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Smutfic

by David M Willis on September 30, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Bring Me to Life Drawing
└ Tags: amber, booster

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    September 30, 2022 at 12:01 am | #

    wow, what’s FurAffinity say about people =o

    [maybe don’t look that up]

    • Dave Van Domelen
      Dave Van Domelen
      September 30, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

      It says that for some people, inflation isn’t a bad thing?

      • Joe Moose
        Joe Moose
        September 30, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

        blah blah big and round

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      September 30, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

      I imagine a great variety of things depending on the specific content they’re looking at

      • ktbear
        ktbear
        September 30, 2022 at 1:13 am | #

        Or the specific thing theyre commissioning, sometimes at great expense. Well, US$1000 anyway. And definately look up Furaffinity, just use the R18 filter. Disclaimer; I dont know if Furaffinity HAS an R18 filter.

        • Azhrei Vep
          Azhrei Vep
          September 30, 2022 at 9:10 am | #

          It definitely filters out the good stuff if you aren’t logged in, but why would anyone ever want that?

          • a/snow/mous/e
            a/snow/mous/e
            October 3, 2022 at 6:07 pm | #

            i was a pure and innocent youth who made do with FurAffinity’s SFW fetishes imeanwut

        • Doki
          Doki
          September 30, 2022 at 2:41 pm | #

          It does!

    • Tan
      Tan
      September 30, 2022 at 4:39 pm | #

      Among other things, it says that sometimes people just want to be petted, and that’s okay

    • Beachfox
      Beachfox
      October 6, 2022 at 2:58 pm | #

      There’s a reason I keep a separate DeviantArt account with a different name of only human things for when my family -insists- on knowing what I’m drawing.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    September 30, 2022 at 12:01 am | #

    Booster’s internship at Arkham Asylum will result in a lot of breakthroughs once they hand out the writing assignments, but they’re going to have to read a LOT of smutfic about Batman.

    Some of it will be beautiful though. Joker’s will bring people to tears.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      September 30, 2022 at 12:57 am | #

      Not because it’s particularly sad. He’s put something in the ink.

    • Insanenoodlyguy
      Insanenoodlyguy
      October 5, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

      Booster is one of the ones that dies in an ironic echo of something they said to somebody when they though the somebody couldn’t get to them.

  3. Caro
    Caro
    September 30, 2022 at 12:02 am | #

    I dunno, I think Lucy’s been doing alright

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      September 30, 2022 at 2:21 am | #

      She’s more than a little desperate, but I don’t see how she’d make Walky “worse”…

      • darkgloomie
        darkgloomie
        September 30, 2022 at 2:27 am | #

        She doesn’t make him worsez he’s the one who makes her worse. According to Booster.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          September 30, 2022 at 5:28 am | #

          Yeah, I got that backwards.

          Coffee then comment. Coffee then comment!

      • fridge_logic
        fridge_logic
        September 30, 2022 at 2:56 am | #

        She was a bit desperate before. But now she seems really happy.

        And as far as I can tell when Walky rubs her the wrong way it hasn’t made her worse but instead been an opportunity for growth. I feel like her reactions to Walky’s trashy moments have mostly shown her growing an appreciation for setting boundaries or enforcing her expectations.

        • Sharaku
          Sharaku
          September 30, 2022 at 4:57 am | #

          That’s the thing. Booster making an analysis like this doesn’t necessarily mean Booster’s right. It’s a relationship. Factors are going to change over time. Walky and Lucy could grow from their issues or they could ruin each other. Only time will tell.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            September 30, 2022 at 8:27 am | #

            Yeah. There’s no reason to think he’s right about Walky and Dorothy, which makes me suspicious of his take on Walky and Lucy.

            To be fair, he’d only have a superficial idea of what happened with Dorothy and he’s seen Walky and Lucy more closely.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              September 30, 2022 at 8:31 am | #

              Dammit. It’s early for me – should be they/their throughout that.

              • Opus the Poet
                Opus the Poet
                September 30, 2022 at 4:44 pm | #

                Yeah, pronouns are hard without prompts. My problem is actual names, though.

          • nicoleandmaggie
            nicoleandmaggie
            September 30, 2022 at 9:55 am | #

            From what I’m gathering, Booster is just getting this from reading Amber’s smutfic… so I think that means that doesn’t mean Amber is right?

  4. lia
    lia
    September 30, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    i love booster

    • bootshivers
      bootshivers
      September 30, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

      Me too, I dearly love a catalyst

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        September 30, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

        The true meaning of Booster’s name: they’re an Umami Booster for the cast!

        Most umami foods aren’t something you’d eat by itself, but they enhance the other flavors.

    • Fuzzy3158
      Fuzzy3158
      September 30, 2022 at 1:57 am | #

      Booster is basically my favorite character and I’d love to see more of them.

    • Sav
      Sav
      September 30, 2022 at 2:29 am | #

      Agreed. I was hesitant about them to start, in part because they were replacing Mike. But after this strip? I can’t help but love them.

    • Otl1973
      Otl1973
      September 30, 2022 at 2:51 am | #

      Otoh, I really dislike Booster. I don’t know what Willis’s intent with the character is, but I personally think Booster started out smugly obnoxious and has gotten worse – more smug, more disparaging – without Mike’s entertaining aspects to counterbalance it.

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        September 30, 2022 at 1:14 pm | #

        Same.

      • Freemage
        Freemage
        September 30, 2022 at 1:27 pm | #

        Started at smugly obnoxious and more than a wee bit narcissistic, convinced that Booster’s opinions were desired in the first place. Then Booster moved on to add in full-on creepster voyeur. And seems to have plot immunity about getting called out on it, in a way that even Mike never had. So, yeah, I’ve got very little use for Booster, as either a person I’d possibly meet, or as a character in the story.

      • hatman
        hatman
        September 30, 2022 at 3:44 pm | #

        I definitely get that. They’re really pushing the limit. Which leads me to believe it’ll blow up in their face at some point. They believe it’s acceptable to do so to Amber, but I can definitely see them doing it to someone else and uh… losing that winning smile via physical violence, so to speak.

        • hatman
          hatman
          September 30, 2022 at 3:44 pm | #

          oh fuck yes i got the best gravatar

      • Insanenoodlyguy
        Insanenoodlyguy
        October 5, 2022 at 12:50 am | #

        Honestly I thought that Willis thought a lot more people would like Booster then did. Not that he thought he’d made Booster likable, but that we’d love to hate and all that. But more of us just hate the little shit then originally anticipated, so now that’s being leaned into.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      September 30, 2022 at 6:14 am | #

      me too

  5. Sporky
    Sporky
    September 30, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Booster needs to just not

  6. Durandal_1707
    Durandal_1707
    September 30, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Calling someone “garbage” is not a way to endear yourself.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      September 30, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

      Booster is long past the point of being endearing in any way.

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 30, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

        And yet …

      • GholaHalleck
        GholaHalleck
        September 30, 2022 at 1:39 am | #

        My crack theory that he’s Mike grows with every appearance!

        • Blume
          Blume
          September 30, 2022 at 1:55 am | #

          Friendly reminder that Booster goes by They/Them! Also… This is weird… I’m, I’m starting to like them!

    • Eolirin
      Eolirin
      September 30, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

      Worked pretty well for Walky

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        September 30, 2022 at 12:20 am | #

        Last person who called Amber Garbage made it to second base. I don’t know if that’s great or awful.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      September 30, 2022 at 8:30 am | #

      I assume they’ve heard about “Garbage Roof” or that it’s at least a meta-reference to it. Makes it a little better.

    • Kaiyalai
      Kaiyalai
      September 30, 2022 at 9:30 am | #

      It seems likely he’s aware of Walky and Amber both talking about being garbage. Consider: “garbage roof”

      • Kaiyalai
        Kaiyalai
        September 30, 2022 at 9:31 am | #

        They, not he. Argh!

