19, 2019 at 3:09 am | #

      Does Joe count?

  21. Afterword
    Afterword
    July 19, 2019 at 12:19 am | #

    I may have punched him. It’s a blur, sis.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      July 19, 2019 at 12:32 am | #

      “You punched the Asher?”

      • Lacuna
        Lacuna
        July 19, 2019 at 12:55 am | #

        “Let me buy me a drink.”

  22. Newllend(henryvolt)
    Newllend(henryvolt)
    July 19, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

    What’s this “We” shit, that was all on Walky….Unless she’s trying to cover for him.

    • FacelessDeviant
      FacelessDeviant
      July 19, 2019 at 7:29 am | #

      Or she considers them an item.

      • jeffepp
        jeffepp
        July 19, 2019 at 9:19 am | #

        Yeah. “We”, in this context pretty much says they’re back on. Of course, them going on the investi-date in the first place did too. While there’s a non-zero chance they didn’t make out between there and here, you know they did.

  23. ShinyNeen
    ShinyNeen
    July 19, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

    “… So, good guy? Bad guy…?”

    “He is a guy that has been punched.”

  24. Hoboturtle
    Hoboturtle
    July 19, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

    A swing and a… well I would say “miss” but there probably wouldn’t be a problem if that was the case.

  25. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    July 19, 2019 at 12:28 am | #

    Well, so long as you only just ‘may’ have done all that, I guess it’s OK.

  26. Bagge
    Bagge
    July 19, 2019 at 12:29 am | #

    Still solid brothering.

    Not… perhaps the most constructive action to take, but solid in the brothering department.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      July 19, 2019 at 1:33 am | #

      After all, the punch only happened after Asher confessed to setting up Sal for arrest, something that has led to Amber struggling with serious mental illness for years. So, maybe it was an understandable reaction on Walky’s part.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        July 19, 2019 at 2:32 am | #

        Highly understandable.

        Sadly, it’s in direct contrast to Sal’s VERY hard-earned life lesson (and solemn promise to Marcie) to let past grievances go and leave the crimes against herself and her loved ones go un-avanged.

        • Vukodlak
          Vukodlak
          July 19, 2019 at 5:45 am | #

          Which Sal is keeping, she can’t help her brother.

          • AbelUndercity
            AbelUndercity
            July 19, 2019 at 6:13 am | #

            Nobody can, really.

          • FacelessDeviant
            FacelessDeviant
            July 19, 2019 at 7:29 am | #

            So she is not her brothers keeper?

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          July 19, 2019 at 2:53 pm | #

          I very much hope that is not the life lesson in question, but rather fight smart, or I am going to loathe the rest of everything to do with Blaine and Ryan’s puppets.

  27. Tacos
    Tacos
    July 19, 2019 at 12:37 am | #

    So I guess from brotherin’ to botherin’

  28. NF
    NF
    July 19, 2019 at 12:51 am | #

    The Walky and Amber Awesome Show, Great Job!

  29. Lacuna
    Lacuna
    July 19, 2019 at 12:51 am | #

    “Also we had sex.”

    “…that’s na really relevant.”

    “To you it’s not.”

  30. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    July 19, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

    “We may have committed some light assault and battery.”

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      July 19, 2019 at 1:10 am | #

      “But it was all for you at least, which makes it fine!”

  31. BenRG
    BenRG
    July 19, 2019 at 1:28 am | #

    Poor Sal! Cursed with friends and kin about whom the most she can say is: “Well, they tried and their hearts were in the right place!”

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      July 19, 2019 at 1:33 am | #

      To be fair, that’s has been her OWN best endorsement for a very long time.

  32. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    July 19, 2019 at 1:50 am | #

    At this point, we can only hope he didn’t grow up to be a complete ash-hole.

    • Seregiel
      Seregiel
      July 19, 2019 at 9:29 am | #

      You should be ash-amed.

  33. tirachokko
    tirachokko
    July 19, 2019 at 2:13 am | #

    Bruh you gotta start with the intel, not how you punched him. How she gonna know you punched him for *reasons* if you don’t give em first so the punchening sounds reasonable?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      July 19, 2019 at 2:44 am | #

      Walky probably wants to avoid the ‘why’ aspect. He rightfully suspects that it may send Sal to a very bad place.

  34. Bagge
    Bagge
    July 19, 2019 at 2:33 am | #

    Verdict: Asher is a piece of shit.

  35. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    July 19, 2019 at 2:40 am | #

    You didn’t punch him, Amber. Walky did a Linkara. “I AM A MAN!”

  36. Pallandozi
    Pallandozi
    July 19, 2019 at 4:23 am | #

    Re: Dumbing of Age cast as D&D characters:

    What are their alignments and stats?

    • JBento
      JBento
      July 19, 2019 at 8:34 am | #

      Chaotic Dumb, most of them. Mary, Mike, and Toedad are Lawful Evil, Blaine is Chaotic Evil. Dina is Neutral Good, AmaziGirl is Lawful Neutral, Sierra is Chaotic Good, Rachel is PROBABLY Lawful something not-Evil, Agatha is Precious Cinnamon Roll.

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        July 19, 2019 at 12:25 pm | #

        Depending on your motive, vigilantism might be chaotic good or chaotic evil, but it’s implicitly not lawful.

        • JBento
          JBento
          July 19, 2019 at 12:37 pm | #

          That’s not true: Lawful doesn’t mean “adheres to the laws of land”. You can totally be Lawful and stop a slaver from beating a slave in a land where slavery is legal. It means a strong adherence to a code. I posit that AG is firmly Lawful, as evidenced by her actions in the parking lot, where she wanted to fight Sal but instead of just doing it she tried to goad her onto throwing the first punch.

