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Not at all, we all love Ana, I was just making a joke about Ana not making the first comment.
(Which happens from time to time, I know, but it’s still rare enough that it’s fun to comment on.)
The bike thieves in my town are rather adept at riding one and pushing a second bike along beside them. The cops either don’t or can’t do anything about them, and to everyone else they’re just part of the scenery.
Me too, but I live in Amsterdam, so possibly that doesn’t count. Also, I’ve carried my locked bike across town without anyone commenting. Bicycle keys are tiny, they fall out of pockets…
It’s more a combination of it being
1. The same dudes each time
2. Different bikes each time
3. Sometimes the former chain/bike lock is still present
4. The bolt cutter being loosely held across the handle bars of the bike they’re riding.
5. The rate at which locals report stolen bikes to the police
It’s not always all of these. But theres a high enough occurrence in a small enough town that… well… it /could/ be decent folks just having a day. It just computes to something else very reasonably.
Ah, self-love. It’s the subject of corny songs and cheesy internet memes.
But it’s important to seriously reckon that self-love is the foundation of all love. Self-love isn’t about being proud or immodest. It isn’t about deluding ourselves that we have some special importance. It’s about being secure in our self-worth. When we don’t have an abiding internal sense of our own worth, we often end up seeking validation from external agents (some of which are more than happy to take advantage of us).
but Wagstaff, the song isn’t corny it’s sarcastic ^^
to the extent that it says anything about self-love, and in the larger context of the show where this is a running theme, i think it’s that without a healthy sense of self-worth, women are especially vulnerable to prescriptions about body-normativity, insidiously repackaged as feminist based on a recuperation of the “personal is political” maxim and of the idea of radical self-love.
“It never meant that everything that’s personal is political, but here we are with bikini waxing as a political statement.
(…)
(it’s) this idea that if you’re a feminist, everything you do must somehow be bent to fit this idea of your own personal politics, even if it might be or should be inherently apolitical.
(…)
we see a lot more acknowledgement these days that men don’t get off easy in the body-imperative marketplace. But (…) the difference is that they don’t often have to defend their personal or physical or sexual choices as political ones.”
It’s the same basic poison as social media, and of many religions.
It starts when individuals create an image, or god, as an idealized amalgamation of their greatest virtues, and then cling to these fabrications, preferring them to reality. And slowly people become alienated from themselves, through unfavorable comparison of their selves to an image, a god they forgot THEY created.
I think she might go for it. She does actually like him and has hinted at him before he could’ve made a move. But I do also think that’s too obvious now. Sal’s kind of been getting in her own way with her cool loner shctick this story so she could easily blow this.
It’s the guy who can’t stand up for himself and the girl who can’t stand anyone else. They’d get on like a house on fire. Screams, flames, people running for safety…
I’m betting that Willis faffs about with Sal and Asher for a little bit, then Danny and Sal go out for a bit. Eventually, Danny gets insecure about Asher for one of a dozen reasons and that insecurity manifests in the form of a few issues that eventually ends the relationship.
I don’t think Asher would be the problem. Sal is definitely attracted to him but as long as he’s dating Jennifer I don’t see them hanging out much. Honestly I think a surprise Ethan reappearance would threaten any future romances involving Danny.
For whatever it’s worth, it’s not that hard to ride one bike while holding a second bike upright. The common term for it is “ghost-riding”. Just grasp the second bike where the handlebars meet the stem and hold it out at arm’s length to one side or the other, as shown here.
My next spoil-yourself 4m4z0n gift is going to be one of those square frying pans that people use for bento omelets. I’m insanely jealous that you eat omelet rice. Just cus I wanna try making it and haven’t had the chance to yet.
My mom’s had two of those for literally decades, although she doesn’t use them for omelets as such. But she does make an omelet-like fried egg (crack a single egg into a swirl mixer, add some chopped onions and green peppers, then pour into the pan and fry it hard), and the pan makes the finished fried egg just the right size to put between two pieces of bread with mustard and Miracle Whip. Fresh fried-egg sandwiches ….. yummy!!
Interesting. I think it’s a cute pairing, but I am mostly wondering what brought it on, since Danny had not previously pursued her, really. Like, I wonder what else is going on, both in his life and if they’re still tutor/student buds or what.
