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New game! BOLTED 
Is it finally the pants euphoria?
I’m guessing it is!
So: science is the ingredient
(Years later, when they are married)
Becky: I’m feeling a little…frisky tonight.
Dina: Can I put on the video to get me in the mood?
Becky: Way ahead of you. (presses play)
TV: Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!
Oh, that made me laugh.
the laughter you brought me almost ended my life! hehe
oh fuck I needed that laugh
She wheels in a big crt tv strapped to a cart
I can only assume they break out the Mythbusters when they’re feeling extra naughty.
-_- XD DX T_T
I’d say love is but ok …
For Science! (I’m getting “Girl Genius” vibes from this situation.)
For Science! is the best reason for sexual exploration.
We should have seen this coming, Dina is about to be blinded by science.
Correction: she’s about to be reminded with science!
I mean, I did see this coming. I said that Becky should have broken out the textbooks back in the room.
This, though… teammates working together, holding hands… yeah, I get this.
It an adequate scientific investigation of this phenomenon is to be carried out, “pants euphoria” ought to have its own tag.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/03-see-you-in-the-funny-page/partnered/
Pants euphoria and/or applying her analytical mind to connecting the dots on Joe and Joyce by personal experience with “Lab Partners”.
The time of the euphoric pants are upon us!
And so we find out that Dina is into… hand holding>.
Ugh, that degenerate. In public no less.
And hand-holding is just the start. This might eventually lead to… cuddling.
From her heart and from her hand, why don’t people understand Dina’s intentions?
oOoOO Weird!
She touched her tralalab
i’ve DEFINITELY gotten pants euphoria from holding hands with someone i liked O:)
I love to turn…you…on… (orchestra comes in)
Dina has got “the look” now. Will she and Becky abandon everything and go back into the room for some more “”science?”
That’s the look, that’s the look…
Hip Hip Hooray (Yippie-ai Yippie-ai-yay-y)
Heavenly bound
‘Cause heaven’s got her number
When she’s spinnin’ me around
Kissin’ is a color
Her lovin’ is a wild dog
She’s got the look
This is the one couple in the comic I feel is really in it for the long haul. Like marriage potential and not just because that’s the only way Becky will get laid.
Becky/Dina and Danny/Sal seem the healthiest couples right now
What about Jennifer/Asher, or Carla and herself? Danny and Sal are healthy now but their characters are proofen unstable. When Danny chokes on his foot again or Sal gets another rage burst its likely to go south.
Billie and Asher?? No, I don’t think the baby mob boss and 10 levels of denial are a healthy match.
Excuse me. Couple. Two.
Carla isn’t limited to a couple, she’s a whole army by herself.
This just reminds me that Carla is ALSO ace, of a clearly different variety to Dina’s, and wow Dumbing of Age your author lets you have TWO ace characters???
I have absolute faith in Sara and Other Jacob.
How about Sayid and random hookup in that one Slipshine
(sorry, I’m sure he has a name but I forgot bc I don’t have access on my phone)
I’m happy to have a long day ahead of me and waking up to specifically this comic. Love the expressions!
(it’s the first time it’s been uploaded this early for me – for reference: located in Europe)
“When Dina said ‘lab partners” what she really meant was ‘I love you’ all along.”
Great, now I’m picturing the Dread Pirate Roberts tumbling down the cliff shouting “Laaaaaaab paaaaaaaartneeeeerrrrrrrrrrrs”
“FoooorrrScieeeeeence!!”
I see Othar Tryggvassen, Gentleman Adventurer. He’s a spark after all, even if he’s trying to kill all the other sparks.
Thank you, sir, for putting this image into my head. That was MAGNIFICENT.
Demisexuality beautifully depicted here.
So true; also, holding hands? I’m the flavor of autistic that gets *huge* zaps of euphoria from holding hands. I wonder if Dina is too.
As a demi, this felt like peak demisexual horniness there. I couldn’t describe it better.
“It’s poetry in motion…she turned her tender eyes to me…”
“Miss MacIntyre, you’re beautiful!”
Yes! This is it!!!
“plays “Circle of Life” from Lion King on Hacked Muzak*
Not “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”?
