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imagine how much of a jumpscare it would actually be if someone popped out of the Pile of Lesboso hi Becky XD
I do recall someone wondering what she was up to yesterday.
as it turns out, a lot of strenuous “tailoring work” with Dina had her all tuckered out
Yo. Sometimes these characters are just creepy.
Panel 5 reminds me of the creeptastic stand-in-corner scene of the Blair Witch Project movie.
Idk having done this myself many times sometimes you just need to stare in the dark standing up. Definitely creepy to an outside observer I guess but as readers with full context of Dorothy’s mind state I can’t really imagine calling it creepy other than as an empathetic/sympathetic response to Becky’s reaction.
Solidarity. Been there too. Many times.
….She’s just standing there? How is that creepy?
Standing there staring a hole through the wall. I’m a little creeped.
Sometimes you need a moment before your dark vision kicks in. Especially if you’ve got blackout stuff.
Yeah, I’d be pretty fucking spooked if my roommate was Blair Witching in the middle of the night.
Good thing I skimmed the comments to see if someone made a Blair Witch reference yet.
Well hells I did first without reading up. Ach.
I was staying over at a friend’s place one time, and around 2 AM, I glanced up and discovered that his three-year-old daughter was crouched like a gargoyle in the dark at the top of the stairs, staring silently down at me.
Damn, I’m freaked out a bit just reading that.
That’s okay. She’ll be watching you tonight.
I was the jumpscarer one time, if you’ll bear with me for a little story.
It was full dark one winter evening when I got to my friend’s house unannounced. I could see him through the window, lit up by the computer screen. The only light in the house. His whole family was gone. They even brought the dog for some reason. So I quietly went around the back and crawled in through the dog door and sneaked up behind my friend and stood there for like five minutes, waiting for the right moment. He was playing Doom, and this was back in the day when Doom could be pretty spooky to a teenager. Pretty easy to see how he tensed up when going through an unfamiliar door. So that’s when I slammed my hand onto his shoulder.
Such happy times.
…Jesus. Did he live? That’s amazing.
Oh, he definitely died. (In the game.) (Though now he is dead to me.)
Amelie “The Silent Killer” Wikström
At least she wasn’t crawling across the ceiling like a spider.
I hate it when I do that in my sleep.
I know, right? Spinning your head around to look at the floor gives you such a pain in the neck. :\
What about if they were sleepwalking about? And/or sleeptalking?
‘Cos I do both…
One night I woke up to my roommate sleepwalking into my bedroom. I was weirdly not spooked, it only set in later. Suffice it to say, I started locking my bedroom after that.
Her programming got activated. Dorothy.EXE awaiting further commands.
Manchurian, er, Presidential Candidate Dorothy Keener.
Wonder if Dorothy will talk to her about the whole “probably queer as it turns out” thing.
I feel like Dorothy has not yet reached a state of acceptance where she would be willing to open up about that
It’s weird Becky was 100% right about Dorothy trying to steal her childhood friend for romantic purposes.
That’s only one (highly biased) reading of DoA. Dorothy didn’t seem to have any sexual interest in Joyce until the breast pictures. So at the time of Becky’s accusation it was not true, even though later Dorothy developed an attraction (and seemingly, so did Joyce).
And even if Dorothy was interested in Joyce much earlier, her own actions weren’t trying to steal Joyce.
also, Dorothy reads into everything. Everything has to mean something, and nothing can be just accidental or of the moment. because if it were otherwise she wouldn’t be able to keep all of reality’s boxes orderly.
I think Dorothy *was* interested much earlier, but I also don’t think she realized it, yeah. To her, it was just an exceptionally close female friendship where her friend would constantly dote on her and pine after her and tell her how pretty she was. She got so used to the friendship effectively feeling romantic that it never registered to her that the romantic dynamic was, y’know, something she’d come to crave.
I don’t think the titty pic activated her bi synapses, I think it was the first time she realized the nature of the affection she held for her. This isn’t superficial “damn girl nice boobs” attraction, this is “oh my god I’m in love with Joyce, she’s the reason i stayed behind and now it’s too late for us to be together” attraction.
I think Becky could be a good person for her to talk to here…
…but I can also see sooooo many reasons why Dorothy would not think Becky was a good person for her to talk to here.