Well when Sal joked(?) about it when Danny was flirting as aggressively terrible as possible, Danny kind of stammered out that he liked her, but he’s only capable of having romantic feelings for one person at a time, which was Ethan.
Yeah, I remember that strip, but there was the possibility from it that Walky has seen Ethan looking like that on social media. And actually looking back at that strip, it seems ambiguous enough that Walky could have been referring to Ethan before the new semester.
I doubt Danny has much chance with Ethan anymore. Not after the last time we saw them together, when he was badmouthing Mike in front of Ethan in the hospital.
It’s true. Mike’s emotions are no longer a factor, because he’s physically incapable of having them anymore. Unless he’s Jennifer now, which I refuse to rule out.
o3o I’d buy bouquets for myself if flowers didn’t cost a million dollars. And…y’know. I didn’t like creature comforts like video games and candy way more than flowers. It’s probably why I’m not romantic.
video games count as creature comforts? XD
i’m sure to an alien ethnologist that would appear every bit as abstract a pleasure as the esthetic enjoyment of dead plant genitals
Eh, besides impractical, bourgeois gifts, Romanticism and it’s fallacious ideals really did a lot of damage to the ability of people around the world to lead successful emotional lives.
It’s likely that not being romantic is actually a good thing.
Bouquets don’t have to cost a million dollars (though I guess it depends on how much the metaphorical million dollars is equated to), though they can be expensive. But I like to buy a cheap one from time to time as a little gift/decoration. They can be nice to have around.
People can destroy those cable-style bike locks with their bare hands. The really cheap ones just pull apart, and the ‘better’ ones are just aircraft cable anyway. “Locks only keep an honest man honest”, after all.
I like to think Danny locked his bike to a nearly full rack, but when he returned all the other bikes were stolen, leaving his surrounded by cut locks and one front wheel still chained up. Because it’s just not a desirable bike, it’s the last one standing.
I thought of this solution when I remembered when I built a notification system for my mail box when I was a kid. The mail man got scared of it, but didn’t specifically think it was a bomb.
Maybe I need to build a dye pack or something for use in bikes…
Pink paint just means they’re gonna trash your lock extra hard because now they gotta spraypaint over it later on and that’s material cost they could be using on meth or lootboxes.
Nah, it’s just twenty-odd-year-old bike theft trauma reasserting itself once more. In another lifetime, Danny had his bike stolen; as I recall, it was inspired by an autobiographical true crime story
I don’t even let mine out of sight when I’m in a store. It has to be right by the front window of wherever I’m shopping, because I know some smug asshole is gonna try stealing it and then get all uppity about it when they’re caught in the act. Can’t even ride it to Walmart (or really anywhere since my house is right by the highway and there are no fucking sidewalks in this hellhole).
That’s Illinois, but I imagine Indiana is more or less the same thing, just with more queer and Irish people.
The hell part of the world are you in where you don’t worry about thieves?
Someone tries to break into every car in the neighbourhood on a nightly basis to steal loose change. We just kind of have a laugh about it now like ah shoulda locked your car mate the nickel bandit strikes again
He asserted himself in the face of his crush telling him in no uncertain terms that he’d have let Mike laugh at Danny if he were in a coma.
Yeah Danny shoved his foot in his mouth, but everything he said about Mike was true. No it’s not okay to joke about someone never waking up from a coma, but what the hell kinda person do you gotta be so that someone thinks it?
Someone who thinks it’s fun to wind up a mentally ill person just to see what happens next, sabotages someone else’s new relationship rather than just asking to switch bunks, uses blatantly false misandrist bullshit to justify beating a guy halfway to Hell, and seduces their best friend because they can use that fornication to needle said best friend’s crush?
I mean, the bestest guy ever because his previous-universe version was a slightly less abhorrent ass-wipe. That’s how we’re supposed to think of him, right?
This scenario remember me of “Romeo and Juliet”. I just hope there will not be the same amount of tragedy, but a poor bike has already disappeared… not a good sign! I’m sorry, I love this couple, but something tells me they can’t be happy.
