Discussion (115) ¬
[ Comments RSS ]
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social ⋅ 8hDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 8d
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 8d
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social ⋅ 21d
Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Ash Parrish @adashtra.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Katie @katiestp.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Hunter S Schafer @bolt451.bsky.social ⋅ 4d
Loading ...
(he/him)
⚧
I feel like I JUST saw a discussion about characters being sexier with clothes ON
I REALLY hate when my hair gets caught in my collar btw
so much of my time is spent now pulling my hair out of my shirt
I grew my hair super long during lockdown, over a year and a half without so much as a trim. Wanted to see how long it got in that time (answer: hella).
Eventually I decided it was too much hassle and just learned how to acceptably cut it myself.
I hear you. I have learned that my hair has a surprising amount of body and grows out as much as it grows down; one of my aunts, upon seeing me for the first time in a couple years, asked if I’d gotten it permed because of all the curls that it doesn’t have when short. Which, no, it just seems that it comes naturally.
(My wife, on the other hand, took the opportunity to try the buzz they’ve wanted for years and decided that this made them very happy.)
Yesss mine is like this too. Not so much curls, but big waves and immense floof. I have TOO MUCH HAIR. So on top of keeping it short I gotta thin it out with layers, especially at the ends, so it doesn’t look/feel like I have a giant blonde cloud around my head. Learning to do that myself during the pandemic was challenging but such a relief.
Mine is a mix of wavy and curly textures, is fine and there’s a lot of it. Frizz central most of the time but if it’s foggy or misting and I go for a walk outside it’ll curl perfectly.
I’ve had long hair most of my life, so yeah, the hair collar thing is very real. I don’t think I really register it anymore – drawing my hair out is just part of putting on a top.
My hair’s only been long enough for that off and on for the last decade, but I don’t remember ever being irritated by the collar pull
Rather the hair thing I hate is how easily it flies into my mouth while I’m eating, so now I gotta tie my hair up whenever I sit down with food
I once forgot to get a haircut for 4 years. Seriously, I just kept forgetting to make a hair appointment. My hair was near my hips by the time I got it cut.
For me, I have to do it with my beard.
Also, I totally misread what was happening in the final panel as her moving her hand away from the general area of her crotch, but knowing it’s the collar hair flip makes way more sense.
Oh, it wasn’t just me, then.
To me it was kind of a “damn, how’d i just do that?”
Ohhh, that’s what that hand motion is.
I wish I still had hair I could grow like that. Any hair I pull out of my shirt these days is either attached to my chest, or it fell out.
Yeah, right there with you. I mean, right now, I have the “Patrick Stewart fringe”, but that’s in large part because my options are that or the PHB cut, and I’d rather not be a PHP.
I mean, OK, in *theory*, it could get long enough to get past the PH effect, but I’d need to put up with the PH effect longer than I’m able to get there.
Thank goodness you said that cuz I was wondering what Becky’s hand motion in that last panel was. I thought that even SHE shocked herself with her own speed and was waving her hand in front of her face in awe of her own abilities.
Yeah, I had to read the last two panels a couple of times to realize what’s going on. Took me a while to notice Becky’s hair tucked into her shirt.
That is exactly why I added that second comment, I realised
just then and also figured everyone else might not know immediately
Same. I haven’t cut my hair in well over a dozen years. At this point, pulling it out of everything is second nature
Yeah, I don’t even think about it anymore.
Which is annoying when you’re trying to avoid touching your face for some reason.
i mean… you can always… wear it up?
most of the time i either tie my hair or braid it or shove it under a hat. i do find hair everywhere (most off-puttingly in my food, no matter how carefully i pull it back before cooking) but i don’t have this face touching problem you describe.
My hair’s pretty fine. Even in a ponytail or under a hat bits get loose quickly and start floating around.
And yes, hair is pretty much a condiment around here. Not nearly so bad as when I was living with a friend with a couple big dogs and 4-5 cats though.
“hair is pretty much a condiment around here”
“huh, i think i can taste a hint of coconut oil! Nice touch!”
“um,…….. thanks”
I cannot deal with it the second it gets long enough to get stuck in my collar. I had straight up Rapunzel hair as a kid (below my waist) and finally chopped it all off to my shoulders in HS and chin in college and have not gone back.
The pandemic’s going on 2 years with no salon visits was definitely becoming irritating so I finally broke down and cut it myself with…surprising success? But yeah I just cannot deal with that feeling of hair touching the base of my neck anymore.
the secret hairdressers don’t want you to know: basic haircuts are actually easy to do yourself.
