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i think willis usually looks at irl pics/online sites of some casual clothing so you could probably find something similar like how one of carla’s dress was sorta based on a walmart one?
Nah, Sarah will run into someone who weaponizes toxic positivity and realize what a terrible idea it really is. Mary is a strong contender, but I also don’t rule out Raidah coming in off the top rope
Oh, wow, saying mean things but acting like you’re being nice about it isexactly what Raidah does, isn’t it? Yeah, that realisation is not goig to be pretty.
I think Sarah is doing it fully consciously and on purpose. Strangers tend to like Raidah better than her, and I bet Raidah has instructed her in this exact technique explicitly, so why not try it?
Raidah’s not even good at it. All she does is bring every conversation back to “And where does your money come from?” or “Don’t talk to Sarah”. It’s basically all she talks about, she’s pathetic.
the fact she desires to help disadvantaged youth with this mindset, seeing the way she treated Dina? UGH
she’s like an IRL Brian Griffin who desires to “help” in such ways to garner street cred among fellow affluent cliques which she can use to justify being toxic (-_-)
I mean if that is what it takes to be a lawyer, and act like thus then good for her, but she’ll probably piss off some people down the road who might have been able to help her.
As long as she doesn’t care about a relationship, or working along with someone, then I’m sure she’ll be fine, and this will never blow up in her face, right?
I would think she’s imitating joyce tho i would imagine more ppl having maybe a more ‘neutral’ face as opposed to bubbly/cheery looking versus secretly looking down on someone/openly laughing at how ‘dumb’ someone is
nothing wrong with trying out new things, since all this time she still hasn’t gotten a bf (not that you ‘need to’ of course but i assume at some point sarah would still want a quick fling even if it didn’t necessarily evolve into something potentially real like what she considered with jacob)
My great grandmother used to act condescending towards anyone who were assholes.
But she delivered it in the most “grandmotherly” way, and people would have no response except to just leave.
Luckily it worked out for her b/c depending on where you live even if you look and act sweet and elderly i wouldn’t put it past some ppl to slap someone although hopefully ppl would show up quick enough to arrest those kinda ppl lol
LOL speaking of enemies, I wonder how long she can keep up this ‘act’ with raidah, unless she ends up being so dumbfounded/speechless that sarah can say her piece and walk by without any kinda rebuttal/reaction
I have the horrible feeling that Sarah acting like this will make Raidah feel proud and validated because she taught her the technique, and see! It’s an improvement! Raidah enjoys her presence a lot more already!
When Sarah snaps out of… whatever this is, this is going to be the greatest, scariest, or wildest series of strips in DoA’s history. And considering what we’ve seen in the past, that’s saying a lot. I hate to be the person to receive that snap.
Yeah, I’m not sure how this will work out for Sarah, but it’s not unreasonable that Ruth gets a more edged response than others-especially when she invites it by explicitly mocking Sarah.
The fact that Sarah has weaponized part of the partly unfair criticisms people have had of her in her life? I can’t fault it. The problem comes when she thinks that’s the sum of those criticisms.
maybe it’ll be over in a couple arcs tho it would be quite the committment to the bit if he just made sarah act like this til the end of the comic’s run
It’s not going to take long for Sarah to figure out how to be her curmudgeonly self while maintaining this new, better facade. She may even relish the challenge.
Can someone please set Sarah straight, this is getting legitimately sad.
ALSO-did some of y’all ACTUALLY think this was a good change for her? Yeah, no, bottling up and lying about who you are isn’t the way to self improvement.
I’m confused why this is sad? Sarah was just smiling and minding her own business when Ruth stopped her to ask why she was happy. How is that not rude? Why is Sarah in the wrong for being sarcastically sweet to Ruth, who we just saw laugh in her face for trying to be positive?
I’m one of the people that thinks Sarah should keep trying to make herself happy. To me this isn’t her bottling up her emotions and lying about who she is. Even if she doesn’t believe the things she just said the alternative for her is being miserable. Ruth intruded on her space and instead of snapping at her Sarah took it in stride. I’m confused why that’s bad.
