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New game! BOLTED 
Barb O. Saur 
“or rappel out a window!”
…I feel like I’ll be really sad if Charlie legit has Carla agnosia
what the fuck alt-text jinx
A likely story Ana. We’re onto you.
idk if she has some kinda serious issue but depending you’d think she’d have some kinda assistance if it affects her university life (since she’s shown to ‘space out’ rather than onl ybeing like that around carla)
In my experience IU isn’t great at accommodating special needs like that, there are external services you can contract if you need an aide or something, and for more physical disabilities like a deaf student needing an interpreter it’s easier simply because there’s more awareness for that so the University is better about it, but for the more neurological/mental stuff it can be like pulling teeth, and that’s if whatever accommodations you need are actually on offer at all. I tried to get a basic accommodation for extended test time, something I’d gotten at literally every other school I’d ever gone to, from elementary through high school and even at the local community college I went to for some pre-reqs before transferring to IU, and everywhere else I’ve ever been providing documentation from my psychiatrist and my transcripts from my previous schools along with a single meeting with administrators and whatever professionals they have for dealing with that stuff and I’d have my accommodation. At IU I made an appointment with the appropriate office, showed up with all my documentation in-hand, and discovered the office empty at the appointed time with a pile-up of documents that looked similar to my own (in envelopes that I did not open, just packets of documents similar size and thickness to my own with labels similar to my own) that made it clear nobody had actually been in there for a long, long time. I did *eventually* manage to get ahold of an actual person on the phone who told me to mail in copies (which it looked like they’d just go to the pile at the empty office with the rest) and they assured me my situation would be reviewed and they’d get back to me within a few months. I never heard back from them, and was never able to get an actual person on the phone from that entire department ever again, after my second year there I just gave up. Thankfully I wound up not needing that accommodation anymore, and that was the only one I had expected any need for, so it was no real loss for me, but I guarantee there were probably several hundred students (just judging from the size of the pile and extrapolating that it simply continued to grow from there) who actually DID need accommodations for things significantly more serious than what I had going on who definitely fell through the cracks, considering the metaphorical cracks were basically the size of the san andreas fault.
But, yeah, no, I wouldn’t expect her to receive ANY accommodations, reasonable or otherwise, not unless Willis decides to somehow make the University LESS shitty than reality for some reason, but I can’t imagine why Willis would do anything like that in THIS comic.
I wonder if there are college students with emotional support dogs, but i imagine since booster isn’t fussing over her , they aren’t worried about charlie being left on her own
Can’t speak for IU specifically, but yeah, in general schools don’t seem to be great at handling disability accommodations (tbh SOCIETY in general isn’t great at it).
And this does actually go for physical disabilities as well. You’re right that the more awareness there is re: a specific type of disability, the higher the chances accommodations will be available, but there are physical disabilities for which awareness is very low as well, like complex chronic illnesses and/or chronic pain.
Most people tend to have a very narrow idea of what constitutes a “disability.” Their mental image of what disability looks like tends to be restricted to visible ones, such as being in a wheelchair (and most weirdly assume wheelchair always = paralyzed/unable to walk or move legs at all), missing a limb, or being blind. Also deafness (which is interesting, I wonder how so much awareness developed for that one when most invisible disabilities are overlooked?). But anyone who “looks healthy/abled” tends to have an uphill battle to have the existence/validity of our disabilities recognized at all, let alone accommodated, regardless of whether they’re mental of physical.
Carla: “She could also use the fire escape. And with her build, the ventilation shafts are not an impossibility. Now, can I be 100% certain she doesn’t own a grapnel gun?”
(Soon)
Newscaster: “And the ten thousand drones that have descended upon Briscoe Hall have been identified as Ruttech property. The situation is developing and thus far we have received no communications from the terrorists save that this is about “Charlie”. We go now to published Manson Family expert…”
“We found out because the Ruttech drones are flying in formation and spelling Charlie.
maybe this outfit is too subtle. maybe she needs a neon sign pointing to her that says “LOOK! ITS CARLA!”
it’d be hilariously ironic/fucked up if somehow she randomly tripped/stumbled with a crowd staring (yet charlie still not noticing), being embarrassed and running off and then actively avoiding her/trying to not get her attention and then charlie finally noticing her being ‘stealthy’ or so lol.
She needs a swarm of drones that can spell out “CARLA” and an arrow that constantly points to her location.
we don’t know they haven’t been there the whole strip
–Dave, just always conveniently out of frame, above
@needfuldooer: god i’d love that to track down some friends when it was a pain to get ahold of them pre ssmartphone era, or a sublte ver about it on everyone else b/c i am terrible w/ names and faces
I mean, I’m pretty sure she literally did hold up a bright red sign clearly labeling herself as “CARLA” back when she first started trying to get Charlie’s attention.