  7. Nono
    Nono
    September 30, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Ah, there’s our ‘I’ve got everyone figured out, EASY’ psych student smugface.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 30, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      Assuming they’re in the second semester like most of the cast, they can’t be any further than Psych 102, right?

      I’d love to see what Booster’s professors think of this.

      • StClair
        StClair
        September 30, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

        “Every year. Every single year.“

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          September 30, 2022 at 12:49 am | #

          Hopefully they remember when they were like Booster, long before meeting patients– wait, academic-track psychologists probably want to go straight to gradschool then thesis then research/books and then teaching. When do Booster’s psych professors learn that people are complicated and nobody has the rules? They do learn this, right? …right?

          • Nono
            Nono
            September 30, 2022 at 1:37 am | #

            Honestly, I think if it hasn’t been knocked out of them by third year or so, it’s probably some ingrained smugness that’ll carry them way into their career or they get a harsh epiphany.

          • UrsulaDavina
            UrsulaDavina
            September 30, 2022 at 1:57 am | #

            To be certified psychologist it appears you need thousands of hours of supervised practice hours it seems to vary on what type psychologist you want to be and what level of education you’re pursuing and where you’re being supervised and pyscharity also has the caveat of attending medical school or nursing school (in some places which requires you to be a Nurse practioner)

            Booster is along way from actually being a proffesional

            Right now Booster seems to be under the assumption that they can pyscho analyze people in a matter of hours they are likely a good student, but seems to lack the what is mark of a good therapist the ability to actually heal their patient they are pyscho anaylzing which makes sense beacuse they are a 2nd year pysch student in a bachelor’s program.

            • Leorale
              Leorale
              September 30, 2022 at 3:04 am | #

              Psychologist =/= Psychology professor =/= therapist =/= psychiatrist.

              A college professor of psychology doesn’t need to be a licensed clinician, and may well have never led therapy for anyone in their lives. (For example, they may have designed/led experients on rats, discovered something new, and defended a whole dissertation about it. Rats are neat!)

              (Also, psychoanalysis doesn’t just mean to analyze somebody’s psychology, it refers to a specific subset of psychology — think Freud, with the unconscious mind and transference and your mom.)

              This sentence is here so that I don’t end a reply with “your mom”.
              …
              darnit

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      September 30, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

      Yeah they’re totallly replacement Mike

      • GholaHalleck
        GholaHalleck
        September 30, 2022 at 1:40 am | #

        THANK YOU!

      • JBento
        JBento
        September 30, 2022 at 6:46 am | #

        But less entertaining.

    • Plain Marie
      Plain Marie
      September 30, 2022 at 8:17 am | #

      Oo, oo. Now do yourself, Booster! How are YOU messed up? You’re so good at this. Tell us, now.

    • Kazuma Taichi
      Kazuma Taichi
      September 30, 2022 at 1:33 pm | #

      very psych student feel

      I was a neuro student, I have been there

  8. Queen Anthai
    Queen Anthai
    September 30, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    I am decidedly not into Booster’s arrogance and I really hope Amber tears them a new one. >:(

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      September 30, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

      I am decidedly enjoying Booster’s arrogance and I also really hope Amber tears them a new one. >:)

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        September 30, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

        Right. I think this is an interesting turn, but I also am eager to see Amber stick up for herself. If she finally comes to terms with NOT being garbage, that’d be nice, accepting she’s flawed without defining herself by those flaws like she has for a while.

      • v.gay.person
        v.gay.person
        September 30, 2022 at 1:23 am | #

        I do find their inflated ego to be an enjoyable break from the 90% “brooding trash” that is the rest of the cast. It provides a little balance.

        • Jamie
          Jamie
          September 30, 2022 at 12:29 pm | #

          This is true. I still have mixed feelings about Booster, but I agree with this take.

        • Freemage
          Freemage
          September 30, 2022 at 1:54 pm | #

          If Booster was being presented as a foil NPC, rather than as an actual character, I might agree with this take. Put Booster alongside Mary, Liz, Raidah and the other demi-antagonists, I’d be merely indifferent towards Booster.

          But unlike all those others, Booster is on the Cast page. Booster is a character I’m expected to care about. And my interest in Booster, as either a person or a character, manages to go down with each appearance.

      • Liliet
        Liliet
        September 30, 2022 at 7:15 am | #

        SAME

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      September 30, 2022 at 12:41 am | #

      Hey now, for the time being this could be what you humans a blessing in disguise.

      I want them to perform a psychic ray attack on Dorothy 😈

  9. teebee
    teebee
    September 30, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    What are Booster’s thoughts on Amber with them, I wonder.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      September 30, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

      This intrigues me. I want to know what Booster thinks their own damage is.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        September 30, 2022 at 12:53 am | #

        We haven’t seen Booster in their first semester, when presumably they had First Semester Psychology Syndrome: read the textbook, diagnose yourself with Everything.

  10. Ty34er
    Ty34er
    September 30, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    I can’t say I’ve ever written smut fic.

    …there is the time I wrote fanfic for a class project when I was younger without knowing but we don’t talk about that

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      September 30, 2022 at 7:28 am | #

      Fanfic for a class project?? Now I want to know how Tina Belcher got her start.

      • egg egg
        egg egg
        September 30, 2022 at 11:29 am | #

        Pretty sure I got my start in fanfic with my elementary school assignments. Had to use vocab words to make a short story. Mew escaped from a volcano.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        September 30, 2022 at 12:31 pm | #

        Back in … 8th? grade? I had an assignment to write what I think happened after the events of The Giver. So, literally. Assigned to write fanfic.

    • Inahc
      Inahc
      October 3, 2022 at 9:47 pm | #

      that last panel is half the reason my ao3 account has almost nothing on it. (crippling perfectionism is the other half)

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        Inahc
        October 3, 2022 at 9:49 pm | #

        pretty sure the julia gray / skyward crossover is never gonna be written now

  11. Shitbird
    Shitbird
    September 30, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Booster really is just the smart ass psych student who thinks they can diagnose people easily because they’re in their 3rd year and hasn’t actually spent time training yet and as a result has zero friends but has their head too far up their own ass to realize this, aren’t they?

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      September 30, 2022 at 1:00 am | #

      Absolutely. Though I’d assumed they were probably a 2nd semester freshman, like most of the main cast (except Ruth and Sarah). Most of Booster’s Psych 102 classmates are still diagnosing themselves, before they get to diagnosing everyone else. Booster’s a couple classes early; how advanced!

      • Throwatron
        Throwatron
        September 30, 2022 at 1:40 am | #

        Booster can’t diagnose Booster, when Booster knows Booster is totally perf.

    • Plain Marie
      Plain Marie
      September 30, 2022 at 8:12 am | #

      And now he’s showing off for Amber. Are they trying to impress her, now? Maybe this counts as chatting her up.

      • Plain Marie
        Plain Marie
        September 30, 2022 at 8:13 am | #

        Argh. *they’re

  12. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    September 30, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Lemme know when Amber’s written a Dina x Entrapta FanFic.

    Meanwhile imma melt my brain with code. 🫠 Tootles!

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      September 30, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

      I hate HATE how well that would work as a relationship (assuming Entrapta is interested in girls, it is never stated but she is a SPOP character so the odds are statistically pretty high).

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        September 30, 2022 at 12:26 am | #

        Throw Becky in to make a climactic 3 way that’s Amber’s Magnum Opus

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        September 30, 2022 at 12:54 am | #

        Give Dina enough cybernetics and Entrapta would be interested. I’m still not sure she didn’t fuck that spaceship.

  13. Wendy
    Wendy
    September 30, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    Booster seems to be leaning into the whole “Replacement Mike” thing at the moment. A wordier, less entertaining Replacement Mike, but still.