I don’t know about sad or bad, but for a lot of us her sarcastically sweet response here shows that she’s not actually trying to be positive or taking it in her stride.
She’s been trying it for like two hours. Maybe give her half a day to find some middle ground between hating everyone and everything and trying to love everything unreservedly.
Like if you realize an attitude you’ve had for years isn’t working for you, how do you usually go about changing it? I don’t think anyone does it without over-correcting.
I mean, she can still punch someone with a smile but i’m sure she can find other outlets and such, even tho she did admit to jacob that it was a bit draining on her but it’s good if she’s actually putting in an effort to change and grow/improve even if to us it just looks like she’s plastering on a fake smile and being like “customer service voice/tone” or so but i can see a part of her enjoying how ‘uncomfortable/weirded out’ the others are by her ‘personality change’
It kinda reminds me of that convo joyce and Billifer had, “I’m changed/i’m a diff person now” “yet no one is gonna let you forget who you were before” basically
What’s sad about this? She’s clearly not bottling up her emotions, just expressing them in a different way. Of the ways to react to someone with a position of power over you being INCREDIBLY rude and demeaning, this is probably the best it gets.
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honestly i think the other ppl would be more traumatized by ruth unless she can hold it in lol but i can imagine ppl hiring Ruth-like ppl to deal with customer service specificlaly
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2016: ... climate change! and fascism
2020: ... climate change!! and fascism and pandemics
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really not enjoying the direction this is going to be quite honest
yesterday i tried an "apple jack latte" at a local coffee place, seemed like an okay flavor to try, like, woo, brown cinnamon, whatever
but they put actual apple jack cereal on top of it
do you know what you're drinking now
soggy cheerios
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I too want what Sarah has. That jacket.
A friend like Joyce
A friend like other Jacob?
i think willis usually looks at irl pics/online sites of some casual clothing so you could probably find something similar like how one of carla’s dress was sorta based on a walmart one?
Keep an eye on what the mannequins at Target are wearing. Chances are you’ll see somebody in DoA wearing the same outfit in a year or so.
Willis may have posted a pic of that jacket exactly. A lot of DofA characters shop at Target.
https://twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/1855275591139733768?t=VVHJ2hJh1nF_Oz4erKx6kQ&s=19
Yo! Is that also Jocey’s fit too! She kinda had that shit on, not gonna lie.
yes i drew both their new character models that day
Oh boy, this won’t end well,,will it?
…. Sarah gonna go full Joker ain’t she 0-0
Nah, Sarah will run into someone who weaponizes toxic positivity and realize what a terrible idea it really is. Mary is a strong contender, but I also don’t rule out Raidah coming in off the top rope
Oh, wow, saying mean things but acting like you’re being nice about it isexactly what Raidah does, isn’t it? Yeah, that realisation is not goig to be pretty.
I think Sarah is doing it fully consciously and on purpose. Strangers tend to like Raidah better than her, and I bet Raidah has instructed her in this exact technique explicitly, so why not try it?
Raidah’s not even good at it. All she does is bring every conversation back to “And where does your money come from?” or “Don’t talk to Sarah”. It’s basically all she talks about, she’s pathetic.
Yeah. Raidah likes to think she’s some 4D chess player navigating this board game called life, when she’s really just a narcissist.
the fact she desires to help disadvantaged youth with this mindset, seeing the way she treated Dina? UGH
she’s like an IRL Brian Griffin who desires to “help” in such ways to garner street cred among fellow affluent cliques which she can use to justify being toxic (-_-)
basically this
I REALLY wanna see Sarah pull a KNOCK KNOCK on Mary >:D
she’s gonna be a great lawyer
That seems plausible.
I mean if that is what it takes to be a lawyer, and act like thus then good for her, but she’ll probably piss off some people down the road who might have been able to help her.
As long as she doesn’t care about a relationship, or working along with someone, then I’m sure she’ll be fine, and this will never blow up in her face, right?