Oh, being a big hairy man that inherited thick hair from my grandparents, and getting occasionally so involved in living that i forget about the whole face\head\nether hair stuff, i just tie it all down, with rubberbands or sticks or whatever i have on hand that won’t be more trouble than it’s worth.
Sure, when it’s time to sleep i’m SOL and have to untie everything, but i’m usually so tired by the end of the day that it’s no real bother.
TL;DR: Just tie it up next time lmao
Yeah once you get to that point it becomes more hassle than it’s worth, at least for me
Mine gets unbearably poofy at just an inch long, I’d hate to find out what it would do if I let it go much longer than that…
I’m showing my age here, but I can’t help but read RECLOTHED! in the voice of Strong Bad doing one of his Teen Girl Squad shorts.
You’re not alone.
All I do it quote sbmails and teen girl squad and my husband never understands.
He was prime demographic but I guess didn’t watch them? He vaguely knows about trogdor tho so at least there’s that.
Only 1 of my friends understands my references and she moved away.
TWO’d!
Shakespeared!
I.. I don’t even know what happened just now!!
SUCH SPEED!!!
*plays “Robot Battle” by Naoko Mitome on Hacked Muzak*
That is an impressive reclothing speed. The Flash would be proud.
Dina continues to impress.
well hey there, stranger =)
(is it just me or have you been AF
KDOA for a little while?)Does that mean Dina could have just ninja’d Becky into a dinosaur onesie and we missed it?
Given that Willis’s recent Tweets about revamping the Cast Info page said that Becky was “in the healthiest romantic relationship on campus”, probably not.
That’s got to be a record.
Wait did Becky do that or Dina?
Becky reclothed herself, at a high speed. Besides, I don’t think Dina would clothe or reclothe Becy without permission.
So far, Becky has shown clothing related powers.
When faced with sinful horniness, Becky invokes the power of her Stand, The World.
It’s「THE WORLD」that’s ugly.
“They told me to undress to my comfort level. So I put on a sweater and a pair of cordaroy pants. And I felt safe.”
-John Mulaney
There’s an episode of Seinfeld where George is with a woman who tells him to make himself comfortable while she leaves the room, and he’s completely unable to read the situation and tell whether he’s about to get lucky (and should therefore undress) or not (which would make undressing a terrible decision).
He settles for taking his shoes off, figuring that can be interpreted as innocent.
There’s an old print cartoon I remember where a man and a lady in evening dress come into a room, and she says seductively “Wait here while I slip into something more comfortable.” Then the second frame shows her returning in gardening clothes.
We now know Dina has 2 powers, if not more
her hair is stuck in her collar in panel 3, in panel 4 she’s flipping it out
This is unrelated to the comic, and I apologize for that, but I know people here have mentioned having this experience, so: Could anyone share with me their experience of getting diagnosed with ADHD as an adult? It’s something I’ve been thinking about recently, and I don’t know if I’m actually going to think about getting evaluated anytime soon (got a lot of other stuff to deal with as well), but it’s something I’m curious about.
I cannot share my experience, but I have two friends with experience: one got it done a few years back, and the other has their appointment scheduled for next month. It seems like a shitty process: I’ve heard “20 pages of intake forms”, and the eval itself was hours of stuff they didn’t want to talk about, they were so exhausted from it.
But if the condition’s a potential problem, I’d still encourage you to get the diagnosis so that you can figure out how to arrange your life to account for it.
Yo.
Basically, I just brought it up to my GP because my tendency towards focusing really hard on my computer to the point of losing hours was cited as a common thing in ADHD, started doing some paperwork and questionnaires, and eventually talked to a psychiatrist who diagnosed me.
I dunno if that’s necessarily typical, I’ve been told it’s supposed to be harder to get one and it involves stripping out what it could be versus definitely being ADHD, but for me it was pretty straightforward to get my diagnosis.
Something I wish I was told in advance is not to view your meds as a panacea. I have had like a total of four good weeks in the past five months and I’m piecing together that my diagnosis and my adderall dosage has brought to light a lot of the other vitamin/nutrient deficiencies I’ve got brewing in me, which are apparently pretty typical for ADHD.
Interesting about the vitamin/nutrient thing. I definitely need to go to the doctor for other things, of which that might be part. Thanks for your response.
With or without a particular diagnosis, getting to know your unique stripes as a neurodivergent is a very personal experience. Hell, I myself am discovering new stripes of mine everyday, all thanks to all of you great people around here!
Anyway, if you’re interested in learning more about ADHD in particular and wanna read even more comics, ADHD Alien is a good starting point!!!
Now, back to hyper-focusing on something dinosaur-related!
