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Are both sarah and dorothy not allowed to be happy at the same time? Is that how this works?
Sarah’s happiness being inverse to the happiness of others is canonically a Comedic Law of the Dumbiverse.
So, not necessarily Dorothy, but SOMEONE has to be going through it in order for Sarah to have a good time.
I wonder if there’s something similar governing Daisy’s ability to get laid. Or is her lack of sexytimes just a universal constant?
Like the “speed of laid”, or something?
I like to think that Daisy’s constantly getting it on with a long line of lady suitors. She’s just _that_ horny that she comes across as a desert dweller.
I was rooting for Daisy/Alice for a long time because I figured the only way Daisy notched a romantic win is if someone else was taking a massive loss like “boss’s new girlfriend is your ex who hates you”
Now that Alice and Jennifer are on good terms again I don’t think that balance shakes out in Daisy’s favour anymore though
Luckily there never seems to be a shortage of characters going through it so Sarah should be able to enjoy some happiness for a while.
Can you imagine how peeved Dina would be if she suspected the truth of the laws of her universe?
“Good news! God is an atheist!”
This made me inordinately happy.
Not going to lie, I gigglesnorted.
Kinda like the unofficial rule at Marvel that if Spider-Man’s life gets better, Daredevil’s has to be worse, and vice versa.
They’re allowed to be unhappy at the same time.
Oh.
OH!
D’awwwwwww! I assume things happened aside from sleeping, but he’s obviously serious about her. I am giddy over this for them.
aaaaaaawwwwweeeee ^o^
yep, hot coffee makes for a perfect Friday morning, Sarah likes hers strong!!! <3
*plays “No Joke!” from Steinz Gate Soundtrack CD on hacked alarm clock*
Oh no, not Steinz Gate. I promised a friend I would finish that in middle school, and I still haven’t gotten around to it. I feel somewhat guilty about that. However, now that you have reminded me, I hope I can finally get around to fulfilling that particular promise.
Brace yourself, it’s a time travel plot which can get real hard to follow and also the main characters can get kind of edgey
Is basically the show Rick and Morty WISHES it could be
Me? I just love the music XD
hell yeah, Steins;Gate
We love a short king big spoon.
This feeling is the best. When you can just be yourself and they can be the self and it’s easy. I didn’t get much sleep the last time I slept like this but I’ve been running on the feeling for three weeks now. Like, yeah, just let it be and it’s all fine.
When does the buffoonery kick in?
Once the people who have normal sleep schedules start waking up, I think.
Too early for buffoons. They need lots of sleep.
He’ll see her later.
Some time after practice. Or during.
“suddenly~ life has a new meaning, to meeeee~ there’s beauty up above, and things we’ve never taken notice of-“
You wake up and suddenly, you’re in… like? Fondness with a side of lust?
I’m hoping this is a TFS reference; Cell’s singing during his saga is the best part.
This is “Suddenly” by Billy Ocean (a favorite at weddings, BTW).
Cell sang “My Way” by Frank Sinatra.
Cell also sings “suddenly” when Gohan kills the cell Jr.
I know because this is a never ending comic that Sarah’s eventually going to fuck this up for drama, but sincerely, she kinda needs a break and to enjoy being in a functional relationship where she doesn’t have to make any difficult moral choices, where she doesn’t need to feel liek the mentor, where she doesn’t have to avoid anyone due to their toxicity, where she doesn’t have to put up with manchildren.
Actually, I can see Tony fucking this up because he hates buffoonery, and all of Sarah’s friends are buffoons.
So I can see a moment where Tony hits her with the “Sarah, you’re better then this, you don’t need these kind of clowns in your life.” And Sarah being all “My friends *are* my life. And also clowns.”
I don’t THINK Tony has shown he’d pull the ultimatum card though. So it could be fine.
But he also seems to value people being real, so maybe he can handle authentic buffoons.
Sarah’s friends aren’t the “actively going out of their way to intentionally harm others” kind of buffoons, so maybe he’ll put up with their antics.
I don’t think Tony rolls like that.
Tho he is friends with Biff who is the least buffoon person on campus so who knows.
He was already shown to be annoyed by Walky so that’s something he and Sarah can bond on.
