I’m thinking it’s actually the opposite. You can see that Amber wasn’t feeling well in one of the panels in the last strip. Dorothy being Dorothy she probably offered her bed to Amber to sleep it off, and meanwhile Dorothy went to sleep in different bed belonging to a certain ex that she’s currently trying to rekindle old sparks with.
I don’t know if I’d say that it’s worsening. At least the two identities are talking to each other now instead of one persona having no idea what the other is doing.
I think worsening is subjective in this case. As long as Amber has found a way to function without being a threat to herself or others, she’s doing okay.
yeah, that and it’s extremely hard, if not impossible to find good professional help for DID, because the vast majority of “treatment” there is basically the doctor gaslighting you into thinking you don’t have it T_T
I want to validate that it’s extremely hard, but I don’t think it’s impossible. My friend is a therapist who sought out multiple resources for working with clients with DID, which included attending a conference about the subject, so there are others trying to build knowledge and skills to work with it as well. Now, I can’t speak to if this learning is helpful/successful or not, but I do know that in discussing DID with my friend, everything they said was inline with what I have read in the comment section from people personally familiar with it.
I don’t want to pretend it’s not hard, but I also hope it’s not impossible and people with DID can find people to help them who treat them with understanding and respect.
I’m glad your friend did the right thing, although for the time being professionals like them seem but an island admist a sea of punishment for DID folk seeking help.
DID is socially stigmatized even worse than autism, and knobhead doctors who think they know all they need to after having read a single fucking book thirty years ago are no exception to the rule as they compell their clients into an unwinnable war with their own brain.
Honestly, good luck finding good help for any psychiatric condition in Bloomington. It’s weird, we have a really good psychology program at IU and yet not a single practicing psychologist or psychiatrist seems to be competent or even not actively toxic. I had a great pediatric psychiatrist growing up but she retired shortly after I reached adulthood and nobody else I’ve worked with or heard about could get their head out of their own butt long enough to help anybody dealing with anything.
The university mental health services are even worse, I briefly dated a girl who told me she went in due to depression and for some reason when she was describing her intrusive thoughts they heard “hearing voices”, diagnosed her with schizoprenia, refused to listen to her clarifications to their obvious misunderstanding, prescribed antipsychotics (which if you don’t have hallucinations to treat, will *cause* hallucinations), and lied to her about what they were so she’d take them. She wound up briefly hospitalized in the psych ward because she freaked out because she hallucinated that she hit a homeless man while driving her car with her friend in the passenger seat due to the unneeded antipsychotics. Then when she went back to explain they misdiagnosed her and prescribed the wrong medicine, they accused her of attention seeking behavior and diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder, which she did not have.
This is a terrible place to seek treatment for anything to do with the brain.
Unfortunately this is common with lots of high academic cost barrier to entry careers. Most folks that become doctors or lawyers don’t necessarily pursue that career for entirely altruistic reasons and the people who have the empathy to relate to mental illness are more common in lower income families where it would be incredibly expensive to pursue medical education and employment. We’re also in an increasingly severe doctor drought in general for many of the same reasons. Too expensive to educate and doctors usually chase money in concierge medical practices where they have less patients, higher pay, and access to better equipment.
I’ll be side-eyeing Booster for a bit cause they already seem a bit like that type. It’ll be very interesting to see what they do with their potential psychiatric degree.
I’m not sure about IU specifically though. I’m sure they got their good and their bad. For Amber specifically, finding a credited professional, that also has at least an interest in DID cases, that would also have a functioning relationship with her, and she could afford it? That’s like winning the lottery. Maybe Richard who is a doctor knows people in his medical circle?
Holy shit! I don’t suppose your ex had the courage to file charges and/or a lawsuit for what is very clear malpractice? Cuz whoever put her through that ought to have any and all licenses to practice revoked at a minimum. That goes way beyond the garden variety “providing poor care”!
This is a significant improvement I’d say. There’s nothing _inherently_ “wrong” with being plural. The circumstances that caused it are obviously awful, but the plurality itself is just a state of being. The important thing is they are communicating and at least somewhat cooperating.
Didn’t you say the same thing last time anyway? Maybe if you actually read the replies to your comments you’d see that 1. it’s not worsening, 2. What you’re asking for is damn near impossible for a teenage girl in Indiana and would likely do more harm than good, bc the vast majority of the psychiatric community is far behind on DID and haven’t figured out genuinely helpful treatment. Some are too busy trying to decide if it even exists
Diagnosed DID system here: Amber’s DID (assuming that’s what it is) is not worsening. Talking to your alters and treating them as separate from you is not unhealthy, it’s the first step in treatment. Having different alters front to face different challenges is also perfectly normal. It was far worse when she was having amnesia, no communication with her alters, and just going about life as if her alters didn’t exist.
And as others have pointed out, it’s difficult to get treatment for DID. The vast majority of trauma therapists aren’t qualified to even diagnose it let alone treat it. The only reason I’m able to see a DID specialist is because the pandemic made remote therapy normal, so I can see a therapist from the big city 2-hours away.
I suppose they’ve been shuffling beds as various people get sexiled in turn? Where did Billie go, is she in the bottom bunk? Is Dorothy in Walky’s bed, and Sal and Danny have forced out Malaya?