No, no. It’s like the Sherlock Holmes inversion of the dog that didn’t bark. The significant point is that the old bike didn’t disappear in spite of Danny buying and giving a new one away to Sal. Just as Sherlock could conclude that the dog knew the interloper, so we can conclude that Night Guy was on patrol protecting the campus and surrounding environment. Otherwise, it simply doesn’t make sense.
I’m worried because there’s no way Dumbing of Age will let two burgeoning romances where both parties have standard amount of relationship drama stand at the same time.
A bit of digging turns up that Kenya (south of Ethiopia) was under German authority for a few years during the 1880s, and a quick back-calculation based on the current rate of the sliding timescale (10 years real-time =4 months comic-time) suggests that Danny was about 13 years old then.
Danny needs to learn how to ride a bike with one hand, while ‘towing’ another bike with the other hand by steering it where the handlebar meets the post.
It’s kinda slow, but it works.
Either that, or take the front wheel off the second bike and wedge its front fork onto the rear axle of the one you’re riding. Sometimes you can do that if both bikes have quick-disconnect levers.
I’m just here to point out that Sal also took Danny’s helmet. So unless Danny bought another at the mall, he was biking around helmetless, and Sal now has TWO because of her roller derby helmet.
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Danny encountering Sal immediately after losing a bicycle is a multiversal constant.
…something’s not right here
Exactly, Danny’s bike wasn’t stolen!
Maybe Danny’s ‘good egg’ charm is enough to keep him from being robbed… for now.
Willis continues to build towards his surprise Sal/Joe and Joyce/Danny pairings.
They all somehow agree to go on a double date, but they get mixed up about who’s paired with whom.
Joyl and Doe?
Doyl and Joe
“Jal” and “Dance”
Maybe he left the bike at the bike store.
Does this make you the new Ana?
Was there something wrong with the old Ana?
Not at all, we all love Ana, I was just making a joke about Ana not making the first comment.
(Which happens from time to time, I know, but it’s still rare enough that it’s fun to comment on.)
Seems a little too in-character for Danny for it to reach ‘something is not right, here…’ levels.
Every Jerry needs his Beth, after all……..
Here’s how you’re supposed to do it, Danno
That’s somehow an even more Dannyish way to do it, so I’ll actually give him props for NOT doing that. Perhaps there’s hope for him after all.
The bike thieves in my town are rather adept at riding one and pushing a second bike along beside them. The cops either don’t or can’t do anything about them, and to everyone else they’re just part of the scenery.
I’ve ridden a bike while pushing a second bike beside me for non-crime reasons a few times…?
Me too, but I live in Amsterdam, so possibly that doesn’t count. Also, I’ve carried my locked bike across town without anyone commenting. Bicycle keys are tiny, they fall out of pockets…
You don’t keep your on a key ring? I have mine on a key ring attached to my wallet.
It’s more a combination of it being
1. The same dudes each time
2. Different bikes each time
3. Sometimes the former chain/bike lock is still present
4. The bolt cutter being loosely held across the handle bars of the bike they’re riding.
5. The rate at which locals report stolen bikes to the police
It’s not always all of these. But theres a high enough occurrence in a small enough town that… well… it /could/ be decent folks just having a day. It just computes to something else very reasonably.
ok yeah, that does end up looking pretty sus. if i were them and i was doing such great business though, i would buy a van.
How did you?
Hmm….. who do you know of who might be hungry for some wonder-bread?
Good question. Danny deserves to be with someone who appreciates him.
Good for you Danny, you got to love yourself first and foremost before someone else can.
This immediately popped in my head when I read your comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2lmojePnA0
Ah, self-love. It’s the subject of corny songs and cheesy internet memes.
But it’s important to seriously reckon that self-love is the foundation of all love. Self-love isn’t about being proud or immodest. It isn’t about deluding ourselves that we have some special importance. It’s about being secure in our self-worth. When we don’t have an abiding internal sense of our own worth, we often end up seeking validation from external agents (some of which are more than happy to take advantage of us).
Can confirm: couldn’t find love on mirror; have wrecked life looking for love in toxic pairings.
but Wagstaff, the song isn’t corny it’s sarcastic ^^
to the extent that it says anything about self-love, and in the larger context of the show where this is a running theme, i think it’s that without a healthy sense of self-worth, women are especially vulnerable to prescriptions about body-normativity, insidiously repackaged as feminist based on a recuperation of the “personal is political” maxim and of the idea of radical self-love.
see, e.g., Andi Zeisler:
“It never meant that everything that’s personal is political, but here we are with bikini waxing as a political statement.
