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Better open up another button.
What about…. TWO buttons?!
Seriously we need Jennifer in here, stat. She’s the only one who can style a sweater vest in a seductive way.
I’m sure Becky has a BANGING sweater vest somewhere…
I don’t think anyone should be wearing Becky’s banging sweater vest, at least not until she’s done a laundry run
Sal could manage it without even trying.
…in fact i think she has.
As a dude who gets seriously flustered by women in sweaters, cardigans, and – yes – sweater vests, they can absolutely be made sexy. And it’s all about how they’re worn and the attitude of the wearer.
It’s funny that people act like you can’t be sexy while wearing an article of clothing that unbuttons, as if that’s not a classic way to show some extra cleavage.
Plus, I think it might just be me, but you can make the act of unbuttoning something very erotic/sexy. From slowly taking your time and building up anticipation to just ripping the buttons/clothing apart in sexy horny rage/desperation move. I don’t know, but I feel like you CAN get creative with a sweater vest.
Whoa thats Slipshine territory! :O
Okay, calm down there Frank Miller.
Gazebo? XD
o I knew it. sex gazebo. didn’t even have the 1 day peek.
Baluga
Macadamia?
Mukluk!
Better get to it before the Knights of the Dinner Table do.
oh? what do they do? do they at least make good pizza?
TKotDT are from classic comic by the same name about a group playing an RPG. See also: Nodwick.
YOU HAVE AROUSED THE GAZEBO!
The gazebo takes no damage from your desperate attacks as it opens its jagganath maw and consumes your entire party in a single gulp!
Crossbow bolts don’t hurt it. Fireballs don’t hurt it! :O
Logically, a fireball *should* hurt most gazembos: a lot of them are made of wood.
I don’t think they’ll show up. They’re afraid of that deadly thing!
i mean some gazebos look nice but they aren’t rly all that big, i’d rather chill on a swing porch but i guess fancy gazebos could be a thing lol
“I use my sword to detect good on it”
Reminds me of the great gazebo battle in D&D. I couldn’t do it justice paraphrasing, Google it.
The link->https://youtu.be/nLop9wYFOfc?si=tZ21W2R6oarDQmSc
Gazebos are a staple of the Hallmark Christmas movie script, because they’re
easy to redress into different settings if you shoot them at different anglesromantic.Shooting gazebos? Why would you go around shooting gazebos? What did they ever do to you? :O
“Friends? We aren’t friends. We are an angel and a demon.”
AAAHHHH YES! The gazebo!
This is so cute I’m gonna cry
100% bawling.
These two deserve a little actual of-age-ing and the happiness that comes from it.
Same! I am so happy for these two and wish nothing but happiness for them
I’m having trouble diagramming a sentence that contains both “sexy” and “sweater-vest” without irony.
That is why Joyce is superior to us.
I’m having trouble understanding how that many sweatervests can fit in one shared dorm room closet with limited space.
With the power of triangle smiles anything is possible.
Whenever Joyce doesn’t have teeth lines in her triangle smile it’s a 50/50 on whether it’s Willis’s artistic style or it’s actually a featureless void in which she keeps a near-infinite supply of sweatervests.
You just gotta get creative all spare space can be converted to sweatervest storage.
Under sink? Sweatervests
Curtains? sweatervests
Pillow case? It’s a sweatervest
The pillow itself? sweatervests!!
Just gettin’ started. In the desk drawers? Sweatervests. Bed blankets? Sweatervests. The _mattress_ itself? Sweatervests.
probably vacuum packed :p
You kidding? It’s like the holy grial of Winter Hot Nerd. Leslie already demonstrated it like 8 years ago: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-7/01-glower-vacuum/cleavaging/
I had forgotten that. Thank you for your public service.
Yeah, Joyce could do that look.
“Joyce is wearing a sweatervest and nothing else.”
You’re welcome.
comfiness AND newfound confidence of jocyes can be sexy tho lol
for the male equivalent ij ust picture Chidi from tgp
Hint: try an interrogative clause.
I mean, if the end goal here is just to construct a sentence using those words while avoiding irony…
Damn, forgot the slash closing my A-tag.
