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what finger guns HAVEN’T been cringe
Back when it was cool?
Which was never.
I think Eric pulls it off well enough.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/03-faz-is-great/yawnchasm/
Does he?
Does he really?
Eric is voice-acted by Owen Wilson.
His stand-in maybe. McQueen says “Ka-chow”. Or does Wilson use “chapow” in another role?
Slight changes are made, so we can fly under the mouse’s radar.
Ah. Jawohl mein Mäuseführer.
Yusuke Urameshi’s.
Spike Spiegel’s (sp).
I think Vash the Stampede did them before, but I’m second guessing myself.
The Finger Guns in Tale From the Borderlands were absolutely incredible.
become a polycule already !
Dorothy in panel 4 has exactly this energy.
Dotty totally nailed reading social cues here XD
Nothing says nailing social cues like finger guns.
so finger nailguns then?
When Jesus is out for revenge
My parasite senses are tingling… !_!
Or fingernail guns.
(And now I’ve freaked myself out by visualising a fingernail gun)
Nine Inch FingerNail Guns!
You win an Internet!
Also, Joyce : because it’s negative °C outside
lol i assume joe suggested (idk/remembered if the convo happened?) exercising together to stay in shape or so and inviting joyce but they prolly could’ve had a more ‘cozy’ date, even if itw as just the cafeteria if they couldn’t leave the campus b/c of the cold and not wanting to be in their own bedrooms together lol
I don’t know why people keep saying Dorothy stands no chance of ever becoming president. She’s got the out of touch attempts to bond with the youth voters down.
“Hello, fellow freshmen!”
“You _are_ a fellow freshman and you still make it sound fake.”
Too much politician, not enough person. Which is sad considering how much person Dorothy has.
Those are of course usually associated with winning presidents
be hilarious if walky or becky somehow memed their way into being a president and just having dotty help them
The dumb sweaty thing behind Joyce might prefer that she do dumb sweaty things.
the comment I wanted to see
She’s no Eric. Eric is the finger guns guy for those wondering. He banged Ethan once or twice.
We all remember finger guns guy. Wonder what he’s up to post-timeskip
Finger guns.
He got gunned down while being fingered.
Very tragic.
hello!
i have drawn some fanart
it is of all your favorite characters being trans
i did not assign any of these versions of these characters names or, except in one case, pronouns, so refer to them however
enjoy
The designs actually aren’t bad. Nice work.
I love all of these
Yay, Carla’s on here, being trans!
Oh these are charming & totally get the feeling of the characters, I enjoy much
They’re all great, but Sarah is clearly peak Sarah.
Oh god I absolutely love this. Dorian is my favorite. How about you guys?
Actually Danielle is great too.
hahaha Ruth, what have you done? hahaha
who’s hanging out with jennefim
masc!sal
Nice.
hey wasn’t this an arc in it’s walky like 2 decades ago?
nah, that was what’s now colloquially known as a “cisswap”, where characters bodies are magically changed to their “opposite” normative cis versions. in that storyline, walky was given a body that’d always been cis female, and joyce was given a body that had always been cis male, with clothes to match
whereas here, these characters have the same bodies they’ve always had, and have consciously chosen their hair and clothing styles to match new ways of thinking about and presenting themselves. whether they’ve received hormones or surgeries is left to the imagination of the reader, but carla’s transing beam did not magically give them new genitalia or whatever
Alright, this is amazing. Thank you!
Joyce might not be riding horseback, but maybe in a bit of time she could be riding bareback.
joe’s a little too buff and doesn’t have enough hair to be a bear, i don’t think
Joe uses condoms, we’ve seen that. idk if that’d change in a monogamous relationship, i think he’s built up a good habit there.
Oh Dorothy… actually I’d probably do the same. I would do so without the finger guns though; that hasn’t been cool in 30 years.
it was never cool, which is why it’s cool
Thag is wise. Also, apparently, some kind of viking minotaur man?
Banner Saga right Thag? I got a decent amount into the first one but never finished it
Yeah, it’s a personal favourite.
It’s a giant from the Banner Saga named Gunnulf. He’s a big dude who hits thing hard and there’s not much more to him than that but damn if he’s not good at hitting things, I basically never took him out of my party by choice in the first game
Yess. I love using finger guns, it cracks me up.
