I read somewhere that it means “pronounce the blessing,” but I have no idea how much weight to give any of these etymologies.
Then there’s also the general notion that “magic words” are the names of demons, spoken to summon them to do the magic. Why they would put up with that nonsense is something I haven’t worked out.
Wikipedia says:
Several folk etymologies are associated with the word: from phrases in Hebrew that mean “I will create as I speak”, or Aramaic “I create like the word” (אברא כדברא), to folk etymologies that point to similar words in Latin and Greek such as abraxas or to its similarity to the first four letters of the Greek alphabet (alpha-beta-gamma-delta or ΑΒΓΔ). According to the OED Online, “no documentation has been found to support any of the various conjectures.”
Well the Greek alphabet actually evolved directly from the writing system Semitic-speaking migrants used on their travels, which in turn they originally crafted from barely-used Egyptian Hieroglyphs representing syllable-sounds. Thus it is highly likely the spoken phrase is Semitic in origin, with the Greek spelling coming afterwards:
Is the magic brought forth by what the words mean or the sounds they make when intoned? If it’s by what they mean, then using any language would work as well, even neologisms. If it’s by the sounds, then you’ve got to figure out if and how it matters what the words meant.
I like the SATOR square, the added mysticism doesn’t come from the sound, but from the shape of the words.
“The hat stays ON during sex” 8D; tho other than too awkward/outta place in a slipshine it would be hilarious if danny also played his ukelele in the middle of it tho i guess that’d be logistically a bit unlikely
i mean a song playing from your phone is diff than physically holding an isntrument or so (tho that would kinda be a way to multitask, them practicing for choir together [this situation aside i suppose a slipshine that takes place in those chorus rooms would prolly be a thing too])
Baby, take off your coat
Real slow
And take off your shoes
I’ll take off your shoes
Baby, take off your dress
Yes, yes, yes
You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on
Original song and lyrics by Randy Newman, but I liked Joe Cocker’s version the best.
Back when I was a spoken word poet, I had a tigerstripe snow camo sun hat that I wore on stage, and more than one groupie wanted the hat on during sex.
oh i guess i misread that or just thought he was picking a random day like how tumblr has a meme about certain dayslol but yeah it’s not like they’d go at it ALL day…
College! Varying schedules! I starting to fell tired repeating this. Plus from what I been told, teacher care considerably less if you attend classes as long as you keep up with the materials.
You’re not alone. I recall semesters when I had one or two days entirely open each week. (Well, open except for all the reading and writing I didn’t get done on the other days because they were packed with lectures by everybody and his brother.)
I made exactly 3 classes for Ordinary Differential Equations my Sophmore year but aced the problem sets and the exams so I got an A. Nobody cared about whether I showed up for class or not.
Would y’all quit it with this? Damn. You realize most people try to avoid morning classes when they make their own schedules right? This ain’t highschool
It’s not about plain virginity, it’s about the relationship specifically. I don’t think she’s ever dated seriously and since virginity is a bs concept anyway this is practically a different type of virginity. Relationship sex with feelings and junk. Sal wants to fuck her boyfriend before Joyce fucks hers.
He might slow things down, get confirmation she actually wants to because she wants to have sex with him, in particular (and was expressing it in the form of “must beat Joyce in competition she didn’t know we were in” because she has difficulties being emotionally vulnerable), then enthusiastically consent?
Not sure if he’ll spoil the mood for her (“wait, was all the nice, it doesn’t need to be anything, I just want you to be happy, stuff a really long, convoluted path to try to get into my pants?”/”do I got to actually say the nice things in words too now?”) or if they’ll get a lovely moment of connection and intimacy that also involves going at it like rabbits…
I wonder if he’s feeling a bit of deja vu? It hasn’t been that long, comic time, since Billie barged into his room and pushed him down on the floor to have her way with him, without asking what he thought of it all.
Ugh, now I’m starting to wonder if Dorothy did something like this too.
I predict some very awkward questioning along the lines of “Are you ACTUALLY sure?” and “Is something, like, wrong?”, followed by the thin facade over Sal’s actual emotional breakdown finally falling apart, and a very serious conversation about feelings which Sal desperately wishes she did not need to have.
Alternately, Sal might be about to experience some of the angriest, rage-fueled, orgasms of her her life so far, courtesy of her confused but obedient boyfriend’s tongue. And THEN they’ll have a really awkward and serious conversation about feelings.
Also, wonder if she’ll bother to close up that shirt, or if she’s shaken a lot of her modesty lately. Joe’s shirt’s long enough to keep her undies out of sight, at least while standing, but she DID also walk back to her room in panties that one time, following Walky’s example, so maybe she’s just indifferent to that now.