Or maybe just some really potent edibles.
I mean I doubt it, given the risk that would entail for her is literally one of the biggest reasons she called Dana’s parents.
Honestly this just makes Sarah come off as passive aggressive more than anything
Passive aggression is appropriate when talking to rude authority figures.
Passive aggressive is always appropriate. It just has a cost.
I would think she’s imitating joyce tho i would imagine more ppl having maybe a more ‘neutral’ face as opposed to bubbly/cheery looking versus secretly looking down on someone/openly laughing at how ‘dumb’ someone is
Plausible deniability, why the president wasn’t told about Area 51 in Independence Day.
I thought he wasn’t told so as to contrive a justification for a bunch of info-dumped exposition.
It can be two things.
Sarah, that is NOT the important thing, and this really won’t get you anywhere.
nothing wrong with trying out new things, since all this time she still hasn’t gotten a bf (not that you ‘need to’ of course but i assume at some point sarah would still want a quick fling even if it didn’t necessarily evolve into something potentially real like what she considered with jacob)
You’d be surprised.
Or maybe horrified.
It’ll take you a long, long way in some really important areas.
Unfortunately.
Yup. This is how Sarah achieves Dorothy’s former dream!
My great grandmother used to act condescending towards anyone who were assholes.
But she delivered it in the most “grandmotherly” way, and people would have no response except to just leave.
“Bless your heart.”
Yep, that was one of her ways to start in on someone; that, or “Oh deaie.”
Dearie*
Luckily it worked out for her b/c depending on where you live even if you look and act sweet and elderly i wouldn’t put it past some ppl to slap someone although hopefully ppl would show up quick enough to arrest those kinda ppl lol
Love characters that learn the wrong lesson (this is applies to both of them)
“nothing prepares you for life better than being stupid over and over again” XD
*points out title of comic*
You know you’re an Utena fan when the first thought in reaction to this is “So innocently cruel…”
Perfectly fiting
So is sarah gonna turn into a car at some point? 8D; (never saw rgu, just know stuff from osmosis/second hand knowledge)
Sincerity.
If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
To see your enemies driven before you, and some time later squint and go “… hey.”
That is fantastic. Thanks for the laugh.
To hear the lamentations of their mothers. For a nickel.
I mean, who doesn’t love a laminated mother?
I might find the process entertaining, but I’m still not going to love her.
LOL speaking of enemies, I wonder how long she can keep up this ‘act’ with raidah, unless she ends up being so dumbfounded/speechless that sarah can say her piece and walk by without any kinda rebuttal/reaction
I have the horrible feeling that Sarah acting like this will make Raidah feel proud and validated because she taught her the technique, and see! It’s an improvement! Raidah enjoys her presence a lot more already!
idk if raidah ever particularly gave her ‘advice’ to act this fake-chipper versus dismissing her ‘concerns’ about dana’s weed problem
When Sarah snaps out of… whatever this is, this is going to be the greatest, scariest, or wildest series of strips in DoA’s history. And considering what we’ve seen in the past, that’s saying a lot. I hate to be the person to receive that snap.
I choose to believe she named the baseball bat Snap.
Crackle and Pop are your kneecaps.
Does she still have her baseball bat?
LOL well, hopefully it’ll be someone who deserves it. or i can imagine it being walky since he’d be one of the ppl who’d purposefully provoke her
Something something “and suck a billion dicks.”
It’s spreading, oh no.
Dunno how hard it would be for ruth to ‘fake’ a smile/cheerfulness versus being in glee while other ppl are miserable/schadenfreude/etc
There is a very fine line between polite fiction and sarcasm, and that line is now owned by Sarah.
I will also say that I don’t hate Sarah’s flippant attitude here. She’s perfectly reflecting Ruth’s cynical attitude but with a smile.
Yeah, I’m not sure how this will work out for Sarah, but it’s not unreasonable that Ruth gets a more edged response than others-especially when she invites it by explicitly mocking Sarah.