Obviously Dorothy pins class notes and schedules to the ceiling so she can study while she falls asleep and knows exactly what she’s doing the moment she wakes up
If we really break it down, isn’t all anger useless? We’re all gonna dissolve into brownsauce in seven years’ time*, so being angry is a waste of energy we could be using to build cool monuments to prank whoever gets Earth next. And to fuck like there’s no tomorrow, because there’s literally only a couple thousand more tomorrows.
*Specifically on Christmas Day, the 25th of December 2031, at around 12:00pm GMT.
I already gave you people the exact date, time, and method of extinction. I’m not spoon-feeding you every minor detail of specifically your own personal demise, stop asking for unpaid emotional labor.
Nymph, it’s slang.
It means more or less that you can’t believe the thing being spoken about.
Said thing is usually neutral or even positive.
Like I told my brother that I was mad that someone pirated Deadpool and Wolverine on YouTube so that I could watch it in all its glory, but I was in fact the opposite of that.
Amber said at the disaster dinner that she wasn’t getting back with Walky, and she told him they shouldn’t get back together when he talked to her about his Mike feelings.
I’m not sure how much actual heartbreak she’s feeling, despite still having feelings and desire for him.
Things have changed since that dinner. Lucy broke up with Walky, she was the first person he went to, and they, unlike Dorothy, have unresolved issues.
If she still has feelings for him, she should fight for his love. He sounds pretty down about Lucy hooking up with Jacob.
Technically, Booster was the first one he went to.
And when he went to Amber, she told him they shouldn’t mess around, like I said.
She had the chance to throw her hat in the ring if that’s what she wanted.
I was thinking after I typed that, maybe D&D went for breakfast. They’ll come back, and snuggle up on either side, with a plate to feed her from. Meanwhile, Amber and AG are internally arguing about the other not remembering any of what went on between the three.
Ship names: AD&D. Two Toms, a Twink, a Bag of Nochetos. Which one’s the boy? The Nerds. Everyone Joyce will makeout with in the future.
That last one is perfection…she has stated she hates Wally though, are you guessing she will make out with him just because she wanted to watch Dorothy have sex?
Joyce hates Walky in the dumbiverse exactly like her alt did in the Walkyverse – and is therefore equally likely to eventually recognize that her antipathy is mostly self-deception. Just because it’d be too pat for them to end up together in both universes doesn’t mean the foundations for that relationship aren’t still present here.
Maybe there was a whole shuffle of sleeping/”sleeping” arrangements last night. Amber is in Becky and Dorothy’s room; Becky and Dina are in Dina and Amber’s room; Dorothy and Walky are in Walky and Booster’s room; and Booster is in the room with Amber.
Everyone thinks Sarah’s in someone else’s room, and they get worried when they realize she’s not, and it turns out that she freaked out so hard that she’s on a bus to Six Flags.
I’m guessing Amber needed somewhere to crash while the rest of the was still going strong. So Dorothy and Walky put her to bed in the nearest available spot.
Dina: I see you are alcohol sick. You are welcome to sleep it off in your own bed
Amber (seeing 3 or 4 Dina’s): Nah. I don’t wanna have to clean it up after getting sick in it.
Amber coulda gotten overwhelmed/sleepy/both and dipped out to sleep in Dorothy’s room while the others continued to party. Unlikely, given that this is a comic, but still.
From all appearances in yesterday’s comic, Amber passed out at the party. Either the others found her difficult to move (she must have considerable muscle mass to pull off all the Amazi-Girl stuff) or they feared attracting Ruthless’ attention; either way, they stuffed her into the nearest available bunk to sleep it off.
Kind of impressed that Amber managed to stick AG with the hangover, though.
She was probably just overwhelmed by the party so they let her into Dorothy’s room to calm down instead of kicking everyone out of Amber/Dina’s room. Amber also seemed the most drunk out of everyone last time we saw her.
Okay, so we can see that she had the yellow shirt on at the start of the party, before the hoodie went on. Amazi-Girl blue socks we can’t verify but it’s reasonable.
Lets see, shes in Walkys bed, Walky is probably in Dorothy’s bed. Jacob might be in Lucy’s bed. Dina is probably in Becky’s bed. Dorothy is probably in her own bed tightly gripping Joe’s arm while he sleeps on the floor. And Sal is likely in Danny’s bed.
Damn I messed that up
Lets see, shes in Dorothy’s bed, Dorothy’s likely in Walky’s bed.. Jacob might be in Lucy’s bed. Dina is probably in Becky’s bed. Dorothy is probably in her own bed tightly gripping Joe’s arm while he sleeps on the floor. And Sal is likely in Danny’s bed.
Damn it I really wish we had a edit, this a complicated chain.
Amber’s in Dorothy’s Bed, Dorothy is probably in Walky’s Bed, Jacob might be in Lucy’s bed. Dina is probably in Becky’s bed, while Joyce is probably in her own bed tightly gripping Joe’s arm while he sleeps on the floor. While Sal is likely in Danny’s bed.
Maybe most if them aren’t in anyone’s beds and they woke up early and started a quick pickup game of basketball! IU probably has indoor sports facilities right? Yes, my theory is definitely plausible which means until further evidence that is exactly what happened.
Living on campus, a night of heavy drinking always meant getting up early and hitting the dining hall for heavy greasy omelets, bacon, sausage some toast, and a couple bagels with cream cheese and an apple hidden in a pocket for later
I’m thinking Willis had to diagram the whole chain out on paper. Who’s in whose bed? Maybe he used Transformers “action figures” as proxies. Everything on the dining room table. He laid it all out in war-room style.