Danny’s belongings in the hall in panel 2 are a nice touch. Although Joe and Danny should throw away their trash more, those two cups were there in the stereoscope looking strip, last Thursday.
And then it cuts to them stopping halfway b/c neither of them have a condom (assuming joe doesn’t have a stash danny can ‘borrow’ from, tho idk how convenient it would be for them to be the same…size, if it’s not a ‘flexible’ type that can vary lol)
Tra la! It’s May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev’ryone goes
Blissfully astray.
Tra la! It’s here!
That shocking time of year
When tons of wicked little thoughts
Merrily appear!
It’s May! It’s May!
That gorgeous holiday
When ev’ry maiden prays that her lad
Will be a cad!
It’s mad! It’s gay!
A libelous display!
Those dreary vows that ev’ryone takes,
Ev’ryone breaks.
Ev’ryone makes divine mistakes
The lusty month of May!
-Camelot
(Sorry to go all musical theater on y’all)
Not gonna lie, “Take all the socks and put them on all the doorknobs” sounds epic XD Kind of like “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” but with opposite vibes.
I suspect she might have: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/whatsallthis/
Just maybe not in an actual romantic relationship? Or maybe, given her apparent competitiveness, she wants indisputable proof that she’s done it before Joyce? Not that Joyce would be likely to try to claim otherwise anyway.
Finally, Danny/sal screentime and progress
I hope. Imma be sad if we stick with JoJos perspective tomorrow. Love em to death Danny and Sal deserve equal screentime
So, mostly unrelated, has anyone else started getting extremely lowkey vibes that Danny’s trans?
No, seriously, Danny’s arc feels very familiar. Starts out craving a classic love story and crushing super easy, hates asserting himself or seeming aggressive in any way, later tries to redefine himself as someone softer and gentler with a change to his look that *is* kind of cringe but is also so painfully earnest that nobody can really stand to take it away from him,
“good egg”.
It might be unlikely, but I think it would be such an interesting direction to take things. If Danny transitions, do she and Sal break up? Trans people so have a habit of warping other people’s sexualities, so who knows? How does it impact Danny’s and Joe’s relationship if his best friend is now a woman? Wouldn’t it be cool if Danny and Sal broke up*, but then Danny and Marcy somehow hooked up, and Marcy finally got to take part in the “kids making bad decisions” stuff she’s so far kind of been excluded from?
It’d be really cool to have a trans main character. We all know Carla and Booster are secondary at best.
A little bewildered by the bewilderment. Danny… gets major arcs? He gets multiple love interests and love triangles? He gets to be the primary force in extreme emotional low/high points for Amber, Amazi-Girl, Sal, and Ethan, among others? He’s been a major character for other comics Willis has drawn, while Ultra-Car was more of a secondary character in Shortpacked?
Carla is the best character, but she’s not a main character. She’s overwhelmingly a comic relief character whose big moment was helping Ruth and Jennifer and whose only romantic arc so far, aside from a failed relationship with the tertiary character of Malaya, is with a brand-new character who maybe qualifies as quaternary. It’s very cute, but it’s also extremely angstless (so far), and the character she’s being paired with has yet to really show anything other than very surface-level character traits.
I LOVE Carla. She’s very important to me. But yeah, I would comfortably say that Danny is much higher-profile and also given a lot more narrative attention.
Literally, just look at the character tags. Look at the size of Danny’s presence versus Carla’s. She’s practically doing Jason numbers. She’s a Jason-level character. Mike and Amazi-Girl are outperforming her, and one of those characters shares screentime with a headmate and the other one is dead!
If I had to name who the “main characters” are, I would most intuitively go by the tags–Joyce is obviously our main girl, but aside from her, the tags sort it as Walky, Dorothy, Jennifer/Billie, Amber and Amazi-Girl, Becky, Sarah, Sal, Danny, Ruth, Joe, Dina. That’s all the “500+ comics” characters.
In the secondary camp, you find Ethan, Mike, Lucy, Carla, etc. Carla’s only appeared in 200 comics, in contrast to Danny’s 520 comics.
Of course, the tags aren’t perfect. Aside from the obvious frontrunners, this comic doesn’t have tidy categorizations–characters drift in and out of focus. Major characters get dedicated arcs, chapters focused on them. How many arcs has Carla gone through? How many “mistakes” has she made in a comic about college kids making dumb mistakes? How many chapters have put heavy focus on drama involving Carla, rather than drama that Carla sort of indirectly meddled in?