          • 3oranges
            3oranges
            July 19, 2019 at 4:07 pm | #

            Maybe not the laws of the land per se. But it’s definitely not a matter of a personal code, or say Robin Hood would be a lawful character, and he was one of the archetypes for the opposite. I don’t know exactly how much it changes between different versions, but here’s the text from the 5th edition manual:

            Lawful good (LG) creatures can be counted on to do the right thing as expected by society. Gold dragons, paladins, and most dwarves are lawful good.
            Neutral good (NG) folk do the best they can to help others according to their needs. Many celestials, som e cloud giants, and most gnomes are neutral good.
            Chaotic good (CG) creatures act as their conscience directs, with little regard for what others expect. Copper dragons, many elves, and unicorns are chaotic good.

            I would say vigilantes like Amazi-girl and Batman are definitely doing what their conscience directs, not what society expects of them.

  37. Pylgrim
    Pylgrim
    July 19, 2019 at 4:39 am | #

    Good job letting out of the story the hot & bothered making out times that followed.

  38. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    July 19, 2019 at 4:57 am | #

    “Yeah, I was stupid to get my hopes up”

  39. kilgaen
    kilgaen
    July 19, 2019 at 6:10 am | #

    you tried

  40. Jay
    Jay
    July 19, 2019 at 6:45 am | #

    “…I don’t know what I expected.”

  41. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    July 19, 2019 at 6:54 am | #

    Please don’t tell her why you punched him, please dont tell her why you punched him, please don’t tell her why you punched him.

  42. Makkabee
    Makkabee
    July 19, 2019 at 7:53 am | #

    E for effort, guys.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      July 19, 2019 at 8:10 am | #

      Is that ‘E’ like in E/S/U, or ‘E’, like the nonexistent grade between ‘D’ and ‘F’?

      • Eskimolos
        Eskimolos
        July 19, 2019 at 9:17 am | #

        True facts there was definitely an E grade instead of F in my old middle/high school, and I received it many times, so I am pretty sure that’s the low kind of E.

  43. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    July 19, 2019 at 8:12 am | #

    There’s more to it than that Sal, don’t get mad at them yet, you know Walky is bad at explaining things and Amber is just bad a peopleing.

  44. Seregiel
    Seregiel
    July 19, 2019 at 9:30 am | #

    Have we started a betting pool on whether she already knew and/or guessed about Asher’s call yet?

  45. hof1991
    hof1991
    July 19, 2019 at 10:23 am | #

    Now Asher is much more likely to seek out Sal, when he probably hadn’t thought of her for years. This was a bad misteak on Walky’s part. And I think it is DYW installing a plot device to explain Asher’s reappearance later.

    • Jago
      Jago
      July 19, 2019 at 11:18 am | #

      Why is he more likely now?

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        July 19, 2019 at 7:05 pm | #

        Because he’s had no contact in years and now he’s been reminded.

  46. GollyGamma
    GollyGamma
    July 19, 2019 at 11:19 am | #

    So I updated the fanfic I’ve been doing for fun. The premise is that after a large time skip, Carla ends up meeting a depressed, reserved, and secular Mary. Carla is very confused, and it’s from her perspective. She’s fun to write.

    Here’s Chapter One, so a place to start if you haven’t read it: https://archiveofourown.org/works/19480057/chapters/46370893

    And here’s Chapter Two, which is where we are: https://archiveofourown.org/works/19480057/chapters/47041657#workskin

  47. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    July 19, 2019 at 2:12 pm | #

    Did y’all know there’s apparently conversion camps for people with anxiety? I just found out about this. My roommate was gonna drive me up to the local college in a few days so I could ask about some class thing they supposedly had, that was designed to help coach people like me at social interaction. Well, she just talked to her boyfriend and he said she remembered it wrong and that it’s actually a two-year “You stay here until you’re normal” type thing that one of his PS4 buddies had gone to.

    The way he described it, it sounded exactly like straight camp, except instead of making me straight it’s designed to make me act like a neurotypical. ‘Round these parts, that basically means I’d be conditioned to behave like an impatient moron with no common sense or ability to comprehend simple questions. What a thing to exist.

    • JBento
      JBento
      July 19, 2019 at 5:06 pm | #

      Me reading this:
      “conversion camps” – well, that sounds terrible
      “for people with anxiety” – sliiiightly less bad?
      rest of it: Oh, nope, first instinct was right after all.

      As a general rule, if any part of anything includes the words “conversion camp” but not the words “burn it all to the ground”, it’s not going to be good.

      Glad for you that you dodged that bullet.

    • Inahc
      Inahc
      July 19, 2019 at 5:41 pm | #

      Wow. Like the kind of place to try and beat/electroshock people into compliance? That sounds horrific.
      Or even if it’s based on some twisted interpretation of exposure therapy, that’s extremely traumatic when done wrong. And if you’re not allowed to leave, I’m pretty sure they ain’t doing it right.

      (Damnit, my phone has started having my tablet’s problem where it refuses to remember my name/email for comments. Let’s see if I can remember the one that gets me Dina)

  48. Remmington Steele
    Remmington Steele
    July 19, 2019 at 4:19 pm | #

    still laughing …

  49. Spriteless Girl
    Spriteless Girl
    July 19, 2019 at 7:20 pm | #

    It makes sense that Amber would lead with confessing the worst, since that’s what she instinctively thinks of herself…

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