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Ungenuine

by David M Willis on January 18, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - To Remind You of My Love
└ Tags: jennifer, lucy, ruth

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  1. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 18, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    It’s okay, Lucy. I enjoy it too.

    • CC
      CC
      January 18, 2020 at 1:14 am | #

      ….. I wonder if Lucy knows what a kismesis is

      • Laladoria
        Laladoria
        January 18, 2020 at 1:31 am | #

        I’d have to say yes purely based on how fandom-y she is in both this universe and the Shortpacked! universe. I honestly cant imagine that she didnt read homestuck.

  2. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 18, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    Fair play, Lucy.

  3. ktbear
    ktbear
    January 18, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    What? Theres no way Im first…

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      January 18, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

      well good news

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      January 18, 2020 at 1:25 am | #

      OooO! You got in trouble!
      /5 year old

      Also, Willis’ gravatar looks extra grumpy this evening. THat’s the same image as always and I’m just projecting based on the comment, right?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        January 18, 2020 at 2:02 am | #

        I’m sure he went to all the work of digging out the old file and slightly recoloring it to make it a hint more glowery just for ktbear. That’s totally something Willis would do.

        … or maybe he did that years ago and he’s got a dozen different subtle variations and he’s been trolling us for years with change blindness to see how long it takes for us to notice. That’s totally something Willis would do.

        • Geneseepaws
          Geneseepaws
          January 18, 2020 at 2:25 am | #

          Willis is NOT so webcomic god. He’s just an artist who happens to be/have godlike powers, … At the “Damn You” level of art,….artistry,… Ok.
          Webcomic god. I sit corrected.

  4. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    January 18, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 10: No Enjoying How Cute You Think We Are!

    • Ascension
      Ascension
      January 18, 2020 at 1:03 am | #

      Y’know, accurate.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 18, 2020 at 1:47 am | #

      Yeah, that beats DOA Book 10: Shut Your Stupid Face.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 18, 2020 at 10:14 am | #

        “Shut Your Stupid Face” seems like the perfect tsundere Valentine’s Day card. Not that Billie or Ruth would have any experience there.

  5. ktbear
    ktbear
    January 18, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Dammit, SO close…

  6. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 18, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    Oh no, she didn’t say “Lucy Says”.

    • StClair
      StClair
      January 18, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

      Classic ref.

    • Josh Spicer
      Josh Spicer
      January 18, 2020 at 12:45 am | #

      Damn that hits hard.

    • Fiddler115
      Fiddler115
      January 18, 2020 at 1:47 am | #

      It’s a damn shame that Flashbeagle isn’t available on streaming anywhere.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 18, 2020 at 12:39 pm | #

        There’s a few copies on YouTube.

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMR58e891o

        I like the dolly zoom that makes it look like Snoopy’s moonwalking up the street. Ah, 80s animated corner-cutting!

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 18, 2020 at 8:00 pm | #

          Okay so that’s not the entire special, but looking for it sent me down a rabbit hole. I finally popped out of it with two interesting bits of trivia:

          – The special was directly inspired by Flashdance. Charles Shultz drew Snoopy in Alex’s dance/exercise getup after seeing the movie in theaters.

          – Fergie voiced Sally Brown.

          If you’re still looking, there’s a full copy floating around the web and it’s also a bonus feature on the Snoopy’s Reunion DVD.

  7. Wraithy2773
    Wraithy2773
    January 18, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

    …yeah, that is soooooo adorable. 😀

  8. Wraith_Ferron
    Wraith_Ferron
    January 18, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    The comic has been up for 9 minutes, and Ana Chronistic has not commented. Call the cops.

    • Woomy
      Woomy
      January 18, 2020 at 1:10 am | #

      This but unironically?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        January 18, 2020 at 2:07 am | #

        Last time, it was because Ana was writing a flame over hotel online cancellation policies. I don’t think the SWAT team is needed just yet.

  9. Mr D
    Mr D
    January 18, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    …Can someone Define ungenuine?

    And don’t be a smartass going “the lack of genuine-ness”.

    • ktbear
      ktbear
      January 18, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

      If you’re not going to accept not genuine the Collins would have us believe it means false.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      January 18, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

      Not to be confused with anti-genuine.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      January 18, 2020 at 12:17 am | #

      I think it’s her way of saying “fakey”, but this way doesn’t make me want to bellow in her face.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 18, 2020 at 12:31 am | #

      If you have to exclude the obvious answer when you ask a question, then you’re just answering yourself.