Dina is in a similar-ish boat, to a lesser extent–for all that she’s *present* in scenes, she hasn’t really gotten the chance to screw up and get caught up in fun drama yet. She mostly just helps out in other character’s stories. That said, she’s still more “main” than Carla, because she’s still got close ties to main characters. Carla has, loose ties to Ruth and Jennifer? A little-emphasized friendship with Sal? Her closest relationship is arguably with Malaya, who’s even more obscure.
Interesting, I’m not saying you’re wrong; in fact, once I’ve thought about it a bit more, I might well decide you’re right.
I see Danny “gets to be the primary force in extreme emotional low/high points for Amber, Amazi-Girl, Sal, and Ethan, among others” as being that Danny played a not insignificent role in other people’s stories. When Carla is in focus, it’s generally actually about Carla. (Admittedly, that’s because when Carla’s in focus, she darn well makes it about Carla, but still.)
I don’t think being a main character in a previous comic is particularly relevent; so was Ethan!
But you’ve clearly actually thought about this, while I’m just going by “vibes”, so…
(speaking as a transfem) While I do see where you’re coming from on this I think it’s more likely that Danny is just an adorable twink. There’s room for both in the world.
I feel like a siren needs to be blazing in the distance. Somewhere an automated message blares over a megaphone “this is not a drill, repeat this is not a drill”.
I mean someone is about to be drilled but you know what they mean.
It’s not about having sex it’s about having sex with her romantic partner specifically. She’s shown to be a little insecure about the fact that she and Danny haven’t done it yet, so it tracks that she’d be pissed that mega virgin Joyce would make love to her boyfriend, before sal gets to with her own.
Same reason she was acting like it was a race with Walky before him and Lucy (probably) broke up: she’s never really dated before, just had casual partners, and she didn’t want either of them “beating her” to it with Danny.
It’s silly and arbitrary, but that’s life sometimes.
Hm now i want to see the front of the plaid hoodie. i’m confused by the non-identical sleeves. When Danny takes it off, i’d like to take a look at it for sartorial interests.
(and i have literally done that, paid more attention to the seams of someone’s underwear than what’s inside it…. i swear i’m allosexual, but sometimes my special interests get in the way 😀 )
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“The day has come, and SO WILL I”
10/10 comment. Absolute legend. Based. Absolute rizz. You ate this I fear.
Reminds me of the old Eddie Murphy bit, where’s doing an impression of Jessie Jackson: “Baby, wake up! MY TIME HAS COME.”
Hopefully for Sal, so will Danny.
Heck, hopefully for Danny, do will Danny…
(eat this… Silly nesting comments, not nesting where expected!)
“GOD HIMSELF CAN’T STOP ME”
No, but The Willis can.
but for you, it will be the most important day of your life
#IUnderstoodThatReference
Of course!
;D
Indeed.
The day Joyce watches you have sex.
*plays “Abracadabra” by Steve Miller’s Band on hacked muzak*
For the reframe, or the fact that soon there will be some bending spoons?
“Abra-abra-cadabra…
…I want to reach out and grab ya!”
Also the expression “abracadabra” comes from the Hebrew “Abara k’deebara” which means, “As I say, so it is”.
That is very cool. I didn’t know that.
Oh, awesome. Thanks for the fun fact!
Add me to the TIL list.
I was curious and tried to look up more on that, but https://www.etymonline.com/word/abracadabra gives a very different etymology, and the only result I got for “Abara k’deebara” was a comment under a different strip: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/02-i-was-a-teenage-churchmouse/babyyou/
Not saying you’re wrong, just that I’d like a source if only so I can read examples of its use in the original form, and DuckDuckGo didn’t provide.
I read somewhere that it means “pronounce the blessing,” but I have no idea how much weight to give any of these etymologies.
Then there’s also the general notion that “magic words” are the names of demons, spoken to summon them to do the magic. Why they would put up with that nonsense is something I haven’t worked out.
I think I read it in National Geographic magazine sometime back, but can’t seem to find a link to it where you dont gotta pay *sigh*
Wikipedia says:
Several folk etymologies are associated with the word: from phrases in Hebrew that mean “I will create as I speak”, or Aramaic “I create like the word” (אברא כדברא), to folk etymologies that point to similar words in Latin and Greek such as abraxas or to its similarity to the first four letters of the Greek alphabet (alpha-beta-gamma-delta or ΑΒΓΔ). According to the OED Online, “no documentation has been found to support any of the various conjectures.”