(…)
(it’s) this idea that if you’re a feminist, everything you do must somehow be bent to fit this idea of your own personal politics, even if it might be or should be inherently apolitical.
(…)
we see a lot more acknowledgement these days that men don’t get off easy in the body-imperative marketplace. But (…) the difference is that they don’t often have to defend their personal or physical or sexual choices as political ones.”
It’s the same basic poison as social media, and of many religions.
It starts when individuals create an image, or god, as an idealized amalgamation of their greatest virtues, and then cling to these fabrications, preferring them to reality. And slowly people become alienated from themselves, through unfavorable comparison of their selves to an image, a god they forgot THEY created.
Danny: I like pretty things! …Like you.
That’s kinda gay bro
Danny is pretty though. He’s also not really smooth enough to pull off that line.
Danny: Do you like pretty things, like flowers… or me?
It made me smile gaily too, Mr Crow.
MC Hammer knows what Danny likes, for he can’t lie.
Thought I heard something about how things happen in cycles?
Wanna play something to break your Muzak back in?
Sal: “Did you buy condoms too?”
AmaziGirl always had them on hand.
No one has any idea what they’re doing here, and that is fine.
As the sentimentally romantic sap I am, I cannot help myself by going, “Awwww…!” at this strip.
Guys can like flowers and pretty things! It’s 2021. Get outta your box, Sal!
I brought you some flowers because I knew you would enjoy watching them die.
As a guy, I wouldn’t mind if a girl gave me flowers. I’d probably kill them since I’m bad at keeping plants alive, but I’d enjoy being given them.
But they’re flowers, implying “cut flowers”. They’re already going to die, which takes the burden off you.
My wife also has a brown thumb and doubly enjoys flowers for the above reason.
Oh Danny boy, you are so… you. I really want this ship to sail but I fear the wrath of the Willis. Who wants to make bets on what’s going to happen?
My money is on Sal asking Danny out, and him bumbling (albeit sweetly) through their date.
I think she might go for it. She does actually like him and has hinted at him before he could’ve made a move. But I do also think that’s too obvious now. Sal’s kind of been getting in her own way with her cool loner shctick this story so she could easily blow this.
It’s the guy who can’t stand up for himself and the girl who can’t stand anyone else. They’d get on like a house on fire. Screams, flames, people running for safety…
Danny has recently learned the power of Self-Respect.
Also he gets off on being dominated so he’ll be fine.
My money’s just on her telling him “you missed your chance”, for one reason or another. That’s the vibe I’m getting from their interactions lately.
Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling…
…From glen to glen, and down the mountain side.
I’m betting that Willis faffs about with Sal and Asher for a little bit, then Danny and Sal go out for a bit. Eventually, Danny gets insecure about Asher for one of a dozen reasons and that insecurity manifests in the form of a few issues that eventually ends the relationship.
I don’t think Asher would be the problem. Sal is definitely attracted to him but as long as he’s dating Jennifer I don’t see them hanging out much. Honestly I think a surprise Ethan reappearance would threaten any future romances involving Danny.
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking too.
A move’ll finally be made and out walks Bully Siegal with Thor’s hammer.
I’m kinda shipping them now. Seems like Sal and Danny in this universe would be a much healthier couple than their counterparts in the other universe.
There are no healthy OG-Walkyverse pairings involving either Danny or Sal, honestly.
For whatever it’s worth, it’s not that hard to ride one bike while holding a second bike upright. The common term for it is “ghost-riding”. Just grasp the second bike where the handlebars meet the stem and hold it out at arm’s length to one side or the other, as shown here.
I CAN’T WAIT until bouquets are replaced with something else as the *official* gift of affection.
They’re expensive, impractical, and just so bourgeois.
Counterpoint: they look pretty and smell good.
So does a well made meal, but you can’t eat a bouquet (usually).
Counter-counterpoint: They looks awful and smell gross.
exCUSE me?? If flowers “look awful and smell gross”, then what are your standards for looking pretty and smelling good?