I feel like I’d somehow manage to slink out of there in an even more awkward fashion…
What? I was looking forward to Dorothy doing finger guns on the cover of DOA 14: Why Am I Doing Dumb Sweaty Things Instead of Riding Horseback on a Beach?
It’s bisexual culture, cool or not. Take whatever implications that may have on Dorothy as you will
I wonder if Joyce has ridden a horse. If not she might not realise that horses get sweaty, smell etc.
Also, it is still winter. I certainly wouldn’t want to ride a horse anywhere there might be ice.
Horses are great in fairytales and fantasies that do not require actually interacting with a horse
The single time I rode a horse we came to a stop for a moment, and the horse decide it was the right time to empty its bladder. No problems caused for me, but I can image Joyce freaking out if that happened.
Yep. Working with animals can be a magical experience but unless you have someone to do the husbandry work for you it is absolutely also dumb and sweaty.
Joyce heard “husbandry“ and heard the wedding bells ring
I like horses but they are not great for preserving dignity, nothing quite like being on a noble steed and having it taking a huge dump
I took riding lessons for about two weeks. My takeaways were “gosh, those are very big animals, and they look at me like they have Opinions about being sat on.”
Instructor: and remember, always sit in this exact position when cleaning the horse’s hooves, so it can’t kick you.
Me: Or, how about I just never go anywhere near one ever again, so it can’t kick me?
Steel horses don’t kick you, or leave road apples behind.
You’ve obviously never had a carburetor fall off.
I’m on a horse.
a modern classic.
I am on a horse. [Moo.] Cow.
Oh Sesame Street! Beautifully done! 🥰
Its a little known fact…
Horses are farted on more than any other organism in the animal kingdom.
Mary Worth synchronicity.
Also, riding a horse through sand sounds dangerous for the horse…
Every Dorothy face in this strip is perfect.
Also, riding a horse on the beach sounds likely to trigger perspiration.
I think the riding horseback on a beach is just a euphemism for doing dumb sweaty things, anyway.
(The dumb part is doing them on a beach. Sand gets everywhere.)
People keep deriding the “I hate sand” part of Attack of the Clones as poor dialogue. I, for one, always thought it made Anakin relatable.
You know, I’ve never thought about it like that, but it WAS one of his more relatable moments, actually. too bad following it up with an extremely cheesy pickup line that just feels so stiff and stilted ruins it immediately haha
I think a better performance could have sold it, but Hayden Christiansen as directed by George Lucas did not give a performance that sold it.
It might have also been him basically trying to put his hatred for the planet he grew up on as a slave and that ultimately killed his mother into words.
Joyce poses a Riddle For The Ages
Dorothy: Hey kids? Always recycle. TO THR EXTREMMMMMMME!!!!!
Or riding bareback on the Joe.
It’s more fun than a horse, and without any of the sand traps of the beach!
Joyce is on birth control.
Meaning she can happily combine riding with dumb sweaty things. (Nudge nudge wink wink say no more)
Well, duh, Joe! The whole point of guns is to make you die inside!
Dorothy is very endearing to me. (Generally speaking, obviously she’s had her less great moments, last strip being one albeit as an autistic person, not anything I’m not vividly familiar with.)
Agreed, I like & relate a lot to Dorothy even though sometimes she kinda faceplants hard at the exact moments when she thinks she’s most in the right… actually, you know, that’s kind of relatable too
That’s part of why I relate to her T_T
Isn’t it winter? I don’t know how cold Indiana winters get but jogging outside in snow temperatures sounds like a percussion instrument you play with your bare hands. Why wouldn’t Dorothy opt for the tread instead?
So long as you’re properly dressed it’s fine, and snow covered environments are very pretty.
Exertion can make you warm even when it’s cold out, so the cool might be bracing and a nice feeling.
Joe could stand behind her and guide her how to stretch, that could be a date-like scenario.
anyways, fingerguns are an improvement.
Dorothy is the whitest character in this comic.
She definitely out-whites Joyce and Joe, but I think for the comic as a whole, it’s Jason.
Hang on now! Hang on! The bloke’s not near white as Dotty, he’s just BRI’ISH, innit? Can’t help that! It’s discrimination what you’re up to and I’ll notify His Majesty if you go further, I shall!