So far Becky has been nothing but mean and abusive toward Dorothy and a rudely messy roommate too. I bet that pile reeks. Lashing out at every opportunity. Let’s see if she can step up when needed or will pull more “dead dad” guilt trips and crack tasteless jokes. I like Becky and I can see her trauma but she would be miserable to live with even if she didn’t have a grudge against you.”
tfw you craft a topically related piece of satirical over-the-top anti-Becky bait for laughs only to be upstaged by someone full of genuine hot boiling haterade and smell-o-vision out of nowhere
I enjoyed Joe destroying Dorothy with his maturity. I hope Becky will do the same. Only when crushed forever will Dorothy at last embrace her true evil nature and become Presidential material.
Nah, evil is boring. May as well just kill her off, at that point. Now, if she started beating people up to work off the stress and bad vibes, that’d be interesting.
That’s such a… unique takeaway from that sequence. That Joe was “destroying” her. Idek what to say hah.
Dorothy hit him with everything she had and he shrugged it off like a champ.
Then he broke her…with the truth.
Yes. They had a conversation where Joe was kind and understanding as Dorothy wrestled with a difficult new awareness of herself. If you want to phrase that like it was WWE you totally can.
do you not remember him saying “Checkmate, liveral” before doing a kick flip into a hot tub? it was a pretty pivotal scene
@Nymph: hey no kinkshaming
@Charles: I really didn’t see either of them as attacking each other; just Dorothy lashing out (kind of generally, an explosion more than aimed attacks), and Joe being understanding about it, but.
@Megan: d’oh, I totally forgot that part, ty
I’m a proud kinkshamer. Some people are into that.
Pff. Okay, that’s fair. I shouldn’t speak for other people about whether or not they wanna be kinkshamed.
Pow’s Law continuing to Poe and Law its way up and down this comment section heh.
Putting “abusive” on the high shell until people learn to use it responsibly.
Good luck with that.
Are you saying that people are abusing “abusive” abusively?
Also, language cannot be policed, otherwise people would have stopped using “irregardless” long ago.
(-__-) I don’t use that word because words mean things and that word doesn’t and is therefore only pretending to be a word.
Irregardless, I shall continue to use it as a synonym for regardless, though seldom and only for effect.
But since “nothing” doesn’t mean anything, should we conclude it isn’t a word either? And if it does mean something, is that thing thereby not nothing?
That isn’t how that works though, the concept of nothing is not the same as the word nothing, which does have a definition and so it is a word with meaning.
But it still doesn’t mean anything.
Good nobody was policing anything here. I am just telling someone they use a word with a very specific and heavy meaning in a stupid about a situation where it doesn’t apply.
Hey, laundry piles like that save lives!
(it’s true. My college roommate had one, and once his girlfriend fell out of his loft but landed in the atomic boxer pile instead of on the concrete floor.)
One of those moments where for a split second you’re not sure you’re glad you landed somewhere soft ffffffff
“I’m alive… but at what cost?”
Exaaaactly.
Those are probably clean clothes. The same ones are always on top. So the dirty ones she takes off aren’t going there.
Yeah, this is either gonna be wholesome
or not.
I think that would be a really cool scene, I really hope it happens.
“Becky, I…I’ve recently been having…some THOUGHTS about Joyce…of a sexual nature…”
“HEY GUESS WHAT YOU’RE
A LESBIANBI!!!”WILLIS PLEASE NO WAY DO NOT MAKE THEM KISS OH MY GOD HAHAHAHA
I don’t think there’s any risk of this, but it’s a trainwreck I’d be down to see.
Odds of that happening are pretty insignificant, I think
But never non-zero.
NGL, I hadn’t even really considered that as a possibility.
I just hope this is all resolved in a way that doesn’t involve anyone cheating on their partner.
Sometimes you just stand there in the dark because doesn’t know what to do anymore.
Been there, done that. This new direction isn’t precisely scary, but it is inspiring a steadily rising feeling of dread.
This might be a REALLY not fun night for Dorothy.
I think Dorothy is starting to hit Komm Susser Tod levels here mental state-wise, this seems dire.
Can confirm!
Actually my suspicion as well. It would pay off some () unresolved discussions with Ruth from the previous semester. But yeah. My heart genuinely bleeds for Dorothy.
It does currently kinda resemble Ruth sitting in the dark on her bed, but I think we need a few more strips before we know exactly how bad Dorothy’s doing.
She’s not in a great place, but.