Well the Greek alphabet actually evolved directly from the writing system Semitic-speaking migrants used on their travels, which in turn they originally crafted from barely-used Egyptian Hieroglyphs representing syllable-sounds. Thus it is highly likely the spoken phrase is Semitic in origin, with the Greek spelling coming afterwards:
https://youtu.be/yPrcfawo9UM?t=107
Is the magic brought forth by what the words mean or the sounds they make when intoned? If it’s by what they mean, then using any language would work as well, even neologisms. If it’s by the sounds, then you’ve got to figure out if and how it matters what the words meant.
I like the SATOR square, the added mysticism doesn’t come from the sound, but from the shape of the words.
Sal basically saying “As I say, so it is”, to her getting boyfriend sex before Joyce
“Abra-abra-cadabra…
…I want to reach out and grab ya!”
2por que no los dos?
–Dave, also it apparently has to be in a language not native to the speaker. unless you realize the Rule of Unity, and the Poynting Rule, of course
TIL nugget!
That one line certainly makes it make sense, but OH MY GOD is EVERY other couplet in that song literally the worst rhyme in rock music history
can’t remember if TrainWreckords ever covered Steve Miller Band, hmf
Not that I know of.
What would it be? That album or the one after I don’t even remember any singles from (Italian X-Rays, I think).
Joyce, just because everyone wants to know what’s happening in there doesn’t mean you can watch. That’s invasive.
What? She’s just going to watch Sal, so it’s perfectly innocent curiosity!
Not through the door, anyway. Climb up and look through the windows or NOTHING.
Yeah, Joyce, you’re going to have to pay for a Slipshine subscription like everyone else.
Not the Joyce / Joe slipshine that we need, but the Sal / Danny slipshine that we deserve.
(or is it the other way around?)
that did crack me up xD
Nah – she’ll just borrow Amber’s
–Dave, Amazi-Girl must keep tabs on all the rampant shenaniganery
considering joe didn’t close the door on the last panel before pulling joyce away it’s a chance someone else would pass thru lol
Id like to think Dorothy will walk past, hear whats going on and mistakenly think its Joyce and Joe. I’d settle for Becky instead in a pinch.
Ah, but would Dorothy settle for Becky in a pinch?
I think it’s been established she wouldn’t.
oh I got confused. Is Dotty into Becky? I don’t think there’s been any suggestion she would be.
Honestly, if Joyce asked for consent to watch right now, I’m not sure Sal would say no.
“Witness me!”
“Joyce, y’all watch this to see how it’s done!”
I guess we’re getting a Slipshine after all.
Aaaaaawwwwww yeah.
DON’T ANY OF YOU KIDS HAVE SCHOOL.
Re: alt-text,
I suspect the slipshine will have him remove it almost immediately, won’t it? XD
oops not meant to be a reply LOL
“The hat stays ON during sex” 8D; tho other than too awkward/outta place in a slipshine it would be hilarious if danny also played his ukelele in the middle of it tho i guess that’d be logistically a bit unlikely
I mean Becky played “Go and Sin no More” on her phone or something during her go with Dina, anything’s possible! ^^
i mean a song playing from your phone is diff than physically holding an isntrument or so (tho that would kinda be a way to multitask, them practicing for choir together [this situation aside i suppose a slipshine that takes place in those chorus rooms would prolly be a thing too])
Nah, the music is for after.
Danny channels his inner AG:
“Hat or no hat?”
“Ukulele or no ukulele?”
Sal throws both out the window.
Baby, take off your coat
Real slow
And take off your shoes
I’ll take off your shoes
Baby, take off your dress
Yes, yes, yes
You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on
Original song and lyrics by Randy Newman, but I liked Joe Cocker’s version the best.
Back when I was a spoken word poet, I had a tigerstripe snow camo sun hat that I wore on stage, and more than one groupie wanted the hat on during sex.
Sal doesn’t care
I mean, if I had the choice between intimate contact with either of these women, or class…
Well, no one’s ever accused me of having too much class.
congratulations you have just pinpointed why I washed out of grad school
But has anyone ever accused you of having too much intimate contact with women? Because if not, that’s not really that diagnostic of a comparison.
maybe it’s a weekend? or sal has afternoon classes/her skipping one class for sex wouldn’t be that outta chara
Pretty sure it’s Tuesday, based on Danny’s comment
oh i guess i misread that or just thought he was picking a random day like how tumblr has a meme about certain dayslol but yeah it’s not like they’d go at it ALL day…
strip title AND story title are staring at you, sir/madam/both/neither
College! Varying schedules! I starting to fell tired repeating this. Plus from what I been told, teacher care considerably less if you attend classes as long as you keep up with the materials.
