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I’d have to say yes purely based on how fandom-y she is in both this universe and the Shortpacked! universe. I honestly cant imagine that she didnt read homestuck.
I’m sure he went to all the work of digging out the old file and slightly recoloring it to make it a hint more glowery just for ktbear. That’s totally something Willis would do.
… or maybe he did that years ago and he’s got a dozen different subtle variations and he’s been trolling us for years with change blindness to see how long it takes for us to notice. That’s totally something Willis would do.
Willis is NOT so webcomic god. He’s just an artist who happens to be/have godlike powers, … At the “Damn You” level of art,….artistry,… Ok.
Webcomic god. I sit corrected.
Ungenuine: Lacking in sincerity or authenticy e.g. saying things that aren’t meant, lying, reacting with anger to cover up embarrassment or using sarcasm and snark to deflect from vulnerability are all ungenuine. Someone being genuine is being honest and meaning what they say and not disguising their feelings – someone ungenuine therefore has to in some way not be being so. It is also a far more polite way to refer to it than calling someone a damn liar, fakey or other such words that have an aggressively negative tone to them and stronger negative connotations.
Are you saying that DYW draws all those damn freckles all over her and then draws her clothes over that? If that’s the case, I’m never having a character with freckles/dalmation spots.
Lucy, honey, you have to build up significant trust before it comes off as good-natured ribbing and not ‘shit she might be serious.’ Save it for finals week.
… didn’t Lucy cover up for Billie and probably save the relationship? If that doesn’t build up trust, then it at least created a pretense in which Billie should pretend that trust had been built in order to maintain that cover.
Also Ruth knows that she’s hideously insecure and does stupid things sometimes. It’s not that she wasn’t being cruddy about the relationship but she and Ruth would get past it.
Billie, you suck at ungenuinousness. You are a raging bad liar in both walkyverse and dumbingverse, you actually care for others but try to hide it with alchohol and violence threats, and no lie you have told has benefited you. You are no different than Walky and Joyce.
In-universe, I’m not sure that’s the case. Walky has been compared to a carmel lollipop. She’s a different type of hot, yes, but Walky’s technically outperformed her in terms of getting significant others, too. (2:1, which doesn’t seem like a lot, except of course for the fact that we’re just a couple months into freshman year.)
Har, har. My point (such as it is) is that Willis has depicted her as naïve, socially awkward, and a bit needy, but also intelligent. This probably has no great significance – I can easily imagine Willis likes writing such characters – but it is possible that it will be relevant to some future plot point (Chekhov’s IQ).
It certainly didn’t look like that in the earlier strips though. She wasn’t at her desk looking around at them. She didn’t have books or a computer in front of her.
She was sitting in the chair facing them. It’s really hard to read that as anything other than sitting there watching them sleep.
What IS possible is that she was in the room (maybe standing), and then when they started moving/talking, she saw an opportunity to engage in some light trolling of her roommate. This would explain why she sat down the way she did–it was a deliberate attempt to appear like she’d been watching them cuddle. That fits better with this strip’s dialogue, I think.
I think that’s kind of unfair, I think she’s just got an awkward sense of humor, combined with Billie being obtuse as fuck sometimes.
That, and like how Joyce once thought Lucy was mocking her, she’s just kind of like a tamer version of early Joyce. Very earnest and bubbly, bit naive. Though, not literally pairing people she knows off like Joyce did way back when, like Joyce shipping Walky and Billie initially.
I’m actually liking Lucy here. She may be a little naive, but she seems like a genuinely nice person. A little gentle ribbing hardly strikes me as an outrageous response to Billie’s bad temper.
Changing the subject, there’s this character that was occasionally prominent in Shortpack and the main Walkyverse. He was a bit of a jerk, but I wonder why Willis never used him in DOA.
There was Ninja Rick, who was basicly a single gag over and over again and Willis isn’t bringing into a deep story like DoA. (Though I hope to at least see a background cameo of him dressed like a ninja on Halloween.) Then there was Ronnie who… I think is now a poster on Mary’s wall, and isn’t featured more thoroughly for obvious reasons. Jake Manley hasn’t been shown to us yet but is in the story. Other than that, I don’t know who….
