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Barb O. Saur 
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uh oh Slipknot Hat Head
I wonder if it’ll lead to a different “slip-“
I was just thinking that Willis’s coy alt text might be referring to Just Been Fucked hair.
Great minds and all that, I guess.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw the bed in “Birthday Pursuit” making the “hompk” sound and seeing the couple sleep there.
Becky is turned on by Dina’s hair.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/02-to-remind-you-of-my-love/pokepokepoke/
Definitely feels like something that’s being worked towards.
For some reason I thought this had to do with the band, so I’m glad I clicked the link.
Becky’s scaroused!
When faced with fear, you have a number of options. You can fight, flew, fawn or freeze.
However, upon meeting Dina, a new, unexpected reaction to fear arises…
…you feel JOY!!!
Fight, flight, friend, freeze, flop
And the secret response
Fuck
Should…should I be worried that Dina can apparently hear Becky’s heartrate from a distance? Because that’s something I’ve only known vampires to be able to do.
Because we’ve also seen Dina with fangs recently. And acting rather…bitey.
And she says she likes Dinosaurs so much because they are a constant, and she finds human interaction difficult because people change so much.
And she’s noted as being older than she looks. And she’s very stealthy.
And she encourages Joyce to reject religion in favor of science, and gets upset when Sarah shows signs of superstition. You know, there’s a scene in the book Carmilla where…
You know what? I’m gonna abandon this train of thought. And go see if I have any garlic.
Becky is blushing
Yeah, sure. And while we’re at it, shall we keep all steam rollers and mysterious arrows out of sight, too?!?!?!?
Plus one internet for those references
I QUIT BEING HUMAN BECKY
How many cereals have you eaten in you life?
Someone asks Dina how long she can last without mentioning dinoscience, and she responds “Nine seconds is my current limit.”
Hmm. Fangs is sort of underselling those choppers I think
Can anyone confirm if Dina wears tons of sunscreen before heading to classes?
If she did wear sunscreen, it would have shown in the arc where she went to the lake with Joyce and the others.
While we’re at it, why don’t we check for tentacles in her fingertips?
…Are we sure the Sarazus didn’t bring like thirty coffins full of earth to IU? And mix it with the soil that exists there? Because if they did…
Even if they didn’t, note the presence of a mysterious and deathly pale student in the background of a few strips
Well that would be a fun and utterly weird twist
I was assuming Dina was a velociraptor or some similar dinosaur, but you vampire theory is compelling.
I’m pretty sure fangs refers to only one or two pairs of disproportionately large pointy teeth (one upper and maybe one lower), separated from each other by most of the width of the mouth, around where humans keep their canines.
What we see Dina sporting is two entire rows broad, pointed, edged, and jagged teeth, more akin to bicuspids, each about the same size as the others.
These aren’t fangs. They’re shark teeth. Becky’s going to need a bigger boat.
Quick, throw rice on the ground and see if she counts the grains.
That’s leprechauns you’re thinking of.
Nah it’s also old Chinese vampire folklore. Mind you, Chinese folklore vampires weren’t really much like our modern version.
The counting thing is a pretty common trope in old folk lore monsters though.
Nah.
She acquired Scary Monsters with her part of the Holy Corpse.
I bet she can also hear that the (flourescent) lights are on in a room she is about to enter, before she opens the door. Autistic superpowers!
(But seriously, before my ears got old I could hear the electricity in the walls.)
Oh no… autism woo.
Here’s some wisdom that bears repeating:
Psychiatric labels are NOT toys!
Seriously? Dina’s all-but-stated to be autistic (Willis has said she hasn’t been diagnosed, but if you look at the rates of women – legally-adult women at that, at 19 Dina is one of the oldest people in the main cast – versus men being diagnosed, that’s not too surprising); many, many of her behaviors map out to traits commonly found in autistic individuals (from “big” things like her being quite clearly overstimulated at Joyce’s dorm party, to “little” things like her feeling uncomfortable whenever she’s not wearing her hat); and furthermore, these factors have been recognized by many diagnosed-autistic readers, including Jenny Islander above (I assume, at least, based on their comment) and myself to name just two names.