I know you’re joking, but I just got to hear an interview of Léonora Miano who was saying that she had to go to the states to notice how being white as a privilege can be ingrained in a society – not that racism and white privilege doesn’t exist in europe, but it’s just that you can’t bypass it in the states, meaning that in fact Jason wouldn’t be aware of his whiteness (which is unquestioned because he is brit) and wouldn’t necessarily be able to act as white as any US born white person (who would voluntarily or unvoluntarily affirm whiteness in order not to be questioned).
The US of A, where racism is so ingrained that you have to put your ethnicity in your census information.
France has plenty of racism, they just like to pretend they don’t. In order to combat racism, you need to know that problems exist. Without race into on major government surveys policymakers lose a ton of information about disparities.
Yup, just as with here, whiteness to white folk over there ain’t French Vanilla, it’s Fior di latte — they passively perceive other races and experiences therein as flavors and their own as an essential base from which the former derive.
It’s not that they don’t want to see race period, they just don’t want to forepart THEIR whiteness — aspects of their race which they believe are universal human defaults. In other words, Privilege.
“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”
— Ketanji Brown Jackson
It’s like how France prides itself on its “secularness” and then passes the most unapologetically Islamophobic laws you’ve ever seen.
Hm I see some problems in there not necessarily linked to the absurd idea France hasn’t a problem with colour an ethnicity. The very concept of race is different from the US one (caucasian is only for people who live near Caucase) and racialized people wouldn’t be taken into account by stats – so it would led to definition problems. Also, the idea of race profiling in a country which actively deported people based on race assumption is not just a little problematic.
This might be true in France, I’m not at all sure it’s true in Britain, where people have meltdowns because there’s A Black Family in an advert.
Is the census thing not normal? I mean, if it’s due to ingrained racism and it’s just the US and UK that do it, that certainly tracks, but it had never occurred to me, possibly due to white privilege.
Wouldn’t make any sense in an extremely homogeneous society, but while in the US it probably started to cover different legal categories (basically slaves and “indians not taxed”), it’s turned into a useful tool for tracking and sometimes even fighting discrimination.
Miano’s take is not about racism not existing, it’s about whiteness being a main subject – as example she takes teh case of a girl who has a 1/16th african heir: even if she looks like white, she can’t be/be seen/pass as white in the US, related to the inferior status of being possibly a slave descent and that she *may* bear a chromosome making her children/grandchildren look black, degrading the social status – what, upon her theory, is not the case in Europa. She usually also says that french people should reflect on their privileges. I ordered her last book, so I have to read it to really get the grasp of all the details.
Bull. Nobody can POSSIBLY out-white Danny. Dorothy, Joyce, even Jason – all of them pale in comparison (pardon the expression) to the whitest of whitebread protagonists.
Joe’s final comment suggests Dorothy has been occasionally attempting finger guns since high school. Effervescent
Dumbing of Age Book 14: Why Am I Doing Dumb Sweaty Things Instead of Riding Horseback on a Beach?
For anyone whoever questions what Dorothy would have in common with a goofball like Walky: finger guns.
She never finger-gunned before she met him. It’s contagious!
Joe has seen Joyce do finger guns before, but Dorothy does it way more (oy vey they’re DOUBLE finger guns)
…actually, why did she come here anyway
Because Joyce said she’d be there, and she ‘knows’ Joyce needs constant supervision and guidance.
Or to hang out with her best friend doing something she enjoys?
No. Not possible. It has to be evil somehow.
nah – she just didn’t want Joyce to accidentally teleport to her out of the weight room if her Dottysense went off
–Daver, because that would leave Joe thinking “WHAT did I just SEE and how are there SPEED LINES etched into that WALL”
–*Dave
I love how awkward Dorothy is sometimes
Ooh, I’m Jacob now
Dorothy has big energy of that guy on… Reddit, I think? Maybe Tumblr? … who said he was straight but was asking advice on why he was feeling jealousy seeing his male friend with another guy, only to post an update that he figured out that he wasn’t actually as straight as he thought. Heck if I can find it, but Dorothy has that same kind of “is obviously extremely jealous but can’t quite process it because she hasn’t realized that’s the emotion she’s feeling” vibes here
agree button
We all die a little inside when she does that.