… you mean Batman, don’t you.
…. nope, can’t figure out who you’re talking about.
Name was Marcus Whiner, yellow hair, blue shirt, jeans, … lived in McNutt hall. Argued like udly with his dad, Blame, who was visiting. Nobody paid attention. Was shown first week, didn’t care for Joyce, and was fell from favor, and was dropped after that.
I choose to believe that Ninja Rick has actually been in every single DoA strip. If you haven’t seen him, well, what part of “ninja” didn’t you understand?
Also, for the most part, Lucy is well adjusted and decidedly not creepy. Billie is wrapped up in her high school insecurities, and Malaya is mostly misanthropic. Lucy’s just had a bad run of roommates.
You should explain that Ungenuinemons are the anti-particles of the virtual carriers of the Genuinemon Quantum Field, which completes the Unified Substandard Model of physics.
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It’s okay, Lucy. I enjoy it too.
….. I wonder if Lucy knows what a kismesis is
I’d have to say yes purely based on how fandom-y she is in both this universe and the Shortpacked! universe. I honestly cant imagine that she didnt read homestuck.
Fair play, Lucy.
What? Theres no way Im first…
well good news
OooO! You got in trouble!
/5 year old
Also, Willis’ gravatar looks extra grumpy this evening. THat’s the same image as always and I’m just projecting based on the comment, right?
I’m sure he went to all the work of digging out the old file and slightly recoloring it to make it a hint more glowery just for ktbear. That’s totally something Willis would do.
… or maybe he did that years ago and he’s got a dozen different subtle variations and he’s been trolling us for years with change blindness to see how long it takes for us to notice. That’s totally something Willis would do.
Willis is NOT so webcomic god. He’s just an artist who happens to be/have godlike powers, … At the “Damn You” level of art,….artistry,… Ok.
Webcomic god. I sit corrected.
Dumbing of Age Book 10: No Enjoying How Cute You Think We Are!
Y’know, accurate.
Yeah, that beats DOA Book 10: Shut Your Stupid Face.
“Shut Your Stupid Face” seems like the perfect tsundere Valentine’s Day card. Not that Billie or Ruth would have any experience there.
Dammit, SO close…
Oh no, she didn’t say “Lucy Says”.
Classic ref.
Damn that hits hard.
It’s a damn shame that Flashbeagle isn’t available on streaming anywhere.
There’s a few copies on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMR58e891o
I like the dolly zoom that makes it look like Snoopy’s moonwalking up the street. Ah, 80s animated corner-cutting!
Okay so that’s not the entire special, but looking for it sent me down a rabbit hole. I finally popped out of it with two interesting bits of trivia:
– The special was directly inspired by Flashdance. Charles Shultz drew Snoopy in Alex’s dance/exercise getup after seeing the movie in theaters.
– Fergie voiced Sally Brown.
If you’re still looking, there’s a full copy floating around the web and it’s also a bonus feature on the Snoopy’s Reunion DVD.
…yeah, that is soooooo adorable.
The comic has been up for 9 minutes, and Ana Chronistic has not commented. Call the cops.
This but unironically?
Last time, it was because Ana was writing a flame over hotel online cancellation policies. I don’t think the SWAT team is needed just yet.
…Can someone Define ungenuine?
And don’t be a smartass going “the lack of genuine-ness”.
If you’re not going to accept not genuine the Collins would have us believe it means false.
Not to be confused with anti-genuine.
I think it’s her way of saying “fakey”, but this way doesn’t make me want to bellow in her face.
If you have to exclude the obvious answer when you ask a question, then you’re just answering yourself.
Ungenuine: Lacking in sincerity or authenticy e.g. saying things that aren’t meant, lying, reacting with anger to cover up embarrassment or using sarcasm and snark to deflect from vulnerability are all ungenuine. Someone being genuine is being honest and meaning what they say and not disguising their feelings – someone ungenuine therefore has to in some way not be being so. It is also a far more polite way to refer to it than calling someone a damn liar, fakey or other such words that have an aggressively negative tone to them and stronger negative connotations.
So you’re saying ungenuine is just…tsundere
More or less, yeah.