You’re not alone. I recall semesters when I had one or two days entirely open each week. (Well, open except for all the reading and writing I didn’t get done on the other days because they were packed with lectures by everybody and his brother.)
I made exactly 3 classes for Ordinary Differential Equations my Sophmore year but aced the problem sets and the exams so I got an A. Nobody cared about whether I showed up for class or not.
I may have had a class or two where the first time I saw the teacher was the final exam. I passed.
Life drawing is an afternoon class. It’s probably only about 9:00 in the morning right now.
Why does this question need to be asked every time they’re around in the mornings?
A) what are you a cop?
B) college classes don’t all start in the morning
C) even if they did, haven’t you ever skipped a class before?
Goodness.
Like I said, buncha hall monitors around here.
Would y’all quit it with this? Damn. You realize most people try to avoid morning classes when they make their own schedules right? This ain’t highschool
Plenty of college students skip class for the day every now and then.
school is NOT more important than _either_ sex or cuddling
Gotta get joyce a superman outfit
Sal can infuse any situation with breathtakingly tender romance, I see.
This is Joe’s wheelhouse alright. Although I’m not sure any of the other three people here are alright.
I just want to know where Joyce and Joe are going to go in their shirts and underwear. Joyce’s room? I see no downside to that.
Local underwear party.
Sal has veto power shaped like a baseball bat.
So does Sarah.
Sal is a bit distracted (and distracting) right now.
So it’s up to Sarah!
Calm down Joyce.
Joyce and Joe are being bad friends…they forgot to put the sock on the door also close the door.
true
So that’s what the socks were for!
in upper-class educational institutions, a necktie may be substituted
Joyce looks really cute in Joe’s shirt.
Yes. Very.
Hasn’t Sal already won the sex war? Joyce is a virgin and Sal isn’t.
For Sal it is Tuesday. Last week’s [month’s/year’s/decade’s] sex doesn’t count. It’s a whole new sex war.
It’s not about plain virginity, it’s about the relationship specifically. I don’t think she’s ever dated seriously and since virginity is a bs concept anyway this is practically a different type of virginity. Relationship sex with feelings and junk. Sal wants to fuck her boyfriend before Joyce fucks hers.
The Fight Never Truly Ends!
– Sabre
Just gonna call this “The one where half the strips were posted to Slipshine.”
Joe’s jacket is a good look on Joyce.
Slipshine, when?
(Of course something comedic will happen to those two, we all know that.)
Right now Sidney Yus is being recruited as a guide by the Yale snatch squad.
“snatch” squad
–Dave, fnarr fnarr
I don’t think Danny is going to go through with it. I’m getting the feeling he doesn’t want his first time with Sal to be like this.
I sort of hope you are right, evil mirror-verse Spock. Those are words I never thought I would type.
Yeah, I get that vibe, too.
He might slow things down, get confirmation she actually wants to because she wants to have sex with him, in particular (and was expressing it in the form of “must beat Joyce in competition she didn’t know we were in” because she has difficulties being emotionally vulnerable), then enthusiastically consent?
Not sure if he’ll spoil the mood for her (“wait, was all the nice, it doesn’t need to be anything, I just want you to be happy, stuff a really long, convoluted path to try to get into my pants?”/”do I got to actually say the nice things in words too now?”) or if they’ll get a lovely moment of connection and intimacy that also involves going at it like rabbits…
Yes.
I wonder if he’s feeling a bit of deja vu? It hasn’t been that long, comic time, since Billie barged into his room and pushed him down on the floor to have her way with him, without asking what he thought of it all.
Ugh, now I’m starting to wonder if Dorothy did something like this too.
I predict some very awkward questioning along the lines of “Are you ACTUALLY sure?” and “Is something, like, wrong?”, followed by the thin facade over Sal’s actual emotional breakdown finally falling apart, and a very serious conversation about feelings which Sal desperately wishes she did not need to have.
Alternately, Sal might be about to experience some of the angriest, rage-fueled, orgasms of her her life so far, courtesy of her confused but obedient boyfriend’s tongue. And THEN they’ll have a really awkward and serious conversation about feelings.
Heh, oh Joyce.
Also, wonder if she’ll bother to close up that shirt, or if she’s shaken a lot of her modesty lately. Joe’s shirt’s long enough to keep her undies out of sight, at least while standing, but she DID also walk back to her room in panties that one time, following Walky’s example, so maybe she’s just indifferent to that now.
Twice—she left the laundry room in a happy daze without her pajama pants, which were still in the drier.
I didn’t know whether or not to count that since Dorothy appears to stop her, or try to, but yeah, another example.