Kinda love how Joyce inadvertently has developed a whole posse that ended up following her to the exercise room
I died a little inside from Dorothy’s parting words. Hopefully that’s not as frequently used as her finger guns.
I like the smiley face in the folds of Joyce’s shirt =D
Joyce mentioned riding horseback on a beach, and my mind was already in the gutter. No sliding, no fall, it was already there.
I laughed for a good minute about that.
Oh good, it’s not just me.
I think I like half-misread it the first time, but yeah, same here.
I automatically hear the old spice jingle.
Dorothy maybe mr. Evart may help you find your gun
Dorothy becomes the hobocop
Dorothy would definitely be a Boring and/or Sorry Cop.
COMPOSURE (Easy: Failure) Oh God. First you babbled at Joyce—your Joyce, the Joyce you dreamed about this morning and the morning before, Joyce for whom you are forced to admit your Gay Thing is likely growing by the day like some sort of chestburster parasite—about autism ideas you got from the Internet, and now this. Your attempt at a dignified exit is enough to make even Buscemi himself wince. “Catch you on the flip side?” Who says that, besides the cyberpunk kid from 90s Burger King?
ELECTROCHEMISTRY (easy: pass)
you’re as stiff as dry pasta. you need a warm bath, preferably in alcohol.
Invite Joyce to take a bath together and explain your problems. by the way, invite Walky too
Re: Alt Text — what about pirate ships? Those are still cool places for dates, right? What date doesn’t love being made to walk the plank or being keel-hauled? Great fun!
Re: Alt Text — I’m not sure that Lucy would agree.
Because you’re dating a jock, sorry kid.
there’s honey buns right outside
Giant Mutant Frosted Honey Buns?
Oh god, the finger guns. “Catch you on the flip side” deployed poorly. The symptoms are worse than I thought. Joyce, you need to get Dotty to a hospital before the cringe gets terminal.
According to Joes the finger gun cringe has long since become a chronic condition so looks like we’re seeing another flare up.
I’m learning it’s just a really severe relapse, but it’s still alarming
At least she hasn’t started saying “my peeps” yet. *Yet*.
There doesn’t exist a non-“poorly” way to deploy “catch you on the flip side,” and mere finger guns are really a (very) minor improvement over that, but otherwise, yeah.
Do not kill the part of you that is cringe. Kill the part of you that cringes.
Never, never ever, trust someone who wants to be a president, and loves finger gun.
You can be electing a fascist pig. The worst of all.
Hmm? Did something change? I thought the Okay sign was the Fascist dog-whistle. Did Fascists claim another gesture? Is nothing safe?
I’m talking about last brazilian president: Jair Bolsonaro.
Ohhh he loved finger guns huh
Never elect anybody who gestures in any way.
Then how are Italians ever going to elect anyone? Gestures are culturally-relative.
I don’t know, but you have brought a great point today: italians has elected Meloni as prime minister, the first far-right after Mussolini.
Sorry, but no. Every culture is different until it’s time to compare them to the worst dirtbags on Earth, and then you’re not allowed to do anything that the dirtbags ever do, did, or might do in the future, or you’ll get accused of being One Of Them™. No simple hand gestures, no interesting slang, no wearing certain types of common clothing.
Context never matters, because context isn’t magic, and only magic matters, but magical thinking is also wrong, but rational thinking is wrong too because fascists are obsessed with that phrase, so don’t think in any way at all, but then you’re not thinking about things from other people’s perspectives before you act, but trying to think from their perspective isn’t going to work because your life isn’t the same as theirs so you don’t have a frame of reference, but don’t try to ask about their experiences because it’s not their job to educate you, and don’t try to look up that perspective from somebody who generously gave it elsewhere because then you’re just reading about it from somebody else who isn’t the person you weren’t interacting with for the previous reasons, which is also bad because you’re deliberately avoiding people who’ve lived differently.
Look, the only acceptable behavior is basically just to call everything anyone ever does “shitty” and call them an asshole. Anything less severe is childish (which is bad because children are inherently worth scorn (which is against and needs to be addressed (which means you’re thinking about kids in any way, which is suspicious))), and anything more specific runs the risk of becoming bigotry.
/nonsense
guess they have to be anarcho-syndicalists now.
Dumbing of Age, Book 14: Some Kind Of Date-Like Scenario
oh good, the font is back to normal.