Honestly, Sarah being in a fulfilling romantic relationship and becoming more genuine with her emotions would be new territory for her, so I think this could stay narratively interesting
Raidah is going to try destroying this and honestly I’ll be pissed if she succeeds. I’m okay with this fizzling out because young relationships often hit the “actually we don’t want the same things in life and that’s okay”, but I would like for it not to be some huge drama. I agree with Envy that Sarah being in a positive romantic relationship is territory that has plenty of space to be narratively interesting.
I’m having a hard time coming up with a situation where Raidah has any leverage, since (as discussed by GholaHalleck) Tony hates buffoonery, and Raidah is a world champion at her specific style of buffoonery.
(also, nice name. =P)
she can try, but fucking with the dean’s son might be worse for her plans then fucking over Sarah.
I *do* think that Sarah standing up for her doofs would probably earn Tony’s respect for them, and even more for her, for standing up for them.
(Also thanks Z, in case you see this.)
It’s interesting to me that they’ve been together for like 5 minutes and we’re already wondering how this will be ruined. Other couples have been together and happy for longer. Becky and Dina, Sal and Danny. Why do we think Sarah and Tony will naturally ruin a good thing? Couple stability and functionality has been about 50/50 so far and most of the failed ones involved Walky.
Mostly because Sarah’s default state is frowning.
Becky has the whole “mask of wackiness” but in standard contexts, she’s happy. Even if we know she’s a little sad inside. So the default for long-running strips is to maintain that “happiness” or make it real.
Wheras with Sarah… we’re used to having her frown. So the question is, what will eventually lead her tk frown AGAIN.
I think we established that Willis is perfectly willing to change characters status quo if it tells a good story.
Some sort of obstacle to the relationship is an expected part of any romance story
Some sort of obstacle to the relationship is an expected part of any romance story
Because those other couples have a “will never break up” side of the couple.
Danny’s not ever breaking up with Sal, and Danny will never do anything that Sal would see as a deal breaker.
Becky and Dina have ONE potential upcoming sore spot. and its only a potential, and it would need Becky to take the worst possible reactions to Joyce and Dotty’s possible bisexuality. (They both fall on the scale, but I legit thing Dotty is more into ladies then dudes, she’s just repressed it because of location and Joe’s dumbass teenager bullshit.)
Other then that, Becky and Dina just don’t have any course edges to cause a break.
If Danny says something out loud about Marcy that he meant to just think, it could be a potential trouble spot. We haven’t had any foreshadowing of that though.
He’d have to say something absolutely disgusting about Marcie and I don’t think those are opinions he’d have.
Neither of them does something severe enough to be called “fucking it up”, just some friction. They date for a while but decide to amicably split because Tony is 0% nonsense, and Sarah is 20% nonsense.
This is too cute. Happy for Sarah
I really dig these two.
Further, I do love that Willis keeps a lot of balls in the air, so to speak, like I feel like a great balance is had in juggling who is dealing with hard things, who is savoring some happiness, who is anxious, etc. It keeps things interesting.
I once got thrown out of a group, no explanation, no warning, no chance to apologise, when someone said “a lot of balls in the air” and my reply was “interesting sex life?”
In the words of Becky “that’s deserved” (j/k, maybe, I’m not sure, too much depends on context)
This is also how I got thrown out of the Sisters of the Holy Saints signal group chat, after Sister Mary S added me by accident. (Sister Mary N’s phone number was one digit off from mine.)
Huh. Maybe someone wasn’t a fan of Gob’s
tricksillusions.Man, I really like Tony and hope he and Sarah stay together for a while. But it’s also nice knowing that even if they don’t, Tony’d probably be a reasonable adult about it.
Or, y’know, I hope so. Law of Entertainment Media dictates that he could very well be a hidden shithead and subvert my hopes and expectations.
The dean seems to be pretty graceful about being Linda’s ex, so maybe he raised his kid to also be reasonable about it.
Evidence is that his kid doesn’t know a thing about it.
For example.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/03-faz-is-great/plebs/
I mean, he knows now, presumably.
Tony rapidly rising through the boyfriend ranks to become the best boyfriend in DoA wasn’t on my bingo card for this year but godDAMN he’s putting in an effort. They are so cute!