Yeah, a single night of that isn’t really a big deal, especially when it’s tied to an actual specific cause.
What was scary about Ruth was summed up in Jennifer’s “Yeah, that’s normal”
That, too, for sure.
Sometimes you gotta Blair Witch it a little. We’ve all been there.
*nods sagely
This is beyond the pale. Just because Dorothy isn’t moving much in every panel, BECKY, doesn’t mean you can harmfully cast her in your already reprehensible Five Nights at Freddy’s fan game without her consent. And FURTHERMORE
earthling, don’t tempt me >:D
Oh man, are they gonna trauma bond??
Becky will likely lash out even more and make everything worse, but perhaps she will step up and they can start a Joyce Fan Club.
“
Just let us adore you
”
which of the diamonds would Joe be?
I would say Blue, Dorothy as Yellow and Becky as White. If we really must, of course.
Blue’s whole thing is she’s constantly feeling huge emotions out loud and making them everyone else’s problem. I don’t know if that works for Joe.
I thought trauma bonding was more like… what everyone did during the kidnapping? I thought the trauma had to be simultaneous.
(I also kinda think trauma is a strong word for gentle rejection, no matter how deep your feelings for someone.)
I didn’t expect an Azumanga Daioh reference but I’m not disappointed xD
Please Dorothy do not tell Becky about your moment with Joyce it will only go poorly
I love Becky, but she is 100% a Chaos Goblin
her and Amber really need to do a Chaos Goblin Fusion Team Assemble XD >:D
Can a Chaos Goblin and a Trash Goblin fuse or are they incompatable?
Not really, but she plays one in the comic strips.
Basically, she’s a good person, but she is also a chaos goblin. It’s how she’s presenting herself – It is an act, sure, but she still plays the role as she tries to find out who she is
And she WOULD ramp up the Arch Nemesis bit to distance herself from the heartbreak of Joyce willing to be gay for Dorothy but not her. I don’t think she’s fully over Joyce. Doesn’t mean she’s a bad gf to Dina, but it does mean that something like “Oh, Joyce would be gay for Dotty but not me” would still sting, and she reacts to emotional pain via her bits
IE 100% Chaos Goblin
White woman jumpscare
re: alt-text,
LOL classic (^.^)4
very much so!
*plays “Raspberry Heaven” by Oranges and Lemons on nearby laptop*
Aww… you woke up.
Tricksy frying pans.
Joyce has entered good in her mind. She’s even more shattered than before.
Azumanga Daioh is the most beloved reference Willis has made after decades of Transformers and Batman ones.
At least to me.
Well Dorothy and Becky have something in common now. They both fell for Joyce. But in Dorothy’s case, she was the one to back off.
I get it, and Dorothy was absolutely right to pull away from Joyce considering their existing relationships. But _damn_ I feel for Dorothy so much right now. I hope Becky can give her an actual heart-to-heart conversation about this.
It could be nice for both of them…!
It really all depends on which Becky we get here. There’s a Becky who’s both very serious and very compassionate, who I think WOULD in fact make an excellent shoulder to cry on for anyone, especially someone suffering sapphic heartbreak.
But there’s… also the Becky who’s been, kinda, bullying Dorothy out of jealousy over Joyce ever since they met, and who recently has been vibrating with anxiety over the very concept of sexual fluidity (which Joyce miiiight have been demonstrating in the very confusing moment they had together earlier).
(And, by the way, I think that moment WAS confusing, probably for both of them, even though “we were… just confused” has terrible optics as a thing to say about bisexuality orz.)
Dorothy could benefit from a Becky-and-Dina talking.
Has to be with Dina present. I can’t imagine Becky having a sane, rational, helpful conversation with Dorothy about this without her own baggage coming into play. Dina however, could definitely keep her grounded enough to be helpful think.
I can. I don’t think Becky’s entire grudge against Dorothy has been performative, but I do think that we’ve seen her acknowledge when she’s taken it too far, and we’ve seen her turn on a dime when someone’s actually hurting. I think a key element in said grudge was the belief that Dorothy was 100% straight, as well as a fear that “no matter what Joyce might say to make me feel better, if she was actually straight with just one exception, that exception would be Dorothy”.
(I’m not saying this is accurate to Joyce’s sexuality now or in the past, I’m just saying I think it was a sinking feeling Becky had very early on in her interactions with Dorothy and Joyce, like at the party when they were all playing Apples to Apples.)
