Unlike Bablylon 5’s Centauri, who have a canon documented number and at least one needed advice on ‘large numerical values’, Klingons in canon don’t have it specified one way or another. However, There have been a few things. In TNG (the one where Worf loses to a blue barrel) it is said that they’ve got redudant systems. So some people had questions. Possibly in response to that and messing with/teasing fans: In Discovery, there’s a Klingon peeing with 2 streams. Cue an even more heated internet discussion on that, complete with people explaining that (presumed) humans with them could at times produce two streams…. and so nothing official, but the common ST internet thought seems to be 2.
… and here I am talking on the internet about it, on a Webcomic’s page whose author I have followed for 2 decades, so that you all can share my horror/surprise/acceptance of the internet being used for that. Almost reminds me of irc…
Aslt least as I’ve heard the term unicorn used in this context, they’re usually a magical rarity willing to sleep with both partners in the relationship.
AG has shown more sapphic qualities, particularly when she seemed to have a girl crush on Sal.
Not long ago, when Dorothy was, er, floating, she was considering Amber as her totally not romantic hookup, er, hangout partner. Walky was already there, and blocked her co…, er, spoiled her mood.
Hmmm. Amber did say she needed more wang but not how much. I believe. Maybe they could pull it off. With Joyce watching in the corner this poly ship has hope!
Nope. It’s Lucy. She’s the harem protagonist now. She gets Walky after all, Dorothy in the bargain, keeps Jacob of course, gets Asher (sending Ethan back into a full goth spiral where he actually ends up with Sarah briefly as they both wallow in self-pity), and also Joe but she lets Joyce watch on the bed and get seconds.
Having stolen all boyfriends, the truck arrives. But it’s this worlds Ultra Car (Ultra Truck), and identifies as male so she steals it to. Carla is incredibly weirded out by this and doesn’t know why.
Finding a unicorn, or unicorn hunting, refers to a (usually heterosexual) couple finding a third partner, usually bi, for them both.
When it’s a couple’s specific goal, unicorn hunting is often viewed a bit negatively (because it reduces that third partner to the parts of them that fill the couple’s niche) but Booster seems ok (using the much less aggressive word “finding” a unicorn) with it here because it’s much more of an organic growth from them all knowing each other and considering the possibility of it working for the three of them as they are, rather than looking for “a unicorn” specifically.
… Also, this feels like Booster knows things. Walky and Dorothy might or might not realized those things yet, but Booster knows them. Just like they went “So all your friends are queer? :3 Fascinating” at Joyce.
Maybe, though Booster is also probably being fairly sarcastic here, too.
Of course, there is an irony in what Dorothy knows about Joyce and how she has literally brought it up with Walky as a possibility, albeit maybe not entirely seriously. Additionally, Amber is (seemingly, anyway) straight, and not like Dorothy re: Joyce or Joyce re: Dorothy and Jennifer where we’ve gotten indications of sapphic tendencies. Though, Amber as far as I know hasn’t had as overt a rejection of the idea as Sal has had on multiple occasions, placing her firmly as straight.
Does it really matter when characters reject the idea? Joyce has multiple times and no one seems to care. (Joyce has also been obviously quite attracted, physically, to several males and yet the ‘Joyce is a full lesbian, just too dim/repressed to realize what attraction is’ thing seems alive and well.)
She’s certainly not exclusively interested in women, no, demonstrably not. I am more just talking about stuff like wanting to watch Dorothy have sex, or staring repeatedly at Jennifer’s breasts, or her admiration of Sal that basically involved her making some comment about wanting to be with her “from the neck up” or something like that. She wants the D, y’see.
(Also maybe part of the running joke that Walky and Joyce are physically attracted to one another but for a variety of reasons shoot down the notion, even after times it’s been explicitly shown.)
It’s referring, I believe, to 4 or 5 strips back where Joyce clumsily asked if they were enjoying the party since it was all [paraphrase] cis and queer people, as far as she has heard, hang out with queer people. Booster said “Huh, I said loudly”, implying that Joyce doesn’t quite get that the room was more queer than not
I learn something new every day. Not sure where I’m going to use this knowledge, but okay, maybe I’ll be a little more hip to passing references. Now I know.
My experience with dating websites as a trans lesbian has been getting contacted “exclusively” by straight women looking for a unicorn to entertain their boyfriends, so there’s several negative aspects to it.
Amber? Thick? Hah! I scoff at thee! Her strength comes not from density, but elasticity like the famous pirate king , Monkey D. Luffy! Walky’s just weak. He doesn’t lift. Amber weighs like a buck-twenty five at most, but if you were to push her against a wall she’d ricochet back and forth like a superball! Do I have evidence in face of this strip that directly contradicts me? No, but my theory is cooler.,
S’cuse a person outside the USA being confused by units, but how does one weigh a buck-twenty five? What is the hyphen about? Bucks are dollars (or male deer)? But buck-twentys are beyond me, and does she weigh only a buck-twenty, well, at most five (five what?) or … well, I can’t fathom what else!