Zoidberg.
Is it still bourgeois if the flowers were
stolenliberated?In any case, I have to disagree with your premise. It’s only fair to give her a gift that is as ephemeral as your love.
Just who are you referring to? Love in general or just Danny’s?
In either case, even if the love is ephemeral, a well-made meal is too, but you can’t eat a bouquet (usually).
Even if you could eat a bouquet technically, it doesn’t taste nearly as good as, say, Mac and Cheese!!!!
I don’t like Mac and Cheese, Mr. Wagstaff.
Oh. Do you like Omelet Rice? Or Crispex corndogs?
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten either of these, so…
Both?
You won’t regret it! At the very least, not if I made them…
Oh! I didn’t mean that in a romantic kind of way!
But those are still EXCELLENT dishes and definitely worth trying out when you get the opportunity!
My next spoil-yourself 4m4z0n gift is going to be one of those square frying pans that people use for bento omelets. I’m insanely jealous that you eat omelet rice. Just cus I wanna try making it and haven’t had the chance to yet.
omelet rice sounds delicious wtf
Silly Voidsiren. Square frying pans are for making cornbread.
My mom’s had two of those for literally decades, although she doesn’t use them for omelets as such. But she does make an omelet-like fried egg (crack a single egg into a swirl mixer, add some chopped onions and green peppers, then pour into the pan and fry it hard), and the pan makes the finished fried egg just the right size to put between two pieces of bread with mustard and Miracle Whip. Fresh fried-egg sandwiches ….. yummy!!
They are just as expensive, impractical, and bourgeois as whatever would probably replace them.
Specially grown Love Cabbages.
A well-made meal provides marvelous taste and nutrients. A bouquet does not.
A well-made meal can be the best-cooked in the world, but if I’m not hungry it’s just going to sit there and go cold. And then I’d feel bad.
Said meal is gone very quickly while flowers last for a few weeks,
Interesting. I think it’s a cute pairing, but I am mostly wondering what brought it on, since Danny had not previously pursued her, really. Like, I wonder what else is going on, both in his life and if they’re still tutor/student buds or what.
Well when Sal joked(?) about it when Danny was flirting as aggressively terrible as possible, Danny kind of stammered out that he liked her, but he’s only capable of having romantic feelings for one person at a time, which was Ethan.
So he’s probably given up on that.
What a waste of money, you stupid monkey.
If she doesn’t want them, there’s always Ethan.
No, Ethan didn’t come back after break. He’s back home.
Has that been confirmed anywhere, or is it speculation?
It’s been actively contradicted. Walky’s said he’s seen him since returning from break and he looks super emo now iirc.
Yeah, I remember that strip, but there was the possibility from it that Walky has seen Ethan looking like that on social media. And actually looking back at that strip, it seems ambiguous enough that Walky could have been referring to Ethan before the new semester.
Then who’s Mike supposed to be disguised as, then?
Jennifer and Booster. And switching back and forth between them is quite enough to keep them busy.
I doubt Danny has much chance with Ethan anymore. Not after the last time we saw them together, when he was badmouthing Mike in front of Ethan in the hospital.
On the other hand, Mike’s not around much anymore.
And I don’t think either the Jenifer or Booster identities would appeal to Ethan.
It’s true. Mike’s emotions are no longer a factor, because he’s physically incapable of having them anymore. Unless he’s Jennifer now, which I refuse to rule out.
word of Willis that Jennifer is Mike.
I would put the link, but I can’t remember the name of the file I put the link in so that I would have it when needed.
Danny will try again with renewed vigor when he meets Goth Ethan.
Well, he ain’t stepped on a rake yet.
So that’s a plus
There’s still plenty of time for him to do so.
Oh hey two more faces what with I want to kiss each other.
This is adorable and I can actually see it working. They like eachother and Sal seems to find his goofiness endearing
The noises I made are not human. This is SO CUTE, aaaaaahhhhh Danny.
I can only imagine what unearthly noise you made sounded like. Glad to see you’re enjoying the Danny/Sal ship as much as I am.
Possibly most spot on alt-text in this series. Easily top five.