I do wonder what Tony’s whole deal was. In the Walkyverse his whole deal was he was deeply tortured by his past and stuff i can’t help but think that’s the case here and he has a past deeply full of Bullshit but not quite on the same level. I really wonder what kind of dynamic he’ll bring to the cast i can’t help but feel that despite resistance he’ll get caught up in the crews nexus of bullshit and if he does i think he’ll end up being the team dad in a way.
Also we’re seeing more connections to the lyrics of only exception here…
My guess would be he’s used to people being fake towards him because of who his father is and then because of his sports skills. Which has become a stronger aversion for that nonsense.
I’m hoping he won’t mind their nonsense too much because its at least authentic.
I wonder how long he can go before opening his eyes?
Idk, i can go quite a while with my morning routine- anything to prolong the nightmare of being awake lolol
I’m so happy Sarah is getting big win with this relationship. Long overdue. David, please don’t ruin this. Maybe write out Raidah just to be safe.
Sarah finally getting an actual fucking win, she deserves it
Indeed she has an actual f-ing win in every sense of the term.
Awwww. So glad for Sarah. ‘Bout time that girl got some!
Happy for her!!!
Looks like a sunrise facing window. I’m less sure about Walky’s, but I think his is too.
Sarah is makin’ Joyce-sized eyes…
IT’S A MIMIC KILL IT
(they are super adorable together)
WHOA WHOA WHOA where’s Lucy?
Mmm never mind got my football players mixed up for a mo
Mixed ’em up so bad, you confused him for a short Black woman.
On that note, for all them Ship Fantasy Football Players out there,
Please pleaaaase be open to defensive players. They don’t all have to be quarterbacks
Law of media says they do have to, just like band members are all lead guitarists.
All the more drummers for me, I’m not complaining.
Awwww
and lots of pillow talk!
Aww, it’s nice to see Sarah getting a win. And real interesting to see the social ouroborus potentially expanding.
If the ouroboros is expanding, does that mean the snake is growing or throwing itself up?
Possibly slowly morphing into an octopus.
Octobouros
If the ouroboros is growing it cannot be because of net positive digestion system. Now, we can handwave that the ouroboros doesn’t shed or evaporate and that its digestion is a 100% closed loop, that’s fair enough, but somehow the ouroboros must gain mass. So the only possible conclusion is that the ouroboros has photosynthetic skin.
Sarah, go with him to practice.
You’ll be extra surly. But Tony like you that way
Sarah, bring him breakfast foods when practice is ending. waffles are the key to his logical no nonsense heart.
Sarah, please bring me waffles too! (I might be getting sidetracked)
D’awww!
…d’awww
sarah
Good for them
More pillows = more pillowtalk
≠ more problems
Cute
…d’Okay, who’s up for a game? Anyone?
Here’s the question:
Q. What is written or depicted on those pillows? Any guesses?
…I mean, yeah, they mostly just say “Indiana University,” or show the school flag symbol, but I mean…
… if they DIDN’T have that on them.
My vote is for a teddy bear face with a caption that reads, “I wuv you beary much.”
What else?
If it were up to me, mountain of Pokemon plushes ^v^ <3
Rock on!
Pika pi!!! *^.^*
A old teddy bear with a missing eye and a lot of patches, gifted to our Tony when he was a wee thing. It has a little pocket to tuck your PJs in, and he still uses it.
d’Awwwwwwww!
Branded promotional back support pillows from pharmaceutical and PT companies, with all the brand names turned face down.
He resents the marketing, but is too practical to let functional pillows go to waste.
Love it! So practical!
this whole strip is suspiciously reddish and that fills me with dread
no worries, I pretty sure earthlings call this a “sunrise” :p
I had a solution to that, but you vetoed it.
that again huh?
the star supplies energy to all life on your planet whilst slowly killing you, but unless you have a replacement lined up I’m afraid it’s a caveat ya just gotta live with
(for reals I’ve EATEN organisms which didn’t complain as much about their planets’ sun :/)
I’m not too worried about finding energy after blowing up the sun.
We’ll do whatever they did in Letter Bee. And if we really really need a sun, there’s still kings around for some reason. We can do what we should have done with them anyways and get a new sun.
the sun is already a giant, constant explosion. You’ve been outplayed once again by God’s Nuke.
Amun-Ra not exploding it enough for it to be blown up.
I was thinking it is more like… “rose-coloured”. which is also not encouraging
He cuddles like a champ, too! Even the perennially anti-social Sarah can’t resist such a Cadillac of a man.