    • Svankensen
      Svankensen
      September 30, 2022 at 12:50 am | #

      Mike never entertained me. Neither has Booster tho.

      • Wendy
        Wendy
        October 1, 2022 at 8:13 am | #

        To each their own.

  14. EAG46
    EAG46
    September 30, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    Booster, honey, unless you’re a telepath, people are not that easy to read. So take some more psych classes and hush.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      September 30, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

      I don’t know Booster might be some sort of telepathic demon. The pieces are all there … They are androgenous, seem to revel in chaos, have little to no boundaries, keep trying to make only the most damaging relationships come into being, they collect photos – said by some cultures to contain the soul – and are weirdly fascinating by the girl with split personality.

      Now let me tell you why Queen Elizabeth was a lizard person…

      • StClair
        StClair
        September 30, 2022 at 12:30 am | #

        “There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy, and there is no Queen of England!”

        • cbwroses
          cbwroses
          September 30, 2022 at 12:44 am | #

          Not anymore there isn’t.

          *That felt wrong, but I couldn’t resist.*

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            September 30, 2022 at 1:05 am | #

            Not since 1707.

          • Jamie
            Jamie
            September 30, 2022 at 12:33 pm | #

            Agemegos is more right, but I’m pretty sure Camilla would take issue with your statement.

            • Agemegos
              Agemegos
              September 30, 2022 at 3:58 pm | #

              She is queen [consort] of the United Kingdom, not of England. Erasure of the Scots, Welsh, and Northern Irish is offensive.

              (By the way, I inadvertently touched “report” instead of “reply”, and it doesn’t come with a “confirm” requirement, so that was that. My apology to anyone who is inconvenienced.)

    • egg egg
      egg egg
      September 30, 2022 at 11:27 am | #

      The secret to Booster’s success is the fic.

      You would not believe how many people work through their traumas by creating OCs and having them suffer.

      Walky needs to get Lucy and Amber to read his self-insert fanfic, is what I’m saying.

  15. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    September 30, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    Booster, you are treading on thin ice here. People might not appreciate you dictating to them who they should be with. Especially when it comes to Amber, she still has some pent up anger.

    Also while entertaining, I would avoid Booster like the fucking plague. Their constant analysis of people is wildly annoying and potentially rage inducing.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 30, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

      particularly when they’re right.

    • Scruffy looking nerfherder
      Scruffy looking nerfherder
      September 30, 2022 at 2:27 am | #

      I mean yeah, I’d avoid most of this cast like the plague if they were real. They’re fictional characters so their shitty traits are to entertain us, but most of them irl would be the WORST people to be around. That’s the nature of most fiction imo.

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        September 30, 2022 at 2:51 am | #

        I guess I should qualify it with, “I would avoid people who are Booster-esque, albeit toned down to real people, like the plague.”

  16. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    September 30, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    Wait, wait, hold up.

    So, Walkie wasn’t the super villain, and the fic wasn’t about Amber and Sal hooking up? That makes no sense.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 30, 2022 at 12:28 am | #

      And here I was hoping for a threesome.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        September 30, 2022 at 4:51 pm | #

        Baby steps, Yoto, get a girlfriend first, then work on the threesome.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          September 30, 2022 at 7:51 pm | #

          Damn, so never.

  17. Prince Mech
    Prince Mech
    September 30, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    D’you think this counts as negging?

  18. Reed
    Reed
    September 30, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

    Mmmmm. I don’t know if I buy Booster’s prognosis.

    And reading hastily written smutfic hardly seems like a solid basis for such claims.

  19. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    September 30, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

    I believe this might genuinely be the first time Booster’s whiffed one–Dororthy and Walky broke up because it was impacting Dorothy’s studies, at least on paper, and Walky agreed because Dorothy’s happiness was more important to him than their relationship. Does that mean he “lost himself” in Dorothy? Would a Walky who’s independent and non-dependent have insisted the relationship keep going?

    Moreover, I’d dispute that Walky “lost himself” to begin with. He cleaned up his act a little, both in a literal hygiene sense and in a metaphorical “I want to be an emotionally mature and available friend/brother” sense, but I don’t think there’s any argument to be made that he remade his life around Dorothy or cast aside things that mattered to him.

    And, like, Walky did confront his own shit while he was with Dorothy. It was in baby steps, sure, and was often less to do with his own trauma than approaching Billie and Sal about theirs, but we can’t forget that it was in part because of her that he finally confronted his executive dysfunction around studying and tried to get his act together in math. If he hadn’t done that, if he’d remained as-is, than he wouldn’t have added onto Dorothy’s workload, and they’d still be together until he got put on academic probation and/or dropped out.

    My assumption is this is intended to be an end to Booster’s spotless record, because if we’re meant to take it at face value, I’m gonna need a little convincing.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      September 30, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

      It is also just occurring to me that hey, Amber seemed to be kinda passively discouraging Walky from engaging with his shit for swaths of their relationship by providing him a place where they could be garbage, and it ended in part the first time because Walky realized Garbage Roof was unhealthy for him!

      So yeah, Booster’s way off base. I honestly think they took Walky/Lucy as a baseline and then worked their way backwards.

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      September 30, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

      Yup, they are totally off here about Walky but that is exactly why Dorothy broke up with Danny. I think Walky and Lucy are mutually dorky together. If Walky continues to stay hot, changes his shirts often enough, and passes his classes Lucy won’t dump him when she gets a little confidence. He’s nice to her and enjoys her company. I hope he doesn’t throw her over for the evil social climbers when they smoother him with flattering lies at that dinner Raidah is planning though.

      But Booster somehow hit right on the term “garbage” that Walky and Amber used to describe themselves! They’ve probably struck a nerve here, maybe Amber will defend Walky at least if not herself.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      September 30, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

      That’s a pretty good point, easy to see a character monologue a bunch of analysis about another character and assume it’s meant to be taken at face value without really interrogating what they’re saying, especially if they aren’t immediately shut down

    • Eolirin
      Eolirin
      September 30, 2022 at 12:44 am | #

      A Walky that was mature in that relationship would not have been in it to begin with. He absolutely lost himself in her the whole time. It’s not about confronting things or not confronting things, it’s about why you’re confronting them and how. Even when Walky was engaging in growth, he was doing so because of Dorothy, not because he wanted to grow.

      And I think you’re taking the diametrically opposed garbage thing the wrong way; Walky avoids trauma and feelings, but being forced to interact with Amber, especially as a romantic partner, makes doing that literally impossible. Walky realizing garbage roof was unhealthy *on his own* speaks toward, not against, Booster’s point. He has to confront himself to be with her. And her enabling is part of that as well. She isn’t giving him somewhere to hide from himself.

      And, no, Booster didn’t take Walky/Lucy as a baseline and then worked their way backwards, Willis decided to have them say that because it moves the plot in the way Willis wants. There’s only ever narrative logic to character behavior, even if that logic is thought through enough by the author to seem like genuine decision making. The way Willis is using Booster, you should assume they are correct unless being incorrect is more useful to the story. Much like Mike they are basically omniscient until it’s valuable for them to not be.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        September 30, 2022 at 12:54 am | #

        Walky didn’t engage in growth solely because of Dorothy. In fact, he kept the torment he was feeling over Billie’s suffering from her and refused to talk to her about it for a long time! He also kept his issues with Sal very broad when discussing things with her. His emotional growth is, in a lot of ways, disconnected from his relationship with Dorothy.

        And Amber literally gave Walky a place to hide from himself! That’s what Walky realized Garbage Roof was! Sure, he was thinking about his trauma while he was up there, but he wasn’t actually doing anything about it. (As opposed to now, where he doesn’t seem to be doing either, but I think that’s very consciously being depicted as him backsliding on account of Mike.)

