I kind of wish we’d gotten more of this between then and now.
At the time, I spent FOREVER worried that Becky/dina would implode. At the time it made sense because of strips like that. But then we got nine years of them being, basically, the most stable and happy couple in the comic.
Sure Becky would have troubles, but they’d still be focused on Dina. I (and many other commenters) essentially figured the “pining after Joyce” arc had been dropped.
Not that I’m complaining we’re getting it now. But it’s weird after so long without much of any of that plot thread being teased.
the rest of the cast has been pointing out how gay Joyce and Dorothy’s friendship felt for years; but I think none of them expected them to ever finally bump uglies. Especially when they both hooked up with other people.
Extreme morning sickness (HG) and middle seat. It was only a 2.5 hour flight and I had to ask the aisle seat stranger to let me out to puke about 8 times… At least I got enough warning to do a polite and didn’t need to parkour strangers.
But the time in the work loos when I’d reached the cubicles and was just stepping in when somebody started chatting to me and I was nodding politely, mouth firmly shut, as long as I could, until, I suddenly turned away from her to start vomiting violently, coincided with me deciding that I should use the disabled loo (one/floor, three floors, a lift, the rooms were also our showers so other people using them was “allowed”, there weren’t any colleagues with any visible disabilities, and the regular stalls were generally available and a decent size so I didn’t feel too bad about occupying them for the few minutes needed to vom in peace).
I don’t think you’d need to justify it or feel bad regardless; extreme morning sickness itself can be a temporary disability, and using a preferred bathroom to deal with vomiting is absolutely reasonable.
My first thought was “I really can’t imagine not at least offering to switch after, IDK, the third time?” Not even for inconvenience reasons, just, to be nice.
I feel like some sort of system needs to be devised for establishing the importance level of a conversation at the outset and to have mutual understanding that any less than a 9/10, you can abandon it in favor of imminent nonoptional bodily functions of whichever sort without offense taken
Eh, I liked mine.
Built my own in an old 3,5m-ceiling house.
It was far up, where the warm air accumulated, and I had a nice high view from up there over the whole room and out the window down to the road.
Okay, that one time when I went to my first and only capoira training was ugly.
When I woke up middle of the night, had to pee and swung out in the usual hardwired movement pattern?
I hadnt noticed yet what horrible things all those handstands had done to my whole shoulder musculature.
Arms simply gave out mid-grab on the handholds, but when my center of mass alread had left the bed. Dropped like a helpless stone.
Alternative explanation: Dina doomscrolling to keep her mind on watching Amber’s meds. Mine has a tendency to wander off if left undistracted while I, for example, cook dinner.
I think QueenofSodor is right. If she was just checking the time for Amber’s meds, she could take her eyes off her phone long enough to hand the meds to Amber.
Well, Amber did say she craves mess, and if you want something done right, do it yourself. Show them all, Amber, show them what it means to be a true virtuoso of drama and shitstorm!
I suspect it would be more practical to solicit discrete help to get the matrass moved to the floor for the duration. Dorothy and Joyce owe them one, for example.
ngl i think if i ever went to a school that ridiculous i may have just pissed my pants. i would have a mental breakdown over getting a C for most of my scholastic career. real “treat me like a dog? okay then” energy in that kid
Easy. Amber can pee into a super soaker bottle. Attach it to the gun, then at the right angle shoot the stream into the toilet or sink. Problem solved!
Dang, how long is Amber going to be out of commission? Can’t see her doing Amazi-Girl stuff for like, weeks now which translates to years in real time.
To be fair, the last thing she was doing was basically drawing attention to herself so others could get away, so the bright identifying primary colors probably helped
“Why does Batman wear dark colors? Because Batman doesn’t want to get shot at night.
Why does Robin wear bright colors? Because Batman doesn’t want to get shot at night.”
Both have the same answer: Whatever the story needs.
Also plenty of people have walked away from something that should have been deadly without a scratch, it doesn’t make them actually impervious, just lucky.
Well I feel there should be some consistency, especially since the windshield was proceeded the car surfing sequence facilitated by the amazingly inconsistent grappling hook.
I’ve also crashed through a car windshield with zero real injuries. Only time I’ve been stabbed was by a doc, and he gave me a baby at the end of it. I bounced back from both super quickly all things considered, but the C Section had me down a few days at least, and that was with a sharp scalpel. Car windshield had me dazed and then back to playing within the hour (I was a kid).
AG was either stabbed (likely with a blunt knife), broke a rib which punctured the skin, or shot and then had back alley surgery on a table which likely wasn’t really a sterile environment. Girl’s lucky to not have a raging infection, she’s gonna be in way worse shape than when she fell through a windshield and acquired no/few skin breaking injuries.
Plus, spiked adrenaline is a pain-killer. She was riding high during the grappling hook car chase. If Amazi-Girl was attacked from an ambush, her body would not have been riding high on adrenaline and she’d get the full dose. Even if she did see it coming, she had been punching the bacon patrol at the protest… she was probably already coming down from adrenaline.
(Based on a very amateur understanding of how human body works, I’m a liberal arts dropout, not a doctor, so if someone who actually knows their shit wants to correct me, have at it.)