But then again, maybe the REAL problem was just the lack of neon lights in the sign! Quick, Carla! Requisition those parts ASAP!
Maybe . . . Carla needs to ask Sarah for help on how to talk to Charlie? ;p
Yelling at them and then leaving…..this has potential.
I feel shes done that already.
Dina needs to be brought in as a consultant
–Dave, if only so Carla can train from the mastress of door-fu
Who is doing well rn in their relationships:
Weirdly enough: Joe and Joyce.
I would never go to Joyce for advice…but maybe she knows something.
…literally is anyone else in this comic? Mandy/Grace/Sierra?
…Mary and what’s-his-face?
Dina and Becky!
Sal and Danny seem ok, drama with Sal’s parents aside?
Honestly, Dina could probably give some genuinely good advice to Carla about how to talk to your crush when you’re not used to that particular social situation. Like, I don’t know, something along the lines of “be clear and open about your romantic intentions” or “talk with her about an interest of yours you think she might share, and listen to what she tells you about it.” The problem, of course, is that Carla would refuse to listen to any advice that acknowledges the existence of her own emotions (that aren’t spiteful glee)!
Which of course, once again leads us to why Sarah would be the perfect person to give her romantic advice!
This will of course eventually escalate to offering to take her on expensive vacations, as a bit.
Gonna marry her, spend decades together in wedded bliss, and then say “Sike!” on her deathbed.
*Plays “I Was Only Kidding” by Weird Al on the hacked Muzak*
wonder if booster will still complain b/c it’s ‘billionaire’ stuff.
I mean probably. I’d say they might take her up on the offer and just complain the whole time, but they refused an XBOX, and I don’t know if they’d be all that interested in the Short Circuit 2 filming locations tour
🥹🥹🥹
i assume these are emojis but these are coming up as empty/blank squres to me
Your OS/browser does not support emojis i guess?
eyebrows up in the middle, eyeballs down, tiny smile
–Dave, try Firefox? though it does the squares-with-numbers once in a while as well
Three hopeful lil smiling emojis with big puppy dog eyes
What if Charlie went by while Carla was getting the hat?
An cruel and ironic tragedy worthy of the Bard of Avon.
maybe she had it folded in her pockets, i think her dress actually has pockets lol tho given she got up super early just to see her i’d imagine she’d have some kinda pack even if we didnt see her with a purse on screen lol
Hey if you’re going to go through the trouble of drawing that dress even once, you might as well get two whole strips out it. Work smarter, not harder.
the best/worst part is, it’s not copy+pasted. willis redraws and colors it fresh in every panel- you can see the lines and pattern shifting slightly each time. he CHOSE to draw that plaid, over and over. on PURPOSE.
has anyone checked on him? someone should check on him.
I agree.
Plaid’s not really that hard to draw at least not when digital. My former digital art teacher once said it’s a great way to impress people without working to hard because there’s several ways to do plaid designs easily. Redrawing that design every time though is kind of insane. Although making a selection for every panel and wrapping the design to that can be equally tedious. I wonder what Willis’ work flow is like. That would be interesting to see.
Willis has indicated all the plaid is drawn by hand and that this stuff is in fact hard for them.
My understanding is that Willis will copy-paste the same blue rough “pencils” when appropriate, but redoes the final line-art “inks” separately for each panel, as well as the shading. My guess would be that the plaid lines go through a similar process with reused “inks,” but it’s perfectly possible that I’m wrong and they’re done freehand.
Hey, I’m never gonna object to Willis drawing Carla looking cute for as many panels as he wants.
I would be a pretty sweet prank if Carla became Charlie’s friend. The greatest prank because it opens the potential for more pranks in the future.
This is too cute :3
… Carla intrigues me. I’m so curious to know more about her character to understand why she thinks someone seeing a hat that stands out is a prank. Like, Weird Internet Levels of “Trolling(?)” going on.
She refuses to accept that she’s feeling vulnerable and in love so she’s writing off any actions she may do as pranks
My read is that she’s veiling sincere emotions behind a layer of protective irony.
She’s just spouting bullshit to try and rationalize her anxiety and the strange feelings that come from having a crush on someone Especially because she finds herself wanting the attention of someone who won’t give it to her, and all prior indications being that she’s kind of a spoiled brat who has spent her entire life getting what she wants.
I genuinely like Carla she’s such a fun character.