That’s one form of ungenuine, yes.
Ie. Not genuine.
Pretend that was just below Sam’s post.
That is the literal meaning of it though.
One who is not Ginuwine.
All wines should be Genuwine.
In my day, we simply said someone was full of sh!t.
Maybe Lucy has “other things” on her mind?
Somebody commented a couple days ago about the freckles on Ruth’s shoulders. Looks like she’s got them on her thighs, too (panel three).
Oh, she’s got ’em all over.
Are you saying that DYW draws all those damn freckles all over her and then draws her clothes over that? If that’s the case, I’m never having a character with freckles/dalmation spots.
Dalmatian
Do you not draw your characters layer by layer, staring with the skeleton and working your way to the clothes?
Why yes I do. Doesn’t everyone do it that way? Is there another way? :—p
You could always start with the clothes and work your way in to the skeleton.
This conversation is managing to be very creepy.
Oh, we can make it much creepier. Let’s start by re-reading Ray Bradbury’s short story “Skeleton.”
That was me, about her shoulder blades.
I really ought to scrape together the Slipshine $$$ to find out where the rest of her freckles are.
And part of me wants to know if she loses some of her freckles when DofA gets into deep winter (if it’s ever going that far).
She has freckles on her but she is fine.
“But”?
Freckles are quite up there on my list, along with glasses. Those are two reasons I like Dorothy.
(I hit Post early)
…and Ruth.
Given there are at least two non-redheads with freckles (Rachel is the other) I wonder if there’s some author appeal at work.
I, too, would have a glazed smile after a good ribbing.
Even if they are pretty good at the ingenuine divisional.
Billie is fully justified in slaying Lucy to protect her image.
Lucy, honey, you have to build up significant trust before it comes off as good-natured ribbing and not ‘shit she might be serious.’ Save it for finals week.
Yeah, Lucy. Everything you try is at least slightly awkward. Quit trying.
Well, then, how will she ever get unawkward?
… didn’t Lucy cover up for Billie and probably save the relationship? If that doesn’t build up trust, then it at least created a pretense in which Billie should pretend that trust had been built in order to maintain that cover.
Eh, she made one save. That doesn’t exactly tie them together in any sort of implicit trust bond.
Also Ruth knows that she’s hideously insecure and does stupid things sometimes. It’s not that she wasn’t being cruddy about the relationship but she and Ruth would get past it.
It’s Lucy versus Lucy Van Pelt.
Billie, you suck at ungenuinousness. You are a raging bad liar in both walkyverse and dumbingverse, you actually care for others but try to hide it with alchohol and violence threats, and no lie you have told has benefited you. You are no different than Walky and Joyce.
She’s hotter than Walky, so at least she’s got that silver medal.
In-universe, I’m not sure that’s the case. Walky has been compared to a carmel lollipop. She’s a different type of hot, yes, but Walky’s technically outperformed her in terms of getting significant others, too. (2:1, which doesn’t seem like a lot, except of course for the fact that we’re just a couple months into freshman year.)
… so she’s ungenuine in her ungenuineness. Doesn’t that makes her even more ungenuine.
Genuinely so.
So . . . that’s why she was sitting watching them? She was enjoying how cute they are?
I mean, wouldn’t you?
Yeah, probably. But that means the whole ‘I’m not being creepy’ spiel was improv. That’s very quick-witted of her.
yu
?? Yes, but to be fair, she has an entire day between scripts to think about it.
Har, har. My point (such as it is) is that Willis has depicted her as naïve, socially awkward, and a bit needy, but also intelligent. This probably has no great significance – I can easily imagine Willis likes writing such characters – but it is possible that it will be relevant to some future plot point (Chekhov’s IQ).
Eh, she was just in the room and studying. They woke up and she looked over, from the sounds of things. It’s honestly not particularly weird.
It certainly didn’t look like that in the earlier strips though. She wasn’t at her desk looking around at them. She didn’t have books or a computer in front of her.
She was sitting in the chair facing them. It’s really hard to read that as anything other than sitting there watching them sleep.