She seems to have put her bra back on. Really wondering if she made Joe turn around for that.
she just did it behind the blanket
so only Joe’s behind could see her
and vice versa
Well, he’s not wearing the double plaid for very long, so it balances out.
But now he may have to draw that pattern crumpled up on the floor. Truly a brave choice.
Just leave it out of frame, it’s fine. We can, ahem, crop that top.
Well, luckily Danny won’t be wearing the complex patterned shirt for much longer.
Joyce, if you would watch them… would you be covering up the Hat Guy’s half with the door?
I can hear Willis’ agony over the double plaid.
Joyce really really DESPERATELY wants to watch, Joe
(I wonder what that might be like.)
But does she want to watch Joe?
A very good question! The included link poses a scenario where the answer is yes!
She get used to watch his video. She needs new material.
Oof… Thank you, that’s what I needed this morning 😀 (read like the first half, gonna save the second half for some other time)
Very nice. The character bits as much as the smut. Loved the text chat at the end.
DoA fanfic? Why haven’t I looked for this before?
Also, I thought the link closed my tab, cuz I have like 10 other tabs open on that site right now…
If you’re going to watch, at least throw his towel and stuff into the room for him.
Spoils of war must not be disturbed
They can trade them for Joyce’s pants.
“Going once! Going twice! … Actually I’ve lost count, but they’re still going!”
Everyone is wrong.
The double plaid stays on during.
Is that the reason for all the Danny hate when the strip started?
Joyce: “I wanna be in the room where it happens!”
Joe: “You do not want to know how that sausage is made.”
the room where it happens, the room where it happens
>Click<
BOOM!
“Here, I’ll give you instructions on how to make THIS sausage instead.”
“oooooo!”
lmao joyce the voyeur
Danny’s belongings in the hall in panel 2 are a nice touch. Although Joe and Danny should throw away their trash more, those two cups were there in the stereoscope looking strip, last Thursday.
it me, im joyce
She planning to put up a hand to block out Danny?
In an alternate universe she might be a bit more interested…
Who?
I hope Danny meets or exceeds Sal’s expectation although I guess hanging upside down while sexing Amazi-Girl means the boy has some skillz.
Dumbing of Age, Book 17: ’Cuz Ah’m Like, Uh, The Wind ’R Whatever
Dumbing of Age, Book 17: Take All the Socks an’ Put ’em on All the Doorknobs!
Take all the markers and draw dingdongs on all the whiteboards.
alternatively, just _All the Doorknobs_
_Doorknobs and Boomsticks_?
LET JOYCE TAKE NOTES
get it girl (both of them lol()
Any bets on whether or not Joe realizes why Joyce lingered?
LMAO, well Joyce is certainly on board.
Danny won’t be wearing that hoodie for long (in response to hidden text)
And then it cuts to them stopping halfway b/c neither of them have a condom (assuming joe doesn’t have a stash danny can ‘borrow’ from, tho idk how convenient it would be for them to be the same…size, if it’s not a ‘flexible’ type that can vary lol)
There is a strip on Joe’s bedside table
oh goth please do NOT *BORROW* condoms! lol
It’s not borrowing if you throw them out after.
If you wash ’em out and roll ’em up again though, that’s borrowing. Classic Danny, always so thoughtful.
i mean, it’s a figure of speech/i don’t think (well, hopefully) anyone would ‘borrow’ and return something like that lol
So this the episode where Everyone Fucks.
Got it.
Everyone? >:D
i like
All of these thoughts runnin’ through my head
Arm on fire, veins burnin’ red
Frustration is gettin’ bigger
Bang, bang, bang, pull my Devil Trigger
*furious headbanging*
Oh Joyce…
And he can leave his hat on.
Dumbing of Age Volume 14:
The Day’s Come, Wonderbread.
T-tuesday?
dangit that tuesday was supposed to be indented past the period on wonderbread
Is that a Mimikyu in your avatar? I like ^^
test
test
is your friend! It’s the non-breaking space.
No, Joyce, if you want to see what happens next, you gotta subscribe to Willis’s NSFW comics.
I just don’t think this is going to go the way Sal planned.
🤣🤣 Wondering what sort of Joyce Face is on the other side last panel
DJ YOU ARE BEING SUMMONED
Sal feeling threatened by Joyce. Never saw that coming.
Tra la! It’s May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev’ryone goes
Blissfully astray.
Tra la! It’s here!
That shocking time of year
When tons of wicked little thoughts
Merrily appear!
It’s May! It’s May!
That gorgeous holiday
When ev’ry maiden prays that her lad
Will be a cad!
It’s mad! It’s gay!