The fact that Sarah has weaponized part of the partly unfair criticisms people have had of her in her life? I can’t fault it. The problem comes when she thinks that’s the sum of those criticisms.
at the risk of being optimistic, I think Sarah could find some healthy middle ground in the realm of “Garak Sass”
Oh, I see it now! Sarah has effectively just become Minnesotan. Nice!
I do not like this new Sarah
maybe it’ll be over in a couple arcs tho it would be quite the committment to the bit if he just made sarah act like this til the end of the comic’s run
I do, and I honestly hope this is a permanent thing now, like Joyce’s glasses. Sarah is going to kill people and I will clap to every gunshot
That’s a shame, I liked her honesty.
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I like this new Sarah.
I like burgers.
yee, I love burgers with caramelized onion, mustard and salsa roja :9
Ew onion lover, guard take them to the dungeon for a 100 years!
It’s not going to take long for Sarah to figure out how to be her curmudgeonly self while maintaining this new, better facade. She may even relish the challenge.
Fake it til you make it!
You know, I can see the appeal now. Stabbing your enemies with a smile is not progress, but it can be cathartic.
Not sustainable, mind.
Seems about the time for Sarah’s old roommate to return.
Can someone please set Sarah straight, this is getting legitimately sad.
ALSO-did some of y’all ACTUALLY think this was a good change for her? Yeah, no, bottling up and lying about who you are isn’t the way to self improvement.
Yeah, there were a couple people I think.
I’m confused why this is sad? Sarah was just smiling and minding her own business when Ruth stopped her to ask why she was happy. How is that not rude? Why is Sarah in the wrong for being sarcastically sweet to Ruth, who we just saw laugh in her face for trying to be positive?
I’m one of the people that thinks Sarah should keep trying to make herself happy. To me this isn’t her bottling up her emotions and lying about who she is. Even if she doesn’t believe the things she just said the alternative for her is being miserable. Ruth intruded on her space and instead of snapping at her Sarah took it in stride. I’m confused why that’s bad.
I don’t know about sad or bad, but for a lot of us her sarcastically sweet response here shows that she’s not actually trying to be positive or taking it in her stride.
I argue she isn’t making herself happy here. Just seem it will lead to a different kind of misery.
She’s been trying it for like two hours. Maybe give her half a day to find some middle ground between hating everyone and everything and trying to love everything unreservedly.
Like if you realize an attitude you’ve had for years isn’t working for you, how do you usually go about changing it? I don’t think anyone does it without over-correcting.
It’s been a day actually I think.
I mean, she can still punch someone with a smile but i’m sure she can find other outlets and such, even tho she did admit to jacob that it was a bit draining on her but it’s good if she’s actually putting in an effort to change and grow/improve even if to us it just looks like she’s plastering on a fake smile and being like “customer service voice/tone” or so but i can see a part of her enjoying how ‘uncomfortable/weirded out’ the others are by her ‘personality change’
It kinda reminds me of that convo joyce and Billifer had, “I’m changed/i’m a diff person now” “yet no one is gonna let you forget who you were before” basically
Yeah, but it’s not really effort to change/grow/improve if she is just plastering on the fake smile, right?
What’s sad about this? She’s clearly not bottling up her emotions, just expressing them in a different way. Of the ways to react to someone with a position of power over you being INCREDIBLY rude and demeaning, this is probably the best it gets.
Sarah, watch as few episodes of DS9 with Kai Wynn. That will cure you of smiling while full of ill intent
I had a Dina magnet on my car for years. Last month, my car broke down and I had to get a new one. I still have the Dina magnet from it, but it had gotten super faded, so I bought a new Dina magnet to go with my new car. It arrived today, and my car is once again Dina-fied. And I got a bonus Becky magnet with it!
You want what she has? Go work retail for a day.
honestly i think the other ppl would be more traumatized by ruth unless she can hold it in lol but i can imagine ppl hiring Ruth-like ppl to deal with customer service specificlaly
Ruth would be perfect for escalating problem customers to
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