        And for the record, I am assuming Booster is incorrect because it’d be more useful to the story. Being wrong would give Booster a meaningful character flaw that’d make them more interesting. This is a character-driven, open-ended narrative. Characters in this story behave a certain way because it generates good drama, not because there’s a logical endpoint or steps to hit. No, they obviously don’t actually have agency, but this also doesn’t make them perfect assessors of what’s going on around them.

        • Blume
          Blume
          September 30, 2022 at 2:02 am | #

          He hid things from Dorothy because he didn’t want to bother her with them. He seemed to think of himself as not good enough for Dorothy from what I saw. I’ll admit I don’t seem to remember the strips as well as you! But I did randomize pages and reread the time Wally was bombing math and was really really anxious when Dorothy found out.

          • Wack'd
            Wack'd
            September 30, 2022 at 2:29 am | #

            I mean, yes, but just because Walky still had problems during that time doesn’t mean his growth was stifled or he had “lost himself” in the relationship.

    • Sambo
      Sambo
      September 30, 2022 at 7:41 am | #

      Totally agree with you about Walky and Dorothy!

  20. Awaiting Moderation
    Awaiting Moderation
    September 30, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

    You’re doing your best Booster, but you will NEVER be as flawless of an asshole as Mike was. This is a poor replacement.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      September 30, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

      Eh. Some of Mike’s assholishness was interesting, and some of it was pretty uninspired. Like I’m finding myself more invested in this than, “Will Mike say he’ll fuck their mom???”

    • Marisa Mockery
      Marisa Mockery
      September 30, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

      Idk, Mike’s more of a manipulate bastard. Booster is a smug jackass. He’s not actively planning anyone’s downfall. Mike….eeeeeh.

      • StClair
        StClair
        September 30, 2022 at 12:33 am | #

        They.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          September 30, 2022 at 1:22 am | #

          Theey.

    • Nono
      Nono
      September 30, 2022 at 1:34 am | #

      I will say this though: Booster’s ‘psych evals’ are more interesting because some of them are off-the-mark, and also because we actually get some explanation for them – they’re a psych student. A first year psych student. And they’re being framed in a way that just makes them seem kinda smug and annoying. Mike was just really good at ‘Mike things’.

      I’m not a huge fan of Booster. But in this regard, their writing is more grounded.

  21. Johan
    Johan
    September 30, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

    So they know about Dorothy and Lucy but don’t know about Amber?

    Well… I wouldn’t wanna tell my roommate about my dumbassness either…

  22. Yeet
    Yeet
    September 30, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

    Given Lucy’s fandom tendencies, I’ve got to assume there’s some fic going on, even if she’s not as obvious and potentially not as sexual as Amber.
    Really though, Booster, I’m not sure this is an issue of who’s better or worse so much as who’s good together.
    Sure, if you averaged Amber and Walky’s respective amounts of caring about things, confronting trauma, and such you’d get a functional person who could chill out occasionally but it’s not like a relationship actually does that. Plus both of them are not great at social things in different ways.

  23. Skater Girl
    Skater Girl
    September 30, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

    I mean, they’re not wrong.

  24. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    September 30, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

    Meh. I don’t buy the mutually assured garbage, justification. It feels a little too much like making excuses for bad behavior instead of trying to be better people, or even just people. Bad take from Booster here to me.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      September 30, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

      Booster is explicitly arguing that two garbage people who’re garbage in opposite ways would gradually make each other less garbage.

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 30, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

        it worked for Billie and Ruth. It just wasn’t as strong as their depression.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        September 30, 2022 at 12:29 am | #

        Except that’s not what happened when they were together at all. Admittedly we only saw the start and end and none of the middle but it didn’t really seem to me like Walky was confronting trauma to me. It kind of felt like he was avoiding it and then Amber decided to tap out because he was being a bit of a prick in that moment.

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          September 30, 2022 at 12:56 am | #

          You’re right that it’s not what happened. Booster is wrong!

          Just not for the reasons you think they are.

      • Vanessa
        Vanessa
        September 30, 2022 at 12:31 am | #

        Or combust like matter and antimatter. the always surface-good times goofball and the always wallowing angry Eeyore. They did actually have a messy drama-explosion at Halloween.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          September 30, 2022 at 6:58 am | #

          When they’re managed harmoniously, they go faster than light.

          When containment fails though? Core breach. Kaboom. Half the ship crash-lands in the jungle.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 30, 2022 at 12:24 am | #

      They’d either become worse garbage or each try to become less garbage cuz they have someone they want to be less garbage for. To an extent I kinda agree. Like Walky with Dorothy kinda felt like he was dating a mom who was just sorta telling him the appropriate way to act. It didn’t feel equal. Walky’s the fuck up and Dorothy’s got her shit together. I think I liked Walky/Amber cuz they’re both fuck ups so neither feels…inferior to the other I guess? Dating Dorothy really fucked with Walky’s self worth.

  25. AGV
    AGV
    September 30, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

    Don’t call out fanfic writers like that

  26. Axel
    Axel
    September 30, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

    did they find out about garbage roof at some point?

    • v.gay.person
      v.gay.person
      September 30, 2022 at 1:25 am | #

      They room with Walky so I’m inferring that 80% of their reading is informed by info from him

      • Axel
        Axel
        September 30, 2022 at 5:57 am | #

        I didn’t make that connection but it makes sense

  27. Kitschensyngk
    Kitschensyngk
    September 30, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

    Booster the smutfic psychologist.

  28. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    September 30, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

    Damn, Booster is it? Sorry I don’t believe we’ve been acquainted. You and I are on the same page. Who’d a thunk I’d be team Booster.

  29. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    September 30, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

    I don’t write smutfics. I draw them instead. I wonder if I’d be good at writing them though.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      September 30, 2022 at 12:52 am | #

      Drawing is actually writing. I don’t know your comic making process, but it is writing even if it doesn’t feel like it.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        September 30, 2022 at 1:43 am | #

        From Yotomoe’s smutcomix, we know he… likes BUTTS.
        Also boobies.
        … :0

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          September 30, 2022 at 2:25 am | #

          Interesting that butts came up first since I’m actually more of a boob man. Though I also like butts. And legs and lips and hips and al the other stuff too.

          • Kyrik Michalowski
            Kyrik Michalowski
            September 30, 2022 at 3:23 am | #

            Trying to answer if I’m a “boob” person or “ass” person is harder than asking me to choose my favorite child. I’m not sure where I fall on the “Kiney”(?) Scale but I can appreciate small boobs and small butts just as much as their larger versions.

            And yes, the lips, legs, hips, etc. are important too, though first concern is always personality.

            • eh, whatever
              eh, whatever
              September 30, 2022 at 4:43 am | #

              The Kinsey scale has nothing to do with this that I can see.

              • Kyrik Michalowski
                Kyrik Michalowski
                September 30, 2022 at 9:12 am | #

                I was simply pointing out that I can enjoy someone with or without boobs. As for butts, well everyone has one of those. Except for mermaids.

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            October 1, 2022 at 12:07 pm | #

            I wasn’t actually prioritizing them. I just said butts first because that way sounded funnier to me. 🙂

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          September 30, 2022 at 7:00 am | #

          If liking those is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          September 30, 2022 at 10:52 am | #

          I think moreso than anything what someone could take away from my art is I’m really into dominant women/women taking the lead. 😛 I can’t think of any art I’ve drawn where that isn’t true.

          • mrnoidea
            mrnoidea
            September 30, 2022 at 1:32 pm | #

            I like dominant girls too, but in my experience with women who have wanted me (up until I opened my dumb mouth), none of them wanted to be “on top.” One girl straight up said, “I’ll be dominant everywhere else in life, just *not* with sex.”

            Which, oddly, can be used to describe a lot of guys as well.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              September 30, 2022 at 4:29 pm | #

              Same. Granted I have very limited experience. Granted I dunno if I’m a top or bottom yet.