A libelous display!
Those dreary vows that ev’ryone takes,
Ev’ryone breaks.
Ev’ryone makes divine mistakes
The lusty month of May!
-Camelot
(Sorry to go all musical theater on y’all)
For a different take on the same May-related topic (though a few days late): https://youtu.be/gEjRHFom1Kk
First of May by Jonathan Coulton, with ASL.
“On second thought, let’s not go to Camelot.”
It is a silly place.
Not gonna lie, “Take all the socks and put them on all the doorknobs” sounds epic XD Kind of like “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” but with opposite vibes.
Also, colour me surprised. Has Sal really not had any yet???
Not with Danny.
I suspect she might have: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/whatsallthis/
Just maybe not in an actual romantic relationship? Or maybe, given her apparent competitiveness, she wants indisputable proof that she’s done it before Joyce? Not that Joyce would be likely to try to claim otherwise anyway.
Or just what eh, whatever said. That’d probably make more sense.
We’ve seen her fuck in screen. This isn’t about that
Sal explicitly said playing Apples to Apples reminds her how she lost her virginity
“wait, I need to take notes”
The vibe I’m getting from Sal is that she’s never been cuddled/spooned. I could be wrong, but that’s the feeling I’m getting.
I just let out a yelp at the final panel 😂
These last two strips have just cemented Sal as my all time favorite character in DoA. She’s the best.
For Danny, the day Sal Walkerton decided she was going to jump his bones was the most important day of his life.
But for Sal… it was Tuesday.
Have an upvote post, you beautiful bastard. XD
gee, way to clamblock Joyce, Sal.
My age peer cohorts are no longer young enough to know the lingo, so am I using “clamjam” in error?
At least she broadcast a verbal warning. Most premeditated sexual assaults occur in silence.
That’s not funny.
Ain’t s’posed to be.
Did she not just announce to the whole room her intent to force sex on Danny?
Not even remotely. Sounds like a you problem.
No, you dumbfuck.
Joyce is _trying_ to conduct observations for science. Joe, why do you hate science so much?
CONSEQUENCES!!!!
Danny will (thru the grace of Willis) have enjoyed the favors of Dorothy, Amber, and Sal, in a ~12-month span.
.A guy who is unremarkable except for his hat and ukulele, it is thought sometimes.
That’s one benefit of being a good egg.
Finally, Danny/sal screentime and progress
I hope. Imma be sad if we stick with JoJos perspective tomorrow. Love em to death Danny and Sal deserve equal screentime
That’s a touch more aggressive than most virgins or whatever sexual preference, at least in my experience.
we’ve known for some time that Sal is _not_ a virgin at this point
neither is Danny
even though she hasn’t done it with Wonderbread there she HAS done it before, does she just want to be the first to have sex with a stable boyfriend?
Yeah there is a big emotional difference between sex with a romantic partner and transactional sex with a random Brit.
I’m sure she’s had other sexual encounters before the story starts and not just with a TA. But Danny probably is her first stable boyfriend.
So, mostly unrelated, has anyone else started getting extremely lowkey vibes that Danny’s trans?
No, seriously, Danny’s arc feels very familiar. Starts out craving a classic love story and crushing super easy, hates asserting himself or seeming aggressive in any way, later tries to redefine himself as someone softer and gentler with a change to his look that *is* kind of cringe but is also so painfully earnest that nobody can really stand to take it away from him,
“good egg”.
It might be unlikely, but I think it would be such an interesting direction to take things. If Danny transitions, do she and Sal break up? Trans people so have a habit of warping other people’s sexualities, so who knows? How does it impact Danny’s and Joe’s relationship if his best friend is now a woman? Wouldn’t it be cool if Danny and Sal broke up*, but then Danny and Marcy somehow hooked up, and Marcy finally got to take part in the “kids making bad decisions” stuff she’s so far kind of been excluded from?
It’d be really cool to have a trans main character. We all know Carla and Booster are secondary at best.
*this part would not be cool im not a monster
anyways this may seem like an unhinged conspiracy theory but just wait until dani starts growing her hair out
Genuinely bewildered by the idea Danny is more of a main character than Carla is.
A little bewildered by the bewilderment. Danny… gets major arcs? He gets multiple love interests and love triangles? He gets to be the primary force in extreme emotional low/high points for Amber, Amazi-Girl, Sal, and Ethan, among others? He’s been a major character for other comics Willis has drawn, while Ultra-Car was more of a secondary character in Shortpacked?