The view of someone with one semester of psychology on a fiction character:
I think, much like Sarah, Carla tends to bury her true feelings under repellent or otherwise more aggressive emotions (likely, I believe, to avoid vulnerability and thus rejection). She ceaselessly talks, and sometimes behaves, in a manner suggesting extreme narcissism, but hardly acts like one when the chips are down and those around her need her. Here, she probably needs to justify her attempts to gain Charlie’s interest as something where Carla has the power rather than Charlie. Charlie could reject a Carla asking her out, but a Carla playing some kind of brilliant and subtle prank on Charlie is the one defining the situation – Carla has the power and is thus not vulnerable.
Yes, absolutely. Can you be my therapist when you graduate?
Hey uh I know your class is pathologizing the heck out of ADP and NDP, but for the record real people with those diagnoses are still human beings capable of as much variation in kindness and compassion as anyone else. High empathy does not make good people and low empathy does not make bad people. Compassion is what’s important.
Is…is this comment also a prank? What the hell is going on?
I’m squinting at this comment now to try and figure out how it follows @True Survivor’s comment, and I got nothin’.
She also loaned Sarah a car and driver, “as a prank”.
Though in that case her rationalization wasn’t completely wrong.
she is just internalizing (well i guess in this case externalizing?) a crush in her own Carla like way lol.
I want her to confront Walky and for Lucy to be there. Not just for a chance of a little more of the shine coming off of Walky in her eyes. Lucy was really excited about having breakfast with “popular people”, and she was hanging out with the daughter of billionaires last October.
I don’t fully understand what’s going on in this comment.
this scene.
last “and” should be a “but”
Lucy is a social second-hander. She values herself according too who likes her. Or tolerates her.
We do see her feeling ostracized. When they saw each other during the floor meeting at the beginning of the semester, we didn’t see if they even greeted each other. Not every burgeoning friendship takes off, but I want to know more.
Lucy is in a diff hall so she wouldn’t need to go to briscoe? (tho idon’t know the layout/know if it’s like in the center/need to pass by to get to it)
the hat glows brightly enough it can be seen through walls
–Dave, Hannelore’s dad’s satellite is currently tracking it
+1
Since Lucy is a like a fly clinging to social excrement by those more interesting, it is likely she will also be attracted to bright lights
? Carla would be confronting Walky in Read.
Legitimately needed a minute to remember what Carla would even be confronting Walky about, until I remembered he’s the one who sent her over to Briscoe, haha.
There are many possibilities!
“Oh man once we’re in a retirement home together being visited by our kids she’ll be so pranked!”
i see carla as more of the ‘fun aunt’ type than a mother but y’never know lol.
I continue to go back and forth on what Carla behavior I find cute and what behavior I find appalling. This is cute.
Usually she’s very one-dimensional and used only as a bit, but this right here is endearing.
Yeah, as long as it doesn’t spiral into some kinda stalker behavior lol
Depending on how broad your definition of “some kinda” is, we are already there.
well she didn’t access her information like walky said, although i guess i’d find it off putting if someone i barely knew in a college situation staked out the main dorm/public area specifically to seek me out/would assume they’d wanted something from me or ask to like cheat on hw/notes then again it’d never be a cute girl in my case lol
(and while i am amused by carla’s antics as a fictional character i think her energy is too much for me/seems like the kinda person that’d double down if you asked her to tone it down. I mean, i don’t think even if i was still a teen i’d have the energy to deal with anyone emotionally draining)
Oh shoot I just remembered Charlie might not even be in that building. RIP Carla
RIP Walky first. She is not going to be happy with him if she doesn’t get a Charlie interaction out ofthis.
i mean some revenge would be fun but tbf idk if carla would’ve listened if he was like “i don’t know, and booster is going back to sleep, stop botghering us”
Is this the hardest Carla has thought about anything that we’ve seen? If it is, I feel like she should be rewarded with a little Charlie interaction, as a treat.
A treat for us too of course.
It seems a bit incohesive? Like she normally is much more put together mentally, but when it comes to Charlie, put of her brain locks up.
God fucking damn it
Carla and Walky will look back on this someday and laugh.
I hope Walky’s day gets interrupted by Carla beating the snot out of him. I’m sure he’ll be grateful for another reason not have to touch Lucy’s body.
That being said, please don’t drop Patreon hints in the main chat, even the blurry ones. A lot of us like to avoid spoilers
imagine if she introduced herself as “i’m carla rutten” and charlie was like “Oh, my family actually buys from your competitors. ” lol
The cringe is palpable and I’m all here for it [popcorn]
She’s getting there folks.
*if li-ving is wi-thooooooout youuu!”
