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No, it’s about a couple that is feeling unsatisfied in their current relationship and they both decide to use personal ads in the paper to cheat. They find someone that sounds perfect for them and arrange a time & place to meet up and run away, but in the end it turns out that the person that they found was actually each other.
Depending on how you look at it, it can either be a terrible song about two people that both wanted to cheat and only blind luck ended up with it still being each other, or it can be a song about learning to be more open about your wants and desires because your partner might just end up being totally open to them allowing you both to have a more fulfilling relationship.
Regardless of the moral though, the story itself is still pretty skeevy when you break it down.
Like I said, it was about cheating on each other with each other. I didn’t say it was on purpose that the person they tried to cheat with was their significant other.
Don’t be confused by the “cheating on their resolve” part. I was trying to relate the song to the comic with that, not saying that in itself was part of the song.
Huh. A pudding cup and a pickle…maybe I’m overthinking this, but was Joyce (or perhaps Willis) sending Dorothy subliminal messages?
Once can argue that the pudding and the pickle are allegories for genitals. And Joyce even removed the seeds from the pickle and separated them in a Baggie, thus promoting safe sex.
Not as creepy as “I’ll Be Watching You,” but yes. Both definitely creepy.
I never understood when it came out, and I still don’t understand now, how anyone could listen to “I’ll Be Watching You” without thinking, “Oh, this is a song from the POV of a really sick stalker.”
Yeah, Sting was a schoolteacher before becoming a rock god, and had to deal with Schoolgirl crushes and stalkers before finding a job with better workplace security.
Sting actually meant it that way! As Wikipedia on the song says about him:
Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. He insists it is about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow. “One couple told me ‘Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!’ I thought, ‘Well, good luck.'” When asked why he appears angry in the music video, Sting told BBC Radio 2, “I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it’s quite the opposite.”
Several artist like to mismatch lyrics and song-energy:
Susan Vega really likes to mix snappy, feel-goof melodies with creepy lyrics. Ever really listened to Luka? (Or the Queen and the soldier)?
That’s fine that mixing of the melody and the lyrics isn’t supposed synchronize exactly, but you can’t then complain that people didn’t catch the mismatch between the two components.
“People think my stalker song is a love song because I wrote the melody like a love song. It’s weird they don’t get it.” It’s not weird. You wrote it like a love song. It would be more surprising if most people didn’t hear it as a love song.
Michael Stipe of REM felt the same way about how people received the song “The One I Love”. He considered the line “A simple prop, to occupy my time” to be so mean-spirited he almost didn’t want to record it. After people started misinterpreting it as an actual love song, Stipe said “It’s probably better that they think it’s a love song at this point. That song just came up from somewhere and I recognized it as being really violent and awful. But it wasn’t directed at any one person. I would never write a song like that. Even if there was one person in the world thinking, This song is about me, I could never sing it or put it out… I didn’t want to record that, I thought it was too much. Too brutal. I think there’s enough of that ugliness around.”
I focus mostly on the melody and I still like to listen to it. Maybe it’s also based on this innate feeling/idea that being wanted or watched like that is something you’d actually want and feel romantic about or sthg like that (you know, like it’s glorification in “Twilight”). Or. e.g. Ghost. I mean, it would be pretty effed up irl to be watched by a ghost. So, if it were to happen irl, most people would be of your opinion, I firmly believe.
…Idk, there are a LOT of songs out there with questionable lyrics, and some of them are good or at least enjoyable.
Random thought: Maybe someone needs to do a video parody of “Every Breath You Take” with a stalker video…
Ah, okay, must’ve missed that.
I don’t know, I always remember the video as being strange, possibly “artistic 80’s”-kinda thing, but not really creepy per se.
Actually I can see this happening and the experience being so traumatic to Faz that he comes to sit beside Amber quietly for the rest of the day, just continually saying: “Faz does not wish to discuss it.”
I don’t know enough people of different genders irl who are NOT together to be shipping anybody.