Velma Dinkley
Okay, and we are s back.
Aww! I was expecting this to go in a sexy direction, and instead it went all sweet!
With the promise of future sexiness.
black black black black
despite everything, somehow, I’m just grateful that I called the book title.
They’re SO cute.
Let’s see, any gazebos in Bloomington… oh! There’s one in Cox Arboretum!
These two are gonna be the dead of me.
I legit old-school squeed irl
They’re both doing great.
Joe being determined to demonstrate to Joyce, himself and all and/or sundry that his feelings for Joyce and not exclusively boner feelings is pretty g-o-s-h d-a-n-g sweet.
ARE, not and. Consarn it to perdition.
ESL as I am, a well aimed minced oath feels stronger than run-of-the-mill cursing in some situations, and omg I’m enjoying these ones
I dunno, those Gazebos can be vicious, especially the Dire Gazebos.
A fellow intellectual I see.
I am familiar with the tale of Eric and the Dread Gazebo, but I must admit ignorance of Dire Gazebos.
“Dire animals are larger, tougher, meaner versions of ordinary animals. Each kind tends to have a feral, prehistoric, or even demonic appearance.”
But the new dire wolf is so widdle and fluffy.
Give it time.
And steak. Widdle diredoggy needs big hunks of meat to get big and strong.
You didn’t hear _that_ tale because there were no survivors. Complete TPK. Bob, Brian, David, and Sara never saw it coming.
One time, in the wilds of Virginia, I had a random encounter with a wandering gazebo.
Whoa! So _that’s_ how they move around! I thought they were sedentary predators, like the dreaded dire mussel! :O
Cut to Joyce showing up in the memetic “Virgin Killer” sweater dress.
Surely–*surely* somebody has drawn this at some point in this comic’s runtime, right?
I’ve noticed that the rule 34 for Dumbing of Age is, bluntly, really bizarre and scarce.
My kingdom for a Yotomoe
What, you don’t like sifting through miles of crappy inflation to find something remotely palatable?
That’s pretty much every fandom’s Rule 34, isn’t it? I’m convinced there’s one guy out there who doesn’t have any specific fandom except “every lady must be able to serve as a life raft for an entire cruise liner, at need, and I WILL DRAW HER.”
This is the only one I’ve seen with more than like 10% bike pump degeneracy. Even Kingdom Hearts doesn’t get treated so poorly.
Which Rule 34 archive are you perusing? 34xxx and Paheal have plenty of Joyce. (no Virgin Killer Joyce, though).
I did find a Joyce picture wearing
onlya sweatervest. And it seemed to be a Willis drawing. Or a tracing of a Willis drawing.Yeah, somebody’s misbehaving and abusing their privileges. It’s kinda rude, honestly.
Not a _lot_ of need for Rule 34 DoA stuff out there, since Willis provides plenty.
if you’re into inflation, rule 34’s got you covered, though
I did not know about this thing. I had to look it up. Now I know about this thing. I have regrets. :O
I don’t know what you were expecting
you can say that again XD
I don’t know if it’d contain her very well.
Ain’t that the point of those tho
You make a good point. Where do I sign?
I would pay double prices for that to show up on Patreon.
“As God is my witness” is a very interesting choice of phrase to use on his somewhat freshly atheist girlfriend, ha.
A Gazebo ATTACK IT!
Hopefully people will get the reference. If not Dragon Magazine KODT
It ignores your crossbow bolt. It ignores your _fireball_. :O
Joe Channeling fred flintstone hard in that second panel I am here for this.
Dumbing of Age in the Hannah-Barbera style
So which vaudeville star will Fuckface emulate, and what kind of hat will he wear?
Harpo Marx and none.
Fuckface usually is the hat.
:O Thanks I hates it!
They are SO cute! Good plan!
To absolutely date this comic what is the sexiest movie premiering in April 2025? The Minecraft Movie? Are Joe and Joyce possibly fucking for the first time after watching the Minecraft Movie?
There’s too many kids in the Minecraft movie for it to be sexy. Maybe a movie with robots will be released.