  30. BBCC
    BBCC
    September 30, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

    Booster, please, you don’t need to justify your shipping preferences. 😛

    FR though. Oh, you painful little first year psych major. I’m thinking Booster struggles with relating to people and so is trying to fast track it with their cold reading skills. YOU CAN’T SHORTCUT PEOPLE BY STUDYING PSYCH.

    • StClair
      StClair
      September 30, 2022 at 12:35 am | #

      Wait, you can’t?
      Why even, then?

    • Throwatron
      Throwatron
      September 30, 2022 at 1:38 am | #

      Oh, you totally can.

      You’ll just usually come off like a total douche, even if you make good reads.

    • Blume
      Blume
      September 30, 2022 at 2:13 am | #

      In the most non insulting way possible, I think Booster just needs some friends to hang around with. They’ve been alone everytime we came across them, and they read as someone who’s never actually had anyone to talk to.

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      September 30, 2022 at 10:09 am | #

      It is called “DUMBING of Age” for a reason, not “Smarting of Age”

      And not just because of the pun.

  31. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    September 30, 2022 at 12:31 am | #

    “On this roof we can be garbage!”

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      September 30, 2022 at 12:33 am | #

      Haha, yes, Booster hits pay dirt with this part!

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      September 30, 2022 at 12:34 am | #

      😊 aaaawwweee

  32. Sev
    Sev
    September 30, 2022 at 12:34 am | #

    Lol that pride and confidence feels familiar. I was Booster as a freshman psych major, I was just quieter about it.

    Interesting that they see all of Walky’s relationships as Walky-centric phenomena, though. Seems like they have a soft spot for him. Maybe trying to help dig him out of his post-Mike depression/grief?

  33. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    September 30, 2022 at 12:35 am | #

    Smutfic… I can get behind that term.

  34. Diana Nock
    Diana Nock
    September 30, 2022 at 12:36 am | #

    I won’t link it, but there IS some weird smut on AO3 written by someone calling themself “Harmburger”.

    • Jess
      Jess
      September 30, 2022 at 2:09 am | #

      there’s some weird smut on AO3 written by a lot of different people XD

  35. JA
    JA
    September 30, 2022 at 12:36 am | #

    Funny how the truth brings out anger and fury in people.

  36. Taffy
    Taffy
    September 30, 2022 at 12:44 am | #

    How do they know anything about Dorothy and Walky’s relationship?

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      September 30, 2022 at 12:49 am | #

      Walky is Booster’s roommate, and may have mentioned some facts.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        September 30, 2022 at 1:23 am | #

        I mean, I guess.

      • v.gay.person
        v.gay.person
        September 30, 2022 at 1:29 am | #

        Walky also has little to no impulse control and a history of needing to constantly affirm his hetero manhood, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he has drunk too much mountain dew and gone into significant depth of his dating exploits with a little encouragement from B. I’m also betting this is where Booster got their garbage conclusion from and that they’re just bluffing about how they got there

        • Throwatron
          Throwatron
          September 30, 2022 at 1:36 am | #

          Also, it could not be overstated that Booster is way up their own ass about their perceived social genius, so of course they will speak as if they are the absolute factual authority on these matters whenever they choose to opine, which will be always.

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      September 30, 2022 at 1:31 am | #

      I imagine they’ve probably glimpsed some of the post-breakup interactions, and they’ve added that to Walky’s own statements, then, as Wack’d said above, they basically extrapolated back from what they’ve cold-read about Walky and Lucy/Walky and Amber.

      They’re close to the mark but definitely wrong.

    • Wereg
      Wereg
      September 30, 2022 at 3:40 am | #

      Booster pays a lot of attention to people, so they probably either asked Walky/some of the other friends about it or just kinda listened in whenever it was mentioned. The characters all probably have a bunch of minor interactions that we don’t see.

  37. newlland(Henryvolt)
    newlland(Henryvolt)
    September 30, 2022 at 12:57 am | #

    Lucy is good people and deserves the best. She deserves friends who see her worth as who she is and will appreciate her unlike the folke in her dorm and she deserves a decent good experience with what seems to be her first boyfriend or atleast the best Walky can give her.

    It’s funny because it feels like she would make a good girlfriend for anyone. She was so thoughtful, emotionally intelligent, caring that she was able to tell quickly what was going on between Ruth and Billie immediately. Who doesn’t need someone like that in their life?

    When all this started I debated with myself if them getting along well was really as good as being a good match for each other. It was also hard to see her Clamor over him for his attention just like it would have been hard to see him reject her and give her the idea she’s not interesting enough to get romantically involved with because that wouldn’t be true and I feel like she deserves better than that.

    So I just went with it as they paired up and hoped for the best thinking “why not, theirs literally no reason to say no.”

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      September 30, 2022 at 1:07 am | #

      I agree, and I think that’s my problem.
      “There’s no reason to say no” doesn’t feel like a good enough or strong enough reason to get in a romantic relationship.
      Maybe it should be as simple as that, and Lucy definitely deserves a good relationship. I’m just not sure Walky can give one to her, or if he’s too lackadaisical about it.
      But I could just be assuming too much and underestimating how much he really cares about her.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        September 30, 2022 at 2:02 am | #

        I think “there’s no reason to say no” is a fine enough reason to begin a romantic relationship. (Many of my favourite life choices have started with “why not!” so I highly recommend this approach.)

        You’d certainly need a better/stronger reason to marry somebody! But we’re at Taco Bells, not wedding bells. This is a great time for them to experiment and just see how much they both enjoy hanging out together. Later they can see if they’ll want to continue onwards and grow together as human beings and all that good stuff.

        In conclusion, I strongly agree that Lucy is a delight and I likewise want all the good things for her.

    • anon
      anon
      September 30, 2022 at 1:19 am | #

      well billie/jen was a bit hyper-idolized but i don’t think anyone in her dorm room particularly disliked/exclded lucy to begin with

      • newlland(Henryvolt)
        newlland(Henryvolt)
        September 30, 2022 at 1:35 am | #

        No they didn’t, They seemed like genuinely decent people. but I didn’t see enough care from them to give the feeling to give off the feeling that they’re “Good friends” and not “people She just lives with.”

    • Blume
      Blume
      September 30, 2022 at 2:09 am | #

      I agree! No Offense to Walky though, but Lucy DOES deserve better. She’s the ultimate sweetheart. I hope she gets an arc soon, regarding her confidence and idolization of people. Her major problems seems to be the fact that she gets trapped her ideals… Views the world with rose colored glasses, if you will?

      • Alex
        Alex
        September 30, 2022 at 3:01 pm | #

        I think what Lucy deserves is a better self-image so they don’t just wait around for months dropping hints to someone who doesn’t seem all that interested, and who openly admitted that her main redeeming feature is an interest in cartoons.

  38. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    September 30, 2022 at 1:02 am | #

    Right, I gotta agree with Booster.
    This is sort of what I was talking about yesterday.

    Walky was trying to better himself for Dorothy, yes, and was very supportive of her, but he was also pretty passive.
    What she wanted was what he wanted, and when it wasn’t, he almost always tried anyway (the one time he didn’t was the pajama jeans, there might be others). And he definitely felt he wasn’t on her level.

    With Lucy, the dynamic is reversed.
    She gives the impression that she’ll support him in almost anything, but all he wants to do is get by.
    He’s taking some steps to do better, like going to class and being slightly more honest with his feelings, but most of that could arguably be due to the changes in his friend group/dynamic over the time skip.
    And again, I don’t really see what he does for the relationship.
    I think they’re better friends.

    But with Amber he seemed more dynamic, more active. Is that because he felt less pressure? Is it because he was more experienced? Both? Neither?
    All I can say is that it looked like Walky connected with Amber in a way he hasn’t done with anyone else, and I liked what I saw when they were together.
    It definitely wasn’t the Best Walky, but it may have been Peak Walky.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 30, 2022 at 2:26 am | #

      I concur.