Can I have that in Kg, or does it not work like mass in gravity creating a force at all?
It means 125 lbs. 100 pennies is a dollar, so somehow (I’m not looming up the etymology now) we can make a hundred of anything “a buck.” But usually weight.
THICK. THICK AND WITH BICEPS. A thousand butches would kill for that physique, another thousand to be carried off into the sunset by a butch of said characteristics, and another third to be both (both at the same time.)
I dunno, her kind of crazy is “Capable and Willing to stab a douche to protect her friends” she is an absolute gem in any environment where directed violence is needed.
I love that Booster’s got their priorities in order.
Also, Amber was hot, anyway, but this knowledge doesn’t hurt. It’s funny that in Walkyverse, Amber was often preoccupied with an attraction towards Donatello, when this kind of confirms that she’s basically built like a Ninja Turtle, herself. Short, stout, will fuck you up.
Aren’t most versions of the turtles 5’7 to 5’10? Not that short. And I say this at 6’2 (as if that somehow gives my opinion more weight, or in this case height).
It’s honestly highly variable. In the 1980s series, they were pretty short, with 5’2 being a height I’ve seen thrown out for them, with them being made taller later on. (Even then, Mikey was around 5’4, Raph 5’7, and the others in-between. Still on the short-ish side for the average dude.) The IDW comics similarly have them fairly short, with the numbers given by Sophie Campbell have Donatello as tallest… at 5’4, and the others being 5’0 (Raph), 5’1 (Mikey), and 5’2 (Leo). According to Sophie, this was from a discussion with Nickelodeon, the current rights holders, and still could vary depending on the artist, so long as the turtles’ heights relative to one another was fairly consistent.
Of course, like I say, it varies. The Tournament Fighter game listed them all as 5’8, which, while short compared to many of their adversaries, isn’t really that short, and then you have the Michael Bay movies making them huge. I think they just often are shown as shorter than many adult human characters, but their being so thick makes them look shorter than they otherwise would.
Some of this, I knew already, the rest, I had to look up or double-check, so I mean, you and me both, kinda? Heh, but yeah. When you have something that has had so many iterations, there are a lot of answers to the question “but how tall are they?”
‘Sacred.” Lol. That was never a hard rule. There are many aspects to Lucy that were just facades or self imposed. She was never some third date type good girl. She was thirsty for Walky the whole time they were together. They would’ve smashed soon and often if he wasn’t so nervous about it.
Yeah, she acknowledged it was arbitrary. I also think that the experience of her first boyfriend kind of got her over a lot of these hangups.
Walky and her had some issues, but she honestly could have done a lot worse for a first boyfriend. She learned a lot, and walked away when she ultimately needed to.
This is one of those times when I agree with someone’s entire argument but not their conclusion, which is always interesting. Yes, she was thirsty for Walky the whole time they were together. That’s why we know so much about the third date rule, because she kept on about it and how it should be interpreted.
To me, saying this means “that was never a hard rule” is like saying someone who drives at exactly the speed limit, constantly muttering about how they wish they could go faster, and they’re going to floor it as soon as they hit the motorway, doesn’t consider the speed limit to be a “hard rule”. If they really didn’t, they’d just break it, but they feel they can’t.
It was never real. https://www.dumbingofage.com/chill/
They both don’t want to seem too forward, or something like that. They joke about it, instead of having a real conversation. Walky shuts down all real conversations about sex. So all she has to go on is the jokes. It wasn’t her rule. She took it as their rule, and she was pretty clear she wanted to break it. https://www.dumbingofage.com/count/
I wonder how Danny would feel if he knew he was violently accosted, not by a woman who has a rule she absolutely wants to stick by and feels he’s getting in the way of, but by someone who’s doing a bit.
And I’m sure someone’s going to point out that she calls them “pretend, self-placed hoops”, to which I can only reply: Are you saying rules you’ve made up yourself and know perfectly well are entirely arbitrary aren’t real? Is that a neurotypical thing? It sounds like a neurotypical thing.
There is a difference in how you can read this. To me Lucy’s third date rule only existed because Walky showed hesitance. He brought up the not wanting to bang on a first date by saying it was just cartoons and not an “and chill” scenario. He even brings up needing four or five dates first. That’s when Lucy decided to put an arbitrary restriction but you can see in her face she wanted him. She then immediately tried to justify every outing as a date and even offering other ambiguous sexually adjacent options, and at least to me it almost felt like pressuring Walky a bit.