Yeah, when the natural order is disrupted so implausibly, it’s necessary to lampshade it in some manner.
o3o I’d buy bouquets for myself if flowers didn’t cost a million dollars. And…y’know. I didn’t like creature comforts like video games and candy way more than flowers. It’s probably why I’m not romantic.
My gifts to my latest ex were all video games and fudge. Shd certainly enjoyed the useful gifts.
I just want a gf who can beat me in fighting games
video games count as creature comforts? XD
i’m sure to an alien ethnologist that would appear every bit as abstract a pleasure as the esthetic enjoyment of dead plant genitals
Eh, besides impractical, bourgeois gifts, Romanticism and it’s fallacious ideals really did a lot of damage to the ability of people around the world to lead successful emotional lives.
It’s likely that not being romantic is actually a good thing.
Bouquets don’t have to cost a million dollars (though I guess it depends on how much the metaphorical million dollars is equated to), though they can be expensive. But I like to buy a cheap one from time to time as a little gift/decoration. They can be nice to have around.
I love getting bouquets as gifts, simply because they’re so rare for me to get. I can count the amount of times I’ve been given them.
Unfortunately, people don’t check which flowers are safe around cats, so most of them die outside.
Jeez, even Willis doesn’t think Danny’s sharp enough to buy a lock for the bike. Sick burn?
He bought a lock, he just forgot to lock his bike to anything.
Though in my college town, there were definitely bike thiefs who weren’t stopped by locks, especially some of the types.
*thieves, lol…
People can destroy those cable-style bike locks with their bare hands. The really cheap ones just pull apart, and the ‘better’ ones are just aircraft cable anyway. “Locks only keep an honest man honest”, after all.
I like to think Danny locked his bike to a nearly full rack, but when he returned all the other bikes were stolen, leaving his surrounded by cut locks and one front wheel still chained up. Because it’s just not a desirable bike, it’s the last one standing.
Just clip a bunch of colored wires, tubes and electronic-looking things to it. Chances are the thief will think it’s dangerous and won’t mess with it.
I don’t want to risk being arrested for a bomb scare.
I thought of this solution when I remembered when I built a notification system for my mail box when I was a kid. The mail man got scared of it, but didn’t specifically think it was a bomb.
Maybe I need to build a dye pack or something for use in bikes…
I’d simply recommend adding a spoiler and bright pink paint to your bike. Nobody would wanna be caught riding that!
What if they identify as a girl? And like pink things?
Add flames to the side!
All girls are deterred by flames.
What if they’re also a pyrophile? Or a fan of Fire Force?
Well, I guess my logic has been backed into a corner.
The only other thing I could recommend would be to cut the brakes entirely.
Maybe it’s just destiny for your bike to be eventually stolen?
Not if I can help it!
With the power of SCIENCE!!!
Pink paint just means they’re gonna trash your lock extra hard because now they gotta spraypaint over it later on and that’s material cost they could be using on meth or lootboxes.
Nah, it’s just twenty-odd-year-old bike theft trauma reasserting itself once more. In another lifetime, Danny had his bike stolen; as I recall, it was inspired by an autobiographical true crime story
Is Indiana that so insecure you have to woeey about lock you bike?
If it’s like the rest of America, yes, since the early ’60s.
I don’t even let mine out of sight when I’m in a store. It has to be right by the front window of wherever I’m shopping, because I know some smug asshole is gonna try stealing it and then get all uppity about it when they’re caught in the act. Can’t even ride it to Walmart (or really anywhere since my house is right by the highway and there are no fucking sidewalks in this hellhole).
That’s Illinois, but I imagine Indiana is more or less the same thing, just with more queer and Irish people.
The hell part of the world are you in where you don’t worry about thieves?
Someone tries to break into every car in the neighbourhood on a nightly basis to steal loose change. We just kind of have a laugh about it now like ah shoulda locked your car mate the nickel bandit strikes again
The fuckin’ audacity of that person. They could at least tidy up the floorboards.
“woeey”
kkkk
Dannys never going to suck a dick , is he?
Well, he’s been goin’ pretty ham on his own, especially in the lead-up to the timeskip.
He asserted himself in the face of his crush telling him in no uncertain terms that he’d have let Mike laugh at Danny if he were in a coma.