Lots of songs could be fitting here! Anyone else have any suggestions?
you can leeaaave your hat on
This Love by Race (love theme from The Toxic Avenger)
This was a triumph! [makes a note: “Huge Success”]
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.
For the good of all of us
Except for Mike, who is dead (next strip is back to Ethan).
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake. (Ethan’s doing enough of that for everyone /j)
You just keep on trying til Joyce runs out of cake
Joyce: “Cake is a lie.”
And the science gets done, and the pants will have fun.
For the people who will feel alive.
Excellent all round.
You just keep on trying til you run out of cake
(Amber got the last piece)
Oh no.
Emotions.
The GAY kind :3
Gaymotions
Happy ones?
The first thing that came to mind was this old episode of The Jimquisition, making fun of David Cage and his weird priorities in games.
“Houston, we have Ignition. Pants Euphoria in 3…2…1… Liftoff”
The scientific method at work.
The scientific method working it and owning it.
Bonk.
I got that reference.
Ey, is somebody keepin’ track’a my heads batted in?
SHE’S DEMI!!!!! let’s fckn gooo
Actually grey-ace as confirmed by Willis, but still yay for micro label ace rep
Labia partners
Ow, the punishment.
I was thinking, “Hm, hand-holding is her trigger.”
Possibly. Or it could be elevators. More experimentation is definitely needed before drawing any conclusions.
Everyone should always hack the elevator Muzak with “Love in an Elevator” (Aerosmith not Johnny Gill)
It is the lewdest thing you can do with another person.
Science?
“… it was the lab partners we made along the way”.
Even with the froggiest of DNA additions, I think a velociraptor would make a -terrible- lab partner.
Ahhh, demi all along, perhaps?
In any case, this is so goddamn cute.
A new data point to add to the research.
oh thats so adorable!
Pants feelings?
Pants feelings.
OK, real talk: Becky. What you need to do is to ORDER a NEW lab coat for your bedtime activities. Don’t sneak one out of science lab. It’s NOT hygienic.
Becky stark naked? Pleasing to Dina’s eyes, but not euphoric.
Becky wearing a lab coat and nothing else? Well, Becky’s Freestyle Coke Machine analogy may yet live.
i mean dina is not wrong
oh shit.
This is so so so cute. DINA I AM SO HERE FOR THEM. So Dina needs a little more intimacy anf connection to experience pants euphoria. She needs a little love before she wants to make love with you. This is so sweet.
And once Becky can withstand extended proximity they will reach final form! ROOM-MATES!
Demisexual then?
Close enough–Willis confirmed months ago that Dina wearing a grey shirt sporting the ace flag on it was a completely deliberate action.
*eyes emoji*
Shojo bubbles, huh? This is promising.
Speaking in “Shojo” and “Bubbles”: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3474
Sciencsexual
Partnersexual.
See, this is what I never understood: Dina’s previous pants euphoria was brought on by the thought of doing lab work with Becky. So instead of all the flirtation and stripping in her dorm room, why didn’t Dina suggest they actually do lab work together in the first place, to see if that’s what gets her aroused?
Had to establish a baseline (on this case, of what turns her allosexual lesbian lab partner) before they studied the actual theory?
To try to find out if OTHER THINGS worked, not just what they know works already.
Grey-ace Domme Dina owns my soul but as in “oh shit she’s totally adorable with Becky!!”
Night: Made. Made as hell.
OH GOD IS IT ONLY ME OR. She’s totally staring at Becky’s chest, now thoroughly associated with Doing Science therefore hot for the first time??
lol might be an awkward class but at least becky doesn’t have to be insecure about it anymore
Honestly I especially like that this happens after she finds out that she does still enjoy doing sexy-kinda context things with Becky even if she’s not feeling it.
handholding!? Thats whole new level of lewd than dom dorm
Dina here having an epiphany
Or an euphoria.
Demipiphany
Greypiphany
An epantsany?
Art mistake?
Becky pushes the up button for the elevator.
Yet they’re clearly going down.
Because they have to get to the ground floor to walk to class.
I’ve called an elevator up with the Up button before. Long as they hit the Down button once they get in, it works the same.
You can’t make out on garbage roof without going up.