So yeah, she is getting in Danny’s face over essentially an unserious bit. She thinks Walky needs the three dates, not herself. I think one of the things she learned from Walky is trying to go at your partner’s pace isn’t always good if you can’t be honest about your desires. So for Jacob she just went for it.
Lucy isn’t some chaste church girl. Another trait that differentiates her from that first Joyce comparison she made. She’s pretty clever, manipulative, and now has the confidence to just take the things she wants instead of waiting for it to line up for her.
Not to nitpick but I kind of dislike the use of the word “manipulative” here, I had say before that is generally used with negative connotation so if used as a positive it should remplaced with something else like “Strategic” or “Diplomatic” depending of the context. But that’s just a personal thing, I agree with most everything else you said.
I don’t read that as her thinking Walky needs three dates. Walky said not an “and chill”, because he wanted her to understand he wasn’t euphemistically asking her for sex. She came back with the “Christian woman” thing to put up the pretense she wasn’t “easy”. He teased her with the “Jesus said 4-5 dates” bit and she countered with 3.
I agree that this isn’t a sacred, hard and fast rule, but it’s also not her reluctantly accepting Walky’s limits. It’s a basic, pretty easily understood if jokingly phrased negotiation. He’s not asking her for sex right now, she’s established that she’s interested, but they’ve got to be together for a bit, but not too long. She might well have been willing to jump his bones then and there, but I think she was more comfortable, if more frustrated, with the delay.
Except that the “I love that about you” thing happened and Walky realized she was far more serious about him than he was yet about her and that she thought he was in the same place, so then he started looking for excuses to stall.
As for now with Jacob, I’m not sure whether this really is her now having the confidence to get what she wants or if she’s overcorrecting for her mistakes with Walky and making new mistakes in the other direction. We’ll soon see.
Maybe when they wake up this morning. Maybe it’ll be dragged out longer.
I am autistic, and I am very much agree that arbitrary self imposed rules are not real. It’s kind of what irks me about a lot “manners” stuff that doesn’t really affect anyone but you are rude and bad if you don’t follow them.
If someone can’t explain why a rule is in place, that rule isn’t worth keeping. Like “don’t put your elbows on the table” or “don’t wear a hat indoors”. Nobody can explain why they’re “bad”, so they’re not bad and I’m doing them anyway.
No elbows is because of tables with folding wings or only a central leg. If what you’re leaning on is stable and sturdy, it’s fine. No hats are because the swamp god demands it.
Yep. If a “rule” can’t be explained to my satisfaction, or if I disagree with the reason it exists, I’m not doing it. They can call the cops about it if they care so much.
Lucy and Jacob are sitting on her bed with a game board between them when an alarm clock goes off. Lucy looks up and says, “oh! It’s morning! We’ve been playing all night.” Jacob yawns, says “huh! Gonna be a rough day then. But it’s been fun!”
I am too. Basically no idea how they’re going to react this morning (or if we’ll get some twist where they didn’t actually do anything and Jacob left early or whatever – though I think that’s unlikely).
In the long run, I don’t see how Jacob/Lucy can go well. It just doesn’t fit. Too quick and easy to be a proper character growth/relationship arc.
Especially for Jacob, who’s established that he doesn’t want casual sex based on his physical attractiveness. Stumbling into a new good relationship from a hookup at a party with someone he barely knew doesn’t work with it. It does work if that’s a character flaw he’s susceptible to, but doesn’t like about himself, but for that to work out, it has to be a mistake. Which means the relationship should be doomed, even if he tries to play along with it to convince himself it wasn’t just a hookup based on sexual attraction.
It could be seen as character growth for Lucy in the “finally made a move instead of waiting for someone else like she did with Walky”, but I’m not sure it’ll be that simple. She may have regrets, especially if she actually was a virgin. I think in a way here, she’s kind of a foil for Joyce and this should contrast with Joe & Joyce’s slow burn. As did Liz’s even quicker thing with Joe, though I don’t think Lucy will go down the “I’m ruined now” path.
Also leaves Sarah’s growth and attempts to reach out on the floor.
Because Sarah couldn’t ever progress said growth by interacting with someone new. Only fulfilling her purely sexual thirst for someone who specifically doesn’t want purely sexual thirst will progress her character!
I once described how I broke a bed-frame with an ex-girlfriend to a (at the time) current girlfriend. She, helpfully, told me never to do so again. I feel very close to Walky in this strip.
Booster’s constant acceptance of situations (as long as they don’t interrupt their sleep schedule) really makes them one of my favorite characters. An agent provocateur of horny drama.
Huh. Booster supports the Amber/Dorothy/Walky threesome movement. No surprise, really. Entertaining, queer, and self-destructive stuff seem to be their “raisin-day-try”. (did i pronounce that right?)