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      September 30, 2022 at 8:28 am | #

      While we haven’t seen the Slipshine comic yet, I have to believe that what Walky and Lucy get out of their relationship is the sex.

      Lucy has really mostly shown interest in his body.

      Walky mostly has shown interest in not being alone.

      They’re both in it for each others’ bodies.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        September 30, 2022 at 9:46 am | #

        But we gotta wait for the 3rd date. That’s when the lord Jesus said it’s ok to bang.

        • Maveric1984
          Maveric1984
          September 30, 2022 at 10:05 am | #

          Don’t forget the time skip. They’ve been banging for a while.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            September 30, 2022 at 10:23 am | #

            They started dating after the time skip. Likely no sex yet. We usually see it – if not an actual Slipshine, some discussion or lead up.

    • Alex
      Alex
      September 30, 2022 at 1:49 pm | #

      Yeah I feel like Walky and Amber both challenged each other in interesting ways, and would have been good as a couple. However someone else pointed out that after Mike’s death they both needed different things and it wouldn’t have worked anymore.

  39. Rainhat
    Rainhat
    September 30, 2022 at 1:12 am | #

    Booster, actually making me miss Mike.

  40. anon
    anon
    September 30, 2022 at 1:17 am | #

    Wonder what their take away from an asexual would be then lol (even if they don’t do it themselves [depending on the person of course], i imagine there are a handful that write it for entertainment)

    …now that i think about it, from a practical standpoint, a non sex repulsed asexual would be the perfect cameraperson for porn /shot

    • Joyfulldreams
      Joyfulldreams
      September 30, 2022 at 1:31 am | #

      You say that like it’s a joke but I am a non sex repulsed ace and that sounds fuckin ideal to me.

      • anon
        anon
        September 30, 2022 at 4:12 am | #

        i mean idk how competitive it is but i suppose if it’s Not Weird or awkward , yo u could offer if you knew some friends that wanted to get into it in an amateur way or offer to help with someone’s potential only fans (tho unless tthey knew you were ace upfront it’d make it seem like you were making a pass at them lol)

        But yeah it is interesting how one would get into the career as the ppl behind the scenes such as directing and editing ‘behind the scenes’ stuff lol (might depend ion the individual but given if your face is never shown it might be easier to be a ‘porn’ videographer and work on higher profile jobs later than a porn actress being a regular one b/c of the stigma/reputation and such)

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      September 30, 2022 at 10:07 am | #

      As a person who writes fanfic and therefore follow a bunch of writers on twitter, there are PLENTY of ace people out there writing the hardest of hardcore smut fics. They just don’t want to participate in it themselves.

      • Cerusee
        Cerusee
        September 30, 2022 at 7:38 pm | #

        My ace sibling has written some of the *kinkiest* shit imaginable, and I know very well it doesn’t represent stuff they secretly wanna do and are just repressing.

        A common theory amongst aces (myself included) is that non-sex-repulsed ace writers tend to find vanilla porn boring because just imagining the basic mechanics of sex isn’t interesting or stimulating by itself, so when they write porn, they have to really spice it up. (Or, if reading porn for fun sexy purposes, rather than writing it, look for kinkier fic.)

  41. Sajuuk-Khar
    Sajuuk-Khar
    September 30, 2022 at 1:27 am | #

    Mike always, at his core, made me feel like I was reading about Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye. Like, that was the endpoint to all his grouchy-faced troll shit, was a guy who’d decided it was all PhOnEy so he was gonna fuck with people.

    Booster, here, on the other hand, puts me in the mind of a non-binary, much more well-adjusted, non-cannibalistic Hannibal Lecter.

    (I read Catcher once. Silence of the Lambs was a favorite novel for years. Problematic as hell, but still beloved.)

  42. Throwatron
    Throwatron
    September 30, 2022 at 1:33 am | #

    speaking of ledes dropping, we finally have Booster confirming they are, indeed, a typical college psych student

  43. Adj
    Adj
    September 30, 2022 at 1:45 am | #

    Booster has all the smugness of a soft science major who thinks they are in a hard science.

    Put them in the same room as an Economics major who “knows how to fix the U.S.” and you’ll generate a Smug Cloud that would block out the sun for any major city.

    • Doki
      Doki
      September 30, 2022 at 3:08 pm | #

      Ehh. I’m personally not a fan of dismissing the validity of various sciences with the hard/soft labels (a practice which seems inherently unscientific in itself). Brilliant people in so-called ‘hard’ science fields get shit wrong all the time LOL

      I do agree with you in Booster’s general ~vibes~ though haha!

  44. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    September 30, 2022 at 1:47 am | #

    Have Jacob and Lucy met?

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      September 30, 2022 at 2:11 am | #

      Only in Joyce’s fevered imagination.
      https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/lucy+jacob/

      • Marvelman
        Marvelman
        September 30, 2022 at 2:25 am | #

        I was wondering because Jacob said that Joyce ticked a few boxes for him, and Joyce and Lucy have some traits in common so I thought Lucy & Jacob might be good as a couple.

        • Cerusee
          Cerusee
          September 30, 2022 at 7:25 pm | #

          I think, and this is not meant to be a knock on Lucy, probably not. My read on Jacob’s attraction to Joyce was that it was based more than a little on what he perceived as her fearlessness. Like yes, obviously, Joyce is *very* much a stew of personal anxieties, but what Jacob seemed to see and admire in her, which I think she really responded to and tried to live up to, was her bravery—the courage to physically confront an adult man who’d tried to hurt her friend, the courage to *begin* to ask questions about her faith, even the courage to push her own boundaries about her habits and food aversions.

          Lucy superficially has a bunch of traits in common with Joyce, including identifying strongly enough as a Christian Woman to vocally describe herself that way to people, and oh yes those nerd tendencies. But her anxieties (that we have seen so far) seem much milder and less debilitating; she also doesn’t doesn’t seem to have the same push to confront them. I’m a little doubtful Jacob would feel the same pull towards Lucy that he felt to Joyce. I know Lucy described Joyce as a “blonde, bisexual version of me”, but Lucy barely knows Joyce, and was describing surface-level perceived traits.

          (Also, given the context that Jacob had been getting a bunch of “my roommate is SO weird and SO repressed” stories about Joyce from Sarah, I think some of his interest in her was also in meeting the real human being who’d generated those stories, and getting to know her a little better as a person.)

  45. Blume
    Blume
    September 30, 2022 at 2:04 am | #

    Okay, that’s it! Comparing Booster to Mike is getting really weird! They don’t feel like Mike at all, and that’s not a bad thing! Personally never liked the guy, and Booster’s creepy too (yet now, I find them a bit entertaining. It feels like there’s way more going on behind there!) but they aren’t a replacement anything! They’re pretty different tbh

    • CorporateDronesDontHaveMissiles
      CorporateDronesDontHaveMissiles
      September 30, 2022 at 5:49 pm | #

      I think there’s a ‘analytical manipulative antagonist’ vibe both of them share. They have different styles, but they both have the ‘I’m going to prove I’m the smartest person in the room’ pattern that manifests in different ways. Mike usually undercut his targets, Booster usually tries to put them in a box.

  46. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    September 30, 2022 at 2:21 am | #

    Okay, Booster.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      September 30, 2022 at 3:15 am | #

      Don’t you mean Okay, Boomer.

      wait

      yeah ok.

  47. PirateTawnee
    PirateTawnee
    September 30, 2022 at 2:40 am | #

    I like Booster. I like them a lot, and enjoy the strips they appear in.

    • Alex
      Alex
      September 30, 2022 at 1:46 pm | #

      Yes, I feel the same. I wouldn’t want to know them in real life but they’re highly entertaining in a comic like this. Certain characters have always had unrealistic physical abilities, but someone with unrealistic powers of perception is far more interesting to me.