So it’s definitely possible that realizing Dorothy was actually bi ans heartbroken might flip that script.
It’s just also possible for it to very much NOT.
Dina’s presence would help tho
Bisexuality Orz? Orz is not *many bubbles* like *campers*. Orz is one with many *fingers*. Orz *fingers* reach through into *heavy space* and you *see* Orz *bubbles* but it is really *fingers*.
Oh fuck me, someone call the Kzer-Za
Well, in googling “what the hell are people talking about”, I have learned two new things before breakfast.
Uh oh. Normally Orz being here would mean the Androsynth *aren’t*, and Burying Your Gay Fascists is a heck of a thing… Bisexuality Orz in this storyline won’t make for *happy campers* and it doesn’t need more *dancing*!
I have clearly said some sort of trigger phrase that’s activated yall sleeper agents but I swear I just meant the little emoticon for “oh jeez oh no”, haha.
Man, I’m learning about all sorts of things this morning.
Also written OTL
It’s supposed to look like a lil stick figure dude on his hands and knees with his head bowed low
orz
It’s more convincing in some fonts than in others.
I bet this emoticon is almost as old as me, honestly. It must date back to like at least Usenet.
It’s from 2002 (I looked it up this morning); how old are you?
I have seen it, but moreso when Japanese characters are used for part/all of it. Helps me not just read it as a word or acronym. (But those don’t work in all places.)
_|￣|○
Oooo, that’s so much younger than I thought AND I have never seen that variant! The internet is so funny.
I think I was assuming because it just felt like something that came from the height of like ASCII art. Which for the record dates back to 1966, though there are earlier examples from before modern computers even.
(I googled it after typing that, fully prepared to be like “which is ALSO way younger than I thought, holy cow”.)
(I am a lot older than orz/OTL/etc, and now I know.)
You make Usenet sound ancient. I spent the 90s there in arguments that make me glad I changed my name. I suppose to some it would. I date back to BBS systems. The horrible realization I’ve now been online more than thirty years is terrifying.
@Dana aw! Sorry
Usenet predates my internet usage but not because I was actually too young for all of the 90s. More like because we didn’t have an internet-capable computer in the house. My folks weren’t early adopters.
I got my first Usenet feed from a BBS back in college.
Back in the days of yore.
Once you’ve summoned the Star Control II obsessives, you can’t ever put the genie back in the bottle.
Thank you for explaining the reference! I did want to know, but I also wanted to make my joking response
I was 100% reading this thread thinking “oh, man, no one has actually SAID ‘Star Control II’ yet, someone better.”
I am laying off Google for a week, until this all goes away.
( it will go away wont it )
I think in that moment you have the compassionate Becky, although it will get messy since the specific relationships between Becky Joyce and Dorothy.
Becky, out of respect for Dorothy’s obvious suffering, will only spend five minutes crowing “I TOLDJA CHICKS WERE AWESOME, DOTTY” instead of the usual ten.
Dorothy losing Joyce is less painful than losing it to JOE.
I thought she was holding a bottle at first, but it’s just her hand below her exercise watch.
Not an unreasonable assumption honestly, given Dotty’s been a bit quick to turn to the bottle as of late
Look Dorothy fans. I know this seems rough on poor Dotty but uh…them’s the breaks. I’ve learned from long time Jennifer supporting that every bisexual must go through a period of suffering. Jen went through it, Ruth went through it, hell even Danny went through it! It’s just what happens. They all came out the other end better for it. We just read through Jen’s suffering era and now she’s smoozing with her hot platonic bestie. Dorothy is just paying her dues.
And don’t be surprised when it’s Joyce’s time. She’s flirting way too much to not get some healthy bisexual angst. She racking up that tab. We’ll see who’s jealous when Dorothy’s eventually juggling too much pussy to handle and it ain’t Joyce’s.
Jason Chesterfield, Consolation Prize
I’m revoking your metaphor privelges for 24 hours as a penalty for introducing my literalist brain to the image of “juggling pussies”.
… so, I momentarily thought that Dorothy might possibly be on the edge of self-harm. Just an impression that I got. And then I thought, whether she is or not, Becky’s going to jump on that possibility in an instant.
Huh, maybe we’ll get the compassionate fellow gay Becky instead of the jealous Becky.
Been there so I thought the same.