You made this same comment when Amber having DID was brought up in the comic.
I’ll throw myself in here as a third autistic reader (and a mentor to high schoolers/young adults with ASD) that Dina’s behavior definitely feels like that of young woman with high functioning ASD.
Granted, I’m not a licensed professional qualified to diagnose anyone, but after working around 7ish years in various mentoring settings and having studied ASD for some psych classes I’ve taken, I’m fairly comfortable in saying I usually know what I’m talking about when it comes to this stuff
“STOP THE FACES!” Yes, that strip put my shoulders around my ears. I have been Dina in that situation. Too. Much. People. Stuff. Too. Much. Input. Too. Much. Everything. Cannot brain, buffer full.
Ugh, I had similar issues with lunch during high school (middle school was okay since it was broken down to two grades at a time in the cafeteria (ie 5th and 6th, then 7th and 8th). Anyways, back in high school I’d eat my lunch as quickly as possible then quickly run either to the library or one of the the practice rooms down by where we had band/orchestra classes.
Teachers thought I was just antisocial until I explained how I could hear just about EVERY CONVERSATION within 20ish feet of me and it would
drive my anxiety through the roof.
They didn’t make us sit in the lunchroom in high school, so I found a spot in a hallway that had an empty quad on one side and various utility rooms on the other, and wasn’t on the way to anyplace people went to during lunch. Sitting on the floor was a small price to pay for being able to get away from “the faces” for a while.
You realize you’re talking to an actual autistic person, yes?
Oh god! is Dina hot now?
Always has been
Yep.
feral Dina is just new level of hot that Becky was not prepared for
TBF, Becky’s never been prepared for any of the new levels of hot that Dina’s achieved.
The messy hair definitely improves her hotness though.
Tousled. The adjective you seek is tousled.
Okay, I think Becky would be very into horror movies if instead of a chainsaw lunatic they had a sexy midget hunting down lesbians instead.
Call her a midget, and such a chase may very well be guaranteed.
Velociraptors could use chainsaws!
Okay, probably Deinonychus
She’s not the only one…
I mean, I already love all things horror related
Man, I wish I could get into horror. But it just… squicks me out bad. Even if it’s not gory, I think the anticipation would stress me out too much.
I can’t watch it. Definitely too stressful.
I kinda miss enjoying horror. But since I left my teens, it’s just … well, bored me, honestly. It used to give me so much joy, too…
I’ve always been into horror video games and suspense movies but have a hard time watching “horror” movies because seeing “real” people die always bothered me.
Dina understands the Zooey Deschanel affect.
+1 Internets for you
Joyce isn’t here, Becky, why’d you ask? (joke)
alt text: *clap clap*
*Sound of one hand clapping*
*Sound of other hand clapping*
*Sound of both hands clapping separately at the same time*
I thought the comments would be ALL clapping. I came here to be a small part of all the clapping. Clap, dammit!!!
*claps furiously*
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
CLAP CLAPPITY CLAP CLAP
Beat
Ooooh messy hair as in ooooooh
CLAP CLAP CLAPPIN’
I’d clap everything I got, but NO-ONE wants to see me twerking to clap dat ass.
Chirp! um, I mean Clap!
*aggressive clapping*
Dina gives me Toph vibes in panels 2 and 3.
You are referring to Toph from Avatar, rigbt?
I can kinda see it… which is funny because otherwise those two characters aren’t really alike at all.
It’s also funny because Toph would call you out on using “I can see it.”
I’m getting more “Kuvira at the end of Book 4” vibes myself.
Striking! Simply striking!
This could very well be another “earthquake” before the “eruption”, although this is uncertain until another report of peripheral euphoria.