What IS possible is that she was in the room (maybe standing), and then when they started moving/talking, she saw an opportunity to engage in some light trolling of her roommate. This would explain why she sat down the way she did–it was a deliberate attempt to appear like she’d been watching them cuddle. That fits better with this strip’s dialogue, I think.
Yo like I love Lucy but there’s still this level of creepy and uneasiness with her.
Her fangirl tendencies have been extended to, basically, being a fan of her in-universe friends, which… pretty well is creepy.
Lucy is our ongoing reminder to never write real-person fic.
I think that’s kind of unfair, I think she’s just got an awkward sense of humor, combined with Billie being obtuse as fuck sometimes.
That, and like how Joyce once thought Lucy was mocking her, she’s just kind of like a tamer version of early Joyce. Very earnest and bubbly, bit naive. Though, not literally pairing people she knows off like Joyce did way back when, like Joyce shipping Walky and Billie initially.
I’m actually liking Lucy here. She may be a little naive, but she seems like a genuinely nice person. A little gentle ribbing hardly strikes me as an outrageous response to Billie’s bad temper.
Dumbing of Age Book X: No Enjoying How Cute You Think We Are
Touche’ alt text, touche’
Lucy, stop trying to distract from how creepy you were being!
She can’t stop it; now that its all out in the open like this. . .
Changing the subject, there’s this character that was occasionally prominent in Shortpack and the main Walkyverse. He was a bit of a jerk, but I wonder why Willis never used him in DOA.
What was his name again? Mark Warning?
Marty Washington?
I know it started with an M.
Let’s see.
There was Ninja Rick, who was basicly a single gag over and over again and Willis isn’t bringing into a deep story like DoA. (Though I hope to at least see a background cameo of him dressed like a ninja on Halloween.) Then there was Ronnie who… I think is now a poster on Mary’s wall, and isn’t featured more thoroughly for obvious reasons. Jake Manley hasn’t been shown to us yet but is in the story. Other than that, I don’t know who….
… you mean Batman, don’t you.
…. nope, can’t figure out who you’re talking about.
Name was Marcus Whiner, yellow hair, blue shirt, jeans, … lived in McNutt hall. Argued like udly with his dad, Blame, who was visiting. Nobody paid attention. Was shown first week, didn’t care for Joyce, and was fell from favor, and was dropped after that.
Come now. Clif clearly just forgot that Guns is female.
No fair making me snort milk through my nose. I should know better than to catch up on the comments while eating breakfast.
I choose to believe that Ninja Rick has actually been in every single DoA strip. If you haven’t seen him, well, what part of “ninja” didn’t you understand?
Kind of makes you wish you could hack Willis’s account and go back and leave Ninja Rick tags at random.
Headcanon says Ninja Rick is a landscaper at IU, we just never see him because he’s a ninja.
Maybe Lucy has ” other things” on her mind?
Per Dora, “I’ll stop when you stop being so adorable!”
Lol, mais most of us assumed it REALLY was a checklist. We don’t give that gal enough credit.
Maybe if Lucy could write using a recognisable language, instead of thick horizontal lines, we wouldn’t have these sorts of mixups.
AAAAAAAAAAAALPHA SWEEEEEEEEETIE!
Heh, sure got them, Lucy. And me, for that matter.
I still ship Lucy with Dorothy, however.
Thank you. She is Very Good and deserves praise and friendship
Not to be confused with ingenuity.
If it was Dorothy (or Joyce attempting to be like Dorothy), it would’ve been a full on checklist. (Or Dina, she could’ve had a checklist.)
Also, for the most part, Lucy is well adjusted and decidedly not creepy. Billie is wrapped up in her high school insecurities, and Malaya is mostly misanthropic. Lucy’s just had a bad run of roommates.
Alt-text: I blame it on the fact that they keep releasing their most powerful ungenuinemons.
You should explain that Ungenuinemons are the anti-particles of the virtual carriers of the Genuinemon Quantum Field, which completes the Unified Substandard Model of physics.
So they aren’t one of the pokemon in the most recent game release? Guess that explains why I can’t find them anywhere.
Come on Billie, what should she do, put a hand in front of her eyes?
She is learning fast.
What are regionals?
The Regional Ungenuineness playoffs.
Qualification round for nationals.