Let’s see… I’m going with Joyce on Joe, Joe on the sex dinosaur, Becky and Dina in Amber’s bed, Amber in Dorothy’s bed, Dorothy and Walky in Becky’s bed, Ethan, Asher, and Booster in Ethan’s bed, Jacob and Lucy in Lucy’s bed, Jennifer in Sal’s bed (she tried for Ruth’s, but Jason closed the door in her face), Malaya about to drop Fuckface on Jennifer’s face, Sal and Danny in Danny’s bed, Ruth in Ruth’s bed, Jason on Ruth’s floor, and Sarah alone in her own bed, sleepless, alternately fuming about Jacob in Lucy’s bed and fretting about Joyce in Joe’s. And Mike in your mom’s bed.
I’d question if there were any modesty concerns, but Amber had both Walky and Dorothy in her room when she and Dina were in their underwear, so I don’t think she especially cares if either of them see her like that.
My theory: Amber got sexiled by Dina/Becky but was pretty much dead on her feet anyway, so Dorothy stuck her in her own dorm room to sleep and then went to stay in Walky’s dorm room.
I mean, usually when Amazi-Girl appears, its a late night thing, or when someone is in danger. We know its after the party and she has been sleeping, but is it still really early in the morning (qualifying as ‘next day’ but still night)? Is it a random thing?
We know AG comes out when Amber is sleeping which is likely what she is still doing. AG is paying the price for being an early bird. Of course I’m not knowledgeable of DID we’ve just seen this a few times.
Amazi-girl also surfaces during more generally stressful situations. She’s also been popping up more casually as of late (she had a conversation with Amber a few hours ago).
There’s no waaaay Walky, Amber and Dorothy had a threesome but I ship Walky and Amber so hard I’m gonna choose to believe that Walky, Amber and Dorothy had a threesome.
‘Cause love’s such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
NGL, if I were Amazi-girl I would not be happy I had to take someone else’s hangover either. If you’re gonna have your fun with our shared body, YOU can fucking well pay for it.
Why is the first strip of the storyline not giving me every possible answer for every possible question I could have, including this one? That’s bad writing.
Lol. I’m still waiting for the random switch to characters we don’t know and the story just picks up from there and we never see any of the main cast again except occasional background cameos.
Yeah, I can’t wait to see what Kyle, Mallory, Sock, Lex, The Casey, Denise, Vanessa, Michaela, and Brody are up to. It’s been like fourteen years, we can hit pause on the current cast for a couple chapters.
I support someone coming in on this page, new to the strip, new to Willis’ work in general, neve doing any archive reading of past strips, and just seeing where we go from here.
Amber/Dotty is just the obvious fakeout to get us to lower our guards, the gay red herring. What *I* want to know is what bed is *Dotty* in, and also what bed is *Joyce* in, and some kinda Venn diagram providing further answers regarding Joe.
Okay guys, place your vote. What happened last night:
A: Walky/Dorothy/Amber 3 way
B: Given the amount of hook ups they put amber in Dorothy’s bed where it was dark a quiet as she was having a crisis and Dorothy spent the night with Walky in his room.
What I’m wanting to know is, if anyone got their fuck on, were any of the couples in the same room as another couple, and everyone just kinda did some parallel play without making it Weird?
Mmmaybe. My guess is that Dina and Becky stayed in Dinas room and started getting their mack on after Lucy left. Joyce and Joe separated out, Sarah went to cry on other Jacob’s…. shoulder. And Dorothy put Amber in her bed since the room would be empty and shacked up with Walky.
It looked like Amber was too intoxicated for anything. So I’m betting no Walky / Dorothy / Amber 3-way.
‘Sides, I’m saving my headcanon space for the Dorothy / Joe / Joyce 3-way. I don’t have much headspace, and the 3some is crowding out most other occupants.
Amber-> Dorothy’s Bed.
Dorothy+Walky -> Sarah’s bed.
Joe+Joyce -> Joyce’s bed. Joe was explaining and critiquing Walky’s abilities.
Beck+Dina -> Amber’s bed.
Ethan+Asher -> Ethan’s room
Lucy+Jacob -> Lucy’s room
Jennifer -> went to have a word with Asher, he wasn’t there so she picked the lock and slept in his bed.
Booster -> in their own bed in their own room
Ruth -> peacefully asleep in own room. Trash chute is clogged again.
Sarah -> in the Beck common room, fell asleep talking to Arnold.
Seems fairly easy. Becky and Dina were getting frisky and decided to boink, so as Amber passed out against Walky, he and Dorothy put her in Dorothy’s bed while Dotty herself slept in Walky’s bed with Walky.
Boring! Clearly Amber and Dorothy hooked up last night after Amber got blackout drunk. Dorothy dressed up as Mike and whispered Cap/Bucky fiction into Amber’s ear in order to get Amber in the mood.
They’re still over there in Dina and Amber’s room, hoarsely croaking out the lyrics to basic pop songs while the blood from Danny’s fingers stains the strings and trickles down the neck of his ukulele.
I’d assume it wasn’t even that Becky and Dina were frisky, but that Amber was crashing early and the party was still going on in her room, so they helped her next door to Dorothy’s bed.
I’m trying to figure out how that would even work. What, is Ruth supposed to walk around, dispensing condoms and then collecting them afterward for evidence? Gotta write it down on her paperwork, her official IU forms, “Danny and Sal fucked, here’s the condom to prove it”?