Reruns exists. I assume. I don’t go to movie theaters.
I saw Batman (1989) at the Stifel in St. Louis, this past weekend, if that counts as a rerun. Their Symphony Orchestra covered the entire score live while the movie played, it was phenomenal. Bit of a drive from Indiana, though.
I mean, this arc is still taking place mid-January. What was out then?
Ice and snow, mainly.
I choose to believe they are seeing Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
Hmm. On one hand, that movie lacks the squad of topless undercover beefybois playing volleyball on the beach. On the other hand, it’s got Jim Carrey dancing in a laser hallway twice at the same time with “Galvanize” playing over it, plus a sick robot fight in space with “Live & Learn” playing. And if you can’t fuck to Crush 40 and Chemical Brothers, what can you fuck to?
That’s the one where Sonic weeps and prostrates himself before a cross, right?
No, it’s the one where Sonic weeps and stimulates his prostate with a cross. I think that was referenced in Matthew 5:13.
Oh, so the other kind of Sonic art, then.
Pride and prejudice is in theaters for the 20th anniversary. I’m taking my husband on the 18th. He loves Jane Austen.
Companion. Came out January 2025. S.F. and horror; total conversation piece for sexy times.
They will be going to a nice independent theater to watch something plausibly timeless.
“it will be about feelings” th-the gazebo will be about feelings?
or is he talking about the midnight walk?
Try to figure it out using context clues. You can do it.
I don’t like Derek personally but that si a pretty bad attitude, something people “like me) have a genuinely hard time figuring stuff like context clues sometimes even if you can some other times. If I can a similar question because I didn’t get something I appreciate someone explaining it to me instead of just saying “figure it out on your own”.
An encouraging attitude is fine.
No offense but you didn’t sound encouraging, you sounded condescending. Maybe that wasn’t your intention but it is how it can come across.
It’s healthier for the body when we believe in others.
It is a not a matter of belief, if it was I could had dismissed Dereck as being obtuse on purpose because I don’t like them. I do like you and so I like to believe you meaned well but I can’t read your mind. Just, keep what I said in mind for the future at least okay?
I am ungovernable and accountable to no higher power. The celestial dust comprising my psyche has evaded conventional understanding for decades, so I can’t blame you for not reading my mind. I’m saying it’s best to assume others are being nice if it’s possible, regardless of whether we like them. Personally, I’m less and less interested in whether people online “like” me and more interested in what they like doing. A lot of commenters here seem to like scolding others for insignificant trifles that won’t even be remembered the next day, but maybe they’ll remember something nice that was said to them.
It makes me sad you think that way but I guess nothing it’s to be done.
It makes you sad that I’m trying to have a positive outlook and assume the best of people? That’s very strange. I just don’t have room in myself for all the negativity and social paranoia, these days. It’s just not important or useful to me anymore.
I don’t know why any of that of that has to do with anything else. I don’t understand you. I was just trying to be helpful, make someone be a little more considerate and now I just fell bad. It is confusing and upsetting.
My advice is, don’t sweat it too much. Misunderstandings happen, we’ve all made ’em and we’ll all make ’em again. If it helps any, I won’t remember this interaction tomorrow because it’s not music-related. Treat yourself to some Eurobeat Disney, to help you not dwell on it either.
The date in general, that is implied with everything else.
The sex in the gazebo will be about feelings.
Gazebo feelings. Feelings you can only have in a gazebo. Gazeelings.
Gaze(bo) into each other’s eyes.
Lovemaking and getting-railed. Two great tastes that taste great together.
He’s gonna get his cockolate mixed into her V-nut butter.
Okay, I’m actually sorry about this one.
I am forced to applaud it.
I have regrets.
But I still applaud it.
The sexiest sweatervest shall be the thinnest sweatervest with nothing underneath… I shall research all the suggestive anime with maids wearing naught but an apron!!
And at least one size to small.
There is a genre that is specifically about women (and some men in yaoi) wearing nothing but an apron, called (naturally) Naked Apron. It was a way to get around Japanese censorship regulations.