    • Sam
      Sam
      January 18, 2020 at 1:14 am | #

      Ungenuine: Lacking in sincerity or authenticy e.g. saying things that aren’t meant, lying, reacting with anger to cover up embarrassment or using sarcasm and snark to deflect from vulnerability are all ungenuine. Someone being genuine is being honest and meaning what they say and not disguising their feelings – someone ungenuine therefore has to in some way not be being so. It is also a far more polite way to refer to it than calling someone a damn liar, fakey or other such words that have an aggressively negative tone to them and stronger negative connotations.

      • Laladoria
        Laladoria
        January 18, 2020 at 1:32 am | #

        So you’re saying ungenuine is just…tsundere

        • DailyBrad
          DailyBrad
          January 18, 2020 at 1:49 am | #

          More or less, yeah.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          January 18, 2020 at 2:08 am | #

          That’s one form of ungenuine, yes.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 18, 2020 at 1:49 am | #

        Ie. Not genuine.

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 18, 2020 at 10:15 am | #

          Pretend that was just below Sam’s post.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      January 18, 2020 at 2:28 am | #

      That is the literal meaning of it though.

    • Lawzlo
      Lawzlo
      January 18, 2020 at 4:43 am | #

      One who is not Ginuwine.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 18, 2020 at 11:08 am | #

        All wines should be Genuwine.

    • DSL
      DSL
      January 18, 2020 at 9:34 am | #

      In my day, we simply said someone was full of sh!t.

  10. Sunmaster57
    Sunmaster57
    January 18, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

    Maybe Lucy has “other things” on her mind?

  11. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    January 18, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

    Somebody commented a couple days ago about the freckles on Ruth’s shoulders.  Looks like she’s got them on her thighs, too (panel three).

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 18, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

      Oh, she’s got ’em all over.

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        January 18, 2020 at 2:32 am | #

        Are you saying that DYW draws all those damn freckles all over her and then draws her clothes over that? If that’s the case, I’m never having a character with freckles/dalmation spots.

        • Geneseepaws
          Geneseepaws
          January 18, 2020 at 2:32 am | #

          Dalmatian

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          January 18, 2020 at 2:41 am | #

          Do you not draw your characters layer by layer, staring with the skeleton and working your way to the clothes?

          • Geneseepaws
            Geneseepaws
            January 18, 2020 at 9:42 am | #

            Why yes I do. Doesn’t everyone do it that way? Is there another way? :—p

            • King Daniel
              King Daniel
              January 18, 2020 at 11:21 am | #

              You could always start with the clothes and work your way in to the skeleton.

              • Freemage
                Freemage
                January 18, 2020 at 11:42 am | #

                This conversation is managing to be very creepy.

                • Marsh Maryrose
                  Marsh Maryrose
                  January 18, 2020 at 5:47 pm | #

                  Oh, we can make it much creepier. Let’s start by re-reading Ray Bradbury’s short story “Skeleton.”

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 18, 2020 at 3:52 am | #

      That was me, about her shoulder blades.

      I really ought to scrape together the Slipshine $$$ to find out where the rest of her freckles are.

      And part of me wants to know if she loses some of her freckles when DofA gets into deep winter (if it’s ever going that far).

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 18, 2020 at 10:01 am | #

        She has freckles on her but she is fine.

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          January 18, 2020 at 10:16 am | #

          “But”?

          Freckles are quite up there on my list, along with glasses. Those are two reasons I like Dorothy.

          • ValdVin
            ValdVin
            January 18, 2020 at 10:18 am | #

            (I hit Post early)

            …and Ruth.

            Given there are at least two non-redheads with freckles (Rachel is the other) I wonder if there’s some author appeal at work.

  12. Suet
    Suet
    January 18, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

    I, too, would have a glazed smile after a good ribbing.

    Even if they are pretty good at the ingenuine divisional.

  13. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    January 18, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

    Billie is fully justified in slaying Lucy to protect her image.

  14. Regalli
    Regalli
    January 18, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

    Lucy, honey, you have to build up significant trust before it comes off as good-natured ribbing and not ‘shit she might be serious.’ Save it for finals week.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 18, 2020 at 1:34 am | #

      Yeah, Lucy. Everything you try is at least slightly awkward. Quit trying.