In Germany, summer camp leaders and teachers on multi-day excursions have been held responsible for offspring created on their watch. So I wondered if RAs had the same problem.
I don’t know enough about colleges RAs to say but I like to believe it’s not really their responsibility to ensure everyone they supervise have safe sex all the time. Outside of telling them to do that they would be little they could do to about it.
Unexpected advantage of being plural, have someone else front with the hang over. Unexpected disadvantage of being plural, fronting for someone else’s hang over
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DOTTY, YOU DAWG
I know, right? Dang!
We were so distracted by the Dorothy/Joyce vibes we failed to anticipate Dorothy/Walky takIng Amber in.
Dammit, it works
Unless Dorothy and Walky are using Amber’s bed.
I’m guessing Amber just escaped the party into a bed Dorothy offered her?
(while Dotty is in Joyce’s bed)
We can only hope!!
I’m not sure what to hope for.
I’m basically always on Amber’s / Amazigirls side. I hope she gets nice things for a change.
Damn, Walky lost twice last night.
I’m thinking it’s actually the opposite. You can see that Amber wasn’t feeling well in one of the panels in the last strip. Dorothy being Dorothy she probably offered her bed to Amber to sleep it off, and meanwhile Dorothy went to sleep in different bed belonging to a certain ex that she’s currently trying to rekindle old sparks with.
Pretty sure those sparks are a full campfire at this point. I mean, we have the strips.
I really hope Amber gets help for her worsening dissociative identity disorder soon
I don’t know if I’d say that it’s worsening. At least the two identities are talking to each other now instead of one persona having no idea what the other is doing.
Unless Amber is hiding from whatever happened the previous night.
Amber? Hiding?
… Actually, yeah that checks out.
I can’t see how this is any worse than the point in time when the two of them weren’t sharing any memories at all?
I think worsening is subjective in this case. As long as Amber has found a way to function without being a threat to herself or others, she’s doing okay.
yeah, that and it’s extremely hard, if not impossible to find good professional help for DID, because the vast majority of “treatment” there is basically the doctor gaslighting you into thinking you don’t have it T_T
I want to validate that it’s extremely hard, but I don’t think it’s impossible. My friend is a therapist who sought out multiple resources for working with clients with DID, which included attending a conference about the subject, so there are others trying to build knowledge and skills to work with it as well. Now, I can’t speak to if this learning is helpful/successful or not, but I do know that in discussing DID with my friend, everything they said was inline with what I have read in the comment section from people personally familiar with it.
I don’t want to pretend it’s not hard, but I also hope it’s not impossible and people with DID can find people to help them who treat them with understanding and respect.
I’m glad your friend did the right thing, although for the time being professionals like them seem but an island admist a sea of punishment for DID folk seeking help.
DID is socially stigmatized even worse than autism, and knobhead doctors who think they know all they need to after having read a single fucking book thirty years ago are no exception to the rule as they compell their clients into an unwinnable war with their own brain.
Honestly, good luck finding good help for any psychiatric condition in Bloomington. It’s weird, we have a really good psychology program at IU and yet not a single practicing psychologist or psychiatrist seems to be competent or even not actively toxic. I had a great pediatric psychiatrist growing up but she retired shortly after I reached adulthood and nobody else I’ve worked with or heard about could get their head out of their own butt long enough to help anybody dealing with anything.
The university mental health services are even worse, I briefly dated a girl who told me she went in due to depression and for some reason when she was describing her intrusive thoughts they heard “hearing voices”, diagnosed her with schizoprenia, refused to listen to her clarifications to their obvious misunderstanding, prescribed antipsychotics (which if you don’t have hallucinations to treat, will *cause* hallucinations), and lied to her about what they were so she’d take them. She wound up briefly hospitalized in the psych ward because she freaked out because she hallucinated that she hit a homeless man while driving her car with her friend in the passenger seat due to the unneeded antipsychotics. Then when she went back to explain they misdiagnosed her and prescribed the wrong medicine, they accused her of attention seeking behavior and diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder, which she did not have.
This is a terrible place to seek treatment for anything to do with the brain.
Unfortunately this is common with lots of high academic cost barrier to entry careers. Most folks that become doctors or lawyers don’t necessarily pursue that career for entirely altruistic reasons and the people who have the empathy to relate to mental illness are more common in lower income families where it would be incredibly expensive to pursue medical education and employment. We’re also in an increasingly severe doctor drought in general for many of the same reasons. Too expensive to educate and doctors usually chase money in concierge medical practices where they have less patients, higher pay, and access to better equipment.
I’ll be side-eyeing Booster for a bit cause they already seem a bit like that type. It’ll be very interesting to see what they do with their potential psychiatric degree.
I’m not sure about IU specifically though. I’m sure they got their good and their bad. For Amber specifically, finding a credited professional, that also has at least an interest in DID cases, that would also have a functioning relationship with her, and she could afford it? That’s like winning the lottery. Maybe Richard who is a doctor knows people in his medical circle?
Holy shit! I don’t suppose your ex had the courage to file charges and/or a lawsuit for what is very clear malpractice? Cuz whoever put her through that ought to have any and all licenses to practice revoked at a minimum. That goes way beyond the garden variety “providing poor care”!
this is a notable improvement on where she was back in book 10.
This is a significant improvement I’d say. There’s nothing _inherently_ “wrong” with being plural. The circumstances that caused it are obviously awful, but the plurality itself is just a state of being. The important thing is they are communicating and at least somewhat cooperating.