Counts “being supported of her friend’s choices irl” as shipping in some way or another? (I’d never dream of talking down the bfs of my friends, unless they were to treat them in a pretty bad way. As long as my friends and family are happy, I am). But I do wonder if anyone ever shipped me with someone else.
I count supporting canon RL ships (aka, people who are together) as shipping. I don’t necessarily consider all the relationships of my friends that I support to be ones I ship, though.
I think to call it ‘shipping’ is probably inaccurate (and slightly creepy, when you consider what shippers of fictional characters are like). It’s certainly okay to say that you think that two friends are good romantic matches but to become a fan of that pairing and get into arguments in which you deliver blow-by-blow analyses of their relationship? Not the sort of place anyone wants to go about RL friends.
You seem to have a highly negative view of fandom shipping. Your interpretation of what shipping is may not be good for real life, but that version isn’t universal.
Context that no one asked for:
In high school, a close friend of mine started to develop feelings for this guy–however, this ship is not about her. They started to get a bit closer to him, and then he confided in her that he was head over heels for a girl he had been friends with since middle school. “She’s my dream girl,” he said. And, you know, I supported my friend in her crush, but we were both like, “Damn, it is hard not to root for that.”
Anyway, they ended up getting together (this was during senior year). They went to different colleges within the same state and kept up their relationship throughout. (For a while I thought they went to the same college because I was at the same school as the guy, and I would see both of them around, including in one of my lecture hall classes.)
If you respect that its ultimately there choice and don’t go around sharing how you want to see real person A date real person B its fine.
Also I think its a good idea that if your going to think about which real people you would like to see together to actually think about who they actually like and would be happy with.
Three days tops, and it’s in couting really largely: the day she put their relationship on hold (which happened after lunch, and maybe another class ?), plus the (full) day where Walky spent quite some time eating and sharing mcnuggets, then today. And we’re at around lunch time.
Then again, I’m absolutely not sure that the mcnuggets weren’t bought the same day as the beginning of their break.
Still could be less than 24 hours depending on the time of day (they went ‘on pause’ after yesterday’s afternoon class, and aside from Amber and Danny going to their CS class, we don’t have much reference for when in the day this strip is happening).
Yeah, it was really short. My main issue with less than 24h is that she was stinky enough for not only realize it by herself, but just couldn’t stand the smell. Since she didn’t exactly do sport or other physical activities, I’m not sure how, since her presumed last shower was the day of the break up, she could become THAT stinky while pretty much staying on a chair most of the time in something like 24h.
Danny charged at the giant wolf. Holding his sword over his head. The wolf responded in kind and barreled at him.
Right before they met, Danny ducked and rolled beneath the beasts belly. gutting it with his sword. Hot guts and blood spilled out, covering Danny.
Finally the wolf fell over, wheezing in pain and perished.
Danny: ewww.
Skadi: Hmm, kinda thought you would have passed out from pain and blood loss by know.
It was at this point Danny passed out from pain and blood loss
Later…
Danny awoke to find himself on a wooden surface. There were gaps every couple meters and a giant sewing needle lay next to him.
Danny: Where am I?
Skadi: Don’t move idiot, your pretty wounded.
Danny: Where are we?
Skadi: In my house.
Danny: It’s really cold.
Skadi: I like it that way. Oh, here’s your uke back.
Danny: Thanks
Skadi: So, you’ve passed my test. I guess I can take you to my mothers shrine now.
Danny: Is something wrong?
Skadi: no, no everything’s fine…
Danny: …okay.
Skadi: It’s just…I’ll take you if you want, but be careful. My mother can be finicky at times.
Danny: I thought your mother was good, didn’t she fight to protect humans?
Skadi: Things aren’t always that simple. Sure she fought for humanity but…
Danny: but…?
Skadi: BUT SHE ABANDONED ME OKAY! I thought the wolf would kill you or you’d give up and I wouldn’t have to see her again. She left me in the cold, and forced my father to care for me…he died.
Danny: How did he die?