On possible art mistakes, I have to add: Dina’s jacket unshaded in pink panel for effect or…? I feel like there’s not a good way to politely (and hopefully helpfully) point out something when it may not be a mistake. Willis I love your comic. Thank you for making it. If on purpose, for a light feeling, say, please ignore.
I don’t know, I think it was just established that Becky’s nowhere near ready to go down yet.
But Dina clearly is.
elevators be like: “just call me up if you ever want to get down ;D”
Lab partners for life!
“Eureka!”
“Topeka!”
M’euphoria *tips hat*
Becky, look to your left, dammit! Your incredibly hot girlfriend is making a cartoonish horny face and you’re missing it!
Of course Dina would get turned on thinking of the two of them in a SCIENCE lab. Two great loves > One great love
whomp, there it is!
The one variable people are missing when discussing what has caused the pants euphoria: in both cases, it occurred after close encounters with Joe. So while science and the thought of lab partnering and so on is clearly what does it for Dina, it just as clearly requires that an external overstrength libido be nearby to strike the match. Dina’s horniness is evidently fuelled by the overflow of Joe’s.
Good point. Possibly mistaken, but interesting.
It could also mean Dina is demisexual, as a bunch of us were speculating. Demisexuals generally require a strong emotional attachment like love before they start feeling physical/sexual attraction. For Dina, it might just be that because she is such an overly logical person, it takes thinking of Becky in a science/experimentation persona before her brain finally clicks “Hey! I have a strong connection and bond with this person!”
Either way, this looks to be a great development for the both of them.
Again Willis confirmed her grey-ace so, close but not quite. Seems like being sweet with Becky and the promise of doing science together is the specific scenario needed for her to feel sexual attraction
The next time they experiment, they should try roleplay with lab coats.
Handholding? In the CORRIDOR?? Won’t someone think of the children????
as expected, hand holding is too lewd
I dunno if Becky dates guys. I hear she’s, y’know, a lab partner.
Be gay, do science!
AWWW.
I read this more as maybe a romantic connection with shared interests and less about science in particular… but more testing is obviously still required :3
If this were rolled out one panel a day the lip-biting would be a dead giveaway.
It’s happening when she was totally not expecting it to happen. Awwwwww… Lab partners forever ♡♡♡.
hand holding, so lewd lmao
erm … I’m calling it:
SlipS in the elevator. or on garbage roof.
Ah
Science
That’s her turn on
Honestly that tracks
kind of off-topic: Do Willis draw each panel again, without copy-paste??
Look at Becky and Dina.
If yes, Willis won even more respect from me.
From the looks of things, I’d say they re-used the rough pencils (or the digital equivalent thereof) but did the inks separately for each panel.
So it’s either the handholding or the “lab partners” comment that did it.
I think it’s both together
So, instead of a dino onesie, Becky should have worn a lab coat, safety goggles, and gloves. Then, in a clinical tone, asked Dina if she wanted to experiment in the bedroom.
Shazaam!
THERE IT IS!!
Super, SUPER excited to have a gray ace/demi character and such a freaking fantastic one at that
Thanks for the representation Willis
It sounds a LOT like Demisexualty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_asexuality#Demisexuality
A demisexual person does not experience sexual attraction until they have formed a strong emotional connection with a prospective partner.[2][5] The definition of “emotional bond” varies from person to person inasmuch as the elements of the split attraction model can vary.[10][11] Demisexuals can have any romantic orientation.[12][13] People in the asexual spectrum communities often switch labels throughout their lives, and fluidity in orientation and identity is a common attitude.[3]
Of course Dina could only be turned on by the lewdest act possible
In all seriousness i love seeing this. I’m aspec and my boyfriend is grey ace specifically like Dina, it makes me really excited how her sexuality is portrayed
Ahh, so she’s the handholding type
She blinded me with SCIEEENCE!
Dina: “I Dina promise you, Becky, that I will love and cherish you for the rest of my lab”
Professor: “I now pronounce you Lab Partners”
Today’s Experiment . . . Great Success!!!
Oh my god, they were lab Partners!
this is why you always record your findings up until you leave the lab!
Them once in bed: “Lab partner! Lab partner! You’re my lab partner *heavy panting*”