It was worsening when they were in conflict. She at least knows how to be a better friend to herself.
AG and Amber might reintegrate at some point but I imagine that’s an “and then the comic is over” sort of story beat.
This is not worsening. Communication and cooperation are a vast improvement to memory black outs and conflict
Didn’t you say the same thing last time anyway? Maybe if you actually read the replies to your comments you’d see that 1. it’s not worsening, 2. What you’re asking for is damn near impossible for a teenage girl in Indiana and would likely do more harm than good, bc the vast majority of the psychiatric community is far behind on DID and haven’t figured out genuinely helpful treatment. Some are too busy trying to decide if it even exists
Amber / AG are fine. She’s a literal superhero after all.
Diagnosed DID system here: Amber’s DID (assuming that’s what it is) is not worsening. Talking to your alters and treating them as separate from you is not unhealthy, it’s the first step in treatment. Having different alters front to face different challenges is also perfectly normal. It was far worse when she was having amnesia, no communication with her alters, and just going about life as if her alters didn’t exist.
And as others have pointed out, it’s difficult to get treatment for DID. The vast majority of trauma therapists aren’t qualified to even diagnose it let alone treat it. The only reason I’m able to see a DID specialist is because the pandemic made remote therapy normal, so I can see a therapist from the big city 2-hours away.
Well, I have no idea what’s going on.
I do believe this is what earthlings call a “hangover” :p
That answer, though manifestly true as far as it goes, is not fully forthcoming about who is where with whom.
Of course. that’s the way party hangovers like this usually are XD
I suppose they’ve been shuffling beds as various people get sexiled in turn? Where did Billie go, is she in the bottom bunk? Is Dorothy in Walky’s bed, and Sal and Danny have forced out Malaya?
Every bunk is the bottom bunk. What is this persistent rumor that these rooms have bunk beds?
Somehow the student population is 50% desks, and they all claimed the bottom bunks.
Wait how do you recognise being in Dorothy’s bed
They share a half bath. She’s probably seen it a million times.
Amazi-Girl has done research on what it’s like to be in everyone’s bed. Amazi-Girl is always prepared.
Never mind. I much prefer your explanation.
Same.
Same. (it’s headcanon now)
For everything it seems but Amber’s girl liking tendencies (does no one remember her reaction to Rachel’s triumphant reemergence in Shortpacked?)
She has a Brother Bed satellite for this purpose.
don’t worry about it
Wrong Dexter and Monkey Master poster on the ceiling.
Obviously Dorothy pins class notes and schedules to the ceiling so she can study while she falls asleep and knows exactly what she’s doing the moment she wakes up
(Ngl I have done that)
Ask your mom.
I’m mad she recognized whose bed it was from the ceiling.
Seems a useless thing to be angry about, but go off.
If we really break it down, isn’t all anger useless? We’re all gonna dissolve into brownsauce in seven years’ time*, so being angry is a waste of energy we could be using to build cool monuments to prank whoever gets Earth next. And to fuck like there’s no tomorrow, because there’s literally only a couple thousand more tomorrows.
*Specifically on Christmas Day, the 25th of December 2031, at around 12:00pm GMT.
Hmm? What is the significance of that particular date?
I had heard 2040 or so.
That’s a different scenario than the one I’m talking about. Don’t worry.
Yes, but which one *are* you talking about?
I already gave you people the exact date, time, and method of extinction. I’m not spoon-feeding you every minor detail of specifically your own personal demise, stop asking for unpaid emotional labor.
What if you get paid in Imperial Internet Points?
Thank goodness, we won’t have to deal with the Unix epoch rolling over in 2038.
Nymph, it’s slang.
It means more or less that you can’t believe the thing being spoken about.
Said thing is usually neutral or even positive.
Like I told my brother that I was mad that someone pirated Deadpool and Wolverine on YouTube so that I could watch it in all its glory, but I was in fact the opposite of that.
Thank you for explaining! 🙂
No prob! 👍🏽
Thanks, I hate it. (For real, some times slang really rubs me the wrong way)
You’re welcome 😉
Same! Slang that involves deliberate inversion of words’ meanings makes me actually mad.
Slang can be really “bad”.
Dorothy & Walky were looking out for Amber, that’s nice.
Indeed
Despite causing her heartbreak with this rebound.
Amber said at the disaster dinner that she wasn’t getting back with Walky, and she told him they shouldn’t get back together when he talked to her about his Mike feelings.
I’m not sure how much actual heartbreak she’s feeling, despite still having feelings and desire for him.
Things have changed since that dinner. Lucy broke up with Walky, she was the first person he went to, and they, unlike Dorothy, have unresolved issues.
If she still has feelings for him, she should fight for his love. He sounds pretty down about Lucy hooking up with Jacob.
Technically, Booster was the first one he went to.
And when he went to Amber, she told him they shouldn’t mess around, like I said.
She had the chance to throw her hat in the ring if that’s what she wanted.
Where’s Amber’s glasses? 😮
Those and much more to be found in The Hungover Games!!!! XD
I was almost certain Amber, Walky, and Dottie were going to wake up together.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised at this point if it turns out something like that happened.
I was thinking after I typed that, maybe D&D went for breakfast. They’ll come back, and snuggle up on either side, with a plate to feed her from. Meanwhile, Amber and AG are internally arguing about the other not remembering any of what went on between the three.
Ship names: AD&D. Two Toms, a Twink, a Bag of Nochetos. Which one’s the boy? The Nerds. Everyone Joyce will makeout with in the future.