Skadi: Old age, but that’s not the point.
Danny: I…I’m sorry. Wait, why offer to help me at all?
Skadi: It’s the curse of my birth, if someone wants to see my mother’s temple I have to take them…but I can force them to fulfill a request.
Just a small town girl
Livin’ in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere…
Wait… They’re actually going to do it in the elevator like in so many cheap romance shows?
Seriously, I know that those two were suffering from being apart but it really looks like they can’t function well apart! Thinking about it, I’ve got to say that my most significant response to this is: “Aw! ‘Tis sweet!”
aahhhh everyone is seeing that they’re gonna have a lift quickie but all I can see is Walky’s fingers not clutching Dorothy’s and am I overthinking?? We’ll have to see! D:
Also, calling it now. This is NOT going to be an elevator quickie. Dorothy’s wanted to do it on the rooftop since Panel 4 yesterday. It’s going to be a Garbage Roof quickie.
…. aaand Amber’s going to find Walky roof-cheating on her.
Walky’s gonna use The Claw of Hermos with his Absolute Crusader, to summon Rocket Hermos Cannon. Then he’ll equip it to his Rocket Warrior, giving it an extra attack during his Battle Phase. Dorothy doesn’t stand a chance.
gee Dorothy it’s almost like spending time with your cute boyfriend is an integral part of your self-care regimen and dumping him in favor of all-nighters was a terrible no good awful idea
All seriousness this strip made my heart pound and was beautiful especially the hover text at the end capitalizing on the earlier reference remembering what it was like to be that age the whole thing warmed my cynical heart.
I think you’re right.
This is another example of Dorothy setting boundaries, Walky accepting them and then her breaking them: “This is a short-term not serious relationship”-> “I love you”
“Can we put this on pause” -> Whatever this is about to be.
She’s a lot better at deciding what the boundaries should be than holding herself to them.
He was a little irritated when he found out. He’s over it.
I mean, since then he’s dated a super-hero and has a serious crush on a really nice boy. Who his high school girlfriend’s dating isn’t his problem anymore. He’s got other troubles.
No longer “mad”, but per his comments with Amber in an earlier strip and his comment when he found out Dorothy and Walky weren’t together anymore, he definitely thinks Walky isn’t as good as he is, or at least isn’t good enough for Dorothy (if you want to attribute less negative feelings to him).
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love in an elevator
livin’ it up while we’re goin’… out?
(or staying in, I guess)
it’s a magical world
as long as something under the bed isn’t drooling
And you don’t get attacked by deranged mutant killer monster snow goons.
I was wondering if the reference was intentional; happy to have confirmation
Yukon ho!
Academic progress goes ‘boink’.
I was going to correct that to scientific progress, but considering the nature of DoA, that could work, too.
THIS WAS THE PERFECT ONE
That IS a pretty good description of what’s happening to Dorothy’s study focus.
It’s a magical world, Walky ol buddy. Let’s go exploring!
Hang on, my childhood got in my eyes.
Something something next Slipshine something.
Sorry, too tired for coherent ludery.
… lubery, or lewdery?
–Dave, por que no los dos, actualmente?
And this is why you don’t walk barefoot in a campus elevator.
Or any elevator for that matter.
And then Faz falls from the ceiling.
and then he disappears in a smoke of puff. I think Walky and Dorothy would be unFazed by it.
Suddenly Faz falls from the ceiling
*Nelson laugh*
Now now, be gracious in victory; and remember that thou too hast tasted the sting of defeat in the battle of making the witty joke first…
…Who am I kidding, let’s all do the Nelson laugh!
*Polite Nelson chuckle*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdOPBP9vuZA
Nelson laugh.
Walky: Holy shit!
Dorothy: Oh god, there’s blood everywhere! Walky call 911. That was like a 20 foot drop!
Walky: How did he even get up there?
only now realizing they’re in the elevator in that final panel…
That elevated quickly.
Yeah but I think someone’s about to get a lift.