Yeaaaah, I’ve seen that face on myself one too many times and it always either immediately precedes or is in the middle of my brain doing a hijacking for a suicidal episode. I cannot possibly imagine that this is where that is going because that is the darkest possible thing, in front of *Becky* no less, but that’s what that blank, non-responsive expression normally means on me.
Dorothy needs like… idk. She refuses to do actual therapy, but she needs like an intervention. This reaction to rejection (especially with the PTSD flashback to the emotions if not the event) is so far from healthy that I don’t expect anybody except a professional to actually know how to address it. If this were my friend or roommate, I’d probably be doing a Dana style “call the parents” situation after seeing this. She has spiraled frighteningly quick.
There is no evidence Dorothy has “refused to do therapy”, what??
There’s evidence that she may have not given the full truth to her school therapist and EVEN MORE that the therapists at IU are, how do you say, “dog shit”, but this is just not factual.
Not telling your therapist the full truth about the issue that being you there, because you actively didn’t want to, IS refusing to do actual therapy. They cannot actually do their job if you are not honest with them about why you there.
Just to clarify, this is not a matter of trust, Dorothy ‘s therapist could be the single kindest most trustworthy person ever and she still wouldn’t have disclose anything about her actual metal heath problems, because them it would be on record and they even *gasp* prescribe her medication and couldn’t allow that to happen due to her political ambition at the time.
Well, there was this exchange:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/03-joementum/inwithyou/
As someone with PTSD, please don’t interact with us?
My expectation is that given the time of night, the darkness, the previous relationship, is that Becky will at first presume this is messing around, and act accordingly. Then, either later in the conversation or the next day, she’ll realize it was serious, and have to deal with the drama that unfolds.
This strip made me realise I don’t actually understand how the beds are arranged in those rooms. I always assumed they’re on opposite walls, but for Becky to see Dorothy at that angle (and considering Dorothy hasn’t moved in relation to the carpet and wall of clothes), they seem to be next to each other on the same wall? How did I miss that for so long?
First panel of this strip does a good job of showing off the layout
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/paleoblog/
Don’t feel too bad about not noticing. I thought they had bunk beds for I don’t know how many years
The desks are under the beds; the closets and the door into the half-bath are on the opposite wall from the two loft-beds. One other wall of the room has the door to the hall, and the other has the windows.
So basically, they do have bunk beds, it’s just that the desk has the lower bunk.
https://www.tumblr.com/itswalky/133282007082/look-its-a-room?source=share
door to hallway is behind and to the left the camera, the hinge in the corner with the half-bath door.
closets and half bath are behind and to the right of the camera, arranged like this:
https://www.tumblr.com/dumbingofage/781842201301958656/itswalky-because-i-dont-have-enough-to-do?source=share
Rooms on the other side of their respective half-baths are mirrored more-or-less.
wait… Sarah and Joyce’s closets are criss-cross from their beds. D:<
Dina and Amber/AG’s closets are criss-cross too. Trying to find a good shot of Sal’s closet to see if they’re all criss-cross.
Danny and Joe’s closets are not criss-crossed.
Sal and
JenniferMalaya’s closet is criss-crossed. Dorothy andSierraBecky’s is not.Adam Driver “everyday I wake up” meme only it’s “every day I wake up and someone new in the comment section has learned that there are no bunk beds only loft beds against their will”
“I do! I understood that Azumanga Daioh ref!”
Likewise.
Now someone needs to get bitten by a cat.
Or admit to being bisexual while correcting someone about the definition.
Now I’m imagining Kaorin following Carla around in a cloud of shoujo flowers and bubbles.
Oh my god Becky pick up your damn clothes
The pile of lesbos will remain forevermore!
No kidding. I can just smell the reek, what an awful room for Dorothy to have in live in. You can just imagine all the dirty dishes and sex wipes all over the place too. Thanks goodness she doesn’t seem to wear makeup or there would be q-tips, half-open containers of perfumed muck, and face wipes everywhere too.
Okay let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, it is literally just that one pile of clothes.
Remember when Becky signed that agreement with the county to store containers of hydrofluoric acid, used needles, and radioactive material in the dorm room, and then pooped in Dorothy’s bed? She was so wrong for that
Oh yeah I forgot about that, sorry my mistake.
[Eyes bug out] This is real? Could someone give me a linkee to that strip?