  48. Maggie
    Maggie
    September 30, 2022 at 2:43 am | #

    I like Booster. I hope we see more of them.

  49. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    September 30, 2022 at 3:22 am | #

    https://imgur.com/a/UDPV54F

    I don’t ship it at all really but that’s never stopped me before.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      September 30, 2022 at 3:25 am | #

      I do like her reasoning though.

    • ElderlyMarxist
      ElderlyMarxist
      September 30, 2022 at 5:00 pm | #

      absolutely love this

    • newlland(Henryvolt)
      newlland(Henryvolt)
      September 30, 2022 at 6:16 pm | #

      Ha!

  50. Lone Duck
    Lone Duck
    September 30, 2022 at 3:36 am | #

    For you see, when you write the smutfic, what you’re really writing is yourself – Booster, 2022

  51. Carms
    Carms
    September 30, 2022 at 4:03 am | #

    i lost my meagre smutfic to successive computer fuckies =(
    One of them was about walking about in the rain,
    One was about beating up a over-cocky uni student in the chem labs.

  52. Axel
    Axel
    September 30, 2022 at 5:51 am | #

    I don’t think you can tell anything about me from my erotic fanfiction (it’s so tempting to write “erotic friendfiction” but I do not do that), except my current turn ons. I do write long form multichaptered though, so there’s probably less influence from my life in each chapter, since it has to make sense with the previous and following ones.

    • Doki
      Doki
      September 30, 2022 at 3:18 pm | #

      Same! What I’m looking for in erotic entertainment doesn’t necessarily reflect on me as a person.

      Don’t get me wrong, it absolutely can? But it doesn’t always.

      As usual, I think Booster simultaneously has a point and is way off base at the same time haha

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        September 30, 2022 at 3:46 pm | #

        Yeah. I feel like a lotta people tend to think I’m into certain stuff or am a certain way. It’s hard to explain that I’m not really self inserting as either character when I write (at least not sexually) so much as I just find the scenario hot. I don’t wanna BE the people I just find the situation sexy. In fact I prefer the characters to be super fleshed out and unique.

        • Doki
          Doki
          September 30, 2022 at 5:09 pm | #

          Oh yeah, absolutely! The kinks I’m into in fiction can depend wildly based on the characters.

  53. Sam
    Sam
    September 30, 2022 at 5:52 am | #

    That is what a psych student would say as if any of these dynamics are guaranteed to stay that way and couldn’t be improved, fixed or changed.

  54. Hazel
    Hazel
    September 30, 2022 at 6:29 am | #

    Kickstarter tier where Booster analyzes your horny Skyrim fanfic for psychological insights.

    • spriteless_auntie
      spriteless_auntie
      September 30, 2022 at 12:32 pm | #

      Why would Willis do that? It’s gotta be Transformers fanfic

    • Doki
      Doki
      September 30, 2022 at 3:18 pm | #

      Okay but that would unironically be an amazing Kickstarter perk OMG

  55. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    September 30, 2022 at 7:07 am | #

    I admit… I’m now curious as to what Booster’s read of me would be after reading my smutfics/personal fantasies. XD

  56. RedCat
    RedCat
    September 30, 2022 at 7:27 am | #

    Don’t call people garbage, Booster!

  57. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    September 30, 2022 at 7:39 am | #

    Wait… Booster is attracted by Amber too! What is the motivation they have? They say they just like problematic person, but they liked Amber instantly and after knowing more about her, they just liked her more and more. Maybe they analyse everyone else but are avoiding to confronting their own traumas too? Maybe they also have (or used to have) like two personality? Probably they too write smutfic. More we see Amber and Booster together, more I see how alike they are. The Ambooster become stronger and stronger.

  58. Pocky
    Pocky
    September 30, 2022 at 8:47 am | #

    I finally figured it out; Booster is that kid in your class that is waaay to open about their online fetishes, and wants it to be your business. . . against your will.

    No wonder they gave me some horrible flashbacks.

  59. Thomas O.
    Thomas O.
    September 30, 2022 at 9:49 am | #

    I have this idea of an action-packed smutfic between Walky and Joyce, but I’ve got this feeling that it’s been done already.

  60. Ari
    Ari
    September 30, 2022 at 11:17 am | #

    I agree with everything Booster is saying but also their relationship to these people is being classmates and my relationship to these people is that they are fictional characters?

  61. Adept
    Adept
    September 30, 2022 at 1:02 pm | #

    Booster just seems like a smug jerk.

  62. Nevermaker
    Nevermaker
    September 30, 2022 at 1:17 pm | #

    Here’s the thing: Booster isn’t WRONG (in fact, they’re almost scarily right), but it’s like…really weird? To talk about your friends and classmates and roommates this way? Like, it’s one thing to analyze and understand fictional characters, but Booster is a character in this universe, so these are real people to them, and treating them like they’re a puzzle to be solved like this is off-putting, to say the least.

    …Huh. You know, Mike kinda did the same thing: manipulating and belittling people in an attempt to make them face up to their bullshit, which works in a fictional context but not in the real life that this comic is supposed to be to the characters. Guess Booster really is “replacement Mike”.

    • Kazuma Taichi
      Kazuma Taichi
      September 30, 2022 at 1:26 pm | #

      Openly confronting other people that you’re not already on great terms with by presenting them with your psycho-analysis of them is certainly off-putting and a yellow flag if nothing else.

      However I will defend the psycho-analyzing real people itself. Not everyone’s brains are wired so as to do this, but if someone who’s got the predisposition to do it ends up taking psychology or neuroscience, then it becomes a sort of automatic process. I say this as someone who also does it. I especially puzzle out my friends whenever the opportunity arises. The difference is that I don’t present my findings to them without asking them if they’re cool with me doing so first

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      September 30, 2022 at 2:40 pm | #

      Booster’s not really all that right. That’s absolutely not how Walky and Dorothy’s relationship ended, for the most obvious thing.

      • Cerusee
        Cerusee
        September 30, 2022 at 7:09 pm | #

        Yeah, that one in particular seems wildly off-base. Booster and Dorothy don’t seem to have interacted that much, which makes me wonder how much of that reading is due to a very one-sided and incomplete account of the relationship from the person who was dumped, and is sad (although not bitter) about it.

        It would be kind of funny if Booster’s thing was they’re right about this shit just often enough to convince them that they’re right ALL the time, and are consequently a little delusional about how often they’re whiffing it.

        Although we do already have Jennifer in the cast, so that might be redundant.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          September 30, 2022 at 11:03 pm | #

          I can’t even really see it as being based on anything Walky might have said about it, given what we’ve seen of his opinion.
          It seems more based on his take on Walky and a more distant take on Dorothy – which suggests to me that he doesn’t even really have more than a surface read on Walky yet.

          • Cerusee
            Cerusee
            September 30, 2022 at 11:28 pm | #

            We’ve never seen Walky trash Dorothy, so that wasn’t what I was thinking—but, like, if you live with someone intimately enough to see them in their underwear, and that person is Walky—I’d bet that Walky would have dropped some mournful comments about his amazing ex-girlfriend (who was also his only-ever girlfriend; the Amber situation was Complicated), and Booster Therapized Walky based wholly on that.

  63. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    September 30, 2022 at 1:20 pm | #

    Spoken like a true psychology major

  64. mrnoidea
    mrnoidea
    September 30, 2022 at 1:40 pm | #

    For years I pondered the idea of making a smutfic, but I never got around to writing more than a few sentences. (Whereas years ago I wrote a whole-ass 250-page science fiction novel in a few months).

    Mostly I’m afraid of writing something that someone else will read and respond, “Don’t show this to anyone you care about, this is pretty cringy.”

  65. Alex
    Alex
    September 30, 2022 at 1:44 pm | #

    I love Booster so much and I’m so glad they’re finally getting some panel time.