So we’ve gone from hompk! to chirps? I’ve learned far more about dinosaurs from Dina than I ever did in school
And in regards to the alt text
*frantic clapping intensifies*
Well if you go by the logic that dinosaurs are early birds, you’ll have some early geese, and some early cheepers. Probably a few that clucked and some that crowed.
Headcanon is telling me that ‘HOMPK!’ is the attack cry while ‘chirp, chirp’ is more of a mating call.
Ooh right that makes sense
Sure I’ll clap, but not with my hands.
Forgotten rationale: Becky had a transfixion in what’s under Dina’s hat
I’m sorry, I have to release this thought somewhere.
“She who claps with her hands has forgotten the face of her father. I clap with my heart.”
If your heart is clapping, I suggest you seek medical attention.
Hrrnggg Willis I wanna show my support for messy-haired Dina but I’m dummy thick and the clap of my asscheeks is… okay I lost the thread on that one.
Clap
Poetry snaps.
Either Dina’s predator senses are more honed than ever or Becky’s heart is working unpaid overtime.
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
*thinks somebody ELSE can quote Rocky Horror Picture Show*
…I for one welcome our new Sneaky Dina
OverlizardsOverbirds.I love Dina.
All these comparisons are rather fascinating. Not unconnected to the fact that accounts of dragons and demons from around the world were very well inspired by dinosaur fossils.
https://imgur.com/a/X1oej8j
Fresh Walky harem shenanigans. I’ve honestly been looking forward to doing this one for weeks.
I love this, especially that last panel.
This has to be my favorite one yet
I misread licky style as lucky style and was momentarily very confused.
That not withstanding – this was wonderful and perfect, and I love it.
Oh no! Things got even more complicated. I love Carla’s expression in the last panel.
Okay, (1) Carla continues to be awesome, and (2) I love how you convey motion with her ponytail.
^^^
Magnificent.
I approve so much.
Lovely! I’m with StClair, your ponytail swishing game is so satisfying. Its funny how your fanart is, on the one hand, well exploitative right, thats the point I guess, but on the other hand super restrained and almost kinda coy at times? Like, Walky’s reluctance in this series doesn’t really parse to me as directly taken from the comic (he really just seems oblivious, and when he was with Dorothy he was absolutely DTF as I recall–no hangups there), so it seems like you chose for him to be… Kind of a Becky I wanna say? “I’m above expressing desire but I guess if you don’t leave me a choice I’ll allow myself to enjoy it” kind of deal?
…are you *maybe* a bit of a bottom would you say XD
I’m not SURE if I’m a bottom because I am a virgin. I will say however I do love the idea of being manhandled and toyed with a bit. I can literally only get into Femdom if I’m looking at porn though. Maledom does not do it for me and it’s certainly reflected in my art. I’m also playing into harem anime tropes (through which this series is inspired) where the main character is very rarely a horndog (because otherwise there’d be no story. They’d just all make out and do naughty stuff every episode).
For me the focal point of this series is just taking the characters and finding something unique to do with them in a lewd context.
Sarah stuff focuses on height difference
Joyce stuff focuses on unrelenting affection
Jennifer stuff focuses on being busty, flexible and bratty
Lucy stuff is more lovey dovey
Danny stuff involves the twins because him and Sal already have a thing and it was just sorta too perfect.
Amber stuff will most likely be a combination of being Thicc and being athletic (a glorious combo to have)
o3o I often think certain characters have a certain appeal. Generic stuff with characters bores me. I really like to play into their attributes (though more often than not I’m guilty of imparting my own headcanons on them to fit my own tastes, I won’t lie). I at least TRY to stay in character <3
Well Carla was certainly very on-brand- in the context of this horny spinoff thing =)
I am LOVING Walky harem shenanigans. At this rate you’re going to run out of characters pretty soon. Im hype for next month when were scraping the bottom of the barrel and see Stacy start to put on lipstick
Brilliant. Your drawings are becoming a much anticipated part of reading the comments.
I’m glad :3 Dunno how much longer I’ll keep it up.