That last one is perfection…she has stated she hates Wally though, are you guessing she will make out with him just because she wanted to watch Dorothy have sex?
Joyce hates Walky in the dumbiverse exactly like her alt did in the Walkyverse – and is therefore equally likely to eventually recognize that her antipathy is mostly self-deception. Just because it’d be too pat for them to end up together in both universes doesn’t mean the foundations for that relationship aren’t still present here.
I like the first one, partly from nostalgia from when AD&D first released. It was the only thing not horrible in my life at the time.
please, both of them, at least, with clothes
What crazy thing would have happened in Amber’s room for her to be in Becky and Dorothy’s room?
Maybe there was a whole shuffle of sleeping/”sleeping” arrangements last night. Amber is in Becky and Dorothy’s room; Becky and Dina are in Dina and Amber’s room; Dorothy and Walky are in Walky and Booster’s room; and Booster is in the room with Amber.
Ethan and Asher are in Ethan and Jacob’s room. Jacob and Lucy are in Lucy and Jennifer’s room. Jennifer is in Asher’s room, looking a bit crestfallen.
Sarah is also crestfallen, possibly in her own room. Unless Joyce and Joe are there. So in that case….. Where the hell would she be?
It looked like Joyce and Joe were falling asleep on the dinosaur, but maybe they stumbled back somewhere later.
Sarah and Jennifer, both crestfallen, hook up in Asher’s room?
Haha, I’m actually looking at the comments and it’s a pretty confusing series of strings.
Sal and Danny are in his bed; Joyce and Joe are in hers.
Everyone thinks Sarah’s in someone else’s room, and they get worried when they realize she’s not, and it turns out that she freaked out so hard that she’s on a bus to Six Flags.
I’m guessing Amber needed somewhere to crash while the rest of the was still going strong. So Dorothy and Walky put her to bed in the nearest available spot.
*rest of the party
That sounds reasonable, Amber was too drunk to be a good bed partner.
If her boozles were any indication, yes. Also leaning head-first into Walky.
Dina yeeted amber like Lucy yeeted Billifer because of pants euphoria
Nah. Dina offered to let Amber stay. Amber declined.
Dina: I see you are alcohol sick. You are welcome to sleep it off in your own bed
Amber (seeing 3 or 4 Dina’s): Nah. I don’t wanna have to clean it up after getting sick in it.
Amber coulda gotten overwhelmed/sleepy/both and dipped out to sleep in Dorothy’s room while the others continued to party. Unlikely, given that this is a comic, but still.
From all appearances in yesterday’s comic, Amber passed out at the party. Either the others found her difficult to move (she must have considerable muscle mass to pull off all the Amazi-Girl stuff) or they feared attracting Ruthless’ attention; either way, they stuffed her into the nearest available bunk to sleep it off.
Kind of impressed that Amber managed to stick AG with the hangover, though.
She was probably just overwhelmed by the party so they let her into Dorothy’s room to calm down instead of kicking everyone out of Amber/Dina’s room. Amber also seemed the most drunk out of everyone last time we saw her.
Amber, get in the fucking giant robot.
She won’t tho’ – that’s why Amazi-Girl is piloting this morning.
Okay, so we can see that she had the yellow shirt on at the start of the party, before the hoodie went on. Amazi-Girl blue socks we can’t verify but it’s reasonable.
Dumbing of Age Book 15: Face Front and Suffer the Consequences of Your Own Actions
One of the most appropriate DoA titles ever.
Lets see, shes in Walkys bed, Walky is probably in Dorothy’s bed. Jacob might be in Lucy’s bed. Dina is probably in Becky’s bed. Dorothy is probably in her own bed tightly gripping Joe’s arm while he sleeps on the floor. And Sal is likely in Danny’s bed.
Damn I messed that up
Lets see, shes in Dorothy’s bed, Dorothy’s likely in Walky’s bed.. Jacob might be in Lucy’s bed. Dina is probably in Becky’s bed. Dorothy is probably in her own bed tightly gripping Joe’s arm while he sleeps on the floor. And Sal is likely in Danny’s bed.
Damn it I really wish we had a edit, this a complicated chain.
Amber’s in Dorothy’s Bed, Dorothy is probably in Walky’s Bed, Jacob might be in Lucy’s bed. Dina is probably in Becky’s bed, while Joyce is probably in her own bed tightly gripping Joe’s arm while he sleeps on the floor. While Sal is likely in Danny’s bed.
My bet would be that Becky and Dina are snuggling on that giant dino plush, not in any “Real” bed.
Maybe most if them aren’t in anyone’s beds and they woke up early and started a quick pickup game of basketball! IU probably has indoor sports facilities right? Yes, my theory is definitely plausible which means until further evidence that is exactly what happened.
Living on campus, a night of heavy drinking always meant getting up early and hitting the dining hall for heavy greasy omelets, bacon, sausage some toast, and a couple bagels with cream cheese and an apple hidden in a pocket for later
I’m thinking Willis had to diagram the whole chain out on paper. Who’s in whose bed? Maybe he used Transformers “action figures” as proxies. Everything on the dining room table. He laid it all out in war-room style.