They seem to like stairing into each other’s eyes
Of course they do. It raises their spirits.
Nope, he’s going down.
If the Slipshine is any indicator, it will be Dorothy going down.
C&H reference secured.
Sweet!
Elevator like “I got you bro”
Wing-evator.
well, her to-do list *was* all things starting with an “F”…
It had only Walky
So, we’re talking about Walky’s grades, right?
I wonder what the next person to use that elevator will see.
Szechuan sauce
….. everywhere …!!!!!!!111!!!oneone!!!!11!!elevensies!!!
Oh but poor Walky tho he be more than happy to be back in a relationship with Dorothy but doesn’t want her to do bad in class either
Did you just reference Calvin and Hobbes? *checks alt text* Yes you did.
<3
Wait, which part?
“My days are just packed.”
And, of course, the alt-text.
*me, chanting in a way that sounds distant but is still clearly heard within the elevator*: Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!…
To the tune of the Pina Colada song
It’s a song about cheating!
Yeah, but isn’t it a song about cheating on each other with each other? Like they’re cheating on their resolve to be on break?
No, it’s about a couple that is feeling unsatisfied in their current relationship and they both decide to use personal ads in the paper to cheat. They find someone that sounds perfect for them and arrange a time & place to meet up and run away, but in the end it turns out that the person that they found was actually each other.
Depending on how you look at it, it can either be a terrible song about two people that both wanted to cheat and only blind luck ended up with it still being each other, or it can be a song about learning to be more open about your wants and desires because your partner might just end up being totally open to them allowing you both to have a more fulfilling relationship.
Regardless of the moral though, the story itself is still pretty skeevy when you break it down.
Like I said, it was about cheating on each other with each other. I didn’t say it was on purpose that the person they tried to cheat with was their significant other.
Don’t be confused by the “cheating on their resolve” part. I was trying to relate the song to the comic with that, not saying that in itself was part of the song.
Is this the part where the demonic entity kills them in the elevator?
Or am I watching the wrong movie?
Wrong movie? Probably not. Relevant movie? Same.
if by “demonic entity” you mean “Faz”…
Time for a caramel treat break!
You mean a tootsie roll?
Someone’s gonna get rolled.
The Calvin & Hobbes feels :3
Even the elevator wants them to get back together.
Woman doth not live by pudding alone. Or pudding & a pickle.
Huh. A pudding cup and a pickle…maybe I’m overthinking this, but was Joyce (or perhaps Willis) sending Dorothy subliminal messages?
Once can argue that the pudding and the pickle are allegories for genitals. And Joyce even removed the seeds from the pickle and separated them in a Baggie, thus promoting safe sex.
Don’t stand
Don’t stand so
Don’t stand so close to me
s/Don’t/Do/g
A very creepy song
Not as creepy as “I’ll Be Watching You,” but yes. Both definitely creepy.
I never understood when it came out, and I still don’t understand now, how anyone could listen to “I’ll Be Watching You” without thinking, “Oh, this is a song from the POV of a really sick stalker.”
It’s also so creepy.
When I was younger, I genuinely thought the Police only did songs about illegal things. As some sort of irony or whatever.
Yeah, Sting was a schoolteacher before becoming a rock god, and had to deal with Schoolgirl crushes and stalkers before finding a job with better workplace security.
Sting actually meant it that way! As Wikipedia on the song says about him:
Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. He insists it is about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow. “One couple told me ‘Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!’ I thought, ‘Well, good luck.'” When asked why he appears angry in the music video, Sting told BBC Radio 2, “I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it’s quite the opposite.”
Dude should have chose a different melody then. Chip n Dale’s Rescue Rangers theme song has a more sinister melody.
I think mixing those lyrics with the melody is kind of the point. It speaks to how we romanticize this kind of unhealthy obsession.
Several artist like to mismatch lyrics and song-energy:
Susan Vega really likes to mix snappy, feel-goof melodies with creepy lyrics. Ever really listened to Luka? (Or the Queen and the soldier)?