=_=
Bed pooping? It was Amber who did that, or so I’ve Heard.
Compared to everything that Johnny Depp put her through, shitting the bed once seems pretty mild.
People made such a huge thing out of that like it proved abuse. Really really revealing for folks who hadn’t already noticed that for most NT people, “weird/gross/symptomatic behavior” is completely synonymous with “abusive”.
Gods, you sound like my sister. You just invented an entire mess that’s literally not there, for the sole purpose of upsetting yourself.
Taffy, don’t tell me YOU forgot about the radioactive waste! Or how Becky was cackling to Dina about how she sewed the remains of several murdered mob witnesses into Dorothy’s mattress!
It’s called recycling.
Insert “recycling your mom, for a nickel” joke here.
Hey, I am the one who makes nonsensical your mom jokes around here! Get off my corner, I am not smart enough to come up with another schtick!
Hey, it’s actually Mike’s schtick. He’s just not using it right now.
Unlike yer mom.
Whom he is using right now.
For a nickel.
<3
Vanessa is to Becky what anonymouse has been to Dorothy. The comments in every thread about Becky will continue until morale
improvescrashes.Or they finally stop commenting after pissing off enough people.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah, that’d be nice. Lemme know if it ever happens.
It literally happened with anonymouse, as it’s the one Wilde and I am were referring to. So well letting you know since you asked.
Yeah, that was just people dogpiling and telling someone to shut up forever just because they misunderstood something. It was genuinely shitty.
Me too, Dottie
Alttext: Now there is a name I haven’t heard in a while. I guess we’re both just old Willis
Now wait. You cant both be old Willis. One of you must be new Willis.
You guys are going to make me google azumanga daioh aren’t you? And it’s going to be another rabbit hole. Probably a very scary rabbit hole. One with a very scary rabbit, so I’m not going to fall for it.
Brings up new tab with Google for reasons.
It’s usually not scary. It’s funny and charming.
usually.
But it is a rabbit hole.
Osaka is my spirit animal.
Not so much a rabbit hole as a pile of cats (Some of the cats may be scary)
All cats are scary if you properly understand cats.
[Twisted Nerve whistling]
“Oh, you’re awake. That’s too bad.”
Becky’s uncommonly hot, in that tank top.
The new social media trend: Blair Witching.
It’s less stupid and less likely to kill you that many other trends at least
I dunno, jump scare some people from sleep and you’re risking it.
Sata andagii!
Ohhh, she is *broken…*
What isn’t shown in the comic is her repeatedly trying to interact with the corkboard before saying “no, that won’t work” to herself
“I can’t use those two things together.”
Dorothy is disconsolate. What a lovely archaism, “disconsolate”. It was going out of style when I was a kid 50 years ago, but it’s still lovely.
Out of style? Disconsolate is a perfectly cromulent word.
“How did you get over Joyce?”
“…over?”
“Sudden Dorothy!”
she’s just standing there… unexpectedly
Dorothy turns around slowly.
She looks at Becky with her haunting eyes.
Becky is terrified for her life.
…OK anyone want to play a game?
3 questions, for tonight:
1. What is on Dorothy’s corkboard?
2. What is on YOUR corkboard, or would be, if you had a corkboard?
3. What is the COOLEST (or strangest, or silliest…) thing you could see putting on a corkboard?
I can go:
1. Pinned-up homework assignments and newspaper story drafts, in order of deadline.
2. 3 years’ worth of way-overdue tax forms. Plus some Sanskrit lyrics I’ve been carrying with me from place to place for the past 30 years.
3. A simple proof of Fermat’s last theorem.
1. Copied articles from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
2. Miscellaneous project notes. Currently this includes (A) a notecard with the chords E, F, G, A to be played repeatedly in order while the notes A, C, D, Eb, E, G, and A are played semi-randomly above them. (B) A listing of javascript code to enable a web page to allow playing American Mah Jongg against three AI opponents – Incomplete and being debugged. (C) A printout of Unicorn Glade, my latest attempt at digital arting. (D) Notes for new story in progress, The Memory Thief. (The man woke. His head was pounding. He was laying on the ground, his cheek pressed up against cold rough cobblestones. He groaned and tried to push himself up, but it wasn’t easy. His limbs felt heavy and uncoordinated and the chill of the damp pavement seeped through his clothes. He was in a narrow dark alleyway. It looked unfamiliar.) (E) Notes for my alternate machine learning algorithm and architecture that doesn’t depend on gradient descent for optimization and could represent a great leap forward, but probably doesn’t.