      • DSL
        DSL
        January 18, 2020 at 9:35 am | #

        Well, then, how will she ever get unawkward?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 18, 2020 at 2:19 am | #

      … didn’t Lucy cover up for Billie and probably save the relationship? If that doesn’t build up trust, then it at least created a pretense in which Billie should pretend that trust had been built in order to maintain that cover.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 18, 2020 at 2:54 am | #

        Eh, she made one save. That doesn’t exactly tie them together in any sort of implicit trust bond.

        • miri
          miri
          January 18, 2020 at 5:35 am | #

          Also Ruth knows that she’s hideously insecure and does stupid things sometimes. It’s not that she wasn’t being cruddy about the relationship but she and Ruth would get past it.

  15. Lingo
    Lingo
    January 18, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

    It’s Lucy versus Lucy Van Pelt.

  16. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    January 18, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

    Billie, you suck at ungenuinousness. You are a raging bad liar in both walkyverse and dumbingverse, you actually care for others but try to hide it with alchohol and violence threats, and no lie you have told has benefited you. You are no different than Walky and Joyce.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 18, 2020 at 12:40 am | #

      She’s hotter than Walky, so at least she’s got that silver medal.

      • Freemage
        Freemage
        January 18, 2020 at 11:46 am | #

        In-universe, I’m not sure that’s the case. Walky has been compared to a carmel lollipop. She’s a different type of hot, yes, but Walky’s technically outperformed her in terms of getting significant others, too. (2:1, which doesn’t seem like a lot, except of course for the fact that we’re just a couple months into freshman year.)

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 18, 2020 at 2:20 am | #

      … so she’s ungenuine in her ungenuineness. Doesn’t that makes her even more ungenuine.

      • DSL
        DSL
        January 18, 2020 at 9:36 am | #

        Genuinely so.

  17. Bathymetheus
    Bathymetheus
    January 18, 2020 at 12:43 am | #

    So . . . that’s why she was sitting watching them? She was enjoying how cute they are?

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      January 18, 2020 at 1:30 am | #

      I mean, wouldn’t you?

      • Bathymetheus
        Bathymetheus
        January 18, 2020 at 2:13 am | #

        Yeah, probably. But that means the whole ‘I’m not being creepy’ spiel was improv. That’s very quick-witted of her.

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 18, 2020 at 3:02 am | #

          yu

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 18, 2020 at 3:09 am | #

            ?? Yes, but to be fair, she has an entire day between scripts to think about it.

            • Bathymetheus
              Bathymetheus
              January 18, 2020 at 9:03 am | #

              Har, har. My point (such as it is) is that Willis has depicted her as naïve, socially awkward, and a bit needy, but also intelligent. This probably has no great significance – I can easily imagine Willis likes writing such characters – but it is possible that it will be relevant to some future plot point (Chekhov’s IQ).

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      January 18, 2020 at 1:52 am | #

      Eh, she was just in the room and studying. They woke up and she looked over, from the sounds of things. It’s honestly not particularly weird.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 18, 2020 at 9:32 am | #

        It certainly didn’t look like that in the earlier strips though. She wasn’t at her desk looking around at them. She didn’t have books or a computer in front of her.
        She was sitting in the chair facing them. It’s really hard to read that as anything other than sitting there watching them sleep.

        • Freemage
          Freemage
          January 18, 2020 at 11:51 am | #

          What IS possible is that she was in the room (maybe standing), and then when they started moving/talking, she saw an opportunity to engage in some light trolling of her roommate. This would explain why she sat down the way she did–it was a deliberate attempt to appear like she’d been watching them cuddle. That fits better with this strip’s dialogue, I think.

  18. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    January 18, 2020 at 12:44 am | #

    Yo like I love Lucy but there’s still this level of creepy and uneasiness with her.

    • Ascension
      Ascension
      January 18, 2020 at 1:06 am | #

      Her fangirl tendencies have been extended to, basically, being a fan of her in-universe friends, which… pretty well is creepy.

      Lucy is our ongoing reminder to never write real-person fic.

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        January 18, 2020 at 1:54 am | #

        I think that’s kind of unfair, I think she’s just got an awkward sense of humor, combined with Billie being obtuse as fuck sometimes.

        That, and like how Joyce once thought Lucy was mocking her, she’s just kind of like a tamer version of early Joyce. Very earnest and bubbly, bit naive. Though, not literally pairing people she knows off like Joyce did way back when, like Joyce shipping Walky and Billie initially.