Or think abou Fee Fi Fo from the Cranberries.
Well, Luka isn’t creepy, it’s sad an heartbreaking. And I love it because I’m addicted to emotional pain.
Yeah, I was really into “Luka” for about a week before I actually listened to the lyrics, and creeped myself right out the door.
That’s fine that mixing of the melody and the lyrics isn’t supposed synchronize exactly, but you can’t then complain that people didn’t catch the mismatch between the two components.
“People think my stalker song is a love song because I wrote the melody like a love song. It’s weird they don’t get it.” It’s not weird. You wrote it like a love song. It would be more surprising if most people didn’t hear it as a love song.
Michael Stipe of REM felt the same way about how people received the song “The One I Love”. He considered the line “A simple prop, to occupy my time” to be so mean-spirited he almost didn’t want to record it. After people started misinterpreting it as an actual love song, Stipe said “It’s probably better that they think it’s a love song at this point. That song just came up from somewhere and I recognized it as being really violent and awful. But it wasn’t directed at any one person. I would never write a song like that. Even if there was one person in the world thinking, This song is about me, I could never sing it or put it out… I didn’t want to record that, I thought it was too much. Too brutal. I think there’s enough of that ugliness around.”
I focus mostly on the melody and I still like to listen to it. Maybe it’s also based on this innate feeling/idea that being wanted or watched like that is something you’d actually want and feel romantic about or sthg like that (you know, like it’s glorification in “Twilight”). Or. e.g. Ghost. I mean, it would be pretty effed up irl to be watched by a ghost. So, if it were to happen irl, most people would be of your opinion, I firmly believe.
…Idk, there are a LOT of songs out there with questionable lyrics, and some of them are good or at least enjoyable.
Random thought: Maybe someone needs to do a video parody of “Every Breath You Take” with a stalker video…
As said above, the song is MEANT to be creepy. I think it’s a good song, just not romantic.
Also, there’s not really the need for that kind of parody, as the actual music video has Sting intentionally giving off all kinds of creepy vibes.
Ah, okay, must’ve missed that.
I don’t know, I always remember the video as being strange, possibly “artistic 80’s”-kinda thing, but not really creepy per se.
Well, if it’s the melody you like, there’s always “I’ll be missing you”. … I can’t remember any of the lyrics for that, actually.
Do you possibly mean “Every Breath you Take”?
Passionate kiss that ends with Dorothy suddenly breaking away and backing against the far wall of the elevator.
“You taste like McNuggets.”
“Did you ever quit McDonald’s? Was it always a lie?”
Let’s be real. When has Walky not tasted like McNuggets?
I’m sure he sometimes tastes like Taco Bell instead.
Especially with Nacho Fries.
When he tasted like Nachitos.
Not so much the “Nuggets”tm but the forbidden Szechuan sauce.
*realizes that the panel I’ve been hacking wasn’t marked Muzak but instead says OTIS*
OOPS.
If you mean these guys, then you’re hacking it right.
Every good elevator has a Muzak system.
Looks like time stopped after all.
The problem is I can already imagine that the next person to call the elevator will be either Mary or Carla.
The only person I can think of that strikes me as worse than any other would be Joyce.
Unless Faz has again somehow managed to escape from Amber.
Faz’ body was never found…
Actually I can see this happening and the experience being so traumatic to Faz that he comes to sit beside Amber quietly for the rest of the day, just continually saying: “Faz does not wish to discuss it.”
…. I’m thinking Mike would be worse.
No …. Faz with Mike would be worse … there is a multiplier effect.
Not unless they hit the emergency stop button, Gibbs-style.
On,y Gibbs does more head slapping than butt slapping
That probably sets off some sort of alarm IRL. Or at least a million instant “hey the elevator’s not working” complaints at the front desk.
And then their hands slip apart due to the coating of mcnugget grease.
Does anyone else ship people in real life? One of my long time ships recently got engaged, and I’m pretty psyched about it.
Yes, I am shipping people in my polycule.