Add me to the “great ponytail” list. And you reminded us that Carla’s on her skates while keeping the close-up. I love that kind of imagination in composition.
I clap both for messy Dina hair and for the hope that they’ll clap cheeks at some point.
Clap cheeks? what does that even m–
*deep blush*
*squeaky voice* –nevermind I figgered it out
I just figured the hompfking drawing of Dina and Willis is already trying to get me to draw more!
https://imgur.com/a/6oRHFm0
Fuck it I want more sexy hair Dina.
**claps**
Holy crap.
Becky, just admit to your girlfriend that this is what you want.
This drawing does not disabuse us of the notion that Dina is a vampire.
Dina: Vampires are not scientific
The good Doctor has seemingly gathered much evidence indicative of such in the comments above, however, and is evidence-gathering not part of the scientific method?
Now, if she were really a vampire, then she wouldn’t be able to cross running water, or get her picture taken on film.
Have we seen Dina do either of those things? Have we really?
She got her picture taken on her birthday (and with Becky), and if she didn’t, someone would have noticed by now.
Not if she vanished behind a door.
@Wagstaff: Aha, but digital photographs do not use film!
Can digital cameras take pictures of vampires? I thought the whole “they can’t be photographed” thing had to do with old-timey black-and-white film using silver to capture images. CCDs don’t have any silver in them…
I know of at least one fic writer who’s made that distinction.
I… think so? For a moment I thought that the viewfinders would be a problem (since they work on periscope-reflections), but apparently they work off of internal reflections in a prism rather than silvered backs, so… maybe?
Most point-and-shoot cameras use a simple plastic tube or a tiny screen displaying the image sensor’s output. No mirrors.
SLRs use a mirror to reflect light from the lens through a prism to the viewfinder. But are they silver mirrors? I thought they were made with aluminum instead now. Is it the mirror’s reflectivity that can’t show vampires, or does it come back around to the silver thing again?
Maybe they can’t be photographed because of all the glare from them sparkling in the sun.
Vampires can be photographed, but you have to break an expensive camera every time you want a picture.
Oooooh! The hat is slipping
poor Becky’s gonna just burst at this rate.
Unleash the flood gates.
Becky, you are most emphatically not alone.
Everybody Clap Your Hands
*clap clap*
If Dina wanted to (or was aware of the effect she was happening) Becky would be putty in her hands. The super goopy malleable kind.
Are you referring to Karen Horney’s definition of masochism?
Or, more likely, that feeling you get when you “melt” from pure arousal?
Yeah that one cuz I don’t know anything about the first thing you said.
I’m just here to approve of your bold use of “happen” as a transitive verb with a direct object!!!
*retreats into nerd cave*
I am now clapping. I’m not sure when I’ll stop.
I sure hope all our claps are not rendered inaudible by the sound of Becky’s beating heart!
[sets up a applause machine, complete with clapping, cheering, and whistles]
[places mic in front of machine]
[turns on]
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP!
Clap harder, people.
Look at Dina with her “hanky-panky me” hair.
Look at her slipping it back under the hat, in the process lifting her hat
In panels 2 & 3, she does look a lot like Amazi-Girl did just before she ravished Danny that one time. We all know what’s going on.
Now, which comic was that again?
Uh huh, sure, we believe you, Becky.
*claps into microphone and speaker cranked up to 20,000 Telsa”
Noooo Dina don’t retuck the hair it was cute!
Don’t worry. With all of our efforts, we’ll get it untucked or destroy the planet trying.
Panel 2 is god tier.
I think Dina liked getting on top of Amber. Now I think she’d enjoy getting on top of Becky.
That’s weird. I saw this strip on Patreon last night, but I’m not on the “see tomorrow” tier. I figured it was a bonus strip.
It happens. Sometimes the posts get screwed up or Patreon glitches. You got a freebie!
Or, if you’re so inclined, you could pay 16 cents to make up the difference. XD
Hey, how’ve you been feeling? Did the dye help?