Carla is the best character, but she’s not a main character. She’s overwhelmingly a comic relief character whose big moment was helping Ruth and Jennifer and whose only romantic arc so far, aside from a failed relationship with the tertiary character of Malaya, is with a brand-new character who maybe qualifies as quaternary. It’s very cute, but it’s also extremely angstless (so far), and the character she’s being paired with has yet to really show anything other than very surface-level character traits.
I LOVE Carla. She’s very important to me. But yeah, I would comfortably say that Danny is much higher-profile and also given a lot more narrative attention.
Literally, just look at the character tags. Look at the size of Danny’s presence versus Carla’s. She’s practically doing Jason numbers. She’s a Jason-level character. Mike and Amazi-Girl are outperforming her, and one of those characters shares screentime with a headmate and the other one is dead!
If I had to name who the “main characters” are, I would most intuitively go by the tags–Joyce is obviously our main girl, but aside from her, the tags sort it as Walky, Dorothy, Jennifer/Billie, Amber and Amazi-Girl, Becky, Sarah, Sal, Danny, Ruth, Joe, Dina. That’s all the “500+ comics” characters.
In the secondary camp, you find Ethan, Mike, Lucy, Carla, etc. Carla’s only appeared in 200 comics, in contrast to Danny’s 520 comics.
Of course, the tags aren’t perfect. Aside from the obvious frontrunners, this comic doesn’t have tidy categorizations–characters drift in and out of focus. Major characters get dedicated arcs, chapters focused on them. How many arcs has Carla gone through? How many “mistakes” has she made in a comic about college kids making dumb mistakes? How many chapters have put heavy focus on drama involving Carla, rather than drama that Carla sort of indirectly meddled in?
Dina is in a similar-ish boat, to a lesser extent–for all that she’s *present* in scenes, she hasn’t really gotten the chance to screw up and get caught up in fun drama yet. She mostly just helps out in other character’s stories. That said, she’s still more “main” than Carla, because she’s still got close ties to main characters. Carla has, loose ties to Ruth and Jennifer? A little-emphasized friendship with Sal? Her closest relationship is arguably with Malaya, who’s even more obscure.
Interesting, I’m not saying you’re wrong; in fact, once I’ve thought about it a bit more, I might well decide you’re right.
I see Danny “gets to be the primary force in extreme emotional low/high points for Amber, Amazi-Girl, Sal, and Ethan, among others” as being that Danny played a not insignificent role in other people’s stories. When Carla is in focus, it’s generally actually about Carla. (Admittedly, that’s because when Carla’s in focus, she darn well makes it about Carla, but still.)
I don’t think being a main character in a previous comic is particularly relevent; so was Ethan!
But you’ve clearly actually thought about this, while I’m just going by “vibes”, so…
(speaking as a transfem) While I do see where you’re coming from on this I think it’s more likely that Danny is just an adorable twink. There’s room for both in the world.
I feel like a siren needs to be blazing in the distance. Somewhere an automated message blares over a megaphone “this is not a drill, repeat this is not a drill”.
I mean someone is about to be drilled but you know what they mean.
She wants to stay and watch because Sal reminds her of Walky and Danny reminds her of both Dorothy and Amber.
Joyce’s puritan shame is less powerful than her nosiness.
Not only is there no sock, they didn’t even close the door.
Also Joyce wants to see this (just like the rest of us really)
I’m just stuck wondering what Joe is going to do if he needs shoes….
Hg
I don’t get this. I’ve seen the slipshines, Sal has knocked boots before. Why’s she acting like she’s in a race with Joyce?
This.
It’s not about having sex it’s about having sex with her romantic partner specifically. She’s shown to be a little insecure about the fact that she and Danny haven’t done it yet, so it tracks that she’d be pissed that mega virgin Joyce would make love to her boyfriend, before sal gets to with her own.
Same reason she was acting like it was a race with Walky before him and Lucy (probably) broke up: she’s never really dated before, just had casual partners, and she didn’t want either of them “beating her” to it with Danny.
It’s silly and arbitrary, but that’s life sometimes.
Joyce just like biiiiiiiiiiiii
Yesterday: No clothes?
Today: No, clothes.
You don’t need that, Sal.
Not the sex thing. The “competition”. You’re so cool for that.
Joyce: Let me in! Let ne iiiinn!
Joyce definitely wants to watch.
So Sal was the toxic one all along? I lost that bet.
Hm now i want to see the front of the plaid hoodie. i’m confused by the non-identical sleeves. When Danny takes it off, i’d like to take a look at it for sartorial interests.
(and i have literally done that, paid more attention to the seams of someone’s underwear than what’s inside it…. i swear i’m allosexual, but sometimes my special interests get in the way 😀 )