3. The future Dumbing of Age strips in which Joe reanimates the corpse of Mike Warner.
DANG, Clif! Wow!
Unicorn Glade – https://scontent-hou1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/495194440_24322895357300838_950860114614135736_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=z_rcYT7WLv4Q7kNvwEoTp2I&_nc_oc=AdnbJeehhjWsPfYsCv3yut0bMFpJ8SsieWP1If7Av44HtvssdUbbqa8eKd2SFoXWzVSkNbXD8_EnfnecAdl1gou9&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-hou1-1.xx&_nc_gid=TlZnGI7puQ5d3lwlILqoMw&oh=00_AfLxHAM6jlaw_6QE9oucM_opV3psASn4UKg1yhzy2VrMEw&oe=682B6F18
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Wowee! Yowie kazowie!
Oh, yeah. The notecard (A) should specify that the notes above the chords should be played in a swing rhythm.
Do you have a translation of the Sanskrit lyrics that you’re willing to share?
Meh. Kind of. I got the lyrics from an abusive cult when I was pretty young, so I don’t really want to risk connecting anyone with that group by providing a link or a direct reference. But the lyrics roughly translate to, “Spread joy. One candle of joy lights another.”
…I like the general message, anyway, even if not the source.
For an English-language song that conveys the same general message in a liberatory way, you could look to, “This Little Light of Mine”
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/24/679895682/how-the-civil-rights-movement-transformed-this-little-light-of-mine
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Au0AFyB-m_8
(*Played on the hacked protest megaphone.*)
I. Homestuck/My Hero Academia crossover fic
ii. Closest I got is a magnetic chore board my sister made for the house, so we’d all remember to do our damn chores. It helps and nobody feels passively aggressed.
iii. Nuclear launch codes, because what teenager doesn’t need those
Impressive! Rock on!
1.) Campus events, cards she’s been given or sought out for some reason, due dates and things for assignments. I can’t help but see hers as purely functional.
2.) My corkboard here at home has every single card I’ve received from the last ten years pinned on it. It is not big enough lol.
3.) Uh, idk. I was unaware that corkboards could have anything cool on them, they sort of seemed a little lame by default. I guess postcards from other countries?
An overflowing collection of cards received over 10 years is SUPER cool! Shows all your connections with other folks! Definitely cool.
academic stuff / CV stuff / rules, and a couple of photos. Like a visual representation of what her priorities have been, relative to each other.
would be: doodles, postcards (blank backs, just there for the fronts), todo/shopping list, rabbit hole stuff
aestheometry made out of colored strings
Huh. Neat-o! Today I learned what aestheometry is!
Oh no :O
Is she ok?
*Looks at literally everything relating to Dorothy in the last few storylines*
Do you really have to ask?
That’s not what a jumpscare is, Becky
Let’s see how you react when you wake up and Dorothy is unexpectedly standing in your room in the dark.
You get used to it.
<3
Jumpscare is what happens if you stand over someone at the crack of dawn, while they’re still sleeping, with the world’s biggest smile on your face, and saying, “GOOD MORNING, FRIEND!”
Dorothy is very relatable.
Being a high masking autistic for decades, I can’t help but also think of previous theories that Dotty may also be, and masking it reaaalll hard. Which makes me read this kind of a breakdown as, not just bad for the PTSD reasons, but also as a potential meltdown and shutdown to go with her potential burnout.
As someone who has long been saying such in the comments, I agree. I think Dotty is autistic, and she just masked and masked HARD.
Becky….she lives there
Right, and if you groggily woke up to someone who lives with you just standing upright in a dark room in the middle of the night, it might scare you for a second.
Sudden Dorothy!
Wait, is this … THE FOURTH WALL???
[counts] no, wait, I think it’s … just the third. We’re safe.
I forgot Becky is her roommate. This is bad. Becky has consistently been an arsehole towards Dorothy.
I dunno, she may at first, but I can imagine her also realizing she needs to take care of the baby gay.
friendstealinhussysayswhat
I’m glad to say that when I was in college I never had a clothes pile. I actually put my clothes away. I’ve always liked keeping my room neat. Unfortunately the roommates I had in college were slobs.