Let’s see… I’m going with Joyce on Joe, Joe on the sex dinosaur, Becky and Dina in Amber’s bed, Amber in Dorothy’s bed, Dorothy and Walky in Becky’s bed, Ethan, Asher, and Booster in Ethan’s bed, Jacob and Lucy in Lucy’s bed, Jennifer in Sal’s bed (she tried for Ruth’s, but Jason closed the door in her face), Malaya about to drop Fuckface on Jennifer’s face, Sal and Danny in Danny’s bed, Ruth in Ruth’s bed, Jason on Ruth’s floor, and Sarah alone in her own bed, sleepless, alternately fuming about Jacob in Lucy’s bed and fretting about Joyce in Joe’s. And Mike in your mom’s bed.
Did I forget anybody?
Oh yeah, and Amazi-Girl in Amber’s head.
I’d question if there were any modesty concerns, but Amber had both Walky and Dorothy in her room when she and Dina were in their underwear, so I don’t think she especially cares if either of them see her like that.
Amazigirl be a Hero you want to be and save Amber from hangover
You seriously dropped that Evangelion reference in the ALT text? I ain’t even mad.
Oh my god I’m so glad i wasn’t the only one going OWAIT I RECOGNIZE THAT REFERENCE
I just finished watching it today!
I guess this means Amazi-girl has to get back in her Eva when the next angel attacks.
Next Slipshine incoming?
Tales of Sin-terest: The Hung-over Games
My theory: Amber got sexiled by Dina/Becky but was pretty much dead on her feet anyway, so Dorothy stuck her in her own dorm room to sleep and then went to stay in Walky’s dorm room.
Which means Booster is in the other bunk bed. If they got sexiled, at least.
Booster ended up with Sarah, because my scenario has until now been falling short of the shenanigans quota.
Reltzik, everything always falls short of your downright impossibly high shenanigans quota
Here is a question that hasn’t been asked yet…
Why is the Amazi-girl personality coming out now?
I mean, usually when Amazi-Girl appears, its a late night thing, or when someone is in danger. We know its after the party and she has been sleeping, but is it still really early in the morning (qualifying as ‘next day’ but still night)? Is it a random thing?
We know AG comes out when Amber is sleeping which is likely what she is still doing. AG is paying the price for being an early bird. Of course I’m not knowledgeable of DID we’ve just seen this a few times.
Amazi-girl also surfaces during more generally stressful situations. She’s also been popping up more casually as of late (she had a conversation with Amber a few hours ago).
Of the two of them, who’s more likely to deal with waking up with a hangover first?
Amber’s trying to avoid the consequences of her own actions. So it’s up to AG to deal with it. Unwillingly, of course. She is right to be irritated.
DID in fiction is always so ludicrous
This… isn’t, though? I have DID and this is honestly very relatable.
sure you do
Um, yes, actually, I do. Diagnosed by a DID specialist in 2020. I write articles educating about DID. And your knowledge source for DID is…?
As it so happened the lesbian horse dream header heralded this at least in my case
There’s no waaaay Walky, Amber and Dorothy had a threesome but I ship Walky and Amber so hard I’m gonna choose to believe that Walky, Amber and Dorothy had a threesome.
It’s canon.
You sure about that? XD
(69th comment BTW)
I’m sure, based on future comics, that Amber will be very involved with Walky and Dorothy.
Btw, the title of this storyline? Why, one of the best Queen songs (ft. Bowie) – Under Pressure. [Hacked Muzak be upon ye!]
‘Cause love’s such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
I was sweeping the comments to see if someone was going to point this out, because I figured someone needed to
Time to update the title song playlist.
NGL, if I were Amazi-girl I would not be happy I had to take someone else’s hangover either. If you’re gonna have your fun with our shared body, YOU can fucking well pay for it.
Why is the first strip of the storyline not giving me every possible answer for every possible question I could have, including this one? That’s bad writing.
Lol. I’m still waiting for the random switch to characters we don’t know and the story just picks up from there and we never see any of the main cast again except occasional background cameos.
Yeah, I can’t wait to see what Kyle, Mallory, Sock, Lex, The Casey, Denise, Vanessa, Michaela, and Brody are up to. It’s been like fourteen years, we can hit pause on the current cast for a couple chapters.
We’ll pick back up with the main, er, current cast, around Summer 2043.
Questionable Content is over there.
Yeah, but they’ve been at the same party for two years.
The crossover that we don’t deserve, but that we need.
There are many ways this could’ve happened, and I don’t know which ones are good, bad, or otherwise.
Hi everyone who didn’t do a delayed ragequit at the end of the last book.
If you meant to, but decided to keep reading, that’s ok too.
And if you’re brand new, 🤡🇺🇲👁️👄👁️🧨
I support someone coming in on this page, new to the strip, new to Willis’ work in general, neve doing any archive reading of past strips, and just seeing where we go from here.
Amber/Dotty is just the obvious fakeout to get us to lower our guards, the gay red herring. What *I* want to know is what bed is *Dotty* in, and also what bed is *Joyce* in, and some kinda Venn diagram providing further answers regarding Joe.
Dorothy is in Joyce’s bed, Joyce is in Joe’s bed, Walky is in Amber’s bed, Joe is in Booster’s bed, and Booster is taking pictures of his knees.
Okay guys, place your vote. What happened last night:
A: Walky/Dorothy/Amber 3 way
B: Given the amount of hook ups they put amber in Dorothy’s bed where it was dark a quiet as she was having a crisis and Dorothy spent the night with Walky in his room.
What I’m wanting to know is, if anyone got their fuck on, were any of the couples in the same room as another couple, and everyone just kinda did some parallel play without making it Weird?