–Dave, thanks you for the borrowable noteses
Or she’ll not have class that day, and spend all day in her room playing games on Switch.
feeling a little sorry for carla right now, she’s just gone to a random dorm on the word of walky, who wanted her to fuck off when it was so early that he… realised he was getting up immediately after talking to her anyway
Yeah but she knocked on a door before 7:00pm, which is apparently impolite.
At least Walky won’t ever have untied shoe-laces again. They’ll just be tied to the wrong thing.
“Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.”
she did disturbt them unreasonably early but too bad booster didn’t go like “i’ll invite charlie to lunch with me later, join us then” if only to get her off their back.
Oh no. Carla, don’t write the narrative in your head, or else reality will never live up to your expectations!
Yeah, don’t become like the audience
Yeah! Don’t be us, we’re too far gone!
Carla should just stab Charlie. Hard to ignore a serrated machete between your ribs.
Quickest way to a woman’s heart.
Actually out loud laughed at this
i imagine she’d still have a five second delay to react then assuming carla doesn’t instantly regret and run off but luckily the story’s not that wild b/c just grabbing/gently tapping on her shoulder wouldn’t have been that unraesonable compared to her just shouting loudly at her and holding up a sign
People are walking by and seeing her talk to herself. She looks like a lunatic. Someone is going to call the police on her.
Or ask her where she got the tiny, tiny earbuds, I can’t see them at all, oops, sorry to interrupt your phone call!
Back in the day, sometimes I wanted to talk to myself while walking home from high school. To avoid looking crazy to anyone passing by, I’d hold my cellphone by my face while I talked. Nowadays, I guess I could pretend even easier.
i mean it’s college, early and a teen muttering to themselves with the cold would prolly seem normal assuming they weren’t dressed in some robotic plug suit or someone like 55 that clearly isn’t dressed like a teacher skulking around the area like they’re casing/going to rob it or so lol.
but tbh i assume most ppl don’t care unless u say something disturbing like “soon, they’ll all see/pay…”
Im afraid Carla will start going to that place every day hoping that Charlie will come and noticing her. But Charlie will never noticing her. Poor, poor Carla.
i don’t dislike charlie or anything but even if carla was attracted to her purely looks wise and the initial “she ignored me so i’ll take that as a challenge to get her attention no matter what” i feel like in some scenarios/other stories/irl even that it’d end up being like “Oh i talked for her for five mins and it ends up she’s the most boring person ever, what a waste” lol
like nothign wrong with it, i think i’m pretty boring too/don’t feel like going out of my way to ‘entertain’ anyone else but other than like pure attraction to where ppl are just hooking up i’d def consider myself a ‘boring’ person as well to where i’d raise an eyebrow if ppl were interested in me romantically rather than chilling together as a friend
I swear if Dumbing of Age were a television show, Carla’s character would be played by Jennifer Coolidge and no one would bat an eye at the casting choice.
I wouldn’t question a voice acting for Carla by Jennifer Coolidge, but I would 100%question why a 62 year old is playing an 18-20 year old in a live action
That being said, if we’re going that direction: what about Anna Faris?
Carla at 97, to Booster: ‘Dear, I finally want you to know – I PRANKED YOU’
Booster: ‘…eh?’
–Dave, unfortunately, posting this closes off that particular future
Honestly not sure if you meant to type Charlie of you just happen to also ship CarlaxBooster…
meant Charlie, but really, that would be an AWESOME prank on Charlie AND Booster
Carla needs to think about her end game, on this prank. She should form a relationship with Charlie, and grow old together; then when they are in their twilight years, Carla can turn to her and say, “ha, I pranked you!”
I just want to point out she is not wearing the trans flag colors on her dress. The trans colors are pink, blue, and white–no yellow, which this dress is smothered in. So once again, this dress has no excuse to be this sinfully ugly and in the incorrect season.
If Charlie shows up and points out how out of style her dress is, we’ll learn a lot that day.
I mean Willis picked it out because they like it, I’m pretty sure. 🥲
it’s based on an irl walmart dress, it didn’t look bad in the pic willis showed on twitter, though i guess it depends, plaid might not always translate well in comic form tho they’re usually shown through jackets versus dresses
Reading this comment is probably one of the few things that would convince Carla to make this dress one of her regular outfits, instead of a special-occasions kinda deal!
Charlie deserves better than Carla.
imagine after all this time she ends up being aro, tho i imagine booster would know. Or ‘painfully’ heterosexual or so , bit unlikely since everyone’s a little bit gay in this universe. but maybe a single date or quick relationship and breakup would help carla improve and move on.
I almost feel a little bad for Carla… almost