I’ve noticed Willis’ shading/shadows/light improving. Used to be sunrise in east and west facing rooms were indistinguishable, and farther back it wasn’t clear it was dawn at all.
With how much Amber lounges around wanting to do nothing it’s sometimes hard to remember she shares a body with Amazigirl who’s main past time now that she’s eased up on basically being Batman is roller derby. It makes alot of sense that she would have quite abit of muscle
I mean, we should remember that Amber was the one who took self defense classes and was in track and field. She was the one who made the body that allow AG to do her thing.
Ok but how much of that was Amber and how much was Amazi-girl who Amber didn’t realize existed yet?
Not saying you are wrong necessarily but her(their? What’s the proper pronouns to refer to the system? Plural pronouns or singular?) plurality complicates matters like that
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Alas, Amber sounded like she prefers dongs.
Notably, Walky has one
At least one.
Reports vary.
Is he Klingon? I did not know!
Do Klingons have multiple dongs? I know Betelgeusians do. (Well, Betelgeuse V, possibly not Betelgeuse VII.)
They got ’em…
they got multiple dongs, and the women have multiple hoohahs
I think that’s one of the reasons Jadzia was really into Worf.
I think it was Worf really into Jadzia. Y’know, topologically-speaking.
Unlike Bablylon 5’s Centauri, who have a canon documented number and at least one needed advice on ‘large numerical values’, Klingons in canon don’t have it specified one way or another. However, There have been a few things. In TNG (the one where Worf loses to a blue barrel) it is said that they’ve got redudant systems. So some people had questions. Possibly in response to that and messing with/teasing fans: In Discovery, there’s a Klingon peeing with 2 streams. Cue an even more heated internet discussion on that, complete with people explaining that (presumed) humans with them could at times produce two streams…. and so nothing official, but the common ST internet thought seems to be 2.
… and here I am talking on the internet about it, on a Webcomic’s page whose author I have followed for 2 decades, so that you all can share my horror/surprise/acceptance of the internet being used for that. Almost reminds me of irc…
He has six, because he’s a Centauri
Aslt least as I’ve heard the term unicorn used in this context, they’re usually a magical rarity willing to sleep with both partners in the relationship.
More generally it’s applied to finding a perfect match. See the hot/crazy matrix.
She’s not looking.
A Dorothy/Joe/Joyce threesome would help to clarify that. Jus’ sayin’. Fer science, you see.
Shortpacked!Amber was mostly but not fully straight. I’ll keep the faith
Walky has enough to share.
Dongs?!
My god.
If you read the Slipshine, you’ll see that Walky actually has three dongs.
He keeps one specifically for bouncing like Tigger’s tail.
No, not the dongs! Not the dongs!
Who let the dongs out?
(dorothy. it was dorothy.)
You’re right! Dingalingadingdongs.
AG has shown more sapphic qualities, particularly when she seemed to have a girl crush on Sal.
Not long ago, when Dorothy was, er, floating, she was considering Amber as her totally not romantic hookup, er, hangout partner. Walky was already there, and blocked her co…, er, spoiled her mood.
Floating? Crush on Sal? What are you going on about?
AG wouldn’t have a crush on Sal, at most she’d see her as a worthy foe.
It was because of Sal, that AG was created, so it would be like doin’ your mom.
Sal may have been the last straw, but all the other straws were Blaine’s mental abuse.
Mike? Is that you!?
From the moment she was born, she knew there was only one way to stop Mike
Store-bought is fine.
Kinda cute I guess that Walky still knows Dorothy’s class schedule despite them breaking up last semester?
They know each other very well
They all know each other well.
Except Lucy and Jacob, who’ve had all of two conversations together.
I think they’ll be the best couple in this group for a while.
Blasphemy. Nobody can beat out Dina and Becky.
And then they went back to Lucy’s room and knew each other biblically.
Oh gee whiz and golly! You mean they talked about Bible verses after they went back to her room? 😀
Third convo over breakfast counts as third date!
turns out the dates didn’t have to be all with the same person
Hmmm. Amber did say she needed more wang but not how much. I believe. Maybe they could pull it off. With Joyce watching in the corner this poly ship has hope!
I can see it. Dorothy’s first girlfriend could be Walky’s second ex.
Nope. It’s Lucy. She’s the harem protagonist now. She gets Walky after all, Dorothy in the bargain, keeps Jacob of course, gets Asher (sending Ethan back into a full goth spiral where he actually ends up with Sarah briefly as they both wallow in self-pity), and also Joe but she lets Joyce watch on the bed and get seconds.
Having stolen all boyfriends, the truck arrives. But it’s this worlds Ultra Car (Ultra Truck), and identifies as male so she steals it to. Carla is incredibly weirded out by this and doesn’t know why.