Speaking from experience… adrenaline is a helluva drug, but it doesn’t make you feel better afterwards. To the contrary, “afterwards” is when you discover all the things you did to yourself while you were wired to the gills on combat stimulants and painkillers.
It helps that she didn’t go THROUGH through the windshield, she shattered it but didn’t go through it. I imagine she’d get a big ole bruise from it, but the only injury we really ‘see’ her have from that entire thing is a wound on her head that we see her trying to handle: dumbingofage.com/category/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/
Also there was a timeskip of four days after, so you could say in the interim Amber might have been like “man that car fucked my ass up” whereas THIS time, I don’t think the wounds Amber sustained have been confirmed but based on her bleeding out and requiring surgical glue, she seemed to have several lacerations. The most worrisome I would say is the one in her stomach, which could have cut some muscle that would cause pain.
Also regarding why a head wound might cause less issues healing versus these lacerations, I’ve had two head wounds that bled heavily. One from being hit in the head by a rock, the other from being bitten by a dog (I moreso got grazed then BIT bit but it still bled a LOT). Didn’t get stitches for either injury. …Maybe SHOULD have gotten stitches, but you know how it do. For both wounds, once the bleeding was handled I just had to keep the wounds clean and they healed to make pretty epic scars.
Neurodivergents weigh in: are you the kind of ND who remembers medication times like clockwork on the dot every single day or are you the kind of ND who leaves remembering medication times in the hands of God who may or may not exist
Setting alarms is actually a really good idea. I have to write down AND set alarms for every task I have to do or I WILL forget to do it. Somehow though I’ve never considered doing that for meds!
Also need to be able to tell the difference between taking your meds and thinking about taking your meds and doing something else before that and never actually taking them.
One day I was having a pretty bad day (overstimulated, period, tired) and I had to run to the store. Grabbed my purse and phone, but only realized I forgot my keys the second I stepped out the door and had locked the door behind me. I had to climb in through the back of the house to go back in and grab my keys. It doesn’t happen often but when it does, oof. I don’t take any pills but I can only take vitamins regularly if I pair taking them with some other routine thing I have to do. Otherwise, they do not exist.
Seeing a lot of people forgetting to take ther meds so its called My Therapy if anyone’s interested. I prefer an app to an alarm bc it’s really easy to dismiss an alarm and forget it, I often forget *if* I took my meds that day so having somewhere I can cross it off OR something that keeps track of my supply so I can compare it to how many are in the bottle is really helpful, and having something to scream at me when my supply is getting low is handy- fUCK i have four days of Wellbutrin left and I still need to get my prescription renewed oopsie
Forgot to actually include my review of the app- its aight. Does it’s base function well. Has a streak feature I find annoying but I can see how someone else would find it useful, you can turn it off. They recently started putting small banner ads in the reminder pop-up which is annoying and a lil dystopian but ultimately unobtrusive
Thanks for the tip; I also have a hard time remembering *if* I took my medication– I use those pill boxes labeled for the days of the week, and that helps, but only if I remember to take time to refill them each week. And then sometimes I’ll get a good pattern of remembering and go, it’s fine, I don’t need to do that anymore because I have learned nothing from tales of hubris.
I have a strategy for this where I get a marker and write the date into the pill wrapper tray next to each one. Hopefully this helps for anyone whose pills don’t come in a bottle
but take it from me, you’re ever thankful for some kind of solution when you’re in pain and can’t get out of bed at ALL (which has been me for the last three weeks ;-;)
These are my favorite tracks for pain management. (Trigger warning for psueudoscientific new-age woo-woo and deep cultural appropriation, of course, but I still use what works for me, regardless of source…)
re: siphon, it’s probably not what yak is thinking
i just go in a container in such a position that I don’t need to move my leg that much, and the siphon is there to dispose of it daily
likewise I’ve had to come up with some creative solutions to be able to get myself to the bathroom to keep myself clean etc, at least the pain has gone down but still can’t walk or even stretch out my leg all the way ;-;
The good news is that keeping Amazi-Girl out of commission for a while will definitely help with ducking the cops. The bad news is that Amber’s gonna have to figure out how to function like a real person in the interim. The worse news is that I could definitely see her abusing the painkillers to try to force herself back outside. Dina might have bigger problems than Becky heading her way.
Amber doesn’t need to leave her dorm because she doesn’t need to go to any of her classes because she knew all the material the day she signed up, and only needs to be here to get the piece of paper. That means she just needs to figure out being fed, and Dina is a really good friend.
I hope Becky will realize how she’s hurt Dina, and will apologize. I know she is hurt by finding out Joyce is into girls now, but she’s already got an amazing girlfriend. I’m also hoping Dina is able to forgive her, and move past this; Dina doesn’t deserve the hurt.
On the topic of Amber: Invest in a second xtreme mug, and your problems will be (temporarily) solved.
I get the feeling Dina feels responsible somehow. It’s a kind thing to monitor your roommate’s medication schedule, but also you don’t have to and it’s fine.
Or maybe I’m overthinking it. Dina could just be kind.
When all five lanes on the northbound I-5 are blocked by a rollover accident with an enormous motor home, one does what is necessary, although while she keeps it as a souvenir of that trip, my wife refuses to ever use that giant mug again no matter how much bleach it’s soaked in.
Yep. Once you start paying attention a lot of it also becomes obviously wildly unnecessary — “the necessary equipment” would’ve conveyed the exact same (slightly misguided) sentiment!
Cissexist and redundant, which is a special subcategory.
(“Surprisingly antifeminsit” is the category for radfems pretending to think “pregnant people” is dehumanizing, as if people aren’t human, and “you should just say women”, as if all women are pregnant. Literally out here reinventing biological determinism and pretending that it’s suddenly feminist to just assume “any ~biological~ man can beat any woman at literally any sport”. Screeeech, do you ladies hear yourselves.)
“Equipment” alone seem a bit too unspecific, IMO, as it could also refer to a material thing that might not be part of the human body. So I wouldn’t call it redundant, personally.
I’ll admit I am not entirely up on the semantic, but that’s precisely why I said “male equipment” instead of something like “man-gear”. It had been my understanding so far that Male/Female was in reference to the sex whereas man/woman was in reference to the gender. has that changed?
I thought the comment would be funnier if I used an euphemism instead of just penis and it’s the only reason I didn’t use penis. I wrote “male-equipment” precisely with the intent of not wanting to be trans-exclusive.
I don’t what proper euphemism could be used then, because just saying “equipment” seem a bit too non-specific to me.
I’m glad Amber has Dina there to help her while she recovers from her injuries. Hopefully Dina is taking proper care of herself too while helping Amber.
Jair Bolsonaro has already been tried, convicted, and sentenced to 27 years. What just happened is the police arresting him a few days ahead of when his prison sentence was supposed to start because of evidence that he was planning to flee the country.
Oddly, I’m not having that problem. Maybe NoScript’s blocking it for me? Regardless, if your browser has something like Firefox’s reader view, give it a try? Sometimes it bypasses such things.
Maybe we could give him an actual football in place of it, and try to convince him he has to do sport-like things to activate it? The prospect of actually exercising should discourage him from testing it and finding out it’s a trick.
One of my favorite True Trump Fax is that he thinks that everyone is born with a finite amount of energy, like a battery, and activity drains it, and when you run out of energy, you die. So people who exercise are just draining their batteries faster and killing themselves sooner. Which is why he’s basically a bag of orange Jell-O in a bad suit.
It’s just a suitcase with a code in it. Unless we’re at DEFCON 1, the president can’t launch so much as a hissy-fit without the concurrence of a large number of other people. The safeguards were built into the system after the movie Dr. Strangelove came out, and the Air Force realized they didn’t actually have a way to stop a rogue base commander from launching an attack.
I was gonna comment about how any university would just add a cot or other accessible solution to a room for a student who needs it due to temporary disability . . . but then I remembered that Amber’s injuries are top secret and not to be shared with the university.
Wild-ass prediction for the day – I expect they will get Joe (or perhaps one of the football guys) to lift her down. Perhaps even to carry her to the toilet door. Dina will have to take over from there. It’s a good way to keep Joe in the action.
Dorothy and Joyce’s entire friend group banding together and getting closer with one another while the girls continue to completely alienate and ignore them would be very cute.
Ooh, sympathy. I’ve spent way too much time waiting for a machine to dispense another shot of morphine. Saved one of the cartridges once, as a memento.
I’m guessing it’s less “you get to choose which goes into your room” thing than a “you express a preference, and if there’s enough loft bed rooms, you get one of those”.
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Well Looks like Amazi-girl isn’t fighting the System for you again anytime soon
Every hero needs some down time.
Believe me, being in notable pain is the opposite of downtime.
It’s not relaxation, but it doesn’t seem like uptime.
if she takes any (bad) lessons from Batman, she will try to work through the injuries.
she will 100% be out and about before fully healing. ~<3
Yeah, that’s worked so well for Tiger Woods.
walky aside i’m surprised she hasnt inspired some competent copycats tho. if not a hacker ver or so to do some non physical fighting
aaaaaaawwwwweeeee
Dina is so helpful and such a wonderful friend
she don’t deserve this pain she going through
TT~TT <3
i can’t believe this strip https://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/riddles/ was 9 years ago
I kind of wish we’d gotten more of this between then and now.
At the time, I spent FOREVER worried that Becky/dina would implode. At the time it made sense because of strips like that. But then we got nine years of them being, basically, the most stable and happy couple in the comic.
Sure Becky would have troubles, but they’d still be focused on Dina. I (and many other commenters) essentially figured the “pining after Joyce” arc had been dropped.
Not that I’m complaining we’re getting it now. But it’s weird after so long without much of any of that plot thread being teased.
I mean, it definitely wasn’t dropped in the meantime. See https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/03-trystin-in-the-wind/absolves/ for a more recent example from early 2024
Oh wow. I went back a few steps to catch the context… And Joe’s face in the last panel REALLY stood out to me: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/03-trystin-in-the-wind/detox/
As Joyce says she won’t let go of Dorothy until “we prove we can touch and have it not be romantic or sexual.”
Joe really saw this coming from a mile away, huh?
the rest of the cast has been pointing out how gay Joyce and Dorothy’s friendship felt for years; but I think none of them expected them to ever finally bump uglies. Especially when they both hooked up with other people.
I too find myself occasionally haunted by moments from 9 years ago
If you ever suddenly have to puke in the middle of the night, loft beds suck.
Like being in the middle seat of a 8 hour plane ride.
Extreme morning sickness (HG) and middle seat. It was only a 2.5 hour flight and I had to ask the aisle seat stranger to let me out to puke about 8 times… At least I got enough warning to do a polite and didn’t need to parkour strangers.
But the time in the work loos when I’d reached the cubicles and was just stepping in when somebody started chatting to me and I was nodding politely, mouth firmly shut, as long as I could, until, I suddenly turned away from her to start vomiting violently, coincided with me deciding that I should use the disabled loo (one/floor, three floors, a lift, the rooms were also our showers so other people using them was “allowed”, there weren’t any colleagues with any visible disabilities, and the regular stalls were generally available and a decent size so I didn’t feel too bad about occupying them for the few minutes needed to vom in peace).
I don’t think you’d need to justify it or feel bad regardless; extreme morning sickness itself can be a temporary disability, and using a preferred bathroom to deal with vomiting is absolutely reasonable.
Tbh I’m surprised they didn’t just switch seats with you at that point. Sounds more convenient for the both of tou
My first thought was “I really can’t imagine not at least offering to switch after, IDK, the third time?” Not even for inconvenience reasons, just, to be nice.
I feel like some sort of system needs to be devised for establishing the importance level of a conversation at the outset and to have mutual understanding that any less than a 9/10, you can abandon it in favor of imminent nonoptional bodily functions of whichever sort without offense taken
I don’t even think it needs to be a system. I think this should be the default assumption among humans.
If you have a tendency to toss around in bed to the point of falling out, loft beds *really* suck.
I had a niece at University who found that out the hard way. Was in the hospital for awhile.
Don’t they have any sidewalls?
Apparently not.
That’s horrifying
I wasn’t quite that bad, but I did break my arm.
Loft beds suck at everything except maximizing floor space.
Eh, I liked mine.
Built my own in an old 3,5m-ceiling house.
It was far up, where the warm air accumulated, and I had a nice high view from up there over the whole room and out the window down to the road.
Okay, that one time when I went to my first and only capoira training was ugly.
When I woke up middle of the night, had to pee and swung out in the usual hardwired movement pattern?
I hadnt noticed yet what horrible things all those handstands had done to my whole shoulder musculature.
Arms simply gave out mid-grab on the handholds, but when my center of mass alread had left the bed. Dropped like a helpless stone.
new saddest thing ever just dropped: dina doomscrolling to take her mind off becky
Maybe she’s dinoscrolling.
dinascrolling
Alternative explanation: Dina doomscrolling to keep her mind on watching Amber’s meds. Mine has a tendency to wander off if left undistracted while I, for example, cook dinner.
I assumed she’s just checking the time to properly time out when to give Amber Doses. That’s said she’s lookin’ rough regardless.
😖😖😖😖😖😖
😭😭😭😭😭😭🦖
*plays “A Grim Fate” from Dragon Ball Z on hacked muzak*
She’s probably checking her phone’s clock, or maybe a timer. I sometimes use my phone’s stopwatch when my roommate’s taking time-sensitive medication.
I think QueenofSodor is right. If she was just checking the time for Amber’s meds, she could take her eyes off her phone long enough to hand the meds to Amber.
Is it wise, or just observant?
She*
I think the antecedent there was meant to be the comment. As in, “Is that assessment wise, or just observant?”
X streeemly observant.
Think Dina’s wise because she tossed the loft bed the minute she got a dinosaur.
God I wish that was me
having just got through a surgery, and having had to deal with painkillers. . . no, I don’t wish that on you lol
Don’t forget that all of this is deeply illegal so you have to suffer in secret
and have to remember she probably owes a mob debt lol
You wish you were in severe pain while having to pee while being on a loft bed?
Mysterious indeed are the ways of the Taffy.
With the recent abdominal surgery, the overstuffed bladder, or the doomscroller?
I too wish I was a bottle of painkillers. Finally I could relieve pain rather than causing it.
Dude…
Felt that one.
Just wait until the drugs kick in, then go pee. Don’t try it now.
She can sleep on the giant plush dinosaur… for practicality.
With Dina, while cuddling.
Yes, mixed rebound and painkillers isn’t the best way.
Well, Amber did say she craves mess, and if you want something done right, do it yourself. Show them all, Amber, show them what it means to be a true virtuoso of drama and shitstorm!
I suspect it would be more practical to solicit discrete help to get the matrass moved to the floor for the duration. Dorothy and Joyce owe them one, for example.
It’d be a bold move to trust those two with your mattress, though…..
i dont’ think it’s been cleaned since the last time becky/dina got drunk and hooked up behind it tho
Her drink is a gallon size. The pain stars are from her bladder. Its an Amazi-Bladder, but there are limits.
Oh my. Poor Amber. Been there after surgery, and I only had a tall bed, not a bunk.
Amber just needs two of those X-Treem Gulp cups- one full, the other empty.
We’re all thinking this, right?
Though one empty one will still solve the immediate problem.
I was 😉
And I found these comment because I assumed someone shurly had already mentioned it and and I should probably do a quick search first.
This bed situation is all ending in Amber joining Dina on the dinosaur, I’m callin’ it now
There is space for both.
If the Dinosaur’s a’rockin’
Don’t come a’knockin’
I don’t think *Dina’s* using it at the moment…
No negativity today cuz Amber’s thighs are on screen.
A glorious day indeed.
No argument with the sentiment, particularly the thighs appreciation.
But I bet we could get a row started over how terrible Joyce and Dorothy are to have still not checked on Amber.
I’m pretty sure she would not have appreciated them checking in on her at fuck-no-thirty when they got up.
I can’t see them entering a room with Dina and not immediately making a bad situation worse right now
It’s always a good day when Amber’s thighs are visible. Unless they were detached; that would not be good.
XTREEM MUG SPOTTED!!!!!!!!!!
X-TREEEEEEEEM! I haven’t seen that mug in a long long time!
Assuming she got the mug from Walky, in this dimension. Reality. Continuity. Canon. Whatever you want to call it.
Return of the X-Treeem mug!
Thank you for spelling it correctly! These people, I swear.
Adding an s makes the pun more obvious though. I see it’s an X-treeeeem Gulpee Girl!! With two bangs. Bang bang.
you shot me down
Shouldn’t that get a tag?
I’m assuming the green line at the top indicates the X-TREEEM cup’s fullness. Of what, I could not say.
Don’t trust bladders.
What about Amazi-Bladders?
Don’t Amazi-Trust them.
Finally someone gets it.
Me either, unreliable fucks. Got a C in my IGCSE history exam cuz of mine, history was my best subject!!!!
Maybe some schools shouldn’t literally ban kids from pissing once the exam starts
ngl i think if i ever went to a school that ridiculous i may have just pissed my pants. i would have a mental breakdown over getting a C for most of my scholastic career. real “treat me like a dog? okay then” energy in that kid
How does sleeping on a giant plush dinosaur work? Fall asleep and roll off onto floor? Well, that’d be me, anyway.
If you pee HARD enough you could make it to the toilet from the bed. You just gotta believe.
Easy. Amber can pee into a super soaker bottle. Attach it to the gun, then at the right angle shoot the stream into the toilet or sink. Problem solved!
Yotomoe, I think peeing that hard would be painful in itself. Experimenting could be entertaining, but perhaps a different time.
I’ve been bedridden all month and had to pee in bottles cuz I couldn’t lift my leg up without being in AGONY
so yeah, this strip is a real mood today that way :/
At least in the hospital they gave me a catheter to a jug. It’s hard to get a loft bed equipped with one without explaining why you need it.
omg the XTREEME Mug.
TAG THE MUG!
Dang, how long is Amber going to be out of commission? Can’t see her doing Amazi-Girl stuff for like, weeks now which translates to years in real time.
She amazes in worse condition every major conflict. She’ll be Oracle at best in a few more fights.
Maybe she should take the hint and hang up the cape for good, or at least stop wearing bright, identifying, primary colors.
To be fair, the last thing she was doing was basically drawing attention to herself so others could get away, so the bright identifying primary colors probably helped
“Why does Batman wear dark colors? Because Batman doesn’t want to get shot at night.
Why does Robin wear bright colors? Because Batman doesn’t want to get shot at night.”
Amber CAN’T be in a good mood. That’s just the sort of thing that’ll make a person pissy.
I was originally going to say: “Here have a wee little clap for your efforts”,
but I really wouldn’t want you to need antibiotics …
Now see, I was just going to groan.
As an aficionado of pun tellers, on a scale of 1-10, I’d have to say yer an eight.
Dina’s expression makes me want to curl up on the ground and cry.
minus the curling up part
is what im doing right now 😭😭😭
I don’t know why she’s feeling so bad this time, she was able to take crashing through a car windshield without much problem.
Both have the same answer: Whatever the story needs.
Also plenty of people have walked away from something that should have been deadly without a scratch, it doesn’t make them actually impervious, just lucky.
Mostly the first thing tho.
Well I feel there should be some consistency, especially since the windshield was proceeded the car surfing sequence facilitated by the amazingly inconsistent grappling hook.
She switch hands between frames. Big deal.
I’ve also crashed through a car windshield with zero real injuries. Only time I’ve been stabbed was by a doc, and he gave me a baby at the end of it. I bounced back from both super quickly all things considered, but the C Section had me down a few days at least, and that was with a sharp scalpel. Car windshield had me dazed and then back to playing within the hour (I was a kid).
AG was either stabbed (likely with a blunt knife), broke a rib which punctured the skin, or shot and then had back alley surgery on a table which likely wasn’t really a sterile environment. Girl’s lucky to not have a raging infection, she’s gonna be in way worse shape than when she fell through a windshield and acquired no/few skin breaking injuries.
Plus, spiked adrenaline is a pain-killer. She was riding high during the grappling hook car chase. If Amazi-Girl was attacked from an ambush, her body would not have been riding high on adrenaline and she’d get the full dose. Even if she did see it coming, she had been punching the bacon patrol at the protest… she was probably already coming down from adrenaline.
(Based on a very amateur understanding of how human body works, I’m a liberal arts dropout, not a doctor, so if someone who actually knows their shit wants to correct me, have at it.)
Speaking from experience… adrenaline is a helluva drug, but it doesn’t make you feel better afterwards. To the contrary, “afterwards” is when you discover all the things you did to yourself while you were wired to the gills on combat stimulants and painkillers.
Yeah, that’s what I was trying to say, but yours was much more succinct.
She was wearing her windshield proof suit at the time.
And it just happened to be a Reutech smart-breakaway-windshield designed to absorb momentum. .
*designed to either bounce or shatter in a harmless way to absorb momentum.
I think it’s time to go to bed.
It helps that she didn’t go THROUGH through the windshield, she shattered it but didn’t go through it. I imagine she’d get a big ole bruise from it, but the only injury we really ‘see’ her have from that entire thing is a wound on her head that we see her trying to handle: dumbingofage.com/category/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/
Also there was a timeskip of four days after, so you could say in the interim Amber might have been like “man that car fucked my ass up” whereas THIS time, I don’t think the wounds Amber sustained have been confirmed but based on her bleeding out and requiring surgical glue, she seemed to have several lacerations. The most worrisome I would say is the one in her stomach, which could have cut some muscle that would cause pain.
I LINKED THE WRONG THING FUCK https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/glasses-2/ here it is
Also regarding why a head wound might cause less issues healing versus these lacerations, I’ve had two head wounds that bled heavily. One from being hit in the head by a rock, the other from being bitten by a dog (I moreso got grazed then BIT bit but it still bled a LOT). Didn’t get stitches for either injury. …Maybe SHOULD have gotten stitches, but you know how it do. For both wounds, once the bleeding was handled I just had to keep the wounds clean and they healed to make pretty epic scars.
The first law of superheroes: realism is only important when it advances the plot
Wounds are there to show how tough the hero is when he fights on despite them.
Neurodivergents weigh in: are you the kind of ND who remembers medication times like clockwork on the dot every single day or are you the kind of ND who leaves remembering medication times in the hands of God who may or may not exist
Neither. I’m the kind of idiot who has to set alarms or I will never remember until it’s too late.
Occasionally I will forget to set alarms. Fortunately I have a wife who takes care of me and we avoid complete disasters,
Setting alarms is actually a really good idea. I have to write down AND set alarms for every task I have to do or I WILL forget to do it. Somehow though I’ve never considered doing that for meds!
I mentioned forgetting to take my meds to my therapist who asked if I knew what was making me forget, and I said, “I think it’s called ADHD?”
To his credit, he laughed.
Gotta take meds to remember to take the meds that make you remember to take your meds…….the struggle is real.
Also need to be able to tell the difference between taking your meds and thinking about taking your meds and doing something else before that and never actually taking them.
god damnit i keep having this problem with ibuprofen. middle age gets you quick
Undiagnosed
But man I can’t focus on tasks let alone remember medication times and the like.
Oh I’m leaving it in God’s hands 100%
Fuck, I actually forgot to take my meds since like Monday. Fuck.
Go get ’em, tiger.
One day I was having a pretty bad day (overstimulated, period, tired) and I had to run to the store. Grabbed my purse and phone, but only realized I forgot my keys the second I stepped out the door and had locked the door behind me. I had to climb in through the back of the house to go back in and grab my keys. It doesn’t happen often but when it does, oof. I don’t take any pills but I can only take vitamins regularly if I pair taking them with some other routine thing I have to do. Otherwise, they do not exist.
The only thing that keeps me remembering to take vitamins is only buying tasty ones. Which means I usually only remember to take my vitamin C gummies.
I have someone to help remind me of my morning meds, but evening meds? That’s in the hand of The Fates, and I would never take that away from them.
I mostly remember moring meds, unless life is too chaotic (non-routine), but anything outside of that is in (atheist option).
Okay, first off… I did not expect to be called out this hard.
Taking pills is easy, I just do it when I wake up.
Now, eating meals the same time every day? Impossible.
I’m usually pretty punctual but, uh, this post reminded me to take my hormones, so results will vary.
I’m the ND who knows I’m the latter so I got an app to remember for me. Keeps track of my supply too
Seeing a lot of people forgetting to take ther meds so its called My Therapy if anyone’s interested. I prefer an app to an alarm bc it’s really easy to dismiss an alarm and forget it, I often forget *if* I took my meds that day so having somewhere I can cross it off OR something that keeps track of my supply so I can compare it to how many are in the bottle is really helpful, and having something to scream at me when my supply is getting low is handy- fUCK i have four days of Wellbutrin left and I still need to get my prescription renewed oopsie
Forgot to actually include my review of the app- its aight. Does it’s base function well. Has a streak feature I find annoying but I can see how someone else would find it useful, you can turn it off. They recently started putting small banner ads in the reminder pop-up which is annoying and a lil dystopian but ultimately unobtrusive
a thousand thank you’s for this tip. i will give it a shot and see if it helps. from one ND to another, thank you.
Thanks for the tip; I also have a hard time remembering *if* I took my medication– I use those pill boxes labeled for the days of the week, and that helps, but only if I remember to take time to refill them each week. And then sometimes I’ll get a good pattern of remembering and go, it’s fine, I don’t need to do that anymore because I have learned nothing from tales of hubris.
I have a strategy for this where I get a marker and write the date into the pill wrapper tray next to each one. Hopefully this helps for anyone whose pills don’t come in a bottle
*onto
Happy to help, both of ya ✌️. Hope everyone remembered their meds today and I hope you remember tomorrow too
At me to the list. 🙂 Just installed it.
I’m the kind who just remembered my meds because I read this comment and now have to go take them right away or I’ll forget.
I’m the clockwork on the dot kind, which apparently puts me very much in the minority here.
Right, Dina, get a hose from the hardware store. We can make this work.
Siphons are an established technology. You just have to prime them.
ewwwwww
i mean it’s a little gross
but take it from me, you’re ever thankful for some kind of solution when you’re in pain and can’t get out of bed at ALL (which has been me for the last three weeks ;-;)
I feel like there’s easier and safer ways to remove liquids from your bladder than using a siphon though
Trying this again without HTML, in hopes of bypassing automatic moderation…
I am so sorry that you are in such pain right now! Ouchies!!!
Sending hopes that you get/feel better soon.
Did I already send you these? Obligatory link dump ensues…
coveredca.com
findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov
freeclinics.com/sta/california
(Assuming you’re still in Cali)
I hope you get necessary healing ASAP!
Obligatory follow-up link dump:
benefitscal.com
needhelppayingbills.com/html/california_free_community_clin.html
californiafreeclinics.org/member-clinics.html
I hope you feel better soon!!!
These are my favorite tracks for pain management. (Trigger warning for psueudoscientific new-age woo-woo and deep cultural appropriation, of course, but I still use what works for me, regardless of source…)
insighttimer.com/RelationshipYogin/guided-meditations/pain-reducing-meditation-endocannabinoid-system-activation-for-physical-and-emotional-pain-with-isochronic-tones-waterfall-sounds-and-spiritual-music
insighttimer.com/anneangelone/guided-meditations/the-cbd-effect
insighttimer.com/healingvibrationsmedia/guided-meditations/pain-relief-sound-bath
thanks for caring Laura, means a lot ;-;
re: siphon, it’s probably not what yak is thinking
i just go in a container in such a position that I don’t need to move my leg that much, and the siphon is there to dispose of it daily
likewise I’ve had to come up with some creative solutions to be able to get myself to the bathroom to keep myself clean etc, at least the pain has gone down but still can’t walk or even stretch out my leg all the way ;-;
If the mobility troubles continue, you might look into finding some free support or adaptation at home:
https://www.cdss.ca.gov/in-home-supportive-services
https://calsilc.ca.gov/independent-locator/
https://www.ilru.org/projects/cil-net/cil-center-and-association-directory-results/CA
Caring about you… ❤️🩹
If the mobility troubles continue, you might look into finding some free support or adaptation at home:
cdss.ca.gov/in-home-supportive-services
calsilc.ca.gov/independent-locator
ilru.org/projects/cil-net/cil-center-and-association-directory-results/CA
Caring about you… ❤️🩹
The way Dina takes care of Amber is so sweet. We all should have a Dina in our lives.
and we should also strive to BE a Dina for our loved ones. 🙂
Excellent point 🙂
unfortunately dina is literally perfect so idk that’s a lot to live up to
i mean she does have that bottle of extreme gulp right there but prolly better to ask dina to just get an alternative
The good news is that keeping Amazi-Girl out of commission for a while will definitely help with ducking the cops. The bad news is that Amber’s gonna have to figure out how to function like a real person in the interim. The worse news is that I could definitely see her abusing the painkillers to try to force herself back outside. Dina might have bigger problems than Becky heading her way.
Amber doesn’t need to leave her dorm because she doesn’t need to go to any of her classes because she knew all the material the day she signed up, and only needs to be here to get the piece of paper. That means she just needs to figure out being fed, and Dina is a really good friend.
I hope Becky will realize how she’s hurt Dina, and will apologize. I know she is hurt by finding out Joyce is into girls now, but she’s already got an amazing girlfriend. I’m also hoping Dina is able to forgive her, and move past this; Dina doesn’t deserve the hurt.
On the topic of Amber: Invest in a second xtreme mug, and your problems will be (temporarily) solved.
I think Becky is very well aware that she hurt Dina, and that’s only adding to the self-loathing at the moment
Yeah, people seem to be missing that “I hurt Dina” is literally one of the things she’s catastrophizing about right now.
I get the feeling Dina feels responsible somehow. It’s a kind thing to monitor your roommate’s medication schedule, but also you don’t have to and it’s fine.
Or maybe I’m overthinking it. Dina could just be kind.
Seeing how she got her something prescription-strong she might be worried about potential overdose.
In addition to Amber being her first friend at college, she feels that she owes Amazi-Girl for saving Becky in the first kidnapping incident.
she’s also slept more terribly than usual
last time we saw her, she was sleeping on a mat on the floor,
she just couldn’t bear to sleep on the dinosaur bed, because of what that would remind her of
TT~TT
The solution is sitting rIGHT NEXT to you, Amber… Oh wait, you are don’t have the male equipment required for the procedure. Nevermind, then.
As an owner of a vag, It requires a bit of effort, but she can absolutely pee in that cup. Speaking from experience.
Look I’m not saying I’m proud that I’ve done it, I’m just saying I’ve been in that situation.
When all five lanes on the northbound I-5 are blocked by a rollover accident with an enormous motor home, one does what is necessary, although while she keeps it as a souvenir of that trip, my wife refuses to ever use that giant mug again no matter how much bleach it’s soaked in.
Valid on all counts.
Please don’t refer to a penis as “male equipment.” Thats cissexist language.
Yep. Once you start paying attention a lot of it also becomes obviously wildly unnecessary — “the necessary equipment” would’ve conveyed the exact same (slightly misguided) sentiment!
Cissexist and redundant, which is a special subcategory.
(“Surprisingly antifeminsit” is the category for radfems pretending to think “pregnant people” is dehumanizing, as if people aren’t human, and “you should just say women”, as if all women are pregnant. Literally out here reinventing biological determinism and pretending that it’s suddenly feminist to just assume “any ~biological~ man can beat any woman at literally any sport”. Screeeech, do you ladies hear yourselves.)
“Equipment” alone seem a bit too unspecific, IMO, as it could also refer to a material thing that might not be part of the human body. So I wouldn’t call it redundant, personally.
I’ll admit I am not entirely up on the semantic, but that’s precisely why I said “male equipment” instead of something like “man-gear”. It had been my understanding so far that Male/Female was in reference to the sex whereas man/woman was in reference to the gender. has that changed?
I thought the comment would be funnier if I used an euphemism instead of just penis and it’s the only reason I didn’t use penis. I wrote “male-equipment” precisely with the intent of not wanting to be trans-exclusive.
I don’t what proper euphemism could be used then, because just saying “equipment” seem a bit too non-specific to me.
I’m glad Amber has Dina there to help her while she recovers from her injuries. Hopefully Dina is taking proper care of herself too while helping Amber.
OFF: Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, that tried a coup im 2022, is arrested today.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/far-right-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-arrested-in-brazil
That took way too long.
Jair Bolsonaro has already been tried, convicted, and sentenced to 27 years. What just happened is the police arresting him a few days ahead of when his prison sentence was supposed to start because of evidence that he was planning to flee the country.
Good for them. Man’s a straight-up fascist IIRC. Big ups to Brazil.
Can’t say I’m a fan of the Gaurdian’s new, if you aren’t paying you can’t reject all for cookies and permissions setup.
Oddly, I’m not having that problem. Maybe NoScript’s blocking it for me? Regardless, if your browser has something like Firefox’s reader view, give it a try? Sometimes it bypasses such things.
I understand you, but they are the only foreign media that have reported this when I woke up.
go figure, the United States as usual is basically the Florida of the world in just about every sense you can think of (-_-)
don’t get me wrong, corruption and shit can (and does) continue to get bad in South America, Europe, etc.
it just offset by the fact that the United States has consistently been at this whole other LEVEL of bad 0-0
Someone keep Trump from the Nuclear Football, he might just try.
Maybe we could give him an actual football in place of it, and try to convince him he has to do sport-like things to activate it? The prospect of actually exercising should discourage him from testing it and finding out it’s a trick.
One of my favorite True Trump Fax is that he thinks that everyone is born with a finite amount of energy, like a battery, and activity drains it, and when you run out of energy, you die. So people who exercise are just draining their batteries faster and killing themselves sooner. Which is why he’s basically a bag of orange Jell-O in a bad suit.
And yet, somehow, he just won’t fucking actually die. 70+ years of eating fast food for every meal, and yet somehow he’s on his first heart.
Crazy what having rich people’s healthcare plus decently lucky genes will do for you despite making all the worst health decisions.
It’s just a suitcase with a code in it. Unless we’re at DEFCON 1, the president can’t launch so much as a hissy-fit without the concurrence of a large number of other people. The safeguards were built into the system after the movie Dr. Strangelove came out, and the Air Force realized they didn’t actually have a way to stop a rogue base commander from launching an attack.
I genuinely didn’t know that Dr. Strangelove made that happen. I just…always assumed they’d have thought of that in advance?
And yet, I’m not surprised that they didn’t.
Can’t believe I find out about this in the comment section of this comic. I’m actually grateful for your service in making that post.
Hopefully Javier milei will be the same one day
That mug deserves its own tag.
That was my first thought!
I was gonna comment about how any university would just add a cot or other accessible solution to a room for a student who needs it due to temporary disability . . . but then I remembered that Amber’s injuries are top secret and not to be shared with the university.
Starting to think that whole denser bones super power was a lie…
Dense bones don’t help much with abdominal injuries.
Wild-ass prediction for the day – I expect they will get Joe (or perhaps one of the football guys) to lift her down. Perhaps even to carry her to the toilet door. Dina will have to take over from there. It’s a good way to keep Joe in the action.
Dorothy and Joyce’s entire friend group banding together and getting closer with one another while the girls continue to completely alienate and ignore them would be very cute.
Oh my cheese. The X-TREEEM mug is back.
Ooh, sympathy. I’ve spent way too much time waiting for a machine to dispense another shot of morphine. Saved one of the cartridges once, as a memento.
SOMEONE GET THAT WOMAN A DIAPER!!
Probably regretting the X-treeeeeeem Gulp too, only temporarily, of course.
purple pickle
The most startling development in the step so far: students can CHOOSE whether or not they have loft beds.
I’m guessing it’s less “you get to choose which goes into your room” thing than a “you express a preference, and if there’s enough loft bed rooms, you get one of those”.
Amber could murder Tom Hanks and I might let it slide
But not regretting the X-Treeem Gulp
not so Amazi now, innit, betcha Amazi-Girl’s raring to fight again