(My second-degree metamour and her not-girlfriend are the cutest.)
Well, that’s two new words for me.
If you had any idea of the people in this comment field that I’m shipping…
Would it be in poor taste to ask who I’m being shipped with?
King Daniel.
Yeah, that kinda does make sense.
I always knew I’d eventually be shipped with someone…but I didn’t think it’d be Some1.
Would you rather share the shipping that Reltzik is getting?
I’m being shipped with a dungeon cell, aren’t I?
A perfect match if ever I saw one.
Wouldn’t stop me from posting from my cell phone.
Reception’s great down there. That dungeon has SO many bars.
well obviously. you get a dungeon cell phone down there.
We call you ‘Celltzik’.
Sort of. I know that shipping may be harmful so I ship people but I keep it to myself
The big safety measure in shipping people is to make sure the boxes you put them in have air holes.
I don’t know enough people of different genders irl who are NOT together to be shipping anybody.
Counts “being supported of her friend’s choices irl” as shipping in some way or another? (I’d never dream of talking down the bfs of my friends, unless they were to treat them in a pretty bad way. As long as my friends and family are happy, I am). But I do wonder if anyone ever shipped me with someone else.
Why do they have to be different genders, though
I count supporting canon RL ships (aka, people who are together) as shipping. I don’t necessarily consider all the relationships of my friends that I support to be ones I ship, though.
I think to call it ‘shipping’ is probably inaccurate (and slightly creepy, when you consider what shippers of fictional characters are like). It’s certainly okay to say that you think that two friends are good romantic matches but to become a fan of that pairing and get into arguments in which you deliver blow-by-blow analyses of their relationship? Not the sort of place anyone wants to go about RL friends.
You seem to have a highly negative view of fandom shipping. Your interpretation of what shipping is may not be good for real life, but that version isn’t universal.
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh……
It’s called friend fiction.
butts. boy butts. Jimmy Pesto’s butt…
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuhh…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_XaIuw6K6Q
Context that no one asked for:
In high school, a close friend of mine started to develop feelings for this guy–however, this ship is not about her. They started to get a bit closer to him, and then he confided in her that he was head over heels for a girl he had been friends with since middle school. “She’s my dream girl,” he said. And, you know, I supported my friend in her crush, but we were both like, “Damn, it is hard not to root for that.”
Anyway, they ended up getting together (this was during senior year). They went to different colleges within the same state and kept up their relationship throughout. (For a while I thought they went to the same college because I was at the same school as the guy, and I would see both of them around, including in one of my lecture hall classes.)
And now they’re engaged and it’s just super cute.
If you respect that its ultimately there choice and don’t go around sharing how you want to see real person A date real person B its fine.
Also I think its a good idea that if your going to think about which real people you would like to see together to actually think about who they actually like and would be happy with.
Yeah, real life crack ships should be avoided.
Crack ships are amazing. I’ll see two people walking down the street at vaguely the same speed and be like, “I ship it.”
Something’s about to go “boink”, and I don’t think it’s scientific progress.
Well that break is over I guess. How long were even on break?
Three days tops, and it’s in couting really largely: the day she put their relationship on hold (which happened after lunch, and maybe another class ?), plus the (full) day where Walky spent quite some time eating and sharing mcnuggets, then today. And we’re at around lunch time.
Then again, I’m absolutely not sure that the mcnuggets weren’t bought the same day as the beginning of their break.
I don’t think it’s been 24 hours yet
I think this is the next day. They went on pause in the last chapter.
Mind you, I don’t think this is over yet, even if there’s a relapse now.
Still could be less than 24 hours depending on the time of day (they went ‘on pause’ after yesterday’s afternoon class, and aside from Amber and Danny going to their CS class, we don’t have much reference for when in the day this strip is happening).
Yah. That was more agreement and against it being more than that.