Booster ships Amdorky!
Omg that… is the most perfect ship name that exists. For all three of them in such different ways.
Beautiful ship name, count me in. I can be here, I can be at the Dorky/Jojo 4some Supreme, I can be everywhere.
The most layered and poetic ship name ever. It must be a thing now. Please sign the petition to Willis to produce that slippery shiny.
better go find a unicorn! with lesbians on it (or was it a horse)
What was the unicorn reference? I did not follow or catch the meaning.
Thank you!
A unicorn in this context is a third person for a threesome.
(There’s some fine details I’m leaving out, but that’s enough to get the punchline.)
Ah
Joyce dreamt about riding a horse with Dorothy. I don’t really get what booster is talking about here though.
To add on to the above, it usually refers to a woman who joins a man and woman couple for a threesome.
Finding a unicorn, or unicorn hunting, refers to a (usually heterosexual) couple finding a third partner, usually bi, for them both.
When it’s a couple’s specific goal, unicorn hunting is often viewed a bit negatively (because it reduces that third partner to the parts of them that fill the couple’s niche) but Booster seems ok (using the much less aggressive word “finding” a unicorn) with it here because it’s much more of an organic growth from them all knowing each other and considering the possibility of it working for the three of them as they are, rather than looking for “a unicorn” specifically.
Flawless analysis, I love it
… Also, this feels like Booster knows things. Walky and Dorothy might or might not realized those things yet, but Booster knows them. Just like they went “So all your friends are queer? :3 Fascinating” at Joyce.
Maybe, though Booster is also probably being fairly sarcastic here, too.
Of course, there is an irony in what Dorothy knows about Joyce and how she has literally brought it up with Walky as a possibility, albeit maybe not entirely seriously. Additionally, Amber is (seemingly, anyway) straight, and not like Dorothy re: Joyce or Joyce re: Dorothy and Jennifer where we’ve gotten indications of sapphic tendencies. Though, Amber as far as I know hasn’t had as overt a rejection of the idea as Sal has had on multiple occasions, placing her firmly as straight.
Does it really matter when characters reject the idea? Joyce has multiple times and no one seems to care. (Joyce has also been obviously quite attracted, physically, to several males and yet the ‘Joyce is a full lesbian, just too dim/repressed to realize what attraction is’ thing seems alive and well.)
She’s certainly not exclusively interested in women, no, demonstrably not. I am more just talking about stuff like wanting to watch Dorothy have sex, or staring repeatedly at Jennifer’s breasts, or her admiration of Sal that basically involved her making some comment about wanting to be with her “from the neck up” or something like that. She wants the D, y’see.
(Also maybe part of the running joke that Walky and Joyce are physically attracted to one another but for a variety of reasons shoot down the notion, even after times it’s been explicitly shown.)
Wait, when was this? I just went through all the pair tags and can’t find anything with Booster referencing Joyce’s friend group?
It’s referring, I believe, to 4 or 5 strips back where Joyce clumsily asked if they were enjoying the party since it was all [paraphrase] cis and queer people, as far as she has heard, hang out with queer people. Booster said “Huh, I said loudly”, implying that Joyce doesn’t quite get that the room was more queer than not
I learn something new every day. Not sure where I’m going to use this knowledge, but okay, maybe I’ll be a little more hip to passing references. Now I know.
I approve this description.
nice
now what i really wanna do is throw Dumbing of Age, virtual board games, and a unicorn into a blender and see what happens :p
My experience with dating websites as a trans lesbian has been getting contacted “exclusively” by straight women looking for a unicorn to entertain their boyfriends, so there’s several negative aspects to it.
So wait, from the context, is Booster implying they wanna BE the unicorn, or…
personally i was referencing joyce’s lesbian horse dream but everyone else was right here 😀
DOROTHY’S argh im scatterbrained today
Wow! Thanks, everyone, for all the explanations!
Also: It’s a horse with a face-boner.
He might find out she’s Amazi-Girl! Or does he know already? It’s hard to keep track, honestly.
I think everyone who was in the kidnap basement must know.
Eh? Walky’s known for ages.
I think they mean ‘they’ (Booster)
I did actually mean Walky, but as I said it’s hard to keep track.
Oh yeah, Walky not only knows, he seems like one of the first people to really get that Amber isn’t Amazi-Girl, just sharing headspace with her.
Booster knows. I don’t think Jennifer or Asher do.
Booster might know about Amber’s plurality, but not specifically her AG-ality (? AG-ility?).
I have to comment because Willis literally just confirmed my theory about Amber’s mass in the most direct way possible.
The best kind of THICK.