10 Print “Clap. ”
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A reference to BASIC? Oh, that makes me so happy! Almost as happy as seeing this strip, in fact!
[raucous, terrifying applause]
*clap clap clap*!
Clever girl
If you want Messy Hair Dina clap your hands *clap* *clap* *clap*
If you want Messy Hair Dina clap your hands *clap* *clap* *clap*
If you want her and you know then you’ve really got to show it
If you want Messy Hair Dina clap your hands *clap* *clap* *clap*
*clap* *clap* *clap*
*clap clap clap*
*Raucous, terrifying applause ensues*
“May the odds be ever in your favor.”
By the way, is that title a reference to the god banished by Zeus, or my favorite Pixar movie?
Honestly, my quote is just derived from some meme or other.
These two need a safe word before their hompk-ing role play gets out of hand.
I really can’t think of any instance of Becky or Dina taking anything too far.
You know, except for everything.
You’re right, is what I’m saying.
Geez Dina seems thirsty in the middle panels
Just a tiiiiiiny little bit
Thirsty for BLOOD
Didn’t realize Becky was on her period.
i mean, look, i’m as horny as anyone else here, and will absolutely cheer for Dina and Becky finally getting physical, but it’s kind of weird to me to read Dina as actually lustful and deliberately trying to seduce her gf. like that feels at complete odds with what we know of her character so far, you know? she just loves being a predator who lurks up on her unsuspecting victims you know
…then again who knows maybe she’s picked up on Becky’s “hints” after all and decided to take matters into her own claws! HOMPK!
*initiates Orson Welles-level intensive clapping*
At this rate, Becky is going to end up breaking something!
I feel that Becky’s beliefs that she can be gay but she still can’t have sex before marriage don’t make a lot of sense.
I realise that the process of deconstructing one’s beliefs sometimes results in it feeling like it’s fine for *other people* to do a certain thing, just not me.
But when it comes to oneself, I feel as if “I can be gay” is a step onward from “I don’t have to be married to have sex” rather than a step before it.
Most of her beliefs don’t make a lot of sense.
The way that Becky’s dealt with her religion’s homophobia is in stark contrast to how Joyce has dealt with it. Joyce did deconstruct her religion and is in the process of walking away from it step by step.
Becky DIDN’T walk away from it and didn’t deconstruct it. She realized she was gay, that she didn’t have a choice, and swiftly decided that God was completely 100% a-okay with that because… I dunno, personal relationship or something. She’s not given it any sort of careful examination, which is why she still believes in stuff that won’t stand up to careful examination.
Joyce didn’t really deconstruct her religion either. She just lost her faith. No careful examination, just losing the feeling of God
Well, she didn’t deconstruct it on an intellectual level. But she did do so on a moral level, reevaluating most of what she’d been taught and seeing it (and her previous community) as deeply wrong. That’s what led to her losing the feeling. Becky didn’t do that.
She feels guilty for throwing out so many of the principles she knew, so she’s got a death grip on this one to compensate. It’s an emotional response, not a logical one.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-10/01-birthday-pursuit/signalling/
Personally I feel like they are on separate lines entirely because understanding and accepting WHO you are attracted to is okay is a very different line of thought from WHEN you should feel comfortable sleeping with them. I honestly think you’d want to be more sure of the former before trying to reach a conclusion on the latter.
Well, she doesn’t feel she *can* be gay, she *is* gay. God made her gay, but acting on her sexual desires is a choice.
Great. Now I gotta go write primal kink erotic fanfiction. Thanks a lot.
God I cannot stress how much I love these two, and I sincerely hope Willis doesn’t break them up because Goddammit it’s going to happen, isn’t it?!
Probably Valentine’s day, two or three years from now.
Won’t be next year. Willis has just introduced the problem of differing libidos, and he’s going to want more than 8 months to toy with our emotions with that before bringing it to its narrative conclusion.