Mmmaybe. My guess is that Dina and Becky stayed in Dinas room and started getting their mack on after Lucy left. Joyce and Joe separated out, Sarah went to cry on other Jacob’s…. shoulder. And Dorothy put Amber in her bed since the room would be empty and shacked up with Walky.
It looked like Amber was too intoxicated for anything. So I’m betting no Walky / Dorothy / Amber 3-way.
‘Sides, I’m saving my headcanon space for the Dorothy / Joe / Joyce 3-way. I don’t have much headspace, and the 3some is crowding out most other occupants.
Honestly if anyone actually had sex w/ Amber in her condition this has become a really dark story.
Amber-> Dorothy’s Bed.
Dorothy+Walky -> Sarah’s bed.
Joe+Joyce -> Joyce’s bed. Joe was explaining and critiquing Walky’s abilities.
Beck+Dina -> Amber’s bed.
Ethan+Asher -> Ethan’s room
Lucy+Jacob -> Lucy’s room
Jennifer -> went to have a word with Asher, he wasn’t there so she picked the lock and slept in his bed.
Booster -> in their own bed in their own room
Ruth -> peacefully asleep in own room. Trash chute is clogged again.
Sarah -> in the Beck common room, fell asleep talking to Arnold.
Who’s Arnold?
https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/arnold/
Ken’s roommate. They were shortpacked characters, here they’re in the room that shares Walky’s halfbath.
Kind of relieved that Lucy didn’t wind up with Ken this time. She deserves someone with a personality that doesn’t resemble watered down apple juice.
Who is Ken?
Zangief? Dhalsim? Balrog? T.Hawk?
Arnold’s less sexy roommate. Also works at Galasso’s with Lucy.
Who’s Lucy?
secret identity of Amazi-Girl II.
Thank you this is very handy
correct so far:
Amber,
Booster,
Lucy,
Jacob
incorrect:
Walky
Dorothy
Jennifer
So 57% chance of Sarah having fallen asleep talking to Arnold in the Beck common room.
well how many times did Aggie make Amber wake up with bruises, fair’s fair
Ok cue the 70’s porno music. I foresee a Dorothy/Walky/Amber Slipshine in the future
*seinfeld music*
Looks like someone need to learn to also drink water along with alcohol~
There’s only so much that water can do.
Also, it raises the question of Why AG would instantly recognise Dorothy’s bed.
They are neighbors through the half-bath, and we’ve seen A/AG socialize with Dorothy via those doors.
Hopefully, they left her glasses somewhere easy to find
The sticky notes and pushpinned notes that are stuck to the ceiling. All in perfect grid formation. And color-coordinated.
Absolutely love the name of this chapter.
Seems fairly easy. Becky and Dina were getting frisky and decided to boink, so as Amber passed out against Walky, he and Dorothy put her in Dorothy’s bed while Dotty herself slept in Walky’s bed with Walky.
Boring! Clearly Amber and Dorothy hooked up last night after Amber got blackout drunk. Dorothy dressed up as Mike and whispered Cap/Bucky fiction into Amber’s ear in order to get Amber in the mood.
Danny and Sal never stopped singing.
They’re still over there in Dina and Amber’s room, hoarsely croaking out the lyrics to basic pop songs while the blood from Danny’s fingers stains the strings and trickles down the neck of his ukulele.
I’d assume it wasn’t even that Becky and Dina were frisky, but that Amber was crashing early and the party was still going on in her room, so they helped her next door to Dorothy’s bed.
Does she recognize the cieling?
We last saw her with the orbiting squeans and now still with squeans. I’m not sure if she’s hungover or still a bit drunk.
Either way, oof.
You got a slipshine, but not the one you expected!
Being _alone_ in Dorothy’s bed.
So I wonder if we’re gonna see a montage of where everyone ends up this morning? Who’s in whose bed? (or on whose floor, or on whose dinosaur, etc)
Unlike Joyce, you’re in bed by yourself
You two were the sleepiest drunks in the party, though, so that counts for something.
JFC that is concerning.
Wally is the happiest man alive rn, threesome.
Will Ruth be held responsible for any failures of anti-contraceptive measure (taken and failed or not taken)?
The hell kinda question is that?
It’s the kind that can be easily answered!
No.
I’m trying to figure out how that would even work. What, is Ruth supposed to walk around, dispensing condoms and then collecting them afterward for evidence? Gotta write it down on her paperwork, her official IU forms, “Danny and Sal fucked, here’s the condom to prove it”?
In Germany, summer camp leaders and teachers on multi-day excursions have been held responsible for offspring created on their watch. So I wondered if RAs had the same problem.
triple negative.
“ceptive” -> get pregnant
contraceptive -> prevent pregnancy
anti-contraceptive -> get pregnant
anti-contraceptive failure -> prevent pregnancy.
Will Ruth be held responsible for lack of pregnancies? It’s Indiana, so maybe.
I don’t know enough about colleges RAs to say but I like to believe it’s not really their responsibility to ensure everyone they supervise have safe sex all the time. Outside of telling them to do that they would be little they could do to about it.
Ruth, diving in between two heaving pelvises, wearing a baseball mitt.
Oh geebs I sure hope there’s no pregnancy plot lmao
Unexpected advantage of being plural, have someone else front with the hang over. Unexpected disadvantage of being plural, fronting for someone else’s hang over
personally im rooting for the Dorothy/Walky/Amber/Amazigirl poly ship