Amber? Thick? Hah! I scoff at thee! Her strength comes not from density, but elasticity like the famous pirate king , Monkey D. Luffy! Walky’s just weak. He doesn’t lift. Amber weighs like a buck-twenty five at most, but if you were to push her against a wall she’d ricochet back and forth like a superball! Do I have evidence in face of this strip that directly contradicts me? No, but my theory is cooler.,
S’cuse a person outside the USA being confused by units, but how does one weigh a buck-twenty five? What is the hyphen about? Bucks are dollars (or male deer)? But buck-twentys are beyond me, and does she weigh only a buck-twenty, well, at most five (five what?) or … well, I can’t fathom what else!
Can I have that in Kg, or does it not work like mass in gravity creating a force at all?
It means 125 lbs. 100 pennies is a dollar, so somehow (I’m not looming up the etymology now) we can make a hundred of anything “a buck.” But usually weight.
1.25 hundredweight, or about 55kg.
A hundredweight is 112lb. Yes, I know, logic left the room when weights and measures were being discussed.
As for the hyphen … it’s just in the wrong place. It should be buck twenty-five. It happens.
It’s canon now. Yippee! ^^
THICK. THICK AND WITH BICEPS. A thousand butches would kill for that physique, another thousand to be carried off into the sunset by a butch of said characteristics, and another third to be both (both at the same time.)
It’s me, I’m butches.
hi butches!
Amber has the hidden physique of a gem girl and the technical skills of a prodigy programmer.
She’s basically what every computer sci major barely a year out of highschool wishes they were.
That and also the dangerous kind of crazy.
I dunno, her kind of crazy is “Capable and Willing to stab a douche to protect her friends” she is an absolute gem in any environment where directed violence is needed.
Hover text is a vibe.
Agreed, I was thinking that was a rule I’d live by
a thousand percent yes
SHO TRUE
i want that text on a t-shirt ^^
EXTRA THICC
I love that Booster’s got their priorities in order.
Also, Amber was hot, anyway, but this knowledge doesn’t hurt. It’s funny that in Walkyverse, Amber was often preoccupied with an attraction towards Donatello, when this kind of confirms that she’s basically built like a Ninja Turtle, herself. Short, stout, will fuck you up.
Aren’t most versions of the turtles 5’7 to 5’10? Not that short. And I say this at 6’2 (as if that somehow gives my opinion more weight, or in this case height).
It’s honestly highly variable. In the 1980s series, they were pretty short, with 5’2 being a height I’ve seen thrown out for them, with them being made taller later on. (Even then, Mikey was around 5’4, Raph 5’7, and the others in-between. Still on the short-ish side for the average dude.) The IDW comics similarly have them fairly short, with the numbers given by Sophie Campbell have Donatello as tallest… at 5’4, and the others being 5’0 (Raph), 5’1 (Mikey), and 5’2 (Leo). According to Sophie, this was from a discussion with Nickelodeon, the current rights holders, and still could vary depending on the artist, so long as the turtles’ heights relative to one another was fairly consistent.
Of course, like I say, it varies. The Tournament Fighter game listed them all as 5’8, which, while short compared to many of their adversaries, isn’t really that short, and then you have the Michael Bay movies making them huge. I think they just often are shown as shorter than many adult human characters, but their being so thick makes them look shorter than they otherwise would.
I’m not among the percentage of the commenters learning about unicorns, but I am learning about this, so… thanks.
Some of this, I knew already, the rest, I had to look up or double-check, so I mean, you and me both, kinda? Heh, but yeah. When you have something that has had so many iterations, there are a lot of answers to the question “but how tall are they?”
I’m just waiting for Lucy’s morning-after scene. How will she react having violated the sacred third-date rule?!
Manifesting she does like Joyce the day she discovered she could skip church and eat ice cream, or better
She went on 3 dates with Walky and didn’t cash in. Clearly those credits transferred over.
Hey you make a great point.
It just says you need 3 dates before sex, they don’t all gotta be with the same person.:P
‘Sacred.” Lol. That was never a hard rule. There are many aspects to Lucy that were just facades or self imposed. She was never some third date type good girl. She was thirsty for Walky the whole time they were together. They would’ve smashed soon and often if he wasn’t so nervous about it.
Yeah, she acknowledged it was arbitrary. I also think that the experience of her first boyfriend kind of got her over a lot of these hangups.
Walky and her had some issues, but she honestly could have done a lot worse for a first boyfriend. She learned a lot, and walked away when she ultimately needed to.
This is one of those times when I agree with someone’s entire argument but not their conclusion, which is always interesting. Yes, she was thirsty for Walky the whole time they were together. That’s why we know so much about the third date rule, because she kept on about it and how it should be interpreted.
To me, saying this means “that was never a hard rule” is like saying someone who drives at exactly the speed limit, constantly muttering about how they wish they could go faster, and they’re going to floor it as soon as they hit the motorway, doesn’t consider the speed limit to be a “hard rule”. If they really didn’t, they’d just break it, but they feel they can’t.