  66. Raja
    Raja
    September 30, 2022 at 2:48 pm | #

    Love Booster what an arrogant little shit lol

  67. Brasca1
    Brasca1
    September 30, 2022 at 3:05 pm | #

    Booster may have the analysis part down, but their bedside manner is so off putting I doubt they’ll get many patients.

  68. spriteless_auntie
    spriteless_auntie
    September 30, 2022 at 4:29 pm | #

    Hmm. Amber tends to reject people who have nice things to say to her that she doesn’t believe. Training from Blaine and Mike, I suppose. Is Booster being candid about her flaws to avoid that, or do they have any idea?

    • Alex
      Alex
      September 30, 2022 at 5:04 pm | #

      I think they’re just being honest. I doubt they know THAT much about Amber.

  69. ElderlyMarxist
    ElderlyMarxist
    September 30, 2022 at 4:58 pm | #

    uhhh now i kind of want booster to analyse my smutfic. diagnose my issues pls

    • ElderlyMarxist
      ElderlyMarxist
      September 30, 2022 at 4:59 pm | #

      never has my icon been less appropriate

  70. Laura
    Laura
    September 30, 2022 at 5:12 pm | #

    For anyone who’s feeling anxious and stressed right now, I’m playing this virtual campfire on the hacked furnace:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz7wtTO7roQ

    • JBento
      JBento
      September 30, 2022 at 5:42 pm | #

      *puts TV in fireplace, streams*

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      September 30, 2022 at 6:58 pm | #

      Thank you so much Laura! Now I have something to listen to while I code a virtual campfire and roast hotdogs (brain’s gotta have protein)!! 😋

      Speaking of which, what do you like on yours?

      • Laura
        Laura
        September 30, 2022 at 8:49 pm | #

        Sriracha Mayo!
        And aioli garlic mustard.

        Glad you 2 like it!

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          September 30, 2022 at 9:12 pm | #

          Mmmmm….. i like mine real spicy too, but with just yellow mustard (Heinz or Gulden’s), and optionally a little ketchup. Roast mine and sauce ’em like that, and imma happy camper! 😋😊

          • Laura
            Laura
            September 30, 2022 at 11:50 pm | #

            Classic choices! You could try soy sauce and sauteed mushrooms with ginger and garlic, if you’re feeling adventurous. But the best mustard, hands down, in all the planet, is Amora mustard. The only thing even slightly better than Amora is picking a wild-growing mustard flower and crunching it between your teeth.

            • The Wellerman
              The Wellerman
              October 1, 2022 at 3:09 am | #

              Amora… sounds like something from She-Ra 😆

              Yeah I don’t care too much for French’s, Heinz and Gulden’s have just the right amount of spicy while not burning my nostrils, and the perfect amount of tart, like Wasabi and butter had a baby. 😋😊

  71. Some Guy
    Some Guy
    September 30, 2022 at 6:50 pm | #

    Is it weird that I like that Booster kind of sucks, but that he sucks in a different way than everyone else sucks? These are all flawed characters.

    I will say that their comeuppance is overdue, though. Everyone gets their comeuppance.

    • Cerusee
      Cerusee
      September 30, 2022 at 7:00 pm | #

      *They

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      September 30, 2022 at 7:16 pm | #

      One particular aspect of their comeuppance may be just what we need to give Dorothy her comeuppance.

      If all goes well, it should in one sense solve both those problems.

      • Cerusee
        Cerusee
        September 30, 2022 at 7:45 pm | #

        I don’t think Dorothy needs any comeuppance in the form of someone she barely knows delivering their unasked-for, poorly-informed judgement on a romantic relationship that ended months ago and has absolutely nothing to do with the person doing that judging.

        I also cannot imagine what “problems” that would solve.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          September 30, 2022 at 7:54 pm | #

          I was referring to Dorothy’s ableist bias and being condescending as hell to Joyce.

          • Cerusee
            Cerusee
            September 30, 2022 at 11:20 pm | #

            That’s most of the cast. Dorothy ain’t special. She’s not worse than anyone else in this setting. I don’t think Dorothy deserves to be singled out for revenge fantasies for things she hasn’t actually done in this comic strip.

            I don’t think this comic strip is going to give you the satisfaction you’re specifically looking for right now. It’s probably not going to become a manifesto about the societal mistreatment of people with autism. It’s probably not going punish fictional alter egos of people with bad ideas about autism for having those bad ideas, or take them to task for real allistic people’s horrible real-life crimes against real people with autism. This is a long-running comic strip with well-established characters and arcs and relationships that has recently started to explore the idea that one of its central characters has realized that they may possibly be autistic, after a childhood where “maybe I’m autistic” wasn’t on the menu at all. I really, truly (I REALLY DO) understand how much you want to see yourself represented in a work of fiction as vivid and thoughtfully-written as this one, especially when you’ve started to identify with a character.

            But…this comic strip is probably not going to give you the thing exact things you’ve specifically said you want to see it do. The only useful thing I can recommend is what I’ve done, myself, when I realized a story someone else was telling wasn’t going to go the way I wanted: I accepted it. Sometimes I stuck around, and enjoyed the story anyway, even if wasn’t what I’d been hoping for. Sometimes, I walked away. It depended on how important it was to me, to see that thing happen, and how much I valued what it was, even if it wasn’t what I was hoping for.

            • The Wellerman
              The Wellerman
              September 30, 2022 at 11:55 pm | #

              You seem to assume that I have an all-or-nothing position when it comes to representation. However, that is incorrect.

              DoA didn’t need to be a “social mistreatment manifesto” as you put it to have serious and honest exploration of systematic racism suffered by characters like Sal and Marcie, as well as systematic homophobia, so I don’t see why exploration of systematic ableism would be any less serious and honest.

              In fact, the autism can of worms was only ever opened up in the first place because Willis is a responsible author who considers reader feedback, and he doesn’t seem to show any signs of stopping any time soon.

              • Cerusee
                Cerusee
                October 1, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

                You know what…this was probably a mistake on my part. I’m sorry if I came across as condescending.

                Peace out.

                • The Wellerman
                  The Wellerman
                  October 1, 2022 at 1:51 am | #

                  No hard feelings 😊

  72. Mopey
    Mopey
    September 30, 2022 at 9:38 pm | #

    God, this character trope is exhausting.
    And it always takes me out of a story whenever one of these near-psychics shows up, because it becomes so obvious I’m reading fiction.

    The kind of people who act like this irl are just assholes who think they’re some sort of Psychology Sherlock because they string a few shallow observations together and fill in the gaps with presumptive speculation and massive logical leaps. And they’ll end up being wrong loads of the time, though often they’re not curious enough to find that out.

    In fiction, however, they’re unerring in their unwanted analyses because they’re a kind of obvious author insert telling us explicitly how the author _wants_ us to interpret the people around them.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      September 30, 2022 at 9:56 pm | #

      COSIGNED.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      October 1, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

      In a lot of stuff, sure, but Booster honestly REALLY does not read as Willis to me like at all.

    • Azhrei Vep
      Azhrei Vep
      October 1, 2022 at 2:33 am | #

      I mean … Booster seems more wrong than right here, but sure, when they’re always right, it does get annoying.

  73. Victor Riley
    Victor Riley
    October 1, 2022 at 4:29 pm | #

    This “allergic to confronting his own trauma”… what does it look like to ‘confront your trauma’? Does it have to entail breaking down crying every time or it doesn’t count?

    What if Walky has, or is, dealing with it but it’s just not in a way that people can outwardly see it? What if it’s being done in a “zen way” where he accepts it and tries to move on? Or is there a specific time frame one must do it in? Maybe he knows he’s going to “deal” with it for the rest of his life, as such traumas may cause, so he’s doing it slowly, little by little?

    Yeah, I have to say, I’m not finding Booster very endearing. They’re more douchey than anything. Judging others probably to mask judging themselves.

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