OK Sarah, now all you have to do is NOT fuck this up because of some silly the-universe-won’t-let-me-be-happy bullshit. It should be easy :3
He looks angry all the time, that’s what is going to save her from spiralling – she can always pretend to herself that he might be upset with her about something and worry about that, and a mind occupied by such worries cannot spiral in a the-universe-won’t-let-me-be-happy fashion.
I’m glad Sarah and Tony are happy together.
Oh, they are so cute together.
I give them 52 years.
I am so happy for Sarah she deserves this.
WTG Sarah
What? No Slipshine where Sarah is getting railed by Tony’s fat hog?
More likely the other patreon. But neither yet. We just gotta be patient about it.
god damn that looks cosy. Nest of pillows. Wall of muscle to cuddle with. I love this for Sarah. And am looking forward to her inevitably stressing out about getting to have a nice thing going.
Is Tony Thedeanson of scandinavian ancestry ?
I’m kinda bummed we didn’t get to see the rest of Sarah and Tony’s night tonight. I wanted to see how the two of them interacted alone. But this is very wholesome and I love this for Sarah as Becky said the other day well deserved in a good way this time. :3
*I’m kinda bummed we didn’t get to see the rest of Sarah and Tony’s night together.
might be that it’ll exist but be sent to the slipshine realm
We can only hope
🥹
aww, i wanted to see walky and dorothy. oh well. sarah cuteness is always appreciated.
that is SO many pillows
did he just have these or did he run out to the campus store to buy more because sarah likes them? would explain why they seem to be college merch.
not to get gender all over this (it’s icky stuff) but relatively few dudes like that many pillows
They are the pillows of his vanquished enemies.
I mean who doesn’t love pillows?
Me, I only want one pillow. If given the choice between two pillows or no pillows I would choose none.
But you can throw the second pillow away from you.
Me, entering hotel or motel room (I travel a lot): *chucks aside all the pillows except one
I’m spinning the “Wheel of Future Trauma” to see how on earth Willis could turn this wonderful situation into something that will cause us all grief, misery, and emotional anxiety.
SpinnnnNNnnnnnnnnNnnnnnnnNNnnn,…
It says… “Their parents are prejudiced fucks.” Well… maybe. We’ve seen all of ten minutes of Deany McDeanface, I wouldn’t put it by him, but that doesn’t seem to be the vibe.
SpinnnnNnnnnnnNNnnnnnNnnn….
How about, “They belong to a cult and don’t realize it until its too late.”? Um… I suppose it COULD work, but let’s try again.
SpinnnnNNnnnnnnnNNNnnnNnnn….
Alright, third time’s the charm. It says, “You are a horrible person and don’t deserve to be happy, and will drag yourself down to prove it.”
…….. goddammit.
Sarah’s going to hit the eject button eventually because she feels safe, and secure, and loved, and so inherently that means that she’s unsafe and insecure, right? She wanted a fuckboy, she got a boyfriend, and that wasn’t what she wanted at all.
Oh, wait, no, I was wrong; it actually landed on “mauled by a flock of chickens.” Which makes sense. They’re modern day velociraptors. Just awful.
in unrelated news: the feral chicken population in my neighborhood is exploding right now.
Not really a problem per se because the cocks don’t crow very often, but it’s interesting.
*Feral* Chicken?
…Ok I’d be tempted. Then probably get mauled and end up on YouTube for trying to hunt alley chicken and losing a fight to them
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone try to hunt them. I’m pretty sure their diet is like 15% plastic so probably not great eating.
I’d love to see that YouTube video lol.
Predictions:
1. Sarah cheats with Beef
2. Sarah hates being happy and dumps him
My feelings on those matters:
1. *grunt*
2. It is at that exact point in time when Joyce bangs Joe in full. (since universal balance must be maintained)
On the one hand there’s a clippedness to this that feels a little distressing compared to some of the other relationships. But on the other hand, this also feels kind of like a conversation my partner and I might have, and that’s honestly reassuring
They’re already acting like they’ve been together for years. Hard to say if that’s a good thing.
Hoos da man? Tony’s da man
so this is what it feels like to be the spouse of an athlete
People are mistaking Sarah with Jennifer, here.
Anyway, she got a great boyfriend. She deserves it.
Yes. She. Does.