I was fortunate enough to get diagnosed at age 5, so this is second-hand, but my mom recently got a diagnosis and she described it as basically explaining some stuff to her [medical professional], them saying she probably “just” has ADHD brain, and her saying “Yeah, that makes sense tbh”. There was probably more to it than that, but considering I’ve suspected for decades that something is “up” with her, I doubt it was much more elaborate.
I was diagnosed at 30. I brought up my concerns to my psychiatrist (who I saw already for anxiety/depression), and he asked me a bunch of questions, and how long I’d felt that way, if certain things had been since childhood etc./as long as I could remember. And then he proclaimed I did have ADHD and gave me medication for it. First one didn’t really work, second medicine helped a lot. It was like lifting a lead curtain off my brain.
Hi! I’m not sure how typical my case is, possibly not very much, but I was diagnosed at age 29 (during lockdown in the worst of the pandemic, initially via zoom meeting. It was weird.)
Even though I now realize I’m a pretty textbook case of severe combined-type ADHD I guess I slipped through the cracks growing up, which is exceedingly common in kids assigned female at birth because of course it is. Also I was a master at bullshitting from a very young age and that definitely helped me mask it.
I only realized there was something else amiss when my very disabling chronic depression, with which I struggled aged 12-27, suddenly disappeared without a trace. That’s a wholeeeee separate and long story, lol, but once it was gone and I was still just as dysfunctional despite being perfectly cheerful I decided to find help. I’m in the US and it took me two years to finally find someone who was taking new patients. Cue the pandemic.
My very first assessment was over zoom, got prescribed a non-stimulant called atomoxetine. Four days later I felt suicidal and since my depression had vanished I knew this was unusual and hauled ass to the ER. The desire to unalive myself was gone as soon as the atomoxetine cleared my body (HOWEVER: I know other ADHDers who swear by it. Different strokes, folks, etc.) and at the psych hospital they put me on the more traditional ADHD stuff.
Let me tell you: that ish is life-changing and I honestly have no idea how I survived 29 years in this chaotic, exhausting world built largely by and for neurotypicals without those meds. Seriously.
I mean, I’m still a feral gremlin who struggles to wash their hair some days and somehow forgets their own butt even though it’s attached; my flavor of ADHD is severe and disabling so I’m not sure that I’ll ever be able to live a fully typical life the way it’s expected of me by society, but at least with proper treatment I can at least try to figure myself out and not be constantly drained and unfocused even though I’m trying so hard, y’know?
Now I’m gonna go to bed because I have a strong aversion to Sharing Personal Stuff on the Internet but an even stronger belief in doing my part to help others like me and raise awareness of mental health issues, so yeah. Hope this helps!
Yes, it helped. (For me, at least.) Thank you.
Thanks for the response. The online screeners I’ve taken would suggest primarily the inattentive flavor for me, but my depression is still very much active, so it’s hard to know how that might be the source of things. Based on your timeline, it seems like it may work to start looking into it and dealing with other stuff in the meantime, then seeing where I’m at.
I was diagnosed last year at 28 years old and it’s been a huge relief to be able to access support and to understand why *thing* happens.
Diagnosis can be different from country to country, but I prepared for it by reading (a lot) to understand more about the process and the sorts of ways that I can communicate my experiences. I find even though other ADHD (or Autistic) people are the best source of info and to help understand my brain, you sometimes need to translate stuff for doctors who aren’t themselves ND.
I kept a journal and wrote down everything relevant from when I was a kid. What was school like? What were my relationships like? What did I struggle with? What was my sleep like? I did the same for adulthood, too.
I basically built a timeline of my life and what my development was at different points. I included quotes and info from childhood friends, family, teachers etc so I could go into the appointment with all my evidence collected.
“Attention Defecit Disorder in Adults” by Dr Lynn Weiss is a fantastic resource. She is a psychotherapist with ADHD herself and the book is accessible, strengths-focused and is guinely a great book.
How To ADHD on youtube and ADDitude magazines are also great places to go for information and strategies.
Thanks for your response and the recomendations. I’ll look into them.
Yumi, if you want the play by play of a middle-aged success story, with gory struggles and angelic ending; Telegram me.
My wife is actually seeking such a diagnosis at the moment. The process has been somewhat delayed due to a change in therapists, but still technically in progress.
I know it’s not quite the same as ADHD, but I recently went through the process of getting diagnosed as autistic at the age of 33. Due to there being so few people in my part of the Midwestern US trained to diagnose it in adults (most are focused on kids with autism), I had to find a licensed psychotherapist in Canada to get diagnosed. She sent me a questionnaire and some tests to take, and after I sent back my results I had to do a brief interview with her over video chat. The nice thing was she’s also autistic so she understood how people like me think differently from neurotypical folks.