It’s actually fixed on yesterday’s page, too!
i enjoy that this suggests Dorothys never once pulled a fingergun off, but now I think about it I cant imagine why I’d assume she ever had. Bless ‘er.
Would be hilarious if overcoming the finger guns turned out to be Dorothy’s biggest obstacle to her career path instead of all the things she listed to Ruth that she was worried about.
I understand “awkward fingerguns” to be core to bisexual culture.
It is indeed
Came here to say this, wasn’t disappointed someone beat me to it.
I need to go back and see if Dorothy has been having trouble sitting properly lately.
I refuse, solemnly.
that is NOT where the fingerguns GO
–Dave, always treat those as though they were LOADED, kids
You know, I forgot to comment on it here before now, so I’m gonna say it: all of Dorothy’s problems in the current scene relate to her completely dripless workout fit. Look at this shit. She looks like a sports medicine doctor had a key lime pie baby at an automat. She looks like she’s trying to get me to add wheatgrass at Jamba Juice because she is made of wheatgrass. Binch look like a raw egg dropped in a Frappuccino. Her shirt is tied off at the bottom!
She comes in here with Jacob and Joe from the cover of Men’s Fitness, Joyce looking like a whole meal, Sarah in cute florals and a really good sports bra, and she’s just. No. You need therapy AND a fitness makeover, Dorothy.
I just don’t understand why. In Joyce’s laundry episode, she really got a great outfit, ready for 5 hours of gym.
I know, man! I know! It’s terrible! It’s like she used all her charisma and sexual charm to hold Joyce’s hand one time! Now it’s all dust in the wind and she’s left matching lime green and white like a mutant!
i don’t think it looks too bad b/c it could’ve been an even more blinding lime green, tho exercise wise that might be ideal if she actually did go jogging in case of cars, cold aside lol
but yeah her other outfit was cute
Dotty fails at the “Hey fellow kids” despite actually Being kids
An all-too-relatable variety of cringe.
Like imagining Statler and Waldorf as Muppet Babies
I am sure a date including “dumb sweaty thing” is usually considered a plus.
Or, you know, doing delicious sweaty things.
Joe, you have an exercise habit and she actively dislikes exercise. That’s going to cause friction long-term, and not in a good way.
eh, she’s new to it
I disliked “exercise” (not actually fun sports) until my mid-20s when I realised lifting heavy things made me feel good
I could just be orcbrained I guess
Lift theengs ahp and poot dem dowghn.
Just gotta find the cardio that Joyce likes.
Sounds more like Joyce can benefit greatly by catching the exercise habit off Joe.
You realize couples can just. Do things without each other right? It doesn’t have to be problem that one likes something the other hates? If Joyce really hates this he’s not gonna force her to do it again
That’s a silly thing to say.
Uh no? Joyce can just do something she enjoys while he’s doing that?
No couple is going to enjoy exactly the same activities across the board. People still be people.
I still hope to find out if Joyce likes the smell of Joe’s cologne/lotion/conditioner/whatever or if she likes the smell of Joe.
Last time Dorothy mentioned the flip side, she was buzzed and hollered it at Roz, right? Pretty sure it was during the dumbass fake election arc.
you mean freshmen won’t be hired as an RA less than 6 weeks into school, and it’s not an election? crazytalk.
That entire section leaves me baffled to this day. Absolute nonsense.
Horseback on a beach?
Lot to unpack there.
i mean subconscious dream undertones aside isn’t a pretty common stereotypical date fantasy? wouldnt be surprised if she saw it in a movie or so, tho regular horseback with a guide aside, i’d be worreid about the ‘steadiness’ ofa beach given the sand (unless i guess , the sands softe enough to where it wouldn’t hurt ifyou did get bucked off)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DZQ56HQbfUQ they seem pretty chill to be halfway deep in the water at least
joyce completely missing that “riding horseback on a beach” would be an equally sweaty endeavor is the funniest part of this strip
Bisexual finger guns, that’s what I’m talkin about
If we’re being technical, horseback riding on the beach is absolutely “dumb, sweaty stuff.” Just ask the horse!
you got your last noun wrong there, Joyce
–Dave, a sign that I’m getting Old: Dotty’s line goives me a large amount of Rocky Horror!”Catch ya laaater!” energy