It was never real.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/chill/
They both don’t want to seem too forward, or something like that. They joke about it, instead of having a real conversation. Walky shuts down all real conversations about sex. So all she has to go on is the jokes. It wasn’t her rule. She took it as their rule, and she was pretty clear she wanted to break it.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/count/
I wonder how Danny would feel if he knew he was violently accosted, not by a woman who has a rule she absolutely wants to stick by and feels he’s getting in the way of, but by someone who’s doing a bit.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/04-but-dont-give-yourself-away/sportings/
And I’m sure someone’s going to point out that she calls them “pretend, self-placed hoops”, to which I can only reply: Are you saying rules you’ve made up yourself and know perfectly well are entirely arbitrary aren’t real? Is that a neurotypical thing? It sounds like a neurotypical thing.
There is a difference in how you can read this. To me Lucy’s third date rule only existed because Walky showed hesitance. He brought up the not wanting to bang on a first date by saying it was just cartoons and not an “and chill” scenario. He even brings up needing four or five dates first. That’s when Lucy decided to put an arbitrary restriction but you can see in her face she wanted him. She then immediately tried to justify every outing as a date and even offering other ambiguous sexually adjacent options, and at least to me it almost felt like pressuring Walky a bit.
So yeah, she is getting in Danny’s face over essentially an unserious bit. She thinks Walky needs the three dates, not herself. I think one of the things she learned from Walky is trying to go at your partner’s pace isn’t always good if you can’t be honest about your desires. So for Jacob she just went for it.
Lucy isn’t some chaste church girl. Another trait that differentiates her from that first Joyce comparison she made. She’s pretty clever, manipulative, and now has the confidence to just take the things she wants instead of waiting for it to line up for her.
Not to nitpick but I kind of dislike the use of the word “manipulative” here, I had say before that is generally used with negative connotation so if used as a positive it should remplaced with something else like “Strategic” or “Diplomatic” depending of the context. But that’s just a personal thing, I agree with most everything else you said.
I don’t read that as her thinking Walky needs three dates. Walky said not an “and chill”, because he wanted her to understand he wasn’t euphemistically asking her for sex. She came back with the “Christian woman” thing to put up the pretense she wasn’t “easy”. He teased her with the “Jesus said 4-5 dates” bit and she countered with 3.
I agree that this isn’t a sacred, hard and fast rule, but it’s also not her reluctantly accepting Walky’s limits. It’s a basic, pretty easily understood if jokingly phrased negotiation. He’s not asking her for sex right now, she’s established that she’s interested, but they’ve got to be together for a bit, but not too long. She might well have been willing to jump his bones then and there, but I think she was more comfortable, if more frustrated, with the delay.
Except that the “I love that about you” thing happened and Walky realized she was far more serious about him than he was yet about her and that she thought he was in the same place, so then he started looking for excuses to stall.
As for now with Jacob, I’m not sure whether this really is her now having the confidence to get what she wants or if she’s overcorrecting for her mistakes with Walky and making new mistakes in the other direction. We’ll soon see.
Maybe when they wake up this morning. Maybe it’ll be dragged out longer.
I am autistic, and I am very much agree that arbitrary self imposed rules are not real. It’s kind of what irks me about a lot “manners” stuff that doesn’t really affect anyone but you are rude and bad if you don’t follow them.
If someone can’t explain why a rule is in place, that rule isn’t worth keeping. Like “don’t put your elbows on the table” or “don’t wear a hat indoors”. Nobody can explain why they’re “bad”, so they’re not bad and I’m doing them anyway.
No elbows is because of tables with folding wings or only a central leg. If what you’re leaning on is stable and sturdy, it’s fine. No hats are because the swamp god demands it.
Oh okay I didn’t know there was a swamp god involved, I retire all my complains, don’t wanna get those guys mad.
Implying I’m heavy enough to damage their precious table wings.
Yep. If a “rule” can’t be explained to my satisfaction, or if I disagree with the reason it exists, I’m not doing it. They can call the cops about it if they care so much.
Lucy and Jacob are sitting on her bed with a game board between them when an alarm clock goes off. Lucy looks up and says, “oh! It’s morning! We’ve been playing all night.” Jacob yawns, says “huh! Gonna be a rough day then. But it’s been fun!”
I am too. Basically no idea how they’re going to react this morning (or if we’ll get some twist where they didn’t actually do anything and Jacob left early or whatever – though I think that’s unlikely).
In the long run, I don’t see how Jacob/Lucy can go well. It just doesn’t fit. Too quick and easy to be a proper character growth/relationship arc.