When going diagnosed as an adult for things like ADHD or autism, you definitely find yourself reflecting on a lot of things you did in the past, and I’ve found that my autism explains a ton of stuff that I either didn’t think about at all, or just assumed was me being kinda weird until recently.
Thanks for all the responses. I’m not going to reply to all of them individually, in part because there’d be a lot of redundancy, but I appreciate people taking the time to share.
I have depression and anxiety, with depression being the primary mind-monster right now. I take Viibryd and Abilify currently, and I see a therapist often and a physician assistant for meds about every three months. I’ve been wondering about ADHD for a while, but have also felt that the symptoms I experience could be explained by depression, so I only ended up mentioning it to my therapist yesterday, which is when they brought up my getting evaluated for it (something they refer out for).
I recently was also told by someone who slept in the same room as me on a trip that I may (likely) have sleep apnea, which would presumably have it’s own impact on executive function. I haven’t seen a primary care physician in a while, so I haven’t addressed this or other physical ailments yet.
I think next I’m going to ask my therapist about who they would refer to so I can start looking into that specific process while also making a doctor’s appointment for other stuff– see if maybe sleeping better helps improve some symptoms or not, as a starting point.
So close, and yet so far…
There are times I caught myself dressing that fast. Of course it can’t be verified.
Of course it can’t be verified. It happens between frames.
Well that’s one hell of a magic power. I would save *seconds* every morning.
“It’s morphin time!”
“Pterodactyl!”
These two are so sweet.
It’s kind of a relief. Honestly, I was already starting to get cold just looking at her two strips ago.
Unrelated to the comic itself, but man are some of the ads I get on this site friggin weird.
google ads sometimes gets so weird
What is happening in the last panel with her hand?
She’s flipping her hair out which was caught in the collar of her clothes.
Becky’s hair is caught under her collar in panel three, she used her hand to fix it in panel four.
I’m beginning to think we ain’t never gonna get the full kablammo
1) I love how unfazed Dina is by Becky re-dressing. She’s just here to have a good time and learn, at whatever pace Becky wants.
2) Uh-oh, Becky’s hot??? Them freckles really do a lot.
Upvoting about the freckles.
(I mean the rest is cool too.)
Couldn’t agree more. My wife has those – they’re hot as fuck.
Indeed.
Now you can hug all your want
Has Dina been reading Amber’s fan fic?
For Science!
man, I’d pay to see this magic act
Usually you pay people to take their clothes off, but to each their own.
You Can Keep Your Hat Off
“Do you want the hat on, or off?”
“Off, please!”
“… Too bad.”
precision : as a magic show trick, not as a strip tease clup trick XD
Becky has unlocked her super power!
Okay that is a legitimate super power
So naked time’s over, then?
That was REALLY fast. Maybe it’s Becky superpower and now only Dina knows about it. How intimate ♡!
I think what Becky just did is exactly the opposite of what happened to the Emperor in the story about his new clothes?
Basically, Dina handed the reins to Becky, so Becky doesn’t feel naked any more?
Or does Rabisch have it right, and one of the girls has a superpower?
We kind of already know that DINA has a superpower. The question is whether Becky also has one…
She isn’t into anyone else romantically that she will admit to. – Book 11 cast entry for Joyce
!!!
I like the ambiguity. Keepin’ us on our toes.
Years of build up and then we find out it’s Arnold
You fools it’s actually Galasso
The current phrasing kind of makes it sound like she’s interested in Sarah…
Did Becky just instantly recloth herself, or was that Dina who did it? Either way one of them has some sort of superpower.
Yeah, this tracks.
If she could rip out of an ultra-frilly dress like it was a tearaway in .5 seconds, then it’s plausible that the opposite way could also work! XD
That was about as intimate as she permitted right now
Appropriate of nothing in particular, I was out enjoying a rare night on the town and found myself seated at the bar next to a person of the female persuasion wearing this. Becky needs to gift Dina one of these ASAP.
Panels 1 and 2: No clothes!
Panels 3 and 4: No, clothes!
Remember the voice that yelled “END!” at the finish of the old Cow and Chicken cartoons? I just heard him again yelling “RECLOTHED!” in the third frame. Nice to know he’s still getting work.
y’know it took the whole day to realize just HOW SMOOTH a line “we can be as intimate as you permit” actually is. Dina is actually the hottest char in this comic and it isn’t even close
Dina confirmed as a speedster, wow.
Yeah!