So later in the day Joyce is going to ask Dorothy to come to her room to help her to find out which of her sweatervests is the sexiest
“Joyce, are you doing this on purpose?”
“You are gonna kill me girl”.
“Why not? you already planned what I’m doing to him :(“
Joyce’s sexiest sweatervest is the one she borrowed from Dorothy and never returned.
She’s gonna return it and won’t notice it smells like sex, and she won’t get why Dorothy’s entire body suddenly turns #FF0000 red.
you monster
I’m trying to get into the Willis mindset, so I can program an evil robot to write comics like this one.
“The… sweatervexiest!”
But turns out Dorothy already has a presentation that covers that. Slides 7-12 specifically.
Please
new sentences are all around us every day
sentences which have never before existed in the history of mankind.
Joyce would be a murderer if she wore a babydoll nightie under a sweater vest.
*looks that up*
….Yes, yes yes please
Sweatervests kinda seem like the opposite of sexy to me. Maybe there’s a way to wear a sweatervest and make it look sexy, but I’ve yet to see it.
Never doubt the power of Joyce.
Also failure of imagination. How is it cut and what are you actually wearing under it. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0293/9277/files/01-02-25_S2_62_79635Y_Black_KJ_AP_15-22-36_45808_PXF.jpg
That’s similar to the Rule 34 of Joyce wearing just a sweatervest, except the picture had the sweatervest unbuttoned. And my gosh-danged spellcheck lacks sweatervest in the dictionary.
You make a good point, although most people normally wear a shirt underneath the sweatervest.
I mean, if it’s not your thing, then it’s not your thing.
I will say that I’m into it, though.
Ahhhhhh these two are so damn cute I can’t!!!! I love that they’re actually giving it an honest shot and succeeding. I hope they’re end-game honestly.
The dress Billie picked out for Joyce, without the leggings and things Joyce added. Joe might explode.
“sexiest sweatervest” is an oxymoron
Yeah, like “breathable air” or “rolling wheel” or “competent expert”.
There is no limit to humanity’s capacity for turn-ons. Someone, SOMEWHERE will find sweater vests sexy. It’s a mathematical certainty, albeit one that has not yet been empirically confirmed.
As I reported upthread there was a picture of Joyce clad only in a sweatervest in Rule 34.
This is god damn adorable.
Awww, this is very sweet.
Is this a D&D gazebo joke or a P&P gazebo joke? Or maybe both?
Needs an obscure reference to the “Naming Gazebo” episode of “Daria.”
… calling “rose well house” right now.
She should wear the dress from their first date. Throw it back. Maybe even dig up Mike so he can chaperone again.
Mike will come back to life if he can punch Joe in the face again.
Amber can come along so her head-Mike can chaperone.
.. or Booster, as they are his replacement.
Well, I have looked up sweater vest. It appears to be a sleeveless woollen pullover, or maybe buttoned down the front. Does this mean that vest means waistcoat in the USA? Where I grew up a vest is underwear. Not particularly sexy underwear, but underwear, in and of itself, is likely to be sexy.
Traversing this comic is very educational!
Vest in general does mean waistcoat in the US and Canada.
A sweater vest is, as you say, a sleeveless woolen jumper or sleeveless cardigan. Worn over the blouse.
See pretty much any Joyce indoors.
Joyce’s Slipshine debut incoming? (unless he’s had one already that I can’t remember at the moment of typing)
Dumbing of Age Book 15: I WILL WEAR MY SEXIEST SWEATERVEST!
Alternatively,
Dumbing of Age Book 15: With God as my Witness, I Will Find Us a Gazebo!
Oh my god they’re ADORABLE.
(But where is Joe going to find a gazebo in this economy?)
It’s as the prophecy (and future patreon, tumbler, et al) foretold.
Joyce getting plowed will be so good for them both. They really do love each other so much and I’m happy that Joe understands how to romance her and she understands she wants to be romanced and they’re handling this so cutely.
That jaw in the second panel, he is charging his Manly Energy. He’ll BUILD her a Gazebo if he has to.