Feral Dina as adorably scary
Dina is both terrifying and hot in the 2nd and 3rd panels.
Wait… Don’t tell me that Ruth’s secret wish is to fall under the relentless attack of a wild, cruel beast that can eat her alive!?!
Sadly Daisy will never realize this.
Daisy’s thirsty enough that if Ruth undoes he top button of her shirt, she’ll be all over her like a lioness on a gazelle.
This craze for not getting haircuts is affecting: Dina, Walky, Joyce (?), Amber, Becky (after the Significant One). Am I missing anyone? Joe?
Questionable Content is losing readers.
I think you’ve put your thumb on it.
Is that why it’s going all “how do you do, fellow kids” about livestreaming lately? (Any reason for more Marigold is reason enough, but still. I just hope it doesn’t get awkward like Bill Holbrook’s comics when he references “piercing ornaments” and “avatars”.)
Is Roko getting a haircut the exception that proves the rule?
QC has lots of haircuts, or at least enough that people complain about the characters there getting haircuts.
People are going to complain anyway, but I wonder if that’s connected with QC’s on-again off-again relationship with time. Enough plot has happened for several years worth of the characters’ lives, but they’ve aged at a glacial pace.
I think it makes more sense to think of it as a series of broadly connected vignettes, rather than a linear progression of time (like DoA). Hairstyles and fashion come and go, but the characters stay the same. It’s like Big Nate going through the seasons and annual story arcs (school starting, the holidays) even though the characters just repeat the same grade over and over.
????????????????????????
Uh oh Dina, you too are falling to the stupid sexy hair trap. I remember falling into the stupid sexy Flanders trap as a young oblivious ace. Ran out of clean clothes during college, ended up wearing a snug brocade dress.
I almost caused a car accident. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; There was a funky intersection on a major street that intersected with the major road the college was on, and it was a college town so a lot of the population was young, dumb, and horny. I learned to respect (and fear) the power of horny that day, even if I cannot feel it.
(to clarify I was out of ‘lecture going daywear’ clothes so I wore a nice formal dress instead of my usual jeans, t-shirt and oversized dark blue leather thrifted trenchoat. I lived in that coat. It was hideous and broken but it kept me warm and sheltered and I loved it.)
do not bring back messy hair dina
our libidos cannot take it
Quit clapping you cocky boobs
Dina, be careful! Giving your partner a brief, ‘accidental’ glimpse of what you normally keep covered is HARDCORE flirting.
I don’t think Becky can handle the challenge of the Feral Dina.
*claps frantically*
Same, Becky, same……..
Broke my own no-commenting rule for this… confused sexual awakening? I’m 43 for fak’s sake. Guess that’s the way into a geologist’s pants, feral Dina.
yo how much clapping we talking about here? I can schedule a minute every day if you’d like
Chirp chirp, motherfucker
Clever Girl! *applause*
“You thought it was a velociraptor– but it was me, Dina!”
DINA BRANDO!
I’m clapping. Damn you Willis, hear my clapping from entire states away.
Dina’s been pumping up her adrenaline. For . . . things.
Dina is such an accommodating and wonderful gf.
She also has excellent hearing. She’s the whole package Becky. Get a ring on that finger.
If this strip runs on Peter Pan fairy logic, does that mean if I say I don’t believe in Mary she’ll disappear forever?
Only one way to find out…
I DON’T BELIEVE IN MARY!
*starts clapping like crazy*
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reminds me to never anger Dina…
Becky remember to lock the door this time!
Getting some serious Sadako (the girl from The Ring) vibes from Dina. And maybe it’s the ‘Pandemic dry spell’, but it’s certainly doing it for me, as much as it is for Becky.
Messy Hair Dina isn’t enough, Willis.
You need to keep bring her Savage version more times.
Please, tks.
For Dina, For Becky, For Dinosaurs and Lesbians Everywhere: CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP!
Honestly, walking into a room and hearing a chirp-chirp behind me would be more creepy than hearing a low growl…