        • Wizard
          Wizard
          January 18, 2020 at 9:35 am | #

          I’m actually liking Lucy here. She may be a little naive, but she seems like a genuinely nice person. A little gentle ribbing hardly strikes me as an outrageous response to Billie’s bad temper.

  19. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    January 18, 2020 at 1:03 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book X: No Enjoying How Cute You Think We Are

  20. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    January 18, 2020 at 1:33 am | #

    Touche’ alt text, touche’

  21. Laladoria
    Laladoria
    January 18, 2020 at 1:33 am | #

    Lucy, stop trying to distract from how creepy you were being!

  22. Pocky
    Pocky
    January 18, 2020 at 1:38 am | #

    She can’t stop it; now that its all out in the open like this. . .

  23. Clif
    Clif
    January 18, 2020 at 1:41 am | #

    Changing the subject, there’s this character that was occasionally prominent in Shortpack and the main Walkyverse. He was a bit of a jerk, but I wonder why Willis never used him in DOA.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      January 18, 2020 at 1:46 am | #

      What was his name again? Mark Warning?

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        January 18, 2020 at 2:23 am | #

        Marty Washington?

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 18, 2020 at 2:43 am | #

          I know it started with an M.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 18, 2020 at 2:33 am | #

      Let’s see.

      There was Ninja Rick, who was basicly a single gag over and over again and Willis isn’t bringing into a deep story like DoA. (Though I hope to at least see a background cameo of him dressed like a ninja on Halloween.) Then there was Ronnie who… I think is now a poster on Mary’s wall, and isn’t featured more thoroughly for obvious reasons. Jake Manley hasn’t been shown to us yet but is in the story. Other than that, I don’t know who….

      … you mean Batman, don’t you.

      …. nope, can’t figure out who you’re talking about.

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        January 18, 2020 at 2:47 am | #

        Name was Marcus Whiner, yellow hair, blue shirt, jeans, … lived in McNutt hall. Argued like udly with his dad, Blame, who was visiting. Nobody paid attention. Was shown first week, didn’t care for Joyce, and was fell from favor, and was dropped after that.

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          January 18, 2020 at 7:41 am | #

          Come now. Clif clearly just forgot that Guns is female.

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 18, 2020 at 10:10 am | #

            No fair making me snort milk through my nose. I should know better than to catch up on the comments while eating breakfast.

            • He Who Abides
              He Who Abides
              January 18, 2020 at 7:58 pm | #

              😁

      • Wizard
        Wizard
        January 18, 2020 at 9:39 am | #

        I choose to believe that Ninja Rick has actually been in every single DoA strip. If you haven’t seen him, well, what part of “ninja” didn’t you understand?

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 18, 2020 at 10:25 am | #

          Kind of makes you wish you could hack Willis’s account and go back and leave Ninja Rick tags at random.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 18, 2020 at 1:00 pm | #

        Headcanon says Ninja Rick is a landscaper at IU, we just never see him because he’s a ninja.

  24. Sunmaster57
    Sunmaster57
    January 18, 2020 at 2:01 am | #

    Maybe Lucy has ” other things” on her mind?

  25. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    January 18, 2020 at 3:54 am | #

    Per Dora, “I’ll stop when you stop being so adorable!”

  26. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 18, 2020 at 4:26 am | #

    Lol, mais most of us assumed it REALLY was a checklist. We don’t give that gal enough credit.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 18, 2020 at 8:27 am | #

      Maybe if Lucy could write using a recognisable language, instead of thick horizontal lines, we wouldn’t have these sorts of mixups.

  27. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 18, 2020 at 4:50 am | #

    AAAAAAAAAAAALPHA SWEEEEEEEEETIE!

    Heh, sure got them, Lucy. And me, for that matter.

    I still ship Lucy with Dorothy, however.

    • Zee
      Zee
      January 18, 2020 at 10:40 am | #

      Thank you. She is Very Good and deserves praise and friendship

  28. JediMB
    JediMB
    January 18, 2020 at 5:04 am | #

    Not to be confused with ingenuity.

  29. Lone Duck
    Lone Duck
    January 18, 2020 at 5:38 am | #

    If it was Dorothy (or Joyce attempting to be like Dorothy), it would’ve been a full on checklist. (Or Dina, she could’ve had a checklist.)