Dumbing of Age, Volume 14: I Will Determine My Sexiest Sweatervest
This is very sweet. But the more I see it, the more I wonder what will happen when Dorothy tells Joyce that she has come to understand her real feelings for her. I fear that a choice will be made.
I’m pretty sure Joyce already made that choice once in her life with Becky, in all honesty.
And here come 50 references to the KotDT and their disastrous (if not epic) encounter with the dreaded gazebo!
On one hand Joe is being adorable. On the other hand it’s kind of painful how much they’re missing the mark with each other in terms of desires and intents.
Like it’s great that he wants to prove that it’s about more than just sex… but doing that by constantly swerving when she *tries* to dip her toes into the sexual side is not the way.
Does it seem like that to you? I think they’re just trying to balance this between their respective strengths. Joyce knows The Romance™, Joe knows The Fucking™, and both are learning the other’s strength in real time, for their respective first times. “I wanna fuck.” “Okay, let’s make it a romantic evening first.” It’s all very tidy.
The “EEE!” makes me think she might be into it.
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That’s why he also add that they talk about sexual fellings tho.
I think they do need to have that conversation. Joyce has certainly hinted enough at being ready for sex, but she hasn’t actually come out and said it. And Joe has to have that encounter with Liz running through his mind, who went from a far more explicit request to “I almost ruined myself” in a matter of minutes.
Wondering whether Joyce is as ready as she seems to be is a valid concern.
Okay? Literally nothing I said contradict that.
So why assume thejeff was trying to disagree with you?
By the way they phrased it as it is a argumenting something I said.
Because otherwise it seems unrelated as a reply to my comment.
It might help to not enter discussions with a combative mindset. If we assume someone is going to disagree with us because they responded, it becomes difficult to read their response as anything but a disagreement. Sometimes we simply build on what others have said, and nobody’s arguing against anybody.
This comment section has made generally think that people do want to argue in a combative manner ecause it happens all the time. Sorry, it just how it is for me.
I mean, at this point it might just be your own mindset. Further up, you were responding to explicit positivity like it was the first time you’d ever experienced it, when people chat and joke here on the daily. There’s a lot of talk on this site about what’s healthy or not healthy (to an outright obsessive degree), but nobody talks about how unhealthy it is to constantly be ripping each other’s throats out with our teeth over minor syntax errors and ambiguities. If somebody says something and we’re not sure which way it’s balanced, it’s our personal responsibility to ask for clarification, not to instantly assume the worst and lash out. The former is good communication, the latter is worthless aggression.
Sometimes people are “yes, and”-ing you. In this case, it would be to them talking about sexual feelings, like you mentioned. The phrasing really doesn’t seem argumentative to me; I could see how it could be with a few changes, but… that would be changing it.
Sorry I just have no way to know when someone is doing that or not, I can only rely on my perception of things unless given additional context.
“I have no way to know”
You could ask.
As others said, it was meant as a “yes and”.
Perils of text communication. I try to make that more clear, but I don’t always think to.
1 a gazebo in Indiana in winter? Nice thought but a bad plan.
2. A sweatervest is just a corset made of yarn.
2 – The Joyce’s idea is Joe warms her.
My urge to google “sexy sweater-vest” is palpable.
I truly think this ends with Joe unable to get it up and Joyce being very hurt (for the moment).
He’s so nervous about hurting her, and so unused to meaningful sex, he’s going to be in her head. And her confidence in herself as a sexual being (or just as attractive) is so precarious.
Recipe for (momentary) disaster.
Oh hey we’re coming full circle
This is so cute between them
I get the feeling that they are not going to fuck, because they will both have some hangups. Not Joyce particularly, but Joe. Probably because he legitimately likes Joyce and I feel like the incident with Liz might have affected him somehow.
And blow the Slipshine revenue? No way.
Well, they will eventually, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see it get teased awhile longer.
If it’s this sweater vest, she just wore it Tuesday (this is Friday).
wait, I found it, Hot D. It’s also the first sweater vest she’s wearing in Dorothy’s dream.
I don’t know if that counts as a sweatervest, but hell yes
I fucking love these kids, I hope they marry and always remain together