Probably should’ve replied to dralou instead
Yeah, it was really short. My main issue with less than 24h is that she was stinky enough for not only realize it by herself, but just couldn’t stand the smell. Since she didn’t exactly do sport or other physical activities, I’m not sure how, since her presumed last shower was the day of the break up, she could become THAT stinky while pretty much staying on a chair most of the time in something like 24h.
Stress sweat tends to stink abominably.
Point.
Well thats one way to relieve stress
Dungeons and Dumbing Part 19
Danny charged at the giant wolf. Holding his sword over his head. The wolf responded in kind and barreled at him.
Right before they met, Danny ducked and rolled beneath the beasts belly. gutting it with his sword. Hot guts and blood spilled out, covering Danny.
Finally the wolf fell over, wheezing in pain and perished.
Danny: ewww.
Skadi: Hmm, kinda thought you would have passed out from pain and blood loss by know.
It was at this point Danny passed out from pain and blood loss
Later…
Danny awoke to find himself on a wooden surface. There were gaps every couple meters and a giant sewing needle lay next to him.
Danny: Where am I?
Skadi: Don’t move idiot, your pretty wounded.
Danny: Where are we?
Skadi: In my house.
Danny: It’s really cold.
Skadi: I like it that way. Oh, here’s your uke back.
Danny: Thanks
Skadi: So, you’ve passed my test. I guess I can take you to my mothers shrine now.
Danny: Is something wrong?
Skadi: no, no everything’s fine…
Danny: …okay.
Skadi: It’s just…I’ll take you if you want, but be careful. My mother can be finicky at times.
Danny: I thought your mother was good, didn’t she fight to protect humans?
Skadi: Things aren’t always that simple. Sure she fought for humanity but…
Danny: but…?
Skadi: BUT SHE ABANDONED ME OKAY! I thought the wolf would kill you or you’d give up and I wouldn’t have to see her again. She left me in the cold, and forced my father to care for me…he died.
Danny: How did he die?
Skadi: Old age, but that’s not the point.
Danny: I…I’m sorry. Wait, why offer to help me at all?
Skadi: It’s the curse of my birth, if someone wants to see my mother’s temple I have to take them…but I can force them to fulfill a request.
Danny: So like a really specific Ella Enchanted.
Skadi: Who the fuck is Ella Enchanted?
I refuse to end the tradition of Danny and dealing with girls with terrible parental figures who can beat him up/murder him easily.
I can understand that.
Remind me, what was Ella Enchanted’s counterbalance?
welp, that’s one way to sell more Slipshine subscriptions.
*hijacks the hacked Muzak to play Love in an Elevator*
Also, did you just go 9 Chickweed Lane in that last panel?
Just a small town girl
Livin’ in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere…
idk why but I feel like last panel could mean bad things ahhhh
It’s that his fingers are curled with hers. It leaves the possibility that he won’t give in to this moment of weakness.
And then the elevator drops half a floor, the power cuts out, and they have to talk to one another
Or… do other things. All whilst ‘bow-chicka-wow-wow’ music plays.
Someone is about to be d-i-i-i-i-s-t-r-a-c-ted
Yukon Ho!
They gonna frick
GOOD LORD, stop making things difficult and just kiss already!!!! (seriously I wish them well)
NOW KIIIIISSSS!
Wait… They’re actually going to do it in the elevator like in so many cheap romance shows?
Seriously, I know that those two were suffering from being apart but it really looks like they can’t function well apart! Thinking about it, I’ve got to say that my most significant response to this is: “Aw! ‘Tis sweet!”
I expected the thing to break down and they’d be stuck there for hours.
Sexual progress goes boink!
I apologize for this one.
Not an age-appropriate reference for the source comic.
Well, it sure as hell ain’t scientific progress
Dorothy, you have time for a quickie. Don’t deprive yourself, it’s not healthy.
aahhhh everyone is seeing that they’re gonna have a lift quickie but all I can see is Walky’s fingers not clutching Dorothy’s and am I overthinking?? We’ll have to see! D:
It’s up in the air. The fingers could just be a delayed reaction. Or maybe not.