  30. Lone Duck
    Lone Duck
    January 18, 2020 at 5:45 am | #

    Also, for the most part, Lucy is well adjusted and decidedly not creepy. Billie is wrapped up in her high school insecurities, and Malaya is mostly misanthropic. Lucy’s just had a bad run of roommates.

  31. Pylgrim
    Pylgrim
    January 18, 2020 at 6:45 am | #

    Alt-text: I blame it on the fact that they keep releasing their most powerful ungenuinemons.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 18, 2020 at 10:41 am | #

      You should explain that Ungenuinemons are the anti-particles of the virtual carriers of the Genuinemon Quantum Field, which completes the Unified Substandard Model of physics.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        January 20, 2020 at 3:35 pm | #

        So they aren’t one of the pokemon in the most recent game release? Guess that explains why I can’t find them anywhere.

  32. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    January 18, 2020 at 8:43 am | #

    Come on Billie, what should she do, put a hand in front of her eyes?

  33. ArcaneDarkness
    ArcaneDarkness
    January 18, 2020 at 4:14 pm | #

    She is learning fast.

  34. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    January 18, 2020 at 9:29 pm | #

    What are regionals?

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      January 19, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

      The Regional Ungenuineness playoffs.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 20, 2020 at 3:32 pm | #

      Qualification round for nationals.

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 19h
in the opening pile
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 19h
Imposition proof!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Poop yourself some new hair
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
america's ass (derogatory)
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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com ⋅ 1d
Bad news, America.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
GET UP, PETER. KILL AND EAT
Picture Bible
Action Bible
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
today in #9chickweedlane i learned that alistair and lolly superdrowned
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
today in #9chickweedlane i learned alistair and lolly drowned
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
wonder what that's code for
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "Goon" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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Goon
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The REAL Ari-Dynamic @thereal-aridynamic.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
man hard to believe it's been 10 years since those crazy kids were flying around the courthouse mall like that, I tells ya
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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
“last fall I had this idea for a zine about Dilbert quitting his job and trying to learn to be happy and coming to terms with the fact that he’s trans actually” (posted 4/18/2022)
A sketch of Dilbert sitting at his desk, looking worn out. “There used to be a light inside of me,” he thinks, “when did I let this place snuff it out?”
Dilbert, now with slightly longer hair, eyeliner, and earrings, is putting on a scarf. After wrapping it around her neck, it springs up like her tie did in the comics. She smiles, her mouth visible for the first time.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
how can it be the most popular if it's the only one that's not sold out???????????
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
today in #9chickweedlane i learned alistair and lolly drowned
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Yesterday and today and probably also tomorrow and the next day in #9ChickweedLane I learned you can fill a whole week of strips with drawing the same two submerged heads kissing
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Dumbing of Age: "Riot police" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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Riot police
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
very into these inconvenient, extremely long and pointy shoes that spread across europe in the 14th century and made everyone so horny and effeminate that the church went full on moral panic mode and a bunch of kings made them illegal!!! also everyone got bunions
They were a controversial fashion and faced criticism from several quarters. In 1368, Charles V of France issued an edict banning their construction and use in Paris. An English poem from 1388 complained that men were unable to kneel in prayer because their toes were too long.[37] The c. 1440 morality play Castle of Perseverance includes the footwear in the
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
WON'T ANYONE LET SUNSTREAKER JERK OFF IN PEACE
storybook illustration of sunstreaker sitting down in the extreme foreground holding a rag and a bottle of wax while devastator in the extreme background approaches ominously
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Stop calling them 'tweets' already. You're embarrassing yourself. They're called "bluejaculations" here
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Weathering the colors a little bit
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 4d
paint has struck again
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
(july 3, 2026)
Becky and Carla!  One is |:| and the other is 8D
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Sometimes I forget I have an original Sunstreaker! During Shortpacked! times I was gifted a giant pile of G1 from a fan, and this guy has trouble finding purchase in my memory. The tooling was lost/destroyed decades ago, so he's never been reissued.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
we have a proper dental office with scooby doo mystery inc on the monitors
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Do the other yellow pages have a gorilla
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Amir Talai @amirtalai.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
zohran come to Los Angeles!!!!!!!!!
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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social ⋅ 5d
As I'm working through unemployment stuff, now's a great time to remind folks that I'm very employable! I am seeking full-time comics editorial work (or in a related field), and in the meantime, I am also freelance writing and editing! Hit me up: dmariottewebhost@gmail.com or www.davidmariotte.com
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