Especially for Jacob, who’s established that he doesn’t want casual sex based on his physical attractiveness. Stumbling into a new good relationship from a hookup at a party with someone he barely knew doesn’t work with it. It does work if that’s a character flaw he’s susceptible to, but doesn’t like about himself, but for that to work out, it has to be a mistake. Which means the relationship should be doomed, even if he tries to play along with it to convince himself it wasn’t just a hookup based on sexual attraction.
It could be seen as character growth for Lucy in the “finally made a move instead of waiting for someone else like she did with Walky”, but I’m not sure it’ll be that simple. She may have regrets, especially if she actually was a virgin. I think in a way here, she’s kind of a foil for Joyce and this should contrast with Joe & Joyce’s slow burn. As did Liz’s even quicker thing with Joe, though I don’t think Lucy will go down the “I’m ruined now” path.
Also leaves Sarah’s growth and attempts to reach out on the floor.
Because Sarah couldn’t ever progress said growth by interacting with someone new. Only fulfilling her purely sexual thirst for someone who specifically doesn’t want purely sexual thirst will progress her character!
We have very different reads on Sarah if you think her thirst is purely sexual.
That’s just the easier part to admit to. Even that’s hard enough for her.
9 am!? I’m drinking afternoon tea at this time
Hell, by 9 am I’d be cursing myself for still being up and trying to force myself to stop what I’m doing and get to bed.
9 am is when I drink coffee to ward of intrusive thoughts and get on the coding ball
Huh. Unicorns huh? Thanks to the comment section, I, once again, learn something new.
No surprises so far
Amber hung over and dumped in a convenient bed – check
Walky x Dorothy in Walky’s bed – check
Booster alone and acting superior – check
Let’s see what tomorrow’s strip brings
Booster’s not alone, they have friends in the same room!
I predict tomorrow’s strip will bring us more of the morning after the party.
SEE! Even Booster is 3shipping (3hipping? thripping?) them.
I once described how I broke a bed-frame with an ex-girlfriend to a (at the time) current girlfriend. She, helpfully, told me never to do so again. I feel very close to Walky in this strip.
Honestly, Dorothy doesn’t seem put off by that, so much as avoiding going to class.
Never to break a bedframe again or never to talk about banging your exes again?
XD Sorry, Booster, Walky’s dating an early bird now!
huh. I kinda assumed Booster would be the one holding Amber’s hair as she..
Booster’s constant acceptance of situations (as long as they don’t interrupt their sleep schedule) really makes them one of my favorite characters. An agent provocateur of horny drama.
They are amazing. 10/10 addition to the cast.
Look, it couldn’t hurt to at least ask her if she’d like to join them.
Not surprising at all, someone who regularly pulls off superhero stunts has got be all muscle
Huh. Booster supports the Amber/Dorothy/Walky threesome movement. No surprise, really. Entertaining, queer, and self-destructive stuff seem to be their “raisin-day-try”. (did i pronounce that right?)
No but that should be how it’s pronounced from now on.
Is only me, or the draw quality has improved since this new storyline?
I think it’s mostly that there is more shading due to the sun coming from the window on a unlit room.
I’ve noticed Willis’ shading/shadows/light improving. Used to be sunrise in east and west facing rooms were indistinguishable, and farther back it wasn’t clear it was dawn at all.
Someone one better pick up that phone because I called it!
Well… I sorta called it. I at least called that there was no sexy 3 way shenanigannery anyway lol
booster is so fucking funny
They should get their own talk show.
Probably not actually a great idea to put the passed out drunk in the lofted bed. In case they do wake up still drunk and try to get up.
Leave them on the floor with wastebasket nearby if they get barfy again.
Former RA speaking: On their side please. (And actually former RA says not to leave them alone. People do choke on their own vomit when passed out.)
AG always lands on her feet.
Even when Amber’s passed out drunk.
With how much Amber lounges around wanting to do nothing it’s sometimes hard to remember she shares a body with Amazigirl who’s main past time now that she’s eased up on basically being Batman is roller derby. It makes alot of sense that she would have quite abit of muscle
I mean, we should remember that Amber was the one who took self defense classes and was in track and field. She was the one who made the body that allow AG to do her thing.
With the goal of being Amazi-Girl explicitly in mind, if I recall, like she was intentionally trying to go the Batman route.
Ok but how much of that was Amber and how much was Amazi-girl who Amber didn’t realize existed yet?
Not saying you are wrong necessarily but her(their? What’s the proper pronouns to refer to the system? Plural pronouns or singular?) plurality complicates matters like that
oh ….. i did not consider the potential of a walky x dorothy x amber situation …..
………………walky does not deserve that
I honestly can’t tell if that’s meant as critical of Walky or sympathetic to him.
critical, although i can see the argument got the latter. lmao