Yeah Danny shoved his foot in his mouth, but everything he said about Mike was true. No it’s not okay to joke about someone never waking up from a coma, but what the hell kinda person do you gotta be so that someone thinks it?
Someone who thinks it’s fun to wind up a mentally ill person just to see what happens next, sabotages someone else’s new relationship rather than just asking to switch bunks, uses blatantly false misandrist bullshit to justify beating a guy halfway to Hell, and seduces their best friend because they can use that fornication to needle said best friend’s crush?
I mean, the bestest guy ever because his previous-universe version was a slightly less abhorrent ass-wipe. That’s how we’re supposed to think of him, right?
He sucked on self-respect. Dicks are secondary.
I’m going to assume that Danny does like pretty things even though the bouquet is probably for Sal.
This scenario remember me of “Romeo and Juliet”. I just hope there will not be the same amount of tragedy, but a poor bike has already disappeared… not a good sign! I’m sorry, I love this couple, but something tells me they can’t be happy.
No, no. It’s like the Sherlock Holmes inversion of the dog that didn’t bark. The significant point is that the old bike didn’t disappear in spite of Danny buying and giving a new one away to Sal. Just as Sherlock could conclude that the dog knew the interloper, so we can conclude that Night Guy was on patrol protecting the campus and surrounding environment. Otherwise, it simply doesn’t make sense.
Danny can make a flower crown from that bouquet. His head has looked naked for a while.
So the nerd in me what’s them to hook up and it be the best sex Sal ever had. Make it happen.
That would, in fact, be an interesting development. Unfortunately it would require that Danny find it disappointing.
Sal strikes me as someone who unloads a lot of aggression when boning.
Which is helpful, since Danny wants someone to be aggressive at him.
Yes, Sal, he is interested in you “that way”! So, now you’ve got to decide what you’re going to do about it!
Maybe it’s Maybelline
You know…
I’m not against Danny actually having a chance with Sal in this timeline.
Woah dude, you are absolutely hopeless (tho not necessarily in a bad way)
…smooth?
Well, at least very Danny.
the romance in this chapter continues to be suspiciously non-bad
This has all the trappings of a non-toxic relationship, and I don’t trust it.
I’m worried because there’s no way Dumbing of Age will let two burgeoning romances where both parties have standard amount of relationship drama stand at the same time.
Danny just crossed the “pure romantic” border and is entereing the “inconvenient one” territory…
He crossed a border. Which one remains to be seen.
In a move that baffles everyone, he’s somehow managed to cross the border between Germany and Ethiopia.
A bit of digging turns up that Kenya (south of Ethiopia) was under German authority for a few years during the 1880s, and a quick back-calculation based on the current rate of the sliding timescale (10 years real-time =4 months comic-time) suggests that Danny was about 13 years old then.
So, only mildly baffled.
It’ll only get inconvenient when Goth Ethan walks into frame within the next few strips.
Because now Ethan is the Amber. It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
. . . Danny
Well, Willis apoears to be making my two favorite ships canon. In freshman year. So… they’re doomed, huh?
Damn so that’s how Danny and Billie stuck through Roomies together
He met her when he was a sophomore
I bet Sal goes for it, but for the wrong reasons.
Danny’s a great character, but as a person he’s kind of a slimy little asshole. I really hope Sal doesn’t go for this. She deserves way better.
My Danny Criticism senses were activated and I am here to argue in his defense.
Counterpoint: nuh-uh he’s great
The power of your argument compels me. He’s a great slimy little asshole and exactly what Sal deserves!
Wait. What?
All Danny and Sal need to make this work are a dog collar and a leash.
Danny needs to learn how to ride a bike with one hand, while ‘towing’ another bike with the other hand by steering it where the handlebar meets the post.
It’s kinda slow, but it works.
Either that, or take the front wheel off the second bike and wedge its front fork onto the rear axle of the one you’re riding. Sometimes you can do that if both bikes have quick-disconnect levers.
Easier than it looks. I usually ride the smaller bike and hold on to the gooseneck of the larger bike. You get a lot of weird looks though.
I’m just here to point out that Sal also took Danny’s helmet. So unless Danny bought another at the mall, he was biking around helmetless, and Sal now has TWO because of her roller derby helmet.