Dotty Punk – (Up All Night to) Get Lonely
The alt text said Azumanga Daioh, my brain read Higurashi
Considering the amount of stabbings and violence in this comic, it does feel closer to Higurashi than Azumanga XD
Although if we consider the amount of crazy driving… Yukari might be able to compete.
I’m thinking there’s no way Dorothy actually talks to Becky about what’s bothering her atm for a number of personal reasons. Outside of those reasons, Becky learning about this needs a more dramatic set up. It’s been an expressed fear of hers for so long, even something innocuously insinuating Joyce/Dorothy not even two days ago gets a sad face from Becky. More time is needed to showcase Joyce’s reciprocation to get the most out of it, too.
The three people (Amber, Joe, Booster) who definitely know about Dorothy’s feelings have no reason to divulge it so I’m assuming she puts the pieces together herself in a later storyline. Same with the suspecting people like Danny and Sarah. Not sure if we should add Carla and Ruth to that list now.
I just remembered something.
Joyce has had this dream before.
damn, good memory ya got there. also oh my god willis
let’s just hope joe slunk back to his dorm before they ended the night.
On alternating nights, Dorothy would watch Joyce sleep or try on all her clothes at the same time. And since she can’t do either tonight, she’s having trouble sleeping, and I’m sure that’s the extent of insomnia.
We’ve seen hints here and there that Joyce has powers beyond our ken, and this now confirms that Joyce is a psychic everything is amazing /being silly but still though
The most troubling thing about this strip is how the fire escape map is inconsistent. It’s not new, there’s several reasonable explanations, and
it doesn't trouble me at all.But they’re different rooms. Is the dark square not meant to mark which room you’re in?
They are adjacent rooms.
Oh wait, yeah. They wouldn’t be across the hall from each other, like the maps indicate. Something fishy is going on in this hall.
I have a Watsonian explanation now. Someone switched the doors around in some previous year, and the school doesn’t do careful enough safety inspections over summer.
Coincidentally, I got out my Azumanga Diaoh DVDs the other day and started rewatching them for the first time in years (this is about the alt text, if anyone doesn’t know what I’m referring to)
Now there’s a good idea, shouldn’t take more than 12 hours while I procrastinate about continuing with ‘Generic Kowloon Romance’.
Out: Joyce cheats with Dorothy
In?: Becky cheats with Dorothy
I mean, I sincerely doubt anyone’s cheating on anyone with anyone in this comic, but man can you IMAGINE what the comment section would be?
If Dorothy and Becky hooked up, all it would be would be Becky shouting loudly about hate sex, and Dorothy reminding her in breathless gasps that she actually liked Becky, really, and Becky shouting even louder about going down on her nemesis.
“Becky, I know I’m new to this lesbian sex thing, but I’m pretty sure the one getting eaten out is supposed to scream, not the one doing the eating. This is weird. You’re making it weird.”
[Anakin voice, muffled by Dorothy’s crotch] “I HATE YOU”
The last thing I ever expected to see in this comic was an Azumanga Daioh reference.
Your mom is an azumanga daioh reference.
The last thing I ever expected to read in this comment section was the phrase “Azumanga Daioh reference.”
Probably because I’ve never seen those particular letters arranged in that particular order before.
OK, so first of all, Azumanga Daioh is the best.
Second, I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but Becky might actually be the exact person Dorothy needs to talk to about this.
Azumanga Daioh mentioned!
Nature is healing.
And she’s standing like she’s possessed now
Spooking Becky beside her mess now
Learning to repress I guess now
But she’s picturing Joyce’s.. vests now
Life has dropped so many changes on me, so many excitements and so many tragedies, I thank it sincerely for not dropping “sudden Bisexuality” on me as well. I’ve had about all the surprises I can this life.
They call it “Blair Witching”, are your kids taking part in this new viral internet trend? And is it dangerous? More at 11.
I like the inclusion of “And is it dangerous?”. It gets people’s attention, makes them ask the question too, and then if they don’t see evidence to the contrary their incurious monkey brains will settle on “It’s dangerous” and they’ll have a whole new Thing Which Must Be Stopped™.
Relatable.
When I’m not OK I sometimes just stand there in a room, disconnected, not looking at anything in particular. Might have come into the room for something
Activities help a lot. Cleaning, organizing. Drawing.
Suddenly I want to see the cast in salmon-pink school uniforms. lol