You can’t be on break from being on break! THAT’S JUST SILLY!
Also, calling it now. This is NOT going to be an elevator quickie. Dorothy’s wanted to do it on the rooftop since Panel 4 yesterday. It’s going to be a Garbage Roof quickie.
…. aaand Amber’s going to find Walky roof-cheating on her.
In other words, Amber and/or Amazi-Girl are gonna get an eye-full.
It’s the nature of Garbage Roof to disappoint.
I really need to just bookmark this: https://imgur.com/gallery/9DtnJ
Works well in today’s QC strip as well.
Yep, called it! We’re gonna see some F-O-R-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N!
Aaaaaand Slipshine ensues.
i am hoping this heals dorothy’s potential mental implosion from overworking..
also could the following scene hark back to a earlier moment when amazi-girl yelled at a couple to knock it off? i kinda hope so
They’re gonna play a children’s card game, aren’t they
>_> … <_< Yes. Yes, a "children's card game". Yes. That's is indeed what is going to happen. No need for you to consider this issue any further.
Walky’s gonna use The Claw of Hermos with his Absolute Crusader, to summon Rocket Hermos Cannon. Then he’ll equip it to his Rocket Warrior, giving it an extra attack during his Battle Phase. Dorothy doesn’t stand a chance.
‘Spose either of them has a prophylactic device handy? Dorothy’s normally pretty careful about that.
It’s okay, they’re only going to do things that start with F!
They’re gonna go fenestrate? Fun times.
to be clear, I meant this in the windows sense, not the medical one that popped up a little later.
Fenstrate. Is that when you throw someone IN through a window?
No, no, it’s when someone is pulled in through a window.
Yeah, so one definition says “having numerous openings.”
Kinky sex in ALL the holes! Dang, that’s some Slipshine shit right there.
I put up the medical disclaimer after discovering that fenestration is also a procedure where the something is done to the inner ear.
to wit: a surgical operation in which a new opening is formed, especially in the bony labyrinth of the inner ear to treat certain types of deafness.
Has the “going down?” joke been made already?
… They can’t go down? They’re already at the bottom?
Well.
>_>
Well, there is a basement (that’s where the gym is located), so they can, in fact, go down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTXGL0xPyLA
Just for the C&H reference, this is now my favorite DoA evar! And nothing will ever change that
gee Dorothy it’s almost like spending time with your cute boyfriend is an integral part of your self-care regimen and dumping him in favor of all-nighters was a terrible no good awful idea
Wrong kid. We’re talking about the blond with the tiger, not the redhead.
Hmm, looks like another 10 minute break for Dorothy.
“Hopefully they will not notice Faz, and hopefully much nakedness will occur!”
Yessss Calvin & Hobbes references. <3 I love this page.
All seriousness this strip made my heart pound and was beautiful especially the hover text at the end capitalizing on the earlier reference remembering what it was like to be that age the whole thing warmed my cynical heart.
This study break was brought to Dorothy by the letter F, and words that begin with it.
Walky isn’t holding her hand back, he has already resigned to letting her go. I don’t think this is going to end the way we all want it too.
I think you’re right.
This is another example of Dorothy setting boundaries, Walky accepting them and then her breaking them: “This is a short-term not serious relationship”-> “I love you”
“Can we put this on pause” -> Whatever this is about to be.
She’s a lot better at deciding what the boundaries should be than holding herself to them.
I forget, was Danny mad at this relationship happening? Because I would be.
He was irked, but got involved with Amazi-Girl and kinda stopped holding a grudge then.
He was a little irritated when he found out. He’s over it.
I mean, since then he’s dated a super-hero and has a serious crush on a really nice boy. Who his high school girlfriend’s dating isn’t his problem anymore. He’s got other troubles.
No longer “mad”, but per his comments with Amber in an earlier strip and his comment when he found out Dorothy and Walky weren’t together anymore, he definitely thinks Walky isn’t as good as he is, or at least isn’t good enough for Dorothy